The darker closing movement, described in the release note as an industrial hip-hop send-off. It had already appeared in February as a visual-film demo with printed lyrics.
Pre-release life
“Abiogenesis” was publicly identified on February 4, 2025 inside THIRTEEN DREAMS featuring ABIOGENESIS as a demo from the forthcoming Strange Case of the Electronic Lover. The post includes the lyric, a visual-film frame, production-reference discussion and twelve other sections.
Manufactured origin
The lyric's first-person speaker says it was born in a desert laboratory and “produced for pleasure.” The biological term abiogenesis — life arising from non-life — is therefore converted into the problem of an engineered subject that can speak about its own use, desire and need for purpose. This is one of the clearest literalizations of manufactured personhood in the project.
Visual and musical references
The February text describes an early music-video idea as “black-and-white Hype Williams” and identifies Q-Tip's “Vivrant Thing” as the most obvious musical reference JQD heard in the song, adding that it had been a favorite at age fourteen. The August release announcement later distinguishes “Abiogenesis” from the first three tracks by calling it the industrial hip-hop send-off.
Sequence function
The master recording is slower and darker in aggregate tonal balance than the first three tracks. The shift gives Part One a closing movement that sounds less like continuation than re-entry into the laboratory/machine world named by the lyric.
Musical language
Musical-language route: officially framed as an industrial hip-hop send-off; Q-Tip’s “Vivrant Thing” is the source-attested reference.