The lyric about "the man who works the soft machine" may be a reference to the William S. Burroughs novel The Soft Machine.
The band started out as a solo project in 2004, when Massimo Usai sought an outlet for his vision-driven high temperature fever, inspired by William S. Burroughs' novel The Soft Machine.
# The first edition was printed by Olympia Press in Paris, in 1961, as number 88 in the Traveller Companion Series.
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As such an agent he makes a time travel machine and takes on a gang of Mayan priests who use the Mayan calendar to control the minds of slave laborers used for planting maize.
Enigma machine | Rage Against the Machine | Automated teller machine | Victor Talking Machine Company | Soft Machine | Soft Cell | The Time Machine | Soft Skull Press | Linotype machine | Vickers machine gun | soft drink | DeLorean time machine | Sprite (soft drink) | Darne machine gun | Rube Goldberg machine | MG 17 machine gun | The Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Company | soft rock | Soft drink | Machine Head (band) | Machine Head | KPV heavy machine gun | Hudson Soft | slot machine | machine | ShKAS machine gun | PK machine gun | machine pistol | Love Removal Machine | Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine |
All of the readings were from Burroughs' novels Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and Nova Express.