BUREAU OF LOST CULTURE - The Music of Mind Control (30/08/2025)

Since the 1950s, certain charismatic individuals have taken it upon themselves to collect others around them in ‘cults’, rejecting mainstream religion and society in favour of a claim to secret knowledge of the path of liberation. Their number encompasses the darkest bogeymen of countercultural nightmares- including Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh and the Reverend Moon -as well as saintly figures devoted to the good of others; outright charlatans, narcissistic psychopaths, deluded New Age prophets, as well as some genuine gurus.

They love, use and abuse music

Artist and archivist MICAH MOSES has spent twenty years not only studying cults, new religious movements and individuals of a spiritually inspired nature, but broadcasting their soundtracks to a wider world. He came to the Bureau to tell us about it and share a selection of strange, esoteric and sometimes sinister sounds from the vast archive he has gathered over the years.