Basket of Thanks: Much appreciation for all your support on What Difference Does It Make Pt. 2

The Reservoir: 25 Awesome new tracks from the SoundCloud community

music is my grind

HITS FOR A NEW WORLD

Clutch - By Sagonus Knight - Prod By Serghie - 4/13/2021

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This is the 3rd song Bitzone, Frawstakwa, and I have worked on together for my CKP page. I wanted this latest track to continue with the electronic hip hop vibe we had established with our previous two tracks.  Bitzone dug into his rich production archive and found a beat 10 years deep that met the criteria. This time I sent the track first to Frawstakwa to switch things up, since the last two songs I had started off. Frawstakwa came up with these deep metaphysical verse and chorus lyrics and I added a literal interpretation with my verse that I hoped would complement his meaning while keeping in theme with the previous two tracks. Bitzone then worked his magic and transformed the track into an electronic hip hop rock fusion. And then for a final surprise, he asked Joerxworx to join in with some futuristic EWI. In the end, I like that this track is different from It Ain’t Looking Good and Trendsetting and I think it points at a possible new direction for the next track we all work on together. 

Thank you for all your listenings, comments, playlists, radio spins, and purchases. The musical team is eternally grateful. 
Don’t loose hope, keep faith in yourself and your community, be creative, and persist.

Bitzone: Music, Mix, and Production
https://soundcloud.com/bitzone
bitzones.net
Joerxworx: Akai EWI
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx
RS Frawstakwa: Verse Lyrics and Chorus and Vocals
https://soundcloud.com/frawstakwa
Couch King: Verse Lyrics, Vocals, and Vocal Arrangement
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com
She’s Excited: Song Art
https://soundcloud.com/she-s-excited
https://she-s-excited.bandcamp.com/album/my-own-crazy
Intro: Michio Kaku

Lyrics

Oh, this is just great 
Yo, gimme a break 
No, Freudian slip made
So, it’s no mistake
Go, psycho analyze it 
Though, am I insane
In the membrane
Or normal
It’s weird right?
We’re here but so briefly
Mere mortals
Appears our fate is foretold
How unfortunate 
Of course there’s this
Who says we have to forfeit free will
Forget about it
We are forward thinkers 
And forces of nature
Scratch that - supernatural
Look at how we have grown
And evolved
Lets explore
What’s beyond
What is known 
And accepted by all
Be omnidirectional 
Slow, in the fast lane 
Flow, like a mixtape
For, goodness sake
Over and over again 
Face total
Loss of control
Lack of faith
Don’t trip though
Effects cause vertigo
Catch wreck, let ‘em know
Fact check, general 
Search, research
Both the world and the earth
First you learn
Then you teach
Art and culture
To reach out and touch 
All of the people 
Them, no doubt indeed

Bitzone and the Couch King

One stereo image
Audio visual one

Sirobosi Frawstakwa
#frawstakwaforyou

What difference does it make
If at any given rate
The only thing that matters in the end is too late

What difference does it make
If at any given rate, yo!

Have you ever felt alone
In a place so dark, so vast, so cold

Everyday I pass by
The same lame busted gate 
The same 
Boarded up broken windows and
Old rusted grates
The same
Overflowing trash cans continue to accumulate with a ever-growing stench that won’t abate 
It’s the same
Neighborhood cats talking smack on da crates 
It’s the same
Families falling flat with not enough food on their plates
I’m passin’ by the same
Kids in baseball hats standing wet in wait 
Out there gettin’ rained on cause the bus is running late 
It straight 
Hasn’t changed at all 
What difference does it make
I’m still awake at dawn 
Exerting on 
Getting my debt rate gone
Word is born
What difference does it make
Cause pass generations gone
Still couldn’t pass it on
What difference does it make

What difference does it make 
If at any given rate
Things just stay the same

What difference does it make 
If at any given rate
We keep on playing games

What difference does it make 
If at any given rate
There really isn’t even anything else left for me to say

What Difference Does It Make

Bitzone, Joerxworx, RS Frawstakwa & the Couch King - What Difference Does It Make

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Little Paper Plane's Adventure

The incomparable Janine Levinson flying just above the evening mist...@janinelevinson Doo-wop vocals with more chrome than an Airstream
The remarkable Rick Medlock always right there in the current... @rick-4-1 Drums and Rhythmic Orchestration
The renowned Jamie Rhind on those buoyant keys... @jamie-rhind Organ, Piano
Me on the Other Stuff, head just above water... @phil-mcwalter Vocals, Guitars, Hammond B3, Production, etc


