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No One

Written, produced, and performed by Luke Carter (AKA Sammi Dae)  
Vocals by Devyn Cross (an AI artists created by Luke Carter)  

Original Composition: © 2011 Luke Carter (Sammi Dae)
Original ISRC (2011): GBER71902076
New Sound Recording: ℗ 2025 DGG Productions Ltd
New ISRC (2025): UKVGE0558116

Luke Carter (DGG Productions). Email: luke@dgfproductions.com. Phone: +44 7821 189857. Publishing & Master: 100% Controlled by DGG Productions

Artist: Sammi Dae feat. Devyn Cross
Produced & Written by: Luke Carter (Sammi Dae)
Performed by: Sammi Dae using AI vocals from Devyn Cross, created and developed by Luke Carter
Label: DGG Productions Ltd
Genre: Cinematic Neo-Soul / Indie-Blues / Contemporary R&B
Key: F Major | Tempo: 88 BPM

🌌 A soul searching ballad about love, distance, and the ache of longing.

“No Place Like Home (Too Far Away)” is one of the most intimate and cinematic moments in Sammi Dae’s evolving series—infused with delicate piano, soulful strings, and ambient textures. With expressive AI-driven vocals from Devyn Cross, the track explores themes of parallel lives, emotional connection, and shared scars, all wrapped in a smooth neo-soul/indie-blues soundscape.

At the heart of this release lies an artistic revolution. In an industry where youth and image dominate, Luke Carter (Sammi Dae) has introduced a roster of AI artists—including Piper, Ziah, Sacha Rome, Thea, Haystacks In The Sky, Tom B-Lyve, and now Devyn Cross. Each AI vocalist has been carefully crafted with its own sonic identity, giving Carter’s human-written, produced, and originally performed songs new life in a digital age. This is not replacement—it is reimagination.

With Too Far Away, the production leans into clean, punchy instrumentation—catchy bassline, acoustic warmth, reverb-soaked intimacy—and Devyn Cross’s voice captures both tenderness and strength. The result is a laid-back yet emotionally charged fusion, ideal for reflective storytelling, romance montages, or soulful late-night moments.

🎧 For fans of: Daniel Caesar • Leon Bridges • Anderson .Paak • H.E.R. • Yebba
🖤 Mood: Reflective, Soulful, Intimate, Cinematic
✨ AI Meets Emotion: Part of DGG Productions’ groundbreaking AI-artist series (Grandad Smoking A Pipe, Paradise Girl, Best Friend (Club Mix), Wings Of A Dove (No Exit Mix)), “No Place Like Home (Too Far Away)” shows how timeless songwriting and AI performance can coexist—bridging human emotion with next-generation artistry.

No Place Like Home (Too Far Away)

Captain Rapp ‘Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)’ (greg wilson edit)

120 bpm

Previously limited vinyl only 2009.

With all the talk of recession during late 2008 through 2009, Captain Rapp’s ‘Bad Times’ kept running through my head, prompting the idea to put together this edit, which would be pressed  to limited vinyl as part of the Ruff Edits series, appearing as ‘Ruff Rapp’ on Ruff Edits #3. Now, with the news reporters back to warning us of a rocky road ahead, with all the social problems this might entail, it provides a topical opportunity to share it here.

Taking its lyrical cue from 1982’s seminal recording, ‘The Message’ by Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five, ‘Bad Times (I Can’t Stand It)’ was a socially conscious rap that explored the issues of the day, topped off with the raw pleas of singer Kimberley Ball. Just as important though was the killer Electro-Funk groove that set the more discerning of dancefloors alight. A proper underground tune that was huge for me during the latter part of ’83 , topping my floorfillers list not long before I called time on my DJ career:
http://www.electrofunkroots.co.uk/lists/no1_floorfillers.html

This was very much a track you’d only hear if you were tuned into what was going on in the black clubs over here. Like the majority of tracks I played, I’d picked it up on import from Spin Inn, the essential shop in the North for Soul, Funk, Disco, Electro-Funk and Jazz (the elements that made up a specialist night circa ‘83). As I've said before, if you didn't buy your records at an import stockist like Spin Inn, you couldn't seriously aspire to be a black music specialist, and Spin Inn was right up there, along with an elite of shops, like Groove and City Sounds in London, shaping the course of UK club culture via the constant stream of dance music, great, good and not so good, they brought into this country.

Whereas New York was the centre of the dance universe at this time, its hybrid groove and technological experimentation pushing the music ever forward, ‘Bad Times’ was a West Coast, not East Coast  track, released on a small label out of Los Angeles called Saturn, with unknowns, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (along with Rich Cason), credited as arranging and performing (Jam & Lewis would, of course, become the most successful dance / R&B producers of the mid-late 80’s). Captain Rapp himself was Larry Earl Glenn, whose 1981 ‘Gigalo Rapp’ (by Disco Daddy & Captain Rapp) has its place in history as the first West Coast Rap 12”. 

‘Bad Times’ would be issued in the UK on the Becket label, but failed to make any real impact beyond the black scene. As such, it’s always retained its underground credentials, and a place in the hearts of black music enthusiasts with a fond ear for the early 80’s. 

Greg Wilson – October 2011

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Captain Rapp 'Bad Times (I Can't Stand It)' (greg wilson edit)

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