"RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"- AUSTIN CHRONICLE- April 18, 2007. "LIKE ANDY KAUFMAN DOING INDUSTRIAL MUSIC"- K8A from BEFORE DAWN "IF YOU ARE IN A BAND, LEAVE IT. NOW."-The Manual, Bill Drummond WE'RE AN ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-SEXIST, ANTI-HOMOPHOBIC BAND THAT STILL MANAGES TO HATE EVERYBODY ANYFUCKINGWAY. WE THINK VEGETARIANS ARE DELICIOUS. WE LISTEN TO CRASS IN PUBLIC, BUT DANCE BY OURSELVES TO TECHNOTRONIC. To put it one way, if you desired to "hack" another person's soul themore

"RESISTANCE IS FUTILE"- AUSTIN CHRONICLE- April 18, 2007. "LIKE ANDY KAUFMAN DOING INDUSTRIAL MUSIC"- K8A from BEFORE DAWN "IF YOU ARE IN A BAND, LEAVE IT. NOW."-The Manual, Bill Drummond WE'RE AN ANTI-RACIST, ANTI-SEXIST, ANTI-HOMOPHOBIC BAND THAT STILL MANAGES TO HATE EVERYBODY ANYFUCKINGWAY. WE THINK VEGETARIANS ARE DELICIOUS. WE LISTEN TO CRASS IN PUBLIC, BUT DANCE BY OURSELVES TO TECHNOTRONIC. To put it one way, if you desired to "hack" another person's soul the way you would a computer network, you would need a proper TCP/IP port. This port is buried deep within the other's brain. To hack another's brain, the most effective points of attack are the visual, the verbal, and the linguistic/symbolic. Up until recently, popular music was carried by a special, near shamanic group of people, most frequently known as bards. The songs they sang told of old stories and revealed occult secrets and constantly evolved through time in a constant attempt to stay modern and relevant. In the process, it was not uncommon for a musician to borrow a line or a melody from another recognizable song and include it in "original" material in order to maintain the timelessness of their craft. Melody lines, lyrics, and occasionally whole choruses were freely borrowed, modified or even stolen between popular musicians from medieval times all the way up to the 1920s. It is only recently that the concept of "ownership" became applied to the previously transitory and practically hallucinatory craft of music.