ECLECTIC PICKS - 2025

Any artist is welcome to send us a track via freshonthenet.co.uk anytime between Monday lunchtime and Wednesday evening (or when we receive 200 submissions, whichever is sooner) - and all our moderators, including Tom Robinson, will listen to every track. This is our full inbox from the week beginning Mon 12th May 2025 from Friday afternoon you'll be able to hear our shortlist and pick your favourites on this week's Listening Post which will appear at freshonthenet.co.uk/batch569

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We also don’t accept short previews or SoundCloud Go tracks that can only be heard as 30 second previews, and tracks made private after submission, which cannot be included in playlists. You will be able to resubmit the track in future. Tracks (and remixes of tracks) that have been previously submitted, and tracks from banned artists will also be removed.

Entire Inbox: Batch 569

Will Farr's Eclectic Picks Batch 569

A.S.N is a journey of a night out, from a woman's inner monologue of how the night is going from pre's to being at the club making the most of their night with their closest friends.

Another Saturday Night

The wacky adventures of Inspector Looso - New Fetchflix TV Show

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Leïla Pignon, the dazzling daughter of François Pignon and Marlène Sasseur, is a star auditor at the Ministry of Revenue, just unlike her old man, François. Now, here's where it gets juicy. Inspector Luc Looso bumped into the enchanting Leïla in a stable near the quaint village of Brouage, France. Luc, always the sneaky fox, was pretending to investigate the "mysterious disappearance" of a horse that, surprise surprise, had never actually vanished. Meanwhile, Leïla was there to dig into the finances of the stable's owner.

In a move straight out of a rom-com, Luc invited Leïla to gallop with the most stunning stallion in the stable. His plan? To seduce her and, more importantly, create one heck of a diversion. As they trotted through the countryside, Cupid went full throttle. Sparks flew, hearts raced, and it was love at first sight.

But plot twist! Looso was one of the very owners of the stable and had conveniently "forgotten" to declare his horse rental income to the Ministry of Revenue. Uh-oh. Here's hoping he can pull a rabbit out of his hat to wiggle out of this one!

“This story is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.”

Music: Syrel
Photography: Syrel, France 2018
 
Musical Notes: This music illustrates the moment when Luc and Leïla ride stallions together and lovingly in the Brouage countryside in France. It is inspired by the music of Emmanuel Chabrier and David Arnold in Casino Royale James Bond movies.

The wacky adventures of Inspector Looso

Luc and Leïla Love Theme

Fireball

Nina Simone meets The Black Keys in a jam with Portishead?
...maybe you can do a better job defining our sound 💕

Resolution

it's a twisty love song ❤️

"HE" features heavily my little Casio pt-82 and its hypnotic samba beats. Written, recorded and produced between London & Glasgow, this is the first of three tracks I'll be releasing this year.

Thanks for listening & hope you enjoy,

Rochelle x

Lyrics:

He is like hair
Soft, smooth & everywhere 
He is a tree
Rooted, tall & climbable on 

He holds me 
In a trance, while I dance
He eclipses all I see
He builds a bridge
Then runs from me ...

He wrote down my favourite quote
On a little yellow posit note
And placed it underneath my pillow
… low, low, low, low, low, low …

He wrote down my favourite quote
On a little yellow posit note
And placed it underneath me 

He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

He’s like sweetpea potpourri 
Living in my mind with a master key
Beating on my heart like a timpani
Yipee! Yipee!

He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

Oh, 
He’s beating on my heart like a 
Timp, timp, timp, timp, timp, ti
Timpani

WISH I NEVER STAYED

"Wha-Gwaan" - designed to be a wake up call response to the seemingly increasing presence of social injustice in the world today.  The hypnotic dub-funk groove is brought to the boiing point by the legendary Frank Benbini ,(Fun Loving Criminals/UB40/Uncle Frank), who makes a guest appearance on drums & hype vocals.

WHA-GWAAN! by Tomás Doncker, featuring Frank Benbini

Holding it down in Mexico

DONT MAKE THIS WEIRD

late night technicolour

See - Saw

Deny

Pointy Anointy

Cold Town Shimmy

Ricky Clark - I Found The Devil

Popfuture is the work of Edmund Ward, an electronic musician based in North London. He has been writing music since the mid-nineties and saw some success back in the day with a band called Eggboy in which he collaborated with his brother John Jo Ward. Edmund originally comes from Malvern in Worcestershire and draws inspiration from his fairly unusual upbringing, living in the middle of nowhere, in a terrifying Victorian house and the youngest of a family of 11 children (all by the same Catholic parents). As luck would have it, Ed's taste in music is also catholic (small c). Drawing on transcendent melodies from Thomas Tallis to Brian Eno, the fine quantised beats of Kraftwerk, the complexity and humour of Aphex Twin, the sneer of Lou Reed, the mystique of Pink Floyd (prior to Gilmour's appalling last three albums) and the hugeness of Justice (French duo). Ed is pretty much switched on by any genre of well crafted music, art, comedy or film.