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Todays Isotopica is a meditation on ritual, performance and obsession.
The fetish of addiction, and the perfect commodity of heroin, are obliquely and amusingly explored in this series of takes and retakes from a recording session for a performance on the bathtub manufacture of heroin from raw opium.
remixed over a soundtrack including rare arabic 78 shellac recordings and avante guard electronica, this episode is perhaps the perfect product