CIRCUIT ZERO

May 24, 2004

A little history: in 2002 my main focus was a Eurodance-style project called "Human Factor." At the end of the year I put a handful of the songs on an e.p. called Darkdance. The following year saw me doing more laid back music which mixed modern and retro electronic styles. Rather than put these new songs on Human Factor, I decided to put them on a separate album called Circuit Zero.

At the end of 2003 I made an 8 song e.p. called "Robot Music" and passed it among my friends. The feedback was encouraging and has helped shape the project as it stands now. Several of the songs intended for Circuit Zero are being dropped, in favour of tightening the theme and style of the album. It's now more of a coherent whole instead of a collection of miss-matched experiments.

Here's the proposed track-listing, with notes on the status and theme of each song:

Song	Status	Notes
Mystery From Space (Part 1)	Mixing stage	The opener is a J-M Jarre style instrumental, replete with synthesized wind sounds and spacey vocoder.
Servo Robot	Mixing stage	Continuing the space theme, a dark tale about a spaceship's service robot which kills off the crew.
The Clockwork Man	Mixing stage	An entropy-laden tale about the discovery of a Clockwork Man in the woods, run down and abandoned after the death of his creator.
Freaked Out Kitty	Mixing stage	The song that defined my change in direction, about a lust-stricken computer.
Circuit Zero	Demo	A song about a sentient ship drifting through space which is discovered by humans and shows them its experiences.
Forsaken Woods	Advanced demo	Brimming with strange sounds and dark synths, a song about haunted woods which lure unsuspecting travellers, never to let them out.
Traveller In Time And Space	Mixing stage	A fast-paced instrumental with powerful synths and emotive piano.
Automaton	Early demo	A cross between detroit techno-funk and Kraftwerk, with lyrics about the dangers of blind faith.
Enchantment	Demo	A dreamy song about a young nobleman who sees a vision of a maiden and follows it to a strange castle...
Machine Love	Mixing, overdubs	A song from the Darkdance e.p. updated and remixed. This is about the seduction of a virtual-woman, a kind of modern take on Kraftwerk's idea of Computer Love.
Robotnot	Mixing stage	One of the first songs written for Human Factor, which compares abusive relationships to being a robot.
Mystery From Space (Part 2)	Keyboard sketch	A short outro similar in style to Part 1 but different in structure and melody.

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