Recorded over New Year 2024 and into January 2025

Some tracks were improvised, but the majority were recorded within a two-hour window from initial idea to completion. Subsequently this means tracks may sound unfinished or a little raw. That's part of their charm!
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Written, recorded, performed and produced by Simon Young
Warwick, UK.

FL Studio 24, Novation Circuit Tracks, Roland SH-4d.
Tascam DP-03SD Digital Recorder.

For Oscar, as always.

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Voices From The Future

"It's all over the pages of the facsimilie newspaper. See. The whole story and headlines. And your picture too. Read it. Read it!"

"Who are you?"

"Who am I? I'm your husband. I'm Scott Douglas."

"I'm going to call the police".

"Stop it!"

"I could also ask you, who are you?"

"Then who...who is the other man?"

"I could also ask you. Who are you?"

"Then who...who is the other man?"

Recorded: January 2025
Warwick, UK

Then Who is The Other Man?

Then Who Is The Other Man?

"Maybe I was wrong. Maybe you do have feelings"

"As you spoke, something began to stir in me."

"I'm going to calibrate your electro-chemical tension."

"I'm quite familiar of the procedure."

"I realise as an Imperfect I'm expendable but I would hate to be electrocuted."

"The charge is not lethal"

"Plus 15 surface tension..."

"You know, you have beautiful hair"

"...plus 12 at a depth of four centimetres..."

"Lovely blue eyes. Crystal clear."

"...plus 10..."

"Pretty. A perfect woman."

"As you spoke, something began to stir in me."

"A perfect woman."

"As you spoke, something began to stir in me."

"A perfect woman."

"As you spoke, something began to stir in me."

"A perfect woman."

"As you spoke, something began to stir in me."

"What is it? Why do I feel this way?"

"In the Cages they call it love."

"Love?"

Recorded 2nd January 2025
Warwick, UK.

I'm Going To Calibrate Your Electro Chemical Tension

I'm Going To Calibrate Your Electro-Chemical Tension

The Distance Between Us

"You've only known me for a few minutes but despite that you've fallen deeply in love with me. Haven't you, Lisa?"

"Yes, I love you, Clyde."

"And I love you, Lisa. Will you marry me, LIsa?"

"Of course, Clyde"

"Do you really love me? Really and truly love?"

"I love you, Clyde"

"No, no you don't. Not at all!"

"Whatever do you mean?"

"It's no good, it isn't real, it's just another fraud!"

"I don't understand!"

"You don't love me. Not really."

"I've made you think you do and you say you do but that isn't enough. Every time I'd kiss you. Every time I'd hold you in my arms I'd know you were nothing but a puppet, playing the role I'd made you play."

"Alright, stop the car."

"Stop it, why?"

"Because I want you to."

"I'm going to turn that projection off now, Lisa. Let you have a look at me as I really am. As I look without the benefit of hypnotic trickery."

"Oh God! Oh no! Hideous! That face! Those eyes! The skin..."

"Everything's alright now. You're starting to forget. In a moment you will have forgotten it."

"You're going to go home and go to bed and when you wake up in the morning you'll have no recollection of today at all. You'll simply have lost a day."

Recorded: January 2024
Warwick UK

Audio samples from Exploring Tomorrow, The Mutant, 1957.

The Benefit Of Hypnotic Trickery

Science Park

"Do you find me unattractive?"

"Alien."

"Alien?"

"Different."

"Yes, I know the meaning of the word."

"Dead. Alien. Of course, I knew you would be. I didn't expect you to measure up physically to our standards. The human form has improved a great deal since your century."

"But why? Was there a reason?"

"Man made reasons..."

"Can you tell me?"

"Well, it began with interplanatery wars conducted by the nations of the world and the struggle to build empires in outer space on other planets."

"When was this?"

"Oh, not in your century. You saw only the first feeble attempts to explore space."

"Yes, I suppose our attempts are feeble."

"Well the interplanetery wars caused a great deal of destruction particularly on this planet. Precious documents, books were lost but there was another reason; the atmosphere of the earth became charged with radioactive matter. For a while it looked like the human race would become extinct, but it didn't. The human body aclimated itself to new atmospheric conditions and flourished again and by that time our physical form had changed. A change for the better. And today..."

"Go on."

"Well, today the human form is the most beautiful creation has ever seen."

"And by your standards I am something of a shock to you?"

"Your physical form was, at first, yes."

"Am I very different from the women here?"

"Very different."

"To you they're...beautiful?"

"They are beautiful."

"Would I find them attractive?"

"I don't think so."

"I might."

"Oh no."

"Why not? If they're so beautiful, I mean."

"Well your conception of beauty is not ours."

"I understand that, but..."

"But what?"

"Oh, I don't know. I was going to say beauty is beauty, but that wouldn't make any sense."

"No, the concept of beauty is what matters."

"But you said beauty is a force. It radiates."

"Inner beauty radiates."

"I...I understand that too."

"Well, how do you think of the universe?"

"Oh, I think I associate it with God. Identify it with the Divine Mind."

"I'm surprised."

"The universe is a reflection of God."

"Now I begin to understand despite your physical form, your beauty reached me. And it has nothing to do with your looks."

"I...I wouldn't be very gracious if I didn't say thank you."

"I'm going to keep you here, you know. If I can."

"I don't think you quite mean that."

"I mean it in every sense. I want you know to remember what I said about the change for the better in human form. I am going to open the door to your room and come in. And please keep in mind I do not look like the men of your century look, but also remember here I am supposed to be a reasonably good looking fellow."

"I...I would like to see you."

"And you will, in the next few seconds."

"Oh! Oh!"

"Is it so bad?"

"I'm sorry, I..."

"I should not have exposed myself to the shock you feel, to the revulsion you feel at the sight of me."

"I'm sorry..."

"I should have known."

"Forgive me, I just can't look at you for the moment. I have to...I have to adjust."

"There's a window behind you, you can look out."

"Oh, thank you. Please don't resent me."

"No, I...I was just wondering if you have any idea how incredible to me your revulsion is."

"Yes, I think I have an idea."

"You must overlook what sounds like vanity, I have to repeat what I told you before, I am supposed to be more than passibly good looking."

"Yes, I understand."

"But you can't stand the sight of me."

"Give me a moment."

"Wait, you want to go back to your own miserable century?"

"To my people, my own people. I belong with them, I don't belong here!"

"The curious thing is, I'm still in love with you"

"You mustn't be."

Recorded: January 2025
Warwick, UK.


Samples from: Exploring Tomorrow, The Adventure Of The Beauty Queen
Bret Morrison and Charlotte Sheffield (Miss USA 1957)

The Curious Thing Is I'm Still In Love With You

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