Project Infinity

Estrus

Duration

Notes

Escape Velocity

11

02:22

A Wall Of Sound. Imagine an asteroid, "Diameter 4.9 miles, mass over 6,000 megatons, and speed of 1750 miles per second… and destination, EARTH." The guitar reminds you that you haven’t long to live, so you’d better put your affairs in order. Then there’s the percussion. This one’s good at full blast while snowboarding Triple-X through the trees. Sound bites from the sci-fi classic "Kronos".

Sferic Waves

22

02:47

Eerie. Very hollow. Lightning does strike twice in the same place. Rumbling guitars presage the approaching storm. Lightning slaps the distant hills. And on top of it all, there’s a music video that you can download. "If one’s gonna git’cha, y’ ain’t gonna see it."

(Classified)

33

01:57

Drums lead into a world, sparsely-populated, where every day is a living Hell. Also very industrious.

Transmissions from Venus

44

02:25

Peter Graves and Lee Van Cleef discuss the ramifications of intercepting voice traffic from Venus. Right outta "It Conquered the World". A nervous guitar warns the world of the carnage to follow. Drums beat the march of the dead.

Max Q

55

03:11

Birdstuff keeps the beat, the guitars warble, Telstar orbits past, can’t sit down for the end of the world.

Inside the Atom

66

02:10

Once the saucer lifts off, there’s a good separation between black and white. Nice reverb effect when the guitar is cranked before the emptiness of eternity. A steady surf beat keeps everyone honest. Sound bites from an "Outer Limits" episode.

Phillip K. Dick in the Pet Section of a Wal-Mart

77

01:56

I wonder what he’s doing there? Looking for a Sheryl Crow CD? Very surf, with tsunamis crashing across Pacific Coast Highway.

Put Your Finger in the Socket

88

02:51

A fine, rapid, hyperventilator that is sure to get the blood moving. Clean tremolo, staccato guitars when a point must be made, and the bass drum and tom keeps it all moving along. This is a fine tune for those occasions when intense is just not good enough.

Complex 34

99

02:17

Fine dancing from a cool rolling drum line. Guitars that talk kinda Spaghetti Western, kinda Johnson Space Center. Some sound bites from a NASA training video?

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

1010

01:34

The theme to the TV show, but maybe the version filmed on the North Shore rather than in lower Manhattan. You could get whiplash from the reverb.

Tomorrow Plus X

1111

03:51

More sound bites from "Kronos" - big, beefy, with a cranking percussion line carried by the drums and the guitars. A refrain that doesn’t let you up for air. Coco’s bass line fills in the quiet times (I can just see him in his orange jumpsuit). Gets pretty contemplative near the end.

Manta Ray

1212

02:18

Vocals by ? One Manta Ray’s all right.

Point Blank

1313

02:58

Sound bite from ? Trying to escape from the Blockheads. Rumbling guitar chords that describe a lot of dead-end alleys, beat-up winos lying helplessly in gutters, lotsa brick walls. You’re in trouble, pal.

Special Agent Conrad Uno

1414

03:05

Now here’s a tune. Apply many amps of current to the finals, and plenty of volts. Set the knob to Maximum Staccato at somewhere around 240-300 beats per minute. Ticking bombs on meth. Change the channel and there’s Peter Gunn, just to remind everyone that there’s still a Cold War, but maybe now the bad guys have three eyes, and breath chlorine. This is another of my favorites.

Alpha Surfari

1515

02:07

Definitely a surf legend. Riding the big one at Trestles. Getting that headrush from 3000 tons of ice-cold Pacific closing in on you as you squeeze the last breath out of the tube. And then, just as soon as you think you’ve made it, you drown.

Mach One

1616

Bogus track, not on CD.