Scratch Kelly track'S

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dark electronic music 🖤 week 38 : 2025

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This playlist is a tribute to all the amazing musicians and friends who support me on my journey. Here you’ll find their tracks – each one representing creativity, passion, and community. Music connects, inspires, and builds bridges – and that’s exactly what this collection is about.

Circle of Sound

Tea R. Sea's Picks

Featured on Retro Future SynthWave:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGX0vSZ_lbA

BANDCAMP

ASTRAL PROJECTION

A dark experimental electronic soundtrack 🤍

All For You

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Everything In Love

Once We Were Divine

||| We're Square |||
From the album White Noise 
+ Releases 15 October 2025 on all major streaming platforms +
A downtempo, ambient soundtrack, exploring the subtle nature of things...
Sometimes we take things and people for granted.
Sometimes we scatter our energy too far
And fail to appreciate that which is closest to us..
Things get dirty / broken / cracked from lack of care
And before you know it, that prize you once valued has become something ugly.
Sometimes neglect hurts more than a person will show...
They will just turn their back,
Walk away
And disappear quietly from your life.
No drama,
No words,
Just silence. 

Like a piece of slow decay
Slow
Decay

You can't lose what you don't have
You can't lose what you don't have anyway

Slow
Decay

Available for download here 💿
https://scratchkelly.bandcamp.com/track/were-square

Watch the video here
https://youtu.be/elwfGBrT0_U

White Noise

We're Square

An exploration into a dark forest in the psyche, where the shadows grow tall... 
This darkwave track is inspired by a form of ego death that occurs through enduring prolonged solitude. This isolation may be chosen or thrown upon a person.. either way, there comes a moment of clarity that shines through the silence... and once this clarity is known, there is no turning back.

Lyrics:
I bow before you (x2)
Unworthy and broken
By life and living
Tired of giving
Tired of trying
Bent and crying
Dying
Slowly dying (x2)

But now I'm flying
Flying home to you
It's true
My love
🤍

Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/-5exkny70z0

Superstition Wilderness

It is with full respect to remix this all time favorite, and mildly unknown, song of Depeche Mode from their Music for the Masses album.  Enjoy the download 🙏🎶

At first I was curious to develop a Future Garage or upbeat modernized version. But then it quickly became a passion to preserve the simplicity that the original artists intended while highlighting Martin Gore's incredible voice.  Featured here is a complete rework aside from Martin's vocals.

See how I did it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3nyjzqHz0Q
photo courtesy of: https://www.pexels.com/@katie-johnstone-48863729/

The Things You Said

Depeche Mode - The Things You Said (Utopia Fade Remix)

Hello everyone,

Many of you probably know this feeling. You start making music and completely lose track of time. The hours fly by, and suddenly it's late in the evening or even nighttime. I wanted to capture this theme in a lighthearted and humorous way.

I'm really happy that I was able to produce this song together with Mike Fox. Mike liked my idea for the arrangement and lyrics right away, and he was immediately on board. How much we appreciate each other can definitely be heard in the lyrics.

For this song, we were also able to bring in two guest singers—but just listen for yourselves! What they sing is probably something everyone in a relationship has heard at some point – or am I wrong?

Mike and I certainly hear it very, very often! 😆

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"We Should Be Asleep By Now"

Axel walks in, right on time,
Says “let’s rehearse” – I pour some wine.
He’s got a plan, I improvise,
But rock ain't played by suits and ties!

Mike plugs in, makes feedback scream,
Calls it “tone,” I call it a meme.
He swears his solos shake the land,
But his hands shake more—he can’t withstand!

We should be asleep by now,
But here we are, we rock somehow!
One more song, then one more beer,
Proud and loud we still are here!

You press one key, a full band plays,
No fight, no sweat—just modern ways!
I bend my strings, I break my bones,
You sip green tea and check your phone!

Oh please, Rockstar, not so loud,
Last night you snored and shook the crowd!
You call my sound too clean, too bright,
But at least my back don’t ache at night!

