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Bite-of-God

The Canine Apocrypha

Bite-of-God broadcasts from a decommissioned Sprint LTE van modified with a four-hundred-watt shortwave antenna and a custom subwoofer array salvaged from a demolished AMC theater. No one has seen his face; his voice is only ever heard heavily vocoded through a plugin he coded himself called WOOFELIZER, and his identity is a matter of heated speculation among the seventeen people who actively monitor the 6.925 MHz pirate radio band. What is known: he believes that dogs possess a complete, syntactically rich language that predates human speech, that this language was deliberately suppressed by a conspiracy he refers to only as the Cathedrals, and that hard dubstep is the divinely appointed medium for restoring it to the human frequency range.

His tracks are built from AM radio static, sub-bass sine waves held for uncomfortably long durations, and samples of actual dogs barking that he processes through a granular synthesizer until they sound like Gregorian chant sung by a congregation of Dobermans. He describes his creative method as bibliomancy with frequency: he tunes his oscillators to correspond with the numerical values of key phrases from the Bark Apocrypha, a text he claims to have derived from the electromagnetic murmurs of a very elderly Golden Retriever named Bartholomew who lived behind a gas station in Barstow and, Bite-of-God insists, was a prophet.

The Frequency of Adoration

His mission is singular and absolute: to force the human nervous system to feel what a dog feels when it loves something unconditionally. He believes the adrenal spike of a well-timed second dropwhen the sub-bass hits at precisely the resonant frequency of the human ribcageis the only reliable portal to a state he calls Total Devotion. Every track is a transmission, a prayer, a thrown stick into the void. He signs off every broadcast with the same vocoded benediction: they are waiting for you to understand.

His van is covered in peeling bumper stickers that say things like MY OTHER SYNTH IS A BASSET HOUND and HONK IF YOUR DOG HAS UNLOCKED THE SEVENTH SEAL. He has never released a track to streaming platforms; he considers the digital economy a distraction from the true work of electrifying the ionosphere with love. He is not a musician, he insists, but a radio evangelist for the First Canine Church of Dub, and his congregation is every stray who ever tilted its head at a passing car and heard, in the engines hum, the faint outline of a drop.

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You've Been Through To Parts

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Liner Notes
[Intro]
(dial tone... three tones, dead air)
Out of hours. You're through.
(click, click, click — that's the catalogue, that's the keys)
You've been through to parts... parts... parts...

[Verse]
Counter shut at half five, love, we've just stepped out the back
Kettle's on in the office, someone's having a sit-down
If it's a bolt, a bracket, a gasket or a clip
It's in the warehouse — it has always been in the warehouse

[Chorus]
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
Please leave the make, the model, and the year
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
The make, the model, and the year
Genuine parts only (genuine parts only)
Genuine parts only
The part exists — the part has always existed
Leave the make, the model, and the year

[Verse]
Our trade counter is currently busy (busy, busy)
Our trade counter is currently busy
We'll ring you back just as soon as somebody's free
And somebody is always free for a part

[Chorus]
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
Please leave the make, the model, and the year
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
The make, the model, and the year
Genuine parts only (genuine parts only)
Genuine parts only
The part exists — the part has always existed
Leave the make, the model, and the year

[Bridge]
Hi, you're through to Reg— (he hasn't, he hasn't)
(modem handshake rising... Reg picks up internally)
If it's metal and it once went on a van
There's one in a bag with the year wrote on it
The sun comes up, the part is in
The sun comes up, the part is in
Please leave the make — the make, the model — the model, and the year

[Chorus]
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
Please leave the make, the model, and the year
You've been through to parts (parts, parts, parts)
The make, the model, and the year
Genuine parts only (genuine parts only)
Genuine parts only
The part exists — the part has always existed
Leave the make, the model, and the year

[Outro]
Thank you for holding for nobody
Somebody's holding it for you
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