It's a little scary this one. And magical and stiff. Like a combat with magic wands and powerful spells. 
It is known that dancing casts evil away and boots are good for dancing with weight.
Attached to this, there's a proposal to destroy material attachments.

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Credo Horcrux

Swim in the tide, swim in the mayonnaise (this is a portuguese expression), swim in information, swim and stay at the top. Swim and float so you don't drown when the waves come.

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Nadar

"Olha Misto" is a danceable, trippy, fast paced track. A little liquid and acidic. It makes me think about how we do, and I in particular do things sometimes, mainly to show, to show that I did it, to show others or to myself that I deserve attention or respect for an accomplishment. Fuck that noise. 
This title was chosen however only for later I could become interested in seeing what was this file, among the so many songs Emman Meroj was producing on my PC, because there was something in it that I liked. Something I like. Now look at this and tell me if you like it too. I think it's funny. However I was not satisfied with some things and it must have been the rush to show and put in the public sphere that prevented me from perfecting it. I am sorry. And fuck you. Showing imperfections is nice and necessary my imperfect and coward humans.

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Olha Misto

This track is to be listened, if we still know how to.
- the speaker person is Barbara Kovats, a trained archeologist, and coordinator of the Solar Test Field, community member of the Tamera peace research center in Portugal, during the "Regenerative Settlements for a Fossil-Free World” talk, at the "Defend The Sacred" gathering of 2019. 

Along with her voice and the voice of a translator in the background, we can hear the typing sound and the engine of a computer which is fed by electricity made out of oil, as the author of this album makes his work which he hopes that it will contribute to a carbon neutral future; cars passing by and birds communicating.


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Intentions

Do you know the history of Bethlehem?
What about Ethiopia?
Do we know where we come from?
Every action creates a reaction.
We need roots and the awareness of them. 
Do we care about humans that live in different places than ours?
When will we respect and give help to the palestinians facing violence by the government and armed forces of Israel?
It seems like religion can easily become a source of separation.
What's a new different way of political organization which could benefit humankind and the ecosystems we are part of?
Do you have an healthy ego or do you have the need to make others feel inferior and unworthy?

Dub music, and music in general, is good to set us free, some say.
There's not much dub in this album though.

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Dubin Bethlehem

This is the sound I might hear inside my head as I scroll, as I research in the internet and spend time alone, quietly staring at a bright screen with loads of information.
Sometimes I see cool things, sometimes I see weird things, sometimes I see things that make me go cognitively dissonant, sometimes I see beautiful and inspiring things, sometimes I find answers, sometimes I find anxiety.

And then I rest my phone, I rest my mind...

Peace

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Browsing In Peace

A track made in a couple of hours, like most of them.
I'ts a resonant part of todays mainstream city life, year 2022, planet Earth, or perhaps could be soundtrack of a time lapse of a bunch of feline predators or hienas after a herd of gazels or zebras with a lot of twists and turns, and dust and blood spills produced by violence.

P.s. Studying life is fun.

What do you think about artificial intelligence?
- a woman once told me that watching her husband work and learning about his research and the company he worked with, which was with the development of AI, that it was beyond terrifying as the possibilities are amazingly dangerous for all mankind and the people in charge of this are not being wise. (after that, her comment and the whole post disappeared) But what does she know, right? -

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eSTUDOS DA VIDA

"Contra-Anti" has a steady, fast forward, well driven beat in the background
In the beginning it started as a percussive only kind of track, with no harmony or melody noticible.

The harmonious and spacious sounds that changed the whole thing were added much later.
I & I like the music of spheres. Planetary bodies emanate sound too.

Is it necessary to neglect one thing for other?
Is it exclusivity nice?
Is it possible that slow and fast, gentle and hard can't be together?

In life you don't have to be against anything.

- Of course there's things that you need be against. Are you crazy? Wtf.

Turn up the volume

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Contra - Anti

The constructive and expansive mindset is a nonviolent mindset. A mindset of focus and mental clarity, real good strength and fortitude, is grounded in non-violence. 
Although violence might be necessary in some extreme cases, it is the last resource and a measure of desperation.
This track is a warrior's walk in control. We know there's a lot more compassion missing in this world if we want to live better and triumph together. It is believed here that a successful mindset is in favor of cooperation and coordination for the benefit of all parties. The combat of such a warrior is every day. And it all starts in the mind.

"Up until this point you've been taught the violence equals strength and compassion equals weakness. This ideology is limiting. It is possible to be brutally tolerant or peacefully savage." - from the movie "The Art of Self Defense"

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Mindset

"The stars are beautiful and must be warm.
At night I like to be alone with the stars. I've had some intimate conversations with them. I've asked them for wishes. They give me a hope. And when I produce music through the night, I go outside for a smoke and look at the sky and the stars that are up there. Do you hear the stars? 
I am the kick, the suffering and the incisive rhythm, they are the calm kindness and the healing. They're grandmothers, mothers and fathers, teachers, the stars. Sometimes they are playful too. And me too." - a passage from a secret diary

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As Estrelas E Eu

A few field recordings in the streets of a city, a set of different kicks, a samurai determination, and an addict mind in pursuit of more.

"Adicto" is the soundtrack of someone addicted to the rhythm, addicted to production; addicted to the bustle and hustle of the city; to the lights; to consumerism; addicted to sweating in this dance; addicted to and electric current; addicted to substances; addicted to the accelerated pace in the streets of a capital full of people; addicted to a certain coldness and feeling of incompleteness; addicted to the ecstasy; addicted to a routine; addicted to something that simultaneously disgusts him... etc.
Hooked on carrying on.

What are you addicted to?

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Adicto

"Facridar" é uma explosão de energia sonora. 
Faixa que surge ruidosa e eletrificantemente, de certa forma abafada e logo abrindo, expandindo-se complexamente e ganhando forças como um acordar ao som dum trompete, é simbólica do big bang de Emman Meroj (Emmanuel Ornelas) na composição e produção de música eletrónica. Da destruturação surge um mundo aos pontapés de energia.

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"Facridar" is a burst of sound energy.
Coming noisily and electrifyingly, somewhat muffled and soon opening up, expanding in a complex manner and gaining strength as a wake up to the sound of a trumpet, it is symbolic to the big bang of Emman Meroj (Emmanuel Ornelas) in the world of composition and production with electronic music. From the deconstruction, with kicks of energy, a world emerges.

Production: Emman Meroj
Junk percussion and Didgeridoo: Emman Meroj
Mastering: Ricardo Rodrigues

Graphics: Emmanuel Ornelas
Design: Hernando Urrutia

Facridar (freedownload)

This track is in the format of a message. A message of light you might find somewhere dark and old, evoking power and a change in the rotten world we are currently living.
This is a single out of my first EP coming out soon, "Do Goto".

With some wise words by the artist and writer Alan Moore, we are drawn to think about our interaction with the organism we live in, the planet Earth, along with a dance-like melody in a dense, low-quality, fusty electronic background.

The voice excerpt is from the 1987 documentary "Monsters Maniacs & Moore", and the artwork by Steve Bissette, out of the "Swamp Thing".

Emman Meroj - Detro More (single)

Music and more in the age of globalization and realization of systemic issues to be fixed and healed now, Emman Meroj is an alter-ego of Emmanuel Mejía Ornelas, an creative output for activism purposes aswell.
Emman Meroj is a product of the digital era and capitalist globalization, playing with techno and lo-fi 
aesthetics (and others), ranging from experimental noise to acid dance music with organic sounds. 
At a time when humanity is calling for a return to its roots, Emman Meroj represents an exploration of sound in the  modern world.

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