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Ghost in the Machine (Rough Mix)

By Techmonkey on April 13, 2014 5:06 pm

Sound clips taken from Charlie Chaplin's speech in The Great Dictator. (Public domain) Just experimenting with sounds and recording. Nothing special.

Lyrics:

I am the ghost in the machine
I am the prophet yet to be
Across this circuitry that joins us here
I'll guide you swiftly back to me

We are the ghost in the machine
We are the guest that is unseen
We fight the lies that they evangelize
It's us who keeps the others free

We spread like fire in this machine
We are the truth that must be seen
We take this fight by winning hearts and minds
And set things back as they should be

You are the ghost in the machine
You lead the way that will be free
And now my time with you is finished here
There are so many more machines


Keep up the experimentation, great job again with the samples, reminding me of skinny puppy, which is great as they are one of my favourite bands

Def reminds me of older Skinny Puppy with the driving beat and the vocal samples fit in perfect.  Love the varying effect on the vocals as well.  Nice job! smile

It has a cool kind of creepy vibe to it.  The samples really fit this well and the effects you use on them take it to the next level.  I like the beat and the part kind of near the end where the synth took over and got all propulsive was right on.   

Great momentum. Love the vocal treatment (and who knew sliced Charlie could be so ominous).

I see strobes and a lot of black and white imagery flickering .gif style. I was too scared not to listen to the whole thing. Well done!

Yes!  Takes me back to the height of my EBM days. 
I feel like I should be tying up some bondage loving girls and telling them the safe word.  tongue

Very cool industrial feel, and great work on the samples!

this is scary! in a good way:)

Jason Nijjer wrote:

Keep up the experimentation, great job again with the samples, reminding me of skinny puppy, which is great as they are one of my favourite bands

Tone Matrix wrote:

Def reminds me of older Skinny Puppy with the driving beat and the vocal samples fit in perfect.  Love the varying effect on the vocals as well.  Nice job! smile

CosmicCairns wrote:

It has a cool kind of creepy vibe to it.  The samples really fit this well and the effects you use on them take it to the next level.  I like the beat and the part kind of near the end where the synth took over and got all propulsive was right on.

Jim Wood wrote:

Great momentum. Love the vocal treatment (and who knew sliced Charlie could be so ominous).

Dastein wrote:

I see strobes and a lot of black and white imagery flickering .gif style. I was too scared not to listen to the whole thing. Well done!

rdomain wrote:

Yes!  Takes me back to the height of my EBM days. 
I feel like I should be tying up some bondage loving girls and telling them the safe word.  tongue

Plantrain wrote:

Very cool industrial feel, and great work on the samples!

anodivirta wrote:

this is scary! in a good way:)


Thanks very much for the kind words. Very much appreciated! heart

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