Ad Infinitum

by Epileptic MC

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1.
Stasis 03:51
In a chamber in stasis Possible futures and placements Past embraces changes Settle for strangeness In this meta zone Like withdrawal from methadone I sweat and suffer alone There is no guidance, basis For the globe spinning below The energies on tow The spiralling of chaos, The loss in eyes I know Several days I've known Since I first saw my clone Breathing like I breathe And knowing I know must go The sun's can now rise Patterns in nature can survive Torments of the world I lost I see screaming yet I am so blind No power no force no fire No strength no courage or desire Wild winds blow from far I have to see how I perspired Within the most high selection Splitting my mind into sections The mission I think I can't complete Yet they need me, and my protection Yet I know my limits in this field Once saw the stars were revealed Had clarity of mind and knew Stasis wasn't certain, there was no shield In a ship like a tomb Caverns, and these catacombs Must find ways to scatter soon For I escape, and shatter moons They sent this mission, give those orders Find ways to abolish, with mortars Just us mortals, marching forward I know the truth seen in those lost runes This chamber, seen better days Given the antidote and medical aid Yet it still smells like death Can barely recognise my own face I put so much time into this vessel Thinking foolishly I was special I was just one of many souls Another burnt idea, fallen off like petals In a scorched world no light Lost all we loved trying to fight And with this launch we are gone Waving goodbye, tears in our eyes So I'm here, on course to terraform Pass back signals and what I've learnt Only compass my own clone Says nothing, silent, my copy looks forlorn Born from great hardship I have agreed to these overlords and masters Do their bidding, why I feel so lost I know it's fruitless, it can't be bartered This is uncharted, new terrain See lights flashing I feel deep pain In a tiny vessel shooting through space In a period of stasis, wondering when I'll know happiness again
2.
Meticulous 03:25
The attention to small pieces, Built in rubble of a thesis, A colosseum of oceans, Figments being defeated, Suffrage, commitment, Treating wounds not symptoms, No change ever possible, Unless you change conditions, Find a method delve deeper, Beyond external features, Simple isn't always less, Defining the pathway of ether, Of the script and the preacher, The serpent and the teacher, The sentient beings we know, Or forgotten places with healers. The serpent, the teacher The script, the ether The finding of the preacher The finding of the preacher Meticulous, All meticulous The passages of the ages The cremation of lost pages, Mining the depths of old souls Knowing treacherous places, A meticulous exploration, Not knowing positions I'm placed in, Several times seeking forgiveness, From repercussions of being vacant, Energies rise, fall in unison, The end soon to come, The past never stays that way, New moons and then new suns, Giving less than what was taken, From those so ancient, Misplaced in messages, Several millennia past, now outdated New moons and suns taken Shit was vacant, messages replaced and outdated Meticulous All meticulous Knowing can never be sacred What's owned is always fading Misguided, I see steps to climb Still grazed, and so abrasive Meticulous, knowing clarity Succumb to instincts of vanity Sensing a need to find fault To barely escape my own reality Finding a search with depth Oceanic templates find breath Lost in far reaches, searching Not knowing where lies step Never realising this pattern Semantic schemes can flatten Echoes and archivist's lay dormant Circular, ethereal, like rings on Saturn Circular, ethereal, like rings on Saturn Rings on Saturn Meticulous All meticulous
3.
The laws of the dance get dirty No one ever comes out clean The riddems and drumming, the drugs and the rhythm Nothing left no prestige Wide eyed illustrious, giving the message Passed down from kings to peasants The murders and killers, the plots and the rivers That float with blood downstream This is the loss where fire lights Incredible pages in maps we fight The wisdom and clarity, the world in disparity Ending of it all, nothing bright The physical healing required When we explored movement and perspired The living and dying, the limits of lying Leaving us sat lost, weary and tired Laws of the dance, battered in trance Giving in light, letting out dark The rules of the night, patterns insight The dangers of mystics finding a spark We needed the messages take them inside This is a story of when energies rise Wings taking flight, given such life The lostness off love, the dancing and hype Surrounded by flames, we now see The burning residues of belief The world and its dread, the planet a mess We thought it was there, but we're not free Inescapable sense of terror Whatever happens, we stay together The only way forward, through motion Through storms, gales and heavy weather The laws of the dance get savage Shanty towns, all the way to the palace The burials and rituals, the bone and the sinew The hatred, the fear, anger and malice Turning away from battle, to find soul No more blood, seeking control The prophets make profits, the rich have