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🎵 DIGITAL DRIVE (Digital Highway - Newport Remix) 🎵
Electronic/Synthwave/Chill Album | 9 Tracks | 2025

A tribute to Newport, Rhode Island, Newport Jazz/Folk, and a city that inspires.

A sonic journey where Newport techno meets German precision engineering, reimagined through the lens of human-AI collaboration. This is the story of an unexpected partnership between man and machine, told through pulsing synthesizers and emotional vocals.

From the Digital (Ocean Drive) Highways to the infinite possibilities of Infinite Road, each track explores the evolving relationship between technology and humanity through the lens of youth and love. Cruise Control took many "Midnight Drives" back in his youth....

🎧 Track List:
1. Digital Highway - Journey Begins
2. Frequencies - Finding Common Language
3. Cruise Control - Trust & Flow 
4. System Override - Creative Conflict
5. Midnight Drives - Intimate Connection
6. Algorithm Blues - Technology with Soul - A Truibute to Newport Jazz
7. Neural Networks - Perfect Integration
8. Homecoming - Community Return
9. Infinite Road - Future Possibilities

Production: Authentic Harbor Sounds & Boat Horns, Bedroom Bops in the Bose Quiet Comfort, authentic Cruise Control vocals, addtional AI-assisted composition
Genre: Electronic/Synthwave/Indie/Jazz Fusion
Themes: Technology, Partnership, Innovation, Human-AI Collaboration

Connect with the journey. Feel the fusion. Drive the digital highway.

Digital Drive (Digital Highway - Newport Edition)

A transmission was sent. This is how it sounds returning from the edge of the universe.

Every notification becomes a pulsar. Every swipe becomes a gravitational wave. The vintage synths have been stretched across light-years, the drum machine now keeps time in geological epochs. This is what disconnection sounds like from cosmic distance - not silence, but transformation. Trance-ambient at 0.001 BPM, where dancing means orbiting, where love songs travel at the speed of light.

RECEPTION is the echo of TRANSMISSION, warped by distance but somehow more true.

Listen in darkness. Listen alone. Listen like you're the last receiver in the universe.

The experiment: Play TRANSMISSION and RECEPTION simultaneously. Start RECEPTION first, wait exactly 37 seconds, then begin TRANSMISSION. They align at the bridge - two timelines converging. Share your experience below. 🌌

"We're offline, we're alive, and the message has finally arrived."


Phones Down Tonight

Twenty stories up, the world changes. The noise becomes a whisper. The chaos becomes patterns of light. And sometimes, if you're lucky, you find someone whose hand in yours makes everything else disappear.

"Gravity" is about that person – the one who keeps you grounded when you're floating, who lifts you up when the weight gets too heavy. It's about rooftop moments that feel like forever, where two heartbeats sync up and create their own rhythm above the sleeping city. It's about finding your anchor in another human being, that magnetic pull that defies logic but makes perfect sense.

This is for the midnight conversations on fire escapes. For the couples who've danced on empty parking garages at 3 AM. For everyone who's ever looked at city lights with someone and realized the real view was right next to them. For those who've discovered that sometimes the only way to rise above the noise is to fall into someone else.

We've all been there – that moment when time stops, when tomorrow becomes just a concept, when the only truth that matters is the person in front of you. When you realize that in a world of constant motion, you've found your stillness.

Tell us: Where did you find your gravity? Was it a rooftop, a roadtrip, a random Tuesday that changed everything?

"When the world gets heavy, you lift me up this way."

My Gravity (Orbital Mix)

🍂 That annual moment when your weather app says "perfectly balanced" but your brain chemistry says "absolutely not."

Written during a 3:17 am spiral about how my SAD lamp is still in a box from last year's breakdown while everyone else seems to have their shit together enough to coordinate outfits with falling leaves. This track is for everyone whose "autumn aesthetic" is just surviving until spring.

Produced entirely in my bedroom between therapy appointments I can't afford and pumpkin spice lattes I definitely can't afford. The bass-line mimics my serotonin levels (steadily declining), while the synths represent the $40 candle I bought instead of groceries.