A Pretty Waterfall

You walked into the room that night
Like a storm above our heads
And it felt like a hard rain 
Felt like a bridge was going to fall 
But you weren't an ocean, holding me up 
You weren’t a river, come to carry me home 
You were a waterfall cutting through stone 
A pretty waterfall, cutting through stone

You sat down on a stool at the bar 
And it had to be next to mine
You asked if I’d ever 
You asked if I’d ever been here before 
But you weren’t temptation, bending my will
And you weren’t the devil, come for my soul
It takes many years and it cuts to the bone
But you were a waterfall, cutting through stone

We walked out of the bar that night
Through the wood towards the river
And the air smelled sort of heavy
And we started running, it felt like a flood
But you weren’t there to baptise me, in those deep dark eyes
You weren’t there to wash away, my sins and my lies
Dived into the roaring water down to the sand
Then we swam into the waterfall, holding hands

© Phil McWalter - April 2021
Image: diamondpaintingdistributor.com

A Pretty Waterfall

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Prod by https://soundcloud.com/mike-grin-grin-goins

Evolution

Beat production: Grant4ore / @grantfore
Hooks: Johanna Fegan / @johanna-fegan
Verse 1: Fat Pockets / @fatpockets
Verse 2: Treez of the 505 / @audrianna-walker-2

Mixed and mastered by Fat Pockets.

This is a MegaRoyal production.

Smoke Ring Halo feat. Johanna Fegan & Treez Of The 505 (prod. Grant4ore)

Super Smash! Then I Wave Dash! 🌊💨

Thank you for listening. ❤

Vocals, production, and art are by me. 👌

Feelin Aight

Melee

Melee 💪 (Instrumental)

I am proud to present the newest work of The Reservoir Dogs, which is based on Ken Minty‘s Song „Dark River“.
Credits:
Ken Minty @kcm069: composition, vocals, lyrics, Ovation Blues Rhythm Guitar, Resonator Steel guitar
Andrea „Foresto“ Martini @user-959329289 played a mean rhythm and solo guitar
Tot. @tot-beat: Made it Happen by providing his wonderful Drums and Beats
N.o.b.S. @nobsmeyer: Rickenbacker 4003 Bass ( it‘s loud, but that is by purpose ... it’s a Ric !!! ), wah wah guitars, keyboards, production

Dark River
KCM  29May09
dark river is the end of the road
the current is strong and the water is cold
many have drowned trying to reach the other shore
it’s too far to swim, but too close to ignore

well, dark river, is all that remains
dark river, take me home again

a man pays his way in dust and grime
washes it away with cheap red wine
fourty years on he comes to know
that he don’t wanna stay but he can no longer go

well, dark river, is all that remains
dark river, take me home again

some men work ‘til they hit the wall
they sweat and swear to the final call
some might think they have something more
but they all end up on dark river’s shore

well, dark river, is all that remains
dark river, take me home again

Dark River

The Reservoir Dogs - Dark River

It took some time to have the pleasure again to collaborate with Janine, thanks so much :-)

Vocals / Lyrics: Janine Levinson @janinelevinson
Music, Guitars (dunno), Bass (P), Drums (AD2), Mellotron (Redtron), Mix & Mastering (DAW): @bonetender

===== Lyrics =====

“One of a kind”
But not cutting off my ear yet
One of a kind
Just mostly trying to make it
“Almost wild”
A fauve who’s trying to fit in
“Messy child”
The half friend of oppression
I teeter on the edges

“Force of nature”
But never quite exploding
So much pressure
From these wild ideas
“joie de vivre”
(joie de vivre and bon vivant)
But something to contend with
(something good until it’s not)
“Force to follow”
But I don’t want to want to lead just yet
(joie de vivre until I’m not)

A messy child
The half son of oppression
Almost wild
A fauve just trying to fit in

“Larger than life”
And such a giant person
That's what he said
But he meant it in a good way

The weight of the normal
Less or more a deviation
A goddess
A statue melting on the edges
I teeter on the edges

The weight of the normal
Less or more a deviation
A goddess, a statue melting on the edges
I teeter on the edges

©Janine Levinson & Bonetender 2021 All Rights Reserved

Almost Wild

Almost Wild (with Janine Levinson)

It was a hard piece of work, but it was worth it: 
As part of an artist grant from the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of NRW/Germany in the wake of the Corona pandemic, a piece of music was created that consists of 6 different arrangements and involved 6 artists including a blackbird.
The piece is in the tradition of the Hip Hop-Cyphers as well as in the interlaced compositions of 70s Prog-Rock.
The goal was to connect the individual parts so that in the end a homogeneous but multi-layered overall work comes out.
I think that has succeeded!
Of course, this was only possible because I found really excellent fellow musicians, big thanks to Couch King, Christian Kappe, Lady of Fire Poetry and Frawstakwa! And of course to Blackbird "Miles" for his wonderful jazzy chirping.

