Based on the traditional tune "Hills of Mexico"

Banjo and production by Handle Slide
www.handleslide.bandcamp.com
Cover art by Hannah Rothstein
www.hrothstein.com
Mastering by Woofax
https://soundcloud.com/WOOFAX

Free download

Eighteen and Eighty Three

Spotify

dont change a thing

Melancholy and uplifting featuring acoustic guitar, strings and trumpet.

Tottsea - Chasing the Sun

Reunion

I haven't slept since Monday last year
I hear him whisper to the meat so near
He nibbles cold with trembling lips of cheer
Then licks the stick and sheds a single tear

He grunts in tune with freezer hums
And sucks the marrow off his thumbs

I haven’t slept—my mind’s a wrinkled pickle
I hear the sounds of Pekka’s nightly tickle
He moans with joy, devours his porksicle
Each icy chomp, my soul grows like testicle

His window glows—a flicker, soft and sinful
He bares his chest, with posture proud and kinful
He eats the pork as if it were a hymn full
Of frost and grease and longing deep and skinful

I press my face to my own wall
And whisper threats that mean fuck all

I’m wide awake—my thoughts have turned to nickel
They clink around while Pekka licks his pickle
His frozen pork, obscene and so official
It gleams like shame upon a meat judicial

At 4 AM he cracks the plastic wrapper
A cold steam curls around his wrinkled flapper
He bites with zeal, a pagan midnight rapper
Of meat and dreams and sleepless porky clapper

I build a shrine of melatonin
And curse the taste of frozen Odin

I drift and shake—I’ve counted every tickle
Each oinkless snack that Pekka makes look fickle
The world dissolves in greasy pops so cyclical
A tired man in pork-laced purgatorial pickle

The sun arrives but brings no peace
He sucks the stick—his lips release

I knock once more upon his door
But sleep is dead, and pork is lore

I am no man—I’m salt and frost and tickle
My blood is brine, my soul a dripping spickle
All thanks to him, that pork-consuming fickle
My neighbour Pekka, king of the porksicle

Frozen Porksicle

Live at Lions, Firefly 
22:00 July 2nd 2025
Cover shot by Jess Polka

Forest of My Soul / Moontricks
This Old Town / Friend
Devil's Wine / Moontricks, Joe Newton
Bones / Moontricks (An-Ten-Nae feat. Jade Sol remix)
Mountains / Moontricks (Shylow remix)
Hear Me Roar / Scott Nice, Siren & Seer, Heather Christie
Oppression / Pickin' On Series (The Human Experience remix)
Dust Boogie / David Satori, Kaipora
Bring That Fire / Moontricks, Siren & Seer
Texas / Beyoncé (Rising Appalachia cover) (Handle Slide flip)
John Henry's Lunch Break / Handle Slide
Sunu / Rising Appalachia, The Human Experience
Sunshine / Dirtwire
Darling Corey's Stillhouse / Handle Slide
Swoon / Rising Appalachia, The Human Experience
Flicker Of The Eye / saQi feat. KR3TURE, Diamonde
Ballad Of The Deportee / Handle Slide
On The Brink / KR3TURE feat. Evan Fraser
Electric Dust / MORiLLO, KR3TURE
Did You Ever See The Devil, Uncle Joe? / Handle Slide, Permuton
Wood For The Trees / Moontricks
Web Of Life / KR3TURE, Heather Christie
Coast / Gone Gone Beyond, Moontricks
No More / Dirtwire feat. Moontricks
Eighteen And Eighty Three / Handle Slide
Love Honey (Take Me Home) / Source Active
Downtown / Rising Appalachia, The Human Experience
Stranger / Dirtwire
Stromboli / Rising Appalachia, The Human Experience

Pickin' on Lions @ Firefly 2025

half arsed lyrics to probably my first beat of the year

THE LIGHTS WERE TRAINED
TO FADE THE VEINS
 MAKE FLESH
FUFILL ITS FORM
DELETE OPAQUE
NO LONGER LINES
TO INFILTRATE
AND LEAVE YOU SPOONED
AS POSTURE DEFLATES
IN A LOST HAZE
THE PENS LIGHT
IN  THE LOST DAYS
AS YA LIFE FIGHTS
AND THE CHOICE SPLAYED
THE CURVE OF A KNIFE BLADE
YOUR LIGHT ON CALORIES
BUT YOU'RE WAY DOWN
LACKING THE WEIGHT
NO SURVIVAL
TO BE WEIGHED DOWN
FLOATING THROUGH LIFE
BUT YOU'RE FACE DOWN
IN THIS OLD TOWN
OF SHADOWS
THAT TOWERS
BUILT FROM SOME
GOLDEN BROWN
TEXTURE LIKE SUN
LAYS ME DOWN
 SIMILAR FROWNS
IT'S SO LOUD
THAT IT DROWNS OUT
LIKE A DARK CLOUD
WHEN IT PISSES DOWN
AND IT RUNS OUT
THE SLEEVES





