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Let me make a quick point about a trend that I’m a fan of.

Mask-wearing techno groups.

I think most people are at least peripherally aware of Daft Punk and their image, but I don’t think it would be outrageous to claim they sort of started this trend of wearing masks.

MSTRKRFT is a new techno group. Without discussing their actual music - let’s look at how awesome the gold hockey/jason masks are. GOLD HOCKEY MASKS. There’s no chance that their actual faces could be as cool or memorable as that. There’s something totally different about dancing to a DJ set performed by cyber super-heroes.

I love the Bloody Beetroots. Not only because they have an album/song called just that, but also because they rule. Tripped out thumping underground anthems booming from a group that wears Scarlet Spider era spiderman masks while they spin. Awesome.

Last example. This guy is french I believe, but he goes by The Toxic Avenger - and he makes a mean old school distorted synth banger. He’s on iheartcomix right now, which is a bleeding-edge hip label. His whole image reminds me of food poisoning gone right, blazing rainbows screaming past your eyelids that feel like a broken subwoofer.

More masks, please. Let’s dispel the cult of personality and make music a thing of creative artifice again.

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