Dr. Dub says "It was inspired by a thought my percussion teacher had in class".
Acceleration defeats friction
(Para los Rumberos Amorosos)
(For my teacher, Angel Luis Figueroa)
Accelerated rhythm eradicates all friction
All references are lost and possibly never again recovered
As the hand barely makes contact with the pulsating skin
All subdivisions of time now have no meaning
in this fractionless state of things
You cannot partition in this frantic flow of metrical emotion
You can only hang tight
hoping you won’t begin to slide and slip into the cracks far below
Where multiple layers of earthquaking tonal lava
passionately coast past each other
perfectly and studiously aligned
In the darkest depths of rumba
an arithmurgy of love is born
Where the most intricate topologies of spirits
tangle up together to give birth
To orgasmic bursts of color that climax
Into forms of awareness
my mortal mind has hardly ever known