 BLANK CANVAS
ON WHICH TO MANAGE
ALL THAT'S COME 
TO PASS
AS DAMAGE
THE LAST 
LAVISH
AFTERNOON
THAT'S AVERAGE
CONSUMED
BY LESS IS MORE
THE NOTHING WANTS
OF A SAVAGE
IN ENDLESS FORM
CHANGING
UNTIL OBSERVATION
SETS THE FACE
YOUR LEFT WITH
SALVATION
IMPRESSES WITH
THE LACK OF PRESSURE
WITH NO CHOICE
NO VOICE TO POISE
OVER A PRECIPICE
AND SLOW THE TRAIN DOWN
THE TRACKS WORN
THE FRICTIONS SLICK
THE ACTS BORN
BEFORE TIME
TO QUESTION IT
WAS IT INSTINCT
OR REALLY LESS 
OF IT
HEAVY THOUGHTS
 MESSES WITH
 THE BEST OF IT
PROMISED OUTCOMES
THERE'S LESS OF IT
YOU NEED MORE
TO BALANCE
ASSESSMENTS
OF POSITION 
OPPOSITE
RUNNING PARALLEL
ADJACENT PLACING
PACING

Watered down

Flip of the vocal + jaw harp Mike Seeger recording of the traditional tune
Fiddle, banjo and jaw harp flanging by Permuton
Whomps and wubs by Handle Slide
Mixdown/master by MORiLLO

Did You Ever See The Devil, Uncle Joe? (Handle Slide x Permuton flip)

Experimental / Soviet Soul / Folk-Hop 
A cinematic remix that reimagines the “Quiet Storm (Remix)” verses by Lil’ Kim @lilkimmusic , Prodigy and G Da Gawd (@mobb-deep-official) over the rare, unreleased 1970 version of Sofia Rotaru’s “Ionel.”
This fusion blends East Coast hip-hop and Moldovan folk-pop, creating a haunted, emotionally charged hybrid of two powerful musical cultures.
🎤 Vocals: Lil’ Kim, Prodigy, Q Da Gawd
🎶 Sample: Sofia Rotaru – Ionel (1970, unreleased version) - https://on.soundcloud.com/zZdaTnKc2a8u86371a 
🎛️ Remix & production by: Old School Reinvented using Logic Pro, iZotope RX
#QuietStormRemix #IonelRemix #LilKim #SofiaRotaru #MobbDeep #HipHopMeetsEstrada #FolkHop #Joaozinho79


Lil’ Kim × Prodigy – Quiet Storm (Ionel Folk Remix) feat. Sofia Rotaru – Ionel 1970 Sample

A psalm of comfort in cataclysmic times. With steadfast faith in the people of the world to liberate ourselves from all forms of oppression, from Gaza to Sudan to Puerto Rico to Chicago.

I first wrote and recorded this in 2020 and released it on my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/adamgottliebandonelove

Psalm 46 (The River)

אֱלֹהִ֣ים לָ֭נוּ מַחֲסֶ֣ה וָעֹ֑ז עֶזְרָ֥ה בְ֝צָר֗וֹת נִמְצָ֥א מְאֹֽד

O Jah, Elohim  
Lanu machaseh va'oz  
Ezra, ezra  
v'tzarot nimtza me'od  

And so, fear not  
Though the Earth may heave and quake  
And though the mountains  
May be swept beneath the waves  

There is a a river whose streams gleam pure  
In the city we're building, where the sacred is secure  
And God is within Her, She will shine at our dawn  
As the nations burst in uproar and Kingdoms fall...    

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יְהֹוָ֣ה צְבָא֣וֹת עִמָּ֑נוּ מִשְׂגָּֽב־לָ֨נוּ אֱלֹהֵ֖י יַעֲקֹ֣ב סֶֽלָה

Hashem tzva'ot  
Imanu misgav  
Lanu Elohei  
Yaakov selah 

Oh come and see  
All the wonders God has done  
Monsoons, typhoons,  
Earthquakes and revolutions  

Jah makes the wars cease to the ends of the earth  
Disarms the nations, takes the bombs apart, gives us rebirth  
Be still and know Her now within the soul  
See Her exalted on earth from pole to pole...  

