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With his first full album release in three years, Kingbastard is back with an explosion of experimental/electronic creativity. The album is a daring plunge into the avant-garde realms of experimental electronic music, but never loses sight of the Odd John Records philosophy: “Experimental, yet accessible. Odd, but engaging.” With a unique approach, the artist pulls inspiration from recording himself dismantling an old piano, infusing the album with haunting echoes of its demise. The juxtaposition of the 'dying piano' sounds against saturated glitched beats and warped fx showcases Kingbastard's ability to meld the timeless with the contemporary. The result is an auditory journey that defies genre norms, skillfully weaving together a “hi-fi-lo-fi” production sound and style. [Odd John Records]

The Research Circle (Final Masters)

The Research Circle

Kingbastard - Dark Circles

GLAZEPII

SHAPESHIFTERS

EGGS, BENEDICT?

SPONGECAKE

LABS

JAM II

JAM (D)

JAM (C)

Chance!

VIRUS SEED


Seeding was not announced…


The drones deployed dispersal units at 04:27 local substrate time. The process was wind-calibrated, optimized for irregular terrain.
Each payload contained genetically stabilized mycelium fragments,
engineered to bind to dormant organic structures.

Atmospheric conditions: compliant.

No errors reported.

The ground accepted the spores without resistance. No organism resisted. No organism responded.

Inside the chamber, no change was detected. No altered breathing. No neural activity beyond background flux.

No thought. Thought, at this point, would have been premature.

The spores reached the outer seal within 14 minutes. They clustered along the microscopic fractures in the titanium-carbon shell. Moisture collected. Capillaries formed. Mycelial roots pushed into invisible seams.

They were not intelligent. They were effective.

Seeding was followed by atmospheric conditioning.

Drones calibrated temperature flow, adjusted
chemical density.

Visibility dropped.

Purple haze appeared—unprogrammed, unmeasured.

A side effect…

Or a sign.


Subdermal pigment began to shift. Internal temperature rose by 0.3°C. Blood registered trace compounds not present moments before. No rejection occurred. There was no mechanism for refusal.

The system logged this as integration readiness.

At 05:14, the seal hissed. A ventilation filament extended through the chamber wall. Spores entered, layered as mist. They did not land. They found flesh.


The lungs did not resist. They absorbed.


They replicated.


No dreams were recorded. No movement beyond soft muscular flicker.


Dormancy held, but it no longer meant stillness.





LIVING APPENDIX [2.2]
Term: Virus (Classified 7F)
Not illness. Not external.
A message carried in protein. Designed not to harm, but to overwrite.
Catalyst Note
System markers show pre-acceptance. Immuno-response suppressed. Rejection probability: null.
Phrase Recovered (Corrupted Log)
“The virus is not invasion. It is translation.”
Observation: Spore Bloom (Chamber 13)
Surface coating intact. Interior adhesion complete.
Catalyst will not exit clean. Catalyst will not remain Catalyst. 

Virus Seed

Discography: (as Chris Weeks: http://chrisweeksmusic.com)
*Induction [EP]
*Sunken Measures [LP]
*Space(s) [EP]
*Dream Sequencing: Part I [EP]
*Equilibrium [EP]
*Remembrance [LP]
*con•sol•i•data [LP]
*Optics [EP]
*Quietude [LP]
*Àmbientôt [LP]
*Life Begins [EP]
*Adrift [SINGLE/long-form track]
*Two Moths... [SINGLE]
*The Golden Mirror [EP]
*Borders [LP] & Borders (Special Edition) [LP]
*The Waiting Game [EP] & [LP]
*Digital Isolation [EP]
*Aqualuna [SINGLE/long-form track]
*Observations of Distant Worlds [LP/long-form track]
*Sleepwaves [LP/long-form track]
*Journey to Mars [LP]
*Beyond the Glass Ceiling [EP/long-form track]
*The Glass Ceiling [EP] 
*The Grey Ghost of Morning [LP] 
*Haverfordia [LP] 
*Extended Play [LP] 
*In the Light of Two Suns [LP] 
*Iris & Norman [LP] 
*Thllwnd [EP] 
*The Cloud [EP] 
*Trip [LP/longform track]
*Black Hole [LP]
*Flashback Blues (under C\/\/\/\ alias) [LP]
*Silo [EP] 
*Conductor [LP] 
*The Lost Cosmonaut [LP] 
*Contemplation Moon [LP]
*Gwynt, Glaw, Myfyrio [EP]
*The Ebb & Flow [EP] 
*Formeg: [EP] 
*A Deconstructed Sun [LP]
*A Haunting Sun [LP] 

