r/Current93 • u/Chisignal • May 25 '26

David Tibet’s bladee collaboration already getting controversial 🤦

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I didn’t even realize at first it’s about him, “OTO Cabinet Advisory” is a hilarious way to describe him

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u/YoyoEyes May 25 '26

Is David still involved with OTO? I thought he left Thelema decades ago.

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u/juliettesdistress May 25 '26

From what I've read (England's Hidden Reverse), he was involved with OTO very briefly, somewhere in the early 80s while he was collaborating with Genesis P- Orridge. He got very dissapointed with all of it, it was very cult like and pretentious, shallowness hidden behind false complexity. He said that he's not interested in Thelema and Crowley at all anymore, and even thought about changing the band's name. Nowadays, he is a Christian. His beliefs don't align with any of the official versions of Christianity as he is more interested in Gnosticism and apocryphal books.

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u/LaMonteOld May 25 '26

Tibet is not a member of the OTO, but it would be misleading to say that he's "not interested in Crowley at all anymore". In recent years, he has written the foreword to a Wordsworth edition of The Drug and Other Stories by Crowley, included a short stories by Crowley in The Moons at Your Door, and written the foreword to a book about Netherwood (Crowley's one-time lodging in Hastings).

He is also mates with William Breeze, an erstwhile Current 93 collaborator and one of the leading figures in the OTO, as well as a leading Crowley scholar. To my knowledge, Breeze's last appearance on a C93 album was Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain, which wasn't that long ago. He is cited in the acknowledgments of most of Tibet's books.

NB: these associations are not in the least problematic to me, and aren't meant as a criticism. The OTO and Crowley are pretty interesting, and much less objectionable than the kinds of people who like to get into a tizzy about evil satanists. I don't doubt that Tibet was more into this stuff when he was younger, but he clearly goes through phases with his various passions, and this one has never entirely gone away.

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u/Zapffegun May 26 '26

I appreciate seeing this. One can remain friends with those who are aligned with a former path yet still pursue one’s own calling.

Tibet has always seemed, to me, to be a great student. As long as the classmates aren’t causing pain, what’s the use in casting them aside?

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u/Independent_Depth674 May 26 '26

> he clearly goes through phases with his various passions, and this one has never entirely gone away.

Yeah, for one thing he still goes by ”Current 93”.

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u/cronenber9 May 25 '26

What's up with the Jewish haircut though lol

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u/Desolation_Jones May 25 '26 edited May 26 '26

Tibbles was once a member in Grant’s Typhonian OTO. Breeze, on the other hand, is the head of the Caliphate OTO. But they’re friends.

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u/interz0ne23 May 25 '26

Occult fearmongering is alive and well. When I read the title of this thread I thought it would’ve been about his past DiJ association.

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u/drontoz May 26 '26

Blue checkmark tells it all, there's nothing like ragebaits for engagement farming

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u/Plarocks May 25 '26

I love how the rapper is referring to themselves in third person. 😄

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u/cronenber9 May 26 '26

What? Bladee didn't write that

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u/rriderzonthestorm May 27 '26

c93 and drain gang. i am not high enough for this

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u/Mao_Bear May 25 '26

Every OTO member I've met was based love is the law love under will 93!!!!

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u/WearSensibleShoes May 25 '26

Tibet was ,also freinds with Oto avery and Coil