What is your cause? Take a moment to pause and give it a thought  
What do you want? If you had a wish / Wizard of Oz /  
If you made the laws? If you ruled the world / Lauryn & Nas /  
Let's have a talk / We can philosophize / Calvin & Hobbes  
Me I'll be honest / for all of my moxie my dreams are modest /  
Playing guitar, walking my dog and being a modern psalmist /  
That'd be my job / no need to profit when you're a prophet, naw mean?  
And no living costs, I want it all for free like Santa Claus / Stop it!  
Hold the applause / maybe you're not convinced, like "whatever commie"  
What are the odds? How bout the flaws in all of our lost economies?  
What about bosses? What about cops? What about mob psychology?  
Kids behind bars, and all of the scars of worshipping gods of property?  
Real talk / ain't no facade / I really don't mean to be comic /  
But Mr. Oppressor, please tell me just what you and your bombs are guarding?  
You're at the top, and we're at the bottom / you won the game you started /   
But we got the squad / the City of God is ours / you lost it / Jah Bless!   

There is a a river whose streams gleam pure  
In the City we're building, where the sacred is secure  
And God is within Her, She will shine at our dawn  
As the nations burst in uproar and Kingdoms fall...   

Psalm 46 (The River)

Graduated from Corman Park College of Dental Numismatics in 1993, with a graduate degree in Experimental Post-Sludge.

mchorsebones@gmail.com

Dave Womer, known musically as northern drift, began his lifelong passion for music at age ten, playing guitar and performing in jazz ensembles. Expanding his craft through the early 2000s by mastering instruments like the banjo, he performed alongside artists such as Margo Valiente and gained acclaim in 2004 as the guitarist for indie pop trio Bad Penny. After a creative hiatus, Dave returns as northern drift, crafting immersive lofi tracks infused with acoustic warmth and organic textures, collaborating with artists like Hillscus, moat, and NNIK.

Instagram @a.northern.drift
email: a.northern.drift@gmail.com

A handle slide is the instant in a generic homotopy of Morse functions when a gradient trajectory connects two critical points of equal index. Its algebraic effect on the Thom-Smale complex is an elementary row/column matrix operation. handleslide@gmail.com



Long distance rummaging rapper type of fella, who needed beats so decided to try and make his own from the nefarious world of bargain vinylment. Lost track of time and realised he'd forgotten to write the words he was creating to support. Now on a mission without the time he can never find, he jigsaws verse and beats at glacial speed for fun often miss-laying the final piece- but happy in the knowledge there's fullfilment in the incomplete.

If your hearing things and wishing it was an instrumental, drop a line and i'll try to get it sorted folks.

Thanks!
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Toolage : Mpc 1000, 2500, 1210's, Microphones,Vinyl addiction,Pens, Paint, People, Computers, Freebie stickers, and other bits of shizz i'll include as they get used. 

Adam Gottlieb is a musician, poet, and cultural worker from Chicago. He is the leader of the Fusion band Adam Gottlieb and OneLove. Adam serves as a cantorial soloist for Tzedek Chicago, an international justice-based synagogue based in Chicago, IL, and is a founder of the Songs for Ceasefire project.

Adam Gottlieb & OneLove are a Chicago-based Fusion band serving songs for the revolution since 2014. They are ordinary people fighting for survival, justice, and abundance for all, delivering upbeat music that blends Reggae, Blues, Folk, Rock, Funk, Hip Hop, Latin, and more. Their 2020 album “All of You” was nominated for “Best Local Album” in the Chicago Reader’s Best of Chicago awards. In 2022 they performed live at South by Southwest at the AEMMP Records Showcase.

Born in the USSR, raised on reel-to-reel and rhythm. A life soundtracked by Soviet estrada, Euro/Italo disco, and 70s Western funk — reimagined for dancefloors and daydreams.

🌀 From Kyiv, Vilnius, Tbilisi and Moscow’75 to Ibiza and Berlin ’25
Vinyl collector turned sound collagist. Mixing Eastern Bloc nostalgia with soulful tape grit and house grooves.

🎛 Genres: Disco edits • Funk reworks • Estrada • Soul tape collages • Lo-fi groove

📡 New drops weekly | Collabs welcome

Music for your everyday life. Chillhop/jazzhop/lofi

Support on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/5YQhFX1KlOhn5yZJL22mAR?si=lUbUHHzlRDOO13CcxDW-mA

PM for booking/contact info.

@nohlifestyle
@brunchcollect
@cashbaycollection
@pueblo-vista
@karmaloftmusic

New tracks tagged #FOLK HOP