Reflex

ONTIC - Night Train

Sign (Single)

Announcing ONT005: 'Subterranean'. On the heels of 'Buried Songs', comes the new Ontic single + video, where after hours bio-hacking meets political intrigue. Backed by the body-edged synth pop of 'Deeper Night'.

Subterranean

Faceless
Restless
Entwined
Action
Motion
Rewind
In the moment

Sealed unseen
Blueprint of a memory
An endless sea
The distance that makes you me

You known when you’ve known enough
You sleep where the echoes sleep
Stepped far from the blazing glow
You dreamed and defeated me

Ageless
Breathless
Entwined
Action 
Motion
Rewind
In the moment

Sealed unseen
Imprint of a memory
An endless sea
The instant that makes you me

You known when you’ve known enough
You sleep where the echoes sleep
Stepped far from the blazing glow
You dreamed and deleted me

So when the idols fall
Be what you have to be

Faceless
Restless
Entwined
Action
Motion
Rewind
In the moment

In The Moment

Factions aligned
Holdouts
Notions entwined
Visions

Reasons assigned 
Measures
(You shift and show)
Seconds revised
Reflex 
(You see and go)

I fall through your new time
Still hidden in mine
And though I call
Entreats won’t defeat your inveterate wiles
But bring us all

Cascading down
Be unspoken 

Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down

Factions aligned
Holdouts
Notions entwined
Visions

Broadcast reply 
Pretext
(You feed and fold)
Voiceless aside
Stage left
(You heed and hold)

I fall through your new time
Still hidden in mine
And though I call 
Entreats won’t defeat your inveterate wiles
But bring us all

Cascading down
Be emboldened

(Quicker underneath your smile) 

Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down

(Flicker underneath your eyes)

Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down
Cascading down

Factions aligned
Holdouts
Seconds revised
Reflex 
Reflex

https://onticquity.bandcamp.com/album/buried-songs

sing it near
sing it long
i want to know the notes you hide in buried songs

sing it near
sing along
i want to ride the ship you guide beneath the storm

i'm disappeared and done
i know the way to go now
i'm hours fought and won
i know the way to fade out

*

dance it near
dance it on
i want to fleet the steps that steep your corridor

catch it here
got your tongue
the words behind the scene fall backwards scattered gone

i'm deeper with the dawn
i know the way to go now
i'm hours fought and won
i know the way to fade out now

Buried Songs

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come down
and if you're looking you can head down
and if you ready you can shake down
out here tonight

come down
and if you're burning you can crack down
go waiting for the meltdown
out here tonight

barbarians we run
hooked on soundless songs
through fallen factory space we're gone
tonight

and we bathe in acid love
slide through a velvet glove
our fight and flight and fuck are right
tonight

i'm gonna feel it soon
a thousand minutes bloom
you can't displace the truth
for all you will consume

come down
and if you're looking you can
head down
and if you're ready you can
shake down
out here tonight

through siren fields we run
share line and network hum
on station marble tongue we stun
tonight

and we swim oblivion
rise on a ghetto drum
in buried pleasure speak we're spun
tonight

i'm gonna feel it soon
stars and streets and you
in factory seconds choose
the minutes we'll refuse
i'm gonna feel it soon
this violent heart beat looms
and bitumen is truth
for all you will exhume

we don't have to burn
we don't have to burn
the tension of the city is the price of your concern
and you don't have to serve
this heart beat on a nerve
my disconnect's so pretty as your fists follow its curve
yeah

come down
and if you're looking you can
head down
and if you're ready you can
shake down
for nothing here tonight

Siren Fields

on the knife i can feel you slide i can feel you here on the borderline sight on sight i can feel you rise as you disappear i know you analyse the intimate that you desire is your open glove hmm for your push and shove the instrument that you require is a lost and won yeah for your loaded gun we all fall down we all turn round the sky falls in we all look down now classified i'm your recondite i'm your interfered whet their appetites with your loaded dice we could take a ride let the minutes sheer 'til they're so precise you know just what you can deny so let's make it up until our case is shut you know just who you will defy so let's rip it up yeah let the pieces cut oh we all fall down we all turn round the sky falls in we all look down we all fall down we all turn round the sky falls in we all count down now

