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    "releases": "singles, eps and albums. each release contains an ordered list of one or more signals; the same signal can appear on multiple releases.",
    "artifacts": "the official dark.broken.disco merch section. artifacts and merch mean the same store."
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      "description": "chemical confessions widens the lens from the individual to the collective. set in the blurred intimacy of late-night apartments and after-hours rooms, it captures the strange honesty that emerges when damaged people gather around the same escape.\n\n(the track features an easter egg with Seo-yun's closing line to connect it as a parallel diagnosis to the album 'the anatomy of numbness')",
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      "description": "self medication explores the quiet space between coping and escaping. it's not a song about self-destruction, but about the small rituals people build to soften emotions that feel too sharp to carry. the narrator isn't trying to disappear completely — only to turn the volume down long enough to make it through another night. beneath the chemical comfort lies a fragile illusion of control, slowly slipping away.",
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      "description": "The Anatomy of Numbness is a clinical exploration of what happens when feeling doesn't disappear — it just fades into function. Set to cold, danceable production, the album maps how people adapt, minimize, and dissociate until numbness starts to feel like stability. It doesn't offer healing — only recognition, and the quiet realization that you're not the only one there.",
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          "title": "somewhere else",
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          "title": "knew it all along",
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          "title": "still",
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          "title": "drift",
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          "title": "i keep it running",
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          "title": "no change",
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      "type": "ep",
      "title": "self medication _ mixed artifacts",
      "slug": "self-medication-mixed-artifacts",
      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/release/self-medication-mixed-artifacts",
      "description": "same diagnosis. different environments. self medication — mixed artifacts features the 4am mix and the hot tropical mix.",
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      "release_date": "2026-06-27",
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          "title": "self medication - hot tropical mix",
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      "title": "parallel diagnosis ep",
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      "description": "'parallel diagnosis ep' explores what happens socially after the diagnosis has already settled in. the bpm slows down. the rooms become smaller. the conversations quieter.\n\nbuilt around afterhours atmospheres, chemical coping and emotionally detached intimacy, the ep captures the strange comfort of being understood by people who are breaking in similar ways.\n\nless dancefloor. more aftermath.\n\nthe music moves through dim apartments, bathroom mirrors, fading conversations and chemically softened emotions — where nobody fully falls apart, but nobody fully heals either.\n\nnot self-destruction. not glamour. just people trying to stay functional inside the same repeating and destructive pattern.\n\n(this release is only available on vinyl)",
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          "duration": "4:54",
          "title": "chemical confessions",
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      "type": "single",
      "title": "somewhere else",
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      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/release/somewhere-else",
      "description": "somewhere else explores dissociation through the lens of everyday life. conversations continue, bodies move through familiar spaces, and routines remain intact, yet something essential feels absent. the narrator observes their own existence from a distance, participating without fully arriving. rather than portraying dissociation as dramatic or chaotic, the song focuses on its quieter form — the strange experience of functioning normally while feeling disconnected from the life unfolding around you.",
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      "release_date": "2026-05-08",
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          "theme": "dissociation",
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          "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/somewhere-else"
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    {
      "type": "ep",
      "title": "knew it all along",
      "slug": "knew-it-all-along-ep",
      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/release/knew-it-all-along-ep",
      "description": "knew it all along is a study of false stability and mutual self-deception. presented as a duet, the song follows two people who remain inside a relationship neither fully believes in, yet neither chooses to leave. there is no villain and no victim. instead, both voices acknowledge their role in maintaining an arrangement that felt stable enough to continue but never deep enough to be real. the song captures the moment when denial finally gives way to clarity, revealing that the truth was never hidden — only tolerated.",
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      "release_date": "2026-04-24",
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      "type": "single",
      "title": "smaller",
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      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/release/smaller",
      "description": "smaller examines self-minimization as a survival strategy. rather than risking rejection, the narrator gradually learns to take up less space, soften their edges, and hide parts of themselves that might feel too much for others. the song is not about being silenced by someone else, but about the subtle ways people learn to disappear on their own. it is a portrait of adaptation that feels safe on the surface while quietly eroding authenticity underneath.",
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      "release_date": "2026-03-31",
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      "description": "the first physical edition of dark.broken.disco. two tracks pressed together: 'normal' and 'smaller' — the emotional foundation of the project. numbness and self-minimization, side by side. the outer sleeve presents the humanoid isolated in the city, while individual graphics inside reveal the internal psychological states beneath the surface.\n\nan artistic object designed to be held, archived, collected and revisited — not consumed temporarily through feeds and algorithms.",
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      "description": "normal explores a state of high-functioning emotional numbness. the pain hasn't disappeared, but it no longer arrives with the force it once did. expectations have quietly adapted, disappointment has become manageable, and silence begins to feel like peace. the song captures the unsettling moment when someone realizes they are no longer suffering in the same way — not because they have healed, but because they have grown used to living without feeling fully alive.",
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      "release_date": "2026-02-26",
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      "title": "self medication - cinematic version",
      "theme": "chemical coping - cinematic version",
      "slug": "self-medication-cinematic-version",
      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/self-medication-cinematic-version",
      "note": "self medication explores the quiet space between coping and escaping. it's not a song about self-destruction, but about the small rituals people build to soften emotions that feel too sharp to carry. the narrator isn't trying to disappear completely — only to turn the volume down long enough to make it through another night. beneath the chemical comfort lies a fragile illusion of control, slowly slipping away.",
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      "title": "no change",
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      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/no-change",
