Around the millennium, Brazilian and South African circuits became international centres of festivals, artists and labels.
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New Global South centres
These scenes are not European footnotes: they developed their own calendars, aesthetics, audiences and exports in dialogue with international travel.
Future versions will separate the two countries using local sources and oral history; this record marks the gap instead of pretending coverage is complete.
This record is a doorway. The archive would rather declare a gap and invite contribution than fill space with generalisations.
A numbered run of objects made for the people who were there — and the ones who wish they had been. What is inside stays classified until the list opens. Signal subscribers get first access, before anyone else, and the run never comes back.