no loss Edge towards myth, and run to patrol Lost in the ages, dawns with wise sages A call to arm no answer in those pages The slaying and praying, the shaking and swaying The shields and swords, lay down in the ages The first ones lost, we pay tribute to in dance At the dawns of the morning, we run fast We give the signs, in temples so bright Rip through their torso, and then advance Laws of the dance, mash up tings fast Chaos in cities and terror advance This is the message given to medics Don't bother, life left here is so sparse Look for protection, not found Search for hope, no sound Given the wild lies they told us We know, the end is coming around The dance is a metaphor not said before It settles scores, and deads the hoards The blaming the hating, the death and creation Living with loss we know cos we seen it before Killing in fields, dancing in graves, Worshipping the older messages and ways Laws of the dance are written, so ancient We now step on the past, in dance-floors in a haze
4.
Re-View 03:34
The erstwhile figments of this re-view Time over we now to reboot Any chance to start over and redo Pull up a chair watch, take a pew The erstwhile figments of this re-view Time over we now to reboot Any chance to start over and redo Pull up a chair watch, take a pew The newest of traces Re-view of old places The sanctum I seek to find Where energies aren't burnt but are created Spread across endless acres Tantalizingly close to being faded But holding on somehow In the long haul, not sprints and races Yearning for phases, out the norm Medicine taken sublimate life that's born When time comes, it seems to crawl Whatever shall rise, will then fall But be still, calm, collect thought Instill methods to gauge and report On what it was before I knew When pacing up and down these old halls What it was before I knew When pacing up and down these old halls These old halls The erstwhile figments of this re-view Time over we now to reboot Any chance to start over and redo Pull up a chair watch, take a pew The erstwhile figments of this re-view Time over we now to reboot Any chance to start over and redo Pull up a chair watch, take a pew Re-view the past as if it were possible To see it as presenting no obstacle The facts versus the phantasy Can't speak in language so logical Been a hindrance, to say the least Never quite conquered that beast Pressure building on top of pressure Saving energies for the final feast What's required? But to perspire Learn from the ashes in the fire Bodies of truth stacked in abundance If I'm honest, I find it hard not to admire This passion and constant strife That's found in jewels in life In the pits at the bottom of the world, Where I know I'll find truth buried in lies In the pits at the bottom of the world, Where I know I'll find truth buried in lies The erstwhile figments of this re-view Time over we now to reboot Any chance to start over and redo Pull up a chair watch, take a pew The erstwhile figments of this re-view Time over we now to reboot Any chance to start over and redo Pull up a chair watch, take a pew The only space left unexpanded When vessels internally landed Causing ripples infinite as time itself Lonely, isolated, abandoned No promises given nothing forgiven Capacity of lost wisdom, oceans swimming The middle of war and peace, we suffocate Basis for heart beat, circadian rhythm Need to venture past the precipice The face of threat, wild elements Savage terrain no comfort under foot Could the reason be known in sediment Maybe not, the causation left to rot Swollen land mass at every cost What we took we never replace Now the remnants are covered in moss Covered in moss Covered in moss The erstwhile figments of this re-view Time over we now to reboot Any chance to start over and redo Pull up a chair watch, take a pew The erstwhile figments of this re-view Time over we now to reboot Any chance to start over and redo Pull up a chair watch, take a pew
5.
Ortavia 03:14
The words I can't find to describe A presence of beauty entwined In the split seconds of ecstasy At points it's like I'm along for the ride Energies can rise, and shimmer I gave into the planets, how they configured Saw new dawns, noticed lights flickered What was the worth in ever being so bitter The journey not the destination Isn't that what people start saying All I know is I sometimes need guidance To find meaning in it all, start sailing On a ship built to survive the waves To forge the inner praise To instill my own beliefs Resolution for former torn and broken days Resolution for former torn and broken days Broken days I designed a new configuration Little by little, pieces found placement In the split seconds of ecstacy I realised what it was I'd been chasing The sequence of events now crystal Clear in my mind, choice was simple What was the worth in ever being so bitter Never knowing moments could be blissful The truth not the expectation The balancing act, learn patience I never knew I could do the latter Always thought everything needed saving Sometimes I needed guidance and repair Built a vessel to sail away from despair To find wisdom and courage Resolution for the future, knowing it's right there Resolution for the future, knowing it's right there It's right there I forged a life, I carved it out of stone Wrestled with inner demons, found hope In the most terrible moments Saw the bottom of the barrel, stayed afloat Somehow, somewhere, there's always clarity When it feels meaningless, it's just polarity A spectrum, two sides of the same coin Only ever a few minutes away from insanity Never knowing what could appear Out of the smog and mist I see clear What was the worth in ever being so bitter Lost power at points but still knew how to steer Away from rocks, the swelling tides I built methods and learnt to survive I found peace, structure and serenity Resolution for what was lost, as times subsides Resolution for what was lost, as times subsides Time subsides Resolution for what was lost, as times subsides Time subsides
