November Friends

Some of my Soundcloud Favourites #190

EXCLUSIVE THOUGHTS OF THE BEAST INSIDE

Related tracks: IPG1 & RiZLiX - Feel The Vibe

CrazyBeat

Weekly

High recommendation of headphones, to fully enjoy sound adds and effects.

Letra / translated lyrics:

África... África...   /   Africa... Africa...
la vieja madre...   /   the old mother...
África... África...   /   Africa... Africa...
la tierra extraña...   /   the strange land...
África... África...   /   Africa... Africa...


Son tus raíces   /   Your roots are
más profundas que el tiempo.   /   deeper than time.
Olvida tu vida   /   Forget your life
que ahora es desierto.   /   which is now a desert.

Tus raíces de sangre se han perdido,   /   Your blood roots are lost
y tu exótico mundo ha envejecido.   /   and your exotic world has got old.
La llamada de la selva ha convertido:   /   The call of the jungle has turned:

tus batallas en guerras,   /   your battles to wars,
y tus bosques en hambre,   /   and your forests to hunger,
y tus hombres en tierra.   /   and your men to soil.

África... África...   /   Africa... Africa...
tus cantos lejanos...   /   your distant singings...
África... África...   /   Africa... Africa...
ahora están muertos...   /   are dead now...
ahora están muertos.   /   are dead now.
África... África...   /   Africa... Africa...


... 1995 E-RUIZZO - 2014 FRANCÉS RECORDS

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África (Hombres de tierra)

This Kill Wont Stay 
Now Left Time Repeat 
Cant Take Much More
Heart Begin Stop Broken

THIC N THIN THE JUNEZ        4 NOTHING

Forgivable ( Ass To Mouth )

白起（Bai Qi）【？〜B.C.257】

A great general of Qin. During his lifetime, he defeated nearly one million enemy soldiers, laying the foundation for Qin's unification of the world.

Sima Qian described Bai Qi as "taking advantage of the enemy's ability to change his strategy and unleash an infinite number of strange strategies, and his momentum shook the heavens."

At the Battle of Changping he killed many enemy soldiers.
He is said to have been buried.
Some say that a quarter of China's population at the time took part in the battle.

In the end, he was forced to commit suicide due to Fan Ju's tactics.
If Bai Qi had allied with Fan Ju, the Qin state might have unified the world during the reign of King Zhao.

Check out the music video for the song here!
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https://youtu.be/bZgAQ8TlbvI

秦国大将。他一生击败敌军近百万，为秦统一天下奠定了基础。

司马迁形容白起是“趁着敌人改变策略的能力，释放出无数奇葩，气势震天动地”。

据说长平之战时，他活埋了很多敌军士兵。
有人说，当时中国四分之一的人口参加了这场战斗。

最终，他被范雎的计谋逼得自杀。
如果白起与范雎结盟，秦国也许会在昭王统治时期统一天下。

白起 野兽布吉＜Bai Qi  Boogie The Beast＞mp3

The Void

Aside from musical satisfaction and $$$ - the motivations for artists to keeping going can be an addiction to the love from the audience.

SCREAMING AND THROWING UNDIES

Take my time with plug-ins
Connection satisfaction
Waving arms like a summons
Pointy introductions
And soon I’m ridin’ minor sevenths
Endorphins in my canal
I’m like a godly presence
As music funks it’s way around

But the pessimist inside – says shoot me your lovin’ arrows
Cause the deficit is – oh - the needing of something so shallow
Gimme screaming and throwing undies (love me love me love me)
Gimme screaming and throwing undies

Career or labour of love
Try and define it
Eyeing up those at the front
Is anyone buyin’ it
I’m phrasing out the words I wrote
Looking for misty eyes 
Reaching for a soulful note
Into clover wrap me tight 

Nature’s opium ride
Musicality
Bathing up here in spotlight
Dopamine alchemy                             Yeah I’m riding . . .

