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NB: This was originally released on
"Noise E'm All!!!: Part One" (Trashcunt Records, 10th August 2022). The
label appears to have closed down and we've been unable to get any kind of
response from Skyler, but it is being re-released on a new Magic Bullet
collection called "Obscuritas", courtesy of Otcrah Records. Details of the
original compilation are on Discogs at;
https://www.discogs.com/release/24153146-Various-Noise-Em-All-Part-One
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8th August 2022: Waking up to
news of Skyler's death at 18 years of age came as something of a shock. I'd
been joking with her just recently that I have socks older than her. I say
joking, but to my eternal shame, I really have. We were mortified, she was
supposed to be doing a track for the Wu Xing project, I'd have to
find somebody else now. And who'd release Gold Right Of Gods Solaces
which we'd done specially for her? Life, eh? However, as luck would have it,
she made a full recovery and returned from the other side to finish this
release merely days later. Yeah, as you'd probably guessed, she'd been
hacked by some dirty scumbag who was planning to start a phoney
'fund-raising for the family she left behind' thing. Get your own back, kid,
name your record label after the perpetrator! Oh, you already have... ;-)
o
Now, to more serious matters;
our track! First comment from everybody and their dog;
"Shouldn't there be an
apostrophe?"
No. Deliberate ambiguity. Is it
a singular pronoun or is it plural? Me and Skit, we're saying nothing.
Having said that, we will say that the theme in our minds when putting this
together was of the eternal struggle of many a mythology, the one between
good and evil, battling it out in the skies above us, like a dogfight taking
place just out of the range of our perception. We set out to give you a
glimpse of what goes on behind that barrier. Do it loud through headphones,
sit by a window and look at the sky, watch any combination of (insert
personal pronouns of your choice here) fight it out amongst the clouds! Who
wins? I rather doubt any of us will be around long enough to see the result
before the door slams shut on us. Except maybe Skyler, she's proven death is
no barrier to producing a great compilation already...
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