You Know That You're Funky

Easy To Remember

Kaleidoscope

Music written by Val Akey and Kontra Sz. Val Akey: drums, bass, keys programming in DAW (mix and master). Kontra Sz plays all the guitars.
Many thanks Val Akey for the succesful contribution!!! It took long but it is worth it! Please visit: @valakey
Release date: 18 November 2022

If you'd like to watch the video, please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqZ2lc2GHQ4 I appreciate any reaction.

Slow River (Val Akey & Kontra Sz collab)

Wakaba - Gutted Alive (Feat. Arya Aryanna On Vocals)

Wake Up!

No ID But Love

Always wanted to sing a bop-pop 80esque song, and this satisfied!  Working with these talented musicians, so much fun!

Lyrics by Steve Shouse

Steve Shouse -Music, Guitar, Lyrics
Shawnee KS USA

Daniele Silvestri - Drums, Percussion, Songwriting
Roma Italy

Mario Licata  - Bass
New Jersey USA

Richard Bradley -Engineering/Production, Lead guita
Toronto Ontario Canada

SK   -  Lead/Harmony Vocals, Melody
Austin TX USA

Download: https://www.soundblend.com/store/release/1280001

Rocket

Our recently formed trio now presents our 2nd collaboration. It was, again, the idea of Patrick or DjArtw2001 (@djartw2007), who took the initiative and mixed in MAGIX on 6 March 2023 a part composed by Dan or DAN-DT (@Dan-T-3) - originally, back in 2011 - with part of a collaboration we had on 1 May 2021, "Double Reflection III" (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/double-reflection-iii-roberto-b-alex-m) from our album "Double Reflections" (https://soundcloud.com/alexander-mihailov-96713983/sets/double-reflections) that appeared here on SoundCloud on 20 June 2021. So we release this new track emerging from Patrick's remix under the title suggested by Dan "Complicity". Dan's part comes from "Sacrify", a collaboration of his using the voices of Josh Boyer (FutureAnalysis: https://soundcloud.com/futureanalysis) and Ivan Baskakov (Steklo: https://soundcloud.com/steklovocals), found via the website looperman.com (http://looperman.com/). We hope that you will enjoy the track!

The painting in the artwork cover for the track was created by DAN-DT on 9 March 2023, and then the artwork cover was annotated and completed using PowerPoint and Mac OS Preview by Alex M on 9 March 2023 too - in coordination and agreement with DjArtw2001 and DAN-DT. Dan has made a montage using three different profiles from a Russian creator in Pixabay.com (http://pixabay.com/). 

Thank you so much for this 2nd beautiful collaboration and artwork of ours, Dan and Patrick!

Duration: 7:36 minutes

Complicity - DAN-DT, Alex M & DjArtw2001

Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6mtrZvrS9Y
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CRACK HOUSE MUSIC
STUCK IN MY BRAIN
DANCING ALL NIGHT TO CONVEYOR BELT SHITE
AND IT’S DRIVING ME INSANE
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MY FEET HAVE DEVELOPED A MIND OF THEIR OWN
DEVELOPED A TASTE FOR….
CHEESY DISCO, CHEESY DISCO
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I AM THE CRACK HEAD AT YOUR FAVORITE DISCO
I TREAD ON TOES, I’M THE ONE ALL OF YOU SHOULD DREAD
PERHAPS YOU’VE HEARD, I’M NOT SOMEONE YOU SHOULD TALK TO
IF I APPROACH YOU, MY ADVICE IS, CUT ME DEAD
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BECAUSE I MADE A FOOL OF MYSELF
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DANCE FLOOR
THEY BANNED ME FOR LIFE
IN FACT THEY DID IT TWICE
BUT I SNEAKED IN THROUGH THE BACK DOOR
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YOU SEE, I’M THE KIND OF GUY
WHO DOESN’T GIVE A HOOT
I’M A NARCISSISTIC BRUTE
AND I THINK I’M OH SO CUTE
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IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DANCE FLOOR
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BECAUSE I MADE A FOOL OF MYSELF
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DANCE FLOOR
THEY BANNED ME FOR LIFE
IN FACT THEY DID IT TWICE
BUT I SNEAKED IN THROUGH THE BACK DOOR
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I MAKE TUNES NO ONE WILL EVER LISTEN TO, but that doesn't stop me from being one of the most prolific, diverse, consistent and inventive creative forces on this or any other music site!
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CRACKHEAD AT THE GO GO

Surreality

G Thang

In the WRONG PLACE at THE WRONG TIME with THE WRONG MINDSET, apparently making THE #WRONG #MUSIC, but it feels #RIGHT to ME!

