sweetly selected | Feb 2025

GRAVITY CLIMBING INTO A RAIN OF LOVE

Dominique's Record Breakers #34

Feb 2025 picks

David. A. K. Spencer Selection

LET'S REPAIR THE FUNKY MACHINE WITH OUR MINDS

Lover’s Prayer

As I lay here in my bed knowing I’ve been pretending to be happy without you
All day I looked at the things I see around me 
And thinking to myself I wish you were here To keep my mind off all these painful happenings
The world going crazy and you ain’t around to hug me, my baby
You in your world and me in mine 
Seems likes a dozen leap years until it’s our time
When is it our time baby?

Why I gotta see all these people going crazy all around me 
But then on the other hand, I see lovers holding hands
And love blooming in desolate foreign lands Making me miss you oh oh oh oh oh oh so much 
Longing for only your your your your your touch
I ain’t just missing you 
I’m dying for you
Every night 
Crying for you
Distance and time are the determining factors of our physical alignment 
But our spirits have already dined in the ethers 
And flown together as timeless Galaxy creatures

Chorus
But this is my lover’s prayer
That you’ll come and get me 
And take me back there 
Up to the stars above 
Back up to the clouds of pure love 
Don’t keep me waiting baby
Tomorrow isn’t promised but today, maybe I’ll be your everything 
I’ll make good on our wedding ring
If I could just marry you right now on heaven’s altar 
I promise you forever
My love will never falter

You know the things they try to do to keep us apart
You know the things you keep promising to do with my heart
My love I will always be yours 
Just like I was from the start
So let’s make it regardless of the struggles
And whether or not Love is a dying art

This is my Lover’s prayer

Chorus

This is my Lover’s prayer

Lisha Nandi 10/9/21

Lover's Prayer

Space reggae ska. Dub. Bluebeat Trojan. Music & artwork: D. k. A. Spencer

A message from JAH

Original Music by Ricardo K
Produced by Jeffrey L. Hegwood (J)
A Brotha Word'z Entertainment Production

TRIALS & TRIBULATIONS OF LOVE & LIFE

Trials & Tribulations of Love & Life

Song about love as a shelter against inclemency of life (translated lyrics below).

By means of some weather sounds, I oppose precise dark parts to more colored ones, with serious work till 3:25 when I had fun jamming, so you can skip to 4:20 & enjoy great outro !!

Clarinet was borrowed from my sister for summer practice. Reed & keywork managing is difficult for a beginner, & home cohabitance was set on serious risk, but with painful effort I got something presentable, or so I hope, as not willing to repeat soon...

Pic: edited eyefish photo taken by my other sister during one of my hard summer rehearsals.

LETRAS / LYRICS

ENTRA SIN MIEDO / COME IN WITHOUT FEAR

Fuera hay truenos; / Outside there are thunders;
entra sin miedo. / come in without fear.

Fuera hay viento; / Outside there is wind;
entra corriendo. / come rush in.

Soy tu refugio protector; / I am your protective shelter;
entre mis brazos estarás mejor: / whithin my arms you’ll be better:
ven a buscar mi calor. / come to find my warmth.

Dentro hay fuego; / Inside there is fire;
entra a verlo. / come in to see it.

Dentro te espero, / Inside I wait for you,
entra sin miedo. / come in without fear.

ER22HC02 - (C) Ruizzo 1995 - (R) Francés Records;) 2014

Entra sin miedo (No clarinet was harmed)

Spanish Garden

Indoriaze - Abyss / Bonzai Progressive Records

Going Out Of My Mind

Tulips, bicycles, canals, history, fine art, DJs, and most of all the Dutch people make Amsterdam and the Netherlands a place I could easily call home. 

But Amsterdam is more than a place to me — it’s a symbol of the joy of finding community, of sharing and thriving with people who support one another. Hopefully you can do that right where you live. Or here on SoundCloud. We are "stronger together" is more than a trite slogan because it is a mathematical fact. So let’s take a joyful trip and dance as if everyone applauds your moves.

With a toast 🥂 to Mick and Karin 

60/120/60 bpm

Begins with a classical treatment and electro, then electro, house, and techno music. 

