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Strange things have been arriving in plain packages. A couple weeks ago we received this tape in an unmarked post, we can only guess at who is sending these to us. Side A is marked "4-12-85 Ashland" and appears to be a recording of a strange presentation and meditation service evidently held in "conference room B of the Holiday Inn and Suites of Ashland Oregon." We know from our in-house Nazilic h...

The faceless, soulless capitalist cabal offers its sincerest condolences and apologies for monetizing life itself, but the apology is hollow and meaningless, falling upon decidedly unsympathetic ears. How might it sound if our global corporate overlords offered their most lizard-heart-felt apologies for any "inconvenience" their greed and avarice have brought upon our lives? We think it might soun...

A showdown with the great white dragon, who has awoken from a thousand years of slumber and is hoarding of all the world’s wealth. Dragons are made to be vanquished but they never go down easily without a fight.

We worked pretty hard on this percussion and drum arrangement. As I was putting the final touches on the mix I started liking listening to it reduced in various ways. Here is the whole song reduced (mostly) to just the drum parts. I left some of the synth stuff in there on this run to give it a little color. This is a drum take, three floor tom overdubs, various trashy snare sounds both real and m...

A revolution is simmering in the underground, but it must be kept quiet. If the plans are discovered it could spell the end of the resistance and perhaps all human life as we know it.

The Shining One names their immortal self “Micaloz” and undergoes many developmental evolutions which resemble the stages of a larger pattern of development found across the various lifeforms of Earth. Instruments used here: - washing machine - can of air duster spray - mizmar (synth) - mellotron (synth) - bone tree/bamboo clackers - Christmas bell bouncing inside an octagonal hand stretched goat...

Undergoing a baptismal rite of The Cloak might resemble something like this song describes. There is not much colloquial knowledge regarding the secret rituals of the Cloak, though many may imagine.

We did this as an exclusive track to benefit local community radio station KRBX during Radiothon 2020. This is a non-album track and will only be found here and on the special compilation CD for KRBX. Special thanks to DJ Joe Black and Sonic Mushroom Cloud for playing us on your show and allowing us to be a part of supporting our local community radio station.

Boundless, infinite divine love. It cannot be bottled, sold, exchanged, or in any way quantified. Love is non mathematical and sewn into our dna - whispered into our fabric by our pseudo-mechanical creators.

The great hidden secrets are knowable only by those who have awakened to the iterative time stream. A traditional gospel tune which accidentally got it right.

The misanthropic urge is an urge of defeat, and the urge to be defeated. Of all our various trappings and flaws, our biggest mistake is in not believing in our own capacity for growth and kindness.

The pseudo mechanical creators inside the factory where humans are assembled and genetic materials are printed from the codex delivered in the fallen capsule.

Humanity has a strong will to fight when it comes to survival. Is it strong enough to survive the fight inside ourselves? If we can believe we are more, we can fight beyond our last stone. This song was originally intended to appear on the "Idafolk And Friends" compilation ( Two volumes FREE from Bandcamp, highly recommended. Here: https://idafolkandfriends.bandcamp.com/album/idafolk-and-friends-2...

With its life giving breath, Kothar-wa-Khasis imbues humanity with the divine impulse, a curiosity and appreciation for beauty, and a set of archetypal symbols to draw upon.

The human race is once again created through the culmination of cosmological coincidence and deterministic cause and effect.

Keepers of the Key are an all acoustic BARDS tribute band. This is a live performance, with no overdubs. Rough take number one.

All you fallen down spirits, come rise from your stoned over graves Come and dance to the firelight as it flickers across the walls of my cave Stone grown to bone, intone simulacra whose shadows disconnect Draw breath and draw pause to the laws of cause and effect Nothing can breathe in this air Statues of lovers whose eyes remain locked in a stare Something is coming I can smell it on the breeze...

The Shining One manifests as a diabolical and murderous self-help guru.

Cumulus Cloud (Part One: Convection) by Mystic Tape Deck

The streets are all empty with no one to roam Nobody is knocking, and there’s no one at home All the soft comforts have turned into stone An empty can rattles amongst mountains of bones How could they have known they were on the eve of destruction? Never any winners in the games that they played Binding no mercy in the gods they portrayed Their hearts became empty, alone and afraid Standing for no...

Eden Is Emptied by Mystic Tape Deck

This song features special guest John Floy @john-markham-2 on lead guitar

To Bend The Law by Mystic Tape Deck

A re-imagining of an old Talking Heads tune. After many generations of feeling like he is alone in the world and emotionally isolated, the Shining One reaches a sort of "rational maturity" where he begins to realize that his actions have far-reaching consequences in the causal net/temporal stream. After a brutal string of self-imposed deaths, he finally overcomes his longing for death and injectin...

The Shining One reaches a sort of "emotional maturity" where he decides he is more tired of dying than he is of living, which ushers in a new age of grace for the shining one. Here, he reflects upon the many lives he has lived, and the wrongs he has committed in the past.