Piano Mechanics

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Music and lyrics written, recorded & mixed by Kristian Wayne Strom.  Performed by Hundred Pound Hanger with Craig O'Brien on drums.
Mastered with LANDR.

LYRICS:

Breaking up with you was the most ethical thing to do before the big debut.
Something was not right so I decided to take the flight rather than fight with you.

Fate said do not wait; end it now before it gets too late for us to separate.
It was all my fault but you took me with a grain of salt, so I chose to vault debate.

And I know that you hate me now.  
But I could no longer allow you to bring me down.
So I vow to learn from my mistakes with thou.

Based on history I never should have picked you to be in this business with me.
Best of luck to you and everything that you plan to do now with the crew you see.

So I vow to learn from my mistakes that I made with thou right here and now.

Here & Now

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Music and lyrics written, performed, recorded & mixed by Kristian Wayne Strom.
Mastered with LANDR.

LYRICS:

When Edgar comes and he goes as he pleases, nobody’s ever thanking me.
Uses equipment that doesn’t belong to him.
Whenever we work an event together, nobody’s ever bethinking me.
Nobody’s ever mentioning me.  
Nobody’s ever worshipping me.
Nobody’s ever thanking me.
Nobody’s ever praising me.
Nobody’s ever naming me.
Nobody’s ever…

The Edgar Effect

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Music and lyrics written, performed, recorded & mixed by Kristian Wayne Strom.
Mastered with LANDR.

LYRICS:

When he began there was ambition; VCFNA took it all away.
But he was impressed with their vision; VCFNA convinced him to stay.
Then they chose to raise his commission; VCFNA had money to pay.
So he chose to stay in position.

Finally, one day VCFNA was such a cliché.
They were so passé.
VCFNA; nothing left to say.

Soon he noticed the opposition; VCFNA had led him astray.
There was an issue of division; VCFNA was in disarray.
They had fools making big decisions; VCFNA began to decay.
He still chose to stay in position.

Finally, one day VCFNA was such a cliché.
They were so passé.
VCFNA; nothing left to say.

The dog and pony show was beginning to grow.
But little did they know he was ready to go.

When the time came for his abscission, VCFNA wanted to delay.
They were becoming a distraction; VCFNA almost every day.
He was becoming a musician; VCFNA was now in the way.
So he chose to leave his position.

Finally, one day VCFNA was such a cliché.
They were so passé.
VCFNA; nothing left to say.

The dog and pony show was beginning to grow.
But little did they know he was ready to go.
He just needed the dough so he went with the flow through the warmth and the snow. 
Toe to toe with a bro.

VCFNA

The Rest

This song was an online collaboration between me and my friend Dan Wentworth.  It is a rewritten version of an old BOB song, which was a band that we both played in back in high school.  The original version of this song was written in the early 90's.  We collaborated on this new version completely through emails.  I was living in Minnesota at the time and he was in Georgia.  I wrote and arranged all of the music while Dan wrote and arranged the lyrics.  The project slowed down after a while so with Dan's approval, I decided to complete the song on my own.   I performed the vocal tracks on this recording and added some harmonies and background vocals along the way.

Copyright © & ℗ 2016 – K.W.S. Recording & Publishing
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Lyrics written by Dan Wentworth.
Music written by Kristian Wayne Strom & Dan Wentworth.
Performed, recorded & mixed by Kristian Wayne Strom.
Mastered with LANDR.

This Was Only A Test

Composition V - Better Than You

Better Than You

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Written, performed, recorded & mixed by Kristian Wayne Strom.
Mastered with LANDR.

Composition IX

The Day After Tomorrow

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Music and lyrics written, performed, recorded & mixed by Kristian Wayne Strom.
Mastered with LANDR.

The blessing in disguise.

We had a really good thing going on until you fucked it all up (you fucked it all up).
(Yeah, you totally fucked it up.)
But it was a blessing that was dressed up in disguise.
So we do not feel bad.

