America is a beautiful place. You can literally do whatever you want, wherever you want, it’s great! A place that’s full of freedom, diversity, amazing food, huge majestic cars, and thumping moombahton beats… what more could you possibly ask for? Wasted Fates is one of those dudes from the 3D net-artscape where everything is abnormally polished yet 75% complete, and stuffed to the brim with capitalist symbolism like porcelain toilets, lengths of corrugated PVC piping, plastic swimming pools, and potted palm trees.
Fortunately, he stays grounded in the real world, by creating commissioned sound works for high-roller clients out of his Athenian temple apartment. This song was made for El Chapo, and describes the drug trafficker’s radical escape from prison and subsequent journey to kill Donald Trump. Dude spent one year in maximum security isolation, decided it was enough, and conjured a tunnel beneath his shower to lead him to safety. Then, with the squelchy gabber kick of “Free Like El Chapo” blasting in his eardrums, he mounted a motorcycle that was also a dolphin with the head of a lion, and drove it into the bay of his private jet, which took off from the prison airstrip, playing “Free Like El Chapo,” his anthem, for all of the prisoners to shake their hips to.
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