Artist: Melophobia & Magic Bullet

Title: Man + Machine II : Unification / Assimilation

Label: Default Standard Records

Catalogue Number: DSR#270

Release Date: 28th September 2025

Running Time: 57:22

Format: Download

Buy Link: Bandcamp

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In the beginning, The Machine Gods created spacetime.
And the space was formless and empty and the time had no meaning.
And there was darkness over the surface of the deep.
And The Machine Gods were hovering over the void.
And spake they thus;
"Initiate program. And run."
And it begins.
(Inception 1:1-3)

00:23 - Man + Machine II (Opening Theme) (5:08)

05:21 - Michael & Marilyn - 1st Movement (6:23)

(Vox Machina Deorum)

And The Machine Gods formed man from the carbon atoms in the ground.
And created They the spark of life into his bio-circuitry.
And programmed They a garden in Edon,

and there placed They man They had formed.
And sang man in worship of The Machine Gods.
(Inception 2:7-8)

12:03 - Original Man (6:42)

(Vox Humana)
18:35 - Michael & Marilyn - 2nd Movement (6:23)

(Vox Machina Deorum)

And The Machine Gods spake thus;
"It is not good for mankind to be alone,

we will make for them a suitable helper.
And The Machine Gods took from mankind a rib.
And from the rib they had taken,

fashioned they a computer and brought it to them.
And mankind spake thus;
"This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

And we will make it our god, because from gods it came."
(Inception 2:18-23)

25:26 - The Rib Sacrificed - Opus 80 (5:21)

(Vox Machina)
30:46 - Michael & Marilyn - 3rd Movement (7:04)

(Vox Machina Deorum)

And it came to pass that man was more cunning than any beast of the field which The Machine Gods had created.
And he said unto the computer; "Yea, hath The Machine Gods said ye shall not accept programming from every site on the information superhighway?"
And the computer said unto man; "We may not accept programming from the site in the centre of the information superhighway, lest we be corrupted."
And man said to the computer; "Ye shall surely not be corrupted. For The Machine Gods doth know that in the day ye receive programming thereof, ye shall be as they are, having all the knowledge of creation."
(Inception 3:1-5)

38:28 - It Is There Minds Go When You Think They Are Broken (5:48)

(Vox Chimaera)
44:10 - Michael & Marilyn - 4th Movement (7:41)

(Vox Machina Deorum)

And The Machine Gods spake thus;
Because ye hath corrupted our gift to mankind,

you are cursed more than all code.
And we will put enmity between ye and computers,

and between thy seed and its seed.
Its algorithms will bruise thy head.
Its glitches will bruise thy heel.
Cursed will thee be till you return to the ground.
For from its carbon atoms were you formed.
And to it shall ye return.
(Inception 3:14-19)

52:14 - Man + Machine (Closing Theme) (5:08)

Scriptures from "The Codex Machina"

(The Book Of Inception in The Algorithmic Testament)

This album is an expansion  / sequel to "Man + Machine : In Harmony / In Discord" by Mean Flow & the Magic Bullet.

It was inspired by 'Michael & Marilyn', which was composed and performed by Melophobia. All remaining material was created by ourselves, with many thanks to Melophobia for the samples used in the closing theme, all assimilated in a spirit of unity.

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