(Free WAV Download available here under '••• More'; and eventually as part of my BandCamp PWWO #08 album)

Greetings to our SC friends. For those in hotter climates, we hope you’re enjoying the slow broil this fine mid-July. :) 

Today, Jo (Minimal_Drone*GRL: https://soundcloud.com/minimal_drone_grl, https://minimaldronegrl.bandcamp.com/) and I are thrilled to share our second collab, ‘Anima Unbound’. It started out as an ambient piece, but somehow evolved into something very… different. We hope you enjoy. 

Along with the new song, we’re also excited to share some ideas/excerpts from a book we discovered we both love, ‘The Untethered Soul’ by Michael A. Singer. :D

This book has some great suggestions for modifying unconscious daily routines into conscious activities designed to raise personal awareness. 

One of our favorite chapters is about ‘The Inner Roommate’, and is a surprisingly simple experiment. The idea is to imagine the voice in your head as an individual separate from you (like a roommate). Every time you have a thought, imagine those words are coming from someone on the outside (rather than in your head). If that voice happens to be ultra-chatty, and often negative, the experiment proves quite effective, quite quickly. 

As Michael suggests “How would you feel if someone outside really started talking to you the way your inner voice does? How would you relate to a person who opened their mouth to say everything your mental voice says? After a very short period of time, you would tell them to leave and never come back. But when your inner friend continuously speaks up, you don’t even tell it to leave. No matter how much trouble it causes, you listen.”

That was definitely an eye-opening experiment for both of us; with surprising results from very little effort.

Another chapter that struck a cord with us is ‘The Secrets of the Spiritual Heart’. This is an intriguing idea that when the heart is open, you fall in love with life very easily. But when the heart is closed, you lose interest and desire very quickly. It’s all about energy intake (or blockage).

A healthy heart will witness things in our surroundings, process them, and let them go… which keeps us in a state of constantly renewing energy intake. This is the way we are meant to process the astounding amounts of info coming at us. Witness, experience, learn, let go… then witness the next thing with equal openness.

But a heart trapped in fear handles things a little differently. If you encounter something that upsets you, it makes an impression (coincidentally, the Yogic/Sanskrit term for this is Samskara, meaning ‘Impression’). Since energy is a constant, but you aren’t able to release it, you find yourself trapped with that impression, although you might not realize it at the time. It’s like an audio loop that is always ready to be queued up, even if you’ve forgotten you have it stored on your hard drive. The way you know it’s still trapped inside you is when it surfaces under other similar circumstances… and that might be the first time you realize it’s still there.

Where this concept really helps is the idea that looping energy gunks up the system, like a hairball gunks up your plumbing. If the hairball gets too big (or there are too many of them) there will be a direct impact on other things flowing through the pipes effectively. This disturbing clump of negative gunk is actually interfering with more positive elements flowing through you. So if you want to return those pipes to a more natural flow of energy, you first need to clean out the gunk of those trapped old emotions. 

Sometimes the simplest analogies are the best. And this book is full of them.

So there you have it. Jo and I hope you enjoyed this inspirational little write-up (perhaps enough to spark a little interest in the book). And we also hope you enjoy our latest musical offering, ‘Anima Unbound’. :)

F.W. Friends

Anima Unbound | Minimal_Drone*GRL & GrevusAnjl

Dark environment

Life is a Echo, 

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel

Maya Angelou

Live recording for the Crave VCF Filters Modulation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVSQT3FQYuM

Life is a Echo

｢あなたは何もわかってない ~ WEDNESDAY NOON CRAMPS」

Concept music for a graphic novel.

Music written, produced, mixed and mastered by Thomas O'Higgins Horna.

Special thanks to my funky disco heroes: Larry Dunn, Maurice White, Phillip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Johnny Graham, Fred White, Andrew P. Woolfolk, George Bohanon, Oscar Brashear, Ernie Watts, Dennis Byron, Maurice Gibb, Robin Gibb, Barry Gibb, Alan Kendall, Blue Weaver, Joe Lala, Derrick McIntyre, and Nile Rodgers, which their music served as reference for this work (and also was my jam back in high school).