6.
Glass Jaw 03:33
Broken pieces left in shards Distorted, scattered no sparks Lost off world in the ether Disappearing with the last Chance to see new function Callous cold no substance With everything I could muster Before the self combustion Like flares in dark night skies I stay sharp bright eyed Calamity like a friend Well hidden and in disguise Until demise of the scriptures These victim's no fixtures I lamented my woes Gave way to past pictures I lamented my woes Gave way to past pictures To past pictures Glass temples lost palace Covered by rubble no chalice Lost off world with no features Wind blows, rain lashes so savage The faintest motion sparks desires For turbulence and bright fires Crossed to the path for justice Seeing symmetry in dawn choirs Calling in the wild, for forces In my blood history courses Chariots and night riders In the mist, on their horses Settling for space where none remains The weary eyes of the dead in graves Glass jaws, so fragile Seeking pleasure, only finding pain Glass jaws, so fragile Seeking pleasure, only finding pain Only finding pain This is the remaining covenant Boarded on the mothership Searched for guidance and hope No signals, no coverage An air of mystery and suffrage I thought I wasn't puzzled with The notion of lost vigil's Yet I'm lost in moment's of nothingness Wild places hold sway on my soul I yearn for the openness, to be bold Drawn to the oceans like a moth to a flame Doesn't matter if the depths are freezing cold The point of light and dark I always remember The space between love and loss so tender The fragility of moments so vacant Etched into memories forever The fragility of moments so vacant Etched into memories forever Etched into memories forever Forever
7.
In these little moments of calm Zen like state I'm disarmed Fragile and discordant In the chaos, sound the alarm Finding harm, disguised A siege of days and night A bridge over this troubled water So many instances I heard lies The feeling became euphoric The more I found time allotted The more I saw motion in life Yelled over voices saying stop it Broke my promise, shattered speech The empty corners of the mind I seek Wasting away without the vibrancy Still I never missed a beat On it each time it came calling When oceans subsided I was mooring Any location with precious resources Knew casualties would be appalling Diminished returns, vessel's that burnt Curtailed freedom, cities never learnt From mistakes made before they rose Now they can't see, no one observes Broken pieces of a mirror abandoned Loss of it all seems standard Euphoric chaos, the only stability Marooned on rocks, where I've landed Never seeing what I'd known Or capable of locating a home Not understanding what could last Or what might disintegrate, be left deep below What might disintegrate, be left deep below What might disintegrate, be left deep below What might disintegrate, or be left deep below Left deep below, left deep below In the smallest of crawl spaces The mind limited to what's adjacent I've always needed movement And layers of containment Several times passed without witness Conflicting ideals I thought were simplest Never that way it couldn't Be the change I needed, not in my interest The known feeling, dread Anxiety in every breath Waiting for calm breeze to blow, My head,a tangled web and mess Searching for some clarity The closest I get, modified polarity Never one thing or the other Never contented, never normality Shakespearean tragedy, befell Modified to exist in this spell Euphoric chaos ensues my world I wanted to but couldn't tell The truth to finding a tapestry Not depicting savagery Never knowing this kingdom Surpassed by loss and fallacy Shattered in the dirt I can't remain Anything other than deeply ashamed Of how I once used to behave Take those times when I go burning on a raft in flames Saying goodbye to this different phase The edge of nothing is where I remain A void of terror never knowing my name Euphoric chaos, to this I am in chains What might disintegrate, or be left deep below Left deep below, left deep below
8.
Mind Weapons 03:19
