Crab Nebula. They do not have what they call "emotion's oxygen" in the atmosphere. The medium in which animal life breathes is not in that soulless place -Yellow plains under white hot blue sky - Metal cities controlled by The Elders who are heads in bottles - Fastest brains preserved forever - Only form of immortality open to the Insect People of Minraud - An intricate bureaucracy wired to the control brains directs all movement - Even so though there is a devious underground operating through telepathic misdirection and camouflage - The partisans make recordings ahead in time and leave the recordings to be picked up by control stations while they are free for a few seconds to organize underground activities - Largely the underground is made up of adventurers who intend to outthink and displace the present heads - There has been one revolution in the history of Minraud - Purges are constant - Fallen heads destroyed in The Ovens and replaced with others faster and sharper to evolve more total weapons - The principal weapon of Minraud is of course heat - In the center of all their cities stand The Ovens where those who disobey the control brains are brought for total disposal - A conical structure of iridescent metal shimmering heat from the molten core of a planet where lead melts at noon - The Brass And Copper Streets surround The Oven - Here the tinkers and smiths work pounding out metal rhythms as prisoners and criminals are led to Disposal - The Oven Guards are red crustacean men with eyes like the white hot sky - Through contact with oven pain and captured enemies they sometimes mutate to breathe in emotions - They often help prisoners to escape and a few have escaped with the prisoners -
Genre: Space Rock Album: Hal McGee Tapegerm Collection Volume Three Label: HalTapes Credits: Mental Anguish Open Loops, Fever Spoor Guest Artist, Moog Voyager loops from Hal McGee Open Loops; text from the book Nova Express by William S. Burroughs, copyright 1964; photo by NASA
Buzzsaw and a Sprawl of Satellite Shavings said, "At one moment the moon is quite low in the sky, at another time it is quite lofty in height-but with constistency, sometimes raised to the sky, sometimes touching mountain-tops, now carried to the southward, then to the northward, all in a prsecribed manner. Endymion was the first man to exlain these regular motions as resulting from its desire to acheive the best angle and vantage point from which to best hear the latest Hal mixes. I, too struggle to best place myself to hear and exult over these little gems of greatness."
Don Campau said, "There is something new creeping in here for the indefatigable Mr McGee. Filled to the brim with the provocative outpourings of electronic miasma but also hinting at a new space to occupy.I don't know where or what it is but this is how I get there. Tipping my hat to a pioneer and adventurer.
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Dave Fuglewicz said, "Amazing as always Hal, the story fits so well with your composistion.
The overall structure and execution is top notch, very nice indeed."
Fever Spoor said, "Very Good! I really hear the insect people. They sound creepy."