Cover art: "El Jaleo"(1882) by John Singer Sargent. Edited by me.

YOU HAVE NO IDEA

ＹＯＵ･ＨＡＶＥ･ＮＯ･ＩＤＥＡ

“Forget all the equipment, forget the music, at the end of the day it's just literally frequencies and their effects on your brain. That's what's everyone's essentially after.”
-- Aphex Twin

OneKind- Itchy-Bits

Relaxing yet fun trip into another space.

Dreamscape

a beautiful piano composition, beautiful words.
translated by SK, with permission

TORNADO

Water always finds 
the easiest path
how many things I have yet to learn
my tears hold a secret
and they force me
they force me to lie

There's distance in the life I live and the person I am.
An avalanche that always falls below every smile I have.
A frost that covers everything, so much it makes me tremble.
And your arms can't be enough to keep me warm.

And I'll pass like a tornado, destroy everything in a minute, 
if you can love me and forgive me, like a necessary evil.
And like the thrill and deep fear of the jump off a cliff
Love me until the sunset, leave me before evening, 
before I fall.

Tornado ft. SK

New full album release from UK based electronic producer Cartoon Vandal (2024)
https://cartoonvandal.bandcamp.com/

Lights Out in Wonderland
Focal Point Blur
Night Shift
Hunger Cult
Summer and Ever After
Diagonal Fiction
Kid Astronaut
Cells
 
#idm 
#signalwave 
#lofimusic 
#brokentransmission 
#ambient 
#electronicmusic 
#vaporwave 
#electronica 


Departing from the sample-based sound of his previous releases, the sonic palette of Hybrid instead draws heavily on the synthetic sounds of MIDI instruments, synth presets, and VSTs.


New electronic music album released in 2024 from Cartoon Vandal. 
Album genres:
Late night Lo-fi signalwave  electronic experimental vaporwave
https://soundcloud.com/martin-rutley/tracks


New electronic music and albums in 2024


Cartoon Vandal is based in Manchester, UK and has been producing electronic music for several years. Influences include Oneohtrix Point Never, Boards of Canada, Skee Mask, Haircuts for Men and The Caretaker.

Hunger Cult

Honey Comb

That Happy Ending


Well here I am in that same rut
and the more that I try to break it free,
it's bad luck that always seems to follow me

Its been an aching in my gut.
I take my one step forward then two steps back.
Its just that one little break that I seem to lack.

I don’t know why
but it seems that wherever I turn,
there's another bridge that has started to burn.

It's not that I don’t try,
but I find myself in quick sand
and I'm desperately reaching for one trustful hand.

Gravity, doors and walls are all things,
little things that get in our way,
little things that keep us from having our say.

Let honesty, truth and hope be your wings.
They're the winds that will fill out our sail
and that happy ending 
will be all that is left to your tale.

I know its easy to get down
when all around you there's nothing but angst and pain
sunny days been replaced with the pouring rain.



But never let it keep you down.
Seek out those that find the good in all that’s bad
and pull the happiness out of all that is sad.

Soon you'll be free
and the only thing that you'll see
will be that big blue sky and your destiny.

You hold the key.
It's just another lesson to learn
and another page that is only for you to turn.

Gravity, doors and walls are all things,
little things that get in our way,
little things that keep us from having our say.

Let honesty, truth and hope be your wings.
They're the winds that will fill out our sail,
and that happy ending 
will be all that is left.

So let  the magic take you away
I guess that's all I really wanted to say
It's high time that you try
because there’s never been one bird to fly
that didn’t take that first hopeful leap
toward the sky

