Song freely downloadable from the facebook page of the Minotaur Project: www.facebook.com (click on the BandPage application on the left). The story of this video is that Cobus Potgieter, who first gave me the idea to make videos of my songs came out with a “songwriting challenge” (sort of…), in which he proposed his drum-only tracks to be used to create a new, original song. I made a song for that (Synthetic Minotaur), and when I saw how well it was recieved, I decided to make two more, this is the last one of them. Without writing too much I’d like to add a personal note to the song: I chose this track because of the dynamics. I started two times recording ideas on the drums, now I have about 4 different half-empty projects files with ideas thrown into the trashcan. I thought about this song almost 24/7 in the last two weeks, even started to plan it before Planet Unrealm. It was probably the most difficult track to date I have composed on, mainly because the choruses are not the top parts of the song. It was amazing planning something like this. So, writing was about three complete days (if we count only the useful parts), filming and cutting the video was one another. I managed to move to a new (much bigger) flat during the process, hence the new spot for the studio. The original song was 30 seconds to Mars’ Vox Populi. The subject of my song is (sort of) an answer to Vox Populi. The title (Reverse Engineering) is quite obvious, but the appearance of Kilgore Trout …