Discography: (as Kingbastard: http://kingbastardmusic.com)
*GLAZEPII
*GLAZEP
*Beg Your Pardon... [LP]
*Come Again... [LP]
*JAM [SINGLE]
*No Milk Today, Thanks. [EP]
*Backscatter [SINGLE]
*Go Public! [EP]
*Loop Feed [EP]
*All Around Our Sequence [EP]
*Mad Honey [EP]
*Creeping Venom [SINGLE]
*AcdRnbw [EP]
*Mmmmm [EP]
*Ear Soup [SINGLE]
*Amalgam8 [LP]
*Brainzap [EP]
*2020 Visions [SINGLE]
*Little Machines [EP]
*I Want (...Never Gets) [SINGLE]
*Wonky Bastards [EP]
*Give Over (...You Should Know Better) [SINGLE]
*Dark Fluid [EP]
*Beautiful Isolation (Remastered) [LP]
*Standalone [EP]
*My Robot Child is an Underachiever [SINGLE] 
*KB-00-04 [LP]
*Understanding an Invisible World [EP/long-form track]
*We are the Ones & Zeros [EP]
*ERROR [EP] 
*XY34R5 [LP, Compilation, Full-Discography] 
*DATA [Mini-Album] 
*Amitriptyline Dreams [EP] 
*Getting Down To Brass Tracks [EP] 
*Robotistic [EP] 
*Are Your Ears The Same As Mine [MIX] 
*A Sudden Instance of Malfunctioning or Irregularity in an Electronic System [EP]
*SUBSPACE [LP] 
*Neon Hustle [SINGLE] 
*Kid606​:​Godspeed you African American emperor [REMIX] 
*Lost Property [LP] 
*Brainfunk [EP] 
*Rotten Apple [SINGLE] 
*Hopes & Dreams [SINGLE] 
*The Complete Bastard Files [LP/COMPILATION] 
*Full Circle [SINGLE] 
*My Robot Child Developed Multiple Personality Disorder [SINGLE] 
*Beautiful Isolation [LP] 
*Good Things Come In 3's [EP] 
*Kingbastard & Proliffix 'Oh My Goodness!' [EP] 
*Tied Up To Machines [EP]
*'COOKS SLAB STYLI WITH REVERSED BEARD' [MIX] 
*Bastardize [LP] 
*EX!T [EP] 
*Little Red Book [EP] 
*Lost At Sea [EP] 
*[ r u n : e p ] [EP]
*Kingbastard [LP]

Discography: (as Myheadisaballoon: https://myheadisaballoon.bandcamp.com/music)
*Exorcising My Inner Demos (Acoustic Rarities & Demos 2012​-​2015)[LP]
*The Empathy Deficit [EP]
*I Do Not Know What Is Going On [SINGLE]
*Leave Alone [SINGLE]
*MAYB3 [EP]
*Less is More or Less [Tape-Head-Mix] [SINGLE]
*7417: The Anxiety Suite [SINGLE]
*One Eye Open (The End of Everything?) [SINGLE]
*Dawjacker [EP]
*Paisley Modern [EP]
*Pop! Goes the People (Remastered) [LP]
*Exorcising My Inner Demos [LP]
*Treefella [REMIX EP]
*Treefella [EP]

Virus Seed

Chris Weeks

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