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Release Date: 2023-10-06Label: Not On Label
Milwaukee Protocol was a plunderphonic hauntology album showcasing the progression of human rabies, aiming to depict the emotions and thoughts of someone throughout every part of the disease over the course of four "days.""When progress began, this album was initially a special release for halloween. It has since morphed and shifted into a work that bears little resemblance to its original concept, and to a normal Caretaker fan project. Throughout development this has always been a group effort - to everyone involved, I thank you for your help and contribution. Stay safe." - PXTSERYU
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DAY 1 - PRODROMAL
You should've gone to sleep earlier last night. Feels like you're moving through molasses waking up. Your head is pulsing - you're sweating a little. Maybe it's the heat wave.
Later in the day, you feel a bit uneasy. Could be your anxiety - been like that for a while, and your body is on fumes after only four hours of sleep. The subway feels louder today - though you haven't left work during rush hour in a while. You swear someone tried whispering in your ear on the way home.
It is already too late.
DAY 2 - SYMPTOMATIC
You wake up on day two feeling different than before. A blistering headache becomes a rising fever. You feel exhausted and dehydrated, but the thirst goes away as soon as you see your sink. You’re on edge for a reason you can’t put your finger on. In fact, you’re starting to have trouble putting your mind to anything. Your fingers slip and you have trouble holding things. Nothing you do eases your anxiety.
The sun goes down. Your head starts racing. Someone’s looking at you through the windows. Something’s peering through the blinds. You’re hearing voices. You’re seeing eyes in trees. You don’t sleep. You can’t sleep.
DAY 3 - ACUTE NEUROLOGICAL PERIOD
Something sends you over the edge. Your speech slips and slurs. You ramble. You feel thirstier than you ever have in your entire life and go for water - and feel horrified looking at it. You try drinking it, and your throat spasms as a pain like needles wracks your mouth. You haven’t drank water in days - your lips bleed from dehydration.
You feel sound. Your thalamus is on fire - neurons hijacked by a ravenous force send the entire body into a frenzy. You’re in agonizing pain. You spasm and writhe and scream and cry as restraints are tightened and sedation is applied, with said sedation becoming increasingly less useful. Unreal anger and absolute horror blend and become one as time stops meaning anything to you.
Your hippocampus starts to go as you stop remembering things. Reality melts apart at the seams. Everything is infinite and nothing is anywhere. You are alone, restrained, hallucinating, confused, frothing uncontrollably, and absolutely terrified.
DAY 4 - MEDICALLY INDUCED COMA
Everything has its wonders,
even darkness and silence
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Hosted by PXTSERYU
Recorded by PCB
"Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content" - Hellen Keller