Pushing Buttons

Kevyspice

Pushing buttons is how I made almost all of this album. It’s also how a lot of us make a living. It’s also how various forms of media keep us engaged and enraged.

Used volca Keys, volca Sampler, and Korg Monotron to make most of the noises, added some bass and pings via MIDI keyboard and VSTs, and (as usual) made a speech synthesizer say some words for me. I wrote the bits about pushing buttons, and the middle quote is from RFK.

Kevin Craig - Synths, songwriting, mixing.

(“Pushing buttons - all day long, right or wrong, pay the bills, feeling ill, all the time. I’ll push your buttons; you push mine.”

“Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us what to do with the men the machines displace? Modern industry gives us the capacity for unparalleled wealth - but where is our capacity to make that wealth meaningful to the poor of every nation?” - RFK)