We should be asleep by now,
But here we are, we rock somehow!
One more song, then one more beer,
Proud and loud we still are here!

My riffs still shake my hometowns sky!

My chords still make the neighbors cry!

Six strings, raw soul, full of might!

But my keys sound’s programmed right! (Here we go)

We should be asleep by now...

Come on, Mike, let's listen to the backing singers.

You should be asleep by now!

Oh Axel, put on your glasses, these are our wives.

You should be asleep by now! 
You should be asleep by now!

Alright, Axel, your keys ain’t bad…

And Mike, your solos (still) drive ‘em mad!

We battle, we clash, we push the fight,
But side by side, we light the night! 

We should be asleep by now,
But here we are, we rock somehow!
One more song, then one more beer,
Proud and loud we still are here!

__________________________________

Credits:
Guitars / Vocals: Mike Fox
Keys / Vocals: Axel Menningen
Background-Choir: „The wives“

We should be asleep by now

We Should Be Asleep By Now

Water Leaking From Their Eyes

Shadow Dancer

Digital Age

82_ Lovely Punch - released on 12 August 2025

I was trapped in dreariness. And that in the middle of summer! So, get out of there! With a really punchy beat and beautiful guitar sounds ;-)#electronic #techno #trance #liverecording

(produced with BlocsWave & LaunchPad)

Lovely Punch

Unendlicher Raum

а ти сама

© KIM.EXE滅 // A PRODUCT OF GRIEF
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TRACK : GONE
RELEASE DATE : 9/12/2025
⛛

GONE

KNOWNPLEASURES is back with another catchy, beautiful, dark serenade. A song about love and passion coming straight from the heart. We are stoked to collaborate with KNOWNPLEASURES for the third premiere with us. You can purchase the track on the bandcamp buy link. 

Follow the artist:
KNOWNPLEASURES:
@knownpleasures
knownpleasures.bandcamp.com/
www.instagram.com/hashburrito/

buy on bandcamp: https://knownpleasures.bandcamp.com/track/soulsearching

Lyrics:
why's it always me? 
it's always the same thing 
dont take it away from me
 this is everything ive ever wanted 
im searching and nobodys here 
soul searching i wanna disappear
you gotta be the one 
i swear youre the only one

SOULSEARCHING

In the dusty attic of his grandfather’s old house, Dan, who suffers from insomnia, finds a yellowed parchment in the middle of the night. Part of the old eccentric’s legacy? Long ago, he had roamed dark forests, crossed deserts, and explored inaccessible mountains.

The parchment shows, though only faintly, a location in El Caramar — the legendary place his grandfather had told so many stories about. Without delay, Dan sets out in search of further clues. The route leads across the storm-lashed Horka Sea, inhabited by dark creatures. Upstream, through narrow gorges, he must face the natives who guarded the entrance to El Caramar and the secret it conceals.

Watch the video: https://youtu.be/Q4sya2M4UdQ

This purely orchestral music draws on the clichés of film scores from the 1980s to the 2000s. Instead of a clearly recognizable theme or leitmotif, I tried to express rapidly shifting moods through specific instrumentation.

A gentle melody with harp arpeggios immediately transitions into a menacing rhythmic section with chromatic harmony, followed by a tension-filled passage with a strong element of aleatoric writing. The now accelerating tempo leads to the main motif but shifts directly into an action-packed part with string staccatos.

The motif is then varied and played at half speed by solo strings, taking on a very sorrowful tone. But then the mood turns serious. Low brass and a string ostinato lead to the climax of the piece, another variation of the theme in which the choir joins in at full volume.

Call of Adventure

TOOK THE RISK

cold blaze

"What Remains Unspoken" is a melancholic, cinematic piece inspired by Thomas Newman and James Newton Howard. 

