This album, The Color of Television, is a passion project I’ve been meaning to make for years. It is a love letter to my favorite book and what I consider to be the greatest science-fiction novel of all time… William Gibson’s Neuromancer. The Color of Television was created in a creative frenzy over a period of 10 days. It is structured across 14 tracks, each representing a sharpened tip on a pair of 7-pointed shuriken or Japanese throwing stars (a gift which represents destiny for the main character of the novel). Each of these 14 nodes or points contains a song and a story for a different main character featured in the book (yep, even Ratz is in there somewhere as a DJ). Neuromancer is the first novel to put the literary genre of Cyberpunk on the map, but this album is not created in the style of modern cyberpunk music or synthwave. Simply put, those current musical genres are after my time. Instead I’ve deliberately drawn from my own personal meaning of the retro-future written about in Neuromancer, as well as the nascent computer culture of the time and its collision with the counterculture surrounding it and myself when I first read the novel in 1996 at the age of fifteen. As a result, this album is a voyage across all the things that Neuromancer means to me and how it affected my coming of age and acted as a rite of passage into the shifting and colliding worlds of computers, music, and culture. The album draws from mid to late 1990s influences of the time of my reading and the world of the 2000s that I would, in a few years, be stepping into. It borrows from genres like drumnbass, jungle, and breakbeat, with of course, a healthy fix of demoscene vibes and chiptune elements and a decent hit of punk, metal, ambient, and post-punk flavor. I think you’ll find there is plenty of retrofuturistic feeling to geek out to in this release along with a slight touch of the contemporary. I hope you enjoy this album as much as I enjoyed making it. I also hope that, for a time, it helps you escape this prison of flesh you are forever trapped in, as Case might say. Thank you for listening and for all the support! ~ Disposable Planet ABOUT THE MUSIC: All tracks made with M8 firmware v3.2.7. Created and mixed entirely on a Dirtywave M8 Tracker. All track mixes are baked-in M8 renders. They may be a little raw but no mastering process was undertaken. What you hear is exactly how it sounds on the hardware. It’s how Case would roll. All project bundles are included with the free album download licensed under CC. You are encouraged to dissect, deconstruct, and even distribute the bundles. It’s how Dixie would roll. You are also encouraged to purchase and read a copy of William Gibson’s Neuromancer over a cup of hot coffee before heading out and taking care of biz. It’s how Molly would roll. SPECIAL THANKS: Todd & Eugenie Alexander, DEFENSE MECHANISM, Zevan Rosser, ineffable, Miragey, Laamaa, Avrilcadabra, Vicky Yeung, John Moros, everyone in the Dirtywave M8 Discord, WeeklyBeats, PSG Cabal, & Planetary Chiptune Refuge™ discords as well, Timothy Lamb a.k.a. Trash80 (creator of the Dirtywave M8 Tracker and the font this video was done in), and friends. And of course a huge thanks to the author, William Gibson, for inspiring our generation. May your Honda 9mm flechette pistol always aim true. All character names and quotes from Neuromancer by William Gibson. No Artificial Intelligences were used or harmed in the making of this album video. This album is entirely unofficial. All music: Disposable Planet 2024 Creative Commons Share-Alike WATCH YOUR ASS OKAY XXX MOLLY ❤❤❤ Dedicated to my parents, Ralph and Sandra. RIP and infinite love. ♾️❤

Thank you for sharing with us this important album!

@DisposablePlanet

9 күн бұрын

It’s my pleasure. Thank you so much for listening!

wow, WOW, so excited to listen to this and it is blowing me away so far

@DisposablePlanet

23 күн бұрын

Thanks for listening! I’m proud of how it came out

This is incredible. I'm very VERY happy you made this. It's a beautiful homage to the book. I'm sure Ralph and Sandra are immensely proud ❤ Congrats again on the fantastic release.

@DisposablePlanet

23 күн бұрын

Awww thank you 😭

Neuromancer changed my life. Your album makes it even better. 🔥 Thank you for sharing this brilliant work ❤🙏

@DisposablePlanet

4 күн бұрын

Thank you - your words mean a lot to me. Neuromancer changed my life too because it cemented in me a love of books and also because the story, even if I pick it up now, 28 years after my initial reading, it transports me to the exact same places it did when I was young. The same rooms with the same light. The chatsubo looks the same, so does Villa Straylight - it’s a window to another time in my life. The past displayed through the lens of the future. And its message and power still resonates 40 years after it was published. Part of me wishes William Gibson would try his hand at another book written from a single characters perspective similar to Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition. Thanks for listening and be sure to pick up the free album download linked in the description.

This is lovely. The musicality and theming are both excellent. I look forward to hearing more from you.

@DisposablePlanet

18 күн бұрын

Hey thanks so much! There's plenty of music up here on my youtube and I'm on bandcamp and spotify too so I hope you enjoy!

Congrats on a really excellent album! This is definitely going in the listening rotation. The M8 is my favorite piece of gear.

@DisposablePlanet

22 күн бұрын

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! I love the M8 tracker. It single-handedly got me through the pandemic.

What the hell? This is actually awesome. Gonna share it around.

@DisposablePlanet

18 күн бұрын

Glad I could surprise you

This is fantastic work!

@DisposablePlanet

23 күн бұрын

Thanks so much

What a treat, fantastic album, so much work here! And no processing, that's how Laama would would roll too ;) And thanks for the book suggestion whenever I finish Robin Hobb's Royal Assassin (which is HUGE) I'll go for it. Thanks a ton for the inspiration

@DisposablePlanet

22 күн бұрын

Thanks so much Tristan! When you get the book get the green Penguin Galaxy hardcover reprinting. It’s only 20 bucks and it’s the best version of the book out there with a smooth typeface! Thanks so much for listening and for all your inspiration as well!

Just finished re-reading that book so this is perfect timing...

@DisposablePlanet

17 күн бұрын

My favorite book in the world. Hope you enjoy this album!

@trevor_mounts_music

15 күн бұрын

@@DisposablePlanet it really is the source…feel like we are only a hair away from living in that world for better or worse…

@DisposablePlanet

15 күн бұрын

@@trevor_mounts_music You might be onto something. But I for one wouldn’t mind going back to pay phones

So good! This is some talent on display here! Consider me a new fan.

@DisposablePlanet

17 күн бұрын

Thank you new fan. Welcome to the Planetoids

Wow... inspired and a little in awe x

@DisposablePlanet

9 күн бұрын

Thank you! ❤