Really good track, good performance great drum work

2023 09-12

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MAKE FRIENDS WITH GORILLA
Music by Overdrive and Stargoon

The song Make Friends With Gorilla is the result of a team effort and was composed in collaboration with the amazing band Stargoon. 

The initial idea was to produce the electro background for one of Stargoon's songs. It was then that the composer Shayne O'Neill introduced me to the demo of "Make Friends With Gorilla". The song was great and I spent a lot of time creating different electro versions, experimenting with beats and bass lines, but none of them sounded really interesting. I came to the inevitable conclusion that any change too abruptly would take away from the beauty of the original track, and perhaps the best solution was a remix. This way the original track could be released intact and still get a remix.

"Just do whatever you think works best," was Shayne's response. Man, you don't say that to someone who is desperate (lol). After that I completely abandoned the electronic versions and went for a mix of punk rock (!), anime music (!!) and orchestra (!!!)

This remix was by far one of the biggest challenges I've had to date, because it forced me to experiment with a crossover of styles outside the electro bubble.

I hope you enjoy the result.

Stargoon is the fantastic musical project created by the duo Shayne O'Neill and Ceridwyn "Sunny" Roberts-Floyd. The band has post-prog pop influences and was once defined as Hawkwind meets Devo. In my opinion, Stargoon's sound is completely original, a rare gem. I am an outspoken fan of the duo's work.

Their excellent debut album, The Gift, is well worth checking out:
https://soundcloud.com/shayne-oneill/sets/stargoon-the-gift

I also recommend a visit to the SC profile of Shayne O'Neill, composer, musician and UFO pilot. His musical genius is indisputable:
https://soundcloud.com/shayne-oneill

The radio intro is an excerpt from the movie King Kong Vs Godzilla (1962). This exact part is available on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/syv_kcHJyHk

The samples were obtained from the Slooply and SampleSwap websites, both excellent:
https://slooply.com/
https://sampleswap.org/

Lyrics
MAKE FRIENDS WITH GORILLA

Make friends with make friends with her, they said
Make friends with the piece they said
He doesn't intend to smash Tokyo.
He just wants to find love.
He just wants to find love.
This city takes everything we love.
This city is falling

Make peace with the gorilla man
Make peace with make peace with the gorilla man
He doesn't want to break with his hands
He just wants to go home
He just wants to go home
This city has ruined all the things that bring joy
This city must be destroyed

Make friends with make friends with make friends with the lizard king
Make peace with make peace with the lizard king
He doesn't want to crush Tokyo
He just wants happy times
He just wants happy times
This city has taken all the good times
This city is leaving

Make Friends With Gorilla (feat. Stargoon)

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Life's not a bed of roses (feat. Hayden)

can't sleep

We carved our names in the teeth of the storm
Bled constellations through cracks in the dawn
No borrowed halos, no ghosts on our backs
Just the grind of the wheel where the future’s been cast

The shadows we outran now whisper our creed
A chorus of scars where the faceless concede
We’re not the relics of some borrowed light
We’re the forge in the dark, the unyielding fight

Oh, the ashes we wore
Are the armor we bore
Every crack in the road
Is a seed we outgrew

We are the kings of the climb, the architects
The fire in our veins writes the alphabet
No crown handed down from a bloodline of dust
We build thrones with the bones of the gods we outlast

Sing it loud-we are the unbreakable
The reckoning tide
The pulse in the static, the scream in the sky

They said, “Kneel to the tempest, let history win”
But we rewired the thunder where the end begins
Our fists aren’t raised to the heavens above
We’re the tremor below, the unshaken love

The echoes we left in the caverns of never
Are the anthems that fracture the chains of whatever
No requiem chorus, no eulogy’s lie
Just the roar of the crowd as we silence the night

Oh, the weights that we carried
Are the wings we parried
Every dirge they composed
Is the joke we defy

We are the kings of the climb, the architects
The fire in our veins writes the alphabet
No crown handed down from a bloodline of dust
We build thrones with the bones of the gods we outlast

Sing it loud-we are the unbreakable
The reckoning tide
The pulse in the static, the scream in the sky

When the world tried to name us, we became the storm
A symphony of hammers on the anvil of dawn
Break the machine-we're the sparks in its gears
The anthem of chaos that no god can steer

We are the kings of the climb, the architects
The fire in our veins writes the alphabet
No crown handed down from a bloodline of dust
We build thrones with the bones of the gods we outlast

Sing it loud-we are the unbreakable
The reckoning tide
The pulse in the static, the scream in the sky

Unbreakable!
Unshakable!
The reckoning
The roar
We are the throne

Unbreakable

That's not the reality

Lyrics: Ulisses Nicolau Alberto Barros (Uli)
Singer: Nicholas Albert
Composed on Suno.com
Copyright: Uli (Pro License)

Verse 1:

In my mind... 
words, words, words. 
Who could listen them? 
Who could understand them? 

Inside of you, baby, I feel there are so many treasures, all o'them without measures. 
High security. 