The piece will be available on all major streaming services from September 19.

https://open.spotify.com/intl-de/track/1sVtFKWKwYSsa7nb9ZgpPt

Instrument libraries:
Piano: Pianoteq 8 Hamburg Steinway
Solo Cor Anglais: Berlin Woodwinds
Strings: Spitfire BBCSO Core, Cinematic Studio Solo Strings
Woodwinds: Spitfire BBCSO Core
Brass: Spitfire BBCSO Core, Spitfire Symphony Orchestra (Solo Trumpet)

What Remains Unspoken

Pagers

||| Eternity |||
A darkwave / EBM track exploring the benefits of shadow work, being the process of exploring and integrating the unconscious parts of personality that may be repressed or rejected, often referred to as the "shadow self." This practice aims to increase self-awareness, heal emotional wounds, and promote personal growth by acknowledging and accepting all aspects of oneself, including those that are uncomfortable or hidden.

Open your mind to savage beats, pulsing synth bass and echoes in the abyss, while minimalistic spoken vocals guide you through the shadows.

Watch the video:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAGcFIKXQWU&feature=youtu.be
lyrics
Fast falls the eventide
The darkness deepens...
There is no life
No life
Without its hunger
But then you come
And I am filled with wonder
Sometimes
I think
I glimpse eternity...
The darkness deepens
I glimpse eternity
In the silence
Until you come
I glimpse eternity
Until you come
In the silence
Until you come

Echo

Eternity

||| Once We Were Divine |||

An ode to remembering the forgotten truths of what it means to be human...
The power of feeling
The moment... 
The raw and real beating of blood and biology

The reclamation of time
Life
Connection
Empathy
Love 
Community

The power of forgetting the lies and behavioural conditioning
Turning away from fear

Embracing the self
The divine
Our birthright

Watch the video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqqSEWOVCdI

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Get @nikisadeki's track on @frequenza-records here: 
➟ Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/de/release/elsewhere/5313231

Niki Sadeki returns with her Elsewhere EP, a two-track release crafted for the dancefloor yet imbued with a deeply personal touch.  “Lost in a Limbo” finds her exploring contrasts, weaving dreamy, flowing melodies with sharper, stab-like synth lines. Written during a period of experimentation, the track captures the delicate balance between softness and intensity, emotion and energy.  “Upside Down” reveals the opposite creative process—arriving almost fully formed, written quickly and without hesitation. The result is a track that retains a raw, spontaneous energy, channeling an idea as it moves straight from inspiration to the floor.  With Elsewhere, Sadeki once again showcases her instinct for tension, release, and mood.  

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Niki Sadeki - Lost in a Limbo [Frequenza]

https://open.spotify.com/intl-es/album/5J1Qv02ZVCl3Jyr36lNOBZ?si=zPBGlHvOSZmf_sy4C9pqxQ

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SHIRO, crisys - my eyes (slowed version)

So, our friend (assuming he really is our friend) is no longer alone at home. The work week is over, it’s been a hard one. Maybe for both of them: for him, and for the woman now leaning out the window. There’s a touch of unease in the air, and it’s not necessarily connected to how things are going between them. Maybe something is about to happen. Or maybe not. The only sure thing is that they’re not interested in finding out.

This is the fourth in a series of eight easy, acoustic, rather short, and deliberately inconclusive tracks, assembled by combining new ideas with reworked older material, adding parts and sounds along the way. This time I struggled to make it to the end, adding and removing, changing and restoring and working to the mix. I probably messed things up a bit (thirty recorded tracks, twenty of them muted...), but never mind.

Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-1-night
Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-2-dawn
Part 3 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-3-noon
Part 5 here: https://soundcloud.com/michele-ansani/in-case-nothing-happens-part-5-night-again

Composed by Michele Ansani (2025).
All the ambient noises are taken from public sound archives. Saxophone is courtesy by Diamond Hues. Male vocals are mine, female by Spitfire Labs.
Posted on SoundCloud: 2025, September 19.

