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Adventures in Atlantis DLC

by doktorb

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Untethered and Hopeless 03:26
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Walking the path to virtual salvation 02:45
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3.
Privation/Immersion 02:15
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Uncanny Lobby 03:19
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[SELECT FROM MENU] 02:20
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Beach Party Meltdown 03:10
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Hedonic Burnout 02:45
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Rage Quitting Utopia (No safe place left) 02:33
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doktorb - Adventures in Atlantis DLC

Track Listing:
1. Untethered and Hopeless
2. Walking the path to virtual salvation
3. Privation/Immersion
4. Uncanny Lobby
5. [SELECT FROM MENU]
6. Beach Party Meltdown
7. Hedonic Burnout
8. Rage Quitting Utopia (No safe place left)

About This Album:
This ep. began as part of the ill-fated Halloween ARG that was being planned by sheep in 2019. The idea was for participants to create in pairs to make content that connected music to other forms of creativity.

This ep. forms half of Leftist Legume and my contribution to that project. They wrote an extended piece of vaporfiction which I translated into music as they drafted. This story was published as Virtual Beach Resort and is available to be read online at:

www.decentralizeddossiers.com/post/virtual-beach-resort

It’s fitting now that this EP is coming out in time for Halloween 2021 - like Jeremy, many of us have been trapped within our Virtual Utopias for much of the last two years and we’re only beginning to conceptualize the long term consequences of this. We emerge into a world swarming with horrors we could not previously have imagined.

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The tracks featured here follow the narrative arc of Virtual Beach Resort:

Tracks 1-2: introduces us to our anti-hero, Jeremy, as he languishes hopelessly in prison.

Track 3: transports us from this bleak reality into virtual salvation care of Utopian Virtual Architectural Solutions LLC.

Tracks 4-5: depicts Jeremy’s attempts to orient himself and find pleasure in the promise of his own personal utopia.

Tracks 6-7: draw us into Jeremy’s frustration at the dawning realisation that, even in a virtual utopia, he cannot escape his trauma.

Tracks 8: portrays the devastating consequences of Jeremy’s inability to find peace in the utopia turned hellscape by his mind’s own self-destructive impulses.

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An excerpt from the story:

The elevator is playing pleasant, drawn out jazz. To the left and right of the entrance of the elevator, the interior is a mirror, resulting in an eternal repetition and shrinking of the image of the self. The back of the elevator is adorned with a bulletin board that contains ads for such services as room service, the hotel bar, massages, swimming with the dolphins, hang gliding, etc. etc. etc. The advertisements are made of paper and supported with thumb tacks.

“Which of these do you think I should do?” Jeremy asks. “I’ve never been on a vacation like this before.”

“That’s entirely up to you,” the concierge responds. “All of these activities and more are available to you, free of charge. There is a booklet in your room with additional activities, as well as information on how to book an activity.”

“I’m so excited to relax. I can’t wait. Do I have to sleep in the Virtual Beach Resort? I feel like I’d get more relaxing done if I didn’t have to sleep.”

The concierge continues to smile. “You are free to sleep or not sleep as you wish, but be warned that you might dream during the day if you make no time for it at night.”

“This place is like a dream come true,” Jeremy responds.

The elevator dings. Floor thirteen, at last.

Album Credits:
All music created by doktorb except for ‘Untethered and Hopeless’ which contains a sample from ‘OMG... it's full of... neon green... giant... cows’ by doktorb/Half Digested Taco.

Cover Art by doktorb and Misha Boseby

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Thank you to sheep, Leftist Legume, Misha Boseby and Vacuum Noise Records without all your wonderful creativity, friendship, inspiration, support and motivation this thing would never have seen the light of day.

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released October 12, 2021

soundcloud.com/doktorb-1

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