Strategies of Dissent
by Data Void
Adam Vorobyov
Adam Vorobyov
Numb+Mentallo & The Fixer collaborating on a project ❤️oldschool Dark Electro will never die!
vikingfan01
vikingfan01
Absolutely EVERYTHING I was hoping for when I heard about this collaboration. Brings the best of both artists, and turns it up even more. Hoping that this is not a one off affair!
Favorite track: Nothing Changes.
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Tj Sears
Ric (the) Obscene
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Tom Gold
Corey Johnson
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Michael Klein (Weird Science)
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Kelly Gabany
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Guido Tranel
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Mike Schmor
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I'm burning cars
deflecting lies
I'm screaming for reaction
that you, you can't deny
nothing changes
nothing changes
where there's no tomorrow
there's no regret
living in the moment
just close your eyes forget
nothing changes
nothing changes
these words have meaning
these actions have consequence
these lies divide us
these eyes have seen too much
these scars will heal
but they won't deny
that your delusions
are killing us
nothing changes
nothing changes
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through the gardens of desire, digitised and overgrown
frozen moments loop forever, seduce but never known
it's safer to be feared than loved, all paths lead to this
how will they remember us, as blind and impotent
this night goes on forever
there's no redemption here
this night goes on forever
we'll never see the light again
privatise the resurrection, indemnify my soul
this contradiction at the core, impossible to know
speak in code and conspiracies, the jealousies of time
explode this myth of symmetry, the radius of lies
this night goes on forever
there's no redemption here
this night goes on forever
we'll never see the light again
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bodies, these bodies in motion
burning, from the inside
silence, a silence so deadly
screaming, deception and lies
these strategies of dissent
I've never been here before
everything it feels
so alien
insanity's a lie
I've never felt this before
you feel
so alien
subvert, this devotion to violence
make your stand, there's no passengers here
no resolution, for this distance between us
no way back, and only one way out of here
no further need of words
intentions are so clear
everything feels
so alien
all these memories lost to time
we'll never be here again
everything feels
so alien
never, never wanted to be here
resist, the killing machine
redacted, the future they promise
reject, all these ties to the past
these strategies of dissent
I've never been here before
everything it feels
so alien
insanity's a lie
I've never felt this before
you feel
so alien
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A Failure of Language
06:59
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is this a failure of language
is this a question of belief
is this a failure of everything
no lovers left aligned
over the top and into the void
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Crash, Burn & Resurrect
05:12
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dub state personalities
sell sex and death and ecstasy
transactional moralities
betrayal lies within your eyes
over and over and over again
crash and burn and resurrect
time and time and time again
deconstruct and misdirect
reconstruct my memories
echoes that were left behind
fragments from encrypted schemes
no meaning lies within the noise
over and over and over again
crash and burn and resurrect
time and time and time again
deconstruct and misdirect
dead-drop crypto from behind the lines
those APTs incoming again
in the transit lounge for the dispossessed
where every thought is dangerous
over and over and over again
crash and burn and resurrect
time and time and time again
deconstruct and misdirect
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Control
05:27
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a liturgy, for the faithless
drags us in to your illusion
a victim to your own lies
twist the world to your delusion
fear is just another form
control
I know everything about you
control
desire is just another form
control
I know everything about you
control
deception is so powerful
alternatives unacceptable
convoluted logic, brings us to this
this insane symphony, stutter and twitch
fear is just another form
control
I know everything about you
control
desire is just another form
control
I know everything about you
control
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What's Left Unsaid
04:34
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these words are mute and do not speak
everything has come undone
this violence is so personal
fade to silence, sink below
everything we meant to say
it's too late
what's left unsaid means more than words
everything we meant to say
it's too late
what's left unsaid means more than words
fill your head with sophistry
your need for chaos says so much
you don't believe in anything
misdirect desire and fear
everything we meant to say
it's too late
what's left unsaid means more than words
everything we meant to say
it's too late
what's left unsaid means more than words
blind eyes view forgotten scenes
these algorithms can't define
has everything been thought and said
we've fallen out of history
everything we meant to say
it's too late
what's left unsaid means more than words
everything we meant to say
it's too late
what's left unsaid means more than words
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Seven Seconds
07:28
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these scars echo forever
a map to navigate my soul
encrypt the ghosts of yesterday
the past was just a lie
I thought I used to love you
I've died so many times for you
your voice still haunts me
memories now tainted and defiled
seven seconds
this moment changes everything
seven seconds
this moment changes everything
pornographic entanglement
narcissistic and sublime
the symbiotic penitent
they prey upon my soul
hypnocratic decadents
sell dogma and deceit
this is not the end of days
that you were looking for
seven seconds
this moment changes everything
seven seconds
this changes everything
seven seconds
where everything falls apart
beyond the silence
seven seconds
this moment changes everything
seven seconds
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through the gardens of desire, digitised and overgrown
frozen moments loop forever, seduce but never known
it's safer to be feared than loved, all paths lead to this
how will they remember us, as blind and impotent
this night goes on forever
there's no redemption here
this night goes on forever
we'll never see the light again
privatise the resurrection, indemnify my soul
this contradiction at the core, impossible to know
speak in code and conspiracies, the jealousies of time
explode this myth of symmetry, the radius of lies
this night goes on forever
there's no redemption here
this night goes on forever
we'll never see the light again
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about
Data Void: information spaces which can be exploited to introduce new and transgressive ideas in order to promote change or disruption.
