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Originally Posted by adam
I always thought the Spaceape/Kode9 virus business was taken from Burroughs talking about the virus-like nature of language. I'm not saying that's not silly (I've read very little Burroughs but I did think he was very overrated), but that's what I took from the lyrics. Now, in some of that Burroughs shit, he's stressing the editing and resplicing of words and phrases, played in the background, from which new meaning emerges, which, I would suggest, if the reference is deliberate, supports the repititious nature of the album.
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i wouldn't be surprised if it were a Burroughs reference. the other thing about Spaceape reusing his lyrics is that it's a very
grimey quality - all grime MCs spit the same bars over different beats, sometimes in the same set. Spaceape isn't grime, but there's enough dialogue between grime and dubstep that his self-quoting doesn't sound out of place to anyone who follows both scenes. he talks about the "sign of the times" in the super early Kode9 track "Babylon", before they covered "Sign 'O' The Times" in "Sine". completely intentional, as opposed to being strapped for ideas.