SCREAMING and THROWING UNDIES

Another piece from the series Mirage.
looking for the oasis within the mirage.
Photography: Enrique Flecha. For more amazing nature pictures https://x.com/enriqueflecha1?s=21&t=7tr06HJxpzY1Szz2XM7Bhg

MIRAGE 1

Lunar Language

As I Watch You Leave

Written, performed and recorded by Neli CoKo, 2023, all rights reserved. 
Original cover picture by Tsvetoslav Hristov on pexels https://www.pexels.com/@tsvetoslav-hristov-1306654/ 
Thank you for coming here to listen :)
PS: now you can hear a remastered version, the first version was not mixed good. There was a lousy humming in the deep fequencies and it was too quiet.

Beyond Amnesia

Neli CoKo - Beyond Amnesia

Don't Let Me Down

AudioBookPlug reading 'Zima Blue' by Alastair Reynolds

Zima Blue

Vocals; https://soundcloud.com/ipg1

Production; https://soundcloud.com/rizlix


Here's a collab with the super talented https://soundcloud.com/ipg1

You can find his original acapella here;

https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/snippets-vox-140-bpm

Here's a link to the artwork;

https://pixabay.com/photos/architecture-modern-sculpture-art-3148080/

IPG1 & RiZLiX - Feel The Vibe

Created, produced, and arranged by Patrick Mautner.  An instrumental soundscape with guitar-centric melodies and solo. Created in Studio One Professional, using various drum samples, Arcade and Kontakt 7 sound and sample libraries, with direct guitar work using a Line-6 Helix pedal board, Fender American Ultra Strat and PRS Swamp Ash Special SE.

Floating Cities

And Layers

Le Maître

Morphometry

Bandcamp

Lunistice

In the Christian world to which we belong, the Advent season has begun and there has even been a bit of snow in some places, just like in our city. The Christmas season is perhaps also a good time to say thank you. We were lucky enough to grow up in families who looked after us and did everything they could to make us happy. Unfortunately, that's not always the case. Sometimes you only remember to say thank you when someone falls seriously ill or dies and you realize what that person has done for you. One day it may be too late to say thank you- nobody lives forever. This song is a big thank you to our parents and families. In this sense, it is also our contribution to the Christmas season, even if it is not a real Christmas song. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas time, including of course those who do not belong to the Christian world.

"Thank you for our happy home where we never felt alone!"
❤️
Thank you, family!
Mom held me when I fell down, dad picked me up from the ground.
My sister consoled me when I cried, my brother always made me smile.
Dad taught me how to cook, Mum gave me my favourite book.

Thank you so much mom and dad, my sister and my brother,
always there like no other.

Daddy still wants to protect me from the dangers I might not see.
Mom so sad when we moved away, her day was so dark and grey.
From the days when we were young, together we fought and won.

Thank you for our happy home where we never felt alone.
Thank you for all the great love, it’s like a gift from above.

We've grown up and moved on, but our bond is still so strong.
We may quarrel and disagree, but our love is stronger than the sea
All the great memories that we share, forever they will be there 

Thank you for everything you have done, making our lives so much fun.
Thank you for all the great love, it’s like a gift from above.
❤️

Thank You Family!

Big shout-out and thanks to Joschua for reaching out and providing me with a warm invite to perform a DJ mix on the podcast series No Nation Radio @no-nation-radio. 

I hope you enjoy this set that I performed exclusively for their program. And I recommend that you head on over and check out their show as there are some real audio gems to be discovered deep within the sonic frequencies of their various DJ presentations.

Cover art by Jimmy Alonzo.
https://jimmyalonzo.artstation.com/

All tracks purchased from www.beatport.com, www.junodownload.com, www.bandcamp.com, or provided directly by the artist or label.

Mixing decks used to perform this set: Pioneer XDJ-XZ.
https://www.pioneerdj.com/en-us/product/all-in-one-system/xdj-xz/black/overview/

