The Sound Of My Spirits

Dedicated to all those who don´t mind playing the fool to make a child smile.
To illustrate it I found this photo of this funny Northern shoveler face.
In Spanish we call it "European spoon".

TO MAKE YOU SMILE

Heavy Industry/Heavy Traffic (Autobahn Cover)

Hell Feeder remix of 'Forgotten Path' by Insatiable Void. We enjoyed remixing this.
Maximum respect due to Insatiable Void and all the artists who remixed this great track.
https://soundcloud.com/insatiable-void/sets/forgotten-path-open-collab

Insatiable Void - Forgotten Path (Hell Feeder Remix)

(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually, as part of a future solo album)

Greetings my friends. I admit up front, this is a strange write-up… culminating from years of trying to navigate a world that no longer makes sense to me. And maybe that’s a good thing. We all needed a wake up call to just how ineffective and unsustainable it all is? And the last few years have provided examples of that… in abundance. 

Speaking of abundance (or in this case, lack thereof), Cheer and I have been discussing this one a lot lately; specifically in regards to the shops and restaurants we frequent. I finally gave up on building a DIY, music-centric desk I designed, because none of the local hardware stores had enough of the pieces in stock. We’ve watched our favorite Romaine lettuce disappear from the shelves, to be replaced by something half the size and twice the cost. Several of our favorite restaurants have closed permanently, and the wait times at others is painfully long now. 

Apparently, shop and restaurant owners can’t get anybody to work for $15/hr when it costs $30/hr to afford rent and groceries now. (How could we have ever predicted or prevented that? One might speculate.)

It’s enough to make the average mind go a little panicky. “Why don’t you have that in stock?”, ‘Why did the price on this just double overnight?”, “Why have we been waiting for 20 minutes just for the menus?”. All of these are very real, and very concerning… specifically if we never stop to question how much of that thinking is the result of being programmed to think like consumers our whole lives.

How often have you heard a commercial say something along the lines of “You deserve this because you are worth it.” Or “You should fear this. And our product/service can protect you.” Or “You should take this prescription, despite the list of side effects being longer than the list of benefits.”

I suggest we ask ourselves ‘Am I thinking with the mind of a consumer right now?’, and then be very willing to let those developing thoughts roll around in our heads for a while. 

Cheer and I concluded (with minor alarm) that we are both profoundly brainwashed by ‘consumer’ thinking; and it shows every time we feel a sense of panic in the store. Sure, things are a bit more scarce than they were 5 years ago… but does anyone (old enough) remember 30 years ago, when the stores contained half of what they offer now? (And none of us were freaking out over a lack of choices then). How about a time when you couldn’t have something shipped to your door overnight (many of us can still remember a time when 6-8 weeks was a decent shipping window).

Maybe the path to changing this paradigm is for us to get out of that ‘consumer’ thinking, and focus more on a ‘grateful for all the amazing things we have’ kind of thinking. I can still go to the store and choose from an abundance of fruits and vegetables, a teetering display of chips and dips, a bevy of beers from around the world. There are still more choices than my simple brain truly wants to think through, even if they are sold out of the Smoked Salmon and Ketchup flavored Cheetos I was specifically looking for.

So my plan going forward is to TASER myself (at least psychologically) every time I catch my brain being consumery. And the goal is to reach a point where I’m not thinking “It’s not fair my favorite restaurant closed.”, but instead thinking “How cool is it that I had that experience; and got to support the family that owned and worked that restaurant.” 

We’ve reached some critical tipping points that are well on their way to determining our future; and I believe a healthy attitude (dipped in gratitude) is the thing that’s going to keep us from gnawing each other’s faces off over the long haul. Them’s my weird thoughts for the day. Take em with a grain of salt (assuming the store carries the brand you like). I hope you enjoy my latest musical offering, ‘I’ll See It When I Believe It”. :)

WTF! The Musical

I'll See It When I Believe It

This is my second collaboration with @cerulean_ascent ... the other one being his response to my open collab last month. Similar to our last collaboration he kind of deconstructed parts of my original stems and put them back together in a new way. The final product contains melodic and drum elements from both of us, I think it results in a really cool fusion of our styles!

Gravity Well [Cerulean Ascent Vs Tea R. Sea]

Travelling Sauce

Lyrics - Cunt Dracula
Lead vocals, synthesizers, concept - Mick Mack
Backing Vocals - Big Pharma

Face First!

Daunting

An anthem that feels endless, heavy, and unbreakable.

Byebye.wav x "Do your worst" (Extra Slowed + Reverb)

U GOT ME

UNIVERSE ( ULTRA SLOWED )

Creating soundtracks for the movies in our minds. Fusing aspects of dark ambience, industrial beats and experimental self-sampled sound. 

Hell Feeder consists of:
Rich Hell Feeder (formerly of Dead Dux): https://soundcloud.com/deaddux
Zone Cruiser / Babalon Anon https://soundcloud.com/user-260441121
@babalon-anon @babalon-anon-spoken-word
Rexoid (from Skaphonics): https://soundcloud.com/rexoid-1

Collaborators:
My Own Cubic Stone / Vitriol Hermétique https://soundcloud.com/my-own-cubic-stone https://soundcloud.com/vitriol-herm-tique
Drown / Backstab https://soundcloud.com/drown-dub https://soundcloud.com/backstabmusic

The Mabon Remix Project https://hellfeeder.com/mabon/
Order Of Thee Octopi https://soundcloud.com/jameshootman
Blink Twice https://soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archivale
Tuonela https://soundcloud.com/tuonela-1
Negative Headphone https://soundcloud.com/negative-headphone
Grim Heka https://soundcloud.com/grimheka 
Insatiable Void https://soundcloud.com/insatiable-void
Lady Of Fire Poetry https://soundcloud.com/ladyofire
Boson Spin https://soundcloud.com/boson_spin
Wayfarer DG https://soundcloud.com/user-996383829 
taRka @myrhyum
Enigma Curry @enigmacurry
No Mates Ensemble https://soundcloud.com/no-mates-ensemble

Released on compilations:
Ohm Resistance - Reverberations of Stone
https://soundcloud.com/ohm-resistance/sets/reverberations-of-stone-1
Resonance - Four Walls 
https://soundcloud.com/resonancehq/sets/resonance-four-walls
Resonance - Recreating The Record
https://soundcloud.com/resonancehq/sets/resonance-recreating-the
Asylum - The Inmates Revolt
https://www.discogs.com/release/13716968Various-The-Inmates-Revolt-Vol-I
Loko Records - Those Who Know
https://lokorecords.bandcamp.com/album/those-who-know
GHETTO UNDERGROUND VOL. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtqUeBAtPK8
GHETTO UNDERGROUND VOL. 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRR_Jgj79cs
GHETTO UNDERGROUND VOL. 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyURhdea8Rk
GHETTO UNDERGROUND VOL. 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnsx4823w9w
GHETTO UNDERGROUND VOL. 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cr-kMWwY-k
GHETTO UNDERGROUND VOL. 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHqkR1T5ehg
GHETTO UNDERGROUND VOL. 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82UUpABIsG4