My favourite tunes submitted to Fresh On The Net during my first stint as a moderator.

Debris Discs’ Best of the Net

John Rohek (Ro Ek) is a London-based electronic musician, building a uniquely haunting world from atmospheric production, striking visuals, and a focus on lyrical storytelling.

Listen to 'Honestly, Don't Get Up': https://found.ee/jrhdgu

Follow John Rohek:
Mailing List - eepurl.com/intoYw
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Bandcamp - http://johnrohek.bandcamp.com

John Rohek - 'Honestly, Don't Get Up'

How do you recognise yourself?
You told me that your father was killed in Sweden
We know that that was someone else
And why do you suppose that would make us even?

Yes, I am calling into check
Listen, I am checking in
I am calling into check

Side to side around me
No, honestly, don’t get up
It would’ve been alright if you hadn’t found me
Cause I would’ve sniffed you out
Something of a crowd building up behind me
Trying to get out the door

Why don’t you do something that we can’t ignore

You’re suddenly beside yourself
And someone had to force you to say the reason
You’re lucky we arrived with help
You’re lucky we were there to absorb the feeling

But obviously I know, that was a while back now
Yeah, obviously, I know
That was a while back now
And I am calling into check

Side to side around me
No, honestly, don’t get up
It would’ve been alright if you hadn’t found me
Cause I would’ve sniffed you out
Something of a crowd building up behind me
Trying to get out the door

Why don’t you do something that we can’t ignore

I’m trying to adjust the lighting
So that we can all relax
Don’t know what it is that is so inviting
Or what we do after that
Something of a crowd building up behind me
Trying to get out the door

Why don’t you do something that we can’t ignore

Listen, I am checking in
Calling into check
Calling into check

Listen, I am checking in
Calling into check
Calling into check

Listen, I am checking in
Calling into check
Calling into check

Listen, I am checking in
Calling into check
Calling into check

Honestly, Don't Get Up

Light In An Empty Room

Archipelago

Those Desert Eyes

Dreams (On the Strip)  - Radio Edit

An effervescent pop song about depression and self-discovery. It’s fun.

Thick Terrain

Undercover

In one week during the month of September 2021, my brother had a baby, my sister got married and I broke up with my long term boyfriend and had to temporarily move back in with my parents. Someone has to be the hot mess.
During one tragic zoom session in that time period, my hot therapist told me when I was feeling this bad to remember to drink water and get dressed then my dad, passing me in the corridor afterwards, told me I had 'dropped my smile on the floor.' This is a homage to that tapestry of support I got at the time. The first verse is also a letter I wrote to myself to say thanks for getting through it.
I produced this in my Peckham flat and loved getting my violin out for the strings sections!
I also did the artwork with help from my dad on the car!

Credits:
Songwriting, production, singing, violins-Sansha
Mixing and mastering-Darren Woodford
Single artwork-Sansha and Anthony Lewis

Drink Water, Eat Biscuits, Keep Smiling-clean version

Pet Architect

Let me dive into the whirlpool
Covered in shimmery red dust
Just before the explosions 
Light my eyes
Collapsing with the clouds
Burning, bursting as celestial fireworks


The stellar wind is blowing me 
Where is too dark to tell
Where your fingers end 
And the void begins 


Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm


Lost in space, time cannot cheat us
We'll sense the meaning of it all
Holy radiation will lead us to revelation  

Stellar wind is blowing me away 

Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm

Flashpoint, electric swarm
We go through the storm
We go through the storm


Credits:

All music and lyrics by Lunar Bird

Recorded by Stefano Manca at Sudestudio
Mixed by Steffan Pringle
Mastered by Charlie Francis

Guest artist: Andrea Rizzo (drums)

Supported by Help Musicians 'Do It Differently Fund'

Firestorm

Hotel Life

Paul F Cook and The Happy Somethings release their collaborative single ‘Something Happy’, a 2½ minute slice of positive pop that aims to put a smile on your face and a spring in your step.

