Elements 3: Lithium
Lithium’s effectiveness against bipolar disorder is more or less a mirror of it being a very reactive element on the one hand, and one effective as a drug on the other. In the case of Lithium it is not so much the compound in which it is ingested, but surprisingly, it is the element itself that is medically effective. These two opposing characters mirror the strong mood swings, extreme highs and lows, and strongly inspired the music on this album, so they led to the use of two sample groups of opposing sonic character.
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