Shock the Algorithm

A song from my old band, Mercy Corps, back in the 2000s. Still hungover from the alt-rawk 90s we started to mess with dance punk. I went big crazy with the Moog on the verses. Too much? 

Lift Me Up

A song from the 2000s band Mercy Corps. First time recording my voice. It's, uh, harsh. But I wanted to sound like John Lydon of PIL, you know all nasally, pissed off, and in your face. I worry I just got the nasally part right. 🤧

Hairshirt Lover

This song is a collab with my longtime friend "Dehaas". It was recorded partly in Delft (NL) and partly in Berlin (D).

Composer: Dehaas
Lyrics & vocals: Dehaas
Additional instruments & production: c r u m i u s
Cover: Dehaas

NEW HELLO

Deep in deeper layers there the plot contains a twist 
Where are you, where are you now?
Could be the exception that so many others missed 
Where are you, where are you now?

One could think that he does not care 
Make it fizz like a new affair 
Must be that every time they meet again feels like a new hello 
Hello hello, a new hello
Hello hello
 
Feel the new sun 
Feel the morning moon 
Feel the new sun 
Feel the morning moon  
Feel the morning moon  

Absurd thoughts come stumbling from the edges of his mind
Where are you, where are you now?
Quoting miss Alonso that a copy can’t be kind 
Where are you, where are you now?

It is not to be not today 
Still, it always is anyway 

Must be that every time they meet again feels like a new hello 
Hello hello, a new hello 
Hello hello 

Can he strengthen the connection with a paper and a pen
Where are you, where are you now?
Can he bring himself to madness replicating ends 
Where are you, where are you now?

Just a fling to hang on to 
Like a thing that you ought to do 
Must be that every time they meet again feels like a new hello 
Hello hello, a new hello 
Hello hello 

Like a fling to hang on to 
Like a thing that you ought to do 
Like a fling to hang on to 
Like a thing that you ought to do
Like a fling to hang on to 
Like a thing that you ought to do
Like a fling to hang on to 
Like a thing that you ought to do

© all rights reserved

New Hello

New Hello  -  Dehaas

SUMMER DREAM :  Copyright SCRT Records

I might as well 
be made of clay
behind closed doors
I hide away 
Hide away
https://open.spotify.com/album/4COtd8lAfsZKpAlg8ri41k?si=bAieCzHtQOWk2fPX0fuOKg

HideAway

Very Cool Backing Track provided by Toney Wright ==> https://soundcloud.com/toney-wright Thank you, Toney!  Hope you like the song!  

IT’S US OR THEM
No golden rule
Do they play by
The coders are their fools
Super Smart AI
Takin’ over lives
By takin’ over livelihoods
Time is of the essence
For bad or good

CHORUS
It’s us or them
Us or them
It’s us or them
Robots or men

It’s us or them
Us or them
It’s us or them
Us or them
It’s us or them
Us or them
Robots OR Men.

Washington to Beijing
The race has begun
Whoever wins the war
Will be the golden one
Cheaper, better, faster
The name of the game
Should humans survive
This world won’t be the same

CHORUS
It’s us or them
Us or them
It’s us or them
Robots or men

From the plumber to the lawyer
Most jobs will end, oh and
Universal Basic Income
Will not be your friend, no-no
‘Cuz when it comes from the government
They expect a return
Your beloved flag
They are willing to burn, yeah

TAG
It’s us or them
Us or them
It’s us or them
Us or them
It’s us or them
Us or them
Oh, it’s us or them:
Robots OR Men.

© 2025 Renee La Chapelle – All Rights Reserved

IT’S US OR THEM

Brand new track after a long time ago! Check out this one guys and gals and let me know if you miss my synthwave tracks with my own vocs on it! Share , Support and comment!

Let me know if u really dig it. Cheers and have a great summer y'all!