Setlist:
1. Vibrant & Tetrachromacy - What Is This Place (Braingames Records)
2. Ingenious Brain - Abstract Object (Patronus Records)
3. Jhesha & X-side - Master Blasters (Quantum Sorcery Records)
4. Oyaji - Hisashiburi (Patronus Records)
5. Braingineers - Fart Fader (Bom Shanka Music)
6. Lemurians - OculusDrift (Timecode/Sangoma)
7. Lost Papas (Djantrix & Rezonant) - Double Trouble (Timecode/Sangoma)
8. Synkronic & Endeavour - Karma Roulette (Looney Moon Records)
9. Ingrained Instincts & Konebu - Hexapods (Timecode/Sangoma)
10. Shenanigan - Mystical Journey (Digital Shamans Records)
11. Gigi/Fowlowl - What Is Human (Blacklite Records)
12. Swell - Cognitive Test (Blacklite Records)
13. Eritas - Arozo Krad (Timecode/Sangoma)
14. Soundscape - Stretching Days (Patronus Records)
15. Purist & Konebu - Anzu (Timecode/Sangoma)
16. Dribble - Ground Control (Looney Moon Records)
17. Cyk & Metatron - Alienated (Timecode/Sangoma)
18. Anarkick - Goan Comeback (Timecode/Sangoma)

Tundra | Mixed Exclusively For: 𝐍𝐨 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨

thoughts

Thoughts

Indie rock. Music, lyrics, vocals. D. k. A. Spencer Backing vocals. Cosmic Keanu

LOOK DEEPER INSIDE

I don’t want no pain today
All I can do is sit and pray
Hope these blues will go away
Forget about the things you do
And the words you say

Always been there, you know it’s true
Did the things a friend should do
Always on your side, I defended you
No matter what they said I believed in you

You’re so cold and ungrateful
Disrespect me like a fool
You think that you’re untouchable
Have you lost your heart and soul

Always been there, you know it’s true
Did the things a friend should do
Always on your side, I defended you
No matter what they said I believed in you

Look a little deeper,
Deeper inside
Share your secrets
Please don’t hide

Don’t play Dr Jekyll
And Mr. Hyde with me

Look a little deeper,
Deeper inside
Share your secrets,
Please don’t hide

Don’t play Dr Jekyll
And Mr. Hyde with me

Look a little deeper,
Look a little deeper,
I believed in you
I believed in you

Look deeper inside. (Backing vocals) Cosmic Keanu

stepping through time

kick-ass video: https://youtu.be/hRepH3egrsg?si=rd0mZMYcZBiXb3kp

get ready to groove with this shizz. I can only credit the overlord for this dirty mutherfucker. I laid my mits upon the magical keybord and out spewed mashed potatoes. this raw instrumental enigma, part of the 'songwriting behind the wheel' series, brings a unique vibe that's all its own. imagine cruising down memory lane with a rhythm that feels both fresh and frightening, moss in your hair, with a marching band in your trunk, as you wind your way through the swamp to the big easy.  'mashed potatoes' takes you on a musical journey, blending soulful keys with a perhaps 7 rhythms that echo through every dark corner, moist alley, or vibrant street no words, just the pure, soul-stripping power of music. dive into the heart of jay-did's creative dysfunction – where every note tells a story. #mashedpotatoes #jaydidgroove

mashed potatoes - raw hammond instrumental

Crazy beat

This is the lead track from the set of songs that I began with Wou-Wou & the Wormling during the start of the turmoil and chaos brought upon by the pandemic. This is also the first part of four tracks within the album directly based on Wou-Wou’s comic, The Shrike. It has been incredible working with Bitzone and Stricknice throughout the project as well. It is always cool when the everyone in the stag heard works well togehter and brings distinct yet complimentary ideas to the mix. Big thanks also to Weighty Tree for introducing his groovy style of neopsychedelica to the rut! 

May everyone be victorious at their turn during the rut.

Track Credits:
The Weighty Tree: Guitars
https://soundcloud.com/theweightytree
https://theweightytree.bandcamp.com
Stricknice: Intro Guitars, Samples and Sample Work, Keys
https://soundcloud.com/j-nice-6
Bitzone: Drums, Orchestration, Mix, and Master
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
www.bitzones.net
Wou-Wou & the Wormling: Reverse Guitar, Bass, Mellotron, Synths, Original Demo Track, Song Art
https://soundcloud.com/wouwouandthewormling
wouwouandthewormling.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0rEOgxbaIcWbZZuxAKVmA
the Couch King: Lyrics, Vocals, Ending Samples, Production
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com

Lyrics

Intro
Several weeks after the events of The Great Scurry, all had returned back to normal in the autumnal forest. Nature has a way of quickly shaking off the traumas of the past and returning to its most basic of desires. You see, all of life yearns to mate and procreate, and while most that experience defeat from the stronger or rejection from those seeking the fitter, muster the determination to get back up again, some take their spurning to heart, as if they were more deserving than nature intended, where it festers and begins to grow a new grotesque life of its own.     

