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#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the seventh day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... thought control and some oontz in a tree...

https://control.bandcamp.com/track/thought-control

Back in uni the first time around my writing and live performance partner, previously mentioned in the porn soundtrack story, and myself used to ditch heaps of classes to write songs and also to play dr who pinball at the student union “quickly it's a second chance!”. ~16 years after that era I was working on 2 tracks for some compilations, nothing else, however, via email, chat, voice etc we ended up mapping out an entire album. degenerate takes a very broad brush approach to sound, genre and theme and using bits and bobs from over the years that never made it into a full track kind of wrapped up an era perfectly embodying the rag tag, raw underground low tech and no apologies unpolished soup of control.org. LEFT BRAIN RIGHT BRAIN SHATTERED, A MARIONETTE ALL OUT OF JOINT!

here is “thought control” a pretty straight forward syncopated synth club bumper with a rather dark who is staring back in the mirror vibe that we intentionally layered around meta societal masks and deceit from the corporate burgeoning social media explosion right down to the battle many of us face with ourselves on the daily.

#ebm #synthpop #industrial #electro #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak

7/12

#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the sixth day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... six listens to “citta” and some oontz in a tree... https://control.bandcamp.com/track/citta

the second entry in the 12 days of oontzmas from the massive QUADRANTS project. this was a 16 track album, a couple remix singles, and 4 EPs of four tracks each themed to one of a classic human temperaments and each using only sound source mangled from each corresponding quadrants of the main album. There was also some written material and visuals in a very diy booklet. This project actually saved my life. I had been going thru some misdiagnoses and things with what has come to be my disability. working with some old mates for spoken word, sound source and the visuals I funnelled a whole lot of pain and anger and darkness into the whole series and it stands as a proud monument to survival.

the SANGUINE EP is a beats orientated release that used only sound source from the first quadrant of track on the QUADRANTS album, albeit heavily altered and mangled to create very new compositions. It is in the parlance of Ralph Wiggum unpossible to choose a favourite on this EP, but “citta” is probably in the running. highly recommend headphones or massive hi-fi. The daunting collision of impending doom and weirdly uplifting beauty almost feels a trap. it is a trap.

Urged to seek short-term physical gratification as pain relief, stuck in cycles of pain, we replicate pain as pain relief. We all have our sirens.

Are you a bystander, a cause or a solution? What happens when the unknown becomes constant and the hyper awareness becomes truly horrible. The stories of four explores the cloudy line between memory, premonition and action through a state of being that does not allow clarity but does allow us to be haunted by the simplest things or the most complex. A number, a noise, or the occasional spark of humanity linking us to our brothers and sisters in solidarity or torture, whether overt or complacent...

Some doors you open, some are slammed in your face, others you are pushed through. Which do you choose? Welcome to the four.

see also on the SANGUINE EP “affirmative negative infinite” for a similarly juxtaposed atmosphere on an underlying powernoise four on the floor banger.

#dirthop #spokenword #powernoise #industrial #electro #synth #horror #dystopian #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak

6/12

#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the fifth day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... the track called poly and some oontz in a tree...

https://control.bandcamp.com/track/poly

a slightly more introspective track that builds and kicks it up a few notches further in. from the album cubed. skirting a weird time with some industrial, powernoise, dnb, ebm, atmospheric and noise elements, at the time some reviews were a bit shitty that it wasn't the same sound all the way through. I've never really done that and still don't so whatever. This era of stuff got a lot of underground club play in the UK maybe because of those element crossovers. I have always been a proponent of distortion but not like a lot of laptop and pedal jockeys did by decimating canned loops or just obliterating everything to the point of no meanigful space or rhythm. side note the relentless booming straight beat title track has samples from a cooking show!

from this album things are a bit: noisy – “twenty”, “access”, “whore” distorted dnb – “multi” smoke machine beats – “cubed”, “security breach”, “C2”, “crowd control” wtf – “rockstar”

so this track “poly” was made specifically thinking about live performance to add some space and atmosphere and a mild break the the frenetic drumming required for almost all other C2.

see also, if you are in the mood to scare the living bejeebus out of and/or PA battle with the neighbours they are going to absolutely love “rockstar”, that shit even upsets me slightly.

ok oontz on!

