ASTROID POWER-UP!: Google Plex

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Google Plex

© 2003 scott bruzenak & deantoni parks (634479887925)

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Pure insanity. revolutionary electro-math featuring blistering live drums+video game fugues. "It's like Squarepusher meets Conlon Nancarrow."

notes

I, Scott Bruzenak, am an independent researcher for the S.E.T.I. program. That stands for the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. I inspect the bleeps and blorps from outer space. Interesting, but boring work.

Boring, until one day in late september, 2002. I started to perceive a subtle pattern in all of the seemingly random information. It was not perceptable before, because I was focusing on linear patterns. When I focused my study on multiple patterns, aka 3*7=21=7*3, I started to notice crazy outbursts of order, recurring on a global one after several permutations. I wrote down nine of the patterns, which remained in my notebook for three months, awaiting further study.

Upon returning to the same sector of the sky months later, I could not believe my eyes! There was nothing in the sector under 1000 light years away! for there to be something broadcasting there, it would have to be pumping out a wattage incomprehensible to modern man. But there it was, pumping out those multiple pattern bursts, such as 4*5=20, 3*4*5=60, etc.

Now I was thrilled, and felt like I was on the verge of a major human breakthrough, the likes of which have not existed since the discovery of fire, or crawling from the oceans. Something like that.

I didn't know what I should do, so I called my friend and fellow researcher, Deantoni Parks, who also happens to be one of the best drummers in the world. He has done quite a bit of work on multiple time signatures, and is a virtuoso, so he could easily point out the shapes of the patterns in his improvisations, even at mind-boggling tempos of above 180 bpm. We decided that I should set up loops and have him play a few minutes for each pattern.

Next, I set up a small computer program to compose tones to match to the patterns, in a fugal matrix harkening back to JS Bach, Coltrane, Bartok, Nancarrow, Stockhausen, all the composers that I felt could have been communing with extra-terrestrials. I felt that music would be the best way to get this information out into the world, because I have no way of knowing what else this code is. I simply am not smart enough to break the code without breaking it up to hear different parts of the patterns.

Is it a language? Is it simply background radiation? Is it an error of the viewer, creating patterns at the limits of perception, where the senses fail? Am I seeing my own brain? Am I witnessing an advanced civilization? Am I insane?

All of these things have crossed my mind.

I called the album Google Plex, the great number one followed by a google zeros (a google is a one followed by a hundred zeros). It has crossed the universe, been filtered through this humble scientist, and found its way to your ears. I hope you enjoy it, and maybe help me crack the code.

thank you,
Scott Bruzenak, astroid power-up!

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  • unbelievably amazing
    author: Carl Lumma

    My title says it all. When I first heard this in 2004 it blew my mind, and I'm finding it still holds up today. I'd heard squarepusher and I've been a huge fan of Nancarrow for years but nothing prepared me for this. Bravo!

  • Addictive.
    author: Daniel Bennett

    Fantastic beats, I LOVE the saxophone.

  • music of the present!!
    author: ggggggggggas

    i didn t such listened a cd like this since franz liszt and steve coleman,this shit is smoking and i m waiting for your next equation.keep n your way!

  • pick this shit up!
    author: kenny

    bold statements can be made about music made well. but one man's treasure is another's trash...or something...rather than boast opinion i'd simply like to recommend this album to anyone interested in something different, As technically sophisticated as "googleplex" sounds, bruzenak and parks compose in such a way that gives a...yo for real, pick this shit up!

  • a maze of sounds
    author: one of many

    i downloaded the ep of this album on earstroke and after a listen or two i thought "its unique and interesting", but that was about it. apparently i just wasn't ready for it, because after my return to it almost a year later i decided that its some of the best music to pass through my ears. now of course the full length is out of stock and i'm just out of luck. everytime i listen to one of the songs, i discover something i hadn't noticed before. how does he play the drums like that? how how how? this needs to be in stock again soon.

  • author: yan_g

    one of the best things i've heard in ages! fresh, doesn't fall in jazz or electro clichés, this music *makes sense*. LOVE IT.

  • Good effort - I love this stuff
    author: Chris

    ... Wow. Squarepusher, meets Jega in a fight with Ed Rush and Optical. Get me the disc!

  • so caustic it singed my eyebrows
    author: R Thrills

    The dodecafunknics and keyhole-tight rythms of this duo will create an experience unheard and unfelt since slapped on the ass by the doctor. The creative genius of Bruzer continues to put its lips over its head and swallow, removing any doubt of his musical superiority. Bravo Scott

  • one of the best fusion albums i've ever heared ! ! !
    author: m. timisela

    this album is daily food that satisfies my head.(besides gospel music.. haha)

  • Fun and ingenius music. Crave the weird beat.
    author: Grayge

    Fun and ingenius music.I crave the wierd beat.Who knew drums and machines could sound so organic? Brings to mind the German band Can I heard in another lifetime. Rock the Mothership boys!