Highly unlikely more than one of my tunes will ever be heard by more than a handful of listeners, so just for the record here is an incomplete list of artists my music has been compared to by other musicians, depending on which tunes they heard, StevenVellou (Gothic Funk)

RESIDENTS, PHILIP GLASS, DAVID BYRNE, FRANK ZAPPA, THE BEATLES, BAUHAUS, SISTERS OF MERCY, DAVID BOWIE, LOU REED, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, PARLIAMENT, SYD BARRETT, PINK FLOYD, PSYCHIC TV, NEU, MOMUS, MINISTRY, CHARLES IVES, BEACH BOYS, KINKS, THE FALL, JOY DIVISION, DEPECHE MODE, GARY NUMAN, LEONARD COHEN, STONE ROSES, GIORGIO MORODER, GEORGE CLINTON, THE CURE, DALIS CAR, JOHN ASTLEY, KILLING JOKE, ALIEN SEX FIEND, ROBERT FRIPP, DEVO, B52’s, IAN CURTIS, FAD GADGET, TALKING HEADS, GORILLAZ, MIKE PATTON, JON ZORN, LES CLAYPOOL, STEVEN REICH, TOM WAITS, THE EX, TOM CORA, THE CAKE, NAPOLEON XIV, KEVIN AYERS, ROXY MUSIC, FRANK TOVEY, RUPERT HINES, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, SPARKS, BILL NELSON, JOHN CALE, TRIO, JULIAN COPE, HEAVEN 17, LLOYD COLE, TUBEWAY ARMY, FRONT 242, NITZER EBB, COCKNEY REBEL, SHRIEKBACK, VICTOR SNOW, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, THE THE, BABYBIRD, JOHN LENNON, ULTRAVOX, DAN DEACON, BACH, SQUEEZE, ANDREW ELDRITCH, IGGY POP, MIDNIGHT OIL, BILLY CHILDISH, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, VELVET UNDERGROUND, LOVE AND ROCKETS, ART OF NOISE, LOOK PEOPLE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, PRODIGY, et al.
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Don't take sides and I'll respect you for it; take sides and I'll treat you with the same contempt I treat anyone with a mob mentality, because mob mentality invariantly betrays an underlying intolerant right-wing mentality!
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#SUPPORT gathers #MOMENTUM when #RECIPROCATED!
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My tunes are ten times better than you might imagine!
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A lack of listens proves nothing, other than the fact that no one is finding your tunes; it does not prove, as some believe, that your tunes must be crap, so don’t ever take such a ridiculous notion on board—on an internet FLOODED with music no listens rarely has anything to do with the quality of your music, your creative talent, is almost always down to the fact that the right audience can’t find your music, because finding it is now as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack!
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SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE, EVERYTHING FOR SOMEONE!
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For diversity and consistency, I am not hesitant in saying my Soundcloud pages house the most inventive creations on here. There are others making fabulous tunes, but no one is more prolific while maintaining a high standard of pole to pole invention, and that applies to the lyrics too. I won't escape obscurity and oblivion, but that proves nothing, the internet is way, way, WAY overcrowded with unsigned music, way too much mediocre stuff, which obscure anything exceptional out there; the wood hidden away behind lots and lots and LOTS of trees, and no one has the time to look for needles in haystacks, to find a diamond in the rough, it's just way too big a task, not humanely possible!

