The Comet is Coming

Tomorrow! Danalogue and Betamax will play as part of the Turn Up For Gaza fundraiser, Colour Factory - Hackney Wick, London. Come 🌞

Danalogue joins Alex Coles this evening at the standard in King’s Cross to discuss ‘Fusion’ both as the title of his new book and also in general in music. Our track Pyramids was included in a chapter of the book. Danalogue will perform live set with Robyn Rocket. A free event.

🚨 CHRYSALIS 3.0 is here! 🚨 Tickets: servantjazzquarters.com/events/crysali… Come! Dance. Feel. Make Friends. Cosmic Hypnotic Repetition Yields Self Actualising Life Affirming Symbiosis Poster design by @brooksandreas

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The soundtrack to your cosmic journey is here ☄️ The complete 𝗖-𝗦𝗺𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗩𝗥𝗦 𝙉𝙚𝘄 𝗗𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 🚀 soundtrack is now available for 𝗣𝗥𝗘-𝗢𝗥𝗗𝗘𝗥 🌀 featuring transcendent interstellar music from @K_Ishii_70Drums, Danalogue (@cometcoming, @soccer96band), and @unkleofficial @RpdEyeMovers @wolfandwood @Arkotypeco

CHRYSALIS Cosmic  Hypnotic Repetition  Yields Self Actualising Life Informing Symbiosis instagram.com/reel/C7wRl8coH… Night of cosmic psychedelia in London, hosted by Danalogue Tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/chrysalis-ti…

Our album ‘Inner Worlds’ is 2 years old today! And it’s @bandcamp Friday. We illustrated some limited Inner Worlds test pressings in one-off sleeves with artwork hand-drawn by us, for you. Also some signed LPs, CDs, and cassettes, all found here: soccer96.bandcamp.com/merch

Who was there at M Jazz festival last year in Mexico City?? The drum/synth duo Danalogue and Betamax return to Mexico City this Wednesday..

Mexico City! We play Wednesday night at Parker & Lennox..we going out with a bang 💥

@Fornax96 Hey so that record is on Impulse and they don’t use Bandcamp. You can still find copies around the net. Thanks for your support.

@cometcoming Hey guys, I'd like to order Trust In The Lifeforce and Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam on Bandcamp, but it seems those albums are not available. Will they be added later?

This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate. 1/5

It shocks me that I keep coming across in my threads variations of the following tweet: "The Palestinians have it within them to rise up against Hamas to free themselves. Or Hamas can willingly surrender. Two real choices there." This view isn’t just being promoted in bad faith by Israeli apologists. It seems to resonate with ordinary people who presumably know very little about the histories either of Palestine or of settler colonial movements such as the Zionist movement that founded Israel. So let’s delve briefly into both. First, settler colonial movements are distinguished from standard colonialism – like British rule in India – by the fact that the settler population wishes not just to steal the native population’s resources but to replace the native population itself. There are lots of examples of this: European settlers dispossessed native peoples in what we today call the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, for example. The definition of genocide in international law exactly describes what those Europeans did to the local population: mass killings; inflicting conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of all or part of the native community; preventing births within the local population; and forcibly transferring native children to the settler population. European settlers who today call themselves Americans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders never had to account for their crimes against those native peoples. Which possibly explains how commonplace the tweet above is – and why European countries and their settler colonial outgrowths are today lining up againt the rest of the world to support Israel as it intensifies industrial genocide in Gaza. The truth is the “western” world order was built on genocide. Israel is just following in a long tradition. Settler colonial movements do not always end up committing genocide. In South Africa, a heavily outnumbered settler colonial population came to an “accommodation” with the native population: apartheid. The white group took all the resources and privileges. The black group was allowed to live but only in ghettoes and squalor. In such circumstances, peace is possible only when the settler colonial project is abandoned, power is shared and resources distributed more equitably. This happened, imperfectly, with the fall of apartheid. The final model for a settler colonial population is to drive the native population over the border, in an act of ethnic cleansing. This was Israel’s preferred option in 1948 and again in 1967, when it decided to expand its borders by occupying remaining Palestinian lands in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. The Palestinians in Gaza are an object lesson in the various ways a native population can be abused by a settler colonial movement. Most are refugees or descended from refugees from Israel’s ethnic cleansing operations of 1948. In other words, their family homes are in what we today call Israel. They were driven off their lands into a tiny enclave, to be ruled for the next 19 years by Egypt. When Israel seized Gaza during the 1967 war, it had to fall back on the second settler colonising option: apartheid. So it turned the enclave into an open-air prison, or – if we’re going to be more honest – a long-term concentration camp. Gaza was a larger – and, with Israel’s 16-year siege, increasingly much harsher – version of the townships that held the native black populations in apartheid South Africa. What we are seeing now is Israel finally recognising that the apartheid model has failed to subdue the Palestinians’ desire for freedom and dignity. Unlike white South Africa, Israel is not looking for peace and reconciliation. It is revisiting other settler colonial options. In the current attack on Gaza, it is implementing a mixed model: genocide for those who remain in Gaza, ethnic cleansing for those who can get out (assuming Egypt finally relents and opens its borders). None of that has anything to do with Hamas. The most one can say is that Hamas’ resistance has forced Israel’s hand. It has had to abandon its siege-apartheid model – the long term imprisonment of a population with no resources, no freedom of movement, no clean water, no jobs. Instead, it has returned to the tried-and-tested formulas of genocide and ethnic cleansing. Hamas is a symptom of the decades of trauma Palestinians in Gaza have been through, not the cause of that trauma. Palestinians overthrowing Hamas, or Hamas surrendering, would not turn Gaza into a Dubai-on-the-Mediterranean. Palestinians there would still be prisoners, though possibly allowed slightly better conditions. If you doubt that, look to the West Bank, which is ruled not by Hamas but by the supine Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas. He calls security cooperation with Israel – suppressing on Israel’s behalf the Palestinians' craving for freedom – a “sacred” duty. His biggest aspiration is a diplomatic solution that creates a severely circumscribed Palestinian mini-state. If Israel can’t allow freedom to the West Bank under Abbas, how is it ever going to give freedom to tiny Gaza, even without Hamas, after the United Nations declared the enclave as fundamentally “uninhabitable” in 2020? Israel could never allow the Palestinians out of their Gaza prison because their rapid growth in numbers is seen as a threat to Israel’s Jewish majority. Remember: settler colonial populations are there to replace the native population, not to make peace with them, not to shares resources, not to give them their freedom. Israel is doing the only thing it knows how to do. And as long as the West is cheerleading, that includes genocide.

Our last statement is a call for immediate ceasefire, an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine and routine violence enacted against the Palestinian people.

We have decided to cancel our concert tonight in Bratislava. We stand in solidarity with the global call to strike by our Palestinian brothers and sisters who are in the midst of a genocidal assault. This was to be our final show.

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UK gov to call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza - Sign the Petition! chng.it/MGBCXvjT via @UKChange

Plug eardrums into your next GM Podcast instalment! 🎙️👂 Episode 4 covers @cometcoming synth guru Danalogue as he meets GM stalwart @PictishTrail, who chat inspiration, synths & everything in-between → gmfe.st/podcast

Sorry to say that due to the level 8 storm warning we couldn’t play today either in Hong Kong 😭genuinely tried our best to make a show happen.

Ok Hong Kong gang, no joy tonight - we are trying for an inside show tomorrow watch this space…

So typhoon has stopped play tonight in Hong Kong, we will stay here and await news for TBC performance tomorrow! We want to play for you!!