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JDSY (aka Ann Arbor's Joey Sims) makes textbook Avant-Pop. Straddling the electronic and the acoustic, Adage of Known is completely unpredictable, using pop vocals as a distant signal for which to guide this stunning melodic soundclash..
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Adage of Known plays like a game of sonic Exquisite Corpse. The Dada art movement's parlor game, where drawn or written ideas were passed between artists and continued by the next. The result was a work that was of many minds, but flowed with a unique and subconscious energy. For his debut album Joey Sims is all sides of the event, both judge and jury, reader and repeater. His voice becomes an almost effortless object, its as if Joey is talking to himself across a darkened hall.
Young JDSY came to our attention via some very artful (literally with screws and pipecleaner attached) demos back in the early 2000's. After we commissioned him for a remix of Solvent's "For You" to staggering results, we had to have more.
After wading through literally hundreds of songs and concepts, the foundation that is Adage of Known emerged and the results are, in the words of Ghostly's original mission statement, compelling, engrossing and best of all, subversive.
Having explored technology with no guidebook, his musical techniques are innovative and haphazard, which breathes a life into the songs that is consistently unique. Adage Of Known is a staggering debut of an artist who can pass ideas from the left hand to the right, a parlor trick which is a sign of young talent wise beyond its years.
TRACKLIST
1. Else2
2. Smoke and Mirrors
3. Staircase
4. Drifter
5. Horizon Line
6. Osah
7. eeeeee
8. Sabatour
9. Flame
10. Snake Smoke
11. The Beetle
12. The Asp
13. My Garagelse
LYRICS
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else2
steal me in vain
you'll take my whole name
steal on a dime
you'll take all my time
take it and run
and cover up my sky's sun
dry me all up
i never wanted to be here
so not a relief a lie
fold- its better you agree
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Smoke and Mirrors
you look away with a piece of mind i said
I'm so asleep I'm waking up my head
it seems a sin all my contradicting lies
can you not tell i've got smoke and mirror eyes
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Staircase
graves for days
same thing
i don't know what to do
about it
grey skys blaze
smoked in staircase
staircase
to the upper land
preparing the people
the people get scared
watch it in their eyes
the people see no more
the place is sacred
the signs are there
just wait
don't believe
don't believe
just forget
just forget
i'm all up in a cage
my minds is in the same place
i been up in a cage
but my minds been in the same place
right away things change
i know what i'll do
green days strange
gimmie the upper hand
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Drifter
i'm no teacher
but i can think
and know things
ave maria
corpus of christi
say no more
i'm no believer
thinking and thinking
belief in some palm leaves
what you know
is your waking up
and somethings wrong
you
you're so pretty to me
you
you're so pretty to me
i'm just a drifter
floating and lonely
see me
what should you want
love and a touch
and what came before
i'm just a reaper
heavenly body
so lone
why can't you tell me
one little something
take me away
you
you're so pretty to me
you
you're so pretty to me
horizon line
are you not a fable dreaming
gauging your celestial ceiling
resting on backs and able to speak
its all got a meaning so sweet how you think
stars grace a deep blue sky
tracing the horizon line
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Osah
look alive
look him up
place him on a ledge
keep it on a move
on a movie
you ran down
catch the amazing flush
solemnly sold single
realize what's being said
she writes me away
cold nights its beautiful
taking it in
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Saboteur
thief
sleep
languid
lay down
go
saboteur
calm down
come over
do you have figures of me?
do you have fake little pictures of me?
-in your head-
do you have fake little pictures of me?
do you have fake little walls of little pictures?
big picture
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Flame
you should do
what you don't do
when you don't do
what you should do
you should do
what you don't do
when you don't do
what you should do
I'm a flame now
I'm a flame in clear glass
so come motion me
tend to the meaningful
meaningful
meaningful
what's calling you?
what can i be?
tend to the meaningful
the meaningful
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Snake Smoke
save me a piece
save me the biggest piece
i want to reach up
and change the sky i see
save me the rest
give me the best you've got
i want to know
i want to know know know
i want the dust bowl
i want the gimmie gimmie gimmie
i want the rain drops
i want the rain control
now i don't know
now i don't know no more
now i don't know
now i don't know know know
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The Asp
reach away
level steady
obsoletely lately takes me
call
a question
doesn't really matter
watch it wilt or waiver
let alone
leaving a way home
i'll be waiting
inside alone
what can i do
what can i say
seems like the same thing
same thing
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The Beetle
what's in a name?
place me mostly on the edge
so i fall down
what's in a name?
nicely noticing the edge
me so tall
what do i wear?
wear a frame around
my neck a collar
sense of respect
what do i do?
and i wonder why
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Joseph D. Sims, AkA JDSY is an electronic pop producer and vocalist. Bornin the year 1982, JDSY is an outsider artist, trained by himself in composition in songwriting.
His remix "For You" by Canadian electro-pop icon Solvent put him on the map in 2005. JDSY also has released his first EP titled UNDERSTANDER in early 2008 on Moodgadget.