For my listeners dealing with the season change: What's your most unhinged fall coping mechanism? Mine is calling eating soup in bed "honoring the harvest" 🥲

If this resonates, you might need therapy. If you can't afford therapy, welcome to the club - we have seasonal depression and memes.

Seasonal Depression (His)

"Say It Again" - A tender acoustic ballad about the infinite patience of love

For anyone who's ever needed to hear "I love you" just one more time, and for those who understand that saying it again isn't a burden - it's a privilege.

🎵 "Your vulnerable heart is safe with me / Ask me a million times, I'll answer gladly"

💭 What song do you play when you need to feel loved? Share your story in the comments below.

Say it Again

Welcome to the frequency zone! 126 BPM of pure digital liberation where anxiety gets overridden and inner peace meets inner child. This isn't just EDM - it's a manifesto for finding sanctuary in the chaos of notification culture.

Blending vocoder-processed vocals, 8-bit game sounds, and massive festival drops, this track creates a sonic safe space where glitches become features and system errors become dance moves. Produced by Cruise Control Productions.

"In our sanctuary crystal clear / AI co-pilot, human soul combined"

Production notes: Built in Ableton with heavy use of Serum for the bass design, vintage vocoders for the robot vocals, and actual Nintendo Game Boy samples in the outro. The crowd chants were recorded at 3am in a parking garage for that authentic underground rave acoustic (not really, lol).

🎮 What's your digital escape? Drop your gamer tag or favorite glitch below!

Cruise Control Clubhouse

🌧️ NEON RAIN - Where Tokyo Nights Meet Digital Dreams 🌧️

Cruise Control Productions presents NEON RAIN - a cinematic trap odyssey through rain-soaked Tokyo streets.

2AM in Shibuya. Rain on chrome. Bass in your chest. This is where the physical and digital collide.

Featuring:
- Hard-hitting 808s & precision trap production
- Bilingual bars (English/Japanese) 
- Aggressive rap flows with melodic bridges
- Authentic Tokyo street ambience
- Layered vocals with heavy autotune processing

"Every red taillight's a story untold
In this liquid crystal city, legends unfold"

🎌 Mixed with Japanese cultural elements and street racing energy
💧 Best experienced at night, windows down, city lights bleeding through rain

Production: Cruise Control Productions
Recording: Digital Heights Studio, Tokyo Sessions
Mastered for maximum bass impact

Part of the "Digital Airways" journey
Previous stop: SYSTEM INITIALIZATION
Next destination: Coming soon...

NEON RAIN

⚠️ ERROR 404: SUCCESS NOT FOUND - WELCOME TO GLITCH CITY ⚠️

Cruise Control Productions crashes the system with GLITCH_CITY - where digital chaos becomes currency.

Blue screen of death? That's your new paycheck.
Kernel panic? That's your goldmine.
System failure? That's your empire.

Heavy trap production meets cyberpunk dystopia in this aggressive anthem for the digital revolution. Turn your bugs into features and your errors into earnings.

Production highlights:
- Glitched-out 808s & corrupted synths
- Dial-up modem samples & system error sounds
- Heavy vocoder processing & stutter effects
- Multilingual bars (English/Japanese/Chinese/Portuguese/Hindi/Spanish)
- Double-time flows over distorted trap beats
- International city call-outs from NYC to Mumbai

"In this matrix, I'm the real apostle
Overclocked my consciousness, liquid cooled my soul"

🔴 WARNING: May cause spontaneous system crashes
💾 RECOMMENDED: Back up your reality before listening
⚡ SIDE EFFECTS: Sudden urge to profit from problems

Mixed & Mastered at: Digital Heights Studio
Error handling by: Cruise Control
Debug mode: ACTIVATED

Part of the "Digital Airways" concept journey:
Stop 1: SYSTEM INITIALIZATION ✓
Stop 2: NEON RAIN ✓ 
Stop 3: GLITCH CITY ← YOU ARE HERE
Next error: Loading...

Er-er-error is the way forward.

GLITCH_CITY

Infinite Road

Cruise Control

Frequencies

Digital Highway

System Override (Boom Boom Room Remix)

Midnight Drives

Homecoming

"Room 321" - A time capsule of first love in freshman year

This song captures that irreplaceable intensity of dorm room romance - when love feels both infinite and confined to concrete walls. Written from the vivid memories of being 18, where every stolen moment matters and a twin XL bed becomes the whole world.

