My 20 favourite Soundcloud-Native tracks of the year

Cover art is Moray's sprite from Undertale Yellow

Best Of 2023

prod jhl
vocals jhl
guitar jhl
mix jhl
master Fausto Mercier

Glory box

WitnessProtectionProgram_chapter99

cover art by @iameuphorian
video by @linkedwinters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4GT5gVU4tA

@marcixvofficial
@user_n33t
@whosoru
@paxenimzi
@shameless_wav
@paloris_music
@iameuphorian
@ganimedmusic
@suji_scared
@achorda
@ecromusic
@prodglitchless
@viznode
@linkedwinters
@korewakosu

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Novel
Novel, novel, novel, novel
Novel, novel, novel, novel...
Novel

vol.1 finale_chapter100

Wobbly Jellyfish His Highness Over All, dances a tango with the swirled octopus twirled in the murky depths of the fandango sea
Mister Bubblegum Machine whirs and churns, spitting out his sugary treats into the waiting hands of eager children...
OH NO
A symphony of joy, through candy-wrappered sunlight!
CAST THE CHILDREN'S SAVOR TO SWEETEN THEIR CONFECTIONS, imagination lit up with soaring eyes!!
('cause tha-... that's what they said at least~)

Thank you, Mister Bubblegum Machine!  Generosity necessitance is tragic, yet our broken system else rendered useless!
The duo balleting synchronous mesmerance, forest inhabitants admiring with wider eyes...
And so, that's the way!
Reminder's pleased, take another try at disagreement and you'll see where you're right!

Crescendo sea twirls unison 'mong rhythm coral...
Carousel Tim says to him, "How ya do?  I've eaten much these years, and yet I still need more!"
(HOW YA DO?  I've eaten SO MUCH these years, and yet I STILL NEED MORE!!)

Deep within the heart of towering stalagmites
Lay a realm of creatures who chorused luminescence
Puzzle carpet sliding with patterned joy!

Happy ruins thrived with whimsical adornments
Whisp'ring every corners with immersion entertainments
An invitation striking their blooming strides!
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Lossless: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-eAgdUEvxN6V6_BbQj1XluvwFwOTTS_/view?usp=sharing
Full art: https://www.deviantart.com/lostrobotmusic/art/The-Jellyfish-World-Commune-969294598
Vocals are all my own.

The Jellyfish World Commune

BLUE NOISE - Requiem d'un Immortel

https://aulicveil.bandcamp.com/album/a-v-001-005

A-V_004.2

-Partition Successfully Linked-
"In my accursed womb, I beseech you, Sisterly Larvae, to mold me into a star. So I may wander beyond the screen's glow."

music by @pearl-lump
artwork by @postmortemtatt

https://formforum.bandcamp.com/

pearl lump - pygmy sized door

𝔏𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔣𝔬𝔤~

@aquacrypt invite @mithril_id

ETHEREAL SIMULMORPH ep03 ⏤ ǟզʊǟƈʀʏքȶ invite Mithril

Type: EP
Format: Digital
Releasedate: November 11th 2024
Cat. number: SLA23
Artwork: Maria Chiara Moro

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Money Lang — 'Ellis'

RADIO:TRAUMA 028: SOL741

SOL741 is a DJ, computational artist and sound designer residing in South London. Drawing inspiration from emotionally frenetic worlds of sound, her practice manifests as a cross-breed between ambient, deconstruction, and experimental music that focuses on creating atmospheres of inner turbulence. Her work also takes influence from artists such as 703-863-4357, Klein, Infinate body and Loveliescrushing. She has previously performed at experimental club nights such as Syphen, CEHENNEM, Hypoxia and Ursonate, and is currently working on new music and is continuing to return from her performance hiatus in the early months of 2025.

For this mix, SOL741 created a soundscape harnessing chaos and turmoil, cascading layers of textural and melancholic ambient, drone, noise and deconstruction. This set was performed live at TRAUMA UNIT: DOUBLE HELIX.

