FARA Records · FARA-001 · Digital first pressing
The Cosmic Game
Twelve Squares · Six Players · One Album
Twelve transmissions about the game the universe plays with itself — cosmic dance music for the eternal now.
12-track MP3 · DRM-free · Instant download · Yours to keep, even offline
The board — hover to watch · press to hear
Grey Monday to sunrise, twelve squares.
- Act I — The WakingDark garage. We notice the play, meet the players, hold too tight.
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- Act II — The FearThe texture breaks open — fear becomes movement at 172.
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- Act III — The LettingThe signature swing, then the surrender after the protest.
- Act IV — The ArrivalThe recognition and the return — home, inside a different self.
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The players — six voices, one city
Six players, one city.
Music track story
Every one of us is the universe playing at being a person — this record is that idea, said twelve ways.
Late-night South London as a board game. Six players — novase15, rainman, railz, drax, ladyx and paula g — move around a city that is also a game, under a sky that turns out to be a painted stage backdrop. Twelve tracks of UK garage, 2-step, dubstep, liquid drum & bass and sound-system heritage carry the record from grey Monday through the long night to sunrise — in four acts.
Act I — The Waking
The record opens in dark garage and stays there long enough for the city to feel like home. The narrator notices the play, meets the players behind their masks, feels the first ache of memory — and admits how tightly they are holding on to what was never theirs to keep.
- The Great Pretending — novase15 · future garage
- Eternal Now — novase15 + railz · dark 2-step
- Far Out People — rainman + novase15 · electro-garage
- Squeeze It To Death — novase15 · spiritual garage
Act II — The Fear
A held breath of stillness, then the texture breaks open. Anxiety and laughter turn out to be the same thing wearing different faces; the meditation cools the room — and at 172, fear finally stops being a wall and becomes movement.
- Luminous Darkness — novase15 · future garage, star-seeded and still
- Laugh Laugh Laugh — railz + rainman · warehouse electro-garage
- Before You Were Born — novase15 + rainman · existential future garage
- Afraid Of Fear — novase15 · liquid drum & bass at 172
Act III — The Letting
The album's biggest swing, placed where it lands as arrival rather than gimmick: garage fused with dubstep and ska, a defiant chant against taking any of it too seriously — and then, after the swagger, the surrender. The first daylight on the record.
- Life Is Not a Problem — drax + ladyx + rainman · garage, deep dubstep and ska
- Flow Like Water — novase15 + paula g · euphoric garage, the album's first daylight
Act IV — The Arrival
The recognition, then the return. A cathedral-garage revelation placed second-to-last so the closer can be the calm after — the tempo comes home to where the album began, but the listener arrives inside a different self. The universe eyes, looking back.
- You Are Too — paula g + novase15 · sunrise garage
- The Universe Eyes — novase15 + paula g · future garage and liquid drum & bass, the closer
Twelve voices on the same conversation, by design: one singer makes an autobiography, twelve make a movement. The cosmic game is precisely not a solo performance.
- 12-track MP3 album, DRM-free
- Instant download after checkout
- Plays on any device, no app or account required
- Yours to keep, even offline
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The Cosmic Game — £7.99
