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Tetra Denim

[related: Egyptian Helicopter (song)][disambiguation: Egyptian Helicopter (hieroglyph)

Short-lived No Wave and jazz-adjacent New York City-based music trio (with special guests) active in the late 1980's. The group's work was stationed at the intersection of jazz fusion, synth pop, and carnatic music. Tetra Denim briefly emerged from the ashes of Digital Riptide's demise - a slight three song EP entitled Spaceships of Ezekiel stands as the group's only official documentation. A smattering of video material was, at some point in the mid-1990's, posted on Phantom Archives using ripped footage from various commercial sources, including three minutes of veritable helicopter fetishism entitled Egyptian Helicopter,^[1]. It remains unclear if such materials were generated by a digital archivist or the group itself. Spaceships of Ezekiel's final track, the carnatically-inspired I am Become Death, features an uncredited South Indian singer responding to Robert Oppenheimer's (in)famous quote referencing Hinduism's highest scripture, the Bahgavad Gita, when discussing the aftermath of the Manhattan Project.

Tetra Denim's "Egyptian Helicopter"

↑ Including material culled from Airwolf.

[1] Including material culled from Airwolf.

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+Short-lived [[No-wave|No Wave]] and jazz-adjacent New York City-based music trio (with special guests) active in the late 1980's. The group's work was stationed at the intersection of jazz fusion, synth pop, and carnatic music. Tetra Denim briefly emerged from the ashes of [[Digital-riptide|Digital Riptide's]] demise - a slight three song EP entitled [[error|''Spaceships of Ezekiel'']] stands as the group's only official documentation. A smattering of video material was, at some point in the mid-1990's, posted on [[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]] using ripped footage from various commercial sources, including three minutes of veritable [[helicopter-fetish|helicopter fetishism]] entitled [[Egyptian Helicopter|Egyptian Helicopter]],<ref>Including material culled from [[Jan-michael-vincent|''Airwolf''.]]</ref>. It remains unclear if such materials were generated by a digital archivist or the group itself. ''Spaceships of Ezekiel'''s final track, the carnatically-inspired ''I am Become Death'', features an uncredited South Indian singer responding to Robert Oppenheimer's (in)famous quote referencing Hinduism's highest scripture, the ''Bahgavad Gita'', when discussing the aftermath of the [[error|Manhattan Project]].
-Experimental No Wave New York City-based music ensemble active in the early/mid 1980's. The group's work was marked by the intersection of jazz fusion, synth pop, and carnatic music. Beyond its musical style, little about the group is known - a cover-less three song demo EP stands as the group's only official documentation. A smattering of video material was, at some point, posted on
+[[File:Pink Twilight Blue Thunder - Compressed.mp4|500px|center|alt=Tetra Denim's "Egyptian Helicopter"|Tetra Denim's "Egyptian Helicopter"]]
-[[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]] using ripped footage from various cartoons, television shows, and journalistic interviews. It remains unclear if those materials were generated by the digital archivist or the group itself. The group's archivist claimed that members of the group went on to help form other prominent groups of the No Wave movement, including [[digital-riptide|Digital Riptide]] and the [[error|Spaceships of Ezekiel]].
-: : [File: PinkTwilightPrelude2_1.mp3]]
-[[File: Blue Thunder Taillights.mp4|500px|center]]