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This track is based on "Wot’s… uh the deal" and "Absolutely curtains".

You don't know what a koteka is, so we will tell you. A koteka is a penis cover. All the men wear one. It goes over the penis and it hangs down like a codpiece. Even Barbet Schroeder wore one when we shot that boring movie, La Vallée. “I just tried to remember everything,” he says. “When I went to see the film again, I thought, ‘Isn’t that cool?’ It wasn’t just that I was wearing a koteka. I kept wanting to hear the sound effects. I kept wanting to turn the corner and see an enemy.”

Schroeder had a hard time making the movie, which was a low-budget, independent production. “There was no money,” he says. “The producers didn’t have a dime. So we had to rely on favors. I had to make a lot of phone calls to get the sound effects.” But in his heart, Schroeder knew that the film was going to be great. “It was a very ambitious movie for its time,” he says. “It was a big-budget film for people who had no money."

"It was a war film with only two actors, Syd Barrett and Cyd Charisse. In the final battle scene, we had about 800 extras, but they were real people. They were all Mennonites.” The koteka was a big part of the movie. “I had never really seen a koteka before,” Schroeder says. “I had an idea, but I wanted to see one. Somebody gave me one. It was a beautiful koteka. It was a very interesting piece of cloth. I took it in my room and I put it on a chair. I saw it every day. I thought, ‘It’s a very interesting piece of cloth.’” Schroeder says that the koteka was not just a prop. “It had a lot of meaning for me, because at that time I was totally bankrupt and didn't even have money to buy a pair of underpants."

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from Cold grey void electrically operated by mantis​-​eyed humans (2022), released November 4, 2022

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Escupemetralla are the result of a series of retro-transmissions to be carried out in the mid-twentyfirst century at the "Thorne's Cone Light Reversion Laboratory for Children", Los Alamos, Texas (Federal States of Mexico and Puerto Rico). In a certain way, Escupemetralla are just virtual entities that will actually exist in several years' time. Escupemetralla means "Spitshrapnel" in Spanish. ... more

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