GOTHIC FUNK & FRIENDS various artists 2

Rona Mac's new single 'Smoke' is a simple, cyclical and melodic song, lyrically driven over a swirling vocal backdrop. Smoke demonstrates Rona's stripped-back style, bringing the song to it's full potential whilst keeping it spacious and painfully raw.

The track is embedded in her rural surroundings, with vocals recorded in a Cathedral bell tower amongst the chatter of crows. It was written during the first lockdown. “I'd manically cleared out and cleaned my caravan, and then sat down thinking 'what the hell do I do now?'. The song ruminates over the many things that make me want to smoke – bad days, wistful moments, nights with my beautiful friends, angst and change.”

Shades Of Ham

Smoke

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'I was reading a lot of Charles Baudelaire at the time of writing this song…' - Herald K

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY86d1lkAC4

© Herald K, 2019 Lyrics and Composition - Herald K Vocal, Guitar and Percussion - Herald K Violin - Stephan Steiner Recordings - Jürgen Plank and Stephan Steiner, Photo - Christina Milassin, Label - Lindo Records

Strange Delights

Carpe Noctem

YouTube

The truth in a lie [parts I and II]

Hurts remixed by Play/Pause
From the debut album by BEING
A Death In The Family - https://beinguk.bandcamp.com

BEING _ HURTS _ PLAY/PAUSE

The STARWATER Drowning Mix, a "brooding post rock reinvention" of the blissed-out electronic track by Bit Cloudy.
Watch the spooky underwater video at http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4U7ZsKXLB8VcU_5EMZ3kVA?view_as=subscriber
Production and additional parts by Tomaso for SEMITONAL.
Thanks to Rico at The Doghouse Studio, Glasgow.
http://semitonal.com/

STARWATER Drowning Mix – SEMITONAL vs Bit Cloudy

Boston based rock band, Ximre uploaded “Supermodel” and “Flowers Bloom” releases. FREE DOWNLOAD of both Albums at Dropbox, including Instrumental Tracks (wav and mp3), and Pro Tools stem multi-tracks. No email signup required!

Songs written by Imre. Credits: Anthony J. Resta is a Canadian record producer and musician with twelve RIAA certified gold and multi-platinum awards, thanks for background vocals, guitars, and percussion on many songs. Sean Coleman for bass and drums on most songs, also including some guitar and background vocals. Bob Marsh some guitar. Imre (vocals, guitar, synths, bass, drums, percussion)

Hands In The Fire

All Instruments By Martin Reed,
Produced By Martin Reed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjk2yb3ReOo

Misstress Of The Mushrooms - Inc The Film

EP Vain Energy

Just Enough To Breathe

AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE…
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AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE
AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE
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YOU MET ME IN JONESTOWN
IN WACO AT SUNDOWN
THE PROPHECY ALIVE IN ME
NO, I’M NOT THE MESSIAH
MY RANKING HIS HIGHER
BROUGHT A MESSAGE THAT WILL SET YOU FREE
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DO NOT BE AFRAID
COME DRINK THE KOOL-AID
COWER AND I’LL LET YOU SEE
IF YOU FEED MY DESIRE
SET MY EGO ON FIRE
THIS KINGDOM WILL BE PASSED TO THEE
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AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE
AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE
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DON’T WANT THIS SUICIDE
DON’T WANT TO EAT YOUR LIE
DON’T WANT TO BEND MY KNEE AT COMMUNION
YOU’RE JUST ANOTHER GUY
NO, I DON’T WANT TO DIE
DON’T WANT TO KISS THE FEET OF A CLAYMAN
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IT'S JUST ANOTHER SCAM
ANOTHER DYING MAN
ANOTHER AIRFIX GOD
ANOTHER GRAND DESIGN
THE FRUIT OF UNCLE SAM
A ROAD TO HEAVAN’S GATE
MANIFESTS ITSELF AS A HATE CRIME
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AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE
AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE
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DAVIDIAN BRANCHES
ARE GROWING ON TREES
SPRINKLED WITH THE ASHES OF WACO
BELIEF AVALANCHES
ARMEGEDDON AGAIN
AND THE RESTORATION MOVEMENT OF TEN
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AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE…
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ADAM AND EVE
SAMSON AND DELILAH
DAVID AND BATHSHEEBA
THE EVIL ADULTRESS
THE JEZEBEL
THEY ALL LOVED MEN INTO A PERSONAL HELL