Verse
Word 
Yo
As antlers crashed with the desperation of lust 
And the scent of musk in the air
I couldn’t help but take notice there
Was a sweet smell of autumn 
Carried in the gust 
Of wind  
It is a beautiful time of the year
When the does come into estrus 
And there is only one thing on my mind
I must get some of that behind 
I find
Times like these to be harbingers 
That linger
I could count times like these on my fingers
If I didn’t have hooves 
And wasn’t crashing to the ground 
With the sound of defeated dreams 
Of games of hard to get
And multiple days of getting wet 
I let the overwhelming excitement of rut
Get the best of me 
And now am crest fallen to see
The Doe that I thought was mine
Walk away with the buck that brought me down to the twines
Uh

The Shrike Pt. 1

The Weighty Tree, Stricknice, Bitzone, Wou-Wou & the Couch King - The Shrike Pt. 1

Similar to R I.P.  A bit of fun with a Dylanesque type blues.

A Little While

Written, performed and recorded by  Neli CoKo, 2024, all rights reserved. 
I tried to create a real big space. Not easy! Thank you for listening :)

Now it´s time
Remember and release
Now it´s time
The pain will come and ease

Now it´s time
To get back on the ground
Now it´s time
Declutter what I found

I can´t believe it´s over, a new beginning
...

Now it´s time
To become innocent
Now it´s time
To live luminiscent

Now it´s time
To overcome the pain
Now it´s time
To let it all go down the drain

I can´t believe it´s over - a new beginning
...

New Beginnings

Neli CoKo - New Beginnings

℗ © Copyright Ian Stokes. All Rights Reserved
Recorded, mixed and mastered in Logic.
Guitar played: Taylor 714CE in standard tuning (Capo 4th Fret) 
Photography: Thanks go to Nigel and Libby Hume at Hume Photography.
Lyrics:
The blind man lay down his walking cane
And rested by a stream
He thought he heard a minstrel sing
Or was it just a dream
A voice so calm and gentle
Full of love and full of grace
The air so sweet as if there was
Some magic in this place

The blind man sat contentedly
To hear the minstrel play
His words painted a picture
Of the dawning of the day
The rising of the morning sun
The light now giving shade
Such things he saw, such images
How could they ever fade

The minstrel played his song
And let the blind man be
At peace with at all the wonders
That his minds eye could now see
The oceans and the mountains
An eagle flying high
The colours of a rainbow 
Across the evening sky

He gathered up his walking cane
And softly bid farewell
My thanks to you kind minstrel
For the stories that you tell
Out there now ahead of him
A new path somehow lay 
As the minstrel’s voice began again
To sing and light his way

If all the stars could tell their tale 
What stories there would be
Of all that makes this universe 
Including you and me
What lies unseen beneath,
Beyond beginning with no end
For all we think we know 
What do we really “know” my friend

The Blind Man

Emily

the captain, mad captain
he told the men his plans
and then they went out stealing things
so they could rule these lands

they stole four antique cannons from the castle
hijacked a truckload of metal from the factory
they stole a jet engine from the old air force base
the mad captain nodded satisfactorily

they welded the metal into a battering ram
and the big jet engine was for extra speed
cannons armed in every direction
the mad captain had returned to the sea (x2)

they were a terror in the open waters
they’d sink any ship that they saw
and with their jet engine, they were able to avoid apprehension
and stay a step ahead of the law

vengeance in the form of a storm
came rolling across the sea
the mad captain pulled his eyes from the sky
he’d seen more than he wanted to see
"all hands below deck", the captain roared
"tie yourself down so you don’t go overboard"
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bass, piano, beatbox, guitar and vocals by andrew salvner (aka lil' spaceman, pretzels malone)
drums from my cheap old digitech bp90 bass pedal
thunderstorm field recording by Arnaud Coutancier www.freesound.org/people/arnaud%20coutancier/
additional sound effects supplied by @pliable-tones
drums/bass/bass/piano recorded on 4-track cassette / vocals and beatbox added using Audacity.

Zima Blue

arse-myth