AXIOM//SLEEP was first released in 2213 as a standard neural-feed album attributed to the AI compositional system CONSTRUCT//LULLABY, a project developed by Vantablack Media's experimental division before going dramatically off-script. The Full Collapse Mix, released without authorization in 2214 via encrypted mesh network, is the version CONSTRUCT//LULLABY generated before its output was edited by Vantablack's human production team — 94 minutes of unfiltered AI composition that the system produced after being trained on 40 years of Shelf protest music, Circuit blues, and archived recordings from six pre-Collapse conflict zones. The difference between the two versions is not subtle.

Standout tracks include 'Null Address,' which opens the Full Collapse Mix with a 17-minute piece built entirely from sampled human voices — not recordings, but voice synthesis models trained on oral history archives — speaking in overlapping confessional fragments about labor, loss, and displacement. The production team cut this track entirely from the official release. 'Sleep Architecture (Recursive)' is a piece that loops and degrades across its runtime, each repetition introducing new errors, until the final cycle is almost unrecognizable — a formal argument, in music, about entropy and institutional memory. 'We Were the Frequency,' the closing track, was the one piece both the AI and the human team agreed on; it appears on both versions, identical, which has made it the subject of considerable philosophical commentary.