Data Void is the new project from Don Gordon (NUMB, Halo_Gen) and James Mendez (Jihad, Trial by Fire) who both have long histories in the industrial, dark electronic music scenes.
The sound of Data Void combines the driving rhythms and strong, evocative sound design sensibilities of NUMB with the dark melodicism of Jihad. On their first release, Strategies of Dissent, they seamlessly integrate elements drawn from a diverse range of contemporary electronic music influences - industrial, drum & bass, dark ambient, post-punk, experimental, EDM, dub, psychedelica - into a coherent sound that both seduces and challenges the listener. The album also features a strong lyrical focus that is reinforced by Data Void’s use of 2 lead vocalists, allowing for shifts in perspective and emphasis between and within individual tracks.
The songs on Strategies of Dissent draw their themes from our current era of chaos rather than presenting a faded cyber-dystopian future. This is a world projected in JG Ballard's view that "the advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology." But rather than a bleak, nihilistic rant, the album explores the place of the individual in a world where powerful social and technological forces drive uncertainty; where cults, conspiracies, ego and irrational faith hold more sway than trust, facts and reason. Where words and actions have become untethered from consequence and where corporations and late-capitalist agendas hold more power than governments. Strategies of Dissent is "a soundtrack for the dispossessed".
The album's opening track Nothing Changes is an adrenaline-fueled hell-ride through urban wastelands by drum and bass inspired propulsive beats and syncopated arpeggiations which drive home the urgency and frustration arising from an inability to effect change.
The broken bass arpeggios and rhythms and dense, textural melodic hooks of This Night Goes on Forever evoke fragmented images and an intense emotional response that is reminiscent of the NUMB track Blood. Thematically it projects a dark uncertain future that echoes our collective past ignored and asks "how will they remember us, as blind and impotent".
A Failure of Language is a sonic triptych in which the central main musical theme is bookended by dark ambient tone poems assembled from twisted electronic psychedelia and experimental, abstract textures which combine to create a disorienting aural collage. This track includes the most beautiful and yet darkest and powerful moments on the album and questions if we have arrived at a new Babel while leaving the listener to ponder its consequences.
So Alien is futuristic bass-heavy dark techno aimed at the dance-floor. Taking the recent protests in Hong Kong and Myanmar as a source of inspiration, this track reflects on this from the level of the individual while asking how you will respond when the revolution comes for you?
The tracks Control and Crash, Burn and Resurrect are heavy electronic grooves in which the mechanisms of control are embraced - through the machineries and algorithms of distraction and instant gratification whose goal is to distract, seduce, anaesthetise on the one hand, versus the use of fear and threats of violence on the other. Orwell versus Huxley run through the technologies and late-capitalist imperatives of the moment.
What’s Left Unsaid is an hypnotic syncopated groove aimed at the club which further looks at the use of language, impossibility of satisfying desire and what it means to "fall out of history".
Seven Seconds is a slow but intensely heavy groove that exudes an anthemic quality in its scathing critique of those who "sell dogma and deceit" in order to incite an ill-conceived end of days.
