2002 Music & Lyrics
Copyright
2001 - 2002 Todd West
PARANOID STATE
2/2002
I had started these songs originally to work into the
scripts of SHORTWAVE and WEBMASTER, but I felt, and heard a
different direction taking shape out of a few of these
songs. Then the terror that was September 11th, 2001
happened and a dark time desended on almost everything. As
I began to seperate these groups of songs and work on some
of the music in early 2002 I heard a plot running, and took
cues from the reaction and all these "wars" somehow we all
of a sudden seem to be in, from the disasterous "drug" war
to the never ending war on "terror", these songs reflect
what our nation was becoming, a "Paranoid State". This
album flows from song to song, from mystical landscape to
intense industrial decon, it's beautiful!
Contents:
1. Sacriledge
2. The State
3. Bulldog
4. Fulfillment
5. Inner Demons
6. Soul Kill
7. Spirit Calling (inst)
8. Holy Angel (acapella)
9. Spanning Chasm
10. Hammer Down
11. Law Of The Land
12. Satisfier
SEXOLOGY 3-4/2002
I experimented with encapsulated messages in the music
using mathematical formulas one could apply to the
song that worked to either render plain text messages or
machine code by finding the actual binary hidden
inside pictures in different formats, most notably jpgs.
Nude pics of fine ladies were used as the test bed
(might as well have something to look at, repulsive enough
to help keep the noses of the snooties out of
this bit-stream programming experiment). The music was
mostly based on styles that time-code quantification could
be applied to.
Years later, I would actually get this to work. I called it
cyber-coding, or cyber-cypher.
Contents:
1. Sexi
2. Brute Force
3. Sextantis
4. Nature Of The Gods
5. Providentia
6. Flesh Worshiper
7. Special Forces
8. Dangerous Crowds
9. Illegality
10. Bath House Blues
ANTISOCIAL 2-7/2002
With the situation in the world continuing to decline, it's
hard to stay positive, and not say I told you so. As I gave
up trying to digitally record Paranoid State on an ancient
computer without near enough hard drive space, a new batch
of songs roll out. I put together a new (and the last)
version of Pit Boss, only to have it a few months later go
down the crapper as it seemed no one in the band could get
their shit together, except partically me, which was a real
change. Some of these songs were ones I wrote for that band
specifically, some of the others, a pure reflection of the
state of the world.
Contents:
1. Revolution
2. Israel
3. Glowdeck (inst.)
4. Psychobabble
5. Talk To Me
6. Tam Jam / Make It Tight
7. Where Have You Gone
8. Give It All Away
9. Atomic War Machine
10. Depression
11. Palestine
ANGEL OF WAR
(soundtrack) 4-7/2002
Soundtrack to the motion picture script for Angel of War,
originally titled Fallen Angel (and the script called War of Angels),most of the titles are
extensions of music that accompany the movie. I had
originally used some of the ideas for Webmaster, but they
fit much better in this dark goth epic, so it doesn't
surprise me at the time I had laid them aside. That, and
the fact that while trying to demo them my cd burner
mysteriously quit, so I lost the work-up tracks, at least
until I can get another burner that uses the same software.
Alot of the instrumentals are ambient, as are some of the
lyrics in the numbers with words. Some though, are intense
as all. It's an intense movie script, what can I say. Music released indifferent mixes and samples beginning in 2006.
Contents:
1. Theme (instrumental)
2. Sanctify Beloved (instrumental)
3. Blessed Hope
4. Tantra
5. Wealth and Corruption
6. Heathen City
7. Babylon
8. Dream Destroyer
9. Tattooed Demoness
10. Witchcraft
11. Releasing Spirits
12. Goddess (Hand To Fist)
13. Darkening Skies (instrumental)
14. Flesh, Blood & Bone
15. Lion Of Judea
MENTALLY CHALLENGED 7/2002
Big bombastic riffs, prog noodling, atmospheric
soundscapes. This one came together over the first weekend
in July as I was finishing writing Fallen Angel and working
on the screen play. Officially, a few songs had been
floating around since June, on an obscure and never
realized spoken word w/ ambient music type thing I had been
writing. As a concept EP dealing with humankind's
exploration of mind and space, the title says it all. Trip
the light fantastic !
1. Behavior Science Services (instrumental)
2. deus lo volt
3. Animal Experimentation (instrumental) /
Not A prayer
4. Body Skin
5. Another Round
6. Brilliance
7. Ham Bone