You say that you love her.
And you tell everyone, but they did not care.
(Yeah, nobody gave a fuck.)
We only wanted you to focus on the timing.
And to not fuck it all up (you fucked it all up).

So was it too much?
Or too much to ask?
'Cause I did not think so.
And neither did they, no.

We had a really good thing going on until you fucked it all up (you fucked it all up).

The blessing in disguise.

Composition X - The Blessing In Disguise

Blessing In Disguise

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Music and lyrics written, performed, recorded & mixed by Kristian Wayne Strom.
Mastered with LANDR.

You'll never be able to sever the lever that feeds the machine.
You'll never recover the time to discover the true lover of your life.
This system was put into place to spit in your face 'cause you're such a disgrace.
It's all a distraction to stop the reaction.
Slave to the wage.
Slave to the wage.

So now that you know about how they won't let you grow, you can be free.
First, save all your money.
Then, burn all your money together in harmony.
Yes, it grows on trees that sway with a windy breeze.
Get down on your knees.
It's all a distraction to stop a reaction.

Composition XI

Slave To The Wage

Slave to the Wage

✈ We are delighted to welcome Berlin based dj and producer Jamaica Suk.

Long musician and experimenter, Jamaica Suk has fused her jazz and metal roots from the Bay Area California with a feel for soulful techno, a combination that makes her at home leading driving dancefloor workouts across Europe. With her own vinyl label Gradient and accompanying event series, atop extensive activity as DJ and producer, she has found in Berlin a platform for the breadth of her musical versatility.

In her signature distorted melodies and hints of melancholic bass guitar, you might hear where Jamaica started – studying bass guitar in her teens, play-ing in jazz and grindcore, math rock and shoegaze bands, before getting deep into the Bay Area’s house and techno underground. Jazz musician by day, DJ by night, she quickly became established throwing monthly parties at 222 Hyde Street and in grimy area warehouses. Technology was an early passion, too, including completing an Audio Engineering program at San Francisco’s respected Pyramid. That combination of technology and musi-cal chops, meeting with an intuition for minimalism and repetition from Reich and Pan Sonic to techno classics, perfectly set up the move to Berlin.

Tracklist:
1. Mateo Hurtado - The Thorns Remain [Delusion]
2. Electric Rescue - 19002018 [Wunderblock]
3. Dimi Angelis - Spitzer (Shifted Remix) [ANGLS]
4. Manuel Di Martino - Sublimazione (Exilles Remix) [Persistence]
5. Fixeer - Ulawun [NewRhythmic]
6. Pfirter - Coherence [Stockholm LTD]
7. Giordano - Fluido Energetico [Soma]
8. Bas Mooy - Mist [Illegal Alien]
9. Jokasti & Nek - Filothei [KR/LF]
10. Juan Trujillo - Retrogrado (Vegim Remix) [Deadcert]
11. Joe Farr - Loss Agony (Danilo Incorvaia Remix) [Slam]
12. Manuel Di Martino - Sublimazione [Persistence]
13. Temudo - Annie Becomes Possessed [Eartoground]
14. Regal & Alien Rain - Acid Affair Pt. 01 [Involve]
15. False Witness - Devil May Cry (Henning Baer Remix) [E-Missions]
16. Helrad -  2.2 [Helrad]

JAMAICA SUK
FB > https://web.facebook.com/jamaicasuk/
SC > https://soundcloud.com/jamaicasuk

PARADOX
FB > https://web.facebook.com/paradoxtechno/

PARADOX PODCAST #114 -- JAMAICA SUK

premiere of "Serenity In Chaos" by Jamaica Suk
taken from the compilation "Life On Small Planets", released now on Arch

Compilation Details:
https://novafuture.blog/2020/12/06/various-life-on-small-planets-arch/

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Artist: Jamaica Suk | @jamaicasuk
Label: Arch | @sweatlodgeagency

The Rest

R. David Stone