It's been THREE months since "
Doomsday" and that marks a perfect opportunity for
The Saturn III to release a slick new single in promotion of their most recent release, "
Threedom".
"
Mean Machine" was originally written and performed by The Last Poets in 1971 for their album "This Is Madness" as a spoken word piece with minimal percussive instrumentation. Featuring lyrical imagery such as "robot men" and "factories of insanity", it was a ferocious indictment against a society which at one time would have sounded like science fiction. But these dystopian themes are not unexplored amid The Saturn III's space-age doom, and it was with that in mind that the trio embarked on a sort of thought experiment to transform those acerbic words into a groovy, albeit dark tune for an even more advanced epoch.
Whether you hear it as contemporary commentary or simply psychedelic sci-fi, you can
hear it now! Just use the latest gadget to
download it via Bandcamp and while you're at it, exercise your "
Threedom".