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03(042)03(043)what of the others, the humans with their almostnon-existent tolerance for poin and their totallyinadequate mental discipline?Sir "'enelikThe Me Is a Parallel ProcessorAt this level of mindstress, syntax becomes a rapattack which strobesthe brain, impacting with the remorseless frequency of measuredvoltage. As attention drags further behind the inexorable informationflow, the gap between attention lag and infovelocity is phaseshifted,passing from sensations of stupidity into an itch in the brain.On Production triggers an acutely tactile mental irritation thatsimultaneously begins crawling over the s~in . Your brain feels fat andflabby, a torpid muscle dragging its bulk after this rap that just won't stop.This is not science fiction but New Sc ence, functioning from the year4001 , from 'the time when the human brain has reached the era of fullemployment.' Chris Marker's film Sans soleil announces this era, when'everything works to perfection, all that "'Ie allow to slumber, includingmemory. Logical consequence: total recall is memory anaesthetized.After so many stories of men who had l05t their memory, here is thestory of one who has lost forgetting.'On Production shifts from a report from the f1ightdeck to instructionsfrom a navigation manual, to report of immune system breakdown, toemergency broadcast, to a lecture on chaos theory from a future versionof the Santa Fe Institute: 'Does science achieve a unified theory ofcomplex systems? Completely chaotic systems, such as turbulent fluids,heated gases appear on the borders between rigid order and poetryamong a list of the 31 ways to define "nomadical".' Sir Menelik switchesaddress again, broadcasting a warning that turns you into anechochamber: 'All mankind must submit to genetic testing, Diseasecontaminates every transmission of unawareness.' Terror resoundsthrough the dome of your head.As Sir Menelik the Emperor General emerges from No Awareness, thesynth's dying arc and electric piano drop away, leaving an ominoustexturedrift, a vapourmoan. Drum machine stilts, its inexpressive pulsesstutter. WordObjects whaaAAm across the stereoperceptual fie ld. SirMenelik leaves sequential monorational flow for a new mode ofrationality. Not verbal flow but rather a parallel-systems maintenancecheck, a specifications warning report read out really fast, to induceinfoverload of 'Acoustic death by analysis. 'Which generates a disconnected multirational Sonic Fiction, in whichconcepts jump, thought leapfrogs, mind zigzags from clause to clause, aperceptual current transmits between each intervals, ripples acrossgaps. Concepts are electrified into pararational military instructions to'increase magnetic fields, Electro-liquid expands, critical procedurescool 77 Kelvins by submerging.'Each track induces a feeling of perpetual dysphoria, untying andrearranging your nerves, dis-ease triggered by sampladelia before thelyrics ever start. This verbal verbosity, this info-expansion turns youinto a decoder perpetually switching routes between Marvel cosmologyand cosmetic surgery, transpecies organ transplantation andastrophysics, alien sex and medicopathology.We think as instruments/l/ixmaster "'ikeThe Deck Magus Turns the Tables on TimeTurntablist Q Bert's skratchadelic solos are the sonic parallel of thesf/horror transformation scene. Already effected sounds becomeunrecognizable textureffects, spongy blocs phaseshifting through aseries of unknown audio states. Squeals modulate into whistles andscreeches, decay into astonishingly sustained whinny which revertsbriefly back into a recognizably male scream before fading out entirely.Skratchadelia is mutantexture generated by turntabilization, by usingthe turntables as universal tone generators. Disk of turntable ensembleInvisibl Skratch Picklz: ' It's the only instrument that can be anyinstrument. When you have a gu!tar, you're limited to how the guitarsounds. But when you have a turntable, you can take a guitar, you cantake a drum sound, you can take a dog barking, you can take any soundand manipulate it into your own.'Q Bert hooks the decks up to guitar-pedals, drastically effectingskratchadelic textures, immediately opening up an entirely newspectrum of altered beats and mutantextures.