INVENTIVE, AUTHENTIC, DIVERSE MUSIC, INVENTIVE, AUTHENTIC, IMAGINATIVE LYRICS, but those are the last things the vast majority of listeners are looking for these days!
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Me, I'm awestruck by musicians who can't be pigeonholed, who don't conform to any borders, who don't think about which direction each new creation will take, they just go wherever that creativity takes them; pure, on the fly, innovation, imperfect but 100% authentic, as far a way from manufactured, recipe book, regurgitation, as it is possible to get, totally unforced, inspirational and way, way, WAY outside the box! There ought to be a place for such creativity, there was at one time, but a mercenary music industry put an end to that, leaving us with a situation where those who deserve the most adoration for the talents receive the least!
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Will this ever change, will a yearning for TRUE underground, creativity unique to the individual, ever return, or has the spoon-feeding gone to far this time, is its grip so vicelike nothing can break it!
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I make #INVISIBLE music, perhaps it feels that way to you too!
#Overlooked, #Underrated, Dismissed Without A Listen!
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When Soundclouders follow me or click like without leaving feedback, what is it they are hoping for? That I come listen to their tunes and heap praise on them, what? I mean really, what is the point of following someone, what is the point of liking one of their tunes, if you don't actual think they are deserving of feedback, if you don't think the tunes are as good as what you do???

EXPLODING THE MYTH THAT UNSIGNED IS UNSIGNED BECAUSE IT’S INFERIOR TO SIGNED MUSIC!

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UNTIL this MYTH is blown out of the water we don’t have a cat in hells chance of breaking through. #TheMyth  is the BIGGEST obstacle that stands in our way, it is the FIRST hurdle we must get over, it is the message that should be going #VIRAL, it’s down to each & every one of you to make that happen!
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#ExplodeTheMyth
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Listening to just one of my tunes tells you nothing about my creative approach, listening to ten of my tunes will still tell you very little, listen to a hundred of my tunes and the penny will start to drop, but it's only after hearing 500+ of my creations and collaborations that your eyes will widen in amazement! 
However, if you don't have unlimited eclectic taste none of that applies, and the reality is, who, in this world, is going to listen to every tune I've created, no one--if even one tune is heard from beginning to end it's a minor miracle, because sadly, there is a belief that unsigned means inferior, but I've heard enough tunes by the rest of you guys to know that's a myth, that's bullshit, we create some of the most inventive, authentic, imaginative tunes out there!
Give me unsigned, independent and underground music over signed, safe, predictable, recipe book, music any day of the week!
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I MAKE TUNES NO ONE WILL EVER LISTEN TO!
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Some musicians & music fans don’t want to hear music from the past because they would have to acknowledge IT’S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE!
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Finally come to terms with the fact that I'm PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE OF ONE, and even I have to FORCE myself to listen!!!
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My music and lyrics are all about different, but if no one listens no one will EVER know! 
#StevenVellou

I CREATE TUNES ON THE FLY; NO FORMULA, NO PLAN, NO DIRECTION; THEY JUST HAPPEN--I'M IGNORANT OF THE RULES INVOLVED IN THE MUSIC MAKING PROCESS, SO I'M NOT BOXED IN BY THEM, WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE SO VARIED AND UNPREDICTABLE!
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Meaningful yet tongue-in-cheek tunes that can’t be #PIGEONHOLED!
Great production ISN'T my forte, accomplished musicianship ISN'T my forte but #UndergroundInvention, #InfiniteDimensions & LYRICS are!
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Now I don't personally believe I'm in the same league as #Bowie, other than my lyrics, more often than not, making more sense, but I do think I share his ability to adapt to different genres, and his endless, diverse, creativity, just not quite on the same level.
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I'm not proficient/accomplished on instruments, & I have other musical limitations, but most genres come natural to me, and I much prefer having that unforced ability to being highly accomplished on instruments, highly polished on production, or having the perfect voice!
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If I didn't feel I had my own approach, if my music was easy to pigeonhole, I would have quit music a long time ago!
Never been about fame & fortune, just about pushing the boundaries without actually intending to push the boundaries; creativity that's second nature not formula! 
Yes, I want to reach an audience but making money from my music means nothing to me!
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NOT saying I’m THE MOST #talented musician on music promotion sites but I will say I’m one of the most #UNDERRATED! Even so, I would much rather be underrated than overrated!
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CRACKHEAD AT THE GO GO

GOTHIC FUNK