In case nothing happens - part 4 (late afternoon)*

CORRUPTED

Thunder

The Prompt to make Cookie

https://open.spotify.com/album/1m8YLWpoCLZuE132ghygkT?si=h38_TQjHTAy6NNUL71geyQ
Lights off in the dark, I can´t see anything

Lights Off

Ma maison/My house:  un rêve, un cauchemar, une petite balade du côté du Cap Vert ;
a dream, a mightmare,  a little tune near Cape Verde

My House 
I’ve lost my house / I’ve got nothing left
I’ve lost my mind / and that’s no small thing
I’ve forgotten where I come from
oh, how good it was
I’ve forgotten the morning light
…
In the living room
there were mirrors to make me pretty
sofas and lace everywhere
Persian rugs , watercolor paintings
porcelain cups with little flowers

In the garden
there were children and songs
little huts and hedgehogs’ hiding spots
friends passing through all year long
and colors swirling all around

I’ve lost my house / I’ve got nothing left 
I’ve lost my mind / and that’s no small thing
I’ve forgotten where I come from
oh, how good it was
I’ve forgotten the morning light

In the bedroom
there were pillows and feather duvets
bouquets of perfume that smelled so sweet
long white sheets for fabulous nights 
and others for the end of life

I’ve lost my mind / I’ve got nothing left
I dreamed of a house / that’s no small thing
might as well forget where I come from / maybe that’s best
This morning I’m looking for the light

My house
is just a few walls made of concrete
gray everywhere, from floor to ceiling
mushrooms growing even without rain
at night the cockroaches find shelter there

The garden
is now the kingdom of trash
Rubble, bicycle and car carcasses
Climbing frames like prisons
Rats …running across the grass

I’ve lost my mind / I’ve got nothing left
I dreamed of a house / that’s no small thing
might as well forget where I come from / maybe that’s best
This morning I’m looking for the light


Ma Maison (with translation)

A song about using my defense mechanism of humor to avoid conflict and achieve romance. Dedicated to class clowns everywhere.
Sorry I've been off SC lately, I've been taking care of a few things.

Lyrics:
I was just having a drink
In a bar on the rough side of town
Yeah, minding my own business
And these tough guys come up to me
They say: "Hey, we're tough guys."
"we don't like you drinking sparkling Chablis,"

Well, I had a real good read on the situation
I've got the gift of gab (talk) from my Dad
I'm a samurai of summation
I buy my sarcasm firsthand

I said: Gentlemen, may  I suggest a truce?
Let me be the peacemaker and buy you a bottle of booze
Then I got loose
I left them with a bill
For a three hundred dollar
Bottle of Chartruse

Oh, I listened to what my Mama say
You're gonna have to fight those boys someday
But if you use your brain
Then you'll find another way
Fight back, hit em in the funny bone (3X)
Funny bone

I was a young undergrad
A full-time miscreant
A part-time handsome man
I needed to get the attention of the ladies
But I wasn't that good-looking
But I knew what I had

I had a good read on the situation
I have the gift of gab from my Dad
I'm a samurai of summation
I buy my sarcasm firsthand

I listened to what my Mama say
If those girls don't give you the time of day
You're gonna have to use your brain
Then you'll find another way 
Step back, appeal to her funny bone (3X)
Funny bone

Funny Bone

Toe Cutter

Amber

Night Rotation (Album On Bandcamp)

Official Soundcloud for Dark Electro Producer Scratch Kelly 
West Coast, Tasmania 
Darkwave + Dark Ambient + Wave + Experimental + Industrial

Scratch Kelly constructs a synthesis of dark ambient, industrial and wave music. She creates a diverse sonic landscape, from brutal and unforgiving industrial sounds to dreamy dark wave territory marked by melodic synth bass so deep you could drown in it. Her music is designed to bring a sense of realisation, contemplation and healing to the darker places of the psyche.
First surfacing in 2018 with as part of the Hobart based duo Soundtractor, and moving onto solo music production in 2022 with a series of self-released EP's and albums. Her work is heavily influenced by darkwave and industrial electro, but her  inclusion of complex, often experimental rhythms and emotive melodies sets her apart from the rest of the dark electronic scene. She has received her greatest exposure so far on radio and at the Unconformity Festival.