Set The Tunes And Play

a melancholic pulse drifting through digital silence — a sonic diary of disconnect, longing, and unspoken words left behind.
With atmospheric layers and haunting vocals, STTAP captures the moment love turns to static, and presence becomes memory.

Set The Tunes and Play

Fades Away

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a late-night transmission through fluorescent memories and haunted glances — a synth-soaked dream where echoes of past connections flicker like city lights in the rain.
STTAP blends shadowy beats and vaporwave textures to narrate what lingers after we fade from each other’s lives, but not from each other’s minds.

Neon Ghosts

Back to the pulse of a world before screens —
“1979” captures the haze of late nights, vinyl static, and analog love. It’s not just a song, it’s a time machine. With warm synth layers, tape-saturated drums, and a melody that aches like an old photo, this track is an homage to simpler chaos, when emotions weren’t filtered and memories were raw.

1979 (V1)

“Lost Signal (Midnight Version)” takes the original’s pulse of longing and transforms it into a darker, late-night journey. With deeper synth textures, echoing vocals, and a hypnotic groove, this version feels like the same story told under flickering neon at 2 AM. It’s a shadowed reflection of the original—more intimate, more haunting, and built for those midnight hours where every echo lingers longer.

Lost Signal (Midnight Version V2)

“Lost Signals” dives into the fracture between human connection and digital dissonance. With haunting vocals, glitch textures, and a pulsing electronic backdrop, the track explores love fading into static—where silence screams louder than words and emotions dissolve into pixels. Atmospheric, melancholic, and cinematic, this is a song for those who’ve felt unseen in the noise.

Lost Signals

When the world sleeps, memories speak the loudest.
“Midnight Echoes” dives deep into the emotional silence of late hours — where voices from the past return in fragments, and digital ghosts hum softly beneath the beat. A haunting blend of cinematic synths, distant vocals, and intimate melodies, this track is a late-night confession to no one… and everyone.

Midnight Echoes

Some nights hit harder than caffeine and silence combined.
“Midnight Rush” is the sound of chasing clarity through neon haze — a collision of thoughts, pulses, and unanswered calls at 2AM. With glitchy beats, whispered hooks, and late-night confessions wrapped in analog warmth, this track rides the edge between escape and reflection.

Midnight Rush

In a world of constant pings and echoes, “Silent Notification” tells a story of two souls speaking through the static — a conversation between man and woman, stitched in rhythm and digital yearning.
No sound, just the pulse. No words, just the read receipt.

This is modern love — waiting, seen-zoned, and echoing through glass screens.
Glitched hearts and muted feelings, delivered with a melodic whisper.

Silent Notification

Where memories haunt the silence, and the future echoes in rewind —
“Tomorrow’s Past” is a sonic time loop of nostalgia and revelation. A haunting blend of melancholic synths and heartbeat percussion, this track dives deep into the idea that the future was once a memory, and yesterday’s dreams still breathe in today’s regrets.

Tomorrow's Past

When captures the strange stillness between reality and memory — when time feels paused, and everything unsaid hangs in the air.
A dreamy, ambient-infused moment from STTAP’s debut album, reflecting digital silence, emotional residue, and the turning of something deep inside.

8 O'Clock

8 O'Clock (Midnight Version)

8 O'Clock (Radio Edit) - Remaster

STTAP (Set the Tunes and Play) is the artistic project of Ahmed Mokhtar, an Egyptian Musical Artist, DJ, Producer and creative technologist, crafting layered melodic worlds where human emotion meets digital imagination.

With a deep-rooted passion for sound since the early 2000s, Ahmed began creating layered DJ edits using stems before they became standard, later studying music theory and guitar to refine his craft. Over the years, he expanded his creative exploration into the video music industry, producing trailers and short films, which honed his ear for precise music timing and taught him the art of VFX layering and dynamic scheme building based on stems—skills that now deeply inform his structured yet emotive approach to music production.

Today, under STTAP, he writes, produces, and engineers his music entirely, focusing on clean, timeless compositions built on warm hooks and emotive synth atmospheres.

STTAP’s releases are not tied to a single vocal identity but are immersive, hybrid compositions blending electronic beats, dreamy melodies, abstract vocals, and precise grooves, creating soundscapes that invite listeners to get lost while staying connected to the pulse of the track.

This is music for those who believe in setting the tone and playing, for those who want to feel the silent pulse within every layered note.

His debut singles Fades Away & Neon Ghosts is out now, with 8 new tracks arriving September 1st.