#powernoise #ebm #industrial #electro #noise #dark #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak

5/12

#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the fourth day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... the four thieves and some oontz in a tree... https://control.bandcamp.com/track/the-four-thieves

the first entry in the 12 days of oontzmas from the massive QUADRANTS project. this was a 16 track album, 4 EPs of four tracks each, themed to one of a classic human temperaments and each using only sound source mangled from each corresponding quadrants of the main album. There was also some written material and visuals in a very diy booklet. This project actually saved my life. I had been going thru some misdiagnoses and things with what has come to be my disability. working with some old mates for spoken word, sound source and the visuals I funnelled a whole lot of pain and anger and darkness into the whole series and it stands as a proud monument to survival.

this track was a live staple during the QUADRANTS and PENTALOGY era tours from C2. the CHOLERIC EP was a heavily dance orientated part of the release series.

#powernoise #ebm #industrial #electro #synth #dark #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak

4/12

#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the third day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... three synergy and some oontz in a tree...

https://control.bandcamp.com/track/synergy

One time we were playing a show with funker vogt. I never really spoke to them, couldn't tell you if it was a bad night, bad week, or if they were/are truly pompous egotistical man babies but here is a receipt.

We set up, rocked sound check, all good in the hood. And then promoters are all like “the headliners don't want you to have backing video”. Mate your joking right? “No, they will refuse to play if you have backing video”. Bear in mind, we had our own media playing device and were connected to venue owned permanent installed projection. Bunch of calls to record labels, various back and forths and finally all clear.

Sweet. We take the stage and.......no lights. The headliners had bullied and harassed the venue to give us no light show. Come to find out, their video was literally just a loop of DOOM play. Ours was awesome glitched and hacked self shot footage and very cool mixed media urban decay collage my brother did.

Truly a dick move, but added upshot, the video looked even better in the dark. so LOL ya jerks.

here is “synergy” a track that would have been being tested pre-release around that time frame. it has waay too long of an intro, soz.

#ebm #synthpop #industrial #electro #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak

#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the second day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... two in control and some oontz in a tree...

https://control.bandcamp.com/track/in-control

here is a track from my favourite album no one has heard, dj mindstalker.

in the mid 90s at uni (lol olde), my bandmate Andy said he met a chap making a movie and was interested in some electronic soundtrack. Cool! We met with the guy and it turns out a small missed detail was that it was a porn. These days, I rather hate the pron “industry” for how bad it chews up and throws away damaged such a massive percentage of participants. But at that time I reckoned no shame, if shit is consensual and with health and safety of all a priority, I wasn't adverse. We made an opening and closing track but I honestly don't know if the porn was ever made, nor did I ever find the master tape. The point is, the vibe was dark tech and that carried into what I eventually called dj mindstalker for various dj/drum/video performance tours around scandinavia, germany and n. america and a single self-titled album. see also “orb3” for even more introspective techno.

#techno #dark #electronica #house #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak

#12daysofoontzmas #behindthemusic

I'm going to do a pre-holiday 12 days of anti-xmas behind the music stories for some tracks from the catalogue. I very much enjoy folk to takeaway their own vibe or meaning from things but sometimes the circumstance around a track is a fun surprise.

on the first day of oontzmas controlfreak gave to me... one retribution and some oontz in a tree...

https://control.bandcamp.com/track/retribution

here is a track from the control.org album “manipulate” that could very easily be considered a battle anthem for unrequited love, or powerful loss and betrayal. Well kinda, you see, at the time of writing this track we were in a pretty posh flat and it had a pretty nice kitchen, however, the sink disposal was fucking possessed by a demon. Instead of grinding and disposing it would make an Einstürzende Neubauten racket and eject shit OUT of the sink. It was “repaired” thrice and would still go into eject mode making mess after mess. So I vowed for retribution. When it was replaced I got to do the honours of chucking it in the skip. YAY!

#ebm #industrial #electro #fediart #mastomusic

I am working on new music for 2023. Unfortunately my health has been seriously hindering creative work and employment so I use whatever energy I do muster for gardening to feed the fam and trickle some volatile market income. In #solidarity all my music is always free or donation and creative commons share alike. If you are in a position to have some coin to donate it will be well received.

you can get most of the catalgoue in whatever format you like for free or donation at https://control.bandcamp.com

or alternatively a link to everything via https://liberapay.com/control

some things are also at https://controlfreak-studio.itch.io

and lastly https://ko-fi.com/ctrlfrk

social: https://hackers.town/@controlfreak