Quiet Geology - a Thatjeffcarter Remix

That Icelandic musical pixie, Bjork, has partnered with Beatport.com  for a remix contest.  Artists are challenged to translate her song Mutual Core into something altogether new.

Here is my entry: Mutual Core (Quiet Geology Mix - by Thatjeffcarter)





Because the song's lyrics make numerous references to geological formations and processes I tried to give my remix the sound of deep caverns, slow moving glaciers, and violent geothermal hot-springs.

I shuffle around the tectonic plates in my chest.

You know I gave it all,

Try to match our continents

To change seasonal shift,

To form a mutual core.

As fast as your fingernail grows,

The Atlantic ridge drifts

To counteract distance.

You know I gave it all,

Can you hear the effort of the magnetic strife?

Shuffling of columns

To form a mutual core.

This eruption undoes stagnation.

You didn't know I had it in me,

Withheld your love, an unspent capsule.

I didn't know you had it in you,

You hid the key to our continuity.

I didn't know you had it in you.

This eruption undoes stagnation.

You didn't know, you didn't know.

What you resist persists, nuance makes heat

To counteract distance

I know you gave it all,

Offered me harmony if things were done your way.

My Eurasian plate subsumed,

Forming a mutual core.

This eruption undoes stagnation.

You didn't know I had it in me,

Withheld your love, an unspent capsule.

I didn't know you had it in you.

This eruption undoes stagnation

You didn't know I had it in me

This eruption undoes stagnation

You didn't know, you didn't know.