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Ongoing Vibes 47

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How I Live - Instrumental (feat. Kristoffer Eikrem & DRAAGEN)

[Verse 1 – Enfolding the Whole]

We are enfolded in the universe —
every moment holds the totality. 
Like Bohm said: man is a microcosm of the whole;
what you are is clue to reality. 

I come with infinite heat,
calm blue meeting me like a friend.
Where the matter wears me thin,
that’s where awareness begins.

An envelope that dreams us,
the implicate singing the overture.
Every fold is a pattern,
every pattern is the nature of what’s sure.

[Chorus – Rhythm of the Breath]

This is the implicate breath,
a funk in the folds of time.
We breathe the hidden pattern,
we move the unseen rhyme.

Consciousness swirls in flux,
matter and mind converge. 

This is the implicate breath,
the code beneath the door.
What unfolds from us becomes us—
and becomes us even more.

[Verse 2 – Holomovement Groove]

Bohm called it holomovement—
the whole flowing unseen. 
Undivided wholeness is the ground we’ve been.
Time and space just screens,
while the deeper stream hums between.

Consciousness more implicate than matter,
yet inseparable over the chatter. 
What hides in silence
speaks in fractal song.
Every memory is enfolded,
every moment’s breath prolongs.

[Bridge – Dialogue of Being]

Thought creates our world,
then says, “I didn’t do it.”
Dialogues suspend certainty
and let the truth renew it. 

Wholeness is real—even when fragmentation seems false.
The whole responds not to us
but to our fragmented pulse. 

So take a breath here—
knowledge as law,
difference as dance,
perception as awe.

[Chorus – Rhythm of the Breath]

This is the implicate breath,
a funk in the folds of time.
We breathe the hidden pattern,
we move the unseen rhyme.

Consciousness swirls in flux,
matter and mind converge.
This is the implicate breath,
the code beneath the door.

[Verse 3 – Identity as Pattern]

Our identity isn’t solid—
it’s a signature in movement.
A wave singing itself
through the dance of improvement.

Implicate folds into explicate,
the hidden births the seen. ￼
Every part is a portal,
every moment evergreen.

We can’t see past our sight
until we see from outside.
In the implicate breath,
stillness is the ride.

[Break – Urban Quantum Jam]

Feel the funk of wholeness,
hear the hum of the grid.
What you’re living breathes the song,
what you sing is what you become.

Consciousness and carbon,
matter and mind align.
Every inhale is a weave,
every exhale is divine.

[Final Chorus – Breath Expanded]

This is the implicate breath,
where energy meets identity.
We’re both creator and created,
in holo-synchronicity.

This is the implicate breath,
the map that dreams the frame.
We are the envelope
that dreams itself aflame.


[Outro – Whispered Return]

Undivided wholeness sings,
fragmentation only sings back.
Hold the breath in both ends,
and reality brings us back.

We are the hint,
we are the pattern,
we are the breath
that folds the matter.

— The Implicate Breath.

The Implicate Breath

Blood in the Blueprint leans in like an exposé set to groove. The beat moves smoother and more melodic than its subject matter, layered synths, warm bass, and steady drums carry a lyrical excavation of the hidden violence behind polished institutions. It’s a confrontation wrapped in clarity: not screaming, but naming. The verses unroll like pages from a redacted past, while the chorus pulls back the marble and steel to reveal the silent cost underneath. This is legacy turned inside out, a calm, undeniable reckoning with the ghosts that built the world’s foundations. The system wasn’t broken, it was built this way.

Blood in the Blueprint

In The Storm

You Know What I Like

01. Intro
02. That’s The Way Love Goes – Janet Jackson
b/w: Wait (The Whisper Song) – Ying Yang Twins 
03. Something In The Way You Make Me Feel – Stephanie Mills
b/w: Lean Back – Terror Squad
04. Real Love – Mary J. Blige
b/w: How We Do – The Game ft. 50 Cent
b/w: Hush – LL Cool J
05. Think Of You – Usher
b/w: Hate It or  Love It – The Game ft. 50 Cent
06. Human Nature – Michael Jackson
b/w: Bonafide Hustler –  Young Buck
07. In The Air Tonight – Phil Collins
b/w: Alright Groove – The 45 King
b/w: 5 Alarm Blaze – Joe Buddens
08. Back To Life – Soul 2 Soul
b/w: Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See – Busta Rhymes
09. Clap Your Hands, Stomp Your Feet – Interlude
b/w: Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See – Busta Rhymes
10.  I Like It – Debarge
b/w: Tipsy – J-Kwon
11. Walk On By – Sybil
b/w: Hustla (Remix) – Cassidy ft. Mary J. Blige
12. Mona Lisa – Slick Rick (DJ FADE 2005 Party Mix)
13. Rhythm Of The Night – Debarge
b/w: It’s All Good – Fantasia
14. Candy – Cameo
b/w: 1,2 Step – Ciara
15. This Is For The Lover In You – Shalamar
b/w: Hold You Down – Prodigy ft. Nina Sky
b/w: Let Me Love You – Mario
16. Who’s Holding Donna Now – Debarge
b/w: Sugar Buddy – Nodesha
17. Friends – Jody Watley
b/w: Again – Faith Evans
18. Be Happy – Mary J. Blige
b/w: Make The Music With Your Mouth – Biz Markie
b/w: Breathe – Fabolous
19. All Or Nothing – Joe
b/w: DaRockwilder – Method Man & Redman
20. I Could Fall In Love – Selena
b/w: Treat U Betta – Big Shug