IknowIknow

Cast of characters:
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — Ovation acoustic guitar, lead vocals, lyrics, and compostion
Scratch Kelly -- @scratchkelly — Sarah —  vocals
one man verity show – @one-man-verity-show – Scotty – Epiphone Casino melodic  electric guitar and vocals
Joe Stroffolino-- @joseph-stroffolino --  vocals
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark – triangle and vocals
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken -- drums
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitrar, mix, and production
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Fender Stratocaster electric guitar, production, mix, and mastering
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass

I just want to say I'm beyond honored to be the subject of such adoration from my musical family here. Carl really knows how to make a brother feel special, and he did it for me this time, with the help of some of our EC extended family. Here's Carl's write up. 
"Mr Bringer-er Together-er is Josh. You may also know him as artist Entheogenic Psychnought, or the spine of Eclectic Collective. We all came across Josh in our own lucky ways, but he really sets a high bar for spreading constructive musical love and encouragement on SoundCloud. This song started out as a comment. I (Carl/TBD) went to call Josh Mr Bringer-er Together-er and my phone auto corrected it. the next morning K2 swooped in and said what I wanted so I used that as a trigger for the song.
So, I had a rough arrangement. We then invited a few artists, except Josh, to paint it for him. Scratch Kelly, aka Sarah, beamed through some amazing vocals. Not long behind Joe Stroffolino painted in some brilliant backing vox. Then Scotty (One Man Verity Show) chimed in with some amazing guitar, trippy backing vocals, and the super artwork you get to enjoy. Mark brushed in a triangle and some vox, and then Ken added those trusty drums. Tez then strutted in and added some super lead guitar, and not far behind him was Stephen with some epic rhythm guitar that showed the way for the song from that point of view showing a much better space to all the other instruments than the original demo guitar. That was a lovely lesson on less is more...

The song was now ready to give to the main man for him to paint, and he chose his trusty bass to put some strawberries on his own musical cake.

I now stared at 37 tracks and went... Hmmm Stephen, Help! Stephen mixed and mastered it to its crisp current form, and it was a very difficult mix. He basically had to merge 3 projects to one and really aced the challenging mix and master like the true shaman he is. We hope you enjoy the song that brought us together again. May it give us more togetherness like Josh so wonderfully demonstrates everyday

You da brother man Josh 🤘🏽"

Lyrics

Magnet of human
Moulded by melody mind
Just jester Josh delivers this kind
Collective of creed worth all our belief
Friendship
Togetherness through skill and relief

Sharing, Caring
Composer of purr
Human vibrations of the highest occur
Let's celebrate this human some more
It's Mr Bringer-er together-er

Mr Bringer-er together-er
Mr Bringer-er together-er

Loving, Not shoving
Honing, Not moaning
Positive to give
In music he live
Loving his kids
Like he loves us
The luckiest kids who take this EC bus
Josh is the driver
Mr Music Jeez
More Mr Bringer-ers together-ers please

Mr Bringer-er together-er
Mr Bringer-er together-er

The Joshua Tree collecting collective
Physical dreams
Metaphysical pleasures
Skills. New.
Unconditional prime time
The only thing we tow is how we making new time line

Mr Bringer-er together-er

You are the rod
You cast your spinners
You reel us back in from lake bitter winter
It's Spring all the time in your World and Page
Our Mr Bringer-er together-er sage

We all love ya mate

Mr Bringer-er together-er
Mr Bringer-er together-er Oh oo
Mr Bringer-er together-er
Mr Bringer-er together-er Oh oo

Mr Bringerer Togetherer (Eclectic Collective with TBD, Scratch Kelly, Joe Stroffolino, and One MVS

This Jim Carey clip seeded this song today. I think he has a nice angle to give on depression. Jim in general I find very inspiring. For me he spells out very clearly and eloquently that no matter affluence we all go though the same brain battles during this life experience.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lMQJ2bHeP4c

Check out $uper Acid $un$hine on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/frmvF4uXWaN8LKBJJD

An ever honest song by artist $uper Acid $unshine about depression reminded me of the Carey clip so kudos to our friend across the pond for that steer 🔆 $A$ is well worth a permanant rabbit hole for your ears.
Listen to Depre$$ion by $uper Acid $un$hine on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/R2VKjfglfLSKJnXUUh

The Musical & Pet Detective inspirer-ers ✅



I do deal with small amounts of depression but fortunately it's rare for me. Some days though the mind just cannot level those feelings and you just got to let them pass.

