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(regardless of whatever naughty words may be used in print or song titles below).
Aprosody
Ignition Etudes
LF-001 | Release date: 09/01/2000 | Duration: 39 min. | Genre: Ambient metal
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  1. The small conversion (4:56)
  2. Fluorescent lights (3:41)
  3. All frequencies (5:22)
  4. Ego felon (3:34)
  5. Nachtmusik (2:50)
  6. Malaise (6:54)
  7. The small conversion (Reprise) (11:49)
  8. Bonus 2012: Unreleased demo - June 2000 (1:59)

The Ignition Etudes are a 30ish-minute set of long-ish experimental drone/doom metal tracks over heavily decimated breakbeats, perpetually surrounded by clouds of granular-synthesis smog. The album isn't what you'd call super-accessible (something I caught a fair bit of shit for from both friends and local reviewers as the maiden voyage of the Loss Foundation back in the fall of 2000).

However, if enjoyed continuously and at high volumes as "prescribed" in the embarrasingly pretentious liner notes, the Ignition Etudes are possibly capable of delivering an open-minded listener to a place of trance, or at least into an ambient sludge-metal K-hole. Having largely abandoned such minimalist riffery in music (even when no one is looking), I still like "Ego Felon" and "All Frequencies". "The Small Conversion" reprise is, y'know, even kinda pretty too... in that sludgy-guitar-y sorta way.

For significantly more detail about the intent and making of IE, you can read my retrospective blog post on Ignition Etudes from the "re-release" in 2012. - RB

(Original 2000 liner note credits:)
RB is responsible for all anomalies.
Recorded at home during the months of February, March, and August 2000.
No analog recording devices, bass guitars, keyboard-based synthesizers/samplers, guitar amplifiers or goddamned Macs were utilized in the making of this album.

Unsolicited endorsements: Hamer USA guitars, Korg AX1000G / SDD3000 / X911, Moogerfooger and 3ms effects, Sonic Foundry and Waves software, Csound.

Word: Matt's Guitar Shed. Rasmus Ekman (Granulab is life). The KRUI extended family. The Bassturd. D. Green and M. Both of Commonsound. Phil. Rick.

Wordest: Princeton, Champ.

SPL >90dB, flat EQ settings, and uninterrupted listening in prescribed track order:
**mandatory for enjoyment of this product as it was intended.**
Note: chafing may result from extended exposure. This is intentional.

The ignition etudes are not stylistically indicative.

LYRICS

1. THE SMALL CONVERSION
I have believed the low night spent all things of you
Set itself, set inside, conclude: disowned you
I still do not estimate that I really
surface in the fantasy
Never the credit to be suggested
for the level possible of end of truth
All end of water

Heavy my dream, the small conversion was untrue
Function still-on-still iodine for and for you
For penalty, never degree, indifferent,
restart, nonequal
Never the credit to be suggested
for the level possible of end of words
Statement stopping


2. FLUORESCENT LIGHTS
(lyrics omitted)


3. ALL FREQUENCIES
His representative can be implied in this action
If his representative is ignited there
Force of the lobbying, representative is burnt
Not wished its order to listen of the radio dictated
Political act actual is mentioned
Be made touted over a workstation available
I set to the one-kilowatt completely
I cannot imagine you would welcome her inside
Rulemaking is, it is defective

Because of all frequencies
By applications of compilers/translators
Because of all frequencies
Devoured above, the blame of desire

The principal imperfections,
you can spout out enough to kiss--
cowered in an act
They do not compete with two thousand miles
RESTAURANTS competition RESTAURANTS,
pressure in the morning-bound
A resignation of the studio
National density contents local with ZERO
Signals to transfer
Considerable disturbance
at the authorized local broadcasting stations

Because of all frequencies
By applications of compilers/translators
Because of all frequencies
Devoured above, the blame of desire
The blame of desire


4. EGO FELON
(An open letter to W.M.I., March 2000)

"They are not the font of thought per civil servant
Branch official, unofficial
My role is not to succeed to understand my
own cultivation, my own handling
I do not wish to be a brother,
I would not like to be a brother
I do not estimate
Interesting irony abundant, argument
With the layers of the dogma"

They are a hybrid and I'll have my revenge
Volume its title, cut all around its principle
Professionalism condemns, tact nonrequired
I will give back this violence with another

"Thought police, unthinking,
comprehension of none
Outside the policy I hold true
It's easy to apply the term to anyone outside
The window never shows on me
I do not wish to be a brother,
I would not like to be a brother
I do not estimate
These others which function to defend my siblings--
I'll take up my own ignorance"

You are a bastard and I'll have my revenge
Take to your label and ring it round your neck
Professionalism condemns, tact nonrequired
I will give back your rape with another


5. NACHTMUSIK (instrumental)


6. MALAISE
Glaciate the mature page, actual repeat
The user is sorry of the step of the deep sensation
An hourly more insignificant game of memories,
A lifestyle that watches
the light of the bed which ignited
Significant substantives give form to the reverse base
Of basing down, plateau trace in the remembrance
My emotions are perfect
except all they make to suffer
Regulated in the five names of the meaning

Desire the later loan of the lover
I want this back loan of the love
Does not return, thus I capsize, ransack of I
Is to always go from time on downward

Probability
I would tear that resistance from her hands
In the back of all things which I had given
Amputate the elegiac rag, plugging to the ruptures
No grace to suck each bone and synapse
I have only pointed out five
for hundreds of my thoughts
Sweat amortizes naked characters in the tears
I have the remark wire, the darkening layers
The user is sorry of the step of the deep sensation

Desire the later loan of the lover
I want this back loan of the love
Does not return, thus I capsize, ransack of I
Is to always go from time on downward


7. THE SMALL CONVERSION (REPRISE)
I have believed the low night spent all things of you
Set itself, set inside, conclude: disowned you
I still do not estimate that I really
surface in the fantasy
Never the credit to be suggested
for the level possible of end of truth
All end of water

Heavy my dream, the small conversion was untrue
Function still-on-still iodine for and for you
For penalty, never degree, indifferent,
restart, nonequal
Never the credit to be suggested
for the level possible of end of words
Statement stopping