Giving Them Drugs, Taking Their Lives Away

One of the all-time classic 90s techno songs is Empirion’s Narcotic Influence, with its catchy giving them drugs, taking their lives away chorus, phased 303 rifffage, and that killer bassline. Imagine my surprise, then, while I was watching a really trashy HP Lovecraft movie adaptation (From Beyond, one of those woeful serial HP Lovecraft movies by that guy from Star Trek) and one of the actors, a deranged psychiatrist, utters the line. I thought I might be the first person to spot this, given that the band’s own management website seems confused about its origins, but it was not to be, alas… The original short story is a lot of fun.