Xylen Roberts-My God Machine (Full Single, 2020)

This is a single for the song ‘My God Machine’, an industrial avant-funk styled track off my upcoming album Essential Travel. Essential Travel is one of two albums I am releasing by the end of the year, the more experimental of the two with styles that range from industrial to microtonal post rock and more. The other album is the more accessible alternative/indie rock oriented A Shoe-In For The Shut-In Awards. This single includes the album version of ‘My God Machine’ plus 3 b sides not available on either upcoming album:

‘Faster Than Light’ is a great song that was decided to be excluded from the albums for no other reason than it contains melodic organ elements borrowed from the classic song ‘In Da Godda Da Vida’ by Iron Butterfly, and I always release covers or songs that sample from others’ copyrighted works as b-sides on FREE singles to avoid copyright infringement. The borrowed musical elements are not mere random novelty. The song itself is about the mysterious life and death of former Iron Butterfly bassist Phillip Taylor Kramer and the conspiracy theories surrounding his life/death.

Second b-side is ’Sixty Veggie Caps’, a post-ironic completely improvised freestyle about things I was buying from Amazon at the time, which somehow in my wacky tobaccy addled brain I found ways to tie into various red pilled conspiracy ideas. The song samples heavily from the Aphex Twin song “23” from his Ambient Works Volume 2 album, thus making it a fitting b-side. The final b-side is a dark piano led alternate mix of ‘My God Machine’.

You can also listen to the song on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/xylen-roberts/sets/my-god-machine-single-2020
and HearThis:
https://hearthis.at/avadhuta-records/set/xylen-roberts-my-god-machine-single-2020/

Be blessed!!!