THE REPETITION OF DUST
THE NEW ALBUM | BOXEDGE feat. Lunaria Payn
A motionless stage where the eternal return plays out. From the ruins of empires to the silence of empty rooms, evolution is merely an optical illusion: history does not advance, it repeats itself like a waking nightmare where dust buries everything, only to awaken intact.
Between dark reinterpretations of post-punk milestones and original visions spanning razor-sharp synth-pop, dark electro-blues, cyber-reggae, and dystopian R&B, this album is my cold inquiry into the human absurd: the chronicle of a world in perpetual mutation, yet fatally faithful to its own tragic circular pattern.
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TRACKLIST
01 — ATMOSPHERE
02 — SHOTBY BOTH SIDES
03 — SILENT RHYME
04 —OBLIVION
05 — PULSE
06 — THE REPETITION OF DUST
07 —THE RAIN DANCE
08 — THE PARK OF STOLEN DREAMS
09 — VALENTINE
10 — SATURDAY NIGHT
01 — ATMOSPHERE
Slow, glacial electronic reinterpretation of the Joy Division masterpiece. Lunaria
Payne’s ethereal voice dissolves into a rarefied sonic landscape, where Boxedge’s
production amplifies the sense of emptiness and emotional distance through
cold synths and minimal beats. A tribute that respects the desolation of the
original by transforming it into a Cyber Noir ritual, where every note seems
suspended in the frost of a boundless solitude.
02 — SHOT BY BOTH SIDES
Electronic post-punk reinterpretation of the Magazine classic, where the urgency of the original transforms into a layered sonic landscape. Lunaria
Payne’s voice navigates between analog synths and tight rhythms, while Boxedge’s production maintains the track’s nervous energy by projecting it into a Cyber Noir dimension. An anthem to existential contradiction reread through the lens of digital modernity
03 — SILENT RHYME
Electronic reggae with an almost Jamaican groove, in stark contrast with the urgency of the message. Death speaks through Lunaria Payne with a seductive and merciless voice, urging to live before everything becomes eternal regret. Boxedge’s production plays on cruel irony: warm, hypnotic rhythms accompany an icy warning about fleeting time and love never known. A tropical dance concealing the shadow ready to seize.
04 —OBLIVION
Dystopian electronic R&B where Lunaria Payne sings the dissolution of identity in a transformed urban landscape. Boxedge’s production fuses slow beats and unsettling synths to narrate an awakening into an altered reality, where faces blur like paintings and memories are stolen frame by frame. A paranoid journey through fading neon lights and whispering shadows, balanced between dream and erasure of the self.
05 — PULSE
Pulse — originally recorded by The Psychedelic Furs in 1980 — is one of those
songs that never really ended. It just kept circling, like a signal that refuses to
decay.
06 — THE REPETITION OF DUST
A slow-burning electronic meditation on cyclical time and civilizational entropy. Lunaria Payne’s haunting vocals drift over minimal R&B-inflected beats and shadowy synth textures, while Boxedge’s production creates a hypnotic atmosphere where ancient echoes meet digital decay. The track explores themes of recurrence and transformation, where empires, flesh, and code all return to dust in an endless, melancholic loop.
07 — THE RAIN DANCE
Rhythmic electronic reggae that transforms cyclical pain into ironic dance. Lunaria Payne’s voice accompanies Boxedge’s hypnotic groove production, where syncopated beats and dark synths create an atmosphere of cynical detachment. The track explores the illusion of being able to change the rules of the existential game, trapped between echoes of the past and the ritual repetition of rain that washes everything away but erases nothing.
08 — THE PARK OF STOLEN DREAMS
The Park of Stolen Dreams tells the story of the place within ourselves where the dreams we abandoned are left behind. A dark landscape of memory, inhabited by our fears and our compromises, where a voice keeps whispering that it is too late to hope. The question is simple: Who stole our dreams?
09 — VALENTINE
Electronic reinterpretation of the Sisters of Mercy classic, where Lunaria Payne’s ethereal voice intertwines with Boxedge’s dark sonic architectures. The
production transforms the original post-punk into a Cyber Noir landscape, maintaining the track’s emotional intensity while projecting it into a futuristic
and visionary dimension.
10 — SATURDAY NIGHT
Original version written and performed in Italian by Boxedge (computer-filtered vocals). English adaptation performed by Lunaria Payne in the track “Silent Rhyme”, included in this album.
A motionless presence in the dark corner of the room. Stripped of its useless noise, a Saturday night bleeds into its singular truth: a frozen vigil, Death devouring the sleeper’s dreams, ready to return to exact the toll of time wasted on nothingness, reminding him of the blind absurdity of seeking meaning where only the void remains.