The Movement of Light

by Ontic

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The Movement of Light 05:00 video
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I watch your face I watch your eyes You move to the beat I'm hypnotised I watch you burning Your confessions in ink In letters and logics I try to rethink I watch your face I watch your eyes Feel the minutes crumble Freeze the movement of light I watch you counting Your way to the stars See the road is straying From the course you chart It's all in my head It's all in my head The words that you wrote and The skin that i shed It's all in my head You're caught in my head In kerosene days and in plans Cut and bled I watch your face I watch your eyes The door hangs open On a tangerine sky I watch it tumble Your glass to the floor Our tide is still turning We could chase it once more It's all in my head It's all in my head The words that you wrote and The skin that i shed It's all in my head You're caught in my head In kerosene days and in plans Cut and bled So let me step past your line I'll know my chance is alive This time
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Headline 05:03
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Each day i take that step Across the breadline Go out there i guess To call it showtime And when the big man smiles You're caught on the wall Stoke a wide bright stare Until deliverance calls I'm thin I'm gaunt But you swing Like a captive caught on a close line Like a new find They grin Consort But you swing With an aching forged on an old line All hidden and hot wired Like a strange and a new find Each day i take that step Beneath the headline A morning silhouette I’m the taste of a salt mine And what's she left to say When thin lips call By night to love in a cage By day to crawl I'm thin I've fought To grin Like a sure fool wrought on the big time To hail the big man But you spin Re-gun Now i'm possession fought I'm Europe won For an old price The hunger and pain grind But you're a strange and a new find Strange and a new find Oh You're a strange and a new find Strange and a new find
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Siren Fields 04:13
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Come down And if you're looking you can head down And if you ready you can shake down Out here tonight Come down And if you're burning you can crack down Go waiting for the meltdown Out here tonight Barbarians we run Hooked on soundless songs Through fallen factory space we're gone Tonight And we bathe in acid love Slide through a velvet glove Our flight and fight and fuck are right Tonight I'm gonna feel it soon A thousand minutes bloom You can't displace the truth For all you will consume Come down And if you're looking you can Head down And if you're ready you can Shake down Out here tonight Through siren fields we run Share line and network hum On station marble tongue we stun Tonight And we swim oblivion Rise on a ghetto drum In buried pleasure speak we're spun Tonight I'm gonna feel it soon Stars and streets and you In factory seconds choose The minutes we'll refuse I'm gonna feel it soon This violent heart beat looms And bitumen is truth For all you will exhume We don't have to burn We don't have to burn The tension of the city is the price of your concern And you don't have to serve This heartbeat on a nerve My disconnect's so pretty as your fist follows its curve Yeah Come down And if you're looking you can Head down And if you're ready you can Shake down For nothing here tonight
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Captive 05:03 video
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Move slow As the crowd goes Through a grey zone Down a long road See her eyes are staring up There's no reply but captive touch I won't let you fall apart I won't let you burn Drift low Through the storm go Down a lone road Through a New York zone See her eyes are staring up Freeze the fire a shallow drop I won't let you fall apart I won't let you burn See her eyes are staring up See her eyes are staring up
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Citizen 03:23 video
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The day lights a strange sight From main line to skyline Each citizen new wired Each one runs a clear mile The day lights a wide sky With tentacles unwind In ink lift the masks high The black room is unquiet Tall A pin drop fall Transistor calls Unmissable She listens You make your move To be undoubted Stake your truth To bring about it The day hides the same light Each clock turns a slow line And faces are unsigned As reasons turn inside Drawn An ant's nest caught A pin code pawn In clean feed born He glistens You make your move To be undoubted Stake your truth To bring about it Make your move Stake your truth Ache your proof I'm coming up strong You aim your gun The day is done Each one runs a clear mile Each one runs a clear mile Each one runs a clear mile Each one runs a clear mile
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Subterranean 04:36 video
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I'm a masochist machine I'm a cold vein cellophane I'm a body horror mannequin remain I'm the candidate on stage I'm the chamber hung and caged I'm your new pitched platform on video replay Cut you cannot know my name Fear you cannot frame Rush you cannot know the reward Crushed you dare not talk So fall unknown Immersed in city chrome Come alive, come first, let it shine Go long, in between Make it pure, true and strong Say you’re raw, you’re restored and revived And I’m watching You’re the new ascendancy You’re the long lost stow away You’re a public choir on monochrome relay Push this blushing thriller applause Touch your slow pulse calls Slake this subterranean thirst Break these plastic words And fall unknown Immersed in midnight thrown Come alive, come first, here to shine Go long in between Make it pure true and strong Say you’re raw, you’re restored and revived And they’ll bring all the noise In thrall to their bones For a kiss with a laugh, a new ally And bolder you’re nearer Sheer in the mirror With heel to your holster, one for the pollster You cut in and weave in so breathe in if it wins you time And play your surest line And i’m watching Keep on watching
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Fracture 05:56
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On the knife I can feel you slide I can feel you here On the borderline Sight on sight I can feel you rise As you disappear I know you analyse The intimate that you desire Is your open glove Hmm for your push and shove The instrument that you require Is a lost and won Yeah for your loaded gun We all fall down We all turn round The sky falls in We all look down now Classified i'm your recondite I'm your interfered Whet their appetites With your loaded dice We could take a ride Let the minutes sheer 'Til they're so precise You know just what you can deny So let's make it up Until our case is shut You know just who you will defy So let's rip it up Yeah let the pieces cut oh We all fall down We all turn round The sky falls in We all look down We all fall down We all turn round The sky falls in We all count down now
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Buried Songs 06:17 video
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Sing it near Sing it long I want to know the notes you hide in buried songs Sing it near Sing along I want to ride the ship you guide beneath the storm I'm disappeared and done I know the way to go now I'm hours fought and won I know the way to fade out Dance it near Dance it on I want to fleet the steps that steep your corridor Catch it here Got your tongue The words behind the scene fall backwards scattered gone I'm deeper with the dawn I know the way to go now I'm hours fought and won I know the way to fade out now

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Beckoning distant beams through its auditory prism, The Movement Of Light converges rays of new wave, post punk, electronica and industrial and explodes them across a spectrum at once strange and familiar.

This, the debut album from Melbourne producer Ontic, is a record crafted to confront and unsettle. An examination of the human condition stripped of sentimentality, The Movement Of Light reveals its world as a sequence of actions, a process of movement and thought reduced to raw physical essentials.

A work that at once canvasses words lying prone to a fateful spark; a human wish found in a totalitarian wasteland; a tribal conquest of the urban night; an interrogation of touch; a player in an information war; cybernetic resurrection; a game of disclosure and concealment; and an ode to the pieces never revealed.

Ready to reward those willing to embrace the full gamut of its existential psychonautics, Ontic's debut treads a uniquely brazen electronic turf.

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released July 26, 2019

Written and produced by Andrew Dun.
Additional mix and production on Captive by Kevin Paul, and on The Movement of Light and Subterranean by Mike Makowski.
Mastered by David Walker.

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Ontic Melbourne, Australia

Quasi-brutalist synthesizer machinations from Melbourne, Australia. Evolution from previous incarnations as 'Clear' and 'Infix'. First releases in 2018, with singles Citizen, Captive and Sign, and the LP 'The Movement Of Light'.

On the heels of recent singles 'Night Train' and 'Reflex', comes the new single 'Roma' and its b-side 'Cold As Desire'. Out September 29. ... more

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