Deeseven

 Another day of acknowledging a sense of detachment to almost everything and everyone around me. I keep imagining myself getting kidnapped or abducted to a foreign land where I have only one set of shoes and I don't know anyone. I imagine that the people here live a totally different way of life, not a capitalist society of course but also not one noticeably so - people don't get by through trading skills or exchanging apples. The place I get abducted to, appears to the passer by as any other city would. Thats as far as I can go with the description of that imagination as I nearly have to start work already. Got distracted putting a croissant in the oven  and now I'd rather talk about the sense of detachment which has come out of these imaginations. I have experienced loss to certain degrees over the last year and the pandemic has made really struggle with even the smallest of losses - a more sheltered life led me to becoming dependent on things and people I never usually would have.  More recently I have been really pursuing a mindset which embraces loss and change and have been finding it sort of addictive to challenge myself with thoughts of loss and abduction. I do this to the extent where I have imagined being removed from everything and everyone I love and I practice feeling ok with that. It is very freeing and makes me cherish smaller interactions more and things that could be upsetting, have a lot less effect on me as I see their value in life only temporary and subject to change (positively) at any moment. 

I got this record recently - Net  - from Offworld Communication Systems which a squelchy synth abduction funkline. A lot of Offworld's other stuff sits in the ambient breaks and IDM genre but this one is more spacey thanks to the vocals and definitely helps me with that sense of detachment, or maybe it just bangs.  Can't find much to download anywhere though so just going to get more OCS stuff on CD for abduction car journeys.

• Alien abduction, memories of being taken by apparently nonhuman entities from a different planet
• Bride kidnapping, a practice in which a man abducts the woman he wishes to marry
• Raptio, large scale abduction of women, either for marriage or enslavement
• Tiger kidnapping, taking a hostage to force a loved one or associate of the victim to do something