Dopeless Hope Feen
The universe speaks through the music, while the music speaks to the universe, creating a feedback loop that continues to amplify. Being able to channel this energy has led to some very creative musical ideas and concepts, this is especially evident with the newest element66 album ‘Dopeless Hope Feen’.
Creator
The human ability to think a thought and then turn that thought into reality is pure magic. Wonderful magic. Magic that is looked at as commonplace due to how often we do it. Being able to create something is a gift that we can give to each other, so create and share it with the world.
Chasing Paper
Once a mind with perfect recall, Kenny likened his mental acuity to a filing cabinet. All thoughts, memories, experiences, and everything he had ever learned, perfectly cataloged, and ordered, available instantly when needed. The access to the files of his mind have all but become a distant memory, all thanks to a devastating drug induced experience.
Kenny’s story involves a tragic event, one of those horrible stories you hear about when someone drops acid just once, and then that person is forever lost in a perm-trip for life. This brings us back to the filing cabinet of Kenny’s mind, which he describes as if it were taken to a parking lot with the drawers all dumped and cast about, scattered into the wind.
Kenny now spends his days running around that mental parking lot trying to snatch the papers that were once his organized thoughts from the winds of chaos.
Will Kenny be able to gather his faculties and take control of the turbulence within his unorganized grey matter? Only time will tell.
Probability Killer
The universe is one giant operation flipping bits on the sub-atomic scale. The things we see as chance, randomness, and probability are just emergent effects of a deterministic sub structure of reality. Given affect by our very thoughts and intent. Information infecting reality and killing probability.
Abandon… Forever Forgotten
Isolated, trapped, locked away. If only a single moment of human contact, the decaying force of loneliness. When the only sense of empathetic compassion and love must be derived curiously through a screen or monitor. This is what it feels like to abandon, and to be abandoned. Are you even real? Or are you just someone I’ve created in my mind?
Sickness
Of all the darkest parts of ourselves. They are all parts we share. It is the human condition, the nature of our travel to rise above the darkness. To always strive to become something better.
Shot Into The Sun
We are all time travelers, retro-affecting our way through time and space. The present moment is defined by the interaction of the forward progression of entropy with the retro-affecting affectation of entropy.
Feen
Out natural desire for euphoria and reality escapism can easily bring about the trappings of drug addiction. I am just a feeder, I am just a feen. Fed upon the weakness, I got lost within the need.
Circle of One
Let your independence and strength shine. No matter what life throws at you, just know, you are strong enough to handle it.
Kali
Lost, drifting in a sea of stars, the cosmic ocean, Kali the destroyer. A manifestation of entropy dictates the progressive course of the disintegration of matter. As the universe cools, it relegates itself to a state of thermodynamic symmetry, the lowest energy state possible. Motionless we become dust and ash.
May The Force
Remixing the element66 song ‘DEGOBAH!’ now titled ‘May The Force’ was an undertaking that Kenny took to the most extreme level. This amazingly creative Star Wars themed song will have Star Wars fans feeling the flow of the force even if it is from a galaxy far, far away.
Kenny has dedicated this song to his uncle Ron, one of the biggest Star Wars fans in history. Ron’s entire house felt like a Star Wars Museum with his collection of figurines, memorabilia, and just about anything that had to do with the franchise. Ron lived for his love of Star Wars and for his love of music. This remix was created in honor of him. Ron lost his war with cancer, but his memory continues. Ever present, ever evading and permeating all the structures of reality. His energy is now part of the Force. We’ll miss you Ron, and we will never forget you. May the Force be with you.
Sublite
A man alone, trapped, squeezed into a tiny compartment. It feels like forever since he has had human contact. He is resolved to his situation, for he accepts the greater good. His long trip drifting through space will find him standing, one day, on unexplored terrain, the surface of other worlds in the breath of discovery.
When it’s all said and done, it all comes back to the feedback loop that expands the amplification from the love and respect of you, the fans of our music, without which none of this could happen. It’s the communal energy we all contribute that keeps this dream alive.
A huge thanks to all of you that have continued to support element66 over the years. It’s been a strange journey, but things are about to get interesting for us all, as we start to seed the Universe through this shared experience of musical thought.