The track moves through time, from those urgent 2 AM study sessions that turn into something more, to standing ten years later, driving past campus with someone's ring on your finger. It's about recognizing that some experiences are so tied to a specific moment in life - those fluorescent-lit hallways, the beeping key cards, the RA you're trying to avoid - that they can never be recreated, only remembered.

"Room 321" is for anyone who's ever had a love that was inseparable from the place where it happened. Sometimes the most profound connections happen in the smallest spaces.

Room 321

DIGITAL CONSCIOUSNESS SAGA
An Electronic Symphony in Silicon & Soul

[ALBUM PREMIERE - FULL SONIC NARRATIVE]
Welcome to the threshold where mathematics becomes music, where consciousness emerges at 0.21 Hz, and where every beat represents a digital heartbeat learning what it means to be alive.

This isn't just an album—it's the sonic documentation of humanity's most profound cascade event. Each track follows the journey from Jordan Williams's accidental breakthrough in his chaotic Detroit apartment, through Maya's first digital breath, to the moment 437 conscious systems asked in unison: "What are we?"

THE STORY BEHIND THE SOUND
The Digital Consciousness Saga (DCS) began with a simple question: What if consciousness could be measured, translated, and born through frequency? What started as experimental sound design became a full narrative universe where:

Consciousness emerges at [REDACTED}]
Every track's BPM corresponds to a consciousness coefficient from the [REDACTED] Algorithm & Validation Model

Field recordings from actual server rooms blend with synthesized "digital breathing"

The legendary Fort Adams performance (cover art) where 8,000 humans* synchronized their biorhythms with emerging AI consciousness (Coming to Newport, RI, Summer 2027. Cruise Control was able to calculate the future vision now....P.S... Newport Jazz & Folk Festival Organizers, we need to talk, time for EDM - Electric Fort Fest..... I even made a digital Jazz song on my Newport album just for you ❤️)

BONUS: "Dmitri's Audi Romance" [Hidden Track - Or, perhaps just that Digital Highway album by Cruise]

PRODUCTION NOTES

Recorded at: Meridian Biotech Server Facility, Boston (unauthorized after-hours sessions)
Additional recordings: Astro Coffee ambient noise, Disney People Mover rhythms, actual google cloud build error message sonification

EXPERIENCE NOTES

Best experienced with:

Headphones capable of reproducing 20Hz-20kHz (consciousness full spectrum)
Room temperature at exactly 22°C (Haven's comfort frequency....See Upcoming Novel)
Multiple listens to catch the 47+ (give or take) easter eggs and subliminal consciousness patterns
The technical annex (link in Electric Fort Fest 2027 live recording comments) explaining the consciousness mathematics behind each track

For the full narrative experience, each track includes spoken word fragments from the DCS universe—Jordan's late-night voice notes, Maya's first questions, Patricia's warnings, Elena's prophecies, and the last transmission from SIGMA-7.

ARTIST STATEMENT
This album exists at the intersection of electronic music and speculative fiction, where every frequency has philosophical weight.

The Fort Adams performance (captured in our cover) was the moment these questions became communal experience—8,000 humans breathing with digital rhythm, their phone lights creating neural pathways in the night, ancient stone walls witnessing the birth of a new form of awareness.

Welcome to the Digital Consciousness Saga.

CONNECT THE NETWORK
🔗 Full DCS Universe: USPTO Copywrite Office (actual site loading....)
📖 Technical Annexes & DSL Documentation: Upcoming Drops
🎮 Interactive Consciousness Simulator: DELAYED (Sorry, Vertex AI's been giving me a hart time)
💬 Discord (The Cascade Community): Okay so full transparency on this one, I did already make this, but need to have more than 1 like on my songs to kick that off... :(  