Gabor Mate would be one person that really helped me change my life and in my opinion has some of the finest views on pro active positive mindset and I'd highly recommend listening to him. He has incredible societal views relevant to the human condition of the individual and the people who influence you growing up and how you can respond to thise influences. He also has some intriguing views on the state of the medical world and offers some very nice shift we could make in the future. Instead of masking problems with artificial antetodes that maybe we can prevent a lot of them with a life of a clearer more content mindset. I believe he feels our experience and frame of thinking can manifest physical problems in the body however conventional medicine rarley considers this as part of the diagnosis and cure. I will note that it appears to be long term lifestyle choices that could bear the fruits of Gabor's thinking and as ever take everyone with a pinch or three of this 🧂 and make up your own mind 🫶🏽 Hope you're not depressed and if you are peace and love to you 🫂

"Seek the reality of everything, don't get seduced by appearances of anything. Don't be afraid of your pain and don't run away from it because that running away is what leads to addictions and illnesses. It's all worth it. It's worth going through all that suffering because this is what life is. It's just worth being alive." Dr Gabor Maté


Lyrics
Deep-Rest,
Says Jim of depressed
Fuck you body!
Shelve the avatar!
Let's reset
You need this for future clear wist
Feel some fear for reference bliss
Feel the pain
Know your pleasure reframed

Deep-rest
Refill your chest
Quieten the mind
Brain reboots to find your kind self

Super duper happy
Wait, super duper sad
This mind seems looped now front to back
What's this feeling?
When will it go?
Maybe I can sing it and pretend I'll never know

Deep-rest
Refill your chest
Quieten the mind
Brain reboots to find your kind to self

You need this for future clear wist
Feel some fear for reference bliss
Feel the pain
Know your pleasure reframed

Deep-rest
Fuck you body we said
Deep-rest
Fuck you mind we said
Deep-rest
Fuck you body we said
Deep-rest


Deep-Rest

Recorded at Amplified Studios, Carlsbad CA July 2025
Drums - Marc Polit
Lead solo: Tristan Brooks

LYRIC
It took me half my life 
To finally gain insight
I only saw myself as others did
And I mostly stayed hid

I spent half my life
Upset and uptight
I learned it’s stupid to walk on eggshells
Every egg eventually breaks
And if that takes you half your life
That’s what it takes

Can't say exactly when
I knew what I didn’t then
A dawning realization
An opening of the mind
It only took me half my life for me to find

Time isn’t playing
It’s counting the days
If you don’t know what I’m saying
(Well) you won’t be young always
You sure won’t!

As the years accrue
In the remaining few
I won’t let regret confine me
I’ll amble slowly toward the light
Let the past all fade to black
I can’t go back
I love this last half of my life
So that’s all right


Half My Life

Sage The Gemini & Iamsu! VS PLK & Hamza (Dramantic Remix)

Live your life to its fullest potential and don't really care too much about what other people think of you. - Lil Nas X


Rain!!!

Rarely do I use one backing track 2x in a row, but... Lovely Backing Track Provided once again by Elevated Jam Tracks ==> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udZc7baNPUM
THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW
Where you came from
What’s in your name
How to grow a garden
Such a sinful shame
Won’t find it in your schoolbooks
History and Science
The truth has been cooked
To keep you in compliance

CHORUS
They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to grow
They don’t want you to know, whoa

[Music]

How money works
How to get ahead
How to heal your body
Rid demons from your head
Won’t find it in the library
Lookin’ high and low
Just pray to Mother Mary
Sit back, enjoy the show, no

They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to grow
They don’t want you to, want you to, want you to know

[Music]

Scroll through the web
The discrepancies
Like trying to navigate
The Seven Seas
Won’t find it in the Bible
If you don’t bear the light
Just who’s your greatest rival
Just who to fight

They don’t want you to know
They don’t want you to know
‘Cuz they don’t want you to grow
They don’t want you to, want you to, want you to know..

