Partial recording of my debut set in Switzerland at a club called Vivid. Uploading ahead of this weekend's stop on my 25 Years of Flight run - I'm back in Basel for the first time in a while, and appearing at the same venue I played in 2001, only it's now known as Sommercasino. Coming full circle :)
Shout to Nic Plesel for the audio and early Swiss adventures!

VIVID_DJ FLIGHT_2001_SommerCasino Basel - Switzerland

DJ Flight @ VIVID, Basel, Switzerland 2001

Song off my new album, "The Dream We All Once Knew" out now everywhere!

The Dream We All Once Knew

Eucatastrophe

You said, “I’m done chasing you off a cliff
If all we are are thieves and hypocrites
Tell me, what’s the use
In shouting at stars you’ll never get to?”

I tried to pull it from my fingerprints
Scratching at air on the way down to stop it happening
An avalanche, too soon
Buried in the history that raised you

The ghosts of the Pearl River dance on the water at night
Maybe I’ll join them when I finally lose my mind
Been dreaming of the riverbed again
But I promise to unwrap you from my ankles
Before I jump in

One day the clocks will fly straight off the walls
And they’ll count me out, I see it all
Then the film reel behind my eyes
Catches on fire

The ghosts of the Pearl River dance on the water at night
Maybe I’ll join them when I finally lose my mind
Been dreaming of the riverbed again
But I promise to unwrap you from my ankles
Before I jump in

In the dark tide, in the fine lines I lost
The end could never justify the cost
Treating life like a liminal space
Just a corridor here where I wait

The ghosts of the Pearl River dance on the water at night
Maybe I’ll join them when I finally lose my mind
Been dreaming of the riverbed again
But I promise to unwrap you from my ankles
Before I jump in

Riverbed

You’ve been coming apart at the seams a little bit lately
Walking around like you’re in a dream and everything’s hazy
Like you can’t decode the message
Coming in from all directions

You’ve been talking loud in your sleep, waking yourself up
Seems like the same old enemies that you’ve already run from
Catching up and catching fire
Setting sun on your empire

You’ve been there before
Dashed on the shore and I know you’re tired
Always ready but you don’t even know what you’re waiting for
You can put down your sword and your shield ‘cause the battle is over
Might not feel like it now, but you’ve already won this war

You know it doesn’t always have to be like this
Looking ‘round every corner for the next catastrophe coming
Can’t you just imagine peace?
Finally, a chance to just breathe

You’ve been there before
Dashed on the shore and I know you’re tired
Always ready but you don’t even know what you’re waiting for
You can put down your sword and your shield ‘cause the battle is over
Might not feel like it now, but you’ve already won this war

Like a wounded hound
Drags itself to covered ground
You want to go it alone
Everything you love
Is killing you slowly
But what a way to go

You’ve been there before
Dashed on the shore and I know you’re tired
Always ready but you don’t even know what you’re waiting for
You can put down your sword and your shield ‘cause the battle is over
Might not feel like it now, but you’ve already won this war

Won This War

lyrics:

i think i’m fallin apart

 i can’t keep holding on

my mask is already off

i can’t get caught

losing all my composure

i know it’s already over

i really thought i had it all under control

it shouldve been clear yet im back into the unknown

am i just a lost cause

is it all my fault

i gotta go

before i cause a scene

with my irrational fears

i’d hate to show

any sign that i’m weak

to the way that i feel

though ive rehearsed through this act a million times

i still keep forgetting all of my lines

im trying my best to pretend its fine

but its written on my face

im losing track

of where my head is at

and what would count as a fact

its way too easy

to shake up all my beliefs

and what i thought i could be

i dont think i could get any lower  

than having a crisis to bossa nova

i'd kill for a single day of boredom

im so fucking sick of this

it’s way too cruel

for me to go through all that

to end where i started at

i’m such a fool

to put myself through that pain

thinking that i could change

tower (xvi)

lyrics:

put me on stage and give me a mic

is it so wrong to think its my right

im so tired of putting up a fight

is this not what I should do with my life

it's everywhere and I can't escape

work's not enough, I'm tired of faking

like it's just a hobby and not an addiction

I need to perform, cant fix that with any prescription 

the music always continues playing on

whether or not I sing along

i wanna leave but it's where I belong

i know for me there's no moving on

its so annoying being an artist

im so sick of trying my hardest

to write just enough to keep up with my heart

it's never enough cant stop now I'm just getting started

the music always continues playing on

whether or not I sing along

i wanna leave but it's where I belong

i know for me there's no moving on

oh whoa

on a road to nowhere

oh whoa 

take a breath im running out of air

hate it here!

