BEAST BOX <nuclear trip>

BEASTBOX (Benjamin Brejon and Jonathan hhy) crossed the border to Spain, and then crossed the border again into the Interzone for a hypnagogic audio séance in a disused nuclear power plant.

We went to the extreme siberia of ExtremaDura, to attend the gathering and blast the breaks at some point. The whole town of Valdecabaleros ( or valetadascaveiras) grew around the nuclear program and the construction of the power station. Buildings for workers, hotels and an impressive amount of kindergarten were erected in this remote and rather desolated landscape. From a Disco Siberia to an Atomic Hotel, to a classroom proudly baptized " Neil Armstrong", everything evokes the remains of an Invocation Ritual to the Atom God  and, perhaps, the secret perspective of a launching pod to finally reach the the outer space / or, reversely, an all- attractive site for Those From There to land. This safari into the future was brutally aborted : the nuclear power station was never finished and activated, no fission went on, the workers left, the colony never happened, the future generation was not born and THEY never came. The town trapped between the hills and  the artificial lake is now again an unpopulated place, with goat and deer skulls hanging on the walls of the cafés, abandoned buildings and desert kindergarten. Tarkovski's Zone or Twin Peaks revisited, or again JG Ballard's " Memory of The Space Age"....The shadow of the power station that never existed is present everywhere : the terrestrial animals ( Fauna Terraquea) consisting of goats and pigs never mutated nor had commerce with the celestial ones.

In this landscape of dark reservoirs and olive trees, we met other psychonauts in what could be described as a massive showcase of odd parallel architectures, perspectives and radar routing.

We finally left the Interzone after two days and went back home, on the road that crosses the flatland and passes by the village called " Hernan Cortes".