Enjoy the ride.
element66
Chad Hamlin
Kenneth Fisher
More about ‘Abandon… Forever Forgotten’:
The element66 song ‘Abandon’ has continued to morph over the years. It now has three different versions, from the demo that got element66 on the radio to the upbeat studio remake, and now, the newest emotional 2021 version that hits you were it counts, deep in the soul. Which is your favorite? Listen to all three versions @ www.element66.us
This is the story behind the evolution of the element66 song, ‘Abandon’.
It all began with our first fully produced element66 album, ‘The Dysprosium Collection,’ released in 2013. Although this collection started as a smaller fourteen-song demo titled ‘Drukis Blah,’ recorded in 2011, it evolved into a massive twenty-five-song album. All fourteen of the original songs from the ‘Drukis Blah’ demo were remixed and included with eleven new bonus songs to make ‘The Dysprosium Collection’ the largest release we’ve ever put together.
I look back on those early songs in my recording career; it’s like visiting an old friend that I haven’t seen in years. Six of the songs from that collection found their way on to the radio, but the first song to be discovered was the song ‘Abandon.’
‘Abandon’ was the last song added to the album just weeks before its release. At the time I felt that ‘Abandon’ still had a raw, unpolished demo feel to it, but after being persuaded by several of my friends that I should include it on ‘The Dysprosium Collection,’ I finally decided to add one last song, making that album a twenty-five-song collection.
Over the years, six other songs from ‘The Dysprosium Collection’ have been featured on the radio, but the first song to get element66 some real recognition was the song, ‘Abandon.’ An alternative-rock radio station in Detroit started playing ‘Abandon’ on their ‘indie-artists segment’ in 2013.
(It still seems so strange to me, that the last song that we added to the album was the first to be picked up by a radio station.)
About three months after the release of ‘The Dysprosium Collection,’ KINK Radio had contacted my manager with a request to interview element66. They were intrigued by our story, and loved our album, especially the song ‘Abandon,’ which they proclaimed as one of our most emotionally touching creations. They also had a list of other songs that grabbed their attention, which included: ‘Denial-(Featuring Bobby Beausoleil),’ ‘Make It Go Away,’ ‘Mud,’ ‘Feeder,’ ‘Resonance,’ and ‘Last Night.’
When I heard the news about ‘Abandon,’ the first thing I thought was how odd; out of the twenty-five songs, they picked that particular song, which almost didn’t get added to the album.
Eventually I ended up doing a radio interview over the phone, and they were amazed that we had produced the entire album from our prison cell. I went on to explain to them that ‘Abandon,’ was a last minute add on to the album and I would like to remake a new improved version of the song. They had insisted that they loved the song as it was but invited us to create a new version to submit to them for radio play.
In 2014, element66 started a new campaign promoting single-song-releases through our distributors, among those new singles, ‘Abandon (The Lost Mix),’ which is mostly a lyrical remake of the original with a completely new musical vibe.
As promised, I sent it to KINK Radio to give them a chance to see how the song had developed into something new. They liked it, but said, “It doesn’t have the same emotional essence that the original had.”
Sadly, the new version never received much attention, however, it was later featured on another radio stations with six of our other songs, along with a story about our music being recorded and produced from inside a prison cell.
I learned a valuable lesson from the ‘Abandon’ song experience: don’t try to remake a song into something different when it already contains the magic ingredients. When art speaks in an unambiguous manner, there is no need to change what makes it stand out as something creative and unique. At the time, I felt that the song wasn’t perfect to my audio production ear, yet it still spoke to so many people, inciting an emotional response that has kept the song alive amongst the element66 followers all over the world. The original version of the song, ‘Abandon’ continuities to be a fan favorite and still receives radio play.
And now here we are in 2021, and element66 hasn’t released a new album since the 2015 release of ‘Voodoo Doll’. I told myself there was no need to recreate songs from the past, but Kenny insisted that he wanted to give Abandon one more go around. Our newest album titled ‘Dopeless Hope Feen’ features the third version of Abandon, titled ‘Abandon… Forever Forgotten’. Kenny told me he needed to do this new version so that he could finally move on, because he wasn’t feeling satisfied with the other two versions. With three different versions of Abandon, I’m sure our fans will have one that they like better than the others. Each version speaks from the heart, but each one has a completely different musical voice, made during different eras in our recording careers.
I hope you enjoy them all.
Chad Hamlin
element66
