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When I came up with my stage name for SoundCloud,
I imagined an old organ grinder with his monkey and money cup,
cranking away on a street corner of an old cobblestone village.
But these days, the street corner was even older, as was the man himself,
along with his old synthesizer. The monkey is long gone, in case you were wondering.

Actually, I was quite surprised when the image that appeared got my glasses and my beard right, and even my blue shirt along with a pocket (where I keep my pocket protecter full of pens and pencils). Heck, it could almost have been my photo.

Ye Olde Synthgrinder

Tension 1

And now this is "Stay Strong (Extended Collaborative Version A)", in our almost completed joint album "Again and Again" (2025), containing extended collaborative versions from tracks in my own most recent album "Again" (2025). I composed my part, "Stay Strong", improvising on my Akai MPK mini keyboard connected to Logic Pro, in the warm evening of 12 July 2025, and arranged, recorded and mixed my track the same evening. At the same date Roberto B published on SoundCloud his track "Atmosphere 15". I immediately saw an extended collaboration by combining these beautiful tracks, which I did for this Version A, mixed on 13 July 2025 in Logic Pro. The collaboration was released here on SoundCloud in the evening (in Europe) on 20 August 2025.

The artwork cover for our album "Again and Again" (2025) and all tracks in it uses a painting by Roberto B titled "Horloge - Le Temps" of 20 November 2024 annotated by Alex M in Mac OS Preview on 21 February 2025 - in coordination and agreement with Roberto B.

Duration: 10:48 minutes

Stay Strong (Extended Collaborative Version A) - Roberto B & Alex M

This is now the extended collaborative version B with Roberto B (@2roberto2) of my "Hoping for the Future", https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/hoping-for-the-future, a track in our almost completed album "Again and Again" (2025). My parts was composed spontaneously in GarageBand iOS in the late evening of 6 April 2025 and arranged, recorded and mixed in Logic Pro in the evening of 19 April 2025. The parts by Roberto B were composed in MAGIX on 27 April 2025, and he also did the final arrangement and mix on that date. Version A with the same title, https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/hoping-for-the-future-extended-collaborative-version-a-roberto-b-alex-m, was released here on 2 May 2025 , This version B was released on SoundCloud this Thursday afternoon (in Europe) of 28 August 2025.

The artwork cover for our album "Again and Again" (2025) and all tracks in it uses a painting by Roberto B titled "Horloge - Le Temps" of 20 November 2024 annotated by Alex M in Mac OS Preview on 21 February 2025 - in coordination and agreement with Roberto B.

Duration: 6:20 minutes

Jet Up 2025

Roberto B

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