Supported by: Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW/Deutschland; Bezirksregierung Münster

Trumpet: Christian Kappe www.christiankappe.com
Vocals/Lyrics: Lady of Fire Poetry @ladyofire
Vocals/Lyrics: Couch King @couch-king-presents
VocalsLyrics/: Frawstakwa @frawstakwa
Chirping: Blackbird "Miles"
Vocals/Lyrics hookline: DeeP.

Composed, arranged and produced by DeeP.
Cover artwork: DeeP. & Ulrike Löw
(Photo of Christian Kappe: Thomas Kruesselmann)
Lyrics in order of appearance:

Lyrics Lady of Fire Poetry:
Not Alone
We are fragments of one another
Breathing in bits of you bits of me
We came exploding out from nothing
But gravity
Crashing into each other
Making this pretty wave called humanity
We love by trial and error
We follow our hearts
reaching the center of ourselves
Each beat a musical beacon
So we may explore our horizons
then reach a familiar shore
When you are lost again
Remember you are never alone
Come back to home

Lyrics Couch King:
Everyday looking clues 
Ashtray’s, dinners, and booze 
Dossiers, hard drives, and blues 
They’s lost reality from watching the news 
I gain the truth from being a recluse 
Nothing to loose 
No one left to cut loose 
Leave no print from my shoes 
Cold stone stare like medusa 
Old bones don’t care I accuse ya 
Poker face beware I confuse ya 
Short lace thin hair Short fuse 
Mean street bruisa, I paid all my dues ah 
Hot on my tail but still I refuse 
To get off the trail 
Of shady interviews 
Digging up fools 
Gold to derail 
Encrypted email 
I must be getting too close 
The woke got no time to doze

Lyrics Frawatakwa:
trials
and tribulations
who 
is even asking though
‘cause seriously you never know
could just be inner dialogue
with me myself and I 
besides
what 
would you want to know
all that for anyway though
c’mon I’m sure you’ve got problems
of your own on your mind
so
where
will we even go
to from there 
who could know
and how can any outcome
that we happen to arrive 
at
when
all is said and done
be considered satisfactory
if it comes at a price
that’s too much to pay
tell me why
why
should I continue 
to carry on a mission
which has proven itself 
to be so difficult 
as if it isn’t 
is it the human condition
controlling decision making
or am I following visions
unique to my third eye

an exercise in sacrifice
yet it’s fine
yeah 
that’s right

everything I do 
is for the greater good
playing nice

never mind 

hammer strikes
the anvil twice
sparks will fly

What to Know

Deep Purple By Sucole & 6qsax

soundcloud.com/blink-twice-archival/sets/ark-dambient-open-collab

Blink Twice / P a b l o - Adrift

Prod by 420Mahvija https://soundcloud.com/jdiction
Vocals by cryptkilla
A re-recording of a collab i did with https://soundcloud.com/jdiction a beat he made years ago, cheers brother

Music Is My Grind

first hit of the morning sun by Jim Manser

life flashing by me way to fast
trying to find a place but it wont last
stayed with the comedian and the fool
not far away from the ocean where the air was cool
my biggest fear i face is lose my memorys
in a film of life and a whirlwind dream 
just trying to climb a wall and make some sense of it all
like a spy in a hall in a crazy scene
chorus
Rising on up to the first hit of the morning sun
you know its been a long while but now i want to have some fun
rising on up to a feeling of euphoria 
getting on back to a time when we were young

Dancing with the dragons on a smoky haze
they say you drift around in forgotton days
losing everyone in one fowl swoop
gotta find an answer swimming though this soup
Im sick of taking calls now my tools are broken
not sure how long i wanna feel this way
life is rapidly changing like the currents in the ocean
even though we are ageing from day to day

written and produced by Jim mystic manser brighton 2021
cover art shot at cabot tower brandon hill park bristol uk
watch the music video at https://youtu.be/kB2s2IxChxU

First hit of the morning sun

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First Hit Of The Morning Sun

Shout To Enriquegotacash... great to be working with one of his beats again , proper dope producer for real man. I hope yall enjoy "POLAR NIGHTS" which is basically a part 2 of my track " MIDNIGHT SUN " produced by Digital Jott Sound, I love working with dope ass producers from around the world. Thanks to all my listeners who’s been on this journey with me from the early days and to all my new listeners #GaviSquad 🤙🤙

Polar Nights - Gavidann (Prod. By Enriquegotacash)

Low-Connection, produced by Matthew May, is an introspective track on grief and loss, and how the home I learned to love, can also be a place of anguish.

