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Neon Babylon

Early musical suite attributed to the reclusive composer and cyberpoet mailer_daemon. Written exclusively in Latin and German, the piece's lyrics focus largely on a grab bag of Illuminati-related subjects, including the Silurian Hypothesis, Saturn's Hexagon, and the significance of Alpha Draconis. Written for a mixed ensemble of strings, percussion, choir, harpsichord and analog synthesizers, Neon Babylon's scattershot performance directions require performers to wear various constructed masks. The harpsichordist, a particular target of the composer's ire, is asked to perform while wearing a large and heavy minotaur mask with no eyeslits or breathing hole. The only known performance of the work took place in REDACTED by the Eastern European experimental music ensemble Shepherds of Apocrypha/Illuminati Quartet in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

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-A mythologically-oriented musical ensemble of fluid membership and unclear origin.  The group's musical style was marked by the juxtaposition between modern analog synthesizers and more traditional instrumentation such as strings, acoustic percussion, and harpsichord. Documentation of the group is limited to a handful of mono recordings and a series of VHS concert videos featuring
+Early musical suite attributed to the reclusive composer and cyberpoet [[Mailer-daemon|mailer_daemon]]. Written exclusively in Latin and German, the piece's lyrics focus largely on a grab bag of Illuminati-related subjects, including the [[error|Silurian Hypothesis]], [[error|Saturn's Hexagon]], and the significance of [[error|Alpha Draconis]]. Written for a mixed ensemble of strings, percussion, choir, harpsichord and analog synthesizers, ''Neon Babylon'''s scattershot performance directions require performers to wear various constructed masks. The harpsichordist, a particular target of the composer's ire, is asked to perform while wearing a large and heavy [[Minotaur|minotaur]] mask with no eyeslits or breathing hole. The only known performance of the work took place in REDACTED by the Eastern European experimental music ensemble [[error|Shepherds of Apocrypha]]/[[Illuminati-quartet|Illuminati Quartet]] in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
-[[error|occult]] imagery. Lyrically, the group focused largely on a grab bag of Illuminati-related subjects, including the [[error|Silurian Hypothesis]], [[error|Saturn's Hexagon]], and the significance of [[error|Alpha Draconis]], as well as the wider world of the ancient mythologies surrounding the Levant. Neon Babylon's activity often overlapped with that of the masked [[illuminati-quartet|Illuminati Quartet]]. As with the quartet, the visages of Neon Babylon members were most often shrouded, either with masks <ref> The group's keyboardist(s) was/were often adorned in a large [[minotaur]] mask - a recurrent symbol in the group's somewhat haphazard mythos. </ref> or crude analog effects. Individual singers from the performance art collective [[error|Shepherds of Apocrypha]] were, at times, featured in various Neon Babylon materials, singing or sprechgesang-ing in both German and Latin.
 [[File: A Lake Cimmerian.mp4]]
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 [[File: March of the Archons - VHS glitch intro.mp4]]
-<small><kbd>Ωref#<nowiki>[</nowiki>[[phantom-archives|Phantom Archives]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> :: ''[https://eternal-september.net/neon-babylon/index.html Neon Babylon].''</kbd></small>