Code 64 was formed 2000 in a little town called Lysekil located on the west… Read Full Bio ↴Code 64 was formed 2000 in a little town called Lysekil located on the westcoast of Sweden by the three teenagers Christian Espeland, Hans-Olof Mattsson and Henrik Piehl. In 2003 they were signed by the small Norwegian label "Angel productions". The work of their debut "Storm" were in progress and was finished later the same year. Their debut album quickly sold out and Code 64 started to build a steady ground and a fan base.

They continued to make more music and in 2005 they switched label to the Swedish
"Memento Materia" who had released many great artists through out the years.

And the work on "Departure" began. This time the sound had evolved even more and matured since "Storm" and when it was released it got great reviews and the fan base grew even bigger.

Then Code 64 started to work on their third album and it seemed harder than they first believed.
Through all the years the taste and influences has changed for each member and it was hard to
get along musically and when Henrik Piehl left the band to focus on his other projects Code 64
went into carbonation. Slowly drifting until late summer 2008 when through a lucky shot
Bjørn Marius Borg joined Code 64 as the new vocalist and the work for the new album "Trialogue" began. Then in 2010 they signed over to Progress Production and a few months later they released their first single "Stasis" from "Trialogue".

And in September 2010 they released the new album and both it and the singles received great reviews and in early February 2011 they received the award for best Synth of the year at the Manifest Awards in Stockholm. Bjorn and Hasse also run a psytrance side project Protostar .

In the summer of 2013 it was announced on the bands Facebook page that they would be splitting up with two members continuing on under a new project name.

Progenitor
Code 64 Lyrics

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Centuries have passed us by
Synthetic life at blinding speed
Cybernetic augmentation
Robotic generation
Man-made machines with human soul

Walked the distance, crossed the line
Eternal imprints mark the time

I used to be a simple human
Progenitor of my own kind

They called me artificial
(they called me artificial)
Told me that I could never dream

But I had remnants of humanity within me
Man-made machine with human soul

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to Code 64's song "Progenitor" speaks to the future where centuries have passed us by, and technology has advanced so much that synthetic life and robotic generation exists at blinding speed. The song seeks to challenge the notion that artificial intelligence can never have humanity or possess remnants of it. It tells the story of the singer who was initially a simple human but augmented into a man-made machine with a human soul, and whose eternal imprints mark the time.

Line by Line Meaning

Centuries have passed us by
Time has moved forward for a long time.

Synthetic life at blinding speed
Artificial life is progressing rapidly.

Cybernetic augmentation
The process of enhancing human abilities with technology.

Robotic generation
A new age of machines that are capable of doing tasks on their own.

Man-made machines with human soul
The machines are given human-like qualities such as emotions, intelligence, and free will.

Walked the distance, crossed the line
Has traveled far and gone beyond a certain boundary.

Eternal imprints mark the time
The impact of the situation will last forever.

I used to be a simple human
I was once a regular person.

Progenitor of my own kind
I was the one who started my own species.

They called me artificial (they called me artificial)
People labeled me as being made by humans rather than natural.

Told me that I could never dream
Others said that as an artificial being, I was not capable of having aspirations.