Captive

Fracture

move slow 
as the crowd goes 
through a grey zone 
down a long road 
- 
see her eyes are staring up 
there's no reply 
but captive touch 
- 
i won't let you fall apart 
i won't let you burn 
* 
drift low 
through the storm go
down a lone road 
through a new york zone 
- 
see her eyes are staring up 
freeze the fire 
a shallow drop 
- 
i won't let you fall apart 
i won't let you burn 
- 
see her eyes are staring up 
see her eyes are staring up

come down
as a reason
as a meaning
as a look back
as a goodbye

come down
as a goodbye
as a reason
as a meaning
as a look back
as a new plan
as a closed hand
as a mirror
as a contact

come down
as a reason
as a meaning
as a look back
as a goodbye
as a goodbye

come down
as a moment
as a meaning
as a reason
as a look back
as a mirror
as a tension
as you turn back

as a sign
as a sign
as a sign
as a sign
as a sign

come down
as a reason
as a meaning
as a look back
as a contact
as a contact

come down
as a moment
as a meaning
as a reason
as a look back
as a mirror
as a tension
as you turn back

as a sign
as a sign
as a sign
as a sign
as a sign

as a moment
as a meaning
as a reason
as a look back
as a mirror
as a tension
as you turn back
home

Sign (single)

Sign

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Aether

Dancing on the street 
Blood around your feet 
What's it gonna be 
Go there with me 

Into a deeper night 

Cutting through the beat 
Talking in your sleep 
See the one you hear 
A million miles clear 

Into a deeper night 
Into a sweeter life

Dancing on the street 
Blood around your feet 
What's it gonna be 
Go there with me

Cutting through the beat 
Talking in your sleep 
See the one you hear 
A million miles clear

All the noise comes to rest with you
All the noise comes to rest with you

Into a deeper night 
Into a sweeter life 
Into a deeper night 
Into a sweeter life 
Into a deeper night 
Into a sweeter life

Deeper Night

I'm a masochist machine
I'm a cold vein cellophane
I'm a body horror mannequin remain

I'm the candidate on stage
I'm the chamber hung and caged
I'm your new pitched platform on video replay

Cut you cannot know my name
Fear you cannot frame
Rush you cannot know the reward
Crushed you dare not talk

So fall unknown
Immersed in city chrome
Come alive, come first, let it shine

Go long, in between
Make it pure, true and strong
Say you’re raw, you’re restored and revived
And I’m watching

You’re the new ascendancy
You’re the long lost stow away
You’re a public choir on monochrome relay

Push this blushing thriller applause
Touch your slow pulse calls
Slake this subterranean thirst
Break these plastic words

And fall unknown
Immersed in midnight thrown
Come alive, come first, here to shine

Go long in between
Make it pure true and strong
Say you’re raw, you’re restored and revived

And they’ll bring all the noise
In thrall to their bones
For a kiss with a laugh, a new ally

And bolder you’re nearer 
Sheer in the mirror
With heel to your holster, one for the pollster
You cut in and weave in so breathe in if it wins you time
And play your surest line

And i’m watching
Keep on watching

i watch your face
i watch your eyes
you move to the beat
i'm hypnotised

i watch you burning 
your confessions in ink
in letters and logics
i try to rethink

i watch your face 
i watch your eyes
feel the minutes crumble
freeze the movement of light

i watch you counting
your way to the stars
see the road is straying
from the course you chart

it's all in my head
it's all in my head
the words that you wrote and 
the skin that i shed

it's all in my head
you're caught in my head
in kerosense days and in plans
cut and bled

-

i watch your face
i watch your eyes
the door hangs open
on a tangerine sky

i watch it tumble
your glass to the floor
our tide is still turning
we could chase it once more

it's all in my head
it's all in my head
the words that you wrote and
the skin that i shed

it's all in my head
you're caught in my head
in kerosene days and in plans
cut and bled

if i can step past your line
i'll know my chance is alive
this time

The Movement Of Light

Each day i take that step
Across the breadline
Go out there i guess
To call it showtime

