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CEX

Cex's first album was a CD-r released in 1998, when Rjyan Kidwell was in high school on the northside of Baltimore County. It's hard to believe, but in those days, Facebook wasn't even a gleam in TheZuck514@aol.com's eye, and you had to go to computer dealership to buy CD-rs. Also, you never saw laptops on-stage at concerts... but before the 20th century had officially ended, Rjyan had teamed up with like-minded artists from the West Coast to form the legendary Tigerbeat6 crew, whose flamboyant energy and uncompromising originality were perhaps the single-biggest factor in bringing that exciting instrument to the forefront of contemporary American music performance. For the next few years, Cex brought dark humor and bipolar beats to a variety of unsuspecting genres, appearing in various states of undress in magazines like Rolling Stone and Spin, and garnering praise from John Peel, Mark Bell, and (according to an old story I'm still trying to verify) Beck. Then, one day, on the way to South By Southwest, the tour van broke down in Tucumcari. Underneath the star-choked New Mexican night sky, Rjyan had a vision of great danger threatening all musicians, a premonition so vivid it compelled him to renounce all conventional aspirations and take up a more spiritual path. He returned to Baltimore, built a sturdy hermitage, and devoted himself entirely to the task of sharpening both his craft and his wits, that he might be able to defeat the powerful technocratic industrialists intent on turning music into a devastating tool of assimilation and exploitation.

It is said that his ability to make machines sing as though possessed by raw human emotion increases steadily with each passing season, and there is a spooky serenity associated with music fans who follow cryptic clues to the hidden addresses where the sounds Rjyan now creates may be heard. Over the last few weeks, however, there have been strange reports from those fans, describing an unexpected twist in the hermit's ascetic routine: Rjyan has apparently shifted from the construction of mesmerizing machine-songs to the construction of a musical machine of his own design. Only two things are known about this enigmatic new instrument: first, that it houses an artificial neural network with deep learning that makes Corgan's frac rack look lke a TI-84; second, that it is the approximate size and shape of a human being.