The Republic of Thoronia

That’s right folks, the critics have spoken. The first Republic of Thoronia album, Episode 1, was just reviewed in this week’s Onion. I have to say, that through all of the reviews of things I’ve been involved with in my life, this is my favorite. It seems to hit the nail on the head regarding a lot of the influences and I have Jason Heller to thank for that big musical memory of his. You can check out the article by clicking on the picture below, but here are some highlights:

At times the abstraction even coheres into something resembling disjointed electro-that is, before it disolves into another pool of luminous fizz.

…robotic chants paddle through digitized ambience nearly worthy of Tangering Dream or M83… in the album’s prakish, meta-mythic euphoria.

Thankfully, though, Episode 1 seems content to mildly distort the brain instead of breaking it.

B+

Thanks Onion!

You can download the album here in a zip format, here in a rar format or here by each individual MP3. Enjoy!

King Thor and his internet connection have been arguing lately. It is believed that this is due to the FBI’s wiretapping the line after the release of the first book. Please stand by with us through these technical difficulties, if necessary, King Thor has aligned himself with several militants and prophets that will continue the stories and teachings of the Republic of Thoronia. Plans and situations have been set forth to ensure that the Republic of Thoronia — no matter what happens to King Thor, will never die.

I’ve heard from one person who was having problems with the .zip of the full album, so I’ve uploaded a .rar as well. Get it here.

We weren’t able to actually distiguish why he was running into problems. Which is why I’m just addressing it by uploading another format. The .zip worked fine for me, as well as for others, so who knows really?

Let me know if you’re having any other types of problems or weirdness on the downloads… other than them being slow — I don’t want to about hear that.

The .zip file has just reached the 50 downloaded mark. That doesn’t really sound like much, but it’s certainly more copies of the album in more people’s hands then ANYTHING My Calculus ever put out (I still have 200 records in my closet… anyone want one? Four? Ten?). Be sure to tell your friends, associates, anyone who you think might be interested in what the RoT has to offer. I mean, it’s free. How can you go wrong? ALSO! At the next RoT show, hard copies of the album will be available for free. Yes, free. They will be packaged in limited edition felt covers. When is the next show? I dunno. We may have t-shirts available for free as well. But the t-shirts aren’t anything too special, I mean you can make one yourself, just get a paint roller, some t-shirt silk screen ink, an old t-shirt and download this file. Print/copy it on a piece of mylar. Cut out the stencil, roll out the paint, stick your shirt in the oven for a minute and you’ll be good to go.

For all of you who love to remix (maybe what, one, two people?) the Republic of Thoronia  Episode 1 album is now ready to be remixed and chopped and screwed and etcetera by all of you. You know its kind of like what that one band did… what were they called? Dismemberment Plan. What were you thinking? Radiohead? No they ripped it off from DP. Anyway, only four tracks available now. If you want more, let me know. They are being uploaded at this moment, so if you try to download them this instant (09:45 AM MTN) then you’ll just get an error. Enough babble…

• “Here is Where We Are” (Remix Tracks 124MB)
• “March of the Tote” (Remix Tracks 126 MB)
• “When the King Comes Home” (Remix Tracks 60 MB)
• “For Him We Move” (Remix Tracks 91 MB)

That’s right folks, the first Republic of Thoronia full-length album, Episode 1, is now available! Now, there are several ways for you to go about getting said album:

Download .zip

Download Mp3’s individually

Download individual tracks for remix (set your face to “stun” for the file size, 1.1 GB… youch!)

UPDATE: REMIX TRACKS WILL BE UP TOMORROW/WEDNESDAY – My server doesn’t want a 1.1 GB file resting inside it’s laurels, so I’m going to cut up and divide three of the tracks into three seperate downloads. For now, just enjoy the album, you can do your fiddling with it later.

That’s it!

The MP3’s are all 192kps, high quality. Enjoy.

TRACK LISTING

01 — Introduction to Thoronia (narration)

02 — Here is Where We Are

03 — What the Good King Must Say (Narration)

05 — Interlude

06 — When the King Comes Home

07 — The Unicorn Man (Narration)

08– For Him We Move