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“The Uncompromising Operator" is intended to be an amalgam of a number of the managers I had over the years working in corporate software development. One of the early prominent ones was a fellow who spent most of his time at work playing the stock market, and was infuriatingly successful at it. Stocks, I mean, not his actual job. A lot of my managers were exactly like the guys in the movie Office Space, particularly the character who didn’t seem to have any real purpose other than to carry orders from our product managers down to us engineers. The last voice is supposed to be mine. "I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy".

The Uncompromising Operator

Music for flagging hearts and and hard times. Written in realization that even trusted news sources can be poisonous if the information is pointless drivel meant to drive us to despair. We must step back from the Void.

Call of the Void (Quiet)

Call of the Void (Noise)

Call of the Void

This is about as pretty a melody as we can do. With inspiration taken from Zero7 and Cinematic Orchestra, as well as contemporary lofi and a pinch of Phil Collins' drums. Hacky & Bird guided the lofi aspects, and Yahli contributed the live drumming parts. Otherwise written and performed by impulse nine as a break from an upcoming album.

Rainy Day

A collaboration between impulse nine and Hacky + Bird, this is a brief respite from a burning world. A moment to catch your breath.

These Riots Grow Roses

Everything in Its Right Place (simpler version) [Radiohead cover]

Fire flies

Free Palestine 🙏🙏
Original free pic by Freepik (A.I.)

EXIDUB PART 7 -JUST LOVE,NO WAR-

EXIDUB PART 7 - JUST LOVE,NO WAR  (Future Dub / Dub Reggae)

Lost something and waited for the ache to become a doorway. Found beauty in the ruins.
i keep hearing the old voices in the static, everything that tried to leave but stayed, somehow, inside the sound.
if it finds you—leave a mark, tell me what you felt, or just let it go...

Psalms for the Dead

Far From Harm

Fortunate (Instrumental)

EXIDUB PART 9 - FREE YOUR MIND -

EXIDUB PART 9 - FREE YOUR MIND  (Future Dub / Electro Dub)

When someone you’re either real close to or love with everything you’ve got is dying, and you know they don’t have long left, you go through just about every emotion possible. This one would most likely be the desperation stage.

Don't Go

[Verse]
Under the green light you smile at me
I know you mean well I don't mean to be cold
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

[Verse]
We share a last laugh a last dance and a last song
I look in your eyes and you start to cry
I said "come on let's just get one more drink"
We know what happens when you overthink

[Chorus]
It's a cruel world when you're so full of love
They'll take it from you like they're entitled to
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

[Verse]
The city's in ruins and you're standing in the ashes
No
You don't remember the way it once was
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

[Chorus]
It's a cruel world when you're so full of love
They'll take it from you like they're entitled to
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

[Outro]
I said "come on don't you think we're old enough"
The fire that burns that turns hearts to dust

Under the green light

BATTERY POWER

1168 — Piano

For over 20 years, impulse nine was a private home studio project, but has expanded to include musicians from Tucson and around the world. After hundreds of demos and untold hours, impulse nine is being presented to the world as a mostly-instrumental amalgam of shoegaze, hard rock, and post-rock, with influences from ambient, 90s rock, and other places.

Gizz Van Buskirk (pronounced ˈgiz væn bʌskɜːʳk) is the electronic music recording project of  Mike Damrath, from Richmond, Virginia, USA. Originally raised northern New Jersey and then in the mountains of upstate New York. He was influenced by a steady diet of British first and new wave rock, with heaping helpings of The Beatles, Queen, Gary Numan, John Foxx, Jean-Michel Jarre, Roland Orzabal, and Thomas Dolby. Mike played drums and sax for a number of bands over the years including Fail East, Fevered Train, and the Screaming Attack Shrimp before striking out on his own under the name Gizz Van Buskirk.

The Uncompromising Operator

Gizz Van Buskirk

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