“Guide Me Home” is an uplifting yet emotionally weighty track that blends melodic introspection with powerful heavy rock instrumentation. The song begins with a delicate acoustic arpeggio before erupting into a driving palm-muted riff, mirroring the journey from vulnerability to strength.

Lyrically, it explores themes of redemption, resilience, and finding light after a long struggle with inner darkness. The verses reflect regret, scars, and the haunting echoes of past mistakes, while the pre-chorus introduces a guiding presence—an inner voice, a loved one, or a spiritual call—that pulls the narrator back from collapse. The chorus delivers a cathartic rise, transforming pain into determination and isolation into connection.

The bridge intensifies the emotional arc, symbolizing liberation as chains break and healing becomes real. A soaring guitar solo amplifies the sense of triumph, leading into a final, slower and more heartfelt chorus that feels like a victorious exhale. The song closes gently, returning to acoustic tones, signifying peace, closure, and newfound clarity.

“Guide Me Home” balances heaviness with hope, making it a powerful anthem of recovery, renewal, and the rediscovery of the self.

Guide Me Home

“Heart Machine” fuses industrial heaviness with emotional decay, capturing the feeling of a soul replaced by cold machinery. Driven by a grinding bass and a crushing palm-muted riff, the track explores a heart turned to iron — caged, mechanical, and stripped of warmth. The verses depict a body becoming metal, gears replacing flesh, and sparks fading in the dark, while the chorus erupts with the agony of a spirit trapped inside its own steel shell. The bridge builds into a roar of distortion and metallic fury, as the machine consumes what remains of humanity. With its relentless rhythm, clanking tension, and ghost-in-the-gears imagery, “Heart Machine” embodies the struggle between what we were… and what we’re becoming.

Heart Machine

“Into the Void” drifts into a state of exhaustion, numbness, and spiritual collapse. Opening with a solitary bass line, the track sinks into the sensation of being burned out, disconnected, and crushed beneath pressures that offer no relief. The verses paint a bleak picture of suffocation and emotional paralysis, while the chorus echoes the isolation of disappearing into an empty, silent abyss with no hand reaching back. The bridge brings a desperate struggle against the current — fragments of identity, scattered strength, and a fading instinct to survive. With its cold atmosphere, haunting progression, and sinking momentum, “Into the Void” captures the feeling of fading out of the world, not with rage, but with resignation.

Into the Void

“Learning to Fly” rises from the darkness with a powerful riff and an emotional surge toward renewal. After being trapped in shadows, echoes, and self-made lies, the song marks a turning point — a moment where the weight finally lifts and the chains fall away. The chorus opens into a soaring release, capturing the feeling of breaking free, reclaiming identity, and discovering a sense of home beyond the scars of the past. With melodic leads, uplifting progression, and a triumphant bridge, the track stands as a rare moment of clarity and ascension within Gravel Crown’s world of decay and inner struggle. This is the sound of transformation — of finally breathing, rising, and learning to fly.

Learning to Fly

“Oblivion” descends into a bleak and isolated inner landscape where identity fractures and hope dissolves into silence. With slow, sludgy guitars and a suffocating low-end atmosphere, the track explores the feeling of being trapped within one’s own mind — fighting shadows, facing a reflection that no longer resembles anything alive, and realizing that neither self-salvation nor redemption can be reached. The chorus carries a haunting inevitability, accepting that both connection and self-preservation crumble in the end. The bridge drifts into a ghostly, distant lament, revealing a world without deliverance, where even tears have dried but the bleeding never stops. Fading into drone and emptiness, “Oblivion” captures the quiet collapse of a soul disappearing into nothingness.

