"Keep your eyes on the future, learn from the past but don't dwell on it so much that you don't move forward."  

An experiment with synthwave roots blended with some pop and glitch hop flavors, and a little keyboard piano arpeggio fun.

Dream Forward [ShadeFade]

A blend of some mostly synthwave and pop styles, and glitch synth with a touch of old school synth sound as well. 

If we learn from our failures and mistakes, then it falls to reason that everyone should make plenty in their journey to wisdom and success.

Chasing Our Horizons [ShadeFade]

Don't be afraid to try new ways of doing things, experiment, and don't doubt your ability to succeed.

Rise To Shine [ShadeFade]

Synthwave /  Synthpop styles. Highly processed vocals.

As we live our lives, it's important to express to others how you feel, for none of us can read minds.

Never Told [ShadeFade]

Some Trance Techno and Bass / Electro House styles bended into something I called Technomagical!  Might have gotten a little carried away with some frantic vibes at the end but I liked it!

Techno Magical [ShadeFade]

A low mellow deep house track with some dancepop / trance flavors and an intimate sound and lyrical theme.

Our Afterglow [ShadeFade]

Sometimes love is painful, sometimes people are not ready, sometimes we are afraid. Everyone can regret the timing of it all, the choices they made, wishing they had been different.

Strings of Time [ShadeFade]

A blend of various influences, trance, dance, pop and electronic with some heavy vocal processing.  We all want to break free from the mundane, the normal, sometimes just be free from the restraints and tribulations of our daily lives.

Breaking Free [ShadeFade]

Synth/Retrowave vibe about when your mind just goes blank no matter what you do, and nothing seems to break the spell.

Terminal Blank [ShadeFade]

A synthpop / dance pop vibe loosely inspired by the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Sometimes you might want to forget, but over time memories and experiences change and we sometimes mold them like one might shape clay, and sometimes they will fade away completely.

Erase Me [ShadeFade]

An emotional pop track, with synthpop influences, inspired by a conversation about the yearnings for love everyone has experienced.

All I Want [ShadeFade]

A retrowave synthpop track, sometimes we all feel the melancholy of disconnection from others or the people from our past.

Shadows In The Rain [ShadeFade]

A slow pop/synthpop track exploring the an introspective on what is past or passing, languid pacing and a melancholy nostalgia.

Let Go [ShadeFade]

The ice retreats, the rivers break  
A silver dawn, the earth awake  
From shadowed sleep, the roots arise  
Emerald flames in newborn skies.  

A trembling earth, a roaring tide,  
The slumbered heart now opens wide.  

Rise, oh forest dragon, wreathed in gold and green  
Winds obey your whisper, storms bow where you breathe  
Crowned in leaves and thunder, veins of verdant might  
Spring is now your kingdom, bask within its light!

With every step, the roots entwine, 
The mountains shake, the stars align,
Wings unfurl, eclipse the sun,  
The frozen age is dead and done.  

A trembling earth, a roaring tide  
The slumbered heart now opens wide  

Rise, oh forest dragon, wreathed in gold and green  
Winds obey your whisper, storms bow where you breathe  
Crowned in leaves and thunder, veins of verdant might  
Spring is now your kingdom, bask within its light  

No more chains of frost remain  
Only fire in your veins,  
No more silence in the trees, 
Only songs upon the breeze .

Rise, oh forest dragon, wreathed in gold and green  
Winds obey your whisper, storms bow where you breathe  
Crowned in leaves and thunder, veins of verdant might  
Spring is now your kingdom, bask within the light!


The Verdant Throne [ShadeFade]

Retrowave / Synthpop vibe with elements inspired by chiptune sounds, reminiscent of some of the tracks I always liked from Anamanaguchi

Electric Souls [ShadeFade]

Dance/Synthpop Retrowave vibes with touch of EDM style and a pinch of chillstep/dubstep vibes sprinkled in.

Through the Mirror [ShadeFade]

“The Day the Rain Arrived” is an emotionally resonant pop/synthpop/downtempo ballad that blends melancholic reflection with gentle hope. It feels like the soundtrack to an emotional breakthrough, the moment healing begins after years of emotional drought.

The arrangement is lush but restrained: ambient synth pads, warm bass, gentle tapping percussion paired with emotional female vocal performance. There’s no explosive climax; just the steady unfolding of a story of feelings; like rainfall rejuvenating dry, cracked earth.

The Day the Rain Arrived [ShadeFade]

“Edge of the Glow” is a nostalgic, atmospheric synthwave ballad that captures the tender stillness of summer nights on the outskirts of the city; where time slows, memories resurface, and quiet moments become sacred echoes of youth, love, and letting go.

Edge of the Glow [ShadeFade]

"Seeds Of Light" is a cosmic elegy for the unseen legacy of hope, blending ambient synths and ethereal dual vocals blending to tell the story of fleeting lives that plant the seeds of wonder in a future they’ll never see. It’s both melancholic and uplifting - like starlight traveling through time, its emotional weight carried in whispers, memory, and silent determination. Imagine a lullaby for dreamers who build not for themselves, but for the dawn they believe will come.

