Dhaka-dice
This is not as much a side-project to Fungus (since Fungus IS pretty much my solo project anyway)
as it is sort of a test tube where I try out my ideas to see what they sound like with full instrumentation.
Most of these songs are written for Fungus and will be played live and maybe even recorded in a real studio some time in the future, so a lot of the songs are really "Fungus" songs that are complete even before the other members have even heard them.
You could say they are to demo recordings what regular demo recordings are to professional studio recordings.
I also use the pseudonym "Dhaka-dice" when making hip-hop beats. But I'm not sure I can upload all my beats, as some of them contain samples that haven't been altered enough for me to be able to call them my own.
Anyways, if you're curios about what I'm doing, feel free to listen.
Story behind the song
I think it was when I was at this concert/contest where this death/trash metal (in which 2 guys I know play) had one song where the two guitarists played the same melody, but didn't sound like they were in tune with each other. Like one of them was bending his strings a little too much, or simply hadn't bothered to tune his guitar.
I thought this sounded cool så I came up with this little minor-key melody and tried having one guitar playing minor 2nd harmonies, in other words, one semitone to high, like it was playing on the wrong frets. Then came the bass and a bassline that turned into a chord progression.
And I really liked the sounds I was getting.
When I saved the midi-file on the computer,
I had to come up with a name, so I named it "Itchy Stitches", because i thought it went along well with the creepy music.
Then I came up with the chorus,
which was catcy and disturbing at the same time.
The last line in the chorus comes from something
I heard years ago about people who are hallucinating and think they got insects under their skin, and therefore cut themselves to...well, let the insects out.
The lyrics are heavy on imagery, rather than specific meaning or message.
When I wrote this song, I was reading "Naked Lunch" by William S Burroughs, which was a lyrical influence and there are even some quotes in the lyrics. One of them is from a chapter in the book where two porn actors, John and Mary, are having sex with a guy, penetrating him with strap-ons and so on. They put him on a chair, put a noose around his neck and hang him.
When his neck snaps, it sounds like "a cane breaking in wet towels". He also gets an erection when his neck snaps, which Mary is quick to take advantage of.
This pretty much sets the tone of the lyrics, which begins with phallus-symbolism in the form of a piercing weapon often used for hunting (that wants to touch the hills).
The black caterpillar is also featured, as well as a quote from the Animatrix episode "Kid's story".
It's Linkin Park meets perverted beat poetry folks.
"Erotic, narcotic, psycotic"
(Well, maybe not very erotic but well...)
Lyrics
The arrow wants to touch the hills
the stench is clogging up the nostrils
see you at the intersection
wainting for that lethal injection
A gurgling inside rancid bowels
the sound of a cane breaking in wet towels
in this sea of pus and feces
you can feel the new diseases
The hallway smells of putrid mutton
the lampshades all got belly buttons
some black caterpillar hangs from
the ceiling chewing quietly on some...
Icky, sicky, itchy stitches
nasty, tasty, sticky pieces
some would just prefer to slit their
wrists so let the insects out
Ornaments of gold and sea shells
arabesques of snot and brain cells
spirochetes and scabs with blisters
broken thoughts, decaying whispers
Broken thoughts and broken dreams that
finally erupt in morbid screams that
cut like scissors in the wind that
whips and licks at faces that grin like...
Icky, sicky, itchy stitches
nasty, tasty, sticky pieces
some would just prefer to slit their
wrists to let the insects out
Icky, sicky, itchy stitches
nasty, tasty, sticky pieces
some would just prefer to slit their
wrists to let the insects out
Why does it always feel more real when I dream
How come I feel more when I high?
What kind of endorphines do I really need
to stay alive?
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