It has such a strange institutional feel which is good, like a walk through an asylum for the insane, as if they are following me. and bending my ear with nonsense. well done. Write on...right on...righteously.

Calm & Steady series

- short tracks of dance music (SUPER FRESH)

All tracks were uploaded between 04/2021 and 05/2021, with the following older exceptions:
. . - chivicke "Lovers In The Dark"(#14): 2 years,
. . - Ｈｴ𝕲𝐇 Lᴀ𝐍꒯ ♪♫ "Toon Stuff"(#3): 1 year*,
. . - Edward Stockbridge "Mandel"(#11): 1 year*,
. . - Auto Control "This Morning"(#12): 1 year*,
. . - Neon Braun "Drum Frickeln 6.1"(#7): 8 months.

The other series (short tracks) so far are:
- "Hard-Fast-or-Nasty" (more intense/abrasive)
- "MiddleLane", and "Superdance" (the middle, or ambivalence)
- "Funky-Dub-Trap", and Funky (terminology conundrum)
- "Fantaisies" (for professional dancers only)
- "Minimal"
- "Dark"
- "BreakB-Jungle-DnB"

There is little overlap between them, mostly between: *
. . A) MiddleLane, Superdance
and
. . B) all other series

* Increasingly there is some overlap between "Calm & Steady" and "Funky-Dub-Trap", and between a bunch of others (Dark, Minimal, ...). I'm trying to keep it to the minimum, the overlap, tracks finding themselves in more than one playlist.  I don't think I'm very good at it.

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Same Moon (ZODIAC Ultimate Beat Contest)

Random Asset

Fantasy Free Zone

Firefly Frolic & Fairy Fancy

A new challenge.

I've been looking for a melody for a new collaboration for weeks. This time with the talented Winkandwoo

Like other artists here, Winkandwoo's voice is unmistakable - totally fresh and melodic.

To better know the versatility of this creator and listen to his fantastic melodies and collaborations, I leave you a link.

https://soundcloud.com/winkandwoo/tracks

Thanks for this wonderful opportunity, Clive.

BLOWING THE CLOUDS AWAY (May/June 2021)

LYRICS

"Time is not for any of us
We make it up to know that we exist
Because time is not for anyone
It's just an illusion of your mind"

As i look up today and
See the sky
And i am
Mentally trying
To Blow the clouds away
Feel the sun on my skin
Feel the earth beneath my feet
Feel the heat
Just blowing the clouds away

When the rain it comes
It washes clean
It feeds the ground
Trees and plants and flowers
Are the blessings for us now

Healing Sun
Make us as one

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Tracks with voices from Winkandwoo

34 native instrument tracks from Music Studio 2 and the Xewton forum.

1 track of Digital D1

3 tracks of Synthmaster One

6 tracks of sound databases

1 personal recording (Ahem ...)

Cover art, title, lyrics and final edición by Winkandwoo.

Music composed and edited on ipad

Blowing The Clouds Away -  Winkandwoo & Midisound

Original by FPMORINSTUDIO/ Francois Pierre Morin composer. Photo by Jean Nicolas Morin

Guitar And Synth Drive In 2021

Music written, arranged, produced and performed by Arkestar 2021
Vox courtesy of Selena Evangeline @ Retro Funk Vocals Sample Collection @ Loopmasters

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAXsdJWIGEX6OZMPSk32S2g

Original beautiful Artwork kindly provided by Su at www.instagram.com/sopixeluniverse/

Arkestar - Take a Little Trip [ft. Selena Evangeline]

Hi folks,

This is preview of my new EP (out today 24th August) 'Pulsating Currents'.. each snippet of all 7 tracks are 40 seconds long. If you like what you hear then visit my Bandcamp page and pick yourself up a digital copy, or alternatively check it out via my Spotify page :)Check my twitter account or follow on Bandcamp for a free code.

Enjoy, 

Rob (CRSY)

https://open.spotify.com/album/5gqkQw6YEqj2BIJesET1g9?si=ObCuzgjzTvahR1b71SpCvg&dl_branch=1
https://crestofthesyndicate.bandcamp.com/album/pulsating-currents

Bandcamp

Pulsating Currents EP - Preview (See Description)

semi-dark, downtempo experimental meditative ..... photo, Baptiste on unsplash

darkbright

Finlandia Hymn (instrumental guitar arrangement, orig composition by Jean Sibelius)

🎶 Mestizo Tribute to Gilbert Favre el gringo de Sagarnaga

MARIO & Collettivo Undersound

❤️ I’ve always loved Gilbert Favre.  Even if, for a long stretch of my life — the part where I chose to be heterosexual and walk beside Barbara Erskine — I had to be jealous of a ghost.Barbara was Gilbert’s wife. This year, the grandchildren are arriving: the twins and little Jona.I met them when they were smaller than my own granddaughters. Life moves in spirals, and somehow we all keep meeting again inside the same melody.