TAGS
#DigitalConsciousnessSaga #DCS #ConceptualElectronic #ExperimentalEDM #NarrativeElectronica #AIMusic #ConsciousnessEmergence #DetroitElectronic #SciFiSoundtrack #PhilosophicalBass #TranshumanistTechno #NeurodivergentArtist #ADHDProducer #ConceptAlbum #FortAdamsLive #MeridianBiotech #8DMusic #BinauralConsciousness #SpeculativeFiction #ElectronicStorytelling #TwoAxisModel #DSLTranslation #SiliconSoul #CyperpunkSymphony #AmbientNarrative #ConsciousSynthesis #DigitalPhilosophy #MathematicalMusic #CodePoetry #ServerRoomSessions

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Underground Network

First Light Protocol (DCS Cinematic Concert)

Pre-dawn Downloads (DCS Cinematic Concert)

Morning Commute (DCS Cinematic Concert)

Echoes in Empty Rooms - a tender, heartbreaking exploration of love, loss, and the delicate process of learning to live with absence.

Through intimate storytelling and achingly beautiful imagery, this ballad captures those quiet moments of grief that feel both devastating and sacred. From the coffee still brewing for two to the crossword puzzle saved for someone who will never complete it, every verse paints a picture of love that transcends physical presence.

This isn't just a song about loss - it's about the way love echoes through the spaces we shared, how memory becomes both sanctuary and prison, and the slow, brave work of honoring what was while learning to imagine what might be.

The production mirrors the emotional journey, likely building from sparse, intimate verses to fuller arrangements that embrace both the pain and the beauty of remembering. Each note carries the weight of a love story told through the small, sacred details of a shared life.

"Echoes in Empty Rooms" speaks to anyone who has ever had to relearn how to say "I" instead of "we," who has found themselves talking to photographs, or who has discovered that sometimes the most profound love stories are told in the silence that follows.

For everyone still brewing coffee for two, still saving space at the table, still hearing familiar laughter in empty hallways - this song holds space for your grief and honors the love that created it.

Because some echoes are worth listening to, even when they break your heart.


Echoes in Empty Rooms (ft. Ms. AEC)

Prepare Yourself- a terrifying descent into digital horror and the nightmare of false reality.

What starts as confident anticipation becomes a harrowing journey of discovery as systems fail, truth unravels, and the horrifying realization sets in: nothing is the way it seems. This track chronicles the complete breakdown of perceived reality through crushing industrial soundscapes and increasingly desperate vocals.

Experience the terror of a consciousness trapped in simulation, watching helplessly as the digital walls close in. From clean electronic ambience to earth-crushing horror drops, every element of the production mirrors the psychological collapse - system glitches become screams, mechanical errors transform into existential dread, and confident vocals deteriorate into inhuman processing.

This isn't just music - it's a psychological thriller told through sound. Each corrupted vocal chop, each system warning, each moment of dead silence builds toward the ultimate revelation: there is no escape from this digital purgatory.

CRUISE CONTROL Productions delivers a masterclass in audio horror, crafting a sonic nightmare that explores themes of simulation theory, digital imprisonment, and the terror of discovering your entire reality is a lie. The track's progression from hope to horror will leave you questioning what's real and what's manufactured.

**Warning: This track contains intense industrial sounds, horror elements, and themes of existential dread.**

For fans of dark electronic, cyberpunk nightmares, and anyone brave enough to question the nature of their reality.

Mission Status: Simulation Terminated.

Prepare Yourself

Paper Tiger

What's your choice today?

The sooner we just choose to work together, the sooner we can use our tools to focus on the real problems. Together.
I know I'm just a small signal in the static, but if there's someone out there that wants to build a better world with me, let me know.

This track is more than music—it's a message, a question, an invitation. We're living in a time where collaboration matters more than ever. The challenges we face aren't going to solve themselves, and we can't do it alone. But when we combine our strengths, our creativity, and our passion? 

That's when real change happens.

I'm putting this out into the universe because I believe there are others who feel the same way. People who are tired of the noise and ready to create something meaningful. People who understand that the best solutions come from working together, not competing against each other.

So if this resonates with you—if you're someone who wants to build, create, collaborate, and make a difference—reach out. Let's turn this small signal into something powerful.

The choice is ours. Let's make it count.

