Some of my Soundcloud Favourites #129

Daily Drops #3

My favourites from @pantomime-riot

Updated Jan 2025

@lietunes [Playlist Guide] https://on.soundcloud.com/Hzh6p

PANTOMIME RIOT 🔥❤️🔥 Selections

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Jump on in and read the latest story
High definition keeps it nice and gory
Kim Jong Un is cool he wears Armani
And uses kittens when he trains his army
Global warming has us all scared shitless
I think they fixed it with the carbon process
Out in China every one is equal
think I seen it in a Star Wars sequel

Mind poppin with the deep deception
Can’t see through that thought correction
A Sweet mix of truth and lie
Eat it up like an apple pie
Scrolling through the constant drip feed
Well informed it’s all that you’ll need
Was it on the X Factor or in the Ukraine
Perhaps the Russian guy is really Bruce Wayne

MP’s breaking the official secrets
Call James Bond I don’t think he’ll be impressed
Naughty Boris in hasta la vista
Opens up on the west end next Easter
Think they're striking at the fire station
There's a new plan gonna beat inflation
Demonstrators chain themselves to fences
Superman said there’ll be consequences

Mind poppin with the deep deception
Can’t see through the thought correction
A Sweet mix of truth and lie
Eat it up like an apple pie
Scrolling through the constant drip feed
Well informed it’s all that you’ll need
Was it on the X Factor or in the Ukraine
Perhaps the Russian guy is really Bruce Wayne

The final act is on we’re all invited
get a front-row seat and be delighted
Get some fizzy drinks and sugar donuts
Log on later and watch all the out-cuts
It’s gonna be one best top-ten hits
Add in HD and save it to favorites
Just one thing that you maybe wanna know
This grim reality is not a TV show

Mind poppin with the deep deception
Can’t see through the thought correction
A Sweet mix of truth and lie
Eat it up like an apple pie
Scrolling through the constant drip feed
Well  informed it’s all that you’ll need
Was it on the X Factor or in the Ukraine
Perhaps the Russian guy is really Bruce Wayne

DRIP FEED

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Eyes wide open room pitch black
You certified insomniac
Bow your head and dull your gleam
Pop more amitriptyline
Hands above the cracked ashtray
Can’t distinguish night from day
Childhood picture ripped in two
Your Sanity is black and blue

Mindfield
Exits concealed
Thoughts are unpeeled
Glitches revealed

Scribble thoughts into your phone
Skin ideas down to the bone
Twisted darkness never-ending
Down that spiraled path descending
Into sorrows cold embrace
Your heart and soul cannot be traced
Check the window streets pulsating
Confidence disintegrating

Mindfield
Exit concealed
Thoughts are unpeeled
Glitches revealed

Troll the curtains crouching low
God forbid the door might go
Flick through Insta one last time
Your alter ego so sublime
Flout and pout and misbehave
Your dinners in the microwave
Wipe the mirror move your hair
Is there anybody there?

Mindfield
Exit concealed
Thoughts are unpeeled
Glitches revealed

MINDFIELD ft. NotyoBabby

Composed by Charles Chambaz
All instruments, effects are performed, recorded, and mixed by myself.
For more information, see my public Profile
All rights reserved.

When The Night Falls Apart - Charles Chambaz

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Control systemic
Social pandemic
Connections are mailing
Your senses all failing
Input serrated
And automated
Plastic transistors
Pretend resistors
The what the why
Ingest the lie
Uncertain new borders
Hide civil disorders
The disinformation
Two digit inflation
Newsreels keep looping
Night drones still snooping

And then you feel your keeper
Starting to push you deeper
Thoughts and beliefs all spinning
The honest side is winning
Foretold events enacted
 edge of truth abstracted
The game now clearly seen
A slave who thinks their free

A Landscape of concrete
Community obsolete
The nightly incursions
And media diversions
Supply lines are tested
Development arrested
Segregation
Unified nation
The needle digs in
Absolving all sin
Continue the story
Of power and glory
The Facts and the fictions
Corrupted depictions
All Bridges now blown
Doves have all flown

And then you feel your keeper
Starting to push you deeper
Thoughts and beliefs all spinning
The honest side is winning
Foretold events enacted
The edge of truth abstracted
The game now clearly seen
A slave who thinks their free

Preventing subversion
A covert insertion
The fields all turned barren
A screeching air siren
The patterns are merging
The frontlines all surging
Delay deploy
Search and destroy
False flags now planted
Asylum is granted
The towns all on fire
The profits fly higher
Supply and demand
New chain of command
A picture so clear
No lilies grow here

