202503.05: Encrypted ≠ Exempt
This wasn't the first track I made.
This isn't the first track on the album.
It was the first that insisted on being released.
Not the most conceptual. Not the most abstract. More rock than recursion. More signal than system. A lot more signal.
It began, like many things lately, with a small act of hubris— a belief that policy applies to others, that scrambling the message cancels the consequences.
If you were watching the wires in early March 2025, you know. If not, check the logs.
This track lives in the friction between satire and surveillance. Between what we send and what gets seen. Between the illusion of privacy and the reality of process. And the open question of consequences.
The title wasn’t poetic. It was procedural. If I were literary, I would have called it Procedures Lost.
When the news broke about the breach, I sat agape. What does a breakdown of protocol portend for the foundations of governance? How long before those effects reach where I live?
I fed the coverage through my AI prompt pipelines, added personal sizzle, and after several refinement cycles, the lyrics emerged. Those I channeled into another AI system to generate the musical architecture.
Some heard it as glitch. Some called it commentary. A few said it slapped. Others wanted to share it. And so here we are.
This is the first pulse from the upcoming album 202503. There will be more: stranger, slower, sharper. Noise with memory. Echoes with teeth.
Enjoy it.
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