neoIDEA - LLC (Long Live Code) 2021 / [full album]
Channel: NEO KL
Date: 2021-07-08

"I apologise in advance for what i'm presenting to you is a self-serving project- i am fully aware that one can find the basis of this album as narcissistic (it probably is) and i understand where you’re coming from and acknowledge that your perspective is justifiable- this project makes me uncomfortable too. Regardless, thank you for trying. To the rare ones who can relate to the concept of this album, or at the very least like what i’m presenting sonically, thank you for listening to LLC. This is a personal journey for me, what started out as an ambient album to reflect on the dark state that the world was in during early pandemic quarantine, evolved into a self reflective journey. I finally managed to grasp enough courage to release this project that i started around March 2020. 

Throughout my life, I've had several interactions with people who have given me feedback of what they felt about my character- and the average feedback would be that i'm quiet, i'm cold, or i'm blunt. This has happened on several occasions at different junctions in my life. Whilst Im in a never-ending journey of trying to fix those flaws of mine, i'm also constantly poking at it with the goal of wanting to understand why i act how i act. Many of us go by our daily lives holding up facades when encountering different people- we have a mask for every kind of encounter even to friends and close family. I believe we all have a baseline character, the one that is truest, the one that appears when you're left alone in a room with no distractions, when no one's watching. My base character has always been more reserved and a ruminator. 

As i was working towards finishing this project, i began to wonder if we’re all made of a base code that shapes our character and designs our lives. This journey that we're on; maybe that route is unknowingly shaped by probabilities influenced by our base codes. As if we’re all small little coding bubbles within a mega code which is the universe. I think its easier for some to deny this version of reality because as humans, we find comfort in understanding that we are in control of our own fates and anything that shows us otherwise is a threat to the power of free will. But i find comfort in believing that the world exists to exist, nothing else. That i'm a cell amongst trillions of other cells that plays a minute role in a massive (maybe sentient) universe body.

Ironically the artworks in this album could also be my subconscious effort to regain some semblance of control. These drawings are stripped down to just a sheet of paper, black ink, and raw ideas. Tapping into how i feel in the moment. A pressure gauge release valve of all my ruminating thoughts. I can honestly say- some of the images i've drawn, i don't understand.

Finally i'm declaring that i now believe all my ideas and creativity is not mine but instead borrowed from the source of all creations. Thank you to the Most High. May he protect me from my own arrogance & pridefulness." - neoIDEA

💽  Tracklist:
00:00 You are listening to LLC by neoIDEA
00:25 Track 01 - Selfportra
03:05 Track 02 - Mantragate
09:05 Track 03 - Quanorm
15:44 Track 04 - isolmental
21:37 Track 05 - Rubyfields
29:40 Track 06 - Heavlang
36:28 Track 07 - Hellang
47:43 Track 08 - Cycagain
50:07 Thank you for listening. Extra material at NEOKL.NET

Artwork stills viewable at http://www.neokl.net/