I can’t get over how cool this is. It’s like the most spectacular visual metaphor for the menacing, alien, unworldly qualities of acid techno. The light show at the end looks for all the world like some otherworldly metallic creature has descended on Hilvarenbeek and made a territorial declaration which the humans on site have no choice but to accept. I don’t think I’ve ever heard acid techno outside the context of dingy warehouses suffused with a vague sense of incipient violence and I’m suddenly regretting my life choices.
It made me think of Nick Land’s description of the obscenity of capital, described by Mark Fisher on pg 42 of Post-Capitalist Desire:
His idea was that capital was the most intense force ever to exist on earth—that the whole of terrestrial history had led to the emergence of this effectively planetary artificial intelligence system which therefore can be seen as retrospectively guiding all of history towards its own emergence—a bit like Skynet in the Terminator films.
That is what the set design looks like to me.
Mark Carrigan 