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Escapology is the soundtrack to sonic-fiction work Astro-Darien – and the Hyperdub label head’s first album since 2015 Within the late 1690s, Scotland launched into what can be probably the most ambitious colonial schemes attempted within the seventeenth century. An try to colonise what's now Panama in Central America, the Darien Scheme, because the project was named, was meant arrange trading posts between the Atlantic and Pacific. Nevertheless it was a disaster; the plan almost bankrupted Scotland and is a contributing factor to the country having to enter into union with England for the money. “After Brexit, I’ve been considering quite a lot of how that strategy of disintegration might proceed with Scottish independence,”...