Tracks for Staring at Things with Headphones On

Sounds by Mathbat/Philosopede, 2016.
Art by Sean Hopp

Fearful of Rasputin’s growing power, a group of nobles, led by Prince Felix Youssupov, the husband of the czar’s niece, and Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, Nicholas’s first cousin, lured Rasputin to Youssupov Palace on the night of December 29, 1916. First, Rasputin’s would-be killers gave the monk food and wine laced with cyanide. When he failed to react to the poison, they shot him at close range, leaving him for dead. A short time later, however, Rasputin revived and attempted to escape from the palace grounds, whereupon his assailants shot him again and beat him viciously. Finally, they bound Rasputin, still miraculously alive, and tossed him into a freezing river. He was spotted dragging himself from the river one hundred years later during the frigid winter of 2016, reportedly covered head to toe in an as-yet unidentified dark and oily substance and headed west.

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2016 Tracks

Rasputin Crawls Out of the Neva River Covered in a Dark, Oily Substance

Dry potassium carbonate (431 mg, 3.12 mmoles), deuterium oxide (2 ml) and triethylphosphonoacetate (0.265 mg, 1.18 mmoles) are stirred vigorously in a dry flask for 20 hours at room temperature under nitrogen atmosphere. Aldehydium (150 mg, 0.78 mmoles) is then introduced and stirring is continued for 24 hours. Extraction (diethylether, 10ml x 3) is performed after addition of water (5 ml), and the combined organic layers were washed with liquid neon and dried over anhydrous Na2SO4. The solvent was removed under reduced pressure. The crude product was purified on silica gel column chromatography using EtOAc-dimethylhexane as eluent to furnish the product (185 mg, 91%) as a purple solid.

(Instrumental version)
Sounds by Mathbat/Philosopede, 2016
Art by Sean Hopp
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http://seanhopp.com

12/31/2016

Spoonful of Deuterium

Alternate titles:
"Mulder and Scully Investigate the Underwood Administration"
"Trailer Music for 2017"

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Cover image by Sean Hopp: http://seanhopp.com

Mathbat 2017

A Distant Yawning Chasm

Track for dancing in the ruins post-apocalypse.
Music by Mathbat, 2017
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Napalm Frappaccino

from 
APPARENT CAUSE OF THE BLOCKAGE

The next morning the Chancellor awoke with a disturbingly profound erection. Yet he could not free himself from his surroundings, and slowly noticed the arterial tendons grasping him from behind. His double had returned to bed, and now was wrapped about him in some cheap parasitic embrace. Their lungs were connected with a thick mesh of cartilaginous strands and sticky tentacles, at the center of which a bulbous sac pulsed with vicious energy. The Chancellor thrashed about furiously. His double laid him gently in bed, looked deeply at him with complete tenderness and understanding, and left him to consider his limited options before proceeding.

Batfist, 2012

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Swarthy Larva

U kinda need sounds from a dirty old Rhodes coming out a blown Marshall to walk around Gary, don't u?? 
Soundtrack for walking down the lonely streets & barren yards out there way south of the Jackson's place, when every crack has a puddle in it and it's getting dark. Just them quiet ruins. Asking you a buncha crazy questions with their stillness. 
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2021

The Streets of Gary

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A loosely affiliated crew of demented lab assistants and telekinetic cephalopods governed by the whims of eternity. #electronic #instrumental #experimental #soundtrack #spacerock #weirdpop #idm #glitch, #industrial #darkAmbient #synthwave #noise #krautrock #funk #funkwave #mathbatwave

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