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The Enigma, Voyage of the Veiled Lyre:
A Secret Journey Through Song, Poetry, and Philosophy / Pt. 1
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story created, lyrics written and narrated by fictionalive /
The song 'Isolate Prior' is written, produced, and provided by mobygratis.com, licensed / arranged, mixed by fictionalive / fusion of it all – fictionalive with the popoems series and the hyper media reports / fair use only /
dropped July 1st, 2025 
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The Enigma, Voyage of the Veiled Lyre: A Secret Journey Through Song, Poetry, and Philosophy / Pt. 1

PLEASE NO PROMOTERS or VIDEO PLEASE. I DO MY OWN ! 
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Mairidh Gaol is Ceòl: A well-known Scottish Gaelic proverb that translates to "The world will end, but love and music will endure”

Scottish born and bred. Just exploring some ideas spinning round in my head and putting them up here. Various styles of music and trying to find my niche !  All the songs are written solely by me. 
Im open to all sorts of music and appreciate the work folk have done. If you don’t like my music ! Move on. Don’t belittle yourself by leaving nasty comments. Im not influenced by idiotic behaviour or narcissistic twats 🥸

Hi, I'm a producer from 🇮🇹
💣 Boom bap
✨ Lo-Fi

I'm primarily a guitar player but I'll try to make music with anything you throw at me. When left to my own devices I enjoy recording minimalist ambient pieces and textural soundscapes. My principal sound source for these efforts is manipulated guitar but I often include electronics and organic sources. I enjoy working on collaborations with other musicians. Please contact me if you are interested.
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I am the co-founder of the 80's indie avant-garde mutant pop band Proof of Utah, the Smiley Turtle Records label and the Smiley Turtle Recording Studio. For a taste of the Smiley Turtle sound check out: https://soundcloud.com/user-745187095
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*** Visit the collaborators' websites:

Louie Simon @lsimon33
Stan Magendanz @stan_magendanz
Wodwo @user-364196783-552705040
Lone Arrivals @tiny_wytch and @tinywytch
Marcin Gruszczynski http://www.fairlyconfusing.net/

Brain Hop

fictionalive /
popoems series / hyper media reports 
2001 / 2011 / 2024

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An artist is someone who creates or expresses ideas, emotions, or visions through a chosen medium, aiming to communicate, inspire, or evoke a response.

This definition embraces all forms of creativity—visual, musical, literary, or performance—and emphasizes the purpose of connection and expression rather than formal titles or external validation.

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Brain Hop

Brain Hop is a musical genre invented by the artist fictionalive on Monday, December 1st, 2025, at 1:24 PM. The genre seeks to bring depth, intellect, and philosophical reflection into (hip-hop) music, emphasizing thoughtful lyricism and cognitive engagement. Brain Hop differentiates itself from mainstream (hip-hop) by prioritizing meaningful content, complex themes, and a cerebral approach to rhythm and rhyme.

The creation of Brain Hop responds to criticisms that contemporary (hip-hop) often lacks intellectual depth. It aims to provide an artistic space where artists explore profound social, political, and existential issues through innovative beats and poetic lyrics. Brain Hop is positioned as part of a movement to elevate (hip-hop) culture into new territories of artistic and cultural significance.

As of its inception, Brain Hop is recognized as an emerging genre within underground and alternative music scenes, promising to attract listeners and creators who value music that stimulates both mind and soul.

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Monorecords since 1996
MusicLover - Selector - VinylOnly - Diggin' 
Love most Homeselling/Storytelling 🫶
For Booking : PM / +41 78 935 36 58

How all began „Spruzzi" (damals erst 12 Jahre alt) war ein grosser Fan seines älteren Bruders Claudio, der als DJ auf der Tanzfläche stets für gute Stimmung sorgte. Inspiriert von seinem Vorbild tigerte der noch ziemlich kleine Knirps wann immer er konnte im Kreis 4 herum, wo er alle Schallplattenläden nach dem schwarzen Gold abklapperte. In den ersten Jahren widmete er seine Leidenschaft dem Rock. Danach kamen musikalische Genres wie: Jazz, Funk, Library, Soul, Afro, Brasil, Latin, Oriental usw. (aus den
60-igern bis heute) hinzu, die seinen musikalischen Horizont erweiterten und seine Plattensammlung beachtlich anwachsen liessen. Zusammen mit seinem damaligen Partner„Pipo“eröffnete er 1996 mitten im Herzen von Zürich, den im In-und Ausland wohl angesagtesten Schallplattenladen der Schweiz „MonoRecords". Dieser entwickelte sich rasch zu einem Mekka für Vinyl-Süchtige oder zum Schrein der geläuterten Vinyl-Anbeter aus aller Welt. Die exquisite Auswahl an Schallplatten von „MonoRecords" wurde bis weit über die Grenzen der Schweiz hinaus bekannt. Andreas „Spruzzi“ Mattiazzo führte diesen Laden 12-Jahre lang mit dem seinem Partner: Daniel“Pipo“Nussbaumer
von 1996 bis 2008.
Natürlich konnte er es nicht lassen auch nebenbei, meist wenn es schon etwas später und etwas dunkler war, die Schallplatten kreisen zu lassen und die hungrige Meute zum Tanzen zu bringen. Heute immer mit seinem schwarzen Gold unterwegs und reitet mit seiner Melanie2 seinem motorisiertem Pferd ob Sommer ob Winter dies nun über3 Jahrzehnte lang, von einer schummrigen Bar zur anderen und macht zwischen Stops in dunklen schumrigen Clubs, tankt sich an sonnigen OpenAir's. Höhepunkte für Ihn selbst waren bis heute seine Montreux Jazz und ZürichFilmFestival ZFF Auftritte. 

