Atmosphere

Smart Machine, Empty Head Restless experimental dub with deep bass, broken one-drop rhythms, Hammond organ, Nyabinghi grooves and warped dub-poetry vocals.

Lyrics

Dem seh machine get smart Smart Smart Smart An' man get tired fi tink
Scroll Swipe Blink Scroll Swipe Blink Tink Tink Tink
Pickney pon di tablet Teacher pon di screen Everybody connected But what connection mean?
Finger dem fast Eye dem bright Swipe whole day Swipe whole night
Ask dem read One page too long Ask dem reason Something gone wrong
Machine learn quick Machine learn deep Human mind say Lemme sleep
Smart machine Empty head More information Less get read Smart machine Know everything But who gonna know When di machine chat wrong?
Smart machine Empty head Wake up Wake up Before thought dead
Scroll Swipe Click Repeat Scroll Swipe Click Repeat
Across di ocean Big man fret AI too strong We ain't ready yet
Funny ting Same people seh Put every little life Pon a screen instead
Now machine write Machine talk Machine reason Machine walk Machine tell you What is true
But tell me bredren Who checking who?
Smart machine Empty head More information Less get read Smart machine Know everything But who gonna know When di machine chat wrong?
Smart machine Empty head Wake up Wake up Before thought dead
Who checking who? Who checking who? Who Checking Who?
One machine seh black One machine seh white One seh morning One seh night
Different owner Different rule Different truth Inside di tool
So if you never read If you never know How you gonna tell When di answer bend so?
If every word Come ready-made Who gonna notice When truth get changed?
Long book gather dust Short clip gather views Plenty information But no time fi choose
Smart machine Empty head More information Less get read Smart machine Know everything But who gonna know When di machine chat wrong?
Smart machine Empty head Wake up Wake up Before thought dead
Give machine di question Give machine di pen Give machine di judgement Again Again Again
One day you ask What should I do?
Machine turn round And start asking you What you need thinking for? I already know
Easy road Easy road Easy road Till you forget How fi go
No map No book No doubt No why
Just press one button And take di reply
But intelligence Nah something you rent Nah something you download Hundred percent
Knowledge need roots Reason need time Question di answer Read every line
Teach di pickney How fi disagree How fi read How fi reason How fi see
Machine can help Machine can show But human must decide Where human go
Smart machine Wake-up head More information More must get read
Smart machine Powerful thing So human better know Who pulling di string
Smart machine Human head Keep di question Alive instead
Read Reason Doubt Check
Don't give di machine Your intellect
Machine get smart Human must get smarter Machine get strong Human must think harder
No surrender di question No surrender di choice No surrender di thinking No surrender di voice
Di voice Di voice Di voice
Who checking who? Who checking who? Who Checking Who?

Story

Smart Machine, Empty Head What happens when the machines get smarter while we slowly forget how to think? Smart Machine, Empty Head by Rythmchecker is a restless experimental dub warning from a world of endless scrolling, instant answers and outsourced thinking. Deep bass, broken one-drop rhythms, Hammond organ, shifting tempos and meters, Nyabinghi grooves and warped dub-poetry vocals collide in a track that refuses to sit still. Phasers twist the voice, tape echoes lose their way, rhythms stumble and rebuild, while one question keeps returning through the smoke: Who checking who? Dark, hypnotic and deliberately unpredictable, Smart Machine, Empty Head is not anti-technology. It is a reminder to keep the most important tool switched on: your own mind.