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The Polarizers
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My dancefloor epic. The words are perhaps the most sincere I've set to music.
just john prepostpostmodern
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One guy, a pre-post-postmodern composer / artist / geek. (Note: All tracks are licensed so that you can play them anywhere free, even commercially!)
Hi, call me just john. I started as a "home taper," back in high school, and I've been doing odd things with music and noise ever since.
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Genre
Beats • Beats General
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Peak #2,500
Peak in subgenre #819
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just john
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just john
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February 07, 2004
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MP3 9.6 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Most of the instrumental sound is based upon the starting machine-voiced sample. I found when it was reversed and ring-modulated, it sounded a LOT like the horn sound in Average White Band's "Cut the Cake." But it's all from me! (bwa-hah-hah) And yes, I left one off-key yelp to commemorate the fun process of recording this.
Lyrics
In the human universe of conversation and broadcast thought Ideas fly about in all directions, quite often having little or nothing to do with each other Political concepts battle for human attention, right along with what sort of cheese is appropriate with dance music Then along comes someone, of whom we sing, who gains ascendance by changing our views of the game They react to every message as if it were directly applicable to their pet issue, either for or against In effect, they're asking us to cede control of little bits of reality to them And once they can pull that off, they can naturally point to the massive resources now redefined as being against them And use that as an excuse to arm themselves for so-called self defense But direct opposition to them just reinforces this So -- you have to redefine the argument. Refuse to engage directly ...
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