Spruzzi ist auch immer wieder ein willkommener Gast in Radio-Sendungen. Lokal zu hören auf Rundfunk.fm, RadioLora oder auch regionalen auf Kanal K, Radio Stadtfilter Winterthur oder Radio SRF „Virus" auch immer wieder und öfter auf Superfly.fm. bei seinem langjährigen Freund Jürgen Drimal in Wien. Superfly.fm ist heute ein RadioSender die Ihren verdienten Respekt weltweit in der Radiowelt unter Enthusiasten und Jazz SoulFunk gelehrten geniesst.
Sonntags ist er auch immer wieder zu hören auf: www.discoversoulfood.ch 

Inzwischen sammelt Spruzzi nun gut 40 Jahren Schallplatten und ein Ende scheint noch immer nicht in Sicht..Lol

Weshalb noch heute bekannte DJ's wie:
Redman, Cash Money, Dj Numark, Dj Spinna, Dj Format (um nur einige zu nennen) bei Spruzzi privat stöbern.
„MonoRecords" befindet sich
in einem wunderschönen, musikalisch und kulturellen Ort Namens: RoxyVinylCafe-Winterthur, ein Besuch lohnt sich auf jeden Fall !

New single Fly Me out now on Apple Music, Spotify, and everywhere else. Bandcamp link https://maywolves.bandcamp.com/track/fly-me

Maywolves are an Atlanta, GA based band with one motive: make music we want to hear over and over. They take inspiration from 
Peter Gabriel to Nine Inch Nails to Queens Of The Stone Age.

#indiemusic #indierock #alternativerock #synthpop

2025/12/06:
Why was Jonathan Bellot's account
[https://soundcloud.com/jonathanbellot] deleted?
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music & dance,
for the emancipation of the human spirit
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for those with religious tendencies this could be called emancipation theology, a sort of liberation theology for the mind instead of the land
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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.
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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. =(
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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.
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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.
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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.

I am overjoyed to partake in sounds beautiful:
https://youtu.be/1TnalFltP_Q?si=VidMVZ9VDKGZiNUm  by Dan and
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/up-up-out by Jeff.

Jeff also gifted me a visiting role on his previous album: 
https://stonerjazz.bandcamp.com/album/quintessential

.... and here is my own test account:
https://sonicstructuresandsilentstretches.bandcamp.com/track/eliza

POETRY IS VITAL

This threshold space exists for those who feel like listening to some of my quite professional poetry embedded in rather amateurishly recorded but judiciously arranged sound, a modicum of purely acoustic work notwithstanding.  Fortunately, some other artists have also transformed the symbolic expression of my words into the tangible beauty of real songs and soundscapes - just listen to Sympoetic Ultrasounds: https://soundcloud.com/sonic-textures/sets/sympoetic-ultrasounds !

SOUND, SPACE AND TIME

Tend your listening senses gently. Even though my general approach welcomes and embraces lo-fi concepts like the precision of spontaneously occuring imprecisions, headphones worth their membranes are recommended - unless you like your sounds flat, mangled, battered and helpless. You don't, do you? Be kind to these soundscapes.

STRUCTURING IMPULSE

Due to the nature of "poetry soundscapes", your listening expectations regarding traditionally structured "songs", sonically purified "raw wildlife soundscapes", keyboard-laden "ambient recordings" or voice-centered "readings" might not be met. You will find some of those in my list of /likes/. "Noise" is a recurring structural element like any other. This is what this sounds like - within its own rights, limitations, tangents and interconnections. Sonic structures. Silent stretches. Poetry emerges from the gaps between the ruts, seeps in from the undergrowth, sweeps down.

CARVING, CHISELLING, KNEADING, MORPHING

A quick glance into my toolshed rests on Zoom recorders, Samplitude software and a dizzying array of diverse sonic machinery.

LARGE AND SMALL GIFTS

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Small Gifts

the less to remember, the more to listen
gifts from the ice age reverberate
a simple story, a forest, a coastline
entangled in silence, one starts to relate
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In case you have read up to this point, you might be a sonic creator yourself. May I ask you for a helping ear? Above, there is a tiny poem of mine that I do not understand how to translate into sound. If you do - please act on it. It is a matter of common decency, of course, to keep the title (Small Gifts) and to credit the lyrics to me (jo richter). And please do notify me of your version via a soundcloud message. One bewilderingly beautiful version crafted by mono-lux has already gone public, as well as an amazing version by cthonicist.  You'll find both in my playlist Sympoetic Ultrasounds. This is just a small gift, not a challenge - life already has more than enough of those on offer, doesn't it? Treat it this way.

POETRY IS VITAL
sound, space and time
structuring impulse
carving, chiselling, kneading, morphing
large and small gifts
poetry is vital

GENERAL POLICY regarding the use of LIKES, REPOSTS and FOLLOWS:
I like what I like and want to hear again.
I only repost what I've had a hand in creating.
I follow when I see directions or arrivals I like, not when followed (though I might peek in to get an idea of what your sounds are about). I have set myself a limit of accounts I follow not to be all too overwhelmed. Not following does therefore not mean I do not appreciate what you contribute to the enjoyments of soundcloud.
Do not expect other behaviour from me.
(jo richter)