very good Musik Form you...nice instumentation 

@sararaion: Hi Sar, these little musical babies from this album need some more loving touches :-)

compelling percussive rhythm ... the sax sets up an epic feeling ... excellent track

Abundant energy and movement with a touch of angst. A great period piece, Peter.

A growing collection of exciting and fascinating electronic compositions by our favorite soloists and bands.

Cover art has been provided by Peter Heckmann - www.behance.net/peterheckmann/

Electroscapes - Multi-Layered Sonic Fantasies

Part of CELESTIAL FLOWS, a new ethnic flavored World Electronica (5-Track) EP by Peter Heckmann & The Raining Heart.

A whimsical and uplifting electronic collaboration with The Raining Heart (the original 80s German Electronica project by Peter Heckmann, Tobias Freund and Alexandra Graf)... a sonic homage to the great Vangelis.

Music by Peter Heckmann & The Raining Heart
Synths (incl. vox synth/sampler), drums, bass by Peter Heckmann & The Raining Heart

Produced, mixed and mastered by Peter Heckmann for Rose Records and Publishing / IPI Music Ltd.

Artwork by Yucca Rose and Peter Heckmann

Celestial Flows

Evangelista

Buy at Bandcamp

Part of CELESTIAL FLOWS, a new ethnic flavored World Electronica (5-Track) EP by Peter Heckmann & The Raining Heart.

Exploring the foggy veil of distant realms - a powerful and fast paced electronic collaboration with The Raining Heart - featuring mystical ethnic flavored throat vocalizations.

Music by Peter Heckmann & The Raining Heart

Synths (incl. vox synth/sampler), drums, bass by Peter Heckmann & The Raining Heart

Produced, arranged, mixed and mastered by Peter Heckmann for Rose Records and Publishing / IPI Music Ltd.

Artwork by Yucca Rose and Peter Heckmann

Supernova

Nat wrote this beautiful song about the complexities of marriage that can lead to unfair assumptions, where one spouse takes advantage of another based on the “wedding ring”. The words attempt to get through to the guilty party in hopes of easing the burden on her friend and revitalizing the marriage.

Nat Daniels: vocals, piano, guitar, bass, percussion
Craig Durgy: guitar & vocals
All music written and performed by Daniels & Durgy
Produced by Nat Daniels of Gentle Rain Records ©2025

Lyrics:
Gun For Hire by Daniels & Durgy

It’s time to set aside 
All the shouting and the drama
To look inside yourself 
And release a little karma
‘Cause I heard the way you talked 
About a man I call my friend
And just because you’re married 
Don’t mean you own him ‘till the end

No, a ring and a contract 
Won’t keep a good man faithful
It‘s in the way you choose to treat him 
When you’re being mean and hateful
When you break down all his friends
And his ideas just cause you can 
Then expect him to love you with a fire, 
On command like he’s a gun... for hire

No a man needs some comfort 
And some words that understands him 
The hardships that he faces 
‘Cause he's the man to whom you're turning
He carries that with gladness 
For his woman and his kids
And he’ll treat you like an equal
If you do the same to him

So try to show some kindness
Without a reason or a motive
Allow him to have his dreams 
So he can come to you for purpose
And listen without judgement
Before sarcasm leaves your mind
As he is, don't change a single thing 
And he’ll be faithful without a wedding ring 

Oh love him with passionate fire
Not just.. like he’s a gun.. for hire

Gun For Hire

Cast of Characters:
Steve's Planet -- @steve-vervaet — Steve -- acoustic guitar, vocals, lyrics, and composition
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara -–Ken–drums
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Stratocaster electric guitar
Mistrermark -- @user-432503709 — Mark — organ 
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)–@josh-clary-1 –- four string fretless Warwick bass and Roland electric piano and organ
TexMex Shaman–@texmex-shaman –Stephen– mix, mastering, and production
  