IF JASON OF THE ARGONAUTS IS OUR ONLY HOPE
WHAT SANE WOMAN WOULD EVER LISTEN TO THE POPE

HELL AND LIES
BRIMSTONE AND FIRE
A CHAPEL
A TALE
A MARTYR
A LIAR
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CURSED ARE THE WEAK
FOR THEY GIVE BIRTH
BLESSED ARE THE MEEK
BUT THEY WILL NOT RECEIVE THE EARTH
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THE PEASANT SEES THE PREACHER AS
RULER OF THE TURF
WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH
THE VATICAN IS WORTH
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AND MAN CREATED GOD…

AND MAN CREATED GOD IN HIS IMAGE

Check out my smile and smell the posies
And take the front seats
Now get ready to applaud

You truly are looking fantastic
Slightly plastic
Lets just say it, I'm a fraud

CHORUS
You realised I'm ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-charming
Now you're paralysed by my ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-charming

Every cloud has a silver lining
Mine needs refining
But I'll dance on anyway

Please take my hand for quite a journey
Got to get up early
But thanks again for the fun play

CHORUS

Charming

Profane Disco

Bass-driven, hypnotic, instrumental music with attitude. Semitone changes hover above glitches and live grooves. 
Massive Attack collides with Mogwai and Erik Satie.

In the WRONG PLACE at THE WRONG TIME with THE WRONG MINDSET, apparently making THE #WRONG #MUSIC, but it feels #RIGHT to ME!

Highly unlikely more than one of my tunes will ever be heard by more than a handful of listeners, so just for the record here is an incomplete list of artists my music has been compared to by other musicians, depending on which tunes they heard, StevenVellou (Gothic Funk)

RESIDENTS, PHILIP GLASS, DAVID BYRNE, FRANK ZAPPA, THE BEATLES, BAUHAUS, SISTERS OF MERCY, DAVID BOWIE, LOU REED, CAPTAIN BEEFHEART, PARLIAMENT, SYD BARRETT, PINK FLOYD, PSYCHIC TV, NEU, MOMUS, MINISTRY, CHARLES IVES, BEACH BOYS, KINKS, THE FALL, JOY DIVISION, DEPECHE MODE, GARY NUMAN, LEONARD COHEN, STONE ROSES, GIORGIO MORODER, GEORGE CLINTON, THE CURE, DALIS CAR, JOHN ASTLEY, KILLING JOKE, ALIEN SEX FIEND, ROBERT FRIPP, DEVO, B52’s, IAN CURTIS, FAD GADGET, TALKING HEADS, GORILLAZ, MIKE PATTON, JON ZORN, LES CLAYPOOL, STEVEN REICH, TOM WAITS, THE EX, TOM CORA, THE CAKE, NAPOLEON XIV, KEVIN AYERS, ROXY MUSIC, FRANK TOVEY, RUPERT HINES, ROBYN HITCHCOCK, DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT, SPARKS, BILL NELSON, JOHN CALE, TRIO, JULIAN COPE, HEAVEN 17, LLOYD COLE, TUBEWAY ARMY, FRONT 242, NITZER EBB, COCKNEY REBEL, SHRIEKBACK, VICTOR SNOW, GORDON LIGHTFOOT, THE THE, BABYBIRD, JOHN LENNON, ULTRAVOX, DAN DEACON, BACH, SQUEEZE, ANDREW ELDRITCH, IGGY POP, MIDNIGHT OIL, BILLY CHILDISH, BUTTHOLE SURFERS, VELVET UNDERGROUND, LOVE AND ROCKETS, ART OF NOISE, LOOK PEOPLE, CABARET VOLTAIRE, PRODIGY, et al.
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Don't take sides and I'll respect you for it; take sides and I'll treat you with the same contempt I treat anyone with a mob mentality, because mob mentality invariantly betrays an underlying intolerant right-wing mentality!
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#SUPPORT gathers #MOMENTUM when #RECIPROCATED!
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My tunes are ten times better than you might imagine!
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A lack of listens proves nothing, other than the fact that no one is finding your tunes; it does not prove, as some believe, that your tunes must be crap, so don’t ever take such a ridiculous notion on board—on an internet FLOODED with music no listens rarely has anything to do with the quality of your music, your creative talent, is almost always down to the fact that the right audience can’t find your music, because finding it is now as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack!
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SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE, EVERYTHING FOR SOMEONE!
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For diversity and consistency, I am not hesitant in saying my Soundcloud pages house the most inventive creations on here. There are others making fabulous tunes, but no one is more prolific while maintaining a high standard of pole to pole invention, and that applies to the lyrics too. I won't escape obscurity and oblivion, but that proves nothing, the internet is way, way, WAY overcrowded with unsigned music, way too much mediocre stuff, which obscure anything exceptional out there; the wood hidden away behind lots and lots and LOTS of trees, and no one has the time to look for needles in haystacks, to find a diamond in the rough, it's just way too big a task, not humanely possible!