Mind weapons Not used to threaten Truly a blessing To be in their presence This deep essence Launch thought, projectile Meta signs, strange style Punch punch combo Mind weapons leave beguiled Ad infinitum, never ending The heresy so entitled Stranded in time I can't mention Governed by none on an island Forging wrath and vengeance Torn flesh and embers Because no one remembers When dragon spirits entered Ravaged pieces of my sentence Rabid and poisoned minds The tactics of ancient scroll bearers Leaving so much behind Mind weapons Not used to threaten Truly a blessing To be in their presence This deep essence Launch thought, form attack Positions fading off the map Duck duck weave Mind weapons leave planets flat Ad infinitum, sorrow born The pleasure is pain I'm torn Between positions of survival Preconceived notions are mourned Forging peace and patience Inside hopeless places Because no one remembers The lost fires of the ancients Forgotten pieces of a discovery Hollow and empty promises Find hope, and recovery Leave so much to die in this fuckery Mind weapons Not used to threaten Truly a blessing To be in their presence This deep essence Launch thought, delivery Through veins, capillaries Side side step Mind weapons grow continually Making inner landings, I breathe Withstanding the onslaught I believe In oceans, mountains, trees Planting seeds, growing beliefs Ad infinitum, calling in titans The greatest lengths of spirals Invention of any moments I loved The lungs, the heart, so vital Forgotten remnants of days lived In the mind finding safe passage Nebulous thoughts, mind tricks Leave triggers on safety, find vast patterns Mind weapons Not used to threaten Truly a blessing To be in their presence This deep essence
9.
Sea Dreams 03:27
Sea Dreams See themes Under the ocean Lives dreams Sea dreams Find themes Ocean, life, breeds Mist rolls in across the surf Colours change, textures turn Green opal to blue topaz From oceanic rhythms we learn Observe, unnerve, lost at sea Dreams, no other could perceive Calm to tumultuous in seconds Empowered by the breeze Gives these, storms From which one can be born And then so easily lost Under waves on shores so torn A frenzy under the surface Calm on top, it emerges Currents and energies hidden But it's deceptive, life surges Sea Dreams See themes Under the ocean Lives dreams Sea dreams Find themes Ocean, life, breeds Abundant cycles, led by the moon Battered rocks, damaged in view The depth of it all, so unknown While we lived and died, it still grew Rapidly energies rise Waves are so giant in size Birds swoop, begin to dive Swelling of power that thrives Tidal patterns, shifted states Sunken dreams would create A waterlogged mausoleum All now is left to Poseidon’s fate Waves break on distant islands Weather the conditions, for survival Placed here in freezing waters The ocean has no equal, no rival Sea Dreams See themes Under the ocean Lives dreams Sea dreams Find themes Ocean, life, breeds Tidal waves on a dark horizon A sparse cold highland Wind breaks on the coastline The climate like a tyrant So violent, taking all control of its domain Been here since the beginning, it remained Flourishing but also taking away Giving and removing life, in cycles of days The commanding of worship it is given Because of the ancient schisms The message in a bottle found centuries after Taken care of by the sea, and it's rhythms It's a living, a vast organism A deep blue uncontrolled system At the edge of the universe it stems Stretching through the ages, it's liquid holds visions Sea Dreams See themes Under the ocean Lives dreams Sea dreams Find themes Ocean, life, breeds
10.
Remnants 03:04
Laying in the dust of decay The rubble of past days Misanthropic melodies Wave on the silence and stay Wilderness and nothingness Cluttered with forces from a mothership Discordant displays Self needs some new governance And I'm so troubled with no guidance In the outer reaches of pylons Elemental everything In the silos, there's no pilots Eyelids blinded Corrosive highlights Metabolic machines Each new dawn I'm reminded Of where travels can lead What journeys can need Fictitious fragments Lost ever faithful, I bleed In this scene, I'm now seen Prioritise motion and believe Central circumference Wipe the page, start again clean The endless is a blurred witness Catch illness, all the symptoms Burial beliefs Been to the end, seen victims Remnants, gathered for belief From when time was bleak Sentimental searches The space I see, but can't reach Remnants Just the remnants Remnants Only the remnants Remnants Just the remnants Remnants Settled in the dark of planets The arc of a blind savage Hidden hesitation Born from meteoric granite Emptiness and loneliness Subdued by these opiates Galactic generations Haunted by this ghostliness Facing past rivals Not given worship of idols Divergent dismay Freedom lost for survival To suffer and wait for forgiveness Is part of this kinship Featherlite figments Manic days, without any witness Once the simplest, now erased Like it all is built to fade Metaphoric mandates Sky diving into the rains Onto the plains, it descends The souls of women and men Caustic collisions New chaos, world's pretend A covenant, raised in sinew Gathering, course to continue Secluded sacrifice The view from the window Deepen then cruise Reapers, move through Artificial anticipation Remnants, forgotten, but still anew Remnants Just the remnants Remnants Only the remnants Remnants Just the remnants Remnants Only the remnants