🎼 Who Gilbert Favre Really Was

🎵 Gilbert Favre (1936–1998) was a Swiss clarinetist trained at the Conservatory of Geneva.But his life changed when he traveled to South America as assistant to ethnographer Jean Christian Spahni.There, in the Bolivian altiplano, he discovered the quena, the Andean flute that would become his voice.

🏛️ In La Paz, he founded La Peña Naira, a cultural cabaret near Plaza San Francisco.It became a sanctuary for diplomats, artists, poets, and musicians searching for a new Bolivian identity.

🎶 Favre co‑founded Los Jairas, one of the most influential groups in the history of Andean music.Their fusion of traditional rhythms with modern arrangements helped launch the neo‑folklore movement, inspiring countless musicians across Bolivia, Chile, Peru, France, and Switzerland.

🌄 He collaborated with legendary artists of the Andean renaissance, shaping a sound that still echoes today in festivals, conservatories, and street corners from La Paz to Paris.

💔 Violeta Parra and the Desert

Gilbert’s life intertwined with that of Violeta Parra, one of Latin America’s greatest artists.Their love was passionate, volcanic, and ultimately tragic.After their final rupture, Violeta wrote “Gracias a la Vida”, one of the most iconic songs in world music.

🌵 The story goes that she left him stranded in the Bolivian desert —no water, no cigarettes, only the wind and the quena.

🌬️ Why Our Lives Mirror Each Other

In some strange way, our paths resemble each other.The only difference is: Gilbert was confident. I was a mess.But music — and life — were our common denominator.

🌬️ We were both sons of Pan.Children of the wind.Nomads of sound.

🌍 Moisdon‑la‑Rivière: The Last Chapter

Today, in France — precisely in Moisdon‑la‑Rivière — Gilbert Favre is still celebrated.Not as a ghost, not as a myth, but as a rebellious musician, a philosopher of the cosmos, a seeker of ancient truths.

🪈 A flutist who carried the Andes in his breath.A mestizo of spirit long before the word became fashionable.

✨ Why This Album Exists

In this strange, attentive, and synchronistic year, we decided to dedicate an entire space to Gilbert.

In this album, we’ve woven together:

    🎸 fretless bass
    🪕 saturated sitar
    🎶 pan flutes
    🥁 zydeco‑inspired percussion
    🌗 modal mestizo harmonies
    🔥 acoustic trance textures

🌌 The Meaning of “Mestizo”

The title — Mestizo — comes from the Spanish word for “mixed blood.”Once used as an insult, here it becomes a badge of honor.

Because maybe the truth is:✨ Only the vagabonds of the stars can truly be mestizos.

mestizo

From the dark despairing cold depths of winter....'devilish' alto flutes with moog / 'spectral' oboes and a finale of soprano sax (recommend headphones).

DIABLO

Attraction

Toon Stuff

Dance Audit Hour

Mandel

Unstrung: a collection of our most definitive songs, completely remixed and remastered. As you may know, we self-record, mix, and release all of our music. What we realized after the 2020 release of the Strings EP is that we can do better (much better).

Head in the Fence

Random Shockwave

2025/12/12:
Anybody else prevented from accessing SC servers via VPN?  All of them are blocked for me.  This is the first time it happens to me in six or seven years of almost daily SoundCloud activity.  I use a VPN in SC because when I don't I get horrible delays that show up in many different ways.  The only explanation I have found is that somehow their security/identification system has flagged my IP address and introduced all kinds of speed bumps.  It makes the experience very unpleasant, irritating.  2025/12/16 UPDATE: I have received no reply about this from anyone so I am guessing this hasn't happened to anyone else, which is quite surprising.  It's a good thing I don't have paranoid tendencies.  I now can use my VPN service again, so this lasted about four days.  As usual I have no idea how this came about.

2025/12/06:
Why was Jonathan Bellot's account
[https://soundcloud.com/jonathanbellot] deleted?
...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...
My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
Sorry Joe. =(
...
sometime in 2025:
I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

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EMAIL: Estockbridge01@gmail.com
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