      "note": "no change widens the diagnosis beyond the individual. the narrator begins hearing the same responses, patterns and adaptations in other people, turning something private into something shared. there is no breakthrough and no resolution; the system continues exactly as before. but one thing has changed: perspective. what once felt uniquely personal is now recognizable in others. the album ends not with healing, but with the quiet realization that this pattern was never mine alone.",
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      "title": "i keep it running",
      "theme": "continuation",
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      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/i-keep-it-running",
      "note": "i keep it running examines the mechanisms that continue even after they have been recognized. the narrator sees the pattern clearly now: reading the room, anticipating problems, adjusting early and maintaining stability before anything can break. what once looked like care, growth or competence is revealed as the same old survival strategy under different names. awareness has arrived, but behavior continues — because understanding a system does not automatically stop it from running.",
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      "title": "drift",
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      "note": "drift explores the strange period immediately after insight, when awareness exists but direction does not. entirely instrumental, the track feels like a system slowly rebooting after a crash — familiar functions returning before any deeper change has taken place. there is movement again, and even a brief suggestion of hope, but nothing has actually been resolved. it is the sound of consciousness returning while the underlying pattern remains intact.",
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      "title": "still",
      "theme": "insight",
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      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/still",
      "note": "still captures the moment when the structure finally becomes visible. nothing dramatic collapses; instead, the narrator stops holding together something they had quietly sustained all along. what once appeared mutual is revealed as something maintained through effort, projection and denial. the realization is painful precisely because nothing external has changed — only the interpretation. the song strips away movement and language until one uncomfortable truth remains: it held because i did.",
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      "title": "self medication - hot tropical mix",
      "theme": "chemical coping · hot tropical mix",
      "slug": "self-medication-hot-tropical-mix",
      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/self-medication-hot-tropical-mix",
      "note": "self medication explores the quiet space between coping and escaping. it's not a song about self-destruction, but about the small rituals people build to soften emotions that feel too sharp to carry. the narrator isn't trying to disappear completely — only to turn the volume down long enough to make it through another night. beneath the chemical comfort lies a fragile illusion of control, slowly slipping away.",
      "cover": "https://xtlqdzqrdleotjbfnili.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/release-covers/self-medication-mixed-artifacts.jpg",
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      "title": "self medication - 4am mix",
      "theme": "chemical coping · 4am mix",
      "slug": "self-medication-4am-mix",
      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/self-medication-4am-mix",
      "note": "self medication explores the quiet space between coping and escaping. it's not a song about self-destruction, but about the small rituals people build to soften emotions that feel too sharp to carry. the narrator isn't trying to disappear completely — only to turn the volume down long enough to make it through another night. beneath the chemical comfort lies a fragile illusion of control, slowly slipping away.",
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      "title": "self medication",
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      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/self-medication",
      "note": "self medication explores the quiet space between coping and escaping. it's not a song about self-destruction, but about the small rituals people build to soften emotions that feel too sharp to carry. the narrator isn't trying to disappear completely — only to turn the volume down long enough to make it through another night. beneath the chemical comfort lies a fragile illusion of control, slowly slipping away.",
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      "slug": "chemical-confessions",
      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/chemical-confessions",
      "note": "chemical confessions widens the lens from the individual to the collective. set in the blurred intimacy of late-night apartments and after-hours rooms, it captures the strange honesty that emerges when damaged people gather around the same escape.\n\n(the track features an easter egg with Seo-yun's closing line to connect it as a parallel diagnosis to the album 'the anatomy of numbness')",
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      "title": "somewhere else",
      "theme": "dissociation",
      "slug": "somewhere-else",
      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/somewhere-else",
      "note": "somewhere else explores dissociation through the lens of everyday life. conversations continue, bodies move through familiar spaces, and routines remain intact, yet something essential feels absent. the narrator observes their own existence from a distance, participating without fully arriving. rather than portraying dissociation as dramatic or chaotic, the song focuses on its quieter form — the strange experience of functioning normally while feeling disconnected from the life unfolding around you.",
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          "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/release/somewhere-else"
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      "note": "knew it all along is a study of false stability and mutual self-deception. presented as a duet, the song follows two people who remain inside a relationship neither fully believes in, yet neither chooses to leave. there is no villain and no victim. instead, both voices acknowledge their role in maintaining an arrangement that felt stable enough to continue but never deep enough to be real. the song captures the moment when denial finally gives way to clarity, revealing that the truth was never hidden — only tolerated.",
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          "title": "knew it all along",
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      "theme": "self-minimization",
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      "note": "smaller examines self-minimization as a survival strategy. rather than risking rejection, the narrator gradually learns to take up less space, soften their edges, and hide parts of themselves that might feel too much for others. the song is not about being silenced by someone else, but about the subtle ways people learn to disappear on their own. it is a portrait of adaptation that feels safe on the surface while quietly eroding authenticity underneath.",
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          "title": "smaller",
          "slug": "smaller",
          "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/release/smaller"
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          "title": "normal x smaller ep",
          "slug": "normal-x-smaller-ep",
          "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/release/normal-x-smaller-ep"
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      "theme": "numbness",
      "slug": "normal",
      "url": "https://darkbrokendisco.com/signals/normal",
      "note": "normal explores a state of high-functioning emotional numbness. the pain hasn't disappeared, but it no longer arrives with the force it once did. expectations have quietly adapted, disappointment has become manageable, and silence begins to feel like peace. the song captures the unsettling moment when someone realizes they are no longer suffering in the same way — not because they have healed, but because they have grown used to living without feeling fully alive.",
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