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- about
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a tale of the future
Sometime in the moderately distant future a man will live by the name of Diode. He will be a doctor. Thusly he will be called Doctor Diode. One day, in his basement laboratory, Doctor Diode will accidentally create sentience in an attempt to make a revolutionary new computer. He will call his invention the Hexagon Brain and out of compassion he will build it a small robotic body. In a moment of brilliant creativity, he will name this first robot Alpha.
This Compact Disc is a recording of sounds that came from a small machine found buried in a reverse time capsule. It is the story of the robots in their own language (Which sounds very much like our music).
The recording comes in two parts.
Part 1: Our Robotic Friends and Enemies (Tracks 1-11)
Part 2: Fall of the Synthetic Americans (Tracks 12-19) - credits
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released 31 July 2007
All Music and Art by Christopher J.M. Venter - tags
- tags: experimental soundtrack electronic music indie rock psychedelic shoegaze Brooklyn
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- Track Name: Alpha
- Alpha is the first robot created by Doctor Diode. He is a small red fireplug of a machine and is an excellent housekeeper. His turkey dinners are legendary.
- Track Name: Super Pilot 1
- When the robots first became popular, the immediate reaction was to make a robot to fly military planes. Doctor Diode was commissioned to make Pilot 1 and not allowed to name him due to strict military non-creativity laws. He is the best pilot in the world.
- Track Name: Made in America
- All robots proudly bore this label.
- Track Name: Giga Watt the Gigolo Robot
- Giga Watt was a popular pleasure model. He looked and copulated very much like a human. He also liked to talk on his cell phone very loudly and in public.
- Track Name: Commander Tokyo the Dancing Robot
- Much to the annoyance of the adults of the near future, mostly overweight adolescents became instantly obsessed with a peculiar new dancing game (Super Robot Dance-Me Challenge) soon after the robot craze began. The faux-Japanese robot Commander Tokyo was a fixture in countless malls of the time and would approach young teens, challenging them to a dance-off for $5. When the children would insert their money, Commander Tokyo would then begin spewing very fast, obnoxious dance music and flash wild shades of pink white and orange while performing moves even the least overweight of the teens could never hope to top.
- Track Name: Super Jay Gatsby (Robot of Doom)
- When the robots became a pop icon, various TV shows cropped up. This was the theme song to a Saturday morning cartoon based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, the Great Gatsby. It’s plots largely consisted of giant robot Gatsby fighting giant robot Tom over puny human Daisy. West Egg would never be the same.
- Track Name: Robot Kingpin
- In the dark alleys of Oasis, Indiana there lurked an evil construction robot gone wrong. After a work related injury he was rejected for workman’s compensation and became disgruntled. He challenged the robotic religion of human worship and insisted that his race of metal men, Synthetic Americans, were superior. He hatched a plan to end human control over robots.
- Track Name: Leveler
- Leveler was a giant robot with chainsaw arms built to level the town of Oasis. He went on a rampage along with a small army of disgruntled construction robots and killed many humans under the orders of the Robot Kingpin.
- Track Name: The Judicator
- The Judicator was built as an impartial logical judge. It was constantly under the stress of deciding several of the most disturbing and ethically taxing court cases at once. Information and evidence flowed through it like water or sewage. This had led it to become somewhat depressed and neurotic. It had a self-deprecating sense of humor and if it were human, would have likely been a raging alcoholic.
- Track Name: Grease Monkey
- This mechanic robot model had taken a liking to 1950s music. It was constantly trying to impress other robots with its strength and knowledge of engines.
- Track Name: The Queen of Arcades
- When robots became popular in the community of Oasis’ children, video arcades began expressing interest in a model that would interact with their young clientele. The Queen of Arcades was born as a mascot and robotic conversation partner to socially awkward adolescents and occasionally socially awkward adults. This was the height of the period of robot happiness.
- Track Name: Androids Never Fall in Love
- Eventually Doctor Diode progressed to the point where he could create nearly flawless replicas of humanity, complete with dreams of electric sheep. However, he never was able to teach the Hexagon Brain to let those creatures love. This helped contribute to the discontent of the Synthetic Americans and fueled the cause of the Robot Kingpin.
- Track Name: Hexagon Toaster
- When the Leveler was unleashed upon Oasis, all of robotkind was in an uproar. The innocent robots who sided with humans over the Kingpin banded together to help stop the destruction. Pilot 1 volunteered to deploy a deadly bomb called the Hexagon Toaster, which would fry the Hexagon Brain of Leveler. It succeeded in stopping Leveler but the blast also destroyed Pilot 1 himself.
- Track Name: They Must Go
- Regardless of Pilot 1's selfless act, mobs gathered and demanded the death of the robots. Many of the citizens protested that the robots were a great benefit to society and were overall friends of humanity. The mob maintained that they were a menace and they had to go.
- Track Name: Pitchforks and Torchlight
- The citizens of Oasis grabbed up their farm tools and 19th century torches; they rounded up the robots with no regard to innocent or guilty.
- Track Name: Road to the Compactor
- They marched them one by one into the giant trash compactor at the city dump.
- Track Name: The Automataun at the Piano
- One brave musician robot played his synthetic piano until the very end. Even as he was lowered into the compactor he still played and sang. To robots, the piano was the most human of sounds. To this brave robot the piano was a last plea for peace.
- Track Name: The Pile of Cubes of Metal
- When all the robots had been compacted, the townspeople gathered all their cubed bodies and constructed a giant pyramid in the center of town as a reminder and a warning of what happened to the Synthetic Americans.
- Track Name: Omega
- Doctor Diode was crushed by the violence perpetrated against his creations. Despite a court order against his doing so, the good Doctor created one last robot. In a rare moment of genius he called it Omega. Omega was a robot made to tell the story of robots in their own language. Doctor Diode placed this small robot into one of his other inventions, the reverse time capsule, and buried it under the ground. Time passed backwards in the capsule and Omega eventually traveled to our time.
