Tobi's Fresh Net Favs 2021

THE CLEAR - Gaslighting

I wrote and produced this in my bedroom during lockdown number one, when I was sick of looking out the window and wanted a cat in my London flat, as mentioned in the chorus! I was listening to a lot of 90s club bangers at the time hence the cheesy riffs. Every member of my family gets a mention in this one including my nan!

Credits to:
Darren Woodford for mixing and mastering
Portamento for some extra sounds
Jamie Bush for the photo

Home Again

Metronomy remix of "Living Beings Pt.2" by Lean Logic.
Written by Lean Logic.
Remixed by Joe Mount (Metronomy).
Mastered by Nick Carlisle.

The original version of "Living Beings Pt.2" is taken from the forthcoming Lean Logic album "The Last Mirage", released 28th May 2021 on O Genesis Records.
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Living Beings Pt 2 (Metronomy Remix)

Living Beings Pt.2 (Metronomy Remix)

Lyrics

I fall back into my teens
Whenever I get close but

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
But you did once and if time stood still

I’d wait for hours for a glimpse of those child like chills
But all the things i’ve said move further from my mouth

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
When I fall backwards

You’re no more than births and funerals
You’re no more than all I’ve been
Where there once was grudge there’s now peace and a sense of end
I’ll mourn your gradual death but cherish every breath

You don’t feel like home
To me anymore
You don’t feel like home
When I fall backwards
You don’t feel like home
To me any more
You don’t feel like home
But you did once

You Don't Feel Like Home

New single out now on all digital platforms

Written by Hannah Scott and Stefano Della Casa
Produced and mixed by Stefano Della Casa

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This song was a long time in the writing. In 2008 I split up with my partner of three years. We were living together and as we dismantled the home we’d built I was struck by the image of two lives having become one for a while and right there in the division of books and CDs, becoming two again. Like everything that moves me, I knew there was a song in it. I had to wait until 2018 when my Mum’s 15 year relationship came to an end to find the right way to express it: she called me and told me she felt like she was “untangling” her life from her ex-partner’s life. At that moment, I knew I could finally write the song.

We’ve been building castles
Everlasting, or so we planned
All our empires will come falling
We’ve been building in the sand

Find a doubt, you hold it in
I let it out and we begin

Unravelling where we were entwining
And I am untangling your life from mine
Unwinding and we are realigning
And I am untangling your life from mine

We’ve been finding changes 
In the faces we used to know
All the spaces we’ve been hiding
Send us sliding as they grow

Find a doubt, you rush on in
I slow it down and we begin

Unravelling where we were entwining
And I am untangling your life from mine
Unwinding and we are realigning
And I am untangling your life from mine

We’re unravelling
I’m still standing

We’ve been building castles
We’ve been building in the sand

Unravelling where we were entwining
And I am untangling your life from mine
Unwinding and we are realigning
And I am untangling your life from mine

Untangling

Evoking a broad set of associations by tapping into the primal to reflect the present. - Yammerer’s latest release ‘BOA’ projects truthfully from an obstructive shock spiral of oppressive pressure; dwelling inside the implicit realms that language serves to explain. Attuned to the frustrations of 2020; ‘BOA’ succeeds in conjuring itself around, through and into a creature of harsh repetition. Weaving between the bars of its own cell window, intent on wearing down the psyche at multiple levels.

Yammerer - Boa Constrictor

9 artists, 4 languages, 1 message!

Music is one of the purest forms of unity we have to help us share our human experience with others. I came up with this single Pangaea as a way of illustrating the unifying power of sound and music. 

When we share our happiest moments with each other through music, we don’t even need to understand the words to connect. We can trust the vibe, the body language and our other senses to reassure us we are in a good place with good people. 

End of charitable period:
Over £100 was raised for charity throughout September from the digital downloads of the Pangaea EP (an expanded project featuring songs by artists in this song) on Bandcamp! The charitable period came to an end on the 30th of September 2020.
More information: https://www.instagram.com/p/CF2vBTjFO2N/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

FLVZ - Vocals (Shona), mixing and mastering
Kenzola - Guitar
Juskarma - Producer, mixing
Moak - Spoken Work
Kudi Israel- Vocals
Brett Sinclair - Vocals
Kay Corominas - Vocals (Spanish)
Rukus - Vocals
Jasmin Issaka - Vocals (Dutch)

Artwork by Jonathan Mukholi

Executive Produced by FLVZ & Brett Sinclair
Produced by Juskarma, Kenzola & FLVZ
Mixed and Mastered by Juskarma & FLVZ

Additional artist information:
FLVZ
A Zimbabwean born music producer and rapper currently based in the East Midlands UK. His style advocates an experimental approach, with maximalist sound design and psychedelic quirks within the musical canvas of electronica. Starting out as a rapper in his earlier musical years, FLVZ grew fascinated with production as he developed as an artist, and started creating beats and productions in 2012.

