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In early 1986, The Mentor wrote The Conscience of a Hacker, which has become known as The Hacker Manifesto. When I came across it as a teenager a couple of years later, it seemed to express all of my own thoughts around coding, hacking and the ignorant, non-believer adults around me. 

This album is dedicated to The Manifesto and The Mentor, who is featured with his blessing on the closing track. You'll also find the only vocalist in the world who is qualified to rap about all aspects of hacking -- YTCracker -- featured on a track. Inverse Phase and King Fisher of TRIAD also join us, gracing two tracks with musical and binary street cred that goes back decades. 

hack the planet

Amplitude Problem - composer, performer, producer 
The Mentor - author, voice-over 
YTCracker - lyrics, vocalist 
Inverse Phase - composer, performer 
King Fisher of TRIAD - composer, performer 
Don Grossinger - mastering 
Anonymous - cover art 

Made in California, Maryland, New York, Ontario and Sweden over the interconnected network

look around what do you see? 
couple handfuls of hackers with that black hat mentality 
and most of us got records cause we feel compelled to flex 
our compulsion bore these systems that we probably born to wreck 
mad respect to my hacker gopniks (gopniks) 
hacking our election process like a boss bitch (boss bitch) 
this type of terrorism rarely look terrible 
aint no bloodshed no body count just some variables 
add a few here (here) - subtract a few there (there) 
load up all your twitter bots and tweet your crew there 
phantom army folding up the shop origami 
never betting on the horses betting on the jockies 
so stick a fork in em 
fork a process stick a fork in em 
database pushed right to the open 
google dorking em 
stick a fork in em 
fork a process stick a fork in em 

enter my world as opaque as it look 
this dark artistry with modesty no page in a book 
can teach you anything we learning no mistaking we crooks 
and we be chopping up them blades like a fleet of chinooks 
and our weaponry is definitely odd to say the least 
we aint gotta roll a bunch of tanks in tandem down these streets 
we just roll a couple keystrokes on these proggies push release 
and voila a coup d'etat is on the menu fucking beast 

been preparing hella years 
my disciples round the globe have been sharpening their spears 
all my peers knew the battleground was shifting from the barrels of these smokers 
to an internet of thingies spoofing packets off of toasters 
and the public stay complicit (complicit) 
every time they pay a visit to my malware im racking up them digits 
and these kids are getting sick with it the targets are ubiquitous 
ubiquiti st nicholas my hackers with the impetus 
one sixty nine two fifty four 
exfiltrate your cloud credentials straight out the front door 
let em know - from the server side my execution sucia 
computadora astucia aqui China Rusia 
welcome to my world im a global god incarnate 
any network put a posse of my hungry youngins on it 
and its curtains grab your nuts and take a seat up at my table 
whether wireless or cabled i been hacking since the cradle 
ya heard 

enter my world as opaque as it look 
this dark artistry with modesty no page in a book 
can teach you anything we learning no mistaking we crooks 
and we be chopping up them blades like a fleet of chinooks 
and our weaponry is definitely odd to say the least 
we aint gotta roll a bunch of tanks in tandem down these streets 
we just roll a couple keystrokes on these proggies push release 
and voila a coup d'etat is on the menu fucking beast

Crime of Curiosity

SUPPORT EFF

Enter My World ft. YTCracker

Grayhat hacker and spy rapper keepin' it classyfied

I make cyberpunk music.

#Cybersynth, #synthwave, #chiptune, #VGM, #demoscene and #nerdcore madness. #Cyberpunk #hiphop producer for @ytcracker. #Jazz on @ubiktune.

Amplitude Problem is Juan Irming, a Los Angeles producer, composer, sound designer and keyboardist with a focus on synthwave, chiptune, soundtracks, hip hop, video game music and sound effects.

Juan got his start on the European demoscene in the late 80s as the composer for world-famous and humble Atari ST demo crew SYNC, placing first in several demo music contests. Since attending Musicians Institute in the early 90s, he has composed and produced video game inspired synth and chip soundtracks for a number of projects and records such as legendary geek rapper YTCracker's cyberpunk album Introducing Neals. Credited on 11 LPs, he has been featured on albums alongside artists like Mitch Murder, Lazerhawk and GUNSHIP. Juan has appeared live at events and venues such as Comic Con and Game On Expo alongside acts like The Gothsicles, The Minibosses and Future Holotape. He also writes themes for video games such as Power Drive 2000.

Influences include first-generation chip composers Rob Hubbard, Ben Daglish, Martin Galway and Maniacs of Noise in addition to electronic, industrial, jazz and hip hop acts such as Damokles, Kraftwerk, Jean-Michel Jarre, Alphaville, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Herbie Hancock and Public Enemy.