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CERAMIC: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on whether you were made or grew
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CERAMIC: a beat-locked Alan Watts rap on whether you were made or grew

CERAMIC opens Out of Your Mind, a new Napkin Films series built from the Alan Watts lectures. The oldest question, asked as a beat-locked spit-rap: were you made, like clay in a maker's hand, or did you grow from the inside out? A Bavarian governor voice raps Alan Watts over Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain re-composed into EDM, with a German echo woven underneath, a mind-bell jingle, and a goodbye in Bavarian. D minor into D major. CC BY 4.0.

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OG IN DA HOUSE: Plan 9 unmasks OG Bobby Johnson, Anubis stick figure, Bach C minor BWV 847 at 138 BPM
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OG IN DA HOUSE: Plan 9 unmasks OG Bobby Johnson, Anubis stick figure, Bach C minor BWV 847 at 138 BPM

A 2:45 EDM-rap battle. Plan 9 the cyborg bunny unmasks OG Bobby Johnson. The russet potato was a ruse. Bobby's real form is a tall dark stick figure with an Egyptian-dog head, amber eyes, and a red leather collar. Bach Prelude in C minor BWV 847 ground bass, translated to 138 BPM EDM trance with walking bass, Bach counter-melody, half-step modulation up at bar 64, vinyl-scratch glide-plucks before every clapback, and chime-cascade triads on every slam. Plan 9 spits four-word wizard threats from the machine. Bobby clapbacks with rap-battle precision. They end in mutual respect, and Plan 9 closes with the answer to life: forty-two. Seven production passes from sketch to ship.

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