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Exploit Investors

from Slow Car Crash by Mat Ward

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“The new players in the financial markets, the kingpins of the future who had the capacity to reshape those markets, were a different breed... the Russian aerospace engineer; the Indian PhD in electrical engineering. There were just thousands of these people... Basically all of them with advanced degrees. I remember thinking to myself how unfortunate it was that so many engineers were joining these firms to exploit investors rather than solving public problems.”

The longest quote on the album, also from Michael Lewis's Flash Boys. As with all the tunes on the album, there are arpeggios all over the place. The working titles of all the songs were Arp 1, Arp2, Arp 3, etc. I love arps. Though I used to play cornet in several bands as a kid, read music and have watched countless tutorials on music theory, I find it's better to just throw all that out the window and just play it by ear - or draw it in using the mouse in MIDI.

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from Slow Car Crash, released January 19, 2017

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Mat Ward Australia

Mat Ward blends future bass, drum and bass, punk and politics to come up with a different sound. He has released albums about financial markets, Apple, Elon Musk, surveillance, the media, Mars, protest chants and the climate. He also writes books and a music column that has been shared by the likes of Ru Paul, Chuck D, Tom Morello and Al Jourgensen. ... more

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