Crown Shyness

Some of my favourite finds from 2020 and maybe just a slice of Jan 2021! And yes I have been cheeky and stuck one of my own tracks at the end....

Mostly but not exclusively found through the repostexchange, one of the best tools I've come across for finding up and coming music and artists to date.

My favourite finds of 2020 (thanks Repost Exchange ;)

Subterranean Hymns (I-IV)

The First track on my first EP 'Crown Shyness'.

To The Sea

I Just Fly

MVA 

WAVE III SONG III

OUT NOW ON ALL PLATFORMS

It’s the romance, the comedy, the tragedy
That this all, will fail, to be
And as we shed our time like blossom
The silence, widens, behind us

So let these leaves fall
Weaving circles into the earth
Let these leaves fall
So relief can slip inside my mind and I can
Be at ease
Like leaves

I grew these leaves just to shed them
I weave circles just to end them
I build bridges just to burn them
And I love, to, forget

So let these leaves fall
Weaving circles into the earth
Let these leaves fall
So relief can slip inside my mind and I can
Be at ease

Like leaves.

Let the Leaves Fall

I sip a coke from a can in the one hand 
and have a smoke from a fag in the other
To filter the abyss into a streamlined bliss
my throat is scorched my instinct squashed

My throat is scorched my instinct squashed 
my fists have clenched my grit is washed 
My thoughts have clashed
and my lust has parched.

Upon a cusp I reel in a foetal position 
I see a fire blaze wildly in the distance
but blindly I'm fed by the fodder I'm given 
and I'm honoured just to sit here and listen 
This insidious instrument strings linger and growl
making my skin prickle up like a chicken skin plucked fowl
and I sit and I spin my spools of shit 
I'm a fool spinning a wheel that I don't fit

I am lacking a smack in the face off of passion
I wake up imbued by the demons and angels
They course through my veins as they fade through the day
as I sip cans of coke as I wash them away
and I breathe through the filter of a roche
a pin hole to peep through at most
blinkers to block out the truth that is mirrored
like shadows that splay on the wall of my cave
and I make it ok as I take every day 
as I put the decay to the back of my brain
and I close my eyes at night
and I see a fire blaze wildly in the distance

Coke & Fags

I’m building all these walls,
So I don’t get knocked down
And I’m setting myself alight
And letting the walls flicker up with my faults
And I chew gum at the back of my mind
As I let the child inside there die
I am picturing you leaving me
So I can say that I knew this would be
So I can say that I knew this would be

For every flower I form
Splayed as landscape across my face
I question every petal
And disengage from grace
For every stream in me
I study how each meander weaves
And I wonder if I’ll ever get there
Among wilting reeds
Among wilting reeds

I grow so I can bloom
And you can bloom too
I grow so I can change,
And sift softly through these days
And sift softly through these days

For every flower I form
splayed as landscape across my face
I question every petal
and disengage from grace
for every stream in me
I study how each meander weaves
and I wonder if I’ll ever get there

Among wilting reeds.

Thank you eyes
For showing me the way
You let me cling to the fabric
Whilst letting me float away

Amongst Wilting Reeds

Stream/Download/Subscribe: 
▶ Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/release/traction/3016772
▶ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2f9dsq8x669E342R1gNPAs?si=YlLU5KmwSi653csxw6NpGg
▶ YouTube: https://youtu.be/Cu938D3Ws2Q
▶ Songlink: https://song.link/psvwsrr4xrnzp

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▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/connor2_o/

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Connor's SRNDR debut is a hard-hitter. 'Traction' revolves around an evolving arpeggiator bassline, crisp beats, rolling percussions and atmospheric blares, but its gritty, industrial aesthetic belies a surprising melodic quality. A crisp production that will definitely move bodies and souls, and would appeal to techno lovers across the board.

Connor is a DJ and producer from Preston, United Kingdom, whose musical identity is very much shaped by his experiences in the legendary British clubs, raves and festivals of the early noughties, such as Gatecrasher, Cream, Bugged Out and many more. A versatile DJ, his repertoire ranges from soul, funk and house, to progressive house, techno and trance. His productions are a culmination of his early musical experiences and expansive musical influences and taste - music that draws from different genres and seeks to move the listener both physically and emotionally.

Written and produced by Martin O'Connor. 
Mixed by Saiful Idris at Surrender HQ, Singapore.
Mastered by Damian Handzlik at Connected Mastering, Poland.

Traction

Buy on Beatport

Connor - Traction [SRNDR20011]

℗ 2025 mix and master

ENG: A stimulating, highly atmospheric electronic instrumental structure with a well-stocked polyrhythm and carefully crafted sonorities. This evolving track surprises at every turn with its cerebral yet haunting ambience, catapulting the listener into a surreal world.
FR: Une stimulante structure électronique instrumentale hautement atmosphérique dotée d'une polyrythmie bien garnie et des sonorités soigneusement ficelées. Ce titre évolutif surprend à chaque détour avec son ambiance à la fois cérébrale et envoûtante qui catapulte les songes dans un univers surréaliste." @boulimiquedemusique

ENG: All the power of a truly cinematic retrofuturism. A little 80s synthpop, a bit of modern electronica, and this ability to tickle the imagination. Once again, class!
FR:Toute la puissance d'un retrofuturisme bien cinématographique. Un peu synthpop 80's, pas mal électronique toute actuelle et cette faculté à titiller l'imaginaire. Encore une fois la grande classe ! @homecookingshare

No Escape

Artwork by Drue Langlois:
https://m.youtube.com/user/siolgnaleurd

Wassup
Home gurl.
Come here
Often?
You need
A friend?
Enter
My world.
Don’t speak,
Listen.
I’m Der
Novan.
This may be
My beginning
But I’m in it till the end.

Came for the drink, stayed for the chill.
You know the game, I know the drill
Live for the dream, die for the thrill.
Gimme the pass, gimme the pills,
Gimme the filth.

Give me the filth
Give me the filth.

Let me finish up this glass
You can tell me bout your past,
If we’re feeling pretty randy
I’ll eat candy out your butt.
Yeah you know I got the class.
Why don’t you come in this direction?
She asked “boy, you got protection?”
I say “yeah, I got a mask.”

Feel this?
Like it?
I do.
You know
What makes
Me come 
around
Are girls 
like you
What you got
Tol lose?
If I got to choose
You’d be leaving bruises on me
Like it was a game.

I’m a dump truck
And I’m here for the trash.
I’m the high school loser who
Never came to class, but
I’m a quicker than I seem, hun.
She thiccer than a tree trunk
I’m thinkin we could be fun

So gimme the filth
Gimme the filth.

Gimme the filth
Gimme the filth

Gimme the filth
Gimme the filth

Gimme the filth
Gimme the filth

Gimme the pass
Gimme the pills
Give it up?

504.1.12

Coke & Fags

Cara Kursh