Name: Democracy on the Edge by CODYL.B.C
Duration: 4 min 35 s
Description: Synthwave x Hip-Hop, 80s. A prophetic broadcast from the cliff’s edge — democracy crumbling, the people frozen between fight and surrender. Rap verses cut like a news bulletin, cold and precise, while choruses rise like desperate anthems across storm clouds. It is both warning and elegy — a call to hold the line.

Resistance-coded Retrowave with a sci-fi Hip-hop undercurrent, Down-tempo Synthwave meets hi-tech hip-hop in this dystopian synthpunk anthem. It’s the sonic insurgency of an innocent country against a threat to sovereignty.

On Guard

Noir Electro Rap theatre. Hypnotic exposé cloaked in VHS static and digital disinformation, blends analog synth noir with dystopian electrorap cadence, peeling back layers of political deception and corporate populism.

Smoke and Mirrors

Theatrical War-Crime Synthwave.
Militant retrowave fire and Orthodox requiems collide. Thunderous cinematic percussion and a ghostly choir frame this scorched indictment of Vladimir Putin’s hollow reign. Every line a missile, every sound a warning.

Little Kremlin King

Cinematic Synthwave Hip-Hop Anthem. A cinematic Synthwave Hip Hop anthem, political satire. Tells the story of the viral protest of former DOJ employee Sean Charles Dunn, who threw a Subway sub and hit one of Trump’s militarized ICE troops in Washington, DC. Huge 80s-style choruses immortalize him as the “Sandwich Hero", making this act of resistance echo like a legend.

Sandwich Rebellion

Synthwave x Dystopian Hip-Hop. A neon empire's Military Parade through dystopian streets, troops marching, pounding like drums of conquest in a show of might. Rap verses narrate the fall of democracy, while massive choruses soar like resistance beacons above the smoke. A sonic imperial broadcast in neon steel.

TYRANNY

The March of Tyranny

Synthwave x Hip-Hop, 80s. A prophetic broadcast from the cliff’s edge — democracy crumbling, the people frozen between fight and surrender. Rap verses cut like a news bulletin, cold and precise, while choruses rise like desperate anthems across storm clouds. It is both warning and elegy — a call to hold the line.

Democracy on the Edge

Synthwave x Electronic Rock x Hip Hop. A digital black hole devours truth in real time: propaganda floods, records erased, reality and history rewritten. Rap verses delivers cold reportage, listing crimes like corrupted code, while choruses soar from inside the static. This is the Ministry of Neon Truth, the sound of facts deleted.

Memory Hole

Industrial Futuresynth x Cyberpunk Glitchwave x Sci-fi Hip-Hop. The infinite scroll becomes a prison, a fascism drip, one notification at a time. Rap verses unravel a list of algorithmic crimes. Choruses cut through like sirens, warning of reality’s collapse. It is the anthem of a generation lost to the feed, a neon dystopian requiem.

End of the Feed

Synthwave x Electro-Space Hip-Hop Anthem. A relentless broadcast from the heart of a captured state — this track surges with rap verses reading charges against the regime. The choruses soar in neon defiance, equal parts elegy and resistance hymn. Analog synth bass growls like a corrupted mainframe, while jagged electric guitar riffs cut through like spotlights in a surveillance city. The arrangement builds like a hostile takeover, into a sonic indictment. It’s the sound of Project 2025 set to music—extortion, lawbreaking, and autocracy rendered in Synthwave defiance.

Strongman's Blueprint

Synthwave X Hip-Hop Protest Anthem. Billionaires like Musk and Trump gamble with nations. Rap verses tick off their crimes like stock reports, choruses erupt in defiance. Electric guitars roar against synth walls — plutocracy’s anthem neon greed.

Plutocracy

With sharp lyricism, and unflinching sociopolitical commentary, CODYL.B.C crafts dystopian anthems rooted in reality — railing against authoritarian creep, tech oligarchy, and neoliberal collapse.

Democracy on the Edge

CODYL.B.C

Related tracks