The song is available in three flavours: Original, Acoustic and a Kitchen Disco Mix. It’s £1 a track or £2.50 for all three but you can pay more if you want to and all profits from the track will go to the mental health charity Mind (www.mind.org.uk).

Something Happy

Something Happy - paulfcook and The Happy Somethings

Clueless - Single

Clueless

A song about a relationship falling apart set at the end of the world in climate catastrophe. 
Lyrics:
You never said it baby
But I know that something’s wrong
It isn’t like you
To forget about me for so long
I opened up to you
And now I wish I never had

The truth is that I always end up
Opening my mouth to say
Whatever’s on my mind
And there’s a graveyard just behind
Who couldn’t handle it
You couldn’t handle it

We’re in ruins
Like the ice caps melting in the sun
I know we’re done
We’re in ruins
Like the ice caps melting in the sun
I know we’re done
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh 

You always knew what I wanted
And what I’d really need
But now you’re gone 
It feels like our house is haunted
Seen a ghost that I had never seen
I mourn the end of us
Just like I mourn the planet earth

But looking back I see
That our foundations were so shaky
There was no way we would make it
As the cracks began to show
Before we tumbled down
No way to fix us now

We’re in ruins
Like the ice caps melting in the sun
I know we’re done
We’re in ruins
Like the ice caps melting in the sun
I know we’re done
We’re in ruins
Like the ice caps melting in the sun
I know we’re done
We’re in ruins
Like the ice caps melting in the sun
I know we’re done
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh 

I mourn the end of us
Just like I mourn the planet earth

Ruins

The Fairie Waltz (featuring Puck on lead guitar). Taken from 'Alfheimr".

Written, recorded and mixed by Found Instruments
Mastered by Swift Mastering
Photo by Kirsti

Out of Tune

On 30th May Ban Summers releases Drifting, the first single from his upcoming third album, following on from last November’s Bean Summers. Ban Summers crafts his own brand of scuzzy yet dreamy lofi indie, self recording, mixing, mastering and releasing from his home in Portsmouth.

A disabled artist himself, Ban Summers (Edward Perry) presents Dis, a monthly radio show playing exclusively other disabled artists on Unmade Radio.

Drifting

Take You Back (Clean)

Don't Wait

Fresh Morning ft. CeCe X and Billy Logan (Radio Edit)

Leeds based alt-pop duo Lucky Iris return with their new single ‘blowing kisses’ (July 7th), taken from their eagerly awaited upcoming EP ‘maybe i'm too much’ (August 11th), their latest expression of lessons learnt in love and friendships. The new track ‘blowing kisses’ is written and produced by the duo, and mixed by Richard Wilkinson (Adele, Kaiser Chiefs) and mastered by Antony Ryan (Oh Wonder).

blowing kisses

From the 6 track EP. Full EP available on Bandcamp.
https://analogueelectronicwhatever.bandcamp.com/album/our-studio-54-ep

Our Studio 54 EP

Our Studio 54

Debut album 'Post War Plans' out now on AnalogueTrash Records. 

Debris Discs is the solo venture of former Coves & Caves/My Side of the Mountain member James Eary. Nestled up in the hills of the High Peak in Derbyshire, James contrasts rural, understated songwriting with an arsenal of dusty synths, drum machines, effects pedals and a trusty old telecaster. The result is a kind of windswept, cinematic yet lo-fi soundscape with a resolutely pop sensibility. 

This is DIY music, homemade by someone probably too old to be sat at the end of the bed sharing songs on socials. This is spare-bedroom pop. Crafted while the kids are asleep and making use of any musical toys left lying around. Lyrics written on post-it notes stuck to the work laptop, melodies hummed on the school run and beats tapped-out while unloading the dishwasher. Humdrum origins that evolve into dreamy, enveloping washes of electronic, harmonic pop music.