• Videoclip - Multiple Reality Disorder

    This is the videoclip for ‘Multiple Reality Disorder’.
    Laura A Dima and I develop an ongoing photo soap opera on Instagram in which our main character suffers from ‘multiple Reality Disorder’. We follow the avatars that in real life could never meet because they live in different realities. Yet they formed a girlband and this is the video of their first hit.

    Please watch until the credits as many talented people helped me with this.

    I am proud of the clip and the music: i love the composition and the sound of the production, i love it that you can stop the video at any moment and you’ll have a key image with a lot of expressiveness.

  • Audio - Multiple Reality Disorder

    This is the third single in the series ‘Multiple Reality Disorder’ – it happens to be the ‘title track’ if I can say that.

    This was the first song I started recording after quitting the band I had been playing in for 9 years (The Spinshots) and it relates to an art project i do with my partner laura A Dima. (See: @TheIdentityMachinery at Instagram.

    I am very proud of this song and the clip (www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTJjSI_61fo): This is the first time I operated a studio myself (as in placing mics, record all instruments and voices and do a credible premix). It made music production a lot easier once I learned to operate a studio everything myself – and i like being there a lot.

    Of course the instruments I can’t play (which are most) were played by talented friends (see credits) and that makes it all worth listening to. But we had a great time experimenting with things: The sax solo is played by Simon Kelaita, who had never heard the track before he actually played the solo on it. I stole the idea of using drum sticks ticking as a form of percussion from my childhood favorite band Adam and the Ants and I think it works for my song just as well 😉

    lyrics
    Today I am a Scene girl
    but tomorrow I don’t know
    ‘cause I can be a fitmum
    or a dancer in a show
    I’m not a Merry Prankster ‘coz I’m keeping it real
    but what’s real for me might not be a big dealI’m liked by the thousands
    but you know it’s all a scam
    It makes me wonder if there’s life
    after Instagram
    I’m somebody new every other day
    And this is what the doctor had to say:

    Eh, uh… I dunno – This is a NEW syndrome, this is without precedent…
    i think I’ll call it ‘MRD’

    Chorus:
    I’ve got a A Multiple Reality Disorder
    A Multiple Reality Disorder
    A Multiple Reality Disorder
    And I can Do anything that I want

    One day I’m a schoolgirl
    but next a Top Model
    A Hedonist, a fan of God
    a nurse or a robot
    I’m an animated Readymade but redesigned
    refurbishing the corners of your mind

    I’m a Catfish of my future self
    transcending algorithms
    I feed on people’s loneliness
    and prejudiced opinions
    We are all reflections of each other’s minds
    I’m a multilayered one of a kind

    I’ve got a A Multiple Reality Disorder
    A Multiple Reality Disorder
    I’ve got A Multiple Reality Disorder
    And I can be whoeverthefuck I wanna be

    solo

    I’ve got a A Multiple Reality Disorder
    A Multiple Reality Disorder
    I’ve got A Multiple Reality Disorder
    And I can do be do be do be do be do whatever I want

    credits

    released July 30, 2021
    Eva Sofia: lead vox
    Wrecker Walley: Backings and the Doctors voice
    Floor van Dijck: Backings
    Jan Jaap Snellen: Piano
    Peter Hordijk: Bass
    Simon Kelaita: Sax
    Edwin Slothouber: Drums
    Rob Berends: handclaps
    Martin Draax: guitars, backings, noises, drum sticks, one finger organ and handclapsWritten, arranged and produced by Martin Draax
    Mixed by Lars Blakenburg
    Recorded at Blackbird studio Zaandam
    Mastered by Kramer

    Special thanks: Jan Jaap Snellen and Lars Blakenburg
    Follow @theidentitymachinery

  • Lyric - Multiple Reality Disorder

    Multiple Reality Disorder was the first song I wrote after I quit my band the Spinshots. I wrote it for the project ‘he Identity Machinery’ which is a collaboration with Laura A Dima, who plays a woman suffering from ‘MRD’. Although she has become somebody else in every reality (her story starts with a schoolgirl and we follow all her possible futures) for the clip of this song, the different ‘avatars’ came together and formed a band.

    The idea of a girlband consisting of avatars of the same base identity needed a clip and a song. Laura and i both like early punk rock so it seemed great if the song clearly had references to that. Yes, New York Dolls, Undertones, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, and you name them.

     

  • Record sleeve - Multiple Reality Disorder

    this is the cover for my single ‘Multiple Reality Disorder‘ – ironically coined ‘The Most Urgent Pop Song In History’.

    To know more about the project, either look at my music department or at the tag ‘The Identity Machinery’ on Instagram.

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