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This is my beast mode track. The one I put on when I need to switch everything else off and go into full fucking beast mode. “Frontlines” by Diabolic featuring Immortal Technique is one of those tracks where the aggression isn’t just in the delivery. It’s in the density of the thinking. Diabolic comes in […]
READ ARTICLE →It began, as many of my creative experiments do, with an entirely ridiculous idea. I wanted to compose a Soviet-style revolutionary anthem from the 1920s. Something enormous, militaristic, and almost comically self-important. A thousand men singing in unison, a thunderous brass orchestra, relentless percussion, and lyrics consisting entirely of invented words. The music was to […]
READ ARTICLE →There is something profoundly unsettling about a room full of people laughing at something that isn’t particularly funny. A performer smiles, the orchestra plays, the audience applauds, and somewhere beneath the velvet curtains and theatrical lighting, something has gone terribly wrong. Nobody seems especially concerned. The champagne is still flowing. That was the world I […]
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