Oblivion

Tracklist

1- JayDee Martin, Journey of the Soul - Forest
2- Slow Hearts - Higher Than the Clouds
3- Trigger Finger, Juan Domecq - Serene Echoes
4- Gon - Reverie
5- Keinemusik &ME, Rampa, Adam Port - Feeling feat. RY (Van Vazquez Unofficial Edit)
6- Ventt, Keparys - Last Night on Earth
7- Engelhart - What You Give
8- Arun K - Whispers of the Forest
9- Slow Hearts - Flight of Freedom
10- Ventt & Keparys - Another Sky
11- Ventt, Keparys - 1989
12- Nacho Varela, Nauel, Cruz Vittor - Underworld (Volen Sentir Remix)
13- Engelhart - New Beginnings
14- Carlos Bacchüs - Counting Down The Days
15- Sense IS - Na Krau Sveta (Juan Domecq Remix)
16- Arina Mur - Endless Summer (Ventt Remix)
17- DSF & Joahn Dashi - Venus Girl (Audiotones & Alex Alcocer Remix)
18- Tyler Mesa - Rhea
19- Skimer - Vega
20- ID - ID (mredrollo Remix)
21- Ivan Vanilov - Go Fast
22- Florian Gasperini - Path to Healing (Mariano Montori Remix)
23- MI.LA - Dew (Return to Saturn Remix)
24- Draso - Bloom (Mass Digital Remix)
25- André Shanga - Change My Mind (Armando Nico Remix)
26- Simon Vuarambon - Strange Way
27- Kyotto, Artic White - Respiro
28- Bross (RO) - Trubadour (Nacho Varela & Cruz Vittor Remix)
29- Beije - Writing on Water 
30-Alucidnation - Solitaire (Matur Edit)

San Pancho, 3hs B2B Emko Blues - Gaston Gari (Organic Sunset) [Broken Bay Brewery, 14/11/25] (35)

#	Artist	Track Title
1	SURFFACE	 - Make it Happen (Original Mix)
2	Booka Shade - Love Inc (Original Mix)
3	Ron Flatter	- EL Alma (Original Mix)
4	Double Touch - Amour (Original Mix)
5	Artic White - Cobalto (Extended Mix)
6	Double Touch, Wassu - Dolores (Original Mix)
7	Gux Jimenez, Dastan - High Priestess (Newman (I Love) Remix)
8	Booka Shade - Reading Rainbows (Original Mix)
9	Max Wexem - Zeus (Original Mix)
10	Zankee Gulati, Amega - Dark Side (Pambouk Remix)
11	Khen - My Pure Soul (Original Mix)
12	Wassu - Aerobic (Djimboh Remix)
13	Anonimat - Shibuya (Newman (I Love) Remix)
14	Lee Burridge, Lost Desert - April Fools (Extended Mix)
15	VICTHOR - The Dawn (Original Mix)
16	Guy Mantzur, Khen - Where Is Home (Matthias Meyer Remix)
17	Jonathan Kaspar - Are You (Original Mix)
18	Tinlicker, Thomas Oliver - Soon You'll Be Gone (Extended Mix)
19	BadWolf, Soff - Dame Mas (Original Mix)
20	OMRI. - Nothing Wrong (Love Mix)
21	Jim Rider - Rhythm  (Extended Mix)
22	Rafael, Millero - Say That (Original Mix)
23	mredrollo - Funkinmusic (Original Mix)
24	Busiswa, let me you, BERNT - flight mode (Âme Remix)
25	Dino Lenny - House of Magic (Extended Mix)

Manaslu - Live at Kinki Bar, Singapore 4th December 2025

In this emotive indie-electronic version of Soundgarden's "Black Hole Sun", an apocalypse becomes an intimate moment where the melody floats like a final confession into the abyss.
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LYRICS:
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In my eyes
Indisposed
In disguises 
No one knows
Hides the face
Lies the snake
And the sun 
In my disgrace

Boiling heat
Summer stench
Neath the black
The sky looks dead

Call my name
Through the cream
And I'll hear you scream again

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come

Won't you come?

Stuttering
Cold and damp
Steal the warm wind
Tired friend
Times are gone
For honest men
Sometimes far too long for snakes

In my shoes
Walking sleep
In my youth
I pray to keep

Heaven send
Hell away
No one sings 
Like you anymore

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come 

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come 

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come

Won't you come?

Hang my head
Drown my fear
Till you all just disappear

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come

Black hole sun
Won't you come
And wash away the rain?
Black hole sun
Won't you come
Won't you come 

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come...

Black hole sun, black hole sun
Won't you come...

Won't you come?

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BLACK HOLE SUN

A very brief overview of the music I've listened to over the last 35 years...

Back To Roots dj.set

Celebrating 30 years of Soundgarden’s 5th album ‘Superunknown’, Block Party resident BobaFatt mixes up a bunch of cuts from the Seattle grunge band’s classic record, fronted by the late, great Chris Cornell.

This is an extended 22-minute version of a mix originally broadcast on BBC 6 Music, on Saturday March 16th 2024 on The Huey Show.

