Oh, you know. Just your common or garden DeathBoy.
Computer Science, simulation theory, psychology, neurology, trauma.
The usual shit.
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In more detail:
So, I spent my life making videogames and now I make VR simulations for surgery and honesly, life is both fantastic and weird AF.
The lyrics are mostly about my parents, and the idea of my family doing anything other than leaving me the fuck alone to get on with my shit.
I bought a Behringer Deepmind 12D, and that's why the song is called this.
I wrote lots of the track then the lead line (which it starts with) suggested itself, and it had it had this staccato pattern to it, which led me to the very stop-start chorus.
The verses kinda filled themselves in. I have a really clever girlfriend with a psychology degree and I thought I'd throw in lots of clever things so it would sound all impressive to her, because I fancy her a lot and try to show off because I crave attention.
And I'm drunk (of course) and always love Hellraiser (of course) and I love the 90s aesthetic of sampling Hellraiser (of course), so obviously there's a shitload of samples in there because hey. My music, I can wank myself off if I want to.
I quite like how it turned out tbh.
But I am *spectacularly* broken.
v1---
I'm a single unit of suggestion
and so are you
Atomicity and granularity will get us through
disambiguation and chirality will deconfuse
discipline and dopamine are patterns that we all abuse
C---
I don't even need you to be here any more
Grew so big I can barely fit through the door
Problems solved on my own, you do not need to call
Now I'm me I walk a fucking thousand feet tall
v2---
synchronicity and bias reconciling dissonance
overstimulation occupations stealing innocence
manufacture value you're a facet of bigger cube
spinning all the puzzles while you worry if you're really you
C---
I don't even need you to be here any more
Grew so big I can barely fit through the door
Problems solved on my own, you do not need to call
Now I'm me I walk a fucking thousand feet tall
v3---
realise your life is represented by quaternions
matrices in matrices translating and rotating us
worrying if we're all living in a simulation
miss the bigger picture cos we filter our relations
C---
I don't even need you to be here any more
Grew so big I can barely fit through the door
Problems solved on my own, you do not need to call
Now I'm me I walk a fucking thousand feet tall
Out---
model all the outcomes with your GPU in parallel
spawn a million threads to work out if we're living in a hell
wake up in the morning and your blood is coursing through your brain
question your assumptions, shake your head and do it all again
@looprication Mar 2022
Those "dotted" vocals are fan-fucking-tasic, great vehicle, expertly executed. That Deepmind sounds great! Yeah this sounds pretty flawless all things considered m8!
Points for the psych degree, I've got one or two of those lying around ;). And yeah I'm sure shit's weird, I started programming in the hopes I could learn Quake C (dating myself) but I never did get to do videogames, all backend shit but sometimes for healthcare which has been nice. Good on ya for making the world a better place in many different ways.
@spazsquatch Feb 2022
Half my vocabulary (and the majority of my understanding of human sexuality, which...) was from reading Clive Barker. Hellraiser was a great movie, shame it never got any sequels.
@andyt13 Feb 2022
Pumping!
@sync Feb 2022
Super cool aggressive sounds! I like dystopian angry anarchy with a beat. Puts me in the mind of KMFDM. Great fucken lyrics! They seem bigger to me than your parents tho - but then I don't know them, so what do I know? They really reflect the current situation of greater society quite accurately to me. Perfect ending!
VR simulations for surgery sounds very interesting. Gonna hafta Google that shit...
@codeenergy Feb 2022
I can't tell if its either Deadstar Assembly or Deadsy I am being of reminded of right now but I am fucking loving it!!
@nahlej381 Feb 2022
Hellraiser is one of my favorites. Deathboy is my other favorite.
@engebretsen Feb 2022
This is a own league. !!!
@virallode Feb 2022
This is extremely you and that's something we need in 2022. Pinhead samples very on brand - bravo, sir
@deathboy Feb 2022
@pantsofdeath sometimes the only way to solve a problem is to spawn n threads and let them do the work! I saw this sort algo where for each value, you just create a new thread with a wait of the time OF THE VALUE (in seconds) and all it does it add its value into the list. I mean, why not, right? Run it on an iPad and you've got something close to a bogosort because predictable concurrency is NOT anything on Apple's list of shit to do, but you've got to admire the trust!
@pantsofdeath Feb 2022
WONDERFUL! I know it is sad, but as I work in massively parallel processing software the multithreaded verse made me happy. I hope your clever girlfriend appreciated the clever bits :)
@deathboy Feb 2022
@blainev83 that's a lovely thing to hear, mate, thank you so much :) Very glad if you enjoyed it, I appreciate the support :)
@deathboy Feb 2022
@djtjb ah mate, you are superkind. very glad you liked it :) I'm shaking the rust off a bit, it's a been a while. Makes me feel good to hear it's tickling the right balls! Much love, man <3
@blainev83 Feb 2022
Love the lyrics. It has this entrancing effect. Like you just don’t want the song to end. Brilliant.
@djtjb Feb 2022
This may be my favorite Deathboy song ever. You have a gift my friend, and goddamn I could listen to you sing all day lol. This is so smooth dude