Lady Dionysus is most likely a real person but her whereabouts are currently unknown.  She once claimed to have associated with Nietzsche, but sceptics argue she misremembered a particularly intense acid trip. Due to growing bored once the initial drops of blood have been spilled, Lady Dionysus rarely completes a piece of music. Nonetheless, An Esoteric Party of Five insist that her music channels the cries of the earth.

“Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Over-man--a rope over an abyss. 

A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. 

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what is lovable in man is that he is an OVER-GOING and a DOWN-GOING. 

I love those that know not how to live except as down-goers, for they are the over-goers. 

I love the great despisers, because they are the great adorers, and arrows of longing for the other shore. 

I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the over-man may hereafter arrive. 

I love him who lives in order to know, and seeks to know in order that the over-man may hereafter live. Thus seeks he his own down-going. 

I love him who labors and invents, that he may build the house for the over-man, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeks he his own down-going. 

I love him who loves his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing. 

I love him who reserves no share of spirit for himself, but wants to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walks he as spirit over the bridge. 

I love him who makes his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more. 

I love him who desires not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to. 

I love him whose soul is lavish, who wants no thanks and does not give back: for he always bestows, and desires not to keep for himself. 

I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favor, and who then asks: "Am I a dishonest player?"--for he is willing to succumb. 

I love him who scatters golden words in advance of his deeds, and always does more than he promises: for he seeks his own down-going. 

I love him who justifies the future ones, and redeems the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones. 

I love him who chastens his God, because he loves his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God. 

I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goes he willingly over the bridge. 

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things that are in him: thus all things become his down-going. 

I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causes his down-going. 

I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowers over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds. 

Lo, I am a herald of the lightning, and a heavy drop out of the cloud: the lightning, however, is the OVER-MAN.--”

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With over 100 physical releases since its inception by Taylor Deupree in 1997, New York-based music label 12k has decisively defined and developed the concept of minimalism in the realms of electronic music for more than a decade. Fusing elements from Ambient and Electro-Acoustic Composition with carefully arranged digital textures and associative micro-noises, the label's aesthetics revolve around a precisely-outlined, yet deeply emotional concoction of the technological and the organic. Eschewing the typical marketing mechanisms of the commercial music industry, Deupree has sculpted a platform whose influence today extends well beyond the confinements of the experimental community. 12k's integral approach, in which the label's instantly recognizable, elegantly spartan artwork enters into an inseparable symbiosis with the music, has created a timeless audiovisual language respected and appreciated all over the world.

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