Low Connection

Lyrics

Every day you see pictures 
Of people killed on the news
You feel it rising up 
Inside you your soul is suffering
Who wants to lose his life

No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 
No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 
No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 
No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 

Every day you see pictures 
Of people killed on the news
You feel it rising up 
Inside you  your soul is suffering
Who wants to lose his life
 
You feel it rising up 
Inside you your soul is suffering

No one wanted it to come to this
All wanted peace not a fight
But history shows the great leaders of the world 
Are completely stupid

The stronger one shows its muscles to the weaker one 
The weaker one shows his stinky finger to the stronger one
Cause he doesn’t take the stronger one seriously 
And he doesn’t put up with it

Who wants to lose his life
You feel it rising up 
Inside you your soul is suffering

Who wants to lose his life
You feel it rising up 
Inside you  your soul is suffering

No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 
No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 
No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 
No one wants to give their live
Fuck  you with your war 

Every day you see pictures 
Of people killed on the news
You feel it rising up 
Inside you your soul is suffering
Who wants to lose his life

No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 
No one wants to give their live
Fuck you with your war 

Who wants to lose his life
You feel it rising up 
Inside you your soul is suffering

Who wants to lose his life

Fuck You With Your War

Follow those signs from the Universe.
I have Faith in you.               YAHWEH

( Cover Art / Photo by @headbandsteve on instagram )

7seven7 (prod. YungSireTheBuddha)

I was honored when https://soundcloud.com/graphicsontelevisions asked me to remake ‘Tattlesnakes’ from their fantastic album ‘Pun’. Maybe it’s the wildest one, unpredictable but coherent, it inspired me immediately !!

I've remixed to my taste their original studio stems (drums & keyboards), adding my own vocals, guitars & more... hard recommendation of headphones again !!

Lyrics are from another of my ancient poems, where I played with oxytone & eproparoxytone rhymes (translated below but with lost effect in English).

Full versions album here: https://soundcloud.com/graphicsontelevisions/sets/another-pun-a-brand-new
Downloadable: https://graphicsontelevisions.bandcamp.com/album/another-pun
I suggest checking out the original tracks too: @https://graphicsontelevisions.bandcamp.com/album/pun !!!

Letra  /  Lyrics:

Claro que ya no soy plástico,  /  Clearly I’m not plastic anymore,
ni estoy falto de razón,  /  nor lacking of reason,
puesto que, siendo simpático,  /  since, being friendly,
de sangre es mi corazón.  /  of blood is my heart.

Claro que soy esporádico  /  Clearly I am sporadic
en locos cantos espléndidos.  /  in splendid crazy singings.

Gritos de loco dolor,  /  Screams of insane pain,
llenos de mudo amargor,  /  full of mute bitterness,
claro que ya no son gélidos.  /  clearly are not icy anymore.

Claro que ya soy simpático  /  Clearly I’m yet friendly
y estoy falto de amargor,  /  and lacking of bitterness,
puesto que mi corazón,  /  since my heart,
siendo de sangre, no es plástico.  /  being of blood, is not plastic.

Y en mis cantos esporádicos,  /  And in my sporadic singings,
claro que ya no soy gélido.  /  clearly I’m not icy anymore.

Gritos de loca razón,  /  Screams of mad reason,
ya no gritos de dolor,  /  not screams of pain anymore,
claro que ya son espléndidos!  /  clearly are yet splendid!

