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Sea Dreams

Made with Fugue Machine, Gauss Field Looper, Patterning 2 & Lo-Fi Tape in AUM and Cubasis 3.

The Obscene Lost Renegade

Shooter In The Back Of The Merc

LYRICS:
In a car crash, you'll rearrange your head
And all the memories you wish you'd wish you'd never had
I told you how I'd been hurt before
And you'd hold me and say we're better for it now

I should know better
You, in your sweater

I was standing high up on the wall
Oh, I can still hear you from here, yeah, but if I listen, I might fall
No, you don't think before you speak your mind
And I don't think that I'll speak at all

You should know better
Signed, my dead letter

If I can't stop this, I don't want this
Tell me now before the silence
Cut me down and strike relentless
I can't stop this, I don't want this
Tell me now before the silence
Cut me down, me down, me down

You hurt me the way that you'd been loved
And it kills me that I cannot feel a thing
In a car crash you'll reassess your life
And my role in it.
We're gonna drift apart             in a car crash, in a car crash

I can't stop the growing fear that we'll waste all our golden years together
I can't stop this. First, you're gone then you appear, and now I know that it is clear
Tell me that I'm wrong, but I think that we're not meant to be

I don't want this, I can't stop this
Tell me now before the silence
Cut me down and strike relentless
I don't want this, I can't stop this
Tell me now before the silence
Cut me down and strike relentless.

Car Crash

Lyrics:

https://soundcloud.com/user-403130815/4824-night-school-i-owe-you-everything-gb-master?in=user-403130815/sets/nightschool-i-will-never-get&si=9ad6ffb0439e42e5a97eab6b14c9487d&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

I Owe You Everything

Molotov - Sebastian Reynolds rework is the new single from  UK producer Sebastian Reynolds in collaboration with Irish duo Colm O'Connell and Rory McDaid under their Rezo moniker.

The original version of Molotov appeared on the third Rezo album, The Age of Self Help.

Molotov (Sebastian Reynolds rework) was written by Sebastian Reynolds, Rory McDaid andColm O'Connell and was produced by Sebastian Reynolds. 

Vocals and lyrics by Colm O'Connell, brass by Leon Benoit & Dieter Savall, percussion, beatboxing and additional brass by Jonas Torrance (Dubwiser) and programming and additional synths by Sebastian Reynolds. 

Mixed by Sebastian Reynolds with Mike Bannard at Safehouse studios, Oxford, mastered by Tim Turan, Oxford.

Molotov_Rezo_ Sebastian Reynolds Rework

Ridicule

Solve For Why

Behind the Curtain

“ratcage walk” is an atmospheric journey through an imagined city where dusk settles over rain-soaked streets

SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5eytRPn7VmcLuNPtkrjoF6
ALL STREAMING: https://ffm.to/ratcagewalk
INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/absent.ink/
FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/absentink
YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9nhTsOaOSL6H5t11_45bkg
WEB: https://absent.ink

ratcage walk

Flow

Come Correct is the title track from the new EP from UK-based roots reggae band Dubwiser, set for release on 14th February 2025. Come Correct, co-written with Josh Wilkinson of Birmingham reggae stars KIOKO, is a horn heavy rallying call to push past self-doubt and to get after your dreams.

released January 24, 2025

Dubwiser is a four-piece band featuring singer Jonas Torrance, drummer and producer Spider J with the Sierra Leonian brothers John (guitar) and Eddy Smythe (bass and keys), who bring their signature powerhouse combo of West African grooves and blues stylings.

Come Correct

Away Sometimes

Hollow Bunny

CATCH22 wav

Taken from the latest Compilation Album Release 'In the Bath'
Out Now - https://lushlimited.lnk.to/InTheBath

(originally by Leonard Cohen, 1992)
“My obsession with Leonard Cohen is never going away,” says Mark. “Recently I’ve made three more perfumes related to his work, and I’d love to be able to look back on my creative life in the way he might have looked back on his. As far as this song goes – well, for someone that never really seemed to manage well in any long term relationship, he has described it with such insight.” Chisara’s performance is full of poignancy and beauty.


A Thousand Kisses Deep - Chisara Agor

Recorded during Chinese New Year at my in-laws in Ningbo, all I had available to me was a 14 year old laptop with an old version of Sony Acid, an acoustic guitar and not much else. I grabbed a recorder and a harmonica before leaving Hangzhou so I could add a little something extra to arrangements and then just used whatever was lying around for percussion, including a cardboard box and a container of toothpicks. Taking out all the treble on the very basic 3 band DAW EQ and pushing the mids a little thankfully means an acoustic guitar can magically become a bass. I finished mixing the EP in a B&B in the Zhejiang countryside. No plugins on the laptop so no delay, reverb, compression or any of that gubbins. 

Free to download right here 👇

https://blokeacola.bandcamp.com/album/shoulda

Perfect Silence

That's Us

This one is a heavy in ya face hitter! The songs theme is about the vocalists annoyance of the amount of conspiracy theories that are around in the modern world.

Machination

shauna Mc Ardle Music -Blurred Edges

Nobody Else But You (Sam Macdonald & Absolute Zero Remix)

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