Acc. № 297 · Archive reference image
Music That Never Was № 297
Home Value Tour '99
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A recovered Chinese-market concert poster advertising a 1999 multinational heavy music festival featuring Korn, Rammstein, Ice Cube, Limp Bizkit, and Orgy. The surreal bilingual billing—pairing nu-metal and rap acts under a domestic economics banner—suggests either a mismarketed event, a lost regional compilation tour, or a deliberately obtuse promotional strategy from the late-90s global touring circuit. The vintage portraiture and muted color palette create an uncanny collision between mid-century advertising design and alternative music ephemera. Speaks to collectors of forgotten music festivals, the pre-internet era of mistranslated international posters, and the strange cultural hybrids of late-90s globalization.
Catalogued, not yet released. This artifact will become available to acquire soon.
One artifact. One owner. On acquisition it is permanently retired from the archive. You receive the high-resolution file and a signed certificate of exclusivity.
About the certificate →Print specification
2752 × 1536 px · 4.2 MP · landscape
- Section
- Music That Never Was
- Style
- Vintage offset lithograph, period portraiture, retro advertising
- Mood
- nostalgic, surreal, conspiratorial
- Palette
- cream, burnt orange, brown
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