Verse 2:

Do you get me? Listen, 
in this old and young place within, 
there are so many faces that want to be heard... 

For so long, these words were faces of bittersweetness. 
That was my world... 

Bridge:

My heart could sing,
though it couldn't say anything. 
My iPhone could ring, 
though I knew it was no one. 

But after you, baby mine, 
For you, you bring me. 
For us, your treasures shine.
For me, you make me feel a better be.

Verse 3:

Being we two here alone in this room, 
my words shifts. 
With you, our World 
it's Sweet. 

Verse 4: 

You blow my mind, honey. 
The words already are outside, 
Are pleasure to us... 

Bridge: 

My heart could sing, 
though it couldn't say anything. 
My iPhone could ring, 
though I knew it was no one. 

But after you, baby mine, 
For you, you bring me. 
For us, your treasures shine. 
For me, you make me feel a better be.
 
Chorus: 

If I knew that my words could touch you. 
Never before, I'd throw the keys away. 
If I knew it's so true, I never would think
to be back to yesterday. 

The time to love is now. 
The question to love is how. 
Who to love? 
It's up to you. 

(Short Guitar Solo)

Chorus: 

If I knew that my words could touch you. 

Never before, I'd throw the keys away. 
If I knew it's so true, I never would think 
to be back to yesterday. 

The time to love is now. 
The question to love is how. 
Who to love? 
It's up to you. 

Outro:

It's up to youuu. 
It's up to youu. 
It's up to youuuu. 
it's up to you.

Lyrics: Ulisses Nicolau Alberto Barros (Uli).

It's up to you (Contemporary Love Song) by Uli

Sort of an odd current events vocal around some conversations on Twitter/X

knowyourmeme says of the Breakfast Question or Breakfast Test:

"The Breakfast Question or How Would You Have Felt If You Hadn't Eaten Breakfast? is a bait question and a counterfactual conditional that references a 4chan story of a grad student who allegedly performed IQ research on convicts at San Quentin State Prison. During the research, individuals with low IQ struggled to simulate the hypothetical situation in their minds, instead answering that they did have breakfast. Online, the question has been used in internet arguments as a conspicuous way to indicate that one's opponent is unintelligent, while the posts have often been referenced in memes."

lyrics:

If you overuse an em-dash
Does it make you an elocutionary punctuationist

The goodly man didn't set out to besmirch 
The devices of deep research
But while he was searching for a solution
He walked a subtly distorted hall of mirrors
Wading through epistemic pollution

They warned him in the olden times
Before you get to rolling in the hay
The more helpless the animal she identifies with is, 
The more evil she is by the way

Long after the mome raths outgribe
The fellow emerged from his gooncave
And happened upon the fate's scribe
He wavered like a legless tree
Propped up by her inosculation
Long after the stars did prevaricate
A man from his lair did elevate  

To the dehibernating engineer with the big brain
The fortune teller said while popping the kettle
I don't mean to cause you undue distress
Or general feelings of dread
Unfortunately when the dust settles
You will be arcane
But you will be powerless  

There hasn't lately been effusive gore
Because we're still in the phony war  

She was one of those chicks
Who said I lied I don't have Netflix
She said she was at the end of her rope
Battling appointments from a communist pope
And when she really had me at her mercy
She opened the car door and said
Get in loser we're going to restart the investiture controversy  

Squinting her eyes at the horizon as if trying to see
She capered like a bird before an earthquake
Waiting for the first sounds of the iron catastrophe  

As she drove her paramour in the back seat
Was slumming and chewing the cud and furrowing his brow
He went on to relate
There's an awful lot of endogenous FUD right now
I don't know much about the occult astronomy
But the distribution is shifting
It's the kurtosis economy
Not to get excessively knobbly
I just mean potential for an escalation in instability
In a system that seems like it's already wobbly  

Hey babe i don't mean to be a grimsy
But how much cyproheptadine do I need to take
To completely eliminate my boyish whimsy  

And like hobbits, in the shadow's gloom
Yearning for another bite to consume
We seek the steadiness that's now entombed
In an epoch where darkness might assume  

To gauge the dawn with morning's bite
Throwing shade on our sanctuaries
Beneath the reign of he who was once king
A toss of fate, a sign to bring
A whisper of a bygone era's ring
Where woke destiny's whims do cling

Yet the economy, with its cryptic wile
Plays its game, a trickster's style
Not bound by ancient laws, but by vibe's guile
In a dance of mystery, it does beguile 

We stand, we watch, in this modern murk
For the roll of dice, the next big lurk
And query, with wisdom old and bold
If a second breakfast might the truth unroll
A sudden clarity, a meal's theophany
A veritable crepuscular epiphany

Douglas P Stoothoff main site: exedexes1.com/

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Nobody knows the last time that this major planetary reunion occurred. But Andreas (@APi_ZZ) thought it might be fun to imagine what the craic would be all about, and so this is what we've come up with. 

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© Copyright Annie Dieu-Le-Veut, February 2025 

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