SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP: THE MAN WHO BOUGHT THE WORLD OFF DAVID BOWIE!

Wooo... this is like hillbilly gone crazy ! All YOU and it's great !!

Wonderwiki !!!  Bazooka n all... nice to meet you Mr. J & the W !!!

Over the years, Julian Assange & The Wikileaks has seen numerous band members come and ago, for obvious reasons, Richard Nixon, Pol Pot & Margaret Thatcher got there marching orders; well you can’t have your band members getting up to those tricks during their spare time.
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Of late, the likes of Donald Trump, Rudi Giuliani and Marjorie Taylor Green have been badgering me about joining, but you have to draw the line somewhere! Ok, Putin, I said, I’ll think about it, and to Kim Jong Un, I said, ok you’re in but no way are you doing vocals! 
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I’m telling you, it ain’t easy keeping a band of nihilistic, narcissistic, machiavelian, tyrannical, hotheads together; not enough that each want to rule the world, they all want to front the band too!
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One tune says nothing about your creative talent.

I have in the region of 500 tunes, listener would need to hear at least 100 of them to be really impressed.

Sadly, our talent is frequently judged by the first tune anyone lands on and if it doesn't happen to to their taste, or doesn't represent a genre they can relate to, you won't get a second chance. 

My approach is diverse, I tend to go in whatever direction each tune takes me, no plan, no formula, no recipe book, I just get on board whatever train pulls into the station, so chances are the vast majority who land on one of my tunes won't relate, only those with THE MOST diverse taste, who are turned on by uninhibited, spontaneous, improvisation, will relate, and that's a small audience, and the most difficult audience to reach because they can't find you in the first place.

I get musicians telling me the fact that my tunes get very few listens proves they must be crap, but listeners must find your tunes in the first place to reach that conclusion, and like I said, unless a listener has eclectic taste chances are they won't relate to the first tune they hear, so they will never come back and listen to a second one.

The more diverse your approach the less likely you will find an audience; your target audience is a small one, and the chances of it finding is practically zero--there are now billions upon billions of tunes on the internet, who has the time to wade through that lot, so it stands to reason your target audience won't find you!
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So anyone who draws a straight line between breadth & depth of creativity and number of listens isn't one for analysing, and of course, if you don't receive listens in the first place you're not going to receive much feedback, right!

JULIAN & THE WIKILEAKS (Steven Vellou & Co-Conspirators)

WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF PANGAEA

THE VOLGA AND THE VISTULA
THE URALS AND THE DON
SARMATIA, A FORGOTTEN LAND
ESCAPED THE SETTING SUN

AND ZIGGURAT OF MESOPOTAMIA
WAS EVERYTHING THEY SAID IT WAS
IN THE LAND OF AQUITANIA

REMEMBER THE SARGASSO SEA
AND HOW THAT REGION USE TO BE
A TRILLION EELS WITH SEX APPEAL
WOULD CONGREGATE IN SYMMETRY

PANGAEA'S PEOPLE

FROM THE BIRTH OF DEAD PANGAEA
TO THE DAY YOUR LIFE BEGAN

PANGAEA'S PEOPLE

WE VIEWED THE HERE AND NOW FROM THE REAR
AND RUED THE APPROACH OF ARMAGEDDON

PANGAEA'S PEOPLE

K-K-K-COME ON DOWN TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF PANGAEA
COME ON....COME ON....COME ON
IT'S TIME TO BREAK NEW GROUND, AND START A WHOLE NEW CAREER
COME ON, BABY, DO THE PANGAEA
WIPE AWAY THE STAIN, ALL THE PAIN AND ALL THE TEARS
COME ON....COME ON....COME ON
SO DON'T WALLOW IN THE RAIN, IT'S IN VAIN CAUSE NO ONE HEARS
COME ON, BABY, DO THE PANGAEA

GONDWANALAND WILL COME AND GO
THE OCEANS ENTERING THROUGH THE WINDOW

PERCHED UPON MY CHAIR
I FELL OFF
THE CONTINENTAL SHELF

CHERISH THE TIME THAT'S LEFT
HERE COMES THE GREAT LAND THEFT
WHEN FISSURES OPEN WIDE
LAUNCHING THE GREAT DIVIDE

A SINGLE MASS LIKE BRITTLE GLASS
SHATTERS AND SCATTERS LIKE ANTIMATTER
SPASM CAUSES SPASM
FOR SCHISM SPELLS DIVISION
EARTHQUAKE AND TECTONIC PLATE
JUST CAN'T RELATE SO RECREATE

WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF PANGAEA
(I RAN A MINI-MARATHON TO MEDO-P-P-PERSIA)
FOLLOW THE RED BRICK ROAD
AND THE SIGNS, THOUGH NOT THE TIMES, WILL REAPPEAR
(SWIMMING IN GREECE)
DON'T CARRY A HEAVY LOAD
FOR AS STATISTICS SHOW
IT ADDS ONE MILLION YEARS
(THE SEVEN HILLS OF ROME)
FOLLOW THE COUNTRY CODE
DISPLAY A PINCH OF RESPECT
(ASSYRIA)
AND A TRUCKLOAD OF FEAR
(BABYLON)

I THINK YOU FORGOT TO MENTION EGYPT!
NO I DIDN'T, IT'S HIDDEN, AND SUBTLY DISPERSED, AMONG THE LYRICS IN THE FORM OF AN ANAGRAM!

WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF PANGAEA

JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE WIKILEAKS


JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE....WIKILEAKS
RIPPED ANOTHER PAGE OUT OF....OUT OF HISTORY
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE AND IT'S....FULL OF CREEPS
POLITICIANS GAGE PLAYING.....HIDE AND SEEK

JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE....WIKILEAKS
RIPPED ANOTHER PAGE OUT OF....OUT OF HISTORY
ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE AND IT'S....FULL OF CREEPS
POLITICIANS GAGE PLAYING.....HIDE AND SEEK

EVERYBODY SAYS IT'S A MYSTERY
THE END OF EVERY DAY BRINGS A TRAGEDY
THE SEER AND SAGE CALL IT PROPHECY
BUT EVERY WOE CONVEYS WARPED PHILOSOPHY

WE MAKE THE SAME MISTAKES
ONCE MORE, THE SAME MISTAKE WE MADE TEN TIMES BEFORE
AND WE LOVE TO BREAK OUR OWN LAWS

INVENTING WARS
A GROUNDLESS CAUSE
SOMETHING TO ABHORE
OUR ALLIES, WE IMPLORE
TAKE UP TWO-BY-FOURS
AND EVEN UP THE SCORE

JULIAN....ASSANGE
JULIAN ASSANGE
JULIAN....ASSANGE

JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE WIKILEAKS
TRY TO WRITE A SONG ABOUT ONCE A WEEK
BUT ONCE WE'VE LIT THE BONG, WE ACCEPT DEFEAT
SO EVEN WHEN IT'S LONG IT'S SHORT AND SWEET

,JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE WIKILEAKS
TRIED TO RIGHT A WRONG IN CHIC BOUTIQUE
DING BECAME A DONG, THEN IT GOT DOWNBEAT
AND NAUGHTY THINGS WERE SAID THAT WE CAN'T REPEAT

JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE WIKILEAKS
DIGGING FOR EXCRETION, VISIT FLEET STREET
TRY TO CHANGE THE SHEETS, CHANGE THE WAY SHEEP BLEAT
BUT THE COUNTERFEIT DECEIT OF THE INDISCREET....THE INDISCREET
....JULIAN
FUELED BY SELF-CONCEIT
....ASSANGE....JULIAN
POST THE KILLER TWEET
....JULIAN
THE GUTTERPRESS MAKE MINCEMEAT
....ASSANGE....JULIAN
THROUGH CELLULITE-TYPE BROADSHEETS
...JULIAN

THE WIKILEAKS OF JULIAN ASSANGE
....ASSANGE....JULIAN
HAVE BREACHED THE WHITEHOUSE AND THE UNIVERSE BEYOND
...JULIAN
A WORLD SO GULLIBLE, SO EASILY CONNED
....ASSANGE....JULIAN
SOMETHING....SOMETHING....SOMETHING....SOMETHING....SOMETHING....MELANGE
....JULIAN