Seeds of Light [ShadeFade]

A playful pop dance / chill wave style tune, made from singing a little ditty I made up "Doo dah doo" style and electronically mixed with some talk-box and other effects. Inspired by styles of some of my favorite Porter Robinson and Madeon listens.

Cloud Lounging [ShadeFade]

This track is a mix of trance and house influences, with moody but hopeful lyrics that can carry duel meanings.

Don't Make Love A Lie [ShadeFade]

Home To Me is a cinematic and poetic tribute to the harsh yet sacred desert world of Dune, told through the voice of a Fremen. It combines orchestral depth and tribal percussion choices with synth organ ambiance to evoke both the ancient and futuristic aspects of the planet Arrakis. The lyrics express a deep, spiritual bond between the singer and the desert—its unforgiving nature, its role in shaping identity, and its profound, almost divine significance. It's a love song not to a person, but to the desert itself, venerating it as both home and holy ground.

Home To Me [ShadeFade]

Voice Within the Veil is a rich, atmospheric world music piece with ethereal but powerful female vocals backed by whispers and chants. It reflects the Bene Gesserit’s mystique, discipline, and veiled power in the universe of Dune. It blends sacred tones, prophetic imagery, and undertones of psychological control. Also my own attempt at recreating the Bene Gesserit's "the voice" of command.

Voice Within the Veil [ShadeFade]

Featuring driving FOTF kick anchors pulsing bass and radiant chords. Filter-swept synth pads with bright, syncopated arps, lush super-saws, and some twinkling plucks into the mix. This is a purely instrumental House EDM track that provide high energy vibes with periodic rest lulls before throwing you back into the groove.

r3v0lv3 [ShadeFade]

Just the Ride is a nostalgic alt-synth pop rock road trip anthem about finding freedom in the gritty journey itself, not the destination. With moody synths blended with a hint of electric guitar, and female vocal performance.

Just the Ride [ShadeFade]

A vibrant dance pop summer anthem celebrating the freedom and joy of youth, This Time captures sun-soaked memories, laughter with friends, and the feeling of living fully in the moment. With bright synths, breezy vocals, and nostalgic warmth, it’s a soundtrack for carefree days and golden hours.

This Time [ShadeFade]

"Bend Don’t Break" is an introspective indie pop style ballad about resilience, adaptability, and finding strength in uncertainty. With gentle acoustic instrumentation, a little piano, tied together with low key bass and a mellow thumping tropical house-type beat to keep the energy going. It celebrates moving through life’s changes with grace, building meaning from imperfection, and staying true to one’s rhythm even when the world doesn’t follow the same beat. Really love how it came together in the end.

Bend Don't Break [ShadeFade]

"A Pocket Full of Stars" is a dreamy, synth-tinged pop track, with a beat that keeps the energy flowing with moments of calm, about finding magic in the mundane. Poetic with a sense of wonder, it explores the idea that the universe’s beauty isn’t out of reach - it’s something you carry with you, tucked into the fabric of your life like tiny stars in your coat pocket.

Pocket Full of Stars [ShadeFade]

Something very different for me, inspired by my past addiction to fun and playful genre's like electro-swing (think Caravan Palace vibes). Some vintage-meets-modern electro-swing fun that celebrates how history and culture are recycled and reinvented including some humorous references - jazzy horns, glitchy beats, and time-traveling swagger collide in a playful remix of past and future.

Spin It Again [ShadeFade]

"Weight and Wings" is a poignant acoustic ballad that weaves themes of love, grief, and remembrance through delicate finger-picked guitar and emotional female vocals. With sparse but powerful arrangements and moments of choral lift, the song explores how loss leaves both sorrow and strength ... becoming both the burden we bear and the force that helps us soar as we continue on.

~For those who no longer walk beside me, but are still in my heart~

Weight and Wings [ShadeFade]

A visceral descent into cosmic inevitability, The End fuses bone-rattling and hard heavy bass, fragmented glitch percussion, with both heavy and warped synths with eerie, processed vocal samples that echo the voices of long-dead physicists pondering the universe's final fate. With peaks of panic and dread balanced by awe and philosophical wonder, the track explores the Big Rip theory—where even atoms are torn asunder. It’s a sonic eulogy for existence itself, both terrifying and beautiful in its scale and potential end.

The End [ShadeFade]

"I’ll Rise Again" is an aggressive, defiant anthem blending synthpop, electro, progressive house, and indie pop. Driven by gritty, emotionally charged female vocals, the track fuses pulsing industrial basslines, glitched textures, and evolving synth layers to channel resilience and creative rebellion. It’s a sonic uprising against elitism and dismissal - turning pain into power, shame into sound, and every fall into a beat that won’t break.

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