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Yacht have released the first two videos from their fifth album (sophomore with DFA), Shangri-La. The seven minute companion pieces of “Utopia” and “Dystopia (The Earth Is On Fire)”, is more like a short film rather than a music video. Part one is a vision of an expansive and geometrically captivating universe with mountains, water, and plenty of space to dance – sort of Tron meets Lord of the Rings. Superstudio was the group that created this alternate state, the "geodesic grid"; their take on utopia wasn’t of an idealistic world where everyone is equal, but rather, according to the Yacht website, “it was a world without buildings, a life without objects. [Superstudio] dreamed of nomadic communities living the warm and human aspects of life on a vast, impersonal grid.”
What happens when an online magazine/record label/events entity known for portraits of artists and their cats, taro cards provocative enough to guarantee they will never be sold at Barnes and Noble, and a dedication to fostering a thriving art and music community starts hosting a weekly event at Brooklyn's Glasslands Gallery? The answer is Pendu Org's Tuesday Nite Disco, a weekly live music event and dance party that's definitely a breed of its own. Its dark, deeply atmospheric vibe has already attracted a devoted following in the short time since its debut. With good reason. Resident DJs Harrison Owen and Todd Pendu had some words to share about their inspirations for doing what they do, what Pendu Org has in the works, and what they're excited about in music right now.
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