In the fall of 1991 Jon Navy electric guitarist, Chris Casilli drummer, myself on electric bass got together in Jon's loft, if I remember correctly, to jam.

In the fall of 1991 Jon Navy electric guitarist, Chris Casilli drummer, myself on electric bass got together in Jon's loft, if I remember correctly, to jam.

In the fall of 1991 Jon Navy electric guitarist, Chris Casilli drummer, myself on electric bass got together in Jon's loft, if I remember correctly, to jam.

In the fall of 1991 Jon Navy electric guitarist, Chris Casilli drummer, myself on electric bass got together in Jon's loft, if I remember correctly, to jam.

"You can't see him. He's transparent

Ether breathing, so clandestine

Anti-techno designation Elmer 40.

Mother was a test tube baby

Father one genetic maybe

Anti-techno designation Elmer 40.

Burn computers. Eat their programs.

Fold and spindle. Mutilate!

Anti-techno designation Elmer 40.

All my brothers like myself

Filed in bottles on the shelf.

No ambition, no desire,

Danger to my mental health.

Synchronus genetic copies

Born in vats of DNA.

Rise now rabble robot rousers

We know Elmer is the way!

Doppelgänger image repeat

Rewrite program. Hit erase.

Anti-techno father 40

Fell from science fiction grace.

Listen brothers! Hear my say!

No more nightmare yesterdays!

Use the techno facsist magic

To reform our former ways.

Death to ditto death and torture.

Forty El will now replace

Test tube turn ons, Xerox zombies, mutant mimeos.

Erase the tapes!

Stop the cloning! We're now masters,

No more carbon copy bastards.

Anti-techno father 40 leads us on to greener pastures."

Michael Wayne Davis wrote this song. I sang lead and multitracked instruments that I recorded with my Tascam M-208 mixer and my Tascam 38 1/2" 8-track reel-to-reel tape recorder. This recording was made sometime after 1985 or '86.

Here's another iteration of this song: https://on.soundcloud.com/boMY6bUY6A5Xc1ah9.

A version of this tune eventually ended up in my CD "Mostly Acoustic" available here: https://on.soundcloud.com/UssrPNYRW7yURbou5.

Here's a link to an early rehearsal of this song: https://on.soundcloud.com/PTErPExG5FgERuP99.

The twin Nordstrom brothers Michael and James plus myself gathered in a School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) stairwell to perform this song. Mike reminds me we probably recorded this in 1983.

Mike Davis wrote this and sang backing vocal. I helped with a few lyrics and sang lead. If memory serves, we recorded the song at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) Sound Department. We used their synthesizer, drum machine, recording equipment. Mike also had his own synth, I think.

This second version of "Nucleus" adds a Fender Stratocaster to the mix. I created the basic tracks at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) Sound Department. I used their synthesizer, drum machine, recording equipment.

Here's where you can hear the first version: https://on.soundcloud.com/SRHQfH92raPrQbyVA.

Here's where you can hear the third version: https://on.soundcloud.com/ghECNr9wXj2fHY3p6.

If memory serves, this was the first version of "Nucleus" and it was the first tune that I created at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago's (SAIC) Sound Department. I used their synthesizer, drum machine, recording equipment.

Here's where you can hear the second version: https://on.soundcloud.com/Pw47xuJdgSymWLuT8.

Here's where you can hear the third version: https://on.soundcloud.com/nBMAuYFT2yzg8Ra77.

Mike Davis created this experimental ambient music with his musical equipment. It ended up in some of the ambient video that our company Leonardo da Video delivered to dance clubs around Chicago in the early to mid-1980s. Here's where you can see some of those videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLva_BUBOGL66w4QQb5XygNn_w1JuEz7s6&si=IhPcP8gqGGRawo00.