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V6

[Cold Open — distorted triangle-wave tritone riff; no drums] [Backwards reverb swell rising into the vocal entrance] [Hook — dry, commanding lead vocal, no effects; deep kick enters between phrases] This ain't no beat for standing still. Ain't scary, but scream if you feel it. Drop it. [Instrumental Break] Keep it. [Instrumental Break] Hold it. [Instrumental Break] Down, down, down, down. [Instrumental Drive — hook rhythm continues instrumentally; distorted triangle-wave motif answers the kick] [Hook Fragment — tape-echo repeats trailing each word, spring reverb drip, increasingly physical] Drop it. [Instrumental Break] Keep it. [Instrumental Break] Hold it. [Instrumental Break] Down, down, down, down. [Micro-silence] Down, down, down, down. (tape-echo tail decaying into silence) [Dance Break — devastating sub-kick impact; instrumental] [Backwards reverb swell rising into the vocal entrance] [Hook — full dry lead vocal returns; harder and more insistent, slight vocal variation] This ain't no beat for standing still. Feel it move you, can't resist it. Drop it. [Instrumental Break] Keep it. [Instrumental Break] Hold it. [Instrumental Break] Down, down, down, down. [Bridge — enormous extended riser; drums progressively disappear; tritone motif climbs, fragments and accelerates; rotary Leslie swirl building under the vocal] [Peak Riser — vocal fragments phased and thrown through the stereo field, rotary Leslie swirl, artificial double-track thickening each repeat] Drop it. (drop it drop it drop it) Drop it. (drop it drop it keep it) Keep it. (keep it keep it keep it) Keep it. [Instrumental Break] Down, down, down, down. [Everything cuts — all vocal effects drop out] Drop it. (dry, unprocessed, isolated) [Long suspended silence] [Four descending vocal hits — dry lead, each deeper than the previous, subtle vari-speed pitch drift on the final hit] Down. Down. Down. Down. [DEVASTATING DROP — maximum sub-bass and resonant kick; no lead vocal] [Final Hook — dry lead vocal over maximum groove, spring reverb drip returns underneath] This ain't no beat for standing still. Ain't scary, but scream if you feel it. Drop it. [Instrumental Break] Keep it. [Instrumental Break] Hold it. [Instrumental Break] Down, down, down, down. [Outro Loop — hypnotic reduction; vari-speed tape-wobble deepening with each repeat, tape-echo trails accumulating] Drop it. Keep it. Hold it. Drop it. Keep it. Hold it. Drop it. Keep it. Hold it. Down, down, down, down.