First hidden gems playlist of the year, resulting from my listening marathon around Christmas. All these songs have less than 1000 plays and deserve more listens!

Hidden Gems 2025-01

Shock the Algorithm

Related tracks: Vanishing Waves

Hidden Violet

indian festival

Copy of South Florida Native

written, performed, arranged and recorded by:
Stoniam

Liam J Boyle - guitar, bass, piano, drums, vocals, mix, mastering
Stone X Catcherye - vocals, lyrics

Magnetism & Affinity

I am magnetized just by your smile
I'm in love with you, I'm attracted to
a deep affinity for your soul

grow a rose out of Stone
concrete molds I have broke
magnet soul, not a clone
left alone, I explode

but you see, the magnet is in my head

I am energized just by your eyes
I'm in love with you, I adore the view
& deep affinity for your soul

sunken boat, lost at sea
no one dares look for me
on my own since my teens
no one stares no one sees

but you see the madness is in my head

I am hypnotized just by your light
I'm in love with you, this enamored mood
this deep affinity for your soul

Magnetism & Affinity

Negativity, heavy routine, bad news, (intro  sounds) they drill in our souls, we all need some magic dust.

MagicDust

Written in a Post loss pre funeral haze hope you enjoy it

Shock!

Wrong Way

Searching

So many things world

"Won’t Find Another"

In these crazy times, everyone needs a cheerful  song. Hopefully, you'll enjoy this Folk/Jazz/ hybrid with a Ska ending.
Why not take a walk on a perfect day in Mr. Shade's neighborhood?

Lyrics:
I used to spend my days
Grinding my axe
I never knew how to relax
I could get  hung up on a memory
Ohh, that's my half assed symmetry
Walking down the street
Shuffling to my beat
The sky overhead
And the earth at my feet
I've packed up my problems
Put them in the backseat
I'm working on my karma balance sheet

I just wanna get high all day
By staring in your perfect face
Look into infinity
I'm in the vicinity
Of a perfect time and place

"Hello there, neighbor!"
"Hello, friends."
"Hello neighborhood dogs and cats"

Oh, I used to get hung up on a memory
That's my half assed symmetry
Walking down the street
Shuffling to my own beat
The sky overhead
The earth at my feet
Going to the house where we meet
The dogs in the neighborhood
They're grinning through their teeth

I just wanna get high all day
By staring into your perfect face
Look into infinity
I'm in the vicinity
You never know when you're making a memory

Here I go. 
I think I'm gonna take a little walk in my neighborhood
Hey Universe!
What do you have in store for me today?
I've got a little sunshine therapy coming on!
Yeah! You know I do
I just wanna get high all day
By looking into your perfect face
High all day
I don't need nothing
Nothing but your perfect face
I feel like I'm in the perfect time and space

Your Perfect Face

Cover in italiano di NOTHING’S GONNA CHANGE MY LOVE FOR YOU

RESTERAI

A room of silence, the traces cold,
her final place, so cruel, so old.
But something’s missing, it doesn’t align,
like smoke it fades, what hides the design.

The wounds reveal deception and guile,
the body silent, yet speaks all the while.
The victim is still, but the signs are clear,
the murderer lives—so close, so near.

In every clue, a shadow lies,
her face, her voice—an endless guise.
What’s the truth? What’s the cost?
Will I find what she has lost?

Her final breath—a trick, a deceit,
she fled from death, left the dark incomplete.
But how did she run? How did she defy,
the death that seemed her shadow nearby?

The evidence lies; it pulls me in,
to a story so brutal, so blind, so grim.
Was she the victim? Or the plan she wove?
Her name in blood—but she still roams.

In every clue, a shadow lies,
her face, her voice—an endless guise.
What’s the truth? What’s the cost?
Will I find what she has lost?

The truth is near, but buried so deep,
a riddle that neither forgives nor speaks.
I follow the clues; they scream her name,
the hunter lives, but where is her claim?

In every clue, a shadow lies,
her face, her voice—an endless guise.
What’s the truth? What’s the cost?
Will I find what she has lost?

The dust will settle, but not my soul,
the answers break me, leave me cold.
Two stories meet, but one survives,
the shadows linger where truth thrives.



Deceit

Hi!
I am experimenting with shorter ambient pieces at the moment. It is kinda strange to use so few ideas and sounds in a song, but these kind of challenges are pushing you to new territories you might never see otherwise. 

Expect to see a bunch of new music in this style so i can give you a whole list of music to sleep / chill / study to. : )

Vanishing Waves

BRAND NEW official STA track called "As i lose my self again".
This is one will be featured on the upcoming sophomore album of Shock the Algorithm, that will be on Synthwave Rock style from now on!Hope u enjoy the new band profile and Merry Christmas my friends!

Youtube: https://youtu.be/1lXDbsvZ2OQ
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lyrics:
Hear my body scream, hear my soul is weak, i can't control anymore
i tried to set it free, i tried to tame this freak, but it's up to self control

and i will never learn and trust is hard to earn
as i lose my self again...

Bright lights calling me, neon life sets me free and i am right here to stay
The sun rise up again and i still understand the dues we have to pay
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(p) & (c) STA, 2024-25.

As I Lose My Self Again

Cocktail time jazz. 
Now appearing nightly, lounge singer Shade Structure and his jazz combo. 😉 (open shirt, sweaty, toupee, pinky ring. )
From the album: "Curiosities Of Outsider Art" (Sept 2025)

Lyrics:
I've had enough of the light
Let's turn the lights down low
And get in our evening glow
I wrote a haiku for you
And ways that you do
And the ways that you move...  🥵 

I saw you climb the fiery spires
And you never tired
Don't you know you're the source of my desires?