DAW Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI Akai MPK Professional
E-instruments:
Ballad piano
Concert Grand
Clarinet Solo
Bassoon Solo
Cinema Strings
String Basses
Trombones
French Horns
Synths:
Focus
Ghosts
Momentum
Ethereal Mallets 
Ambient Lead
Buzzy Pluck bass
Deep Round Synth Bass
Minimal Techno Pattern bass
E-percussion used:
Timpani
Xtra Timpani Tremolo
Orchestral Kit Kick & Lg. Taiko Drum
Paris House Remix
Tech House Beat
Euro Dance Remix
2-Step Remix Overdrive
Latin Kit

COVER IMAGE is a composite created in Photoshop using my personal photos rendered with an oil painting filter.
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Amsterdam

Face the Jungle

new moog quartet patch
muse, matriarch, subharmonicon, dfam
Ableton live fx

bounce

DRUMAX No. 58 // the winner takes it all, take care !
@joerxworx > Composition, Instruments, Arrangement, EWI flute
@docfritz > Rhythm Design @ E- Drums
© 2025 by joerxworx and docfritz / DRUMAX PROJECT

RINGULARITY

DRUMAX No. 58 // RINGULARITY

Vocals (Composition, Arrangement &amp; Performance): @elpiverse
Two Guitars (Composition, Arrangement &amp; Performance): Counterworlds Voltage
Mix &amp; Mastering: @elpiverse
Production: Counterworlds Voltage &amp; @elpiverse
Artwork: @elpiverse
🪬

Medusa

Soap

just enjoy this new experience of life or music

Liberty In Motion

Zero Gravity

The Clock

Pastichomachina

Lyrics and Vocals by me
Music made in Garageband
(I added some echo on my main voice for more effect)
A simple and a little weird song about self doubt, and finding the power :)

Lyrics:

Please, don't say I'm weak
That I am small
That I will never be able to climb up
and reach the top
That I will always be the one
Lying on the ground, looking up....

Chorus
I'm gonna find my power
I will climb,I will fight
I'm gonna reach the top
I will climb ,I will fight
I'm gonna use my power
I will climb, I will fight
I'm gonna reach the top
I will climb, I will fight

Please, don't say I'm grey
That I'm invisible
and never will be able to be mixed
Or to be fixed
That I will always be the one
Left colorless, lying on the ground..

Chorus...

Chorus....

Climb  (Original)

another cool funky track by @cosmic-ratzzz <3 .. EWI flute blown by me

Lunatics 215 / The great Escape / Ratzzz & joerxworx

Jazz Fusion instrumental with the collaboration of JC Bordetti on Drums
Thanks to Julie for this magnificent photo of Tanzanie.

After the Rain

After the rain  (feat JC Bordetti on drums)

the minds eye

The Minds Eye

Cast of characters:

Saskiagoethals-- @saskiagoethals --Saskia — vocals, lyrics, and production
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – guitar, bass, VST melodica, beats, mix, production, and composition
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- piano, organ, and composition

This song started with Tez coming up with a heavy riddim and monster bass to go with it, over which he laid his clockwork rhythm guitar. He shared it with Josh, who came up with the piano and organ parts. It was pretty much done, but we wated vocals on it, so it languished on the digital shelf for almost half a year. 
  That is until Saskia heard and worked with Tez on a different open collab on his page. He then offered her this one. She downloaded it, added her superb vocals, and sent it back to the other two to review. They were blown away by her creativity and skill as a singer, and are very grateful to her for reviving the project. 
  When it was all laid down, Tez mixed it expertly, as always. Saskia took his mix, sped it up and adjusted her vocals, too. She is a very competent producer, as well.
  Tez and Josh are big dub fans from way back, and this is the latest in a couple year running series of collabs in the genre from the two of them. They are very grateful to Saskia for doing such a wonderful job of completing the song. Look for her in future collabs, both with Tez and Josh, as well as with their band, The Eclectic Collective. We all hope you enjoy listening to this as much as we enjoyed creating it. 

Original lyrics by Saskiagoethals: 

I went to the love doctor
to shine his light on my loneliness
he promissed to fill the emptiness
corse
my love is gonne and since then i stayed alone
my bed is empty my feet are cold
and i don’t wanne feel already old
The love doctor said come with me
the night is young and so are we
So he kept his promise
And he warmed me with his kiss
inject me with your love
i don’ want my love back
i don’t want a quick fix i want my love doctor

Love Doctor (with Llanpsych and Saskigoethals)

i clean up the world
you fall in beside me
i’ll cover the Wuhan lab
you shore up the army

i follow the news
the news is disaster
i’ve given up on my booze
to wash the world faster

every morning
every hour

stop at the top of mountains
soul care repair

it happens this way
to each generation
the entropy cabaret
and reason’s cessation

every morning
wake up to the truth
every hour
plenty more to do

stop at the top of mountains
rest there fresh air 

every morning
wake up to the truth
every hour plenty more to do

stop at the top of mountains 
pure prayer up there

Tikkun

Funky Flow / IPG1 & Paploviante
Open invitation for a collab from IPG1
https://soundcloud.com/ipg1/funky-flow-collab-vox-90-bpm?in=ipg1/sets/vocals
Vocals and Lyrics: IPG1
E Bass, Music, Arrangement and Mix Paploviante


Funky Flow-IPG1 & Paploviante

Soul Searching

We Got It Vs. Motion Shift

I'll finish E-Ruizzo project with a conceptual LP album: 4 songs about 'Arctica Point'. I imagined it amid rotation axis, geographic north and magnetic pole, and I located it on dry land !! Then I draw the cover art.

