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the library is my home

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s u m m e r t i m e  2 0 1 7

Unknown Song feat. Paulina Eisenberg

You're not sure why you decided to come alone to this karaoke bar. A sudden desire for people-watching, you suppose. You don't sing anything, just nurse a drink near the back. For the first half-hour, nothing out of the ordinary happens. Then, another spectator, one you've noticed hovering by a side wall, takes the stage. A slightly tinny drum machine comes forth from the P.A. The song is instantly familiar, but you can't quite place it. It must be some mostly-forgotten hit from the '80s that you haven't heard in years. At first, the singer's delivery is as shy as you'd expect from a fellow wallflower. But slowly, you come to perceive a deep, quiet confidence in his voice. He obviously knows the song by heart. He occupies it as if it were home. Actually, you think his rendition might be truer than the original performer's, although you still can't recall who that was. Although it might just be your second drink taking effect, you've almost begun to suspect that there is no original, that the enigma on the stage in this unremarkable bar, is, somehow, performing an entirely new song for the very first time. As the tempo slows and he begins to gently croon the next track, you become sure. By some weird turn of Lynchian magic, this man on the stage has reshaped the room to his will, coaxing his own private music out of the karaoke machine.

This is the kind of scenario one imagines when listening to Better Person's smoke machine pop. His (Adam Byczkowski) enigmatic stage presence is matched by his elusiveness as a recording artist output: while he's already toured with the wonderful Canadians TOPS and Timber Timbre, and as keyboard/guitarist with Sean Nicholas Savage, at six tracks It's Only You is his longest release, encompassing the critically acclaimed singles “Sentiment” and “I Wake Up Tired.”

While the EP's sonic touchstones – torch songs, Sade, Arthur Russell, synthed-up European and Japanese pop from the 80s, French and Italian movie soundtracks – are all unimpeachably romantic, there's a more Romantic undercurrent of isolation that begins from the way It's Only You was made – all recorded on a computer at home, on Berlin's Pannierstrasse (the same street where Magic Island's Wasted Dawn was recorded last year.) The title itself casually, elegantly captures the paradoxical phase shift which occurs when the movement toward closeness becomes a plunge into solitude. It's Only You is the sound of turning down the mood lighting so low you're no longer sure if anyone else is there.

The transmutation of being-alone-with into being-alone ignites a fixation on memory, and most especially on its entanglement with place. On repeated listens, It's Only You slowly reveals itself as a work of (self-imposed) exile behind a facade of seduction. In the aftermath of intimacy, one is left with only sensual remnants - smell leads to memory (“I found a smell that takes me home,” Byczkowski sings in opener “Somebody Cares”) and memories, of home and of people, lead to the question of place and belonging. In “Somebody Cares,” “I found a smell that takes me home” leads into “I try to notice all the things around” - reminiscence of there demands attention to here – but he concludes “God only knows where I'm gonna live.” “I Wake Up Tired” features the plaintive request “Show me a place / where I feel home;” while the refrain in “Everything Cold” asks the question on the mind of every expatriate in Berlin: “Why is everything closed on Sunday night?” In the still astonishing “Sentiment,” the singer is left unsure of his identity, with only sentiment remaining, precisely because he will “never be from here.” The real revelation of It's Only You may however be the closing track “Your Smell” which, atop a tragicomically funky shuffle, wraps in a cocoon of beautiful confusion all of Byczkowski's themes: lost love, lost locales, and finding oneself again, fleetingly, provisionally, in their pursuit.

Better Person - Somebody Cares

omniboi x buji - Penthouse Suite

KenLee & Arter Adams - matter
Prod by. Lsow

mixture of 'Leafly' 'Have to be' & 'Trackout'
Lauren Hill Sample - Ex Factor 
Original track 'Have to be' (Prod. Lsow)

Copyright © 2016 Lsow. All Rights Reserved


Matter

matter

Ships 06
1take
Produced by Lsow.
2016

Copyright © 2016 Lsow. All Rights Reserved

Spotify

ships 6

Ships

Produced by Lsow.
2016
Half Baked
Copyright © 2016 Lsow. All Rights Reserved

ships 1

NASA

Ships 7 Bonus Track
All Music Produced by Lsow.

