“Nine from Lax-di-Kal” by SevenAntenna is a Rube Goldberg-esque Soundtrack to a Futuristic Urban Exploration Adventure

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SevenAntenna, photo courtesy the artist

Don’t put too much numerological analysis into SevenAntenna and it’s song “Nine from Lax-di-Kal” as it reduces to seven all over again. Further analysis will just take you down the Max Cohen rabbit hole and no trepanning needed. But the song begins like a retro IDM excursion that sounds like a musical analog of a basic Rube Goldberg machine and from there the beats increase in complexity and the layers of distorted synth tone take on more bombastic figures as the song progresses and then fade from the foreground in the final minute of the song. One might also imagine playing one of the more immersive early 8-bit video games to this song like Metroid but one in which you navigate an abandoned city of the future based on the artwork of Moebius, searching for treasure and solving the mystery of why the inhabitants had to leave. Listen to “Nine from Lax-di-Kal” on Soundcloud.

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