And when the big man smiles
You're caught on the wall
Stoke a wide bright stare
Until deliverance calls

I'm thin
I'm gaunt
But you swing
Like a captive caught on a close line
Like a new find

They grin
Consort
But you swing
With an aching forged on an old line
All hidden and hot wired
Like a strange and a new find

Each day i take that step
Beneath the headline
A morning silhouette
I’m the taste of a salt mine

What's she left to say
When thin lips call
By night to love in a cage
By day to crawl

I'm thin
I've fought
To grin
Like a sure fool wrought on the big time
To hail the big man

But you spin
Regun
Now i'm possession fought
I'm Europe won

For an old price
The hunger and pain grind
But you're a strange and a new find

Strange and a new find
Oh

You're a strange and a new find
A strange and a new find

Headline

One day in late 2018, Ontic found himself on the outskirts of Beijing, in a hotel lobby where a short announcement was playing on repeat. On a hunch, a smartphone recording was made and filed away. Listening back on his return to Australia, Ontic decided that the announcement's officious character would make fine fodder for a propulsive, heavy as lead, synth-laden electro techno shakedown.

Beijing

Man in the middle
Steam in the winter
Flood on the low plane
Cold on the mainline

Steel in the centre and
Sky in the winter with
Ice on the spillway with
Blood on the rucksack 
 
Hear that hush on the water
Feel that still in the laneway
See that mark on the ceiling
Know that crack in the concrete

Hold that catch on the briefcase
Give that kiss on the mirror 
Fold that crease in the contract
Play that knight to the checkmate

Be enough you know
You’ve got to find the need enough
To know you’re instrumental 
Turn and watch them go
The world is waiting 
Seek and find below
We're on a knife edge 

Step on 
Hold on

See you on the night train
See you on the night
See you on the night train
See you on the night

Man in the middle
Steam in the winter
Flood on the low plane
Cold on the mainline

Hear that voice in the back room
Take that chance on the stairway
Catch that hand at the light switch
Turn and see you on the fast train

Be enough you know
You’ve got to find the need enough
To know you’re instrumental 
Turn and watch them go
The world is waiting
Seek and find below
We're on a knife edge 

Step on 
Hold on
Wheels turn 
Night's gone

See you on the night train
See you on the night
See you on the night train
See you on the night

Man in the middle 
Steam in the winter
See you on the night train
Flood on the low plane
Cold on the mainline
See you on the night

Voice in the back room
Chance on the stairway
See you on the night train
Hand at the light switch
See you on the fast train
See you on the night

And man in the middle and
And steam in the winter and
And flood on the low plane and
And cold on the mainline and
And voice in the back room
And chance on the stairway
And hand at the light switch
And see you on the night train

Night Train

Ontic, a project by Australian songwriter and producer Andrew Dun, combines elements from the machine driven post punk electronica of the 80s and 90s, bringing these into a contemporary context. Ontic blends heavy electronic beats with a brooding yet subtle lyricism that explores physical ambiguity and psychological uncertainty. Ontic's output puts the body first, where a deep, hook-laden electronic funk typically underpins musical journeys that are at once both urgent and oblique.

Ontic's first releases came in 2018, with a stretch of singles spanning dark synth pop (Citizen), atmospheric industrial techno (Captive), neo-body music (Sign) and epic electronica 'Subterranean'. Ontic's debut album, The Movement Of Light, followed in 2019. The eight track LP introduced several new tracks, including the widescreen electronica of 'Headline' and the shadowy urban synthpop of 'Siren Fields'.

The driving industrial funk of 'Night Train' followed in 2021.

2022 will see the release of Ontic's new single, 'Reflex'. The single is a glistening yet hypnotic exploration of post-wave electro pop, and is accompanied by the ominous industrial cyber-pop of b-side 'In The Moment'.

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