Songs performed by The Secret Mechanics Association, a homebrew synthpop band active during the 80s in Fort Collins, Colorado featuring Kenneth Radliff and Benjamin Tremblay.

The Secret Mechanics Association

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Stumble was written and performed by Kenneth Radliff and was produced, mixed, and mastered in Somerville, Massachusetts. The vocals were recorded at Palace of Purpose in Malden, Massachusetts, engineered by Peter Moore (petermooreworld.com). Peter also contributed backing vocals to tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, and 9.

Thanks to Peter Moore for his advice and production help.
Thanks to Judith Navoy for her advice and inspiration.

The Daylight Complex can be found at dplex.com.

Stumble

"Rainbow" is one of my oldest songs, and this is the first time I've touched it since I recorded the original on 4-track cassette many, many years ago. The curious can download the original version at dplex.com/music to compare the world weariness of today with the passionate ache of yesteryear. Or something like that.

Download this song for free at dplex.bandcamp.com until I release my next recording.

A Rainbow in the Attic

I hate to waste a weekend
caught between waking and sleep
I wanted solitude
now I'm in too deep

Popping Aspirin

Ain't that the way
my awkward luck has always traveled
Makes all my dreams
real enough to come unraveled

Another Chamber of My Heart

So start making lemonade
and build up your barricades
I'm the one who always prayed
you'd grow up so strange

The Out-of-Towners

As You Leave

You make me stumble through the seasons
so fast I can never catch my breath
I have a thousand different reasons
why I cannot rest

Here We Go

Gather up the pieces
stars and stones and flowers
Name them all
only aspects of you

Every Aspect of You

Her cigarette sketched the evening air
I'm just a stitch in this easy chair
and I won't give in to dreams

Latitude

The kitchen clock was not wrong
It was just saying something new
The compasses are spinning strange
directions just for you

Sleepless

I hear the sound of something
breaking through the water's surface

Walking Warren Lake

And so here we are
nostalgic for a life led years ago
Avoiding contact with the very things
that we both love the most

Engines

The first track from The Daylight Complex created for Patreon members.
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Romans

Narrow Decade

I Hate Your Doppelganger

Mrs. Hundred Complications

Performed by The Secret Mechanics Association.

Performed by The Secret Mechanics Association. Lyrics and vocals by Benjamin Tremblay.

The Angel Game

Marionette

Performed by The Secret Mechanics Association. Lyrics by Kenneth Radliff and Benjamin Tremblay, vocals by Benjamin Tremblay.

America Sleeps

So This Is Love

I'd like to get up off the ground
but I'm totally earthbound

Naive

There is no place for us
in this new America

North America (1991)

A gift of memory
has quietly descended on me

Common Places

And now I will be sweating out my lifetime
but what else can I do?
My brain has run out of thoughts to use

Make New Things

I know these thoughts are killing me
the poison pain of fantasy

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"It's a glittering pursuit, and it's leading someplace new..."

Shake Me Loose

"Your poisoned words fly just like birds..."

Stranded

This is a demo of one of the songs I'll be including in the album "Stumble" this summer.

As You Leave (demo)

During April 2006 I experimented with writing and recording a new song every week; this is the best of those tracks.

This is the latest song from The Daylight Complex. Download it for free at dplex.bandcamp.com until the next song is released.

This snippet is part of a work-in-progress album. All ten planned tracks will be built using a variation of the cut-up technique popularized by William Burroughs to create titles and initial lyrics. This song will eventually have vocals.

The Precise Cherry of Reward (excerpt)

The Daylight Complex is an bedroom studio project influenced by 80s electronic pop.

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