Magma Trakt

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Release Date: 2012

Label: No Basement Is Deep Enough

"Magma Trakt is an annual crawling plant, the harbinger of the Otherworldly and the immanent presence of the Interdimensional. Ranging in colour from purple to neonatally rosy this plant of entoxicating scent and grandiose ambush decore can be found climbing the walls of reality tunnels. Known as a powerful hallucinogen, its extract was used in shamanic traditions as means of divination and communication with the spirit world, while in ancient Greece, its tincture was used as an aphrodisiac in Dionysian festivals. Throughout history, it was often prohibited and considered taboo due to its liminal character. It secretes amniotic fluids, due to which it often attracts reptiles." -- AHIG

Magma Trakt is Serbian cavalier seul Nikola Vitkovic, a comics author, illustrator, musician and performer who not only injected fresh oxygen into the ex-Yugo comics scene by starting up the (now deceased) "Momci" collective but who is also the.tech-wunderkind behind post-wave/xprmntl elektronix/synth-pop/electro-punk acts like Starr&Webb, Nitkov, Alone, Alone In Heaven, Alone Against The World, Ilegalne Emocije, etc. The weird spoken-word-meets-spora-reptilska-tribalna-ambientronika featured on this MT cassette comes hot on the heels of the by Nikola's NAUK label released "Crni Pek", an amazing online compilation of home-tapers and outsiders who were active during the bleak Serbian '90s.

Limited to 55 hand-numbered copies and housed in a green-gold 'pataphysical grotto, incl. a paper version of the truth serum totem on which the author carved his rusty reflections on '70s Sci-Fi, compulsive scientific behaviour, H.P. Lovecraft, etc. All lyrics translated in English on the backside cuz 2014 is not on the Mayan calendar anymore. .
http://www.nauk.rs/

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