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Interstellar Fugitives 2: The Destruction of Order
 
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Tracklisting

Disc 1

1. Words From Atlantis
2. Delicate Balance - 039 Infiltrator
3. Predator's Language - 011 Suburban Knight
4. Babylon's Gifts - 051 The Unknown Soldier
5. Mental Fog - 061 Nomadico
6. Multi-Dimensional Drama - 044 The Deacon
7. The Streets - 051 The Unknown Soldier
8. BANG - 065 DJ Digital, Vocals by Mr. Bubble
9. Nasty - 057 DJ S²
10. Post Emancipation Psychosis - 057 DJ S²
11. Angkor Wat - 061 Dex
12. Merchants of Identity (The Marketplace) - DJ 3000
13. Song for the Hmong - 041 Perception & 090
14. The Fugitve from Tibet (Healing) - 039 Infiltrator
15. Chaos & Order - 040 Mad Mike, Vocals by Atlantis
16. Burning Spear - 040 Mad Mike & The Trinity

Disc 2

1. Never-Blak Prezidentz, Produced by Orlando Voorn & Mad Mike
2. Crackzilla- Produced by The Aquanauts; Vocals by Spawn
3. Geiger Counter - 043 Von Floyd
4. k@r3ir (54m4r174n h4x0r) - 064 DJ Skurge
5. Elecrocuter (Throw the Switch)- 064 DJ Skurge
6. Controlled Substance - 041 Perception
7. Fugitive Style (Let Me See Your Technique) - 057 DJ S²
8. Beautiful Boxer - The Illustrator
9. Photo-Synthesis - 011 aka Suburban Knight
10. Codename: Muster - 041 Perception
11. Aquatic Kamikazi - Aquanauts
12. Cargo Cult (Last Days) - 011 Suburban Knight
13. Mindsweeper - 039 The Infiltrator
14. Attack of the Sonic samurai (The Battle Within) - 040 Mad Mike
15. Fuji (The Peace Within) - 044 The Deacon

"Order and Chaos"
Order and chaos.  Two primal opposites from the beginning of time.  Chaos has lead to the destruction of some of the greatest civilizations the earth has ever known.  In the form of drugs, disease, and war, we are very familiar with how chaos has asserted itself as the destroyer of the best humanity has to offer.  Bringing order to chaos has been a primary concern of people the world over.  But order is not exempt from this destructive dynamic as well.  Order is the force behind almost every dictatorship known in human history.  American slavery was one of the most orderly systems devised, as well as one of the most brutal.  Slaves were carefully accounted for and classified as Negro, mulatto, quadroon, octroon and so on and each had a relatively specific social and economic function.  Germany?s Nazi regime asserted order in that country and beyond, at the cost of millions of lives.  The chaos of 9/11 has lead to an order that asserts itself as a straight jacket on the civil liberties of men, women, and children around the world. 

But chaos has come to the rescue numerous times throughout history.  The chaos of the Civil War opened the door to the end of slavery in the United States (the last country in the Americas to do so).  World War II saw the end of the Nazi regime, war being the definition of chaos.  Even Gandhi?s nonviolent liberation movement can be seen as creating chaos within the Empire?s structure, leading to its eventual downfall.  It is impossible to conceive of a revolution that was not born in chaos or cause chaos in the dismantling of the oppressive order.  Indeed, it is ironic, or, perhaps destined, that the counter to chaos would be order, and the counter to oppressive order is chaos.

But chaos has another existence, one far older than current popular concepts.  It would be easy to dismiss chaos as the opposite of order, to equate it with disorder.  This would be wrong.  In the beginning there was Chaos.  There is a legend of how Chaos was a gracious host, who treated visitors well.  Two Emperors wanted to repay Chaos.  They observed that humans had seven holes they used to see, hear, smell and speak with and thought to create them for the faceless Chaos.  It is said that a hole was created each day for Chaos and on the seventh day, when Chaos experienced the world as humans do, with only 5 senses, Chaos died.  Chaos is the void, the nothing that is everything.  The everything that is nothing.  Chaos speaks not only to confusion, but also to possibility, to creation, to life itself.  Order is a pattern, a structure that guides, a defined program, and while a positive order is recognized as beneficial, it quickly becomes toxic without positive chaos.