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No sentiment left in overcast skies Where do planets go when they die What happens to the loss of life The empty light I can't find In this vale of tears I'm swallowed My only hollows on time borrowed They've said that the truth can follow Questions not answers, left like fossil's Squandered decency for advancement Planting many trees hoping for harvest Barbed wire fences surround Karmic phases, I make stances Flexibility every angle find vision Peace found on states of swimming Olympian on mountains climbing I've traded hope for winning A sense of loss I can't factor Rewriting then deleting many chapters Cutting out people like they were cancer I'm distraught, wearing many faces, like an actor So what is truth Is it lucid and loose Bundled up with memories I don't know, I can't choose I stay obtuse, finding breath Counting my blessings and steps Steady streams and reps Needing repair, not knowing what's next The sacred emblems of lost mementos Lost objects inside no tempo Giving me something I needed Where sun rises and the wind blows No capacity left in drowning floods What happens when we're drained of blood Is there some further settlement we find Does it all go dark, no light above In this vale of tears I'm a resident Mentioning the fear I've been developing The elephant in concentric circles With atmospheres I've been meddling Trying to test reality for flaws Memorising patterns in lost halls Where I bled before, lying on my back Coming before grace, there will be a fall Only capturing the slightest essence Torn between adulthood and adolescence Mind is not a place to seek evidence Though I know in it are blessings So what is the message, why this signal When I'm reduced to feeling like sinew Bone, marrow and tissue Dealing in sacred artifacts I've lived through Only capturing what I heard in whispers Slipping through my fingers in figments In the sun, remnants of shadows My own version of sacred scriptures I stay in touch with vessels The wind the rain, will soon settle Pressured with the approaching dawn Garnered the fee in coins and metal The sacred emblems of lost searches Objects now found, my own versions Giving me something I needed The sun rises and wind blows, on this earthling
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Final Days 03:14
Final days beckoned The time to be reckoned Low light starts to gather Clocks stop, time isn't measured Final days beckoned The time to be reckoned Low light starts to gather Clocks stop, time isn't measured Final days numbered, fear of judgement Witness the prey and the hunted Beckoned but disregarded Then trapped by lies they fronted A haze of being blunted Never was worth something Frozen veins so cold hearted Wisdom lost now just nothing Eerie silence draws near Empty places to now fear Final days clock started Ticking down, I can't steer Away from the rocks under waves Away from watery graves Away from what I once started Away from ashes and flames Final days beckoned The time to be reckoned Low light starts to gather Clocks stop, time isn't measured Final days spent in this chamber No deity to pray to, no saviour There's so much to remember The mind empty, no container Of broken pieces or remainders Old halls empty, sparks seen later This terrible time, I see it in the embers Discontent given for this data Keep up with the pace or fall in empty spaces Where you lose your mind, over the ages You never could be any worthy contender A symphony of chaos and mazes Away from hidden traps so disguised Away from trust and familial ties Away from what I once started Away from fires that rise Final days beckoned The time to be reckoned Low light starts to gather Clocks stop, time isn't measured Final days have now approached Courage dwindles, a lump in my throat Not steadfast or with hope or courage No options for escape no final boat Taking survivors to safety It's all really gone down hill lately Since the end, it all began to plummet That sense of fear increased greatly I saw the end, I knew it from the beginning Despite this, I signed up still grinning A part of just forget caution, fuck it Now my minds in a haze spinning Away from truth and salvation Away from losing all sensation Away from what I once started Towards final days, and separation Final days beckoned The time to be reckoned Low light starts to gather Clocks stop, time isn't measured Final days beckoned The time to be reckoned Low light starts to gather Clocks stop, time isn't measured

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Ad Infinitum, a latin phrase meaning to infinity or forevermore, is Epileptic MC's first full length album.

The songs were written, produced and recorded between 2016 & 2020.

This body of work represents the transition to a more abstract writing style, which is influenced by unconscious experiences, shared narratives and dreams.

The bass and synth heavy production of the tracks often feel reminiscent of a sci-fi film soundtrack, evoking both feelings of hope and anxiety.

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released May 21, 2021

All songs written and produced by Joshua Miles

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Epileptic MC London, UK

Epileptic MC draws inspiration from personal life experiences, and urban and natural environments.

His productions are influenced by Drum & Bass, Garage, Grime & Hip Hop.

Over time, his lyrics have become more expansive, abstract and metaphorical, increasingly influenced by dreams, shared experiences & narratives.

His music moves between themes of hope & light and dark and haunting imagery.
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