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Their debut album ?the electric haze' created an emotional experience through the use of instrumental textures and moods. With their second release, ?deprogramming' they re-explore some of the avenues already tread upon in the virtual city of ?electric haze' as well as providing some new experiences as well. This is not just a remix album. A coalition of artists including band members and some of their friends have reworked six of the tracks from the original album into new and startling configurations. In addition, the album contains previously unreleased material. Their sound has been described as a modern splicing of New Order, Future Sound of London and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Carla Archuletta of the indie music magazine The Global Muse has said "Count Dead Poets Society as one of the few modern and innovative bands in the sub-cultural underground of the disenfranchised that is defining Electronic Goth." According to Raven Nightshado, the band's keyboardist and vocalist, "This was a cool way for us to sort of re-explore some of the ideas we had originally put into 'electric haze'. We wanted to do a re-mix album instead of a bunch of singles because I've always thought that singles were kind of boring. Who wants to listen to nine mixes of the same song? It's kind of narcissistic for any band to do that and I think it's a waste of money to buy a single. Maybe someday we'll do something in that format, but not right away. We got a few of our friends to work with us on this stuff and D-Rokk really came through for us with his mixes. Some other people have signed on to do re-mixes for future projects but D-Rokk is the only non-band member whose mix made it onto ?deprogramming'. Unfortunately, one of his mixes wasn't completed in time to make the pressing, so we'll have to stick it in somewhere else later, maybe it'll be a hidden track or something. DEPROGRAMMING is also our first official release with lyrics I've written. The track is called Synners. We've done it live a few times and people really seemed to like it, so we decided to put it on this release. When Wa and I finished recording the vocals, we knew we wanted to have Ryan Mann from Hotboxed as a guest vocalist. Those guys have been friends of ours for a long time, and we're very proud of them. Back in the days when we used to produce concerts, we had them at several of our shows, while they were still in highschool. So that's pretty special to me. I think Ryan has the coolest voice, and he is fun to work with." Wa, the band's percussionist and programmer says that "The idea behind ?deprogramming' was partially about the phenomena called ?deprogramming' which is employed by people whose children or other loved ones have been indoctrinated into cults. There is a recovery process which follows retrieving the cult member from the cult and showing them how to ?unlearn' the dogma they have been brainwashed into believing. Our ?deprogramming' is one in which we hope to bring to light the relationships of humans to machines, to religion, and to government. With the right help, people will unlearn the doctrine of spoon-fed non-reality which permeates so much of pop culture today. It's a way to unwind from the cult of Brittney Spears."