Infolepsy EP | ||||
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Released | November 15, 2004 | |||
Genre | Breakcore | |||
Length | 21:10 | |||
Label | Coredump Records | |||
Producer | Aaron Funk | |||
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The Infolepsy EP was released in 2004 on Coredump Records by breakcore artist Venetian Snares. It consists of 5 tracks, three on the A side and two on the B side. It was also released on CD. The first track samples almost exclusively from the Sesame Street segment Pinball Number Count , while the second track, "Where's Bill?", samples heavily from the Quentin Tarantino film Kill Bill . The track "Americanized" samples a pamphlet by conspiracy theorist Francis E. Dec from a spoken word recording made of it by Boyd "Doc" Britton (now "Doc on the Roq" for the radio station KROQ-FM). [1] Punishing2004 is a remix of Punishing The Atoms from printf("shiver in eternal darkness/n");.
The EP was reissued on May 26, 2013 as a digital download on Bandcamp. [2]
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