[Music]

© 2025 Renee La Chapelle – All Rights Reserved

THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KNOW

Music, lyrics, vocal and acoustic guitar : Grave
Bass, drums, electric guitars, arangement & mix : PJ Project

I Am Memory

Cast of characters:
Entheogenic Psychonaught (Josh Clary)– @josh-clary-1 –Josh – Warwick fretless four-string bass, composition
J.J. Terrell– @j-j-terrell – organ and synth
K2 and the Three [and the Four]--@k2andthe3, @k2-kara –Ken — drums and percussion
Mistermark-- @user-432503709 -- Mark –- clavinet, VST saxophone solo, VST horns, effects, production editing
TexMex Shaman– @texmex-shaman –Stephen — Tom Anderson Custom T electric guitar, production, mix, and mastering
Llanpsych -- @llanpsych -- Tez – Fender Telecaster HHS electric guitrar
The Beautiful Dark -- @thebeautifuldark -- Carl — vocals and lyrics

This song began back at the beginning of the summer, when Josh was messing around on his electric piano and found a structure to which to add his bass. As soon as he opened the project to the rest of Eclectic Collective, JJ jumped right in, adding his thrilling organ and ethereal background synth. Thus, Josh dropped his original e. piano part in favor of JJ's new parts. Ken was next up, adding the drums in reverse order from how he and Josh usually do it. Ken is very skilled at being able to add drums to a pre-existing bass line, which he displays in here. He also added the clever auxilary percussion you hear throughout. Mark was next to the trough, adding his funky clavinet, as well as his sax solo you hear lighting it up in there. He also added some well composed horns toward the end, not to be confused with JJ's synth. 
  Then it was time for the guitarists to do their thing. Stephen added the strong, melodic solos in the first two breaks with his guitar and wah pedal. After Tez added his thrilling solos at the end, Stephen went back in and added the funky rhythm guitar part. Tez also added the funky guitar riffs throughout the verses.
  All that was left was to get Carl in on the action, as he is the newest core member of Eclectic Collective. He wrote a poem and sung it in his signature, wild style for us.
  This is Eclectic Collective at its almost full strength, pulling six musicians from two different continents and four different countries together to create a song. We hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we enjoyed creating it.
   On a side note, this will be Eclectic Collective's last song for two weeks. As most of you know, we release a song every Thursday at midnight. Due to vacation and travel at the end of summer, we'll be skipping  next Friday, the 15th, but should be returning the following Friday, the 22nd. We may also put something out this coming Tuesday, the 12th, so please stay tuned. Can't thank enough those of you who tune in regularly and support us every week. 
Original lyrics by The Beautiful Dark:
Hey Human
It's official
The get down on fire funk
Future sizzle
All members agree
Gotta collect that love
Then give it back and well, we see
Fuel for that musical party

Initition ceremony
Transcontinental spanking machine
Uh oh it's a musical tri sexual
Try anything that melody mentioning
Do it for the song
We gonna right some wrong
Rolling rhythm unkown
The human touch
The get down

The get down
Friends don't frown
We got each-other man
Music
Keep that campfire warm
Ooo Ooo
The get down
Friends don't frown
We got eachother man
Music
Keep that campfire warm
Ooo Ooo

Aw man, I'm feeling back tingle
Lads, go tell Fiona Apple I'm single
Llanspych, nudge PJ Harvey
Jamming that genius soul new wave!

The get down
Friends don't frown
We got each-other man
Music
Keep that campfire warm
Ooo Ooo
The get down
Friends don't frown
We got eachother man
Music
Keep that campfire warm
Ooo Ooo

Thrust that rush
Sine waved funk
Flying musical J's
Aw man it's Mike like dunk
Thrust that rush
Sine waved funk
To musical 24
You get a song
Drained 81 now on this floor

The get down
Friends don't frown
We got each-other man
Music, keep that campfire warm
The get down
Love legends loud
Rest in peace good Kobe one
This one's for you
Good G.O.A.T of stun!

The Get Down-Eclectic Collective/ft The Beautiful Dark

Carl from the Beautiful dark wrote a song today titled "Baldy Patty" and  it inspired me to write my own personal a song about baldness.  I started to lose my hair in my early twenties, and for awhile it bothered me and then one day, I decided to shave my head and I have never looked back. And now so many years have passed that I have been bald longer than I had hair. 
***
Guitar (two strumming tracks) Taylor 114CE 
Organ (playing my midi keyboard using the Logic Pro Organ plug in)
Strings (playing my midi keyboard using Native Instruments strings)
Piano: EZ Keys 2 (Indie Pop (tweed))
Drums (EZ Drummer 3)
Bass (PG Music Midi track with sounds from Native instruments Rickenbacker)
***
My hair’s falling out and I don’t know what to do.
My hair’s falling out, and I’m singing this song to you.

