[INTRO — NEEDLE DROPS] [vinyl crackle] [old radio] Testing... One... Two... [second distant voice] One... Two... [spoken] Hang on. Who said that? [radio] Who said what? [soft piano] [whisper] Listen underneath it. [pause] Underneath what? [whisper] Everything. [needle scratch] [VERSE 1 — CROOKED BOOM-BAP] There's a sound within a sound within a room behind my ears, little rhythm in the rhythm I've apparently missed for years. Put my head against the speaker, heard somebody knock twice. Knock-knock. I knocked back. [deep voice] Don't do that. Why? [deep voice] Now it knows you're listening. [saxophone squeal] Fantastic. Bass in the basement, drums in the ceiling, piano keeps asking if music has feelings. Static starts speaking, the speaker starts breathing, a sample of myself says— [reversed voice] [spoken] What did I say? [radio] YOU HAVEN'T SAID IT YET. [PRE-CHORUS] [female vocal] Can you hear it? Under the noise... Under the name... Under the voice... [male whisper] There's another sound... [female] Inside the sound... [BUILD] Inside the sound inside the sound inside the— [SILENCE] [tiny voice] ...sound. [DROP 1 — 150 BPM] [SUB IMPACT] THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE SPEAKER! [filthy bass bend] Something in the bass! [brass blast] Something in the something wearing something else's face! [MANIC LAUGHTER] HAHAHAHAHA! [VOICE SAMPLE] PLEASE STOP ANALYSING THE MUSIC. [spoken] I'M TRYING! [VERSE 2 — TECHNICAL RAP] Signal in the syllable, rhythm in the riddle, little bit of infinite hidden in the middle, split it into particles, particles proliferate, every microscopic beat begins to replicate. Loop in a loop with a groove in its belly, bass gets bent till the waveform's jelly, mind gets minced in a mixer of meaning, wake up inside what I thought I was dreaming. [scratch] Hear that? [knock] There! [knock-knock] There again! [deep voice] That's you. No it isn't. [deep voice] It will be. [BEAT FRACTURES — 7/8] One-two-three-four-five-six-seven— One-two-three-four-five-six— Wait. [drums stop] Who stole seven? [child voice] Me. Why? [child] Needed it. Fair enough. [BREAKDOWN — WEIGHTLESS] [female vocal] There is a song beneath the song, a river underneath the rain, a silence underneath the thought, a doorway underneath your name. [reversed guitar] [male whisper] Maybe hearing isn't something the ears are doing. Maybe every sound is the universe touching itself... and calling the vibration music. [long pause] [radio] That was unnecessarily profound. [spoken] Thank you. [radio] It wasn't a compliment. [BUILD — SOUND COLLAGE] [heartbeat] [tape loop] Listen... [alien clicks] [tape loop] Listen underneath... [Hammond rises] [tape loop] Underneath... [sax enters] [female layers] Deeper... Deeper... Deeper... [male] I peeled the beat apart and found another beat inside it. Peeled that one apart— [whisper] Another. Again— [whisper] Another. Again— [deep voice] Stop. Why? [deep voice] Because eventually you'll find yourself. [SILENCE] Oh. Fuck. [FAKE DROP] [huge build] THREE! TWO! ONE! [tiny triangle] ...ding. [pause] [spoken] You absolute bastard. [DROP 2 — EVERYTHING MUTATES] [SCREAM] OPEN THE FUCKING SPEAKER! [BASS ERUPTS] [rapid rap] Sound into sound into signal to static, thought into thought till the pattern turns fractal, drum becomes blood and the blood becomes rhythm, I went looking for music— NOW I'M FUCKING IN IT! [female soaring] Inside the sound! [male] ANOTHER SOUND! [female] Inside the mind! [male] ANOTHER MIND! [brass / sax / fuzz guitar] [VOICE LAYERS] Listen! Listen! Listen! Listen! [FINAL ASCENSION] [drums gradually dissolve] I hear my heartbeat inside the drums. I hear the drums inside the stars. I hear the stars inside the silence. And inside the silence... [all instrumentation disappears] [very faint tone] ...there's us. [female whisper] And inside us? [long pause] [male whisper] Listen. [cosmic signal grows] [hundreds of layered voices] A sound within a sound within a sound within a sound within a sound— [voices merge] WE ARE THE SIGNAL. [HUGE FINAL BASS HIT] [SILENCE] [OUTRO] [vinyl crackle] [old radio] Testing... One... Two... [distant voice] One... Two... [radio] Who said that? [very faint laugh] [CLICK] [END]