INVENTIVE, AUTHENTIC, DIVERSE MUSIC, INVENTIVE, AUTHENTIC, IMAGINATIVE LYRICS, but those are the last things the vast majority of listeners are looking for these days!
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Me, I'm awestruck by musicians who can't be pigeonholed, who don't conform to any borders, who don't think about which direction each new creation will take, they just go wherever that creativity takes them; pure, on the fly, innovation, imperfect but 100% authentic, as far a way from manufactured, recipe book, regurgitation, as it is possible to get, totally unforced, inspirational and way, way, WAY outside the box! There ought to be a place for such creativity, there was at one time, but a mercenary music industry put an end to that, leaving us with a situation where those who deserve the most adoration for the talents receive the least!
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Will this ever change, will a yearning for TRUE underground, creativity unique to the individual, ever return, or has the spoon-feeding gone to far this time, is its grip so vicelike nothing can break it!
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I make #INVISIBLE music, perhaps it feels that way to you too!
#Overlooked, #Underrated, Dismissed Without A Listen!
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When Soundclouders follow me or click like without leaving feedback, what is it they are hoping for? That I come listen to their tunes and heap praise on them, what? I mean really, what is the point of following someone, what is the point of liking one of their tunes, if you don't actual think they are deserving of feedback, if you don't think the tunes are as good as what you do???

EXPLODING THE MYTH THAT UNSIGNED IS UNSIGNED BECAUSE IT’S INFERIOR TO SIGNED MUSIC!

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UNTIL this MYTH is blown out of the water we don’t have a cat in hells chance of breaking through. #TheMyth  is the BIGGEST obstacle that stands in our way, it is the FIRST hurdle we must get over, it is the message that should be going #VIRAL, it’s down to each & every one of you to make that happen!
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#ExplodeTheMyth
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Listening to just one of my tunes tells you nothing about my creative approach, listening to ten of my tunes will still tell you very little, listen to a hundred of my tunes and the penny will start to drop, but it's only after hearing 500+ of my creations and collaborations that your eyes will widen in amazement! 
However, if you don't have unlimited eclectic taste none of that applies, and the reality is, who, in this world, is going to listen to every tune I've created, no one--if even one tune is heard from beginning to end it's a minor miracle, because sadly, there is a belief that unsigned means inferior, but I've heard enough tunes by the rest of you guys to know that's a myth, that's bullshit, we create some of the most inventive, authentic, imaginative tunes out there!
Give me unsigned, independent and underground music over signed, safe, predictable, recipe book, music any day of the week!
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I MAKE TUNES NO ONE WILL EVER LISTEN TO!
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Some musicians & music fans don’t want to hear music from the past because they would have to acknowledge IT’S ALL BEEN DONE BEFORE!
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Finally come to terms with the fact that I'm PLAYING TO AN AUDIENCE OF ONE, and even I have to FORCE myself to listen!!!
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My music and lyrics are all about different, but if no one listens no one will EVER know! 
#StevenVellou

I CREATE TUNES ON THE FLY; NO FORMULA, NO PLAN, NO DIRECTION; THEY JUST HAPPEN--I'M IGNORANT OF THE RULES INVOLVED IN THE MUSIC MAKING PROCESS, SO I'M NOT BOXED IN BY THEM, WHICH IS WHY THEY ARE SO VARIED AND UNPREDICTABLE!
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Meaningful yet tongue-in-cheek tunes that can’t be #PIGEONHOLED!
Great production ISN'T my forte, accomplished musicianship ISN'T my forte but #UndergroundInvention, #InfiniteDimensions & LYRICS are!
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Now I don't personally believe I'm in the same league as #Bowie, other than my lyrics, more often than not, making more sense, but I do think I share his ability to adapt to different genres, and his endless, diverse, creativity, just not quite on the same level.
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I'm not proficient/accomplished on instruments, & I have other musical limitations, but most genres come natural to me, and I much prefer having that unforced ability to being highly accomplished on instruments, highly polished on production, or having the perfect voice!
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If I didn't feel I had my own approach, if my music was easy to pigeonhole, I would have quit music a long time ago!
Never been about fame & fortune, just about pushing the boundaries without actually intending to push the boundaries; creativity that's second nature not formula! 
Yes, I want to reach an audience but making money from my music means nothing to me!
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NOT saying I’m THE MOST #talented musician on music promotion sites but I will say I’m one of the most #UNDERRATED! Even so, I would much rather be underrated than overrated!
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STARWATER Drowning Mix – SEMITONAL vs Bit Cloudy

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