Well, you're lucky if you get out of this world with any kind of love at all
(That's what you always used to say!)
I said, "Let's go dancing like we used to do
Let's go nowhere
In the car
Let's rhapsodize upon the stars
You know I love the way we are

You can't love yourself all alone
You are everywhere
And everyone you've known
You can't love yourself all alone
(Solo 1)

You can't love yourself all alone
You are everywhere
You're everyone you've known
You can't love yourself
All alone
You are the particles of everywhere you've gone
(Solo 2)

I wrote a haiku for you 
And the way that you move...

You can't love yourself all alone
You are everywhere
And everyone you've known
You can't love yourself all alone
You're the elements
The particles of everywhere you've gone

You Can't Love Yourself All Alone

This might take a while she said with her quicksilver smile
I said, can you help me make it through another night?
She sighed and looked away
Yah, that just ain’t my style

You know which way to go, yet you want my free advice
(Well I guess that’s alright)
Will the sun pay the silver moon
to hang on to its light

Then she sighed and looked ahead
And this is what she said

Long distance runner
The horizons your finish line
Can you find the key to open up that door
Did you find what you are looking for?

It’s time for you to go
Gotta run your given mile
She said, you can lay down
Stare at stars with all your time
But soon enough you learn
Cause your eyes will start to burn.

You’re  looking for the truth and the answers to your why.
My oh my, there’s fact and fiction in the stories we all tell
But can you can find the line inside buried deep within the rhyme?

Long distance runner
The horizons your finish line
Can you find the key to open up that door
Will you find what you are looking for?

Can you outrun?
Can you outpace your time?
Find some peace of mind
Yahhhh - Yahhhh


Long Distance Runner

Imperial Measures  " Promise of the Morning"   Jan. 1st

https://imperialmeasures.hearnow.com/the-promise-of-morning

Falling

Benjamin Dantès - Une vie

A bit of history: 
Goff Johnson get in touch with me. The guy is keen to collaborate with other artists. He would like to polish the musicianship and the production of some of his songs a little more because his is award that his tracks can be improved with better musicians and especially with strong vocals.  
Here I am!!  
I want to take up the challenge, I want to be attentive to his wishes, I want to be of good advice.  

Here’s the result: 
We have collaborated and reworked together the song “Seems Like It” initially posted on his Soundcloud page in February 2024. We brought two other musicians on board for the adventure. The result please us a lot. Exciting adventure.  
I wish you a lot of pleasure by listening to the song. 

Goff: songwriter/composer, all keyboards, some rhythm guitars. 
ManuLaGratte: executive producer, virtual drums, some rhythm guitars, bass. 
Laurent: lead guitars. 
Eric: all vocals (freelance service). 

The song is also available on Goff’s Soundcloud page: 
https://soundcloud.com/goff-johnson/tracks

Seems Like It

*In dedication to the victims of the LA fire, which burned while I worked on this song. 
Instrumental by Oussama Arichi
Vocals, Lyrics, Mix by Nadia Selvaggi
P-line:
℗ 2025 Nadia Selvaggi. Oussama Arichi
C-line:
© 2025 Nadia Selvaggi, Oussama Arichi

Pasadena Nights by Oussama Arichi & Nadia Selvaggi

Brand new track and first for 2025. Song called "Universe fuzzing"
Taken from my upcoming full length synthwave album (2025) that will be called "Ultraviolet Cosmos".

youtube link: https://youtu.be/16y888BdiZI?si=rikRzRdc4swOOSyx
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lyrics:
Feel the heat while you're moving around
Feel the beat while you're turning around

there's no wheels for stoping, only thin air poppin


Feel the warmth of the grinding machine
feel the heat from the earth beneath

there's no time machine to revert it, only the future u gotta face it


See these raylights that are flashing, all these memories are crushin' 
all these voices are buzzin' the whole universe is fuzzin'


Read the signs for the future unfold, 
learn from the past and let your dreams on hold

there's no logical planning, only sane present that is running.
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(p) & (c) 2025.

Universe Fuzzing

Jail Minds 2

IN THAT GAB

OneKind- Stardust and Hiccups

at last a tune we can hum while we are dragged off to be made into glue
vocal https://soundcloud.com/jeff_roberts

Shakedown

Conversing With The Stars

Outlaw s Grin

01 DONT FADE ME OUT MASTER 2024

I Stare Into Darkness

Where You Going Now

PERSUASIVE CHAOS

WRITTEN, PRODUCED & PERFORMED By: DOMINIQUEFRENCH
INSTRUMENTAL PRODUCED By: LEWISLAND
MIXING - MASTERING By: TMS STUDIOS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksVXn4AehGw
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/1526692470
https://open.spotify.com/album/6MysGSxDlUXBuQumQfYhpq
https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B08SJ9RDBX?marketplaceId=ATVPDKIKX0DER&musicTerritory=US&ref=dm_sh_yUVkf51oUwCcPq2LSCHWiJFMf

"ANTICIPATING"

In more and less distant pasts, I played in several hard-rock bands as a rhythm guitarist. 
I really enjoyed it. 
Currently, I have to admit that my motivation for this activity has disappeared. I have much more fun composing and recording in my little home studio.
I’m also keen to collaborate with other artists, people who want to offer their services, or people who would like to benefit from my skills.  
Do not hesitate to get in touch.  
Some examples of my musical aesthetics: Accept, Black Swan, Scorpions, Shakra, Saxon, Bloodbound, Dokken, Battle Beast, Y&T...  
I mean: rock/hard-rock on a square base.
If you've enjoyed some songs, feel free to spread the word.
I thank you so much and I wish you a lot of fun.