All Night Long

Electro-funk inspired by 80s NYC electro and the industrial dance sounds of bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Chakk and Hula, blending funky guitar, analogue synth bass and a pounding drum machine. 
The sequencers of the verse intertwine with guitar leading to a swooning chorus. A driving piano pushes forward the main chord change and you have the perfect expression of Milano Rovente's manifesto - soulful and funky music with an electronic heart and a love of the luscious melodies of the best pop music.

Richard Cook - Synthesizers, Drum Machines and Voices.
Richard Braithwaite - Guitar

Written, Produced, Arranged and Mixed by Richard Cook 2025.
Recorded at Logopolis and Mill Terrace.

Regret

A cosmic club revolution beamed straight from alien speakers. Make Earth Weird Again is a psychedelic, hypnotic, high-energy dance banger with chest-rattling bass, driving beats, and an immersive trippy soundscape. Alien vocoders, crowd chants, and surreal satire collide in a galactic manifesto that demands you trade the status quo for pure, interstellar chaos. Equal parts protest anthem, rave invitation, and absurd policy pitch — this is the bassline the universe warned you about. The mothership is calling, and the only law is: party harder.

Lyrics:
Attention, Citizens of Terra…
We have observed your leaders.
One star. Would not recommend.
You’ve had centuries of bad code running your planet.
We’re here to install the patch… and yes — it comes with bass.
WEIRD. WEIRD. WEIRD. WEIRD.

We’ve read your history—glitch in the loop
Serving warm greed in a velvet suit
Your oceans cry, your cities choke
We came to hack it with a cosmic stroke
WEIRD. WEIRD. WEIRD.
Trade your flag for a disco sphere
Sign your laws in a pint of beer
Currency’s gone—we pay in pulse
Dance till the status quo convulses

Spin your globe—press random seed
Swap your cops for spies who dance at speed
Every law gets read in auto-rhyme
Justice hits on the bassline time
WEIRD. WEIRD. WEIRD.

MAKE. EARTH. WEIRD. AGAIN.
Ink your vote with a glowstick pen
Raves in orbit, DMV-free
Either way, you’re vibin’ with me
MAKE. EARTH. WEIRD. AGAIN.
Free tattoos for every friend
Your next mayor’s a sentient chair
And honestly? We don’t care

Ban the traffic—open wormhole gates
Swap your ads for art that syncopates
Mandatory: bring your pet to space
NASA now runs the sandwich place
Borders fade—now it’s port-a-parties
Healthcare’s free and comes with Smarties
Minimum wage: a million hugs
Paid in mushrooms, beats, and bugs

MAKE. EARTH. WEIRD. AGAIN.
Ink your vote with a glowstick pen
Raves in orbit, DMV-free
Either way, you’re vibin’ with me
MAKE. EARTH. WEIRD. AGAIN.
Free tattoos for every friend
Your next mayor’s a sentient chair
And honestly? We don’t care

:: Citizens of Terra—Under New Funk Management, the following is law ::
War is hereby replaced with interpretive breakdance.
Political debates must occur inside foam pits.
Every Tuesday is reverse-gravity day.
You will comply… or you will party harder.
WEIRD. WEIRD. WEIRD. WEIRD.

MAKE. EARTH. WEIRD. AGAIN. — WEIRD!
Ink your vote with a glowstick pen — PEN!
Raves in orbit, DMV-free
Either way, you’re vibin’ with me
MAKE. EARTH. WEIRD. AGAIN. — DROP!
Free tattoos for every friend — FRIEND!
Your next mayor’s a sentient chair
And honestly? We don’t care

WEIRD… WEIRD… WEIRD…
This concludes your political education session.
Your vote has already been counted.
Your glowstick will arrive in three… two… one…

Make Earth Weird Again

When you can create from your soul in such a fast turnaround time its scary.

Anhedonia

The Fifth Element meets Total Recall in a land of dystopian pyramids

Egyptian Leeloo

Da-Phonk’s deleted track a squeezed ball, removed from the album due to restrictions. A dirty, raw cut that survived only as a rare hidden piece.

A Squeezed Ball

Masquerade Nation dances on the line between satire and celebration — a funky, theatrical snapshot of the strange world we’re all living in. Built on slap bass grooves, cheeky talk-sung verses, and a chant-driven chorus, the track pulls threads from British art-pop, Aussie wit, and dancefloor energy. It’s a reminder that behind every mask we wear, the beat still goes on — messy, loud, and alive.