Juskarma
Juskarma is a producer/songwriter with influences in soul music, reggae, hip hop and grime.

Kenzola
Kenzola is an unsung London-based guitarist that tells each story with care. With 10+ years experience ranging from Heavy Metal solos to acoustic Lo-Fi Hip Hop samples, Kenzola focuses on reading the energy and capturing the moment.

Brett Sinclair
Brett Sinclair A Singer Songwriter from Nottingham currently working on a concept album to be released in the next few years.

Kudi Israel
Kudi Israel is a London-based R&B artist infusing old school RnB with Neo-Soul for a modern take on the genre.

Kay Corominas
Spanish singer and song writer Kay Corominas, was born in Cadiz and grew up always surrounded by music and instruments. She moved to the UK in 2012 and started fronting the popular Latin inspired band The Sugar Tree, she is also the spanish half on the brittish/spanish musical duo "Descaradas" with Molly May.

Rukus
Rukus is a UK recording artist, DJ, and producer who has been professionally touring and performing both nationally and internationally as a solo artist and with his TRINITY collective. Rukus’s first release ‘Let It Go’ produced by Baby J achieved nationwide success and critical acclaim. The single featuring Ty, Klashnekoff and Yogi took the UK Hip-Hop scene by storm. 2007/08 he had the opportunity to go on a UK tour with Mark Ronson after featuring on the Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse Valarie remix alongside Precha, Alex Blood and Malik MD7, which has sold over 450,000 copies.

Moak
Moak is a writer, poet and lyricist based in London. Trust your voice.

Jasmin Issaka
Influenced by jazz, folk, pop and predominantly soul, Jasmin Issaka is a singer songwriter with a quirky, eclectic and powerful sound best described as alternative soul or soulful acoustica. Based in Manchester, Jasmin Issaka is 'Sweet like honey' and her tunes will 'stick like honey'.

Pangaea

Pangaea (Ft. Kenzola, Juskarma, Moak, Kudi, Brett Sinclair, Kay Corominas, Rukus, Jasmin Issaka)

Ave Life

Helly Hansen 4

Pivotal Orbit

Look what happened when Rope Store got back in the studio in 2020.

Because 2020's been a very 'different' year, this is a very different Rope Store!

Written, played & sung by Jason & Gemma.

Recorded, mixed & mastered at The Crunch, UK.

Isabella

Two brothers versus the machines. Clusters of Eyes debuted at Smugglers Festival 2018 and have since been inhabiting coastal Kent’s subterranean network of tunnels, honing their set of gritty electronica and robot-rock.

This latest track features guest vocals from Troy of punk/hardcore band The Long Knives.

Imagery of a dystopian post-Covid, post-Brexit landscape is set to an irrepressible groove - inspired in equal parts by The Fall’s ‘Blindness’ and Death In Vegas’ ‘Aisha’.

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/QaII3ePbDtc

This Is Transformation (feat. Troy)

Released on all digital platforms and through our bandcamp page - www.gu-ru-.bandcamp.com - on Friday Feb 5.

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Teach Me - Lee Spreadbury Acid Remix

Opaque Crater is the first new material from our forthcoming second album Divine Invasions.

Opaque Crater

I am the garden
that backs on to your train;
graffiti on a hoarding
sordid reading at close range.
Tights in the gutter.
Another shutter down forever.
I am bouquets at the side of the road.

Look for me in the tailback
as you drive the flyover.
I’m the wall of the underpass
Everyone’s eyes slide off me like egg. At last.

I’m the dark sockets
of a house with no power.
Trip switch lips.

Look for me in the now.

Have I broken into your heart yet?
Have I broken into your heart yet?
I’m talking in tongues again, I know. I know.
But have I?
Broken into your heart yet?

Look for me in the trees
at every roundabout you approach,
in hot black rubber tracks.

I am nettles in the hedgerow
a balloon, a blister pack.
I’m teething again
but this time it’s words, it’s words.

Stand firm Kate:
I make a sweep of my face,
and fake my forehead terror proof.
This is not the time to step out into your headlights.
Look for me in the now.
This is not the time to step out into your headlights.
Look for me in the now.

It’s in the words, the words, the words.
The words, the words, the words.
Look for me in the now.

The Now

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Fall Apart

Powerfully uncool electronic pop grooves for sarcastic introverts.
Working the Recovery Chronic Depression/Anxiety
Trekkie 🖖

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