WHERE ARE THEY NOW? volume 4

During the early days of Myspace, Soundcloud & Reverbnation there was a great vibe going on among we musicians, we were enthusiastic, we reached out, supported one another, actually took time to listen, leaving one another encouraging feedback, so I sometimes wonder, WHERE ARE THEY NOW, are they still making music?

It's easy to overlook the value of support from fellow musicians; ok, so it doesn't achieve the desired effect, but it can give you a little boost, provide the incentive to keep it going!

Many more volumes with this theme to come, on here and on Reverbnation, so if you haven't been added yet, you will be.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW volume 4

quagmire

So this poor Rhodes has been having a hard life with me... not very compatible with tramway and train, standing in a room where normally nobody is, having been used as a stand for all sort of things... and the cat has been doing crazy stuff with it, too.

Digged it out, cleaned it, fidgeted with this grrr sustain pedal for some hours, welcome back my friend!

The Liberation Of Rhodes Island

Hidden Wishing Well Lullaby

Dissension

Bad Behavior

Talking With the Devil

Fixed some parts from the preliminary mix, restructured, additional mastering applied..

This is part of the Myth Wave collection, see the "buy" link for the free-to-download album on Bandcamp...

Mnemosyne (factual mix)

Drum and bass plus Piano

Pennsylvania

Sidewalk

Diethylamide

OPEN COLLAB no one invited personally this time.
please download and use it for your own stuff if you might...
would be glad if you contact me for a playlist...
130BPM

2023

noxpox - Patt ☻ (OPEN COLLAB)

Thank you to everyone who listened to this track.
Do you feel the moment of falling into a dream?
With a good balance of mind and body, the soul rejoices and rests!
The sound of the waves, the sound of the wind, when everything turns into whispers, I want to sleep surrounded by peace of mind! Also, when I wake up, I want to have a feeling of gratitude! 
alive!

In The Mood（梦的入口）

Mick Mac on Drums, Phaggot on Sitar and Bass

Orchid Instrumental

Geis

Watch the video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb5nfV0iNgM

Music & Production by Hobocop: @metrocityrecords

Vocals & Lyrics by Cosmic Keanu

Rise, Samurai!

Surrounded by chaos, 
Heroic demise
It’s time – time to rise
Our names will live forever,
Forever out of time
Live for today
Join the final fight

Rise, samurai!
Blades slash through lies
As the bullets fly
Ignite the city of night 
This is our fight
There’s victory in death
If you know when to die

We walk the razor’s edge
With death by our side
We will never be alone
Forever out of time

Rise, samurai!
Tempered by our trials
With steel in our spine
Never bow to fear
Our names will never die
Ignite the city of night,
Join the final fight!

Video

Rise, Samurai! (Hobocop & Cosmic Keanu) 432Hz Edition

A big Thank You to The Neighbor for playing this wonderful solo guitar

The picture shows an excerpt from:
After Andy Warhol, Sunday B Morning „The Scream - Green“ (after Edward Munch), 1967, printed later

Everything Liquifies

in
While only one wimper
Flies all the time
First still very, very fast
Then it settles down the line

In the meantime…		(2)

1
Some billion ys must have passed
Since we had that start
Since we saw at last
That we can fall so hard
In times of peace 
We treat the insane, 
While in times of war 
They govern us again

In the meantime
Everything liquifies

ref
It is revolving in the ether
It drains in the simple brains -
No or, no either
(or what of it remains)
Just drops into the simple brains

2
A decrease of viscosity
In former bound aggression
And the social cohesions
The glacier anyway
Everything liquifies
Is carried away 
By the great maelstrom
Tell me, 
Was it the same yesterday ?

In the meantime
Everything liquifies

ref
It is revolving in the ether
It drains in the simple brains -
No or, no either
(Or what of it remains)
Just drops into the simple brains

out
Like the sweetest sweetie, ahh
Like the ultimate candiest candy 
Sweet as can be...

