I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory. – Andre Breton

Icarus is told to have flown too close to the sun while escaping Crete with his father Daedalus ( creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne) falling to the ground. Routinely used as a symbol of loss of joy, faith, or a return to stark reality which I think completely misses the larger idea, that I can fly with wax wings. Awesome!  Actually, some interpretations have them escaping by a boat with the first sail, and flying across water “as a bird” continues to be a common metaphor for a boat “carried” by wind.

Fingerbanger 1: White Hinterland – Icarus (don lowed)

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Aesop Rock never really did much for me. Blasphemy to many of you I’m sure, but it just didn’t resonate with me when it was with everyone else. Call it timing. However, I’ll change my thinking whenever I please as new evidence becomes available. And I’ve got a little something something for this song. Fables.

Fingerbanger 2: Aesop Rock – None Shall Pass (don lowed)

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Ancient Crux has been making a few waves, and in tru indie is just some guy doing tracks in his friends bedroom. Gotta love the diy.

Fingerbanger 3: Ancient Crux – In Teen Dreams (don lowed)

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How sick can you get? Like a breakbeat, dubstep-ish fever. Sick. You can buy the whole CURE here.

Fingerbanger 4: Danny Breaks & DJ Adlib – The Sound (don lowed)

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I could spend my whole life prying loose the secrets of the insane. These people are honest to a fault, and their naivety has no peer but my own. – Breton

The definition of fingerbanger is what I’m banging into my head this week, and this Boy 8-bit remix is damn it all spot on the definition.

Fingerbanger 5: South Rakkas Crew – Mad Again ( Boy 8-Bit Remix ) (don lowed)

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Hayden Quinn ( of Paqman) breaks down what those of us with ears have been saying for a while. Though, to be fair, dance music has been cut and paste for a long time. Pop music has formulas too. But yeah… preaching to the choir I suppose.

Over.End..Out…P.tone….