The Dictator’s Transmission (YSMHB) Track

The Dictator's Transmission is a reimagining of the earlier YSMHB piece The Dictator Chaplin, originally built around a fragment of Charlie Chaplin's closing speech from The Great Dictator. In this new form, the track leans further into the project's long-standing fascination with broadcast textures, fractured messaging, and the unstable line between signal and interference.

The piece sits within (Our Course) Determined by Our Stars (The Spacing Out Phasing In Sessions) as part of the album's broader practice of temporal re-entry - returning to older material not to correct it, but to approach it from a different moment. The original track's structure is preserved only in outline; the rest is dissolved, reassembled, and filtered through the Sessions' esoteric, deliberately uncertain logic.

Like much of YSMHB's catalogue, the work treats its own past as mutable. The "transmission" here is less a message than a residue: a voice caught between clarity and distortion, a fragment of intention refracted through shifting frequencies.

Om Pharaoh Records