{"id":3635,"date":"2019-06-13T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/?p=3635"},"modified":"2020-04-12T02:03:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T00:03:33","slug":"homo-plasticus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/index.php\/homo-plasticus\/","title":{"rendered":"Homo Plasticus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wc-gallery\"><div id='gallery-1' data-gutter-width='5' data-columns='2' class='gallery wc-gallery-captions-onhover gallery-link-file gallery-grid galleryid-3635 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-large wc-gallery-bottomspace-default wc-gallery-gutter-5 wc-gallery-clear'><div class='gallery-item-wrapper gallery-item-position-1 gallery-item-attachment-3649 gallery-item-column-1 landscape'><div class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-item-inner'>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-1024x724.jpg' title='homoplasticus' target='_self'><img width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" src=\"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-1024x724.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-250x177.jpg 250w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-550x389.jpg 550w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-800x565.jpg 800w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-255x180.jpg 255w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-425x300.jpg 425w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-708x500.jpg 708w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2-480x340.jpg 480w, https:\/\/newedgemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/homoplasticus-2.jpg 1060w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPhoto: Peter Mi\u0161ic, Model: Sara Lunka, Original Art: Luka Vodlan, Editing: Dan Oblak\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>From the cold dusts of Pluto&#8217;s (and Jupiter\u2019s) icy dessert sands rises a certain apparition- the apparition of the repressed otherness of humanity&#8217;s long forgotten past, it&#8217;s folious attempt at playing the dangerous game of discovering the fundamental fabric of existential planetary unknowingness and openness. In this sense, the name of the self- titled debut of Slovenian industrial\/\u2019\u2019cyberpunk\u2019\u2019 musical project of Homo Plasticus is rather deceptive. It is by no means a simple representation of a certain impasse, that the pompous titles of the so-called \u2018\u2019post-industrial\u2019\u2019, \u2018\u2019postmodern\u2019\u2019 ages seems to point towards to and at the same time, completely ridicule, but rather an acceleration of their ambiguousness and folly. The figure of Homo Plasticus is the figure of a 21<sup>st<\/sup> century man, entrenched into a world of mechanistic and neon-lighted pleasures, where the excess of technological hyper-realization and gloomy urban lifestyle meet in a disjunct worldly crossing. \u00a0The only way in which they come together is through a basic thread of unease that permeates the structuredness of man\u2019s placement into his universal fact of being, trivializing his sacredness. What Homo Plasticus as a conglomerate of different virtual endeavours, influenced by the likes of industrial and goth giants such as Skinny Puppy, Nachtmahr, DAF etc. and important intellectual thought-masters entails to do, is make this fact of being clear, to show it\u2019s coursing through the electrical pulsations of modern-age, underground cyberpunk imaginarium, even nihilistic pretensions the search for it brings on about and the consequences it simultaneously hides. We needn\u2019t to undertake this task of \u2018\u2019enlightening\u2019\u2019 our existential position through a hateful spite towards evolutionistic, anarchistic processes of today\u2019s macro-cosmic merging of man and machine. We also needn\u2019t to search for its origins billions of light years away, where it all started in a quick glimpse of a millisecond, a fiery primordial flash. We can simply begin in the embrace of strangeness of our solar system \u00a0in the \u2018\u2019The\u2019\u2019 of \u2018\u2019The Planetery\u2019\u2019 of \u2018\u2019The Earthly\u2019\u2019, \u2018\u2019The Non-Planetary\u2019\u2019 (asteroidly??) of Pluto, where mindful questioning meets at once with the sonic of attacks of Homo Plasticus\u2019 booming industro-beats.<\/p>\n<p>The Project\u2019s self-titled effort is thus a near 30-minute adventure through soundscapes of our neglected cosmic background. It is thus not a simple journey to heaven and back to hell, but rather a hellish experience of a saintly <em>ordo ab chao<\/em>, be it in the form of \u00a0the track <em>Jupiter\u2019s<\/em> \u2018\u2019housey\u2019\u2019 calibrations and alienating spaceisms or <em>Carl Sagan\u2019s <\/em>profoundly random dialecticisms, where the line between great minds and \u2018\u2019autists\u2019\u2019 disappears in favor of a \u2018\u2019great autism of the Heideggarians, Carl Saganians \u00a0and the Jason Genovians\u2019\u2019. What stands out, However, is Homo Plasticus\u2019 eclectic attitude- the inconsistent pleasure of incorporating the influences of video game and trap music sonorities into their otherwise industrially shaped repertoire. This is especially evident in the second half of the titular release, where even EDM led characteristics merge with heavy laden and pompous trap beats in the songs such as <em>Hi-Nrg, Gone<\/em> and <em>Sad boi<\/em>. Such fragmentary approaches make up for their subjectivism and uniqueness, however unfinished their intentions seem to be. The final product is thus a delightful treat for the hearing needs of electro-punk and video game nerds alike, albeit in a hostile manner to those preferring coherent structuring and senseful music making. It is, in the last instance, an existential experience of the hyperactive, everyday trivial yawn.<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Peter Mi\u0161ic<br \/>\nModel: Sara Lunka<br \/>\nOriginal Art: Luka Vodlan<br \/>\nEditing: Dan Oblak<\/p>\n<p>Text: Homo Plasticus<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">From the cold dusts of Pluto&#8217;s (and Jupiter\u2019s) icy dessert sands rises a certain apparition- the apparition of the repressed otherness of humanity&#8217;s long forgotten past, it&#8217;s folious attempt at playing the dangerous game of discovering the fundamental fabric of existential planetary unknowingness and openness. 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