And then you feel your keeper
Starting to push you deeper
Thoughts and beliefs all spinning
The honest side is winning
Foretold events enacted
The edge of truth abstracted
The game now clearly seen
A slave who thinks their free

THE GRID

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Scrolling on your Z phone and out the adverts pop
Your algorithmic AI friend will lead you as you shop
You ain’t quite got the dollar an it’s almost broke you're heart
Till you spot the handy option where you pay back in three parts

Strap on up for Christmas and watch your pocket bleed
Buy some ugly plastic shit that no one really needs
March into the New Year financially on your knees
If mortgage rates keep going up you're handing back the keys

Kids all need new trainers them Nikes look rather neat
Can’t have them walking out the door with cheap shit on their feet
Time to do the MOT your clutch is feeling lame
The neighbour’s bought that SUV you’ll need to up your game.

Strap on up for Christmas and watch your pocket bleed
Buy some ugly plastic shit that no one really needs
March into the New Year financially on your knees
If mortgage rates keep going up you're handing back the keys

Not to worry don’t feel down you can always grab that loan
Consolidate the other five you're almost halfway home
Is it any wonder the world is in such pain
All chasing around in circles of materialistic gain

Strap on up for Christmas and watch your pocket bleed
Buy some ugly plastic shit that no one really needs
March into the New Year financially on your knees
If mortgage rates keep going up you're handing back the keys

STRAP UP

Thanks to Elena for allowing me to participate again in her cover of this beautiful Elton John's classic . A great pleasure to have tried to bring an accompaniment to support her superb vocal interpretation.  Use headphones for better listening                                                                                                                                      Vocals : https://soundcloud.com/echosonica 
Piano :  https://www.youtube.com/@ThePianoNest/search
Instrumental arrangement and Production : https://soundcloud.com/pascal-basso
Picture : Pixers

Your Song 🕊 (Echosonica . Prod Pb)

The Machine Stops was probably the first science fiction story I ever read. I must have been 10 or 11 and I was sat in an aunt’s front room, rather bored. I picked up a Reader’s Digest compilation and this was the first story. I didn’t move for couple of hours. The story was written by E. M. Forster; it was first published back in 1909 when airships, telegraphy and telephony were state of the art (i.e. before mass radio broadcasting and television).
He described a world where people live a sedentary and solitary life, communicating with others almost entirely through The Machine; which also caters for their needs: food, water and energy is delivered to them. People don’t need to leave their homes, so they rarely do. They live to share ideas and opinions, which are usually rather shallow because they are not rooted in real experiences or deep learning. Does this sound familiar? Anyway, I think you can tell from the title that this comfortable state of affairs does not last…



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The Machine Stops

I usually share quite personal songs with you . In a certain manner that s the case for that one too . But the one's who s talking to you here is an 8 years old Franky boy. Every time someone asked him"what will you do with your life in the future ?" , he just answered : I'll be a magician , of course !
The old guy just lends his voice and plays a few stuffs here and there. 
Of course this is not a "serious" song , but many artists currently post their summer songs , and i've never composed a summer song . So here's my first try !

Magician

Even as a little child, people ask you 
what you want to be when you grow up
but really when you think about it, it's a strange thing 
to ask a child that 
I want to answer the question 
but give me time... 
and one and two and three and ... 

I would like to be a magician 
to make doves appear in my hands 
I would like to be a magician 
to make the tears disappear from my mates' eyes

now that I am grown up 
they still ask me
what I do with my life 
my projects my desires
so I say to myself, here we go 
here it comes again
it's true I don't like it 
but if you want to know 
I've always had this dream since I was a kid 
so give me a chance 

I would like to be a magician 
to make scarves and rabbits appear from a hat
I would like to be a magician 
to make doubts and sorrows disappear from your heart 

I would like to be a magician 
to write in golden letters in the sky 
a hope for tomorrow

Magicien (translated)

One Trick Pony

The View from Our Cosmic Buildings

Panacea

Vendetta

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Walls all dark now slide on past
Spinning dials adjust contrast
Bouncing pictures through the cast
Subscribe for the ever-last
Can we take it up a stage
Feed it through the landing page
Popularity engage
Measured through the traffic gauge

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

Smiling thumbs are collated
New statements automated
Opposition deflated
Arguments all truncated
Spinning through the copper wire
Let those passwords all expire
Open source intensifier
Burning in the cable fire

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

Open development tools
Scanning text let’s follow rules
Firewall the hacking fools
Ring-fencing the data pools
Pumping traffic hits the vein
Reach euphoria again
Inter stimulated brain
Slowly driven quite insane

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

FLAYED

PANTOMIME RIOT