The mix was repeated again on Friday April 5th 2024 (as part of a grunge-related 'Kurt Cobain Forever' special show). The 15-minute radio edit is also included here immediately after, for the completists!

TRACKLIST:

Various - 1 Minute of The Huey Show

My Wave
The Day I Tried To Live
Limo Wreck
4th of July
Fresh Tendrils
Mailman
Spoonman
Fell On Black Days
Black Hole Sun
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Bonus:
Chris Cornell - Seasons

15 MINUTE MIX EDIT (Repeat from 5.4.24)

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Mixed & Curated by Bobby Bignell aka BobaFatt, Spring 2024.
The Huey Show is produced by Tom 'T-Bone' Whalley.
Hosted by Huey Morgan.


Soundgarden Block Party | BBC 6 Music

👽 Progressive house | Organic house 🌈

All my sets are recorded live
Todos mis sets fueron grabados en vivo

Audiophile and DJ for own pleasure and maybe yours too! :-)

Gravel Crown is a musical project born where dark grunge collides with the slow, crushing weight of melancholic metal. With low-tuned riffs, introspective vocals that erupt into harmonized emotional choruses, and lyrics that explore ruin, guilt, and transcendence, the band shapes a sound that is raw, emotional, and dust-laden — as harsh and heavy as a crown made of gravel.

Influenced by Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, Motörhead, and Metallica, Gravel Crown carries the spirit of shadows, rust, splintered wood, and hardened earth. Its songs resonate like muted confessions beneath the weight of the world, searching for light between cracks and inner ashes.

More than music, Gravel Crown is an atmosphere — heavy, dirty, poetic, and human.

DJing since 1992.

SOHO RADIO | Fortnightly Friday 6-8pm
FIRST WORD RECORDS | Label Manager

*FACT Mag: 'Top 20 Unsung DJs' 2014

*BBC 1XTRA: "M1X It Up" Champ 2006

*BBC 6 MUSIC | Block Party Resident 2022-2025

*WORLDWIDE AWARDS Label of the Year 2019 (First Word)

*MIXCLOUD Best Alternative Radio Show 2015 (Rough Trade)

*MIXCLOUD Top 100 Cloudcasts 2013: BAd BReaks

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Go to my MIXCLOUD & HEARTHIS pages, there's LOADS more stuff over there! x

House Music

Organic | Progressive | Deep | Melodic

DJ Manaslu takes inspiration from the mystique and spirit of the Himalayan peak.  Rooted in the Sanskrit word manasa, meaning “soul” or “spirit,” DJ Manaslu’s sets are crafted to be an ascent of rhythmic exploration, blending the meditative qualities of organic and deep house with the powerful, driving beats of progressive and tech house. 

Known for weaving together cutting-edge sounds with emotive, atmospheric elements, DJ Manaslu creates an experience that’s both grounding and transcendent.

Inspired by Lee Burridge, Tim Green, Sebastien Leger, John Digweed, Spencer Brown, MOS, Wassu, Zankee Gulati, Weird Sounding Dude, Volen Sentir, Dee Montero, Terry Francis, Nick Warren, and plenty more... 

Enjoy listening.

DM for bookings.

Thank you _/\_

SINCERE IMPOSTER is an intimate collection of artists exploring a curious mixture of New Wave, Dance, EDM, Folk Rock, Metal, Art Pop, Electro, Dreamwave, and Experimental World Pop. Collectively, this is known as QUIRKPOP — music that pushes the creative limits of traditional pop.

Expect an unpredictable journey through sound, emotion, and humor, where genres collide and pop bends in strange new ways. Each song is conceived, composed, and performed with total sincerity, whether it’s built from voices, instruments, software, or hybrid experimentation. The focus is on the music itself: if it resonates, it resonates. No explanation required.

SINCERE IMPOSTER is curated by two musicians, both living within the same body, sharing a singular existence. They identify as Danielle & Dave. They are both psychologically and musically confused, yet extremely and unapologetically sincere.

Influences range from Weird Al and Nathan Fielder to David Lynch, Rosalia, Monatik, Atarashii Gakko!, Rammstein, T-Pain, and T-Swift. 

Danielle & Dave’s favorite inventions include the vacuum and the peach pitter. Their father is simply known as Vessel… who may be an entity or a god.


New tracks tagged #Soundgarden