"For untold years..."
For untold years, music has been a battleground for these forces of chaos and order.  Again, the creative mind, the formation of something from a void is an act of tapping into chaos, finding a way to set it free in this world.  Yet there has always been pressure from order to define music, to lock it into a framework.  There were ancient battles over written music, whether it preserved music?s essence, or like the ancient Chaos, gave it a structure that killed it.  The same battle took on a different form with the advent of recorded music.  No longer would musical artists be free to play what they felt, there would be increased pressure to perform music the exact same way it was recorded.  Jazz musicians and others fought to prevent this, while pop stars willingly gave in and became programmed artists, producing music from order rather than chaos, a theoretical impossibility, much like encouraging a dead person to give birth.  Chaos would not remain beyond the new technology, the accessibility of recorded music allowing for marginalized artists to gain fans from places they?d never been, and providing a forum for R1 and Z-gene figures to communicate with others. 

But in the 20th Century, Order took hold in numerous areas of life in numerous locations across the planet.  Agents of Order had been behind numerous plots, many times using negative chaos to further its own selfish goals.  In one infamous example, the order of a nation was disrupted by the chaos of a forced drug trade imposed by agents of Order.  When chaos is dictated by order, to increase power over another, then universal forces are out of balance.  While Opium was the tool used to destroy one nation (though only momentarily), it inspired another to use Cocaine in its Crack form to destroy its own people.  It was during this century that Order gave rise to group of beings known as the Programmers.  The function of the Programmers was simple, to eliminate Chaos, to instill their brand of Order on everyone, from Nation 2 Nation.  This meant that when race radio was abolished in the US, when the creative chaos of listening to music from all genres became popular, the Programmers went into action, creating radio ?formats? designed to establish a new Order, and molding the music industry itself into structures designed to dictate to the masses what was and wasn?t acceptable.  There were rebels, those who embraced Chaos even stronger, but Programmer Order worked overtime to suppress those voices.  In Detroit, alliances were built between the urban population and chaotic elements from Germany (Kraftwerk), Japan (YMO), other parts of the US (Bus Boys, Prince, Public Enemy), even outer space (Parliament/Funkadelic, Sun Ra).  But the Programmers were ready.  New forms of chaotic musical expression, inspired by the rebel agents of Chaos was labeled ?techno? and faced a defined Order that would forever haunt the Detroit agents.  Radio rebels, such as the Wizard (Jeff Mills), and the Electrifying Mojo were forced from the broadcast spectrum by Programmers, fearful of the power of their musical chaos.

"In Asia..."
In Asia, Programmers used violent conflict to destroy traditions and establish new orders.  Western forms of dress, entertainment, religion, and music would replace native ways, making a more uniform order between regions of the globe.  Rather than the orderly chaos of social evolution, nations would face a type of schizophrenia.  The established order would be Western-inspired, but the native culture would be stripped of its meaning, and function as tourist entertainment for world travelers.  Traditional practices would be reduced to a cultural safari where Others could marvel at the ?foreign-ness? of the people.  Meanwhile the people would have no real awareness of their own culture beyond the commercial aspects designed for Others rather than themselves.

The Programmers maintain that they are controlling the masses ?for their own good,? purporting to act as shepherds to a flock, but in reality, setting the masses up like lambs for the slaughter.  The notorious R- and Z-genes, possessed by numerous rebels, including the infamous Interstellar Fugitives (ISF), had always provided the chaos necessary to keep the Programmers, on some level, in check.  But chaos has no boundaries.  The ISF have been wracked with chaos from within and without.  After completing several successful away missions, the Mystic had followed the Path to dimensions unknown.  In a pitched battle, the Drexciyan forces transitioned, leaving this world to its fate, at the same time, not revealing what that fate was.  The Deacon faced off against demons seeking to steal his soul, Agent Chaos became a victim of his namesake.  Even Mad Mike was affected, establishing Base 3000, but the process left his access to his sonic arsenal limited.