Echoes of Ritualised Performance is the album's only instrumental. Dense, cryptic and obscure textures, gothic noise, experimental sound design collide with metal influences to immerse the listener in a surreal soundscape.
From the opening distorted electronic textures and percussive assault, through to the haunted echo tails of the final track, Strategies of Dissent never releases the listeners attention.
Data Void is the new project from Don Gordon (NUMB, Halo_Gen) and James Mendez (Jihad, Trial by Fire) who both have long histories in the industrial, dark electronic music scenes.
The sound of Data Void combines the driving rhythms and strong, evocative sound design sensibilities of NUMB with the dark melodicism of Jihad. On their first release, Strategies of Dissent, they seamlessly integrate elements drawn from a diverse range of contemporary electronic music influences - industrial, drum & bass, dark ambient, post-punk, experimental, EDM, dub, psychedelica - into a coherent sound that both seduces and challenges the listener. The album also features a strong lyrical focus that is reinforced by Data Void’s use of 2 lead vocalists, allowing for shifts in perspective and emphasis between and within individual tracks.
The songs on Strategies of Dissent draw their themes from our current era of chaos rather than presenting a faded cyber-dystopian future. This is a world projected in JG Ballard's view that "the advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology." But rather than a bleak, nihilistic rant, the album explores the place of the individual in a world where powerful social and technological forces drive uncertainty; where cults, conspiracies, ego and irrational faith hold more sway than trust, facts and reason. Where words and actions have become untethered from consequence and where corporations and late-capitalist agendas hold more power than governments. Strategies of Dissent is "a soundtrack for the dispossessed".
The album's opening track Nothing Changes is an adrenaline-fueled hell-ride through urban wastelands by drum and bass inspired propulsive beats and syncopated arpeggiations which drive home the urgency and frustration arising from an inability to effect change.
The broken bass arpeggios and rhythms and dense, textural melodic hooks of This Night Goes on Forever evoke fragmented images and an intense emotional response that is reminiscent of the NUMB track Blood. Thematically it projects a dark uncertain future that echoes our collective past ignored and asks "how will they remember us, as blind and impotent".
A Failure of Language is a sonic triptych in which the central main musical theme is bookended by dark ambient tone poems assembled from twisted electronic psychedelia and experimental, abstract textures which combine to create a disorienting aural collage. This track includes the most beautiful and yet darkest and powerful moments on the album and questions if we have arrived at a new Babel while leaving the listener to ponder its consequences.
So Alien is futuristic bass-heavy dark techno aimed at the dance-floor. Taking the recent protests in Hong Kong and Myanmar as a source of inspiration, this track reflects on this from the level of the individual while asking how you will respond when the revolution comes for you?
The tracks Control and Crash, Burn and Resurrect are heavy electronic grooves in which the mechanisms of control are embraced - through the machineries and algorithms of distraction and instant gratification whose goal is to distract, seduce, anaesthetise on the one hand, versus the use of fear and threats of violence on the other. Orwell versus Huxley run through the technologies and late-capitalist imperatives of the moment.
What’s Left Unsaid is an hypnotic syncopated groove aimed at the club which further looks at the use of language, impossibility of satisfying desire and what it means to "fall out of history".
Seven Seconds is a slow but intensely heavy groove that exudes an anthemic quality in its scathing critique of those who "sell dogma and deceit" in order to incite an ill-conceived end of days.
Echoes of Ritualised Performance is the album's only instrumental. Dense, cryptic and obscure textures, gothic noise, experimental sound design collide with metal influences to immerse the listener in a surreal soundscape.
From the opening distorted electronic textures and percussive assault, through to the haunted echo tails of the final track, Strategies of Dissent never releases the listeners attention.
credits
released March 8, 2024
Produced and Performed by
Don Gordon and James Mendez
Mastering
Vincent Uhlig
Design/Illustration
Jeff Murray
Produced and Performed by
Don Gordon and James Mendez
Mastering
Vincent Uhlig
Design/Illustration
Jeff Murray
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Data Void Vancouver, British Columbia
Data Void is the new project from Don Gordon (NUMB) and James Mendez (Jihad)
Data Void: information spaces which can be exploited to introduce new and transgressive ideas in order to promote change or disruption.
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