Such a pleasure to hear these wonderful musicians. Thanks Peter.

Wunderbares Stück! Habe ich in Apple Music herunter geladen!

Calm & Steady series

- short tracks of dance music

All tracks were uploaded between 02/2021 and 04/2021, mostly in the last 30 days, with the following older exceptions:
. . - Buma Buma"Dirk took the Dim 7"(#20): 3 years,
. . - P. Heckmann (.| Vocalatti | A. Weiß | J. Stohwasser)"(#10): 12 - 23 months.

The other series (short tracks) so far are:
- "Hard-Fast-or-Nasty" (more intense/abrasive)
- "MiddleLane", and "Superdance" (the middle, or ambivalence)
- "Funky-Dub-Trap" (terminology conundrum)
- "Fantaisies" (for professional dancers only)
- "Minimal"
- "Dark"
- "BreakB-Jungle-DnB"

There is little overlap between them, mostly between: *
. . A) MiddleLane, Superdance
and
. . B) all other series

* Increasingly there is some overlap between "Calm & Steady" and "Funky-Dub-Trap", and between a bunch of others (Dark, Minimal, ...). I'm trying to keep it to the minimum, the overlap, tracks finding themselves in more than one playlist

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Composed of exclusive tracks, edits or remixes, the Espresso series is updated every month on our soundcloud. Free download free love.

Written & Produced by Borismo Metanox (@moriziolemano)
Mix & Mastered by Hector Fassa

Borismo Metanox – Sea Lovers / ESPRESSOO3

Loved Nature

Nopalitos - kid francescoli

Bubbles

Dearest friends,

we are back with the next Freetrack 🤩
As always you can get it for free via dropbox (by cancelling the donation-process) or Bandcamp and you have the opportunity to leave a donation which will be used to finance the welfare projects of Kollektiv.Liebe.
https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=VJVANL2J7JQUJ

Maybe you know that we created a workshop program in Senegal.

This time all earnings will be used to support poor families in Senegal. While our journeys to Dakar we realised that there is a need to help the disadvantaged families - single mothers with small children. For this reason we founded a local NGO name „Mbolo Moy Dolé“ which means „together we are strong“. The local Managers of this Committee are people we know and trust so we can guarantee that
the donations won’t be wasted for administration but will be directly used to buy food. It will be brought to this families every month.
Actually we are supplying 5 families with food every month!

We have to thank Thias Raun for this great work and donating this track for our projects 💖

............

Credits:
Master: Nathan Hall 
Artwork: Hermann Wirt - hwirt.de

Thias Raun:
https://soundcloud.com/thiasraun
https://www.instagram.com/thiasraun/
https://www.facebook.com/thiasraun

Kollektiv.Liebe:
https://kollektiv-liebe.bandcamp.com/music
https://soundcloud.com/kollektiv-liebe
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Thias Raun - Love In Translation | Freetrack

Photo by Stablecog AI

Puts me in mind of when I bought my first reflector telescope.
I actually watched some kind of craft take off and head into the sky
as it slowed to a stop against the star field and faded to deep red...
then vanished.

Don't look too close...
The AI thinks you need to merge your head into the optical tube
to get the best view,
and don't be shocked that our young astronomer
only has 3 legs.

Stargazing

Thank you for sharing your time with me. If I can do one thing for you, keep that one thing to yourself, but manifest it through deep meditation. I will fuel myself using the psychic and spiritual essence you are sending to me, kind of like Cerebro.

Retrograde

Shared Mirror

Written by Peter Schickele, Joan Baez 1972 for the film Silent Running.
Music Production by Thomas Mierkiewicz 🍋 ‬Lemonbrew Studio @user-297959700
Vocals by Kate Stanton 3/30/2025 #coversong #songcover #collaboration 

Rejoice in the Sun (Lemonbrew & Kate Stanton)

Adjusting your view on aging as you enter the twilight years of life.

Greg Hurley: Composition / Arrangement, Lyrics, Vocals, Lead guitar, Guitar, Keys, Bass and Drum programming, mix and mastering / © 2025 Lyrics And Music 

Music video:  https://youtu.be/nKdyXT0ItRc

Lyrics:
Every morning shines, learning to dance with time 

I used to burn like a neon sign, chasing shadows through the night
Now the fuse is short, the spark’s gone dim, but the memories still shine bright
You won’t believe it, I’ll tell you now, once there was a time 
The road was long, but I’m grateful now, for the miles and the winding rhyme

Every morning shines, learning to dance with time

The clock ticks slow, I just let go, I’m learning to let it be
Every move I make, every breath I take, and I’m finally free
You’d hardly recognize me, I’ll confess, there was a day
The climb was steep, but I’m wiser now, for the heights and the price I pay

Every morning shines, learning to dance with time

Dance With Time / Video in description

Whatchu Up To?