FAR-REACHING CONSEQUENCES, RIGHTING OF WRONGS
....ASSANGE....JULIAN
COME SEE THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF A BLONDE
....JULIAN
THE STENCH OF PEACECRIMES; DIPLOMATIC PING-PONG
....ASSANGE....JULIAN
THE LULL OF PEACETIME IS AS BRIEF AS THIS SONG
....JULIAN

JULIAN....JULIE....JULIE....JULIE....ASSANGE....JULIAN
EVERY LAND IS THE CRADLE OF HYPOCRISY...JULIAN....JULIE....JULIE....JULIAN
BUNGLED POLICY AND THE PLANS THAT GO ASTRAY
JULIAN....JULIE....JULIE....JULIE....ASSANGE....JULIAN
WHERE FALLING TO ONES KNEES IS AS EASY AS YOU PLEASE
JULIAN....JULIE....JULIE....JULIE....ASSANGE....JULIAN
AND WHEN WE'RE TOLD TO KILL WE'RE SO EAGER TO OBEY

JULIAN ASSANGE....AND THE WIKILEAKS
JULIAN....ASSANGE....AND THE WIKILEAKS
JULIAN ASSANGE....AND THE WIKILEAKS
JULIAN....ASSANGE....AND THE WIKILEAKS

JULIAN ASSANGE AND THE WIKILEAKS theme tune

The tall grass (Instrumental)

Wastin’ time is all we know
Let us lay down, let us lay low

We all chased a fallen ghost, far beneath the tide
Let us lay down

Let us lay down

Thanassis - Drums
Kostas - Acoustic Guitar
Bill Barek - Lead Guitar
Effie - Bass
Christos - Vocals, Lyrics

Breathing in a sea of violence,
Dealing with my fate with a consiouss eye,
Swimming by my anger to silence,
Its a stepping stone to what you shall live,
Met you in a day of weakness,
That i am alone with nothing to quest,
Give me now your only forgiveness,
Make me feel blessed that i found you now,
Swimming all my pain in your madness,
Swimming just above the thought of your hopes,
Playing all around with your sadness,
Can't you feel in this role that am not alone ,
Travelling in your sea of badness,
Shore to shore sacred by my holy oath,
Do you want to feel my godness,
Do you want to feel my breath in your core.

Enjoy One Breath!!

ONE BREATH -JAMMING WITH FRIENDS

TRANQUIL LIZA (UNDER SEDATION) tune I recorded early 1980's

Ste van Horne (lyrics, all vocals) Mike Cliffe (guitars, music)

BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE - Ste van Horne and Mike Cliffe

A MILLION WAYS TO SAY GOODBYE - STE VAN HORNE & MIKE CLIFFE w.i.p.

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ENTER THE MIND OF JULIAN ASSANGE; A PLACE WHERE TRUTH AND FICTION EXIST IN EQUAL MEASURES! 

COME SEE THE WORLD THROUGH THE EYES OF A BLONDE....

SECOND COMING OF THE CHAMELEON OF POP: THE MAN WHO BOUGHT THE WORLD OFF DAVID BOWIE

ANYONE THAT GETS TO HEAR ENOUGH OF MY TUNES WILL DISCOVER I CAN BACK THAT CLAIM UP.

I DON'T THINK MY TUNES QUITE MATCH HIS, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THEY COULDN'T GET CLOSE IF GIVEN THE STUDIO TREATMENT, AND IF I HAD ACCESS TO SOME OF THE GREATEST MUSICIANS AND ENGINEERS, AS HE HAS.

I DON'T HAVE HIS CHARISMA, AND I'M CERTAINLY NOT AS ACCOMPLISHED ON INSTRUMENTS AS HE IS, BUT I THINK MY APPROACH TO CREATING TUNES IS POSSIBLY MORE ECLECTIC THAN, AND, ALTHOUGH I THINK HIS LYRICS ARE INGENIOUS, I THINK I HAVE THE EDGE ON HIM BECAUSE THEY HAVE MEANING, AND MAKE MORE SENSE THAN MOST OF HIS, WHICH ARE MORE ABOUT A PLAY ON WORDS THAN MAKING SOCIAL COMMENTS!

Thing with many of these tunes is, the vocals get more intriguing as tune progresses, so they have to be heard from beginning to end :)

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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WELCOME TO THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF PANGAEA

JULIAN AND THE WIKILEAKS

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