I read this comic when I was 15 and I've never stopped thinking about mantis shrimp since: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/mantis_shrimp
I was inspired by the concept of them being able to process so many more colors than humans can, and it had me thinking about how I feel so much more and my emotions have gotten far more complex and nuanced over the past few years, to the point that it can get super overwhelming

lyrics:

where am I what's this state of mind
someone's turned the saturation too high
nothing's real so anything's allowed
it's all too much I gotta get myself out

youre little league, I'm somehow mlb
my problems are knots you've got double bunny ears
my struggles are things you know nothing about
its all too much I gotta get myself out

what I'd give to lose the part of my brain
that needed so badly to be self aware
it's all too bright, too loud, too complicated
its so much fun, it's my favorite nightmare

i know too much and I'm terrified
I can only decipher it when im high
my cup is empty cause I'm too busy
drowning strangers in my misery

it's getting harder to let anybody in
can't even commit to a rhyme scheme
it's not a problem it's the happiest I've been
the saddest the angriest the worst the most

the pills aren't working cause I'm still feeling every emotion on that stupid fucking wheel
is this why artists are so messed up
is this my entrance to the 27 club



mantis shrimp

Here is the recording of my most recent DNB60 mix for Radio 1's D&B show with Charlie Tee, which originally aired late November 2024. In here is a mix of smooth and soulful, deep, dark, and weighty flavours, a little bit of this and a little bit of that in my usual style. At the time most, if not all, of the music was unreleased but a bunch have come out since then so including the tracklist with time stamps below for anyone wanting to support the artists played >>

HLZ - Untitled [Unreleased] _00:00
NFM - Pickle Factory [V Recordings] _03:25
Voltage, Strategy & Specialist Moss - Tell Dem [DNB Allstars] _05:40
Kublai - Certified [The North Quarter] _07:33
Quartz - W.Y.N [play:musik] _09:43
Blade - Can’t Stop [Unreleased] _11:51
Singr - Polo [Soul in Motion] _14:08
Nectax - Soundboy Gambit [Unreleased] _16:37
Mantra - Benda Brendas [Unreleased] _19:18
ASC - S100 [Samurai Music] _22:00
AMIT - Woh Din [31 Records] _24:17
Sweetpea - Rapture (Outrage Remix) [Unreleased] _26:32
Pugilist & Tamen - Conquer [Samurai Music] _28:48
Krust - One Stop Mr Driver (Tim Reaper) [V x Future Retro London] _30:40
DJ Crystl - Warpdrive (Benny L Remix) [Crystl Self Release] _32:00
Galvatron - Get Up [Over/Shadow] _34:27
Nectax - Always You [Unreleased] _36:33
Kuttin Edge - Untitled [play:musik] _39:02
Anushka - Overwhelmed (DJ Die Remix) [Unreleased] _41:41
Xeonz - Your Life [The North Quarter] _44:19
Kuttin Edge - Untitled [play:musik] _47:54
Quartz - Trauma Response [play:musik] _50:43
ShyFX & Maverick Sabre - Risk It All [Digital Soundboy] _53:40
Rush2theUnknown - Rediscovered (Salute to the Shogun) [Unreleased] _56:21

[Recorded 21st November 2024]

*edit: the Quartz tracks are out soon - pre-order from play:musik bandcamp and get Trauma Response right away https://playmusik.bandcamp.com/music*

BBC Radio 1 Drum & Bass Show - Flight DNB60 [11.24]

the legendary dj flight brings 2 hours of d&b and jungle bangers to the foundation airwaves.

dj flight - 07.03.2025 - foundation.fm

DJ Hype - 13 June 2025

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Scott, aka organic io, has been composing and producing electronic music since 1997. He's been active in open source music communities on the internet for a long time.

06-25-2025_10_Melvin_and_Scott_07

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