Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Wednesday evening (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 14th October 2024 from Friday afternoon you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch545

If a track you submitted does not appear in this list, it’s probably because another of your tracks appeared in our Fresh Faves or on the BBC Music Introducing Mixtape during the last three months — we ask that artists featured on either wait three months before resubmitting to give others a chance. 

We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud Go tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks (and remixes of tracks) that have been previously submitted, and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

Christmas songs and the like are also not eligible for the Listening Post, although we will collect these into a playlist that will be published on 24 December.

ENTIRE INBOX: BATCH 545

Our moderators listened to every track we were sent this week and have picked their favourites for your listening pleasure this weekend:

LISTENING POST: BATCH 545

Come On Outside

The debut album from Spectre Horsemen, Pale With Dust.

Deconstruct Or Substructure Interlude

Your Love

Your Love (Edit)

An upbeat anthem about escaping societal pressures, this fun, rhythmic and playful song is so catchy melody everyone will enjoy.

SWEET ESCAPE

Stream “NEW KING!”: 

https://open.spotify.com/track/3Xb9MHpSgHfD3YK1kaYqpo?si=znfEAO7AShms2e-vm5L0Bg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4ppZMhZgddzsxus5cdwbup

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/stefanoark/new-king-2/

Track Credits:

Vocals: Stefano Ark, Finley Thompson
Producers: Stefano Ark, Brandon Panks
Songwriters: Stefano Ark
Mixing Engineer: Stefano Ark
Mastering Engineer: Stefano Ark

NEW KINGS, NEW QUEENS! (The New Earth) (ft. Finley Thompson)

Having returned from the silver planet, they wielded instruments of light that resembled future form and technology

Diskow

Heavy electronica from long-term collaborators Nature of Wires and Machina X.

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN5WLrQraFY

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Perhaps it was 2007, I started a moleskine as I have done for centuries, but this time without writing any dates, and mostly consisting of drawings. It was the year I first conceived Dream Society, graduated from art school, became self employed, lived in Battersea in a house with green walls, somewhere in a world beyond time and space; spending hours writing the most extravagant colourful websites using only a text editor, creating experimental films in which I cut out each frame by hand, making music with house hold objects and discovering a world of books that opened my mind and being to infinite possibilities, pondering about the nature of reality, consciousness and existence. My pals and I would go to the supermarket at 2:45am; I wrote songs on an old ships piano I had to tune anew every day, and a harmonium in the key of not-quite-Bb. 

Sometimes I had visions, like lucid daydreams, or frames of future memories: I once saw myself in a flowery dressing gown, writing books, in a flat with green walls in Amsterdam.  Another one had me play on Top of the Pops. Now wouldn’t that be funny, I thought. Sometimes a song would appear like that. Like this melody that appeared, and I had to write it down, and it never became a song, just a small mantra that kept popping up, sometimes, especially at times when becoming aware of my supreme impatience; a wanting of it All, Now! 

Yet when I create, I am patient, there is -only- Now. 

Many years later, in Amsterdam, not yet with green walls but in a colourful flat on my favourite canal, I started playing around with some homemade sounds, a harmonium, some birds, and then pressed record as I sang into the mic and words and melodies flowed freely, and there it was, this melody that time travelled and brought the rest of its song along, because sometimes this is how it goes, and time folds, and everything is different and yet in essence, so very much the same; falling awake from the illusion of time and space and separation, and there is only Now, and Now, and Now, in tune and in sync with the divine perfection of life.

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Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle

Arrows flutter in the skies
And hollow holy earth,
The under breath of wanting to believe
And the slightest lion eyes
Behold
And the crowd is going mad
Cause they want us to glorify
And the flowers glow
Sleepless nights

Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle

Round & round rivers,
And on the boat we rock
Back and forth
The lion sleeps and slides
Sleep and find me home

Be Patient, 
the world will soon be 
In your circle
Be patient, love will come
Be well patient
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Bloom de Wilde: Vocals, Fender Rhodes, Synth
Nick Trepka: Bass Guitar, Birds
Sam Ritchie: Flugelhorn, String Arrangement 
Juba Wetzler: Drums

Written by B. de Wilde de Ligny
Produced by Nick Trepka, Bloom de Wilde & Sam Ritchie
Mixed by Nick Trepka
Mastered by Nick Watson @Fluid Mastering

Recorded at:
Lullabye Factory, Amsterdam
Dream Society HQ, Amsterdam
Trepka Studios, Brighton

The Circular Being

Be Patient

🎃 It's time to Spook 👻

🦇 The Spooky month is here! And we are very excited 🙃 Halloween is our favourite Holiday, so it seemed only fitting that we release some songs to mark the occasion - so we wrote a whole new album "Happy Halloween" coming out on...well, Halloween!

💙 That said though, we wanted to announce it at the start of the month 📆 using this sneaky wee single - that's also 🪄 A SPELL 🧝‍♂️ "Toogras" is an old Swedish spell to find your true love, or generally invite goodness into your life. Simply write "Toogras" on your hand before dawn...and see what happens! 🫢

The second track "游魂野鬼" (Wandering Ghost) gives you a step into the Spooky month, and hints to our latest album 'Happy Halloween', releasing on...Halloween!

Toogras

Written & Produced by Dan Olsen
Mixed & Mastered by Fernando Reyes

Dan Olsen - Thrill Of It

A song for hope and determination and to say "never give up" no matter what...

SURVIVING LIKE AN ENGLISH ROSE - FEATURING - THE DUKE

Machina X (Mak-in-na  X)/AnnieXMX Electro-eclectica music for the messy||  
Come over to Bandcamp or YouTube - find anti-socials by copy pasting the linktree:  https://linktr.ee/machinaXmusic.   Insta as machina_x_music ...no longer using FB...and if things go weird....wait, they already are...

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MACHINA X