15. This Is For The Lover In You - Shalamar

Sunlight

No Explanation (featuring Mica Paris)

The release last autumn of Reel People’s first full studio album in 10 years was, it’s fair to say, a moment. Retroflection stylishly recreated soul, disco and boogie classics behind the collective’s formation nearly 20 years ago and exposed its rarefied DNA like never before. Now band leader Oli Lazarus widens the collective, inviting the world’s finest producers and remixers to add their funky splices to the Retroflection blueprint. Retroflection Remixed, featuring Mousse T., Osunlade, DJ Spinna, John Morales, Atjazz, Terry Hunter, Sebb Junior, Scott Diaz, Da Brownie, Tall Black Guy, Matt Cooper’s OUTSIDE, BusCrates and Art Of Tones, is a majestic rebooting of the soulful flow that swept us away in 2018.
	
Art Of Tones get’s his sparkly mitts on Don’t Stop The Music, swaggering synth ‘n’ bass riffs further underlining Angie Stone’s classy strut through Yarbrough & People’s 1980 hit, whilst Buscrates – true to the name of his remix – pumps irresistible funk bounce into I’m In Love, a truly lowdown re-skinning of Reel People’s Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King tribute where Navasha Daya’s vocal sounds sassier than ever.

Osunlade eases us in with an elegant re-interpretation of Reel People’s Pleasure cover Joyous, deep throbs of electronica and rippling percussion carrying loops of the vocal and that iconic sax solo to stunning new heights – or depths. Similarly, Atjazz dims the lights and intensifies the mood for his take on Twilight. Where Reel People played impressively close to Maze’s original, Atjazz treads to shuffling jazz drums, double-bass and piano. The build of parts is spine-tingling stuff. Matt Cooper and his outstanding OUTSIDE project also take on the mantle of Joyous, and serve us a full fat disco jazz funk odyssey.

There are a number of uptempo treats too. Take Sebb Junior’s snappy piano-house routine for the Mica Paris-fronted I Want To Thank You – a sparkling turbo-charge to Alicia Myers’ early Eighties gospel-R&B vibe – or NYC mix legend John Morales’ ecstatic nine-minute mirrorball twirl of Geraldine Hunt-anthem Can’t Fake The Feeling complete with epic drum and vocal (Daya once again) breakdowns. Respected UK house DJ-producer Scott Diaz gives the Sharlene Hector-led cover of Side Effect’s Always There greater guitar-licked urgency but without compromise to the song’s soulful poise and power, and revered Chicago veteran Terry Hunter is a match made in heaven for Tony Momrelle, who soars through the former’s soulfully-charged remix of Buttercup (Carl Anderson’s mid-Eighties, Stevie Wonder-penned gem) with all of its funky drums, b-line twists and warm musical arrangements. German maestro Mousse T. hands us a nostalgic rework of Teena Marie’s I Need Your Lovin’  featuring the female powerhouses Vulu Malinga, LaDonna Harley-Peters and Sharlene Hector.

Elsewhere, South African talent Da Brownie dresses Reel People’s peppy, Omar-fronted update of Skipworth & Turner treasure Thinking About Your Love in sharp, finely-detailed deep dance threads, and Detroit star Tall Black Guy (TBG) sprinkles considerable amounts of summer samba magic over Momrelle’s other Retroflection outing Can We Pretend - a stunning re-awakening of the Bill Withers and Jose Feliciano collabo for the second time in mere months. There’s room yet for DJ Spinna to expand the reaches of Keep It Up (Anthony David’s luscious rendition of Milton Wright’s deep-soul bomb) with another of his transcendental space-funk remixes. Mind-blowing.

Retroflection Remixed

I Want To Thank You (Sebb Junior Remix)

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