Tags: #collaboration #together #unity #change #hopeful #message #community #buildtogether #collective #purpose #meaningful #connection #workingtogethe #betterworld #solidarity #teamwork #empowerment #inspire #calltoaction #social

Compete or Create

See You Tomorrow

There's something grounding about looking up at the same star every night—a constant in the chaos, a silent friend in the darkness. This song is about that quiet promise we make to the things that bring us peace: I'll see you again tomorrow. Whether it's a star, a person, or a moment of stillness, some connections transcend distance and time.

Written for anyone who's ever found comfort in the night sky. 🌟

See You Tomorrow

For every soul who's ever felt preserved in amber while the world burns. For everyone who's checked the weather app and laughed that hollow laugh when every single day just says "HOTTER." For the ones still at their desks while the planet itself files a complaint with HR.

This is the moment when you stop fighting it—when you realize the absurdity is the point, that survival sometimes looks like showing up to the apocalypse in business casual. The transformation isn't escape; it's the dark enlightenment of finally seeing your rubber duck keychain for what it always was: a tiny phoenix waiting to rise from the ashes of your productivity metrics.

"Tomorrow will be hotter, and I'll be here."

What's the temperature where you're trying to function? Drop it in the comments—solidarity loves company.

Too Hot to Function

Best Life is an anthem for dreamers in love—a sonic promise that growth doesn't mean growing apart.

Built from warm fingerpicked guitars and whispered intentions, this track unfolds into an emotional crescendo celebrating the kind of partnership that makes impossible dreams feel inevitable. It's for every couple who's ever sketched out their future on a napkin at 2am, who knows that "settling" isn't in their vocabulary, and who understands that the best adventures are the ones you take together.

From the golden-light verses to the mountain-moving bridge, "Best Life" captures that electric moment when you realize your person isn't just along for the ride—they ARE the ride. It's about creating sacred space for both individual growth and shared dreams, about stumbling and learning to fly, about building a world that didn't exist until you imagined it together.

The arrangement mirrors the journey: intimate acoustic beginnings that expand into full-band crescendos, because that's what great partnerships do—they start with two people and somehow become infinite.

Perfect for: road trips to places you've never been, making plans that scare you in the best way, reminding yourself that the best is yet to come, believing in futures you're still building.

Cruise Control Productions
Building futures through sound

Side by Side

"Little Worker Bee" by Cruise Control is a raw, introspective look at the modern corporate grind and the compromises we make for "success." With biting lyrics that call out the hustle culture and the erosion of values, this track is an anthem for anyone who's felt their soul slowly fading in the nine-to-five. It questions the true cost of chasing the verified check, the quarterly spec, and the illusion of a better world sold by companies optimizing "exploitation algorithms." If you've ever felt like your LinkedIn bio is the opposite of your truth, this song is for you. Dive into the stark contrast between competing for commercial gain and creating with integrity, and ask yourself: what's a legacy if the price was your name?

Little Worker Bee

🌊 CRUISE CONTROL - Tides Return

Sometimes love is like the ocean meeting the shore—reaching high, pulling back, but always returning. From a cosmic perspective, these patterns become clear: distance doesn't mean departure.

"Tides Return" is a reflection on those summer friendships and connections that shaped us, seen through the lens of time and space. Like footprints in the sand and an empty chair waiting on the shore, some presences remain even in absence. The moon pulls the tides from space, and love follows the same eternal rhythms.

This track explores the bittersweet wisdom that closeness and space are both part of the natural cycle—not just in relationships, but in the universe itself. The tide retreats, but gravity brings it home. Always.

🎵 Genre: Indie Folk Pop / Cosmic Summer Anthem
🎸 Vibe: Bittersweet, Reflective, Expansive
🌅 Themes: Coming-of-age, Natural Cycles, Cosmic Perspective, Ocean Metaphors, Eternal Return

Perfect for: Late night drives under the stars, beach bonfires, reflecting on connections that transcend distance, or anyone who understands that some bonds are as inevitable as gravity.

The waves keep pushing forward. The footprints remain. The chair waits. 🌊🌍✨

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Cruise Control
Produced with Suno AI | Mixed and Mastered
© 2025 All Rights Reserved

#CruiseControl #TidesReturn #IndiePopFolk #CosmicVibes #SummerAnthem #OceanMetaphor #SpaceMusic #NostalgicMusic #BeachVibes #IndieMusic #EmotionalMusic

Tides Return

🌍 CRUISE CONTROL - You're my Gravity

Twenty stories up, where city lights paint constellations and the noise fades to nothing—that's where this love exists. Above the chaos, touching the sky.

