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Space Race
06:16
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I look up into the sky
and I wonder why I'm this kind of guy
I'm sigma male
I think I fail
to conform, fit into society, see,
but that doesn't bother me:
a sigma male I can be
something simpler
maybe a complexity
that doesn't suit me
oh simplicity is a complexity
that doesn't suit me
that doesn't flute me
I'm completely
in this vicinity
of soundscape city.
Oh...
It's a space race
what's that on your face?
disgrace?
the demons that invaded you
made you chase
the dragon of your own imagination
it was not chaste
it was impure
it stunk
it had a stench like waste.
space race
what's that on your face?
disgrace?
it's a space race
what's on your face?
is that disgrace?
rising from the grave
then you find you were not safe
from afflictions by the diabolical spirits that chafe
you're not safe, they like to chafe
they like to waste away your head today.
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I flog mighty through the weeds.
I see the human needs.
I flog mighty through the weeds.
I see all the human needs.
They surround me.
They're all around me,
but they don't confound me,
and they don't hound me.
They are like sheep without a shepherd.
They are looking quiet, like a decomposing leopard.
They are like sheep without a shepherd.
They are like, lying around,
like a decomposing leopard.
Not too get too deep,
but they feel like they are
keepers of lepers,
whenever they creep and they
forgot to turn on the correct levers,
switches for evers and nevers,
without a mask on like a veep.
Come on out of your sleep.
You don't have to use turn signals,
you don't have to beep
your horn, even though the hill is steep.
Come on out of your shell.
Come on out of your inner hell.
Come on out of your sleep.
You've been hypnotized,
brainwashed deep.
Come on out of your trance.
Come on out and fidget dance.
Come on now out of your shock
Come on out now
I want you to rock
around the clock
ad hoc
but don't mock.
Who do you think will be
the one to greet you as you enter the
station of eternity?
Are you ready and answer me:
who will take your plea
that forsaken, free,
you have spilt blood you see
every time you looked with hostility
at someone you thought of as your enemy.
Come on out of your shell.
Come on out of your inner hell.
Come on out of your sleep
You've been hypnotized,
brainwashed deep.
Come on out of your trance
Come on out now and fidget dance.
Come on out now out of your shock.
Come on out now
I want you to rock
around the clock
ad hoc
but don't mock.
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Don is Gone
04:53
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November Sleep
13:20
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Don
10:57
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Dreamy But Real
06:56
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All I seem to get from you
is a bunch of subterfuge.
You're jejune.
All I seem get from you
is just a bunch of "I refuse".
You're jejune.
Mathematically perfumed
you are really swooned
of the stench
of the wrench
in the rips.
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Kief Suite
09:13
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Elastik Xymphony
10:12
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Atomic Army
13:44
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Grocery Store Apocalypse
13:19
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Garden Concert in Autumn
13:19
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Mechanical Imp Processor
04:20
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Plato's Plateau
09:17
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Helicopter Sandwich
06:59
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Spectralist Filigrees
14:45
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That Cosmic Pulse Again
12:25
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Deluxe Repackaged Gloom
10:18
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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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Str8 Sounds recommends:
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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Asmus Tietchens is a self-trained sound artist doing minimalist, techno parodies, industrial abstractions. This album serves as a nice intro to his work.
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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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THOUSANDNEEDLES
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A stellar cast of artists put their own shadowy spins on recent Bestial Mouths material—toward the goth club floor or into pure noise.
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Tierra De Las Brujas
by LNR TMB
All proceeds through tomorrow from this dark, claustrophobic synth EP go to RAICES Texas.
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featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 17, 2015
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