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Forward Thinking Fury
05:28
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Goodbye sugar pop -- why did you not really want to drop the sky, but you wanted to lie instead, you pig! We don't even try to give you a wig to cover your bald spot. Now you're not really really so hot. Lying politician, you're tied up in a knot.
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Factory Preset
09:46
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"Souls charged with sin discharge at God, beside
furled up in guilt, wrapped in sins, slough, and slime.
Wills wed to wickedness, hearts stonified,
flinty affections, conscience chalybdine,
flooding the world with horrid crimes, arise.
Daring almighty God contempuous-wise.
In this sad plight, the richest beauty clear
that the bravest flower, that bud was big with, wore
did glorify those cheeks, who visage were
marred more that any man's and form spoiled more.
Oh beauty beautiful, not touched with vice!
The fairest flower in all God's paradise!"
Good news, good sirs.
More than comes within.
the canopy of angels!
Heaven's hall
allows no better:
this atones for sins for all.
My glorious God
whose grace here thickest falls,
may I my barley yon,
bran, briar, claw
lay unto sacrifice, or
chaff or straw?
100 types of woe
are thundered at you, though
you don't have to have it so.
Tell your sins you're letting go.
You're embracing a new way,
walking narrow every day,
straight as an arrow, so they say.
Your faith and face remain.
You're clean without a stain.
[List of synthesizer functionalities and features]
Solving that complete.
That's something
from the factory,
prefigured, preset.
You paid for it.
Don't forget.
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Bird and Bell GLOBAL MIX
15:05
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I was really speechless when I saw
the horrible edge of thorn and claw.
Prickly like scissors in the gall,
falling down like leaves in rain in Fall.
Autumn was the blessed subject then.
That's when King Herodotus had his men
eroded into the Earth like just a fig.
Nowadays no one would
believe his power was big.
That a vision is inmost revelation,
that of inner perception,
is evident from the relation
of what's been said before and
what's going against the station.
Why don't you shut the door?
You can't bear intimidation.
You were adored by
your parents too much.
Now your pampering has
become a dreadful crutch.
The way is above.
It is not here.
It is full of love
and teachings that are clear.
Friends, I was deep in awe
of the bright cut of thorn and claw.
They slice the corpse
out of the law.
None understand it,
it is too raw.
If you saw it,
I don't think you could draw
what it looks like
or how it feels
the sharp protuberance
in planned fields.
Bland, biased
all the things they do.
You'd be talking much
more sense if you knew
how they perform defiance,
how they really are anti science.
Piercing helicopters of ego's pride.
Down they plummet, no more dark ride.
I was speechless when I saw
the horrible edge of thorn and claw.
That viciousness of raptor,
that would be a real disaster,
a bad chapter,
if they could capture
your mind with their kool-aid.
All the design is to pretend
to give you aid.
I don't pretend to be
above the law.
These are just the things
I said I saw.
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Living Without a Soul
05:04
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To live without a soul
doesn't shut you out of some vocations.
They prefer men to have a hole
instead of conscience as the
head of the corporation.
Job opening: no soul required.
Soul-less people are the best.
Obey the plan and you won't get fired.
Minds free of introspection
ace the test.
You won't get fired.
Life with no soul
is the reported goal.
Stars say it's a good deal,
they don't have to think or feel.
Living without a soul.
Devil's in full control.
You'll assume a hideous role:
assassin, villain, cannibal,
because you're living without a soul.
Life with no soul
it's the reputed goal.
Stars say it's a good deal,
they now don't have to think or feel.
Conscience was intolerable,
truth penetrated into your skull --
it was experienced by you as painful.
Living without a soul
you can tell you're empty,
near zero, and your heart should unfold,
but instead there's a nothingness,
instead of your soul,
that soul was sold.
Plenty of dreams of love and wealth,
but soul-less people achieve them by stealth.
They grasp at things,
but have no grip.
Greasy fingers reign,
they let values slip.
Living without a soul:
you traded yours for a fortune,
but hell will be miserable
and regret shall be your portion.
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SWIM Will Win
07:29
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Someone who is not me, that's SWIM. Someone who is happy and grim. Someone who is not me, that's SWIM. Someone who is not me will win.
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Music Review
07:08
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Principal Path
06:10
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Mind Lightning
08:34
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I was speechless when I saw the horrible edge of thorn and claw. Prickly like scissors in the gall, falling down like leaves in rain in Fall. Autumn was the blessed subject then. That's when King Herodotus had his men eroded into the Earth just like a fig. Nowadays no one would believe his power was big. That a vision is inmost revelation, that of inner perception, is evident from the relation of what's been said before and what's going against the station. You were adored by your parents too much. Now your pampering has become a dreadful crutch. The way is above. It is not here. It is full of love and teachings that are clear.
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Ants on Parade
07:10
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New Truncated Gloom
12:07
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Slimy Nuclear Jelly
05:01
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TV Steeple Worship Hour
06:06
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miRack Render
06:16
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Str8 Sounds Peoria, Illinois
At age 6, I was changing speeds on reel to reel tape recorders & thus was born an electronic musician, Str8 Sounds, on
physical synthesizers, digital loops, samples, online instruments, field recordings, slide whistles, harmonicas, etc.
Gave Andy Warhol a tape of my music, NYC 1986.
1st official Str8 Sounds performance was @ Montage of Madness festival, Canton, IL, 1991, sponsor - Ed Carper.
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Mémoire Magnétique, vol.1 (1966-1990)
by Bernard Parmegiani
Bernard Parmegiani was a pioneer in electronic music, bridging experimentalism with pop sensibilities. This album is a good representation of his style.
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LA BOITE DE PANDORE
by Lieutenant Caramel
Lieutenant Caramel (Philippe Blanchard) is my favorite composer. He makes brilliant audio collages with a deft hand that knows perfectly how to orchestrate the strangest sounds for pure anti-music.
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