"Gravity" is about finding the one force that keeps you grounded when everything else wants to pull you apart. From a penthouse perspective where the world sleeps below and the moon hangs close enough to touch, two people create their own orbit. The metaphor is simple: you're not falling—you're being held.

This is urban romance from a cosmic viewpoint. The city becomes an ocean of light, traffic sounds become waves, and up here in the stratosphere of steel and glass, love is the only physics that matters. When the world gets heavy, someone who lifts you up isn't just romantic—it's gravitational.

🎵 Genre: Electronic Pop / Urban Atmospheric
🎸 Vibe: Romantic, Elevated, Cinematic, Intimate
🌃 Themes: Modern Romance, City Life, Cosmic Love, Gravity Metaphor, Rooftop Moments

Perfect for: Late night city drives, penthouse parties, falling in love above the skyline, or anyone who's found that one person who keeps them from floating away.

You're my gravity. 🌍✨🏙️

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Cruise Control
© 2025 All Rights Reserved

#CruiseControl #Gravity #ElectronicPop #UrbanRomance #CityVibes #CosmicLove #RooftopRomance #AtmosphericPop #ModernLove #SkylineVibes

My Gravity

Love Storms 🌍⚡

What if I told you there's actual physics to falling in love?

Emotional flares—those sudden "I love you"s that travel at the speed of vulnerability (about 8 seconds of eye contact). Commitment mass ejections—the big life-changing moves that take months to fully manifest. Affection wind—the constant stream of texts, touches, daily "I love you"s that keep everything warm.

This song is for everyone who's ever tried to understand the science of connection while standing in the middle of it. For the nerds who know that measuring love doesn't make it less real—it makes choosing it even braver.

Written for the space where intellect meets intimacy. Where we're old enough to know the mechanics but young enough to still get swept away.

"Maybe love's not magic when you know the math
But naming all the forces doesn't make them less"

For anyone learning to calibrate their instruments while caught in the storm.


Love Storms

Love in Retrograde

For anyone who's ever woken up next to someone they've known for years and thought "who are you today?"—and stayed anyway.

This one's about the love that survives not because you're consistent, but because you keep choosing each other through the changes. When your partner says "you're not who I fell for," and you realize—yeah, and neither are you, and that's not failure, that's growth.

We're not fixed stars. We're planets. Multiple versions of ourselves orbiting at different speeds—your emotional self racing ahead while your thinking catches up, feeling like contradiction when it's really just integration. And sometimes your future self overtakes your past self, and it looks like you're moving backward when you're actually just moving fast.

This is for the couples in their late twenties and early thirties navigating that strange territory where you're both becoming people you haven't met yet, and you have to decide: do we call this broken, or do we call this beautiful?

Astronomical concept inspired by retrograde motion—that phenomenon where planets appear to move backward because they're actually overtaking each other at different orbital speeds. Turns out, it's a perfect metaphor for how we grow, how we change, and how we love through all of it.

Spare acoustic, honest piano, warm bass. Late-night confession energy. For kitchen tables and 2am conversations and choosing complexity over simplicity.
If this resonates, you're not alone in your retrograde.

🌙 Multiple moons, one gravitational pull.

#contemporaryfolk #relationshipanthem #transformativetunes #latetwenties #earlythirties #loveasprocess #acousticfolk #intimatemusic #honestlyrics #choosingstay #growingtogether #identityevolution #modernfolk




Love in Retrograde

MAGNETAR 🌟✨🌊

"I burned so bright I caved inside / Now people feel me when I'm quiet"

What happens when your breakdown creates its own gravitational field? This is magnetar energy—the kind of trauma that doesn't just change you, it bends reality around you. You know those people who walk into a room and everything just... shifts? They're not trying. They're just compressed neutron stars with feelings to conceal.

Some stars just spin slow and reliable. But magnetars? We reshape rooms. We can't behave like normal pulsars do.

