New song time!  Listen to it in the embedded player above, or click here to download the mp3 directly.

“The Optic Nerve” is a trippy industrial song I’ve been working on since last November.  Originally it was going to be about constructed reality with a cyberpunk theme layered on top of it, but my original lyrics just weren’t working out.  So I placed it on the back burner until I could come up with something.  I finally revisited the song earlier this month when I had the idea of scouring archive.org for trippy vocal samples (this is also where I found the vocal files for I Love Penguins).  During my searching I came across a recording of Rodleen Getsic giving a talk about the 2012 prophecy.  While I don’t personally buy into the whole 2012 thing, the talk did seem to fit with the music, and her pacing was just right.  The recording was under the Creative Commons Attribute-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license, and so this song shares the same license.

I’ve also been working on a more dance-oriented remix of it, though it isn’t quite ready yet.  But this actually brings me to my next point: where Partition 36 is going now that Inside The Beat is finished.  “The Optic Nerve” will actually be part of a new single, and will have the original track, a “vocal-less” mix, the remix, and another completely new track.  I hope to release it by the end of February or early March.

Aside from this… a new album is underway.  There’s not much to say about it yet, except that it’s going to be awesome.

For now, enjoy the new song!

PS: if you follow Partition 36 on Facebook or Twitter, and were expecting this post a day or two ago, sorry.  Blame StarCraft 2 :)