📡 Transmission 4: Tape Spin and The Idiot
It’s 1983. Rory is back at Dan Gerard’s house — the same house where, a year earlier, he first saw The Who detonate their instruments in glorious televised chaos.
Dan had what Rory didn’t: a cool older brother with a heavy record collection and an electric guitar leaning in the corner like it knew more than you. This place was a portal — and Rory stepped through most weekends.
The ritual was simple: pick a record, blast it, and take turns spinning each other in a creaky office chair until gravity lost all meaning.
That day, Dan dropped the needle on The Idiot by Iggy Pop. The track was “Nightclubbing.” Cold, metallic. That dry drum sound looping endlessly. As Rory spun, the rhythm locked into his head like coordinates. The ceiling was gone. The floor was gone. He could hear a voice — maybe from the vinyl, maybe from space:
“Solar Parade... Solar Parade…”
It sounded German. It sounded important.
That was it. The first Ryden Nova song — beamed straight through nausea, through vertigo, through 'the zone'.
That’s how the album began: not with clarity, but with dizziness.
Rory collapsed sideways, nauseous… but inspired.
🎧 Solar Parade — now embedded in this signal. 🎥 POV video from the chair included.