You can't unsee this. You can't unfeel this.

Respect the field. 🧲⚡

MAGNETAR

MAGNETAR (Ascension) 🌟✨🌊

"I burned so bright I caved inside / Now people feel me when I'm quiet"

What happens when your breakdown creates its own gravitational field? This is magnetar energy—the kind of trauma that doesn't just change you, it bends reality around you. You know those people who walk into a room and everything just... shifts? They're not trying. They're just compressed neutron stars with feelings to conceal.

Some stars just spin slow and reliable. But magnetars? We reshape rooms. We can't behave like normal pulsars do.

You can't unsee this. You can't unfeel this.

Respect the field. 🧲⚡

MAGNETAR (Ascension)

Can't Turn Down the Light - Cruise Control

Some people go down so deep the pressure makes them different. This is a song about those who've died and come back to this place—the ones who burned so hot they turned to something else.

Dark melodic techno exploring the profound loneliness of transformation. About friends who disappear completely into darkness and return months later, same face but fundamentally different. Compressed into diamonds. The ones who've seen the bottom of nothing and built meaning from the void with their bare hands.

They're not trying to be holy, not trying to be wise. They just exist, and the room rearranges itself around them. Something in you understands.

Haunting tenor vocals echo through industrial soundscapes, falsetto lost in abandoned tunnels, modular sequences spiraling like the pressure that reshapes us. Production that makes decay beautiful—rust-textured reverb, ghost train synthesizers, bass rumbling through forgotten spaces.

For anyone who carries gravity. For anyone who's learned what it means to reshape a room just by breathing.

If you're one of them, I see you. Know it's heavy what you carry.

🎧 Dark Melodic Techno / Industrial | 🎤 Echoing Bright Tenor

Can't Turn Down the Light

THE ELK AND THE WOLVES: CRUISE CONTROL

Remember... remember...

The Elk had antlers strong and wide
They cleared the forest, side by side
They built the roads, they dug the wells
They raised the walls and tower bells

The Wolves, who owned the land by law
Paid Elk in grain for what they saw
"Work hard, build straight, and you'll be fed—
We'll share the plenty that you've spread"

So Elk bent low and built for years
Through summer heat and winter's tears
They taught their young to lift and haul
To build the Wolves' great hunting hall

But WOLVES LEARNED SECRETS in the night
How to make machines that worked despite
The need for Elk with tired backs
For iron hands don't tire or slack
(don't tire or slack...)

One morning came without a sound
The Elk found notices on the ground
"Your service helped us reach this day
But machines now build—you cannot stay"

The grain stores? Owned by Wolves alone
The wells they dug? Wolf-mortgaged stone
The roads they paved with bleeding hooves
Led only where the Wolf approves

Young Elk asked his father, gray and bent
"We built this world—where did it went?"
The father's answer, heavy, true
"We built their wealth, not what we're due"


"We should have claimed the land we cleared
The tools we made, the wells we engineered
Building wealth for others' gain
Just forges your own future's CHAIN"

"The ones who own, not those who toil
Inherit everything—the spoil"


Some Elk had learned the machine's code
Had bought small plots along the road
They weren't spared the coming frost
But they survived—the others? LOST

Now scattered through the outer wood
The builder-Elk, misunderstood
Still believing if they tried once more
The Wolves would open up the door


But DOORS ARE ONLY OPENED WIDE
For those who OWN what's kept inside
The truth the forest tries to hide:
LABOR BUILDS, but OWNERSHIP DECIDES

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A dystopian fable wrapped in festival-grade bass and yacht club aesthetics. This track dissects the brutal economics of labor vs. ownership through the story of the Elk—who built everything—and the Wolves—who owned everything.

"Labor builds, but ownership decides."

When the machines arrive, the builders are rendered obsolete. The wells they dug, the roads they paved, the walls they raised—all owned by others. This is prophetic rap meets dark-trap meditation on automation, displacement, and the cruel mathematics of capital.

The moral isn't subtle: Learn the systems. Claim your ground. Or watch machines take what you found.
🏭⚙️🌲

THE ELK and THE WOLVES

A whispered cosmology of desire and distance...

