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Viking's Choice: Organ Drone, Purple Metal, Hypercolor Fusion

This week's mix features drone music performed on a pipe organ, ridiculously over-the-top metal from Japan, a wild avant-pop collaboration between Nels Cline and Cibo Matto's Yuka C. Honda and more.
Kali Malone on the cover of <em>The Sacrificial Code</em>, one of two organ drone albums on this week's Viking's Choice.

Is there a Sean Paul of metal or drone that ? A musical hype-person who "makes every song better," but over blast beats or long, ponderous synths? Whoever it is, I would like to invite them to hop on a remix to any song featured on this week's entirely and .

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