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Flaming Lips' Zaireeka patti smith and takes us deep intoZaireeka is the anti headphone and the anti mp3. It purposely makes the two biggest developments in end user music in the last 30 years irrelevant. Zaireeka is not mobile. It is not personal. It is not solitary, cannot be easily controlled, and can't easily be consumed in small doses. So another way to think of Zaireeka is as a one off piece of technology that comes in a highly inconvenient dead end format. The Flaming Lips' 1997 album Zaireeka is one