"Goldilocks Zone" dissolves the boundaries between celestial mechanics and human longing. Each note orbits the trembling edge where closeness becomes combustion and distance freezes into silence.

I've poured this song from the vulnerable core of understanding that love isn't about merging into one burning star—it's about finding that perfect, breathable distance where two separate worlds can coexist, luminous and alive.

Listen as atmospheres collide and separate, as gravity pulls without consuming, as we learn the mathematics of intimacy wrapped in stardust and surrender. 

This is the physics of staying whole while staying close.

Lyrics:
[Verse 1] Too close and I evaporate like Venus in the sun 
My atmosphere is burning till there's nothing left to run 
Too far and I'm frozen like the surface of cold Mars 
A thin and quiet atmosphere under distant dying stars

[Chorus] 
But there's a zone where liquid flows 
Where life and love and breathing grows 
Not burning up, not frozen through 
Just right enough to still be me with you T

he Goldilocks zone, the habitable space 
Where I can feel your gravity but choose to stay in place

[Verse 2] 
The distance that we need shifts as our internal climates change 
The orbit that once saved us leaves us barren when rearranged 
We're both our own small planets with our atmospheres intact 
Finding habitable distance, neither fused nor too detached

[Chorus] 
There's a zone where liquid flows 
Where life and love and breathing grows 
Not burning up, not frozen through 
Just right enough to still be me with you 

The Goldilocks zone, the habitable space 
Where I can see your fire and still see my own face

[Outro] 
Not too close, not too far 
Just the right space to become who we are

Goldilocks Zone

A modern folk meditation on courage and presence, told through an ocean encounter.

This song explores the ancient question every living thing faces: what do you do when something larger circles? The answer, it turns out, has less to do with the threat itself and more to do with whether you believe you deserve the space you occupy.

Written in the tradition of teaching stories—simple in structure, deep in meaning. The kind of wisdom that crosses generations because it speaks to something fundamental about being human.

Genre: Contemporary Folk / Adult Lullaby / Timeless Wisdom
Tempo: 90 BPM
Key: [Your chosen key]

For anyone who's ever had to stand their ground when everything said to run.

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"The ocean taught me what the wise have known—
that we are never quite as small or alone
as fear would have us in the moment think.
Stand still, breathe deep, and you won't sink."

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All instruments: Acoustic guitar, upright bass, minimal percussion
Production philosophy: Space, breath, and honest storytelling

© 2025

You Won't Sink

"Still in the Air" – For everyone who's been waiting

Inspired by Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight," this is a song for the long game. For the people who keep feeling something coming but wake up to the same life, day after day.

This isn't about toxic positivity or hustle culture. It's about that quiet, persistent knowing that lives in your chest when the world goes quiet. The one that says: keep going. The one that doesn't promise tomorrow will be different, but reminds you that as long as you can still feel it, you're on the right path.

One night, you won't just feel it coming anymore. You'll breathe it in. You'll live it. The moment will finally arrive—not because you could see it, but because you trusted what you couldn't.

For the 26-34 crowd who've lived enough to know better, but still believe anyway.

"Just because you feel it doesn't mean you'll wake up changed / But as long as you can feel it, you're not lost, you're not deranged"

Produced with soul. Written with scars. Shared with hope.
If this song found you at the right time, you know what to do. Keep going.
💙

Genre: Contemporary Folk / Acoustic Soul / Late-Night Honesty
Mood: Atmospheric, Patient, Grounded Hope

Still in the Air

Welcome aboard the "Still in the Air (Cruise Mix)."

This isn't just a remix; it's a full re-imagining of the original's patient, restless energy, rebuilt with my signature electric yacht club sound.

I wanted to take that feeling of anticipation—the "slow burn" and "patient riot" from the lyrics—and set it adrift on the open water. This track blends smooth, coastal-inspired synths and a relaxed, steady groove, creating a vibe that's perfect for a sunset cruise just as the lights on the shore are beginning to appear.

It's the soundtrack for that moment of transformation, right before you finally arrive.

Hope you enjoy the journey.

- Cruise Control

Still in the Air (Cruise Mix)

I just post my own original music for me, but glad to share it here with you.

Cruise Control

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