Down The Surface: 21 Underground sounds from the SoundCloud community

PLANET IBIZA

Hokey - Mezz Recipe (ft. WT)

Long journey

Enigma

𝗘𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗳𝗲 by Alan Dorve

Alan Dorve
https://soundcloud.com/alandorve

Track list:
01. Nico De Andrea feat. Darla Jade – My Everything (Extended Mix)
02. Bohlale & HyperSOUL-X – Loving You (Afro Mix)
03. Naag – Liugin (El Mundo & Zazou Remix)
04. ANGELOS – Ages
05. Dennis Ferrer – Hey Hey (Jack Back Extended Remix)
06. John Junior, Rawanne & Modoi – Supergirl (Original Mix)
07. Antonela Giampietro – Tuluxiik (Original Mix)
08. Nico De Andrea & Marcus Santoro feat. Joyia – Nowhere (Extended Mix)
09. Taleman – Habitat (Erdi Irmak Extended Remix)
10. ODASOUL – I’ve Survived
11. Robleto – La Luz
12. The Angels (IL) feat. Idd Aziz – Jungle Walk (Kellerkind Remix)
13. Jim Rider – Taniura (Original Mix)
14. Michael Ritter - Always Love

https://planetibiza.net

𝗘𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗖𝗮𝗳𝗲 by Alan Dorve

Shangri -La ‘Choa-Choa’

Juhwokeup (demo) (prod. kutextc)

Shabboo Harper - Trust In Me (Original Mix) | Snippet

Greetings and good afternoon to my SC friends. This is the 10th and final song intended for my upcoming album ‘What Color Is Your Paradox’. It is also my 7th mind-blowing collaboration with our dear friend Carlos Vivanco (https://soundcloud.com/carlosvivanco-1, https://carlosvivanco1.bandcamp.com). 

This piece was highly entertaining and challenging to work on. We started with clearly defined regions (mine being the more techno sounding stuff… Carlos building the traditional instrument sections). I then mangled the whole thing, and tried to blur the lines more as the song progresses, until both worlds felt fully merged by the end. At least, that was the goal. I’ll let you decide if the structure succeeds in that regard. :)

The title is also quite significant to me at this point in my life; based on the idea of ‘masking’, and our growing inability to do so. 

If you aren’t familiar with the term ‘masking’, one Mental Health Care website I found defines it this way: “Masking often involves suppressing or hiding true emotions, which can lead to a buildup of unresolved feelings and contribute to increased stress, anxiety, and emotional turmoil in the long-term. In the context of mental health and neurodivergence, masking refers to the actions or coping strategies that individuals use to conceal their genuine thoughts, emotions, or challenges.”

It didn’t really occur to me at first that I was masking when I was younger. I guess that idea doesn’t resonate when you’re deeply lost in the illusion; at least, until something makes it obvious. But in hindsight, I’ve worn many masks over the course of my life (Art Director, Technician, Pre-Press Specialist and Graphic Artist would be some of my professional masks. And I would even go so far as to include Husband, Father and Son, since I was on auto-pilot during the earliest stages of those as well). 

As my life progressed, I felt more and more insincere in those roles. I felt something was wrong. I just couldn’t put my finger on it. Then COVID (something that actually required us to wear real masks. What irony!) came along, and miraculously changed that for all of us. We gained the necessary space we needed, to finally see the illusion more clearly. Now, that illusion grows more fragile and transparent by the day. So while I’m still in the early stages of trying to figure out the new paradigm… I suspect the really critical takeaway at this point is just recognizing when we’re being our genuine selves, and when we’re lost in a role; especially if that role is debilitating to our personal growth and well being.

Another thing I’m thinking a lot on these days…. Society is dependent on me playing those roles. And society doesn’t really care whether I’m happy or not (as long as I keep paying my bills, and buying their products, and believing their lies). So maybe, just maybe, society doesn’t have my best interests at heart (as I had originally hoped). Maybe… just maybe… we’re going to need to redefine who we are personally, as we stop playing along with this globally unconscious and ultimately destructive agenda.

Thick and chunky topic, I know. But that’s the way the world feels to me these days… like we needed a brisk slap across the face to wake us all up. COVID was that slap (and probably just the first of many still to come). It’s time to prioritize our own self interests; because if we don’t, they certainly won’t. So rip off those masks, and let your freak flag fly. It’s our life, and we’ll be the ones sitting on our deathbed, asking ourselves if we lived life true to ourselves…. or if we just fulfilled the role demanded by this illusion.

We hope you enjoy “Cracks In The Surface”; and it inspires you to think about what aspects of your reality are cracking. Keep in mind… if you still have a pulse, there is always time to change things up. :)

Paradox?

