Obsolescence Part 1: The Engine

by Lone Man Dead

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1.	Deconstructing The Memory Line 02:10	info	buy track
2.	Barren Cities, Dusty Shores 05:03	info	buy track
3.	Where Have All The Whales Gone? 04:48	info	buy track
4.	Atacama In The Moonlight 03:18	info	buy track
5.	A Little Bird Told Me... 04:02	info	buy track
6.	The Crypt Cipher 03:37	info	buy track
7.	Falling Into The Grey Stone 04:12	info	buy track

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This record follows a man who wishes to understand his place in the universe better, so he inserts a microchip into his brain in an attempt to subconsciously regress and experience his past lives. However, the chip malfunctions and sends him into a representation of himself 1000 years into the future. Humanity has ended, not through catastrophe, disease or war… humanity has just had its time and naturally faded out. Lost and alone, he wanders the barren cities and coasts of the Americas, beginning to arrive at the realisation that natural obsolescence was the one constant that humans always shared, and reaching this epiphany starts to put his existence into perspective.

As he wanders the slopes of the Andes he sits underneath a tree to contemplate his new-found clarity when a mechanical bird approaches him, a remnant of humanity’s technological achievements. The bird perches itself on his shoulder and whispers that he is asleep and in danger, if he remains in this hypnagogic dream state much longer he will be trapped forever - his only chance of survival is to enter the crypt and place a key in the hand of an oracle. After much travelling he meets the oracle and gives her the key, which transforms into a cord linking them via their sternums. Once joined, the man lies on a stone plinth before being digitally
decomposed, falling through the Earth to await consciousness…

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released June 7, 2015

All tracks written, recorded and produced by Stuart Watkin.

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Lone Man Dead Aberdeen, UK

Scottish Abient/Electronica artist based in Aberdeen.

"Obsolescence Part 1: The Engine" - released 2015

"Obsolescence Part 2: The Anchor" - released 2019

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