There Is No Alternative, by Silicon Empire

There Is No Alternative

by Silicon Empire

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michalwojcik Had the pleasure of visiting Istanbul recently and it just looks like that, for us this might be synth but for them this is just regular folk music.

Mr. Conner Textures of electrical, deep brain stimulation, the sounds of neurons popping, hammering riffs, thrashing bass lines, and haunting, gothic melodies percolating for a place below. The atmosphere is all shades of gray, an industrial cyber space that is wet, grimy, and all steel and concrete.

superstone01 A deep, depressive, and entrancing variety of tracks that pose a serious evolution of both Silicon Empire and synthwave derived music. There are echos of Perturbator to be found here, but its accompanied by slices of numerous genres and styles. From post-punk to cinematic synth, this is an absolute treat. Favorite track: Gelecek Gelmeyecek.

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1.	Future Shock 06:00		buy track
2.	Recluse Soul 03:46		buy track
3.	You Have Reached The End Of History 04:04		buy track
4.	Deterioration In Progress 05:44		buy track
5.	Gelecek Gelmeyecek 05:22	lyrics	buy track
Yıldızların altında Betondan bir mezar Vaat edilen her gelecek Ellerinde çürüyecek Gelecek gelmeyecek onu satanlar yüzünden [x4] [ENG Translation] Under the stars A concrete graveyard Every promised future Will rot in your hands The future will not come because of the ones that sold it [x4]
6.	The Industry Expands In All Directions 03:34		buy track
7.	LCD - Liquid Crystal Death (ft. SurgeryHead) 06:08		buy track
8.	Neogothic 03:32	lyrics	buy track
You weren't made for this world, and neither was I You weren't made for this world, and neither was I A broken heart, with a desperate crime Indulge in yourself, or you will die Cast away your old flesh, Cast away your old flesh, Long live the future! Behold the sea, of hyper-reality Drown yourself, in visions of what could have been Let me break your chains and show you what is real Get rid of this world and take me to the next Cast away your old flesh, Cast away your old flesh, Long live the future!
9.	The World Beyond 03:15		buy track
10.	Gelecek Gelmeyecek - Trip-Hop Version 04:40		buy track

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Visions of a better future,
Cast aside and forgotten,
My spirit bleeds.

Walking towards nothing,
Under a pretense of progress,
THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE.

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The unreality of a dead future, haunting the present through a shattered but stylised reflection. Forceful clashing of opposites. Technosphere erodes its way into biosphere. The real and the hyperreal become indistinguishable. The abstract machinery of Technocapital endlessly grinds the human spirit, devours every possible future that does not have a place for itself, to prolong its own life; generating misery as a byproduct. Information takes form in a way similar to metastasis, infecting the noösphere with algorithmically generated sludge. Post-truth becomes the norm; echo chambers flourish. In short, the world strains under its own weight; suffering from the pain of trying to birth a future that will never come.

Artwork by Atomcyber.

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released November 11, 2023

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Eclectic proto-cyberpunk music with an existential edge.

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