This song began with Steve, who wrote it on his guitar and sang it, before sharing it with Eclectic Collective about half a year ago, back in the fall. Always grateful to Steve for sharing his amazing music with us, we kept it alive even though it had stalled out on us for whatever reason. 
  We had a decent skeleton from our original go at it, but decided to scrap it, and start fresh. Ken, being the one who actually revived it, added his solid drums first, providing for a groovy foundation. Tez came next, surprisingly, adding his hooky guitar fills throughout. Mark hopped on shortly after, adding the organ you hear coming in around the 2:00 mark. Josh took his turn after that, even though it was only a couple of days between, by adding his fretless bass to complete the rhythm section. He also, in the same recording session, added the electric piano you hear throughout, as well as the organ in the first half. 
  Once it was in the can, we asked Stephen to mix it for us, in his always professional manner. 
  We all love working on Steve's songs, and admire him as a musician, singer, and songwriter. This makes almost a half dozen songs on which the EC has collaborated with Steve, and we're sure to add many more. We hope you enjoy listening to this song as much as we enjoyed creating it.

Original lyrics by Steve's Planet

Please Come Home (Eclectic Collective with Steve's Planet)

A quiet chill jazz fusion atmosphere perhaps NuJazz with minimal percussion but a throbbing beat and electro, including one synth — a marimba sounding arp like a ticking clock — that I use in this  composition and a few new songs such as Hidden Room. Time Machine is the title track from my upcoming Time Machine EP. 
..................
With respect to H.G.Wells, I daresay that the brain, and more expansively, the mind is the best time machine of the cosmos. In fact, it created the idea of a time machine and discovered the physics that can someday engineer a time travel device. Time itself is a construct or an invention of the mind.

Our minds as time machines can instantly travel to the past — retrieving data about history and the physical world, and experiences from memory as if they happened today. Our minds can also zoom out to the future — conjuring a vision of how the world could look as a mental rehearsal, a daydream, a thought experiment, and a creative process for solving problems and making art. Or building time machines. 

We, humans, may be physically limited but our minds are not. And that gives me hope, even in the midst of chaos.
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An original composition, no AI, produced digitally using a MIDI keyboard and DAW.

76 bpm

DAW: Apple Logic Pro X
MIDI: Akai Professional keyboard

E-INSTRUMENTS:
Concert Grand 
Ambient Lead
Cinema Strings
Violas
Lunar Chords
Rain Harp
Robot Talk
Deep Round Synth Bass
Upright Ballad Bass

E-DRUM KITS:
Drum N' Bass Remix
Trance Remix

COVER ART: AI-generated images via the DaVinci app and composition of the final art using Photoshop
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Time Machine

written by jeff gardiner

There's a Wrinkle  in the Moment 
the Muse is missing in the War Zone
Beauty has a different definition
in the loaming of the elder days

My Alcoholic friend came busting through the treeline
stone cold sober, when the quarter moon was rising
and the surf was crashing
crying like a child

Said he saw the future in a puddle in his driveway
after eating mushrooms from Hawaii-

That's when i started laughing
That's when i started crying
trying and deciding to give it all away-
beginning with Cessation
embracing the rejected
replacing the infected with absolutely nothing but Compassion-

Forgiveness out of order
being highly overrated
since the bad behaviors
are in the very natures of the perpetrators

Recalibration,  however is an option
in the aftermath's Duration
and the possiblity of Passion 
still lingers in the fingers on the fretboards
and the singers sing songs they've written
while smitten with emotion of the joyful
and broken hearted lovers and covers
and collections of recollections of Moments--

Wrinkle in the Moment ( from the Half-Life collection on Bandcamp)

Can´t shake the feeling of emptiness and the lack of self worth.  

Just me, myself and I on this track. Hope its ok and thanks for dropping by!

