The Upside Of Down (2023 Remaster)

Alister The Hamster

2023 Remaster of the single from my first album The Upside Of Down, originally released in 2008 when I was 20.

Down

Broken Mirrors

In Time

Selfish

Wolf

What You Find

Remix of the track Selfish from the Kinjac album Broken Mirrors.

Selfish (Remix)

Arrivals is a reworked version of an older Kinjac track from the album Incandescent that features Kathryn O'Shea singing instead of Kinjac and live drums played by Kinjac replacing the electronic percussion in the original.

Tired of You / Arrivals

Arrivals [feat. Kathryn O'Shea]

Tired of You features Kinjac's sister Kathryn O'Shea as a guest vocalist.

Tired Of You [feat. Kathryn O'Shea]

Remix of That's Not Snow by Toaster Bath from his album June (which I produced).

That's Not Snow (Kinjac Remix) [feat. Toaster Bath]

Drown The World With Me was originally released on the Mutually Assured Destruction EP and is the first public song from the new album Moths. 

Fun fact: this is the first Kinjac song to ever have an actual guitar in it. 

Lyrics:

esoterrorism wisdom mysticism
slippin’ through the doors
of my mind’s corridors
sends me reeling on the floor
I’ve had enough I’m out of touch
whispered voices in a hushed tone
drone on and on and on

I don’t condone 
the broken pieces of me 
that steer me clearly 
towards the nearly future 
that I see
end of a culture built on greed
end of you and me
end of all we see
so now you see

I’ve got a problem 
and I’m not the only one
I’ll be your remedy if you 
drown the world with me

Drown The World With Me

Kinjac Remix of Hardcore by Thavius Beck from his release Dialogue on Mush Records.

Thavius Beck is a Los Angeles based electronic musician and producer, certified Ableton trainer, and an instructor at the world renowned DJ and Production school Dubspot in NYC.

He has released three solo albums (Decomposition, Thru, and Dialogue) on Mush Records. In 2007, he contributed a remix of "Survivalism" for Nine Inch Nails, as well as producing several tracks for Saul Williams on his Trent Reznor produced album "The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!" In 2008, Thavius Beck produced the album Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow for fellow Mush Records rapper K-the-I???. In 2012 he released The Most Beautiful Ugly on Plug Research and has been touring as the DJ for rapper Skylar Grey.

I had the pleasure of meeting Thavius and playing a some shows with him and K-the-I??? a few years back and always loved the lyrics from Hardcore. I asked him for the vocal track to remix, and we dug what I came up with and decided to release it.

Hardcore (Kinjac Remix) [feat. Thavius Beck]

Blue Lights from the new album Moths.  

Lyrics:

see the blue lights in the rearview
hear the sirens come to get you
pull you over to the side
steal your rights and your mind
stack the bodies with the profits
bank accounts and golden coffins
you see the fascists on the tv
but you simply stare at the screen

no escape
living in a police state
feel the weight
until your dying day

but we all feel good when we’re feeling good
yes we all feel good when we’re feeling good
hardly a worry and hardly a care
cause we all feel good when we’re feeling good
yes we all feel good when we’re feeling good
so dance the night away
just dance the night away

see the blue lights in the rearview
hear the sirens come to get you
pull you over to the side
steal your rights and your mind
stack the bodies with the profits
bank accounts and golden coffins
you see the fascists on the tv
but you simply stare at the screen

broken heart in a broken man
broken down by the man 
dressed in blue he comes for you 
it’s nothing new just history repeating 

no escape
living in a police state
feel the weight
until your dying day

but we all feel good when we’re feeling good
yes we all feel good when we’re feeling good
hardly a worry and hardly a care
cause we all feel good when we’re feeling good
yes we all feel good when we’re feeling good
so dance the night away
just dance the night away

Blue Lights

Facsimile from the new Kinjac album Moths. 

Lyrics:

I want a quiet life drinking tea
mulling over how easily
you forgot me
I want a simple life in peace
being lonely so happily
left to be
 
but you don’t see it that way
so just dig me an early grave
I was putting words in your mouth
I was making you who I wanted to see
I was diluted uprooted confused 
and fooled into believing your facsimile 

all I wanted was to build a home
love you dearly and not be alone
but you don’t love me
now I spend all my nights at home
missing you and drinking alone 
hoping you miss me

but you don’t see it that way
so just dig me weaan early grave
I was putting words in your mouth
I was making you who I wanted to see
I was diluted uprooted confused 
and fooled into believing your facsimile 

Facsimile

This Time from the new Kinjac album Moths. 

Lyrics:

tell me something I do not know
kick me down so I can grow
show me something that feels like snow 
and lets the red against it glow

I am calling out
I am falling out of line
it's time to send me back
heart attack or aneurysm
same light different prism
all ways to free me of this prison
walls up falls up 
into the self-made trap again
I have not made myself a better man
I have pondered the ways 
I have squandered this time

This Time

This is a remake of the song Only from the album Incandescent. I changed the lyrics to make it past tense to turn a love song into a tale of heartbreak. That's how I roll. 

Lyrics:

you’re the only one for me
I see that clearly when you’re near me
so why’d you have to steer me away?

you’ve got the one and only
disposition that I miss and only
you can see through me when I only
halfheartedly exist
I only halfheartedly exist

a kiss on my cheek
made me weak
and question everything
the theoretical seemed so vain
when you made me feel so sane
it’s driving me insane
the subtle words
that turned my world upside down
you had me spinning round
tumble down into oblivion
just to see you again
I’d leave my world behind
to exist only in your eyes

I’d leave my world behind
but that’s not what you had on your mind

Only Halfheartedly

I pulled the lyrics to this one from an old Kinjac song called Terror from the album Seven Years Bad Luck. I wrote it in 2008 and it's unfortunately still very relevant. 

Lyrics:

we've caught the bug 
we're eaten up 
wrapped up in your 
blanket names for 
all those things that 
go bump in the night 

we're terrified 
we're terrified 
we're terrified of ourselves 
won't you save us from us? 
oh, won't you save us from us?

Terrified

southern gothic anti-pop for sad citizens of the dystopia. solo project of music producer MG O'Shea.

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