So it was at a low point for our brothers when they were contacted by the Asian Underground.  It had been a long time since anyone had heard from any of the other cells in the World Power Alliance.  The Programmers had long ago taken hold of the continent, but for some reason, there was an urgency that the ISF could not ignore. Not that they were prepared for the level of control the Programmers had on the masses.  WPA agent Kamikaze had been ambushed, but died living up to his name by protecting an unknown resistance cell from detection.  There was an organized chaos that the ISF had brought to the table, time and again, but the destructive chaos that had claimed Agent Chaos was spreading to the others.

TRANSMISSION BEGIN
The following is a report from Program Central concerning the ISF mission in Asia.  Many of the details of their mission remain coded.  The following is what has been deciphered from intercepted transmissions as well as from Programmer operatives who have engaged the enemy. 

The ISF were encouraged to assist the Asian Underground in an effort to disrupt our Programmed Culture Initiative.  As you know, the PCI was established to create Asian cultures and histories that would not only be free of politics and conflicts, but ones that would be more passive and commercially profitable than in the past.  There have been reports of some citizens experiencing something similar to what is known at Programmer Central as ?post-emancipation psychosis?, that is, the person perceives a discrepancy between our propaganda that they are free, and the reality of a Programmed existence.  A mindsweep should reveal these potential R1s and extensive electroshock therapy should correct this.  The Asian Underground sought the ISF?s help in locating what may be an R1 factory.  Apparently there is a rebel cell that was unknown to even the majority of the Asian Underground known as the Pagan Design Force.  The PDF is a cell devoted to keeping the ancient arts alive, not through preservation, like we do in the museums, but through a chaotic process of blending styles and evolving them much like the infamous Z-gene Bruce Lee did with his ?art.?  The PDF is a small cell and it is surmised that they have been isolated in some way, so they were not in a position to take on the Programmers directly.  However they see the value in preserving that art, that history, for the benefit of others.  Very few knew about them, very few could.  If their existence became known to the common person, without the proper support, they would be easy targets for our Revision     Programs.  Being underground then, for them, is not a matter of choice, but one of necessity.  A series of tribal groups defend the territory around the PDF, and the ISF themselves had to fight the PDFs defenses before being allowed access to their headquarters.  This was apparently to make certain the ISF were not viral Programmers, a tactic that has been used effectively in other regions (see COINTELPRO).

While we have no information on what conversations took place, soon after saw the launch of several attacks on our outposts, culminating in what could only be called a mind bomb, resulting in the re-introduction of chaos to the citizens of numerous spaces.   The concern is that with the freedom of thought that is a trademark of chaos, our ability to Program will be slowed and the PCI may need to be revised or abandoned.

A great deal of work has been done introducing negative chaos to the ISF.  In fact, viral Programs have been activated within the ISF to accelerate their destruction.  It seems that the PDF have been made aware of this and have used the concept of yin and yang to counteract our work.  Yin and yang is one of the concepts we?ve worked so hard to relegate to the past.  It implies that chaos and order coexist, that they compliment each other.  The ISF have been able to use this to disrupt our negative chaos by putting it in the context of half of a greater whole.  They used yin/yang to see the positive order in their situation and are actively using it to create a chaos that threatens to give people a sense of power unseen since the early days of our Program initiatives.  In fact, there is no small irony in the fact that it was not the ISF who ultimately saved Asia, but an Asian concept that helped save the ISF and provided the seeds to our defeat.  However this is only one battle lost.  And the ISF and the AU both had casualties as well.  We will continue to Program against the agents of Chaos.  They have made their objectives known.  They are not interested in negotiating or assimilating.  They claim to seek some sort of harmony, but that balance would destroy everything we have built.  The ISF must be stopped.  They want nothing more than the complete destruction of Order?
TRANSMISSION ENDED

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