ER00EC11

Tardigrade & Tattlesnakes (with Graphics on Televisions)

NEW MIX BY BIG TYPHOON
Huge thanks to Big typhoon for the master of this track and by B-✔️igilant® for making the beat. cheers bros 
Vocals by CrypTKillA
Beat By by B-✔️igilant® 
Mastered By Big Typhoon
link to by B-✔️igilant®  https://soundcloud.com/jdiction
link to Big Typhoon https://soundcloud.com/typhoon-1

DREAD FT CRYPTKILLA - BIG TYPHOON MASTERED - BEAT BY by B-✔️igilant®

vocals by CrypTKillA
Beat BY B - ✔️igilant®
check out his page here https://soundcloud.com/jdiction

Need Time To Unwind Beat By By B - ✔️igilant®

Prod By https://soundcloud.com/mike-grin-grin-goins

Right Now  Prod By Grin-Grin

A song about how fragile our live is 

Reaching for silence
Noise sucks me in 
I want to break through these
I would
The meaning that fear paralyzes
And divides us in time

Hear the bells scream
The Howling
How Can't you See
That We're all the same?
Greed's dividing
You're lying
Sell all our bodies instead

And hear my last Whisper 
As Once written down
Want to stay sober
I Would 
The meaning that fear paralyzes 
And divides us in time

Buy the Album for 8 €

Porcelain

After all the recent collaborations I have done, I suddenly felt the urge to create something by myself again and - brace yourself - use my own voice. 'This New World' is the result, a track all about love, starting again and chasing your dreams, in this case on a brand new planet.

This New World

WALKING ONSLAUGHT LISTEN UP!!!!!! 

Ya'll probably wondering why did I recruited you all here. Well you see, it's pretty simple. Ya'll probably heard us on the news, and even did research about us. Don't worry, we're not here to feed you to Onslaught's head collection. In fact, we saw something special about ya'll and probably don't even know it. Ya'll the outcast, always an afterthought, hell even talented but you don't know how to manifest it properly. So that's why we recruited you all. Believe it or not, we're taking over this city and claim it as our own. Din't let the look fool you or our random youtube videos o no. They called us the gods of death, fear, and music for a reason. cause they know with us together we're unstoppable. Any field we touch we easily take it over. We're taking over this joint. I don't give a damn what field you in. Sports, politics, entertainment, hell even a businessmen. Don't be scared to wash out your rivals cause they ain't gonna care when they force you out of business now would they. Don't believe me, look at Amazon, they DAMN sure don't care who goes out of business. So we're gonna change that, WALKING ONSLAUGHTS WERE TAKING OVER THIS CITY AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW IT!!! SO THIS ENTIRE DECADE WERE GONNA SHOW THEM WHO REALLY GOT MORE PULL THEN A WEED PLUG. TALK YALL SHIT, BUST THEIR HEADS OPEN, SHOW NO MERCY, MAKE EM BLEED TILL THEY BLEED RON  BURGUNDY, (oooooo that should be a bar right there) ONSLAUGHT MAN SLAUGHTER ONSLAUGHT MAN SLAUGHTER!!! OPERATION......... TAKE OVERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Little People by @H Rap Bey (Feat Marco.R)

WRITTEN, PRODUCED & PERFORMED By: DOMINIQUEFRENCH
INSTRUMENTAL PRODUCED By: LEWISLAND
MIXING - MASTERING By: TMS STUDIOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksVXn4AehGw
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/1526692470
https://open.spotify.com/album/6MysGSxDlUXBuQumQfYhpq
https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B08SJ9RDBX?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_yUVkf51oUwCcPq2LSCHWiJFMf

"ANTICIPATING"

YMB YungWon No Hook

I spent two years making Punto Ártica album as a whole, and I mostly played my mom’s Spanish guitar in the spare time. This theme and chords got shape with time, without any plan, in some different variations I’ve tried to remember and craft here.

Even a 7/4 vocal section had come up. In the spirit of this new profile, I asked Codi (https://soundcloud.com/noisealter) to adapt my translation of a poem I wrote when my age was about 1/3 than now (see below), and he also sung it with the passion and delivery I was looking for !!

Original poem  /  First translation:

FEBRERO  /  FEBRUARY

Efe de frío, Febrero,  /  ‘F’ for Freeze, February,
tiempo de ocio y ventura  /  leisure and venture time.
Sueño, guitarra, lectura,  /  Sleep, guitar, reading,
paso intermedio.  /  intermediate step.

Tiempo de amigos y risas  /  Time for friends and laughter,
de descanso e ilusión  /  of rest and illusion
de esperanza y ocasión,  /  of hope and opportunity,
muere la prisa.  /  the rush dies.

Febrero de nacimiento,  /  February of birth,
pausa para el estudiante.  /  pause for the student.
Los problemas van delante,  /  The problems go ahead,
estoy contento.  /  I’m happy.

F E B R U A R Y (vocals by Codi from NoiseAlter)

  My tracks are best heard when using headphones. 
Big thanks to all listeners, supporters and people 
i've worked with... hope uz r entertained. cheers
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