an instrumental cover of Nirvana's Heart-Shaped Box with a heartbeat sample as the focus

Heartbeat-Shaped Box

I wanna tell ppl what this song is about, but I also kinda like it when artists leave the meaning up to the audience so I'm going to try and have my cake and eat it too. So that'll be fun.

It's a very personal song. It's about compromise. It's about stubbornness. It's about expectations. It's about freedom. It's about death. It's about rebirth. It's about pride. And it's about shame. It's mostly about me, although it's also about other people who are/were in my life.

I had the first verse written all the way back in Feb 2020. But I laid my version of it to rest as I gave the instrumental to someone else to try and make it their own. They may have done, I don't care, nor do I mind, my music is free for a reason. But as the years came and I came back to this to try and actually finish it, and I did.

It took me a little over 10 months but I turned a one verse 2 minute demo track into the almost 5 minute song that accidentally became the first track I've done vocals for in 4 years. 

It's almost symbolic, considering what the song's about. My first track back in the groove, my first track that I've finished in 4 years, is THIS one.

I'm proud of it. I'm proud of what I'm going to make next. And I'm proud because I made it my way, and it worked.

Hypnopompic Bardo

Live!

A new grumps mix, fresh out of the oven.

Media Fire Link:
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Game Grumps Remix - Soar Onward

Want You Gone - Live 2014

View the original song "Treaty" by Yothu Yindi here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7cbkxn4G8U

Purchase the original song here - https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/treaty/id586510491?i=586510660

Over twenty years ago, Yothu Yindi released one of the greatest and undoubtably one of the most important songs to ever come out of this country. It drew both national and international attention to the fact that Aboriginal people were never recognised as the sovereign owners of this land.

Fast forward to the present and here we are still demanding those same human rights. To add to the detriment, State and Federal governments are further eroding what little rights Indigenous Australians have.

Black Australia is still expected to tip toe around White Australia, to relinquish our pain, grief and frustrations. To tow the line, get over it, to assimilate, to fit in or fuck off, that’s the mentality we are faced with on a daily basis. Whether it's an outspoken ideal, or a mentality unknowingly taken on board, it is rife within our society, from our education systems, the media, and all the way up to the laws that govern us.

"Treaty 2015" is not about the Artists whom are involved, it's about a conversation that Black Australia has been trying to have for over two centuries now, yet to no avail.

We have been unlawfully stripped of our dignity, our land, and now in 2015, Australia is still behaving as if the wealth it has acquired is not only just, but also deserving.

The simple fact remains, there is no way the wrongs of the past could ever be forgotten or erased, but the first place we need to start is to give it back to the rightful custodians – recognise our sovereignty within this land – by way of Treaty, by ensuring our Knowledge, Lore and Culture have an equal place within the framework of Australian society.

Love, thanks and respect goes out to Yothu Yindi first and foremost, and to all of the writers of Treaty, Midnight Oil, and to the rest of the contributing artists ; Nooky, Ellie Lovegrove, Zachariiah Fielding.

Dedicated to all that stand in solidarity as a united front, we will be heard.

"This land was never given up
This land was never bought and sold
The planting of the union jack
Never changed our law at all
Now two rivers run their course
Separated for so long
I’m dreaming of a brighter day
When the waters will be one" - Yothu Yindi (Treaty).

For more information about how you can support this, head to SOS Blak Australia and Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance and join the rally to support this injustice
www.facebook.com/sosblakaustralia
www.facebook.com/WARcollective

Treaty 2015 feat. Jimblah + Nooky + Ellie Lovegrove + Zachariiah Fielding X Yothu Yindi

After an extremely difficult week of soul searching and heated debate on-and-off the field, Horrorshow reveal ‘Any Other Name’ featuring Jimblah, Thelma Plum and Urthboy, written and recorded over the weekend as a rallying cry to the nation. It calls for honesty and it calls for self-reflection.

Mixed by Mitch Kenny for the Love.
Recorded at Writers Block Studio (Universal Music Publishing Group)
Artwork by Dale Harrison
Thanks to Heath Bradby and Tony Harlow
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Horrorshow - Any Other Name feat. Jimblah, Thelma Plum & Urthboy

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Mobb Deep - Shook Ones Pt 2 ft. Nas, Ice Cube, Xzibit, Eminem

My remix of AJR and Rivers Cuomo's Sober Up.

AJR - Sober Up (SurrealLamb Remix)

A Tribute 2 A.B. Original

A.B. Original - January 26 (Instrumental)

Been fucking around for a while, but I'm back. EP coming soon.

Mann 0' War

Mann O' War

a one-stop shop for all my audio misadventures.

A.B. Original - January 26 (Instrumental)

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