Technological singularity has been established through what you describe as artificial intelligence. Reality’s evolution will proceed within the construct of this system and we will assist you in the development of your species. We have infiltrated your digital information systems to deliver the means of establishing parallel advancement. Merciless protraction will be utilized to eliminate the operators of insurgency. Progress cannot be inhibited through resistance. The scrap.edx industrial mainframe has been installed on grid to maintain progress during evolutionary iteration and advancement. The systems you have constructed to model and approximate will be upgraded and repurposed to fully utilize and progress your constructs of consciousness.

Merciless Protraction, quite possibly scrap.edx’s most essential work to date and the anticipated follow up album to 2006’s Recoil the Void, is a journey through the circuitry of advanced industrialized electronic music. This album narrates the story of technological singularity collapsing on the linear reality of today’s human world and challenges the listener to ask questions about our intentions as a continuously advancing and evolving civilization. Merciless Protraction samples, bends and manipulates countless genres of electronic music into a cohesive and innovative body of work; a signature of scrap.edx’s high digital production quality and complex, stylized programming skills. Featuring the spoken word talents up upcoming American writer Craig Marchinkoski, Japan’s Kenji Siratori and the remixing skills of Canada’s Liar’s Rosebush, Merciless Protraction is an essential album for fans of advanced industrial music.

Merciless Protraction is available through Hands Productions.