Hobo Skip

This song was inspired by a holiday on the coast. It starts in the style of ambient music and slowly turns into a classic piece of electronic music, inspired by the Berlin School

Have a listen to the extended version on Bandcamp:
https://lichtbildgestalter.bandcamp.com/track/vapour-island-extended-version

Video on youtube with spezial version:
https://youtu.be/QikiaW-p6_A
and on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/1087383281/a0aaaa4728

Vapor Island (link to video inside)

Teknosis Shift (2025)

I didn’t write 4 Minute Bake to say anything profound. I wrote it because I wanted to burn through four minutes with nothing but power, drive, and rhythm. This piece is about being loud, fast, and unapologetically physical. It doesn’t build toward some grand emotional payoff—it is the payoff. Right from the first strike.

The heartbeat of the piece is taiko drums—relentless and chest-pounding. I built around that core using air gamelans, a synth pad for a bit of sustained color, and both bowed and struck gongs to stretch and smash the space in between. It’s what I imagine if Mike Portnoy was dropped into a taiko drum circle and told to go full Dream Theater mode—no restraint, just propulsion.

I see it visually as a kind of drum fever dream—a room full of percussionists in reds and browns, all motion, no stillness, everything sweating and shaking with intention. It’s cinematic. It’s experimental. It doesn’t need to explain itself. Just hit play.

This isn’t for everyone—but it’s definitely for:
• Percussion enthusiasts who live for the beat
• Choreographers looking for sound that pushes bodies into action
• Film directors who need something that surges forward like a train with no brakes

Big thanks to the Strepito group for bringing this to life—your energy is all over this recording.

One last thing I try to remember when I write:
Have a focus—and go after it with everything you've got.
This piece is that mindset, turned into sound.

Sketches 2025

4 Minute Bake

4 Minute Bake - Master 20250605

Picture: Welcome to the Enlightenment (Rae)

This feels so refreshing. I never included this final Vocal track in addition to Alchemical Woman and (G)Older, but now it feels Right.  Galadriel is the Softer Swordswoman, but Equally as Strong!

Dave's guitar is now more detailed and Exquisite with a fine acoustic sound towards the end. So Roy Harper I think👌🔥

My Vocals feel more Balanced, Softer in Ethereal, and more suited to Galadriel with special additions. 

Please enjoy Galadriel the Enlightened as she raises her Sword in Truth.

Lyrics and Vocals by SolarRae🎤

Guitar Work and Mix by Dave Bayes🎸
@dave-bayes
@guitar-alchemy

Lyrics:

I am the Truth of Enlightenment
I'm Free Yeah

I am the Truth of Enlightenment
Straight down the Middle
I walked Straight down the Middle
With a Sword and a Word

I went straight down the Middle
Yeah Straight down your Middle
And I'm Free yeah ...

I am the Truth of Enlightenment

Galadriel Truth (The Enlightened)

Short Version - A jazzy collaboration track featuring music by Peter Heckmann (2019), newly arranged with lyrics / vocals by the fabulous Vocalatti (@vocalatti) and special performances by our wonderful friends Axel and Jörg. 

YouTube: 
https://youtu.be/mmjWp5Fw4X4 (Yucca Rose Sketches)
https://youtu.be/ch8BBYL_HGQ (Bali Drone Photography)

The extended atmospheric percussion mix is uploaded here: https://soundcloud.com/vocalatti/sunset-in-seminyak-percussion-version-pheckmannvocalattiaweibjstohwasser-collaboration

Vocals by Vocalatti @vocalatti
Guitar by Axel Weiß @axelweis
Saxophone by Jörg Stohwasser @joerxworx
Keyboards, drums & bass as well as mix and master by Peter Heckmann @peterheckmann

With a heartfelt thank you to all!

Sunset In Seminyak

Bandcamp

Sunset In Seminyak - Single (P. Heckmann | Vocalatti | A. Weiß | J. Stohwasser Collab.)

https://buymeacoffee.com/peterheckmann 

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.

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
 ...

I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
...

This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

...

You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
...

My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
...

I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
...

Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

Sunset In Seminyak - Single (P. Heckmann | Vocalatti | A. Weiß | J. Stohwasser Collab.)

Peter Heckmann

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