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Pattern Recognition

from Slow Car Crash by Mat Ward

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"Do you see a pattern? I see one. Is the pattern really there? Can you make money out of it? Or are you imagining it?"

Everyone knows anti-capitalists are angry about being ripped off and they're generally seen by capitalists as a bunch of losers. ("Where are they winning?") What's tragicomic is that even people who buy wholeheartedly into capitalism are also being ripped off. Spotting patterns that may or may not exist is a booming industry. The financial media run graphs pointing out that this moment, right now, looks like that moment, back then, and if that happened then, then this should happen now. The tune's concept is influenced by statistician Nassim Nicholas Taleb, though I was too lazy to find an apt quote from him, so it's the only track on the album where the words are off the top of my head. This tune also plays on the notion of good dance music being predictable and following patterns, yet nothing in it quite follows a pattern and once you think you've spotted one, it changes. Yet it still manages to sound like a coherent whole, the same way random data may throw up a recognisable pattern, if you look hard enough for it. The riff is probably the catchiest on the album, but I made it by clicking a mouse on a virtual keyboard, which is kind of funny.

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from Slow Car Crash, released January 19, 2017

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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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