Cracks In The Surface | Carlos Vivanco & GrevusAnjl

THE BORDER EXPRESS
Written by Mike from UNGUIDED EXPRESS (Bass & Drums) and
ANDREW BORDERICK (Guitars &  Keys) 
Mixed & Mastered by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2024 AB Music
Special thanks to Mike Gabriel for the invite to this amaxing track.

INFINITY

THE BORDER EXPRESS

THE BORDER EXPRESS - Collab with UNGUIDED EXPRESS

True Love

■Youtube
https://youtu.be/90WxrPZql3w?si=_aAXOfr7Veoj7P8O

■概要(Overview)
ある日、彼女はルーレットを回しました。
自分の運命は自分で決める。そう、それは運命のルーレットです。

「いつ崩壊するかわからない、砂のお城に住むのは嫌。」
「まずは山を買おう！そしてタケノコを育てて本物のお城を買うの！」

たちまち努力は実を結び、全て彼女の計画通りに進みます。
そんなある日、いつものように彼女は収穫したタケノコを売るために街を目指します。
しかし、一つのタケノコを落としてしまい、コロコロと湖に落ちていきます。
「ああ、完璧だった私の計画が崩壊していく・・」
・・・・・・・・・・・・
そんな感じの曲です。
説明が長い！くどい！・・なにはともあれ、新曲です。
Vocalサンプルも少し入れていて、英語がわからない私が聴くと「Down Down Takenoko」と聞こえたので、このタイトルになっています。

またいつものように即興ギターを組み合わせて無理やり曲にしました。
エレアコを修理して、DIも買って、ご機嫌でギターを弾きました・・ほかの音に埋もれたけど(^^)
説明が長い！くどい！はい、すみません。以上です。

■Overview
One day she spun the roulette wheel.
She decides her own destiny. Yes, it's the roulette of fate.

"I don't want to live in a sand castle, not knowing when it will collapse."
"First, let's buy a mountain! Then we'll grow bamboo shoots and buy a real castle!"

Soon her efforts bear fruit and everything goes according to her plan.
One day, as usual, she heads to town to sell the bamboo shoots she has harvested.
However, she drops a bamboo shoot and it falls into the lake.
"Ah, my perfect plan is falling apart..."
・・・・・・・・・・・・
It's a song like that.
Long explanation! Tired! ...Anyway, it's a new song.
It also includes a few vocal samples, and when I listened to it even though I don't understand English, it sounded like "Down Down Takenoko," hence the title.

Also, as usual, I combined it with improvised guitar and forced it into a song.
I repaired the electric acoustic guitar, bought a DI, and played the guitar in a good mood...although it was buried in other sounds (^^)
Long explanation! Tired! Yes, sorry. that's all.

■歌詞
運命のルーレット　回り始めて
身震いしているの　さっきからずっと

砂のお城に住んでいるような気分で
今日まで生きてきた

抱えきれないほどの　タケノコを元手に生きていく
見渡す限りの竹林　それを育てていきましょう

山を買うの
タケノコの山
回り始めたのルーレット


遠心力で投げ出されそうになってからルールに気付くよりも
いっそ　自分で回したルーレットの
結末を見てみたくなったの


それから十年の　歳月が過ぎても　尚回る
見渡す限りの竹林　トラックでタケノコ運ぶ

街に向かう途中の道で
転がるタケノコ　湖に

水中のパンダ：Down Down Takenoko..!(落ちてこい！)
私：No!(落ちないで！)
・・・

運命のルーレット
止まってしまうわ・・・

私が手にしたものが崩れてゆく
いまはもう　ただの砂の城にしか見えないわ
悲しいけれど
運命のルーレット

■Lyrics
The roulette of fate begins to spin
I've been trembling ever since

I've lived up until today feeling like I was living in a sandcastle.

Living with an abundance of bamboo shoots as an asset
Let's grow the bamboo forest as far as the eye can see.

I'm going to buy a mountain
That's a mountain of bamboo shoots
The roulette is starting to spin now


Rather than realizing the rules after you're about to be thrown out by centrifugal force.
Anyway, I wanted to see the outcome of the roulette wheel I spun myself.


Even after ten years have passed since then, it still keeps going.
Bamboo forest as far as the eye can see, transporting bamboo shoots by truck

On the road on the way to town
Bamboo shoots are rolling into the lake

Underwater Panda: Down Down Takenoko..!
Me: No! (Don't fall!)
...

Ah, if this continues, the roulette wheel of fate will stop...

What I have in my hands is falling apart
Now it just looks like a sandcastle
Although sad
roulette of fate

Down Down Takenoko

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Shabboo Harper - Trust In Me (Original Mix) | Snippet

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