Copyright © 2016 Lsow. All Rights Reserved


ships 7 (bonus track)

Downloads available here - https://cabumusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-beat-tape-3

This is the 3rd and final Beat tape in "The Beat Tape" series, and features alot more soul samples for the feels and more spice with the help of William Crooks on Party Life and Crush on You. 

Thanks to https://soundcloud.com/williamcrooks for getting on some of the tracks and making fire wit those.

YES you can use tracks from this beat tape for your YouTube video.





if you want a free download and can't afford the tape, i got you so message me on my facebook page and lets talk. 


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omniboi X Celadon City - Embrace

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Bad And Boujee - Migos (omniboi Rmx)

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Guitar, Vocals - Lila Ramani 
Bass - Jesse Brotter 
Synth/Keys, Percussion - Brian Aronow 
Drums - Jonathan Gilad

Lyrics by Lila Ramani 
Recorded and Mixed by John Scott at Phoenix Down Recording 
in Somerville, MA 
Mastered by Adam P. Cissell at Guv Studios 
in Roslindale, MA 

Album Artwork by Isaac Baird, Lilly Donlon, and Jesse Brotter 
Layout by Jesse Brotter

Locket

Thirty-Nine

Tokyo Drift (omniboi rmx)

unreleased b-side song from "The Drum Chord Theory"

lyrics :

im in love with 2 women, dunno what ima do wit em/
im not cold, my heart is crowded. bear with me/
i cry alot at night, ill deal with me/
the spirits with me/
pray for me please/
sometimes i feel like i wanna get down on my knees/
and take this life shit into my own hand, but im a grown man/
gotta deal with the emotions that are at hand/
i really love my friends man/
them niggas keep me outta so much shit, damn/
sometimes i feel like i dont even deserve them/
and i could always be a better man/
so i drop a bunch acid just to find the answers/
but it always comes up that life might be pointless/
are there others our there? or is it just us?/
life get crazy sometimes boy let me tell ya/
so many people lose they soul for fear of failure/
what they dont tell ya, is they dont have the answers/
you have em all in you, theres no need to switch your stance up/
now that i have everything i wanted in life/
you'd think things would be clearer/
you'd think right?

what do i do?/
i got love for both of you/
but theres no room for 2/
what am i spose to do?/
you're my base/
i dont wanna see you face/
covered in tears/ 
you been there through all those years.

28 (prod. Kaytranada &  Badbadnotgood) - *unreleased B-side from ''Drum Chord Theory"

1 Slash Million.
http://www.meltingofage.com/2018/01/single-drop-ehiorobo-x-omniboi.html

[Lyrics]
Do we, do we 
Have to leave this
Have to leave this now

Have to leave this
Have to now
You're my one and

Only lover 
It's somethin boutcha 
Don'tcha know
Won'tchu give me something I could
Hold on to remind of the time
We spent together

You're my one slash million
My apple fritter
With jam on the side 
My one slash million
How'd we beat this haystack
Haystack, haystack, hey
(Babe)

What are we 
Finna do
Used to hang
After school
Via phone
Taking long
After showers
In the driveway
Hittin' lines
Usin data
All your friends think I'm made up
Until they meet me after all

That's my
Only lover 
It's somethin boutcha 
Don'tcha know
Won'tchu give me something I could
Hold on to remind of the time
We spent together

You're my one slash million
My apple fritter
With jam on the side 
My one slash million
How'd we beat this haystack
That's my one out of one

(Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, zero)

(x2)
If months went by and steam went missin' I'd
Swim upstream to find my mrs
I think, I hope you'd do the same for me

My one slash million
.

Lyrics written and performed by @Ehiorobo
Song written and produced by omniboi 
Art by Jean Liang [ http://www.jeanliang.com/index.html ]