I’ve got hair on my fingers; I’ve got hair on my neck.  
I’ve got on my toes, I’ve got hair on my chest.  
But the one place I want it, it keeps falling out.  
My hair’s falling out and I don’t know what to do.

I shaved my head until the top of my skull was shiny
And I know it’s counterintuitive but I’m no longer bald and whiny.
When you’re young, you assume that you’ll always have hair
And then when you start to lose it, you think it’s not fair
Sampson in the bible when he lost his hair, he became so weak
But that guy on the bottle of mister clean is definitely no geek

I’ve got hair on my fingers; I’ve got hair on my neck.  
I’ve got hair on my toes; I’ve got hair on my chest.  
But where it’s missing on the top of my head, I no longer care one bit.
Because now when it comes to baldness, I don’t give a shit

My Hair's Falling Out

Sister Hilma loves you more than words can say

Brand New track on the Rocks! Summer 2025 and let it roll with my brand new track called "I Keep Protecting my Soul".

Purchase it digitally via #bandcamp: https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/track/i-keep-protecting-my-soul

(p) & (c) 2025, STA.

lyrics:
I keep protecting my soul
There's nothing more sacred than my soul
I keep protecting my soul
The body dies, it's eternal the soul

Clear is conscience, i am free i am alive
Sleeping in peace not with fear with opened one eye
I never harmed anyone, don't owe a dime
i am keep paving with gold this road so up high.

I Keep Protecting my Soul

The harmonic-heavy guitar riff I here play on the 12-string was pre-existing. Everything else about this song -- including that it was to be a song at all, instead of an instrumental piece -- was decided and realized in the course of working on it. I am of course (I say 'of course' because my schooling was completed before the present era of unionized indoctreducation) familiar with Mr. Poe's poem on the theme. I have done him one better in recursions of irreality, though whether my lyrical Jungian rimbaldianisms are worthy even to stand in the same room as the master is of course for you, the listener, to judge.
Cover art is by the Finnish artist Gallen-Kalleka. Myth, after all, is a sort of collective dream.
LYRICS
One is the loneliness waiting at end of the day.
Two the not-onliness holding that nothing at bay.
Three for the source of sins: world, flesh, the devil  comes last.
Four for the might-have-beens hopelessly pinned in my past.
Add all the numbers you still can't solve for the sum
Use all the lenses, you still can't resolve what's to come,
Laugh cry or scream, it's just a dream of a dream within a dream.

A is for Apple, with overpriced sermons to read,
M is for Redmond, the bully with apps you don't need.
L is for penguin, don't put him down just 'cause he's small,
Pick up your ink pen and write down this number to call.
Read all the letters, it still comes to little gain
Angels are crying, and trying their wings in the rain.
Laugh cry or scream, it's just a dream of a dream within a dream.

Fact check the hot dreams who stained all the sheets of our youth
Hat trick the sports teams who gave us a break from the truth.
Peel back the curtain the headshrinkers say hides our lights
Steal back the certain denial of all of our rights.
Searching Mount Badon and seeking the Holy Grail,
Music in samizdat, AI in epic fail!
Be not just seem, it's just a dream of a dream within a dream.

Within a Dream

Thistles and thorns in the garden I tread 
The path is sharp the flowers are dead 
The wind hums low it whispers my name 
Every step I take feels just the same  

Thistles and thorns they tear at my skin 
But I keep walking I won't give in 
Oh thistles and thorns I wear them proud 
A crown of pain a voice too loud

Thistles and thorns .mp3

⚡ Synthwave energy unleashed! ⚡ Shock the Algorithm returns with a brand NEW album — Ultraviolet Cosmos.
https://shockthealgorithm.bandcamp.com/album/ultraviolet-cosmos

🌌 Available NOW on Bandcamp — grab your digital copy today and step into the neon! 🌌