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VOODOO
SCIENCE FEATURED RELEASE @
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ABOUT
VOODOO SCIENCE
Featuring
collaborations with artists from
across the music spectrum,
including: Parthenon Huxley
(The Orchestra/ELO Part II,
Foreigner, Eels,
XTC); Professor Griff
(Public Enemy, Last
Asiatic Disciples); Greg X.
Volz (Petra);
vileevils feat. Graham
Crabb and Adam Mole
(Pop Will Eat Itself);
Nort (Cabaret Voltaire
(live) and Hula); Kasuf
& The Mazz Muvement feat.
Kerwin Young (Public
Enemy, Mobb Deep); Rom
DiPrisco (Skinny Puppy,
Richard 'Humpty' Vision)
& Jan Pulsford (Cyndi
Lauper/Thompson Twins),
Voodoo Science is a
genre-crashing album that sythesizes
the influences of industrial, house,
techno, hip hop and art rock.
The album also features remixes from
red-hot house/dance producers
J-Punch, Datguy,
Kris B. & DJ Madison,
emerging artists Rigger,
DJ Anemone, Dean James
and others.
VOODOO SCIENCE (the seven
experiments) continues a message
of social awareness and personal
insurgency, as well as an adherence
to the 'anti-art' concept & cut
and paste technique of the dadaist
art movement. With an often
blistering commentary on events of
the day, Voodoo
Science expounds on themes
that in 2007 saw protest rock legend
Neil Young include 3kStatic
as creators of 'Songs of the
Times'.
the title: Although perhaps
best known as the title of a book by
scientific skeptic Robert L. Park,
the term 'voodoo science' was first
referenced in a 1984 US government
report on juvenile delinquency (see:
'Council Housed and Violent, feat.
Vile Evils'), and has its roots in
then-candidate George HW Bush's
definition of the Reagan 'supply
side' fiscal plan as 'voodoo
economics'.
This context, along with other
events of the day, is one meaning
behind the use of this phrase for
this album. Another is artistic -
the infusion of a large and
divergent cast of contributors in
the making of this record. And
another is the societal constriction
of language in shaping preconception
and meaning.
The unofficial subtitle 'The Seven
Experiments' is a reference to the
1950's era CIA mind control program
'MK Ultra', used here as a reference
to the seven singles projected to be
issued from the album.
the words: Lyrics from the
album are the voice of the lyricist
and express the contradictions
inherent in art in wartime. The
listener should approach the album
as one body of work and view in
that context
accordingly...wherein the message(s)
of this work become apparent.
Spoken word elements and short wave
radio intercepts are intended for
literal interpretation. lyrics which
may be 'explicit' (in one way or
another) convey the album's concept
and urgency in an honest manner. If
mere words shock the listener, the
point is lost.
The lyrics of 'Ma-Ma-Ma Belle' and
'Showdown' were written by Jeff
Lynne and recorded by Electric Light
Orchestra 35 years before the
release of this album. They are
included here in sequence with the
album's narrative - and not merely
as 'cover' songs - although Lynne
and ELO are highly influential and
also vastly underrated....
the collaborators: ...As are
all of the collaborators who appear
on this album - from underground pop
genius Parthenon Huxley and seminal
artists Kerwin Young & Professor
Griff of Public Enemy - to the
groundbreaking 'very metal noise
pollution' of Adam Mole & Graham
Crabb with Pop Will Eat Itself, and
arguably the greatest vocalist in
arena rock history....Greg X. Volz
of Petra.
Each have influenced the sphere of
popular music to an exponential
degree with little fanfare - as have
the originators of dadaist /
industrial and 'intelligent dance
music' - Cabaret Voltaire.
Those from all genres who open
artistic horizons are often pushed
aside by charlatans and fakes. This
is for the poets and revolutionaries
still standing. This is Voodoo
Science.
The album should be considered a
single two hour, twenty-eight minute
work.
on: The constrictions of
language and its accomplice the
written word, all this regimented
information.
Cutup … liberate the
word, throw away the rule book and
see what happens. Toss the thing
back in and see what we get, broaden
the whole thing and shatter
preconceptions. The sum is not
greater than the individual parts,
it is something totally different.
Infinite possibilities, unique
results. The importance of the
chance element.
Symbols to use and abuse, ridicule
these and throw the taboos back in
their faces, remember the more
revered the symbol the greater the
sacrilege. Machinery … a weapon
to use … don't let the best
stuff pass by you, no-one here is
going back to the land.
Paranoia … the only healthy
state in which to exist.
There is a huge plot, but what is it
and who is in on it, how much do we
know and are we on the right track?
"There are agents everywhere." But
are you an 'anti-' man?
An atheist is as religious as a
Christian.
Admit defeat and you remain under
the thumb.
Text paraphrased from The Final
Academy, 1982
COUNTERPROGAMMING = IT'S LIKE AN
OPEN GRAVE.
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THE CD
BOOKLET
if you purchased the 13-track
(single CD-length) digital album,
the booklet art is available for
free download.
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