Masquerade Nation

a quick and dirty breakbeat-inspired remix of Swarm by the great minds at Tune-Yards, for the #becometheswarm remix competition. 

Tune-Yards - Swarm (PhloxMix)

Ingredients:
A blend of Electro-funk, Broken Disco, Psychedelia, and Acid House flavours...

Electro-funk Flavours

Denis Vachon - C'est arrivé la nuit / It Happened At Night

Our society is cooked. We’re all just temporary ants. Genre hopping hold on tight. Good Luck.
Join me on this musical journey—maybe one day you’ll understand who I am.
AI helps create these songs, but it doesn’t replace the connection between us.
I’m pouring my feelings, heart, and soul into this work.
Emotions might vanish in our evolution.
Enjoy them while we still can.

Pre-save my new album out August 15th called Flinch, Then Ignite:  https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/shiitakeproducts/flinch-then-ignite

I built Shiitake Products because the world needed a home for beautiful nonsense and soul-splitting truth.

- Sometimes that looks like a dancefloor meltdown at 2am.
- Sometimes it’s a button that says “Mildly Okay Human.”
- Sometimes it’s a whispered hymn to grief.

It’s all real. It’s all me. This is my multiverse—and you’re invited.

Here, AI collides with human emotion to create music that actually means something.
From dark trap bangers to cinematic alt-rock anthems, from emo-folk confessionals to glitch-satire ballads—every track is a story, a mood, a moment.
Not built for algorithms.
Built to feel.

🎧 Genres? Trap. EDM. Alt-rock. Rap-rock. Folk. Comedy. Chaos.

🧠 Themes? Rage. Love. ADHD spirals. Existential dread. Healing. Heartbreak. Hope.

🎯 Mission? To punch through the noise—and hit something real.


🔥 Want your story turned into a song? I do that.

🎁 Every listen helps fund more sonic experiments, more weird merch, and more beautiful noise.

🔗 Links:
🎶 Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/7Hk4B9nLJs5XwqQEqOdMaU
🍎 Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/shiitake-products/1766960367
☕ Support / Custom Songs: ko-fi.com/shiitakeproducts
🌐 More chaos: shiitakeproducts.com

⚠️ Marketers & "design bros" beware: I will waste your time on purpose.

rare_version is a label for what hides between the lines. Lost takes, demos, deleted cuts, and fragments that were never meant to be seen. Nothing polished, nothing staged. Just rare moments, released as they are.

machinesforliving is a platform for my music projects. 

I trained as a ‘classical’ orchestral musician and pianist but never felt a passion for the music or instruments I played. Synthesizers were another matter altogether.  I get lost in the scope of the soundscaping and orchestration possibilities as well as the beauty of precision.

I’ve written some background for each song which can be found ‘behind’ each track. Music is a joy and part of the healing.

Some songs are also available on Art City Glimmer's Bandcamp page.

PROJECTS
Art City Glimmer: 2010 - Present. Solo electronic pop.

Milano Rovente (formerly Thieves Like Us): reactivated 2021. Funk, soul, sophistipop collaboration with Rich Braithwaite and Jon Paul.

International Electromatics: 2011-2021. EBM project with writer MM Lewis. Currently on hiatus waiting for new lyrics😁!

Outlier: 2022-Present. Sample-based hauntology project. Sound sources include 1930s movies, obscure library music, 70s easy listening, 20th Century classical, cult TV, dance and electronica.

Academy of Saints: 2023- Present. Orchestral and chamber-pop project. 

Stars of the Silver Age: 2012-Present. Exclusively analogue synthesis-based occasional project. Lockdown album written, recorded and mixed across 4 days using just an SH101 and a Volca Beats. All tracks from that available on own Soundcloud page.

Red Sky: 2018. Umbrella for instrumental / ambient pieces.

Sixth of the Seven Trees- 2015 - present.

Composer, arranger, keyboardist sound designer and programmer.

I'm DJ vAPED. I'm an EDM DJ for 20+ yrs, who loves and spins Bass & Tech House, Progressive House and Melodic House & Techno. vAPED Vibes, Dope Beats & NFTs… that’s my jam. Find me on all socials, twitch & kick as DJvAPED.

Music as a mirror: not for clichés of romance, but for stories, satire, and ideas. From wit to absurdity, from glitch to groove, every track is an experiment in bending AI into something tangible.

I have been transposing music in Black Desert Online for years now, I am taking a break and trying something new!

If it makes you happy, then thats all that matters!

New tracks tagged #ELECTRO-FUNK