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She knows the pharmacology, knows the exact combination of chemicals that will induce paralysis along with the psychotropic hallucinations. Delivery of the cocktail is best achieved through the carotid artery -- rapid access to the sensory chambers and control centers of the brain. She feels the rounded shape of his head, her delicate fingers exploring the faint seams of the plates of the skull. She finds the shallow divot just above the ear and places the sharp tip of the 1/2" drill bit against his head.

She knows the anatomy, knows just how far to drill and, just as the resistance against the spinning bit changes, she backs it off. He doesn't move -- he couldn't if he wanted -- but she can tell by his eyes that he knows what she has done. She puts the drill aside as the round hole in his head slowly leaks. She shows him the gold-plated audio jack, shows him what she is going to do, and then, with the easy motion of a practiced junkie, she shoves the headphone jack into his brain. "This is my opiate," she says as she places the headphone cups around her ears. "I want to hear what you are dreaming."

The Opiate Suite: A Deconstructed Symphony in Four Parts is curated by our Minister of Sound, Mark Teppo. The OPi8.com mascot, SOMA, was illustrated by Neal Von Flue

The Opiate Suite is an audio collage/mashup project intended to provide an example of the sonic aesthetic of OPi8.com, a website devoted to the expression of "New Dark Culture" through the visual, written and auditory arts. The Suite is composed of samples and excerpts from work by artists who we feel are making music outside the saccharine poison world of mainstream pop music. They all deserve your attention and support. The following is a list of the works that were sliced, diced, cut, chopped, pasted, mangled, modified, looped, stretched, smashed and otherwise modified to fit within the framework of the suite. Very little of what you hear is unadulterated and pure. Most of the film samples you hear have been surreptitiously injected into the mix and may not be otherwise attached to the sonic background to which they are connected.

310 "Come Back Again"
Ah Cama-Sotz "The Gathering"
Antigen Shift "Distant Exit (iszoloscope remix)"
Aphex Twin "0203"
Aphex Twin "Jynmeythek"
Natacha Atlas "One Brief Moment (Klute mix)"
Biosphere + Deathprod "Katedra Botaniki"
Black Lung "Grandeur and Redemption"
Blue "A Modern Memory"
William Burroughs "The Five Steps" + Scanner "Fuse" (DJ Spooky mix)
Kate Bush "Wake The Witch"
Covenant "We Want Revolution"
Aleister Crowley "Love Is The Law - Love Under Will"
Aleister Crowley "The Call Of The Second ?thyr (Engligh)"
Curtis Chip "That's Not It At All (That's Not Curtis Chip At All remix by Tarmvred)"
Curve "Recovery"
Die Warzau "America"
Die Warzau "Liberated"
Dryft "Drywht"
E Nomine "Dracul's Bluthochzeit"
Einsturzende Neubauten "Ein Leichtes Leises Sausein"
EPA "With Small Shards of Glass"
Jason Forrest "Big Outrageous Sound Club"
Raquel De Grimstone "In The Streets"
Hollydrift "Haven of Rest"
Iszoloscope "Interlude 5"
Iszoloscope "This Monstrocity is Part of My Fabric"
Kallabris "Lob Dem Technischen Personal"
Lustmord "Silent Night"
Mad e.p. "Get With Rats"
Madder Mortem "Enter"
Meat Beat Manifesto "Cease To Exist (M.B.M. Vs. D.H.S. Mix)"
Meat Beat Manifesto "God O.D. (Eight Ways To O.D. On God Mix)"
Meat Beat Manifesto "MBM Re-Animator (Scanner: Kindle And Solace Mix)"
Chris Meloche "Surfacing 1"
Ministry "Just One Fix (W.S.B.)"
Monolith "Radio Interference"
Morthound "Age of Dreams"
Muslimgauze "(extract 1) Arab Quarter"
Nefilim "The 24th Movement"
Nine Inch Nails "The Mark Has Been Made"
Nurse With Wound "June 15"
OKK-ULTh "Fire is the Devil"
Panacea "Mothership 2"
Quoit "Device"
Quoit "Missing"
Akira Rabelais "Caxton Golden Leg. 208b/2"
Rammstein "America"
Rammstein "Feuer Frei!"
Rammstein "Mein Teil"
Shinjuku Filth "The Sale"
The Sisterhood "Jihad"
Sister Machine Gun "Krackhead"
Skincage "Relapse"
Tarmvred "Drifter"
Teargass & Plateglass "911 (remix)"
This Morn' Omina "Son of Fire"
Yann Tiersen "Comptine D'Un Autre Ete: L'Apres Midi"
Tzolk'in "Lamat"
Chris Watson "Low Pressure. Glen Cannich, Inverness-Shire, Scotland"
John Zorn "Lucifer Rising"