Everything Liquifies (ft The Neighbor)

I was feeling particularly inspired working on this one. It's probably one of my favorites of the solo tracks I've done lately. After making this odd song structure that feels to me like it has three distinct movements, I heard someone reference the idea of a triptych, a picture or artwork displayed on three panels. The word was new to me and I thought it was kind of a fitting title. Thanks for listening friends!

Triptych

No Hiding Place

Bonus track from the new album: Blink Twice - Other Locations [Expanded Edition]

https://moodexhibit.bandcamp.com/album/blink-twice-other-locations-expanded-edition

Other Locations was originally released in 1996 on the German record label Broken Seal. It was the first CD release from Blink Twice and the label's second release.
At the time there was a zine culture in electronic music, where artists would send their cassettes through the mail to different underground music zines for review across the globe. It was really the only way to get one's music heard.
After putting out numerous cassettes in the early to mid 1990s, Blink Twice had earned a reputation as a unique dark ambient artist in America.
www.discogs.com/artist/48238-Blink-Twice

The dark mysterious sound of Blink Twice resonated in European countries, with favorable reviews in the Slovakian zine Crewzine, the Belgian leading electronic magazine Side-Line, Phosphor, and Wounded magazine from Lithuania. Blink Twice was also featured in American industrial magazines Outburn and Industrial Nation, as well as sonic-boom
sonic-boom.com/review/blink.twice-1.html

The sound of Blink Twice earned comparisons to artists like early Delerium, Dead Can Dance, Nightmare Lodge, SPK, and some of the Cold Meat Industry roster from Sweden such as Raison d'etre, Morthound, and Deustch Nepal. Although generally classified under the genre of "dark ambient", Blink Twice utilized much more melody and percussion than most ambient. Many tracks display the melodic layering and tribal percussion that are showcased in some current Mood Exhibit material.

"Other Locations" is finally available here on the Mood Exhibit Bandcamp page, Robert Salchak's official distribution for all his music.
It includes a large selection of bonus material from the era (1993-1996) that was either never released or only available on cassette.

Hidden as the last track is an epic nearly 15 minute tribal ambient excursion that can only be described as Dead Can Dance era Spiritchaser" (1996) meets Delerium era "Spheres I"(1994)

It is an essential historic document for followers of Mood Exhibit, as well as any fan of dark ambient/neoclassical/tribal/cinematic sounds.

Album

Blink Twice - The Brighter The Moon, The Darker The Shadows

Music: Composed, written, mixed, mastered, and performed by: loverboy and Dianasty

Vocals and Lyrics: Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by: The Mysterious Decibel

Lyrics:

These walls are so razor thin, 
I can hear the wolves scream in the crippled cubicles beside me
These characters nest with the sun and the moon
I'm just one with the deck of wild cards to see

Innocence fades with the birth of a star
It doesn't matter what bright colors paint your memoir 
There's always shades of darkness in the vividly
We are not who we mold out to be no no 

You had your fun
But the top of the f has fallen from mine
And now I'm just on the run
On the run
on the run
on the run 
on the run

So this is where the innocent go to die
This is where the writing in your eulogy lies
This is where the innocent go to die
This is where the writing in your eulogy lies

So tighten up your knots
cuz you won't see me
I'll never look back on this path again

Tighten up your knots
am i speaking clearly?
I'll never look back on this path again

We all see our evil's
and we all hear them too
Lend me your ears
I'll whisper some to you!

loverboy x Dianasty x Mysterious Decibel - See Evil, Hear Evil, and Speak it too (FREE DOWNLOAD)

Recorded in Modesto, Ca.   Featuring Georg Boehme Alto, Tenor, Baritone Saxophones, Flute. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano solo. Sergio Parraga congas & percussion. Steve Roy Bass. Gibson 335 Electric Guitar solo. Fender Rhodes Electric Piano Rhythm. String quartet, 1st & 2nd Violins.Viola, Cello, Bowed Acoustic Bass. Drums Full trap drum kit. Percussion Ago go Bells, Tambourine, Timbales, Cowbell, Zildjan 22' Ride & Crash Cymbal.

Release me

Hermosa 2

Davenport 2

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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WHERE ARE THEY NOW volume 4

GOTHIC FUNK