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Why the AI Race? Truth as a luxury

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lyrics written and narration provided by fictionalive

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music written, arranged, played, mixed, produced, licensed, and provided by mobygratis

vocal arrangements, production, final mix and drop by fictionalive

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tune in for the series here -
About AI and Us - Beyond Your Song // Why The AI Race: 7 tracks or more
soundcloud.com/fictionalive/sets/why-the-ai-race-about-ai-and

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artwork illustration by peter uertz, düsseldorf / germany

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fusion of it all -
fictionalive with the popoems series and the hyper media reports

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dropped
wednesday, september 17th, 2025
time - 10:10 pm central european hot
summer time zone; today, we are
weathering the storms again

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Why the AI Race? Truth as a luxury

"Magic is what we do. Music is how we do it." -- Jerry Garcia

Welcome to my page, my peers, associates, friends, and musical family. I'm a lifelong, multi-instrumentalist musician who records prolifically and joyfully. You'll hear me play guitar, bass (regular four string, and four and five string fretless), mandolin, banjo, keys (piano, organ, synth), lap slide, sitar, and sing on my recordings here. I've been in a few dozen bands in my life, playing everything from bluegrass, jazz, rock, jam band, reggae, funk, afrobeat, Middle Eastern, traditional Irish, singer/songwriter, pop/covers, to experimental/avant garde. 
  Since I found SoundCloud a couple years ago, I've found many talented, creative people with whom to create music. However, in the summer of '23 I formed a band called The Eclectic Collective with some of my favorite musicians I've met through here. It started as a loose collective of musicians and coalesced into a core group of musicians who find other musicians with whom we'd like to make music, then run their songs through our process, and in effect add a full band. That core of The Eclectic Collective includes Tez (Llanpsych), J.J. Terrel, Ken (K2 and the Three), Stephen (Texmex Shaman), Chris (cgmaness), and Mark (mistermark). A couple of other musicians are frequent collaborators, as well, including Artur of Surfers Like Us, and Steve Vervaet of Steve's World. More recently, we've been joined by Carl of The Beautiful Dark fame. 
  The magic of music is amplified exponentially by each person adding to it. So, we really try to add our sorcery all kinds of music from all kinds of artists. Sometimes, we keep it within the group, but a lot of what we do is collaboration with other artists. Therefore these days, 100% of what I do is collaboration, within the group or with other artists on the side.
  I, and we, are also available for hire if you have a song or lyrics and you really want to add bigger instrumentation or a band and good production to it. 
  A small sampling of the artists whom I consider primary influences, and whom you will hear coming through my fingers include Phish, The Flaming Lips, The Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Rye Cooder, Steve Earle, Miles Davis, Fela Kuti, Arcade Fire, Mikey Dread, Yellowman, Purpleman, The Meditations, Michigan and Smiley, Lee Perry, Dillinger, Django Reinhardt, Impossible Recording Machine, The Allman Bros Band, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Bela Fleck, Les Claypool, Sam Bush, David Grissman, John Prine, Talking Heads, Beastie Boys, MMW, Moe., Morphine, Ween, Steve Lukather, Michael McDonald, John Abercrombie, Dave Holland, John Scofield, Victor Wooten,  Cannonball Adderly, Thelonious Monk, Flea, Parliament Funkadelic,  Frank Zappa, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Thievery Corporation, Amon Tobin, Chet Baker, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Kaye, Tame Impala, Mumford and Sons, Japanese Breakfast, LCD Soundsystem, Beach House, Sean Lennon, and Billy Strings, but of course there are many more. I also really like and am influenced by traditional Iranian, Palestinian, Indian, Sri Lankan, Sudanese, Mauritian, Somalian, Egyptian, West African, and Syrian music. I welcome anyone who plays non-western music to contact me for a collaboration, too.
 I'm overjoyed to have found my community on SoundCloud. This is a truly unique forum where everyone is sincerely trying to build each other up. The profoundly supportive and positive SoundCloud community has really opened up an exciting new world of collaboration for me. That is the main reason I'm in the Cloud, actually, to connect with other musicians and make music that I enjoy listening to, and hopefully others do, as well. I am ALWAYS looking to collaborate with interesting musicians, mostly though BandLab, which is where I record almost exclusively. It's a solid, free digital audio workstation hub where you can share recording projects, even if it's not where you make your recordings.
  Everything I do is live instrumental, not programmed, and using no computer beyond my phone. That's not to say that I would be opposed to using that kind of tool, it's just not my preferred medium with which to paint. If you like my music, please share it. If you want to collaborate, my BandLab handle is @bingo_pajama. Feel free to contact me at cornbreadband@hotmail.com, as well, even if you aren't on BandLab.
  If your music is primarily AI, please don't come around my page, as I'm not at all interested in complimenting a machine.
  Here's a link to music I've recorded live with a group of musicians here in Pittsburgh called The Northumberland Street Ramblers.
Check out The Northumberland Street Ramblers on #SoundCloud
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/fU4Me

Not Underground. Not Mainstream. Just Left Ground.

Left Ground Music stands outside the boundaries of genres and scenes.
We are neither part of the mainstream nor the underground—we exist in the “left ground”, a space where sound refuses to conform.

From electronica, dub, and ambient to post-rock textures, our releases carve out soundscapes that demand attention, not background listening.
Born in Aichi, Japan, our music captures the collision of urban noise and natural silence, offering listeners a sonic experience that feels both familiar and alien.

This is music for those who walk the edges of reality.
This is Left Ground.

fictionalive / popoems series / hyper media reports 
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I want to love – but I need to hate
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Monorecords since 1996
47Years MusicLover - Selector - VinylOnly - Digger
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 !

Why the AI Race? Truth as a luxury

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