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The year is 1981. Dr. Stephen Hawking is widely regarded as the smartest man in the world. What is less known is his love of funky footwork. Looking for an outlet to combine his loves of particle physics, cosmology, and street dancing, Dr. Hawking creates the Dancetron 5000 (5000...) a robot designed to study black holes and win dance battles. Programmed for breakthroughs in both physics and ethnochoreology, Dancetron would be the first android ever to do the "Bankhead Bounce," the "Cat Daddy" and "Strobing." He would also be capable of cosmologically inspired moves, such as the "Electric Fermian," the "Gamma Ray Emitter," and the "Gravitational Hamiltonian." Dancetron's mission was to find that most funky of particles: the Higgs-Boson. But Dancetron would rather dance....
DANCETRON
My name is Dancetron (5000...)
I have come to party
Top Rock and Down Rock
Freezes and Power Moves
Teach you how to Dougie and
Electric Boogaloo
My name is Dancetron (5000...)
I have come to get funky
Angular Momentum and Maxwell's Equation
Will blow your mind with funktastic jubilation
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Dr. Hawking is traveling to present his machine at Columbia University and gather support to send Dancetron 5000 (5000...) into space to study the nearest black hole. As they pass through Brooklyn, however, Dancetron hears the beats of a local ghetto-blaster. He blows a fuse desiring to bust a move, and he breaks out of his scientific caravan. Knowing neither fear, nor pride, Dancetron meets the B-boys on their own turf: Popping in Brooklyn, Locking in the Bronx, Queens had never seen such a Bounce. He broke Manhattan with his Breaking, and Staten Island was stunned by his Techtonic. Dr. Hawking searched madly for his beloved robot, he finally found him Memphis Juking in Times Square. He threatened to remove Dancetron's choreographic programming, and Dancetron went mad with rage...
DANCETRON
My name is Dancetron (5000...)
I have come to destroy you
Without my Krumping there is nothing to live for
Set self destruct sequence on the dance floor
My name is Dancetron (5000...)
I have to annihilate
Photons and Neutrons have no enticement
But Murder, Death, Kill gives me great excitement
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Ignoring Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics, Dancetron started killing every human around him with his lasers, x-rays and gamma emitters. Driven to distraction with grief Dr. Hawking collected his friends, leading scientists in their fields, to form the Quantum Coalition. Cosmologist Carl Sagan, ranged weapons expert. Physicist Leonard Susskind, demolitions. Roboticist Joseph F Engelberger, communications specialist. Mathematician Robert Penrose, the plucky comic relief. Dr. Hawking lead the team, in addition to hand-to-hand combat proficiency. They met Dancetron in battle on the plains of Nebraska, with Susskind injured in the ensuing chaos. While Susskind would vow vengeance on Hawking and his machine, the Coalition carried the bloody day. Dancetron was sent into space, having been wiped of all dance moves, or was he...
DANCETRON
My name is Dancetron (5000...)
Floating through space
Collecting evidence of Black Hole Elasticity
To prove the Theory of General Relativity
My name is Dancetron (5000...)
Soaring through the universe
With infinity before me and the great beyond
I can Galaxy Dance til the break of dawn...
credits
from Fingersnaps And Handclaps,
released December 28, 2013
Words: DTM and The Admiral
Music: Mark Rosenthal
Forged under the dark tendrils of Mount Destiny, bursting forth from the fires of Infinity, and soaring through the galaxy
at the speed of light comes...
BLANG!?
DTM and The Admiral, from their world wide headquarters at the Beat Delicatessen, are in the business of crafting fat beats, hot rhymes, and pickled mothafuckin' funk....more