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You know what they say: it's all fun 'n games until the screwdriver slips. Radiation sickness is no joke. The song title refers to a very sad industrial incident which cost a clever man his life. It's there on Wikipedia if you want to look it up. Be safe and don't use shortcuts. And definitely keep screwdrivers away from plutonium cores.
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Sword In The Water
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The title might be LOTR inspired, can't remember for sure. Suggested by the eldest clone (that's 'offspring' to you earthlings) and gladly accepted since I was, as usual, completely void of song title ideas at the time.
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Reflect Resurge
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I made a great song before I made this one. Then I realized, with the help of the merciless internet guitar community, that I'd ruined the production. The title describes the somewhat painful process of dusting oneself off, resisting the urge to burn all the guitars, and sitting down to start writing the next one.
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Engagement Nexus
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A lame song title for a pretty cool, in my opinion, song. I was reading a science fiction book series in which a similarly named space battle played out. I should've come up with something more original. Yes. I didn't even like those books. But the space battle imagery is strong with this piece, so there you go.
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Flexaeon
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It has three vowels jammed next to each other. Just like Thraeol, see? Yeah..that's all I've got.
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The synth intro is called Absentia. Was even more unoriginally titled 'New Synth Day'. I got a new soft synth. I made a song. I snuck it on here as an intro. (Thanks NI, you make good stuff.)
The main song is the 'gravitas' thing. Any reader of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels will recognize this as a riff on the fantastic spaceship names he created. Did I say spacechip? Of course I meant General Systems Vehicle (GSV). Hyperintelligent, all-powerful sentient moving cities supplying mankind's every whim. Who would not want to live there?
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A joke. Magnetic monopoles are conjectured subatomic particles. (Or have they found some yet? Don't really care.) And therefore can't 'refract' anything. Refraction being a property of bulk matter, much like temperature. Nor could they be fragmented. Ha ha.
The opening synth sound (which I think is lush and beautiful and just yummy), sounds very much like refracting monopole fragments would sound. If refraction had anything to do with sound. And if monopoles could refract. And assuming they exist.
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence hopes for signals containing prime number sequences. No natural phenomenon could produce such a thing, so the thinking goes. But why would a planetary system emitting such a signal be named Velvet? I have no idea, but I'm interested. A race of extraterrestrial, pan-dimensional goths maybe?
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