23, by Alien

23

by Alien

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voggl242 bought this on the first day of 2023. would have waited to 2323 if possible ;-)

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A 5"CDr with applied decal housed in a gatefold cover, with two inserts and artwork, all made from recycled card stock and hand assembled by Stuart Bowditch. An edition of 23.

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1.	Personal Opinion 00:32	buy track
2.	Control Machine 01:05	buy track
3.	News Speak 01:27	buy track
4.	Mutilated Self 00:56	buy track
5.	Airlines Suffer Most 00:51	buy track
6.	Crushed Convertible 00:52	buy track
7.	Speaking Clock 01:35	buy track
8.	Newspapers Speak Disaster 00:55	buy track
9.	Terror Bomb 01:25	buy track
10.	Sell Sell Sell 00:36	buy track
11.	Where Is Kenneth Lopez 00:49	buy track
12.	Lost Cosmonaut 00:21	buy track
13.	No Way Of Knowing 00:40	buy track
14.	Talking Now 01:02	buy track
15.	Million Years Lost 01:20	buy track
16.	Yesterday's Tomorrow 01:26	buy track
17.	What Sort Of Evil 02:09	buy track
18.	Death Magazine 01:35	buy track
19.	Please Repeat 00:25	buy track
20.	Synthetic Flight 00:46	buy track
21.	Hallucinogen Fur Coat 00:38	buy track
22.	Burning Cosmonauts 01:07	buy track
23.	No Good Dying 00:18	buy track
24.	23 - Full Album Mixdown 23:00

about

Why 23? I first became aware of ‘23’ in the early 90’s from my then manager, Daveid Phillips, we bonded over a love of William Burroughs and the darker side of culture. Burroughs was obsessed with 23. While living in Tangiers, he met a Captain Clark who ran a ferry between Spain and Morocco. One day, Clark told Burroughs that he had been doing the route for 23 years without incident. Later that day, the ferry sank, killing the captain. While Burroughs was thinking about the incident, a radio bulletin announced the crash of a Flight 23 on the New York-Miami route. The pilot was another Captain Clark. The events prompted an obsession which saw Burroughs record every occurrence of the number 23 for the rest of his life. From this grew the idea that you take a random number - 23 in this case and extrapolate any kind of meaning or prophecy. Aleister Crowley, KLF and most importantly to me Genesis P Orridge were all 23 fanatics.

So the idea for 23 as a piece: 23 ideas in 23 minutes came from trying to reduce a tune to it’s core stripping away structure and arrangement to deliver a raw emotional hit. Within the work I used the 23 as a vocal but also grouping beats and rhythms into factors and derivatives of 23 or 2 and 3.

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released May 23, 2020

Mastered by Brendan O'Hare

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