Follow her on SoundCloud: @sol741

Tracklist:
Kenji Siratori - Dead Sequence
System Shock 2 - The Many
Vixen + Szofia Energia - Crystals of Violet
Ed[og]Lys + Kenji Siratori - Dark Side
༒༒༒عربي drifting - in Leech We
Infinite Body - carve out the face of my god
Yves Tumor - Broke In ft. Oxhy 
Aho Ssan - Blind Power (ft. The Mensah Imaginary Band)
Porcelana - P O R C E L A I N O I S E (Vol.3)
Yves Tumor - Hope In Suffering (Escaping Oblivion &  Overcoming Powerlessness) [feat. Oxhy & Puce Mary]
XING - Defiled Forest
Arca - Fissure
Miedo Total - Pomegranate
Alparr - TWENTYY
Arca - Heavensent
ssaliva - Why Me
MYEN - ANCHORHOLD feat. LUηG
SOL741 - twilight}{u+i

RADIO:TRAUMA 028: SOL741

taken from "Age of Bloom"
bffmusicbffmusic.bandcamp.com/album/age-of-bloom

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CONSUMER WARNING
This album is composed of 100% Vulnerable and Sincere Music®.

♧
💻
♧

2025, Poland, Winter

Dear A,

during these brain-freezing months of hardship and cold, my thoughts are drawn to my little, childhood room in my hometown where I’ve been exploring vast, unfamiliar, digital worlds…
I must admit I really miss those days… or at least those feelings.

Listening to “Age of Bloom” transfers me again and again to a certain memory of coming back from school in the late afternoon when everything is pitch black, when the snow is gently touching my hair and red cheeks, when the wind is blowing on my face and when being overwhelmed feels good - almost like blue steel’s softly lingering pads and his lush sounds inviting me for a dance.
The day was hard as fuck. Being trapped in the school system is usually a burden, but not in THIS EXACT moment. Not in the middle of an empty street, not in between those white snow curtains.
And so I run, imagining I’m in my safe, virtual world.

What for me usually is so seductive in video games is the music, and “Age of Bloom” with its mix of Akira-like finality, Spielbergish sense of adventure, and virtual utopian sound palette is literally fucking terraforming my soul as I'm listening to it.
So sick. So immersive.
It gives me the power to keep up and to try again in those hard moments - percussive patterns feel like a fight scene, watery keys make me contemplate, nature soundscapes envelop me in a yellow cocoon shell.

Life, my dear A, is a Skyrimish adventure in a way.
Remember the arrow perfectly smashing up your knee? It was just a mere limitation that you set yourself a long time ago when you buried that inner child. You need to try to find it again. Try and try and try.
And then you gonna beat that final boss and then you gonna beat that stupid, fucking, ugly, rotten life and then you WILL be complete again.

Remember, it’s dangerous to walk alone… so please take this album with you and treat it like a friend, like a backpack, like a companion.

♡
💻
♡

〉music by blue steel
www.instagram.com/b_steeel
blue-steel.bandcamp.com

〉artwork by lyfegain
www.instagram.com/lyfegain

〉master by Fausto Mercier
linktr.ee/faustomercier

♫°008

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Grand, Epic, and Final Fantasy!

"In The Symmetrical Moment of Time, Where The Light of The Cursed One’s Life Fades, He is Delivered To The Despair and The Pain That Echo in The Void of Darkness."

This composition is an auditory meditation on the irrevocable moment when the condemned understands: his fate was inscribed before his first breath. The symmetry of time unveils its cruel perfection — the same void awaiting him at the end has dwelled within him from the beginning. The melody is not a lament, but the cold acknowledgment that suffering is not punishment, but the final truth.

"His sentence is not death, but eternity in the void — where his victim's scream echoes within his own flesh."

Inexistential

In The Symmetrical Moment of Time, Where The Light of The Cursed One’s Life Fades, He is Delivered To The Despair and The Pain That Echo in The Void of Darkness

In The Symmetrical Moment of Time, Where The Light of The Cursed One’s Life Fades.

hypnosis

AMBIENT SOUNDSCPES INSPIRED BY THE WRITINGS OF FRANK HERBERT AND HIS DUNE UNIVERSE

SPICE - THE COMING STORM

EDZ009
Originally commissioned for the Miss Ruthless art show at Para Site, Hong Kong. http://ruthless.international/
Written & performed by Veron Xio @x-o-xio
Mastered by Michael Riordin.
Art by Veron Xio.

Orchid Dream

x/o - Orchid Dream

Drama Queen

World 1 - BUHOKU
World 2 - YAIRKU
World 3 - ofania (OUT NOW WAWAAWAAW)

pearl lump - pygmy sized door

formforum

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