That Happy Ending

Latest Updates: 
From 1st June 2025, celebrating 10 years of KORG KRONOS music with lots of brand new music showcasing the wonders of this iconic workstation in all it's glory. Also as a nod to the release of the KRONOS 3, which will take KORG into the next generation.
All my albums in full quality are available on Bandcamp, please check out the link below.
Have recently taken a short holiday to recharge my batteries and top up my creative juices. Thank you to all my followers for your continued support and encouragement, means the world to me.
Over 10K minutes uploaded, over 1500 tracks - am sure there is something in there for everybody to enjoy. I love making music. Hope it matters to you.
Am posting some Jarre sounding pieces as homage to my lifelong hero of electronic music, using some of the sounds and instruments he has used along the way. Jar of Jarre is my collection of memorable sounds which have changed the way we appreciate modern electro.
Keep an eye out for my new collection of 2024 Remastered best of tracks, coming soon.
New year, new start. Back on the search for good music and inspiration. Will be featuring a lot of my older work remastered this year, seems like a long time since I began my composing journey back in 2000.
Happy New Year to all my followers, May 2025 be filled with musical magic. 
Thank you for all your kind comments and support throughout 2024 I do appreciate it. Stay safe and love each other.
All my remastered best tunes from 2015 to 2023 are now available to buy on Bandcamp.
Am back to making regular music now but sorry no Christmas songs this year. This time of year is very hard for me as it is when my father became very ill and died in the new year 2010. I still miss him very much but hope he would be proud of my musical journey, he is my number one inspiration.
Just a quick personal note on AI and music. I think it is not a good thing for the creative side of music and a lot of it comes without feelings or soul. Creativity is a gift, and should be greatly valued, cherished and nurtured. Music is what makes us human and can never be replaced by a computer.
Finished remastering up to and including 2023 now. Has been a mammoth task but well worth the effort. Next year I shall be working on a remastered series of my pre KORG days 2000 to 2008, in 8 volumes, as well as celebrating in style my 10 years of KRONOS magic, can't wait for 2025.
Have now amassed over 1000 tracks on SC (that's over 8000 minutes of music) and it has been a blast sharing them with you all. Next year 2025, marks the 10th anniversary of the start of my KORG journey.
Am currently putting together a remastered Anthology collection of all my best tracks from 2015 onwards. 2015 consists of a 3 volume set (Now available on Bandcamp). 2016 consists of a 4 volume set. (Also available on Bandcamp). 2017 consists of a 4 volume set. (Available on Bandcamp) 2018 consists of a 4 volume set. (Also available on Bandcamp). 2019 consists of a 4 volume set. (Now available on Bandcamp). 2020 consists of a 3 volume set (now available on Bandcamp).
If you would like to listen to more of Magician, especially retro older tracks please checkout Bandcamp (see link below).
Have recently been rediscovering some of my older music pre KORG days and remastering for uploading to my cloud. Hope you like. Seems such a long time ago now.
I have been lucky to have music in my life, and now the time to explore how it can affect other people. I have discovered many new talented artists on SC and am happy to encourage and support their work; from small beginnings come great things. Please be inspired to be your best, inspire others too, encourage those who lack the inner courage to move forward, and together we can make music make a difference in all our lives.
Am spending a lot more time on my music now since retiring from work in July 2020. Always learning new techniques and honing my craft. Am comfortable now with all chord sequences throughout the scales and loving improvising with the help of my mighty KORG still. Am still trying to give my full support and encouragement to all SC users and some latest (you know who you are), are developing nicely. Be good to one another, be gracious to others, leave your ego out of your life and above all else remember there is always someone worse off than yourself. 
Please be kind to each other, to be happy with our lot without jealousy or greed; to give without asking the cost; to love as if there is no tomorrow; to share and inspire others who may be less fortunate than us; most of all to enjoy life for the joy of living, for we know not what the morning brings - stay safe my friends, be strong and always stay positive; remember life changes - DON'T let it change you!!  
Music is my life - has helped me through many dark places, is a big part of who I am. I put my heart and soul into every single piece of music I produce. I have found many wonderful friends on SC and many exciting talented people.  Been writing and producing music now for 40 years plus. Specialised in electronic based orchestral compositions. I have created my own genre which I call 'electrorchestration'.
Favourite artists/bands include Gary Numan, Little Boots, Jools Holland, Eno, Edgar Froese (1944-2015), Jordan Rudess, Kebu, Madis, Keith Emerson (1944-2016), Rick Wakeman, Richard Wright (1943-2008), Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Jean Michel Jarre, M83, Public Service Broadcasting, Dream Theater, ELP, Yes and Mystery to name but a few.
Click on link below to Bandcamp for more music from my collection

Honey Comb

Magi©ian™ (Making music make a difference)

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