Picture Tom McNemer

SORROW (part 1)

Apotropaic

Bandcamp

Ehecacozcatl

contemporary insanity

This is a collaboration with my friend xian3 https://on.soundcloud.com/QOm69lt9nGrn7W0dEL from SoundCloud. His original track had a rock flavor, but I halved the BPM and reimagined it with a tropical jungle vibe. I also got help from mozawa_*  https://on.soundcloud.com/CsHi8jD7VOjfujT9Dq on the percussion tracks. 
You can check out Xian3’s original version. https://on.soundcloud.com/U65g2z6R8LhU8NJ5N4

’Miss Terious’

Basically we're all the same Gifted with a body and a brain And a heart that beats us through all those ways Through glorious nights and fatal days
Still there's something...mysterious
We have changed the world so much In different ways we lost the touch But we don't want to take the blame There's no reason in this game Basically...
Still there's something...mysterious
Working hard in all different ways Winter, spring, summer and fall All the time again and again To deny who is to blame Basically...
Still there's something...mysterious
Still there' something more above A mysterious thing called love

Lyrics and Music by xian3
Percussion tracks by mozawa_*
Composition,Arrangement and Sampling collage by Synline.

Art by Henri Rousseau ’ Snake Charmer’

’Miss Terious’ Xian3=mozawa_*Synline

'banjovi'

something until the next thing

banjovi

Tenor saxophones wrapped around a moog core with injections of spacey flute and beats. 
(Headphones recommended).

Pic. (possibly CERN) c/o Pinterest.

DOUBLE WIRED

Speedsound REC. proudly presents you the extremely sublime in its musical content project titled "Breathing Blue". This unique EP, very stylish, filled with dark ambience, extraordinary and superb sounds offers two intense and hypnotically gloomy tracks embellished by evocative vocal parts. Shabboo Harper has created excellent work full of dreary vibes, captivatingly rich synths with sophisticated backgrounds. Lyrics, touched by mystery, appear very sensual. Everything perfectly refers to classic genres as Trip Hop, Experimental Electronica or Industrial. These atmospheric landscapes of exciting sound designs will take you on an intriguingly poetic and mystical journey into female consciousness. Enjoy!

The track comes from the EP "Breathing Blue"
Music & Lyrics by: Shabboo Harper 
Vocals by: Shabboo Harper
Mixed & Mastered by: Shabboo Harper

https://www.beatport.com/release/breathing-blue/2525419
https://www.junodownload.com/products/shabboo-harper-breathing-blue/4061361-02/
https://www.deezer.com/pl/album/88445822
https://www.traxsource.com/title/1109232/breathing-blue

Label: Speedsound REC.

www.beatport.com/search/releases?q=shabboo+harper
www.junodownload.com/artists/Shabboo+Harper/
www.traxsource.com/artist/275339/shabboo-harper
https://itunes.apple.com/ca/artist/shabboo-harper/id1056537923#see-all/top-songs

Breathing Blue

Shabboo Harper - Breathing Blue (Snippet) [Speedsound REC.]

A collection of previously unreleased demo tracks - restored and remastered from analog source materials (Cassetts, 1/4" Tape) by Peter Heckmann.

All tracks were originally developed and recorded in 1986 at FAR Studios, Rosbach and then further enhanced in 1987 at Westlake Studios in Los Angeles, CA.

All music written by Peter Heckmann and Tobias Freund in 1986.

Synth programming, sound design and keyboard performances by Peter Heckmann - Saxophone Solo on "Escapades" by P. Christlieb - All tracks produced by Peter Heckmann.

Minimalistic Approaches

Escapades

ESCAPADES

Dance versions of selected tracks from the limited release album "Someday" by Puspa Dewi (2008).

Produced by Kevin Bird & Peter Heckmann
Written by Kevin Bird
Mixed and mastered by Peter Heckmann

Original artwork sketch by Yucca Rose (@yuccarose) from the Indonesian Impressions series.

Someday

Gelisah

Gelisah (Classic Techno - 2008)

Short but sweet :) 
Enjoy!

Photo by Ileana Skakun on Unsplash

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BIO: Independent Music / Film / Theater Producer, Musician, Mixing / Mastering Engineer and Multimedia Production Specialist with over forty years of experience in the entertainment and multimedia design industries. 

I worked with a broad spectrum of clients in both the entertainment industry and corporate sectors. 

My expertise has been achieved through nearly five decades of professional involvement in documentary video, feature film and music production, audio recording and engineering, stage design and theatrical production, multimedia and graphic design, investigative journalism and project management.

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