Activation

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This piece brings us back to the moment at the beginning of the album where the professor switches the Big Red Spark on. It’s the shortest track on the album but features all three gentlemen that undertook the task of performing the spoken word material for the album. As mentioned before, I got the guys to play all the parts throughout the entire suite so that I could interchange their spoken words at will. It was very interesting how all the performances differed in this song and worked a treat at highlighting the ‘parallel universe’ theme running though the tracks.

Simon

A moment of extreme tension, portrayed beautifully by Simon's father, and some other people, possibly less talented.

Robert

And now I’m linked to all the others. This completion means destruction. Infinite fingers hover over infinite buttons, and the long-built compulsion is too strong. We all inhale our last breath, and —

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