  • You are what you is...
    author: Electro-Dan

    Sometimes an album comes along and serves as a tangible representation of an artist's connection with the infinite. God creates, and then Bruzenak sub-creates. Oh yea, the drumming is really good too.

  • ?!
    author: Andrei

    A google is nothing. A googol is 1 followed by 100 zeros. And a googolplex is 1 followed by a googol of zeros

  • holy grandma.
    author: weird ass psychadelic Dan

    thats right.. I said grandma

  • unusually well-developed for independent "electronic", some magical tracks
    author: mark m

    I was quite blown away when I first heard this CD. Since then I've ordered something like 10 of them to give to friends - it's unique music with a lot more musical value than much that might be considered of the same ilk. A few tracks go on a bit, but the points at which it all comes together, it's magic. Well worth checking out.

  • absolutely ingenious and revolutionary in every way possible
    author: jess

    This is truly some of the most advanced music you are likely to hear, ever. It demonstrates composition, performance, and production at the highest level possible, and consistently. There are moments on this CD that make me move in ways I haven't since Beefheart. The approach to and refinement of polyrhythms is simply staggering, literally staggering. It also contains some of the most phenomenal drumming there has ever been. This is not electronic music, or prog-rock music, or math-something music: this is music, and everyone should check it out, because in a few years people are gonna start doing something that tries to sound like this and fails miserably. And it and they should.

  • drum 'n sine never sounded so good
    author: will walker

    crazy drums, crazy melodies....free jazz meets electronics....great stuff!!!

  • good!
    author: mad cow

    this cd is good wholesome fun... if you make music yourself, you'll wonder how they did this? as a listener, you will be urged to move your body and calm your mind. i've been showing this to everyone i know since i got it and everyone is amazed!

  • A whole new box of "What the hell!?"
    author: Renge Ukyo

    Akin to Keiji Haino and Xiu Xiu, this is some of the weirdest sound I've ever heard put into rhythmic order. I was so confused after listening to this albumn I had to perform a gender check. If the lesser traveled road is your bag, this is right up your alley.

  • you can't teach this sort of stuff
    author: The Ace of Hearts

    I agree wholeheartedly with the notion that Google Plex is an off-the-wall musical hybrid that combines baroque with be-bop, super mario brothers, acid glitch, and ornette coleman's wildest, wettest dreams. This music is NOT for everyone - a lot of people just won't get it; but the folk who DO get it will never want it to stop. Sine waves, slick drums, sax attacks with musical allusions to everything that is pure and good.

  • My little secret weapon
    author: able

    This artist/cd is definitely on some other levels. Stanky, stanky stuff. The Revolt of 1042 is a standout track due to its innate listenability, and the rest grow and pulse and dig their way into your brain through more complex maneuvering. If you don't dig this, it may be over your head. My little secret weapon.

  • Super.
    author: Sol

    Super cool.. I am completly speachless. Being an astronerd, finding your music tonight was totally unexpected, and as a musician it was really enjoyable listening.

  • as my ears turn to crystal
    author: galactopussy

    i think: this is some of the most insane shit i have ever heard. i've seen Deantoni play with other projects -check out KUDU- and I still don't think he's a real person. Under that exterior lies a cyborg. I'm positive.

  • Stone Cold
    author: The Illustriuos Illvia The Ill

    Totally awesome. Fahgheddabowdit!

  • Glory Glory Dr Bruz......
    author: Thc Captain Burch

    Don't play...I hate electronic Music and yet somehow Googleplex is my favorite album EVER! So Rock It, or I'll Rock YOU.

  • true harvesters of beats and glitching all in one go!
    author: Markiss/boy chicago

    After a sluggish start to yet another icy Chicago morning,I gave in to a breakfast compiled of thrill infused beats, and mathematic noise that only made sense after I awoke from this movement inspired jig joy nightmare.Bravo!

  • Brilliant! Cyber Klezmer or Polka for Robots, this music rocks!
    author: SuperGrecords.com

    Brilliant! Cyber Klezmer or Polka for Robots, this music rocks!

  • Extra out there coplexity with good programing
    author: Angel

    I like this cd.It is intelligent and not the same ol bullshiet. This fits my level of hearing and will be waiting for the next. I also produce and have a website with similar tunes. www.darkfader.com Peace, Mesnger

  • I'm serious now: Think Bach lines + Jazz melodies + 'drum n bass' + video game M
    author: DJ Pablo

    A crazy high fidelity blend of video game MIDI sounds, jazz melodies, Bach type fugues, and 'drum and bass,' this album is something really fresh in the experimental / electronic genre that I'm surprised hasn't been heard elsewhere. I'm a radio DJ for a freeform station and I'm getting a copy of this stuff for myself AND for my station. Although it looks at this point like Googleplex doesn't have much publicity, you'll feel like you've found something great once you've heard them.

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