This opening track tells the decision of leaving this annoying present by travelling to that magical place. The following ones tell the trip and life there.

Translated lyrics will explain it with more detail:

EXPEDICIÓN (EL MUNDO SE HACE PEQUEÑO)  /  EXPEDITION (THE WORLD GETS SMALL)

Cansado de vivir en un mundo que se hace pequeño,  /  Tired of living in a world which gets small,
como ratas nos movemos en nuestro agujero.  /  like rats we move in our hole.

Cierro los párpados para no verlo,  /  I close my eyelids so as not to see it,
pero hay demasiadas cosas feas detrás de ellos.  /  but there are too many ugly things behind them.

Con los ojos cerrados veo mis recuerdos,  /  With my eyes closed I see my memories,
veo el presente que vivo y no quiero verlo.  /  I see the present I live in and I don’t want to see it.

Con los ojos cerrados no dejo de pensarlo,  /  With my eyes closed I can’t stop thinking about it,
tengo que ir a algún sitio donde olvidarlo.  /  I must go somewhere to forget it.

Partiremos hacia donde los recuerdos se olvidan,  /  We will leave for where memories are forgotten,
donde el frío congela el dolor de la vida,  /  where cold freezes the pain of life,
donde el hielo y la nieve nos protege del hombre,  /  where ice and snow protect us from mankind,
donde el cuerpo y el alma se purifican.  /  where body and soul are purified.

Tenlo todo preparado para nuestra expedición.  /  Get everything ready for our expedition.
Formemos una expedición ártica,  /  Let’s form an Arctic expedition,
Tenlo todo preparado para nuestra expedición.  /  Get everything ready for our expedition.
Formemos una expedición ártica,   /  Let’s form an Arctic expedition,
formemos una expedición ártica  /  let’s form an Arctic expedition

Ártica…  /  Arctica…
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.

Partiremos hacia donde el reloj no gira.  /  We’ll leave for where the clock doesn’t go round.
Partiremos hacia donde el tiempo no pasa,  /  We’ll leave for where time doesn’t go by,
al lugar donde seis meses sólo duran un día.  /  for the place where six months only last one day.

Viviendo en un mundo que se hace pequeño,  /  Living in a world which gets small,
como ratas nos movemos en nuestro agujero.  /  like rats we move in our hole.
Con los ojos cerrados no dejo de pensarlo,  /  With my eyes closed I can’t stop thinking about it,
tengo que ir a algún sitio donde olvidarlo.  /  I must go somewhere to forget it.

Ártica…  /  Arctica…
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.
entre el polo magnético y el norte geométrico  /  between the magnetic pole and the geometric north
se encuentra el Punto Ártica.  /  is located the Arctica Point.

Esperar no es lo único que haremos allí.  /  To wait is not the only thing we’ll do there.
Sabes que no es fácil sobrevivir,  /  You know it’s not easy to survive,
cuando no hay nada que te empuje a seguir.  /  when there’s nothing pushing you on.

ER25 PA01 RUIZZO ©1995 ®2019

Old raw jazzy piano trailer: https://soundcloud.com/esemanolain-ruizzo/unique-piano-session-2013

Expedición (El mundo se hace pequeño)

Vbz & Districted Noize pres. Black Synth DJ Contest by SCAPULA

Back In Town

I Didn't See It Coming

Tantrum Desire
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Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Cold Turkey (Tantrum Desire Remix)

Subl!ne - Brain Funktion

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Gydra - Lava Run
AC13 - The Virus
Sick Run - Brain Dead
Calyx & TeeBee - Sawn Off
Razlom - Gunboi
2Whales - On My Back
Metrik - Hackers
Jaguar Skills x Spookz – Ninjaman (Manta Remix)
Tantrum Desire — Zealous

IBB - Bunny Hop

My rendition of Craig David's "Rendevouz" one of my fav songs by him.
All instruments and vocals performed by Lewisland.

Rendevouz (Craig David Cover)

Glory to Jah.🙏 No AI.  I’m a musician, since 8 years old, playing guitar, drums & keyboards. Peace & one love 🙏 Free Gaza.
Email. davespencer2011@hotmail.co.uk   https:davidkaspencer.bandcamp.com/follow_me 🕊 www.facebook.com/profile

Zero Gravity

David. k. A. Spencer.