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Like you been finding it really hard to know where to go with this. I started by trying to draw some threads between the previous covers. One uniting theme it seems is that they are all places which people gather , but on the covers they look very desolate and isolated. (Maybe I'm reading too much into this.)
I started thinking transport hubs. This is something that would work well with space / future and the ancient too.
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¬ Many things coming out of one (
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¬ Stations (
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None of this quite does what I'm thinking justice - I'll keep searching... Think more space station esque.
This links really well intooo (and I still think the most promising idea) freeways / spaghetti junctions. Here's some images I sent over last time (
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8). Hadn't noticed your twitter background (
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The EP is called Night Skanker. The Lil Silva 'night' vibe is completely the opposite of, say, Burial's. One idea that I did think could work was using the patterns in tower blocks (
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Lil Silva's music for me is about the ENERGY. I think something could be made out of 'fields' of renewable energy sources. You seem to need so many wind turbines, solar panels etc. to generate any amount of worthwhile electrictiy. Often they are distributed in a grid of some sort.
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5). Alot are set in mountains and could fit with the epic nature theme thing (
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4). And this one is an amazing bit of machinery, fitting more with the IRL thing (
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This would move the covers away from a single isolated structure and closer to the multiplicity of something like eBoy (
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More on the idea of energy.
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¬ Solar flares (
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The EPs so far have been figureless. Although this one is called Night Skanker that seems to refer to a person. Maybe, still avoiding figures, the artwork could concern itself with the affects/effects that a person leaves or the impressions they leave behind.
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