I was chilling at my desk, half listening to the hum of my speakers, when the air in front of me rippled like heat off asphalt. At first, I thought it was just my tired eyes, but then the ripple split clean, silent into a glowing rift. My weed and rolling papers lifted, floating toward it as if gravity had changed its mind. My chair rolled forward on its own. I grabbed the desk, but the pull was relentless, hungry. The room stretched, warped, colors bleeding into each other. My fingers slipped from the edge. With one last breath of familiar air, the rift swallowed me whole.

A RIFT IN REALITY

RAMPART RANGE (Dubstep Bootleg)

ESC PRODUCER BATTLE 002 — Hosted by YOTTABYTE [USA] 
140 BPM • Deep Dub • Open Genre

Electric Sunshine Cult proudly presents Producer Battle 002, hosted by Yottabyte (USA) — a rising bass producer from Atlanta, Georgia, known for his textured low-end design, FL Studio workflow, and signature Serum 2 sound shaping.

:control_knobs: Host Info — YOTTABYTE [USA]
• Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
• DAW: FL Studio
• Tools: Serum 2
• Style: Deep Dub / Dubstep / Bass
:link: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/yottabytedubs

:headphones: TRACKLIST (In Order)
1 · 𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐁𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐘 — Potato Launcher [ESC PRODUCER BATTLE 002]
Artist: Kritthanaphong Estac
Location: Rayong, Thailand
:link: SoundCloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/QuNidqpJIgUuVPZmh8
Style: Experimental Deep Dub
DAW: Other

2 · Influensik — Deep Sea [ESC PRODUCER BATTLE 002]
Artist: Artur S.
Location: Leszno, Poland
:link: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/the-influensik
Style: Deep Dub / Original Production
DAW: FL Studio

3 · EXCELLS — CREATING CELLS [ESC PRODUCER BATTLE 002]
Artist: Valentin Ionut Lungeanu
Location: Almeria, Spain
:link: SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/excellsmusic
Style: Classic Deep | Brostep
DAW: FL Studio

4 · Distorted Vortex — 2-TILTED [ESC PRODUCER BATTLE 002]
Artist: Kane Edwards
Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK
:link: guns.lol: https://guns.lol/_x
:link: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4pStsQhjvj1F3UeblIa6tA
:link: Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/distorted-vortex/1086111862
:link: Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.co.uk/artists/B01CG65276/distorted-vortex
Style: First-time Deep Dub Production
DAW: FL Studio

5 · Rave.Wave — ying schläang [ESC PRODUCER BATTLE 002]
Artist: Raffael Günther
Location: Bayreuth, Germany
:link: SoundCloud #1: https://soundcloud.com/rlfe_un0fficial
:link: SoundCloud #2: https://soundcloud.com/raffael-409211234
:link: YouTube: https://gate.sc/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F%40Raffael_Official_Progress
Style: Genre-Fluid Deep Dub
DAW: Ableton Live

:pencil: Rules & Info

• 100% original production
• Must follow 140 BPM Deep Dub
• One submission per producer
• All tracks are publicly posted to the ESC SoundCloud

:speech_balloon: Community & Support
Join the ESC Discord for feedback, collabs & upcoming challenges:
:link: https://discord.gg/BxKSZsBn
:yellow_circle: Hosted by: Yottabyte [USA]

ELECTRIC SUNSHINE CULT

Rave.Wave - ying schläang [ESC PRODUCER BATTLE 002]

This track explores the inevitable decay of hope and the realization that the wheels have finally come undone. Exploring themes of aging, isolation, and the exposure of our darkest secrets, "On a Long Enough Timeline" is a cynical look at mortality. It asks the question: Was I chosen, or was this just a joke? The answer is buried in the smoke. 

A dark Velvet-Trip soundscape about the inevitability of the end.

Sub-bass, goth guitars, whispered vocals, and noir aesthetics.

Lyrics:

[Intro]

[Verse 1]
Is it the end or just the intro
I could have been a hero or an old joke
Was I chosen, was it spoken
I have to know
On a long enough timeline we all get the smoke
I need to know

[Chorus]
The road's gone on too long
The wheels have come undone
The rearview mirror's lost its reflection
I wish I was still young
I wish I still had some hope that my voice mattered or it would make a difference
So I carry on
And I hold on
Till they come and take me home
Take me home

[Post-Chorus]
Take me home

[Verse 2]
Can you hear me, am I fading
I need to know
On a long enough timeline
We all die alone
I need to know

[Chorus]
The road's gone on too long
The wheels have come undone
The rearview mirror's lost its reflection
I wish I was still young
I wish I still had some hope that my voice mattered or it would make a difference
So I carry on
And I hold on
Till they come and take me home
Take me home

[Post-Chorus]
Take me home

[Bridge]
The door's closed, it's too late
But there's something I need to say
They got the best of us and I need to know
If there's a hell below we're all gonna go
And on a long enough timeline
We all get exposed

[Chorus]
The road's gone on too long
The wheels have come undone
The rearview mirror's lost its reflection
I wish I was still young
I wish I still had some hope that my voice mattered or it would make a difference
So I carry on
And I hold on
Till they come and take me home
Take me home

[Outro]
Take me home

Conduit - On a Long Enough Timeline

Sumer — the first civilisation.
Now its last surviving echoes rise again…
a forgotten tribe returning through sound.

This track is a ritual of dust and memory —
deep dub bass, slow desert rhythms,
and sub-frequencies that feel like they’re shaking the old world awake.

A journey back to the dawn of humanity,
where ancient Sumerian spirits moved through drums,
and music was not entertainment —
it was a ceremony.

Let the sands open.
Let the tribe return.
Let the first civilisation breathe again.

Sumerian Ritual

In the heart of the ancient Mesopotamian desert,
where Sumerian rituals shaped the first stories of mankind,
this track rises like a forgotten ceremony reborn.

A deep, slow pulse echoes through the dunes —
dub bass, trembling sub-layers, and the sound of a tribe
keeping their oldest traditions alive.

This isn’t just music.
It’s a revival of Sumerian rites:
the chants, the fire circles, the desert drums
that once connected humans to the gods of the old world.

Every beat is a fragment of that ancient culture —
dust, myth, rhythm, and memory —
calling back the spirit of the first civilisation.

Let the ritual begin again.

Temple of the First Tribe

Across the endless desert, where the wind still carries the forgotten voices of ancient deities,
“Dunes of the Old Gods” awakens.

This track is a slow ritual —
dub bass rising like heat from the sand,
sub-frequencies trembling beneath the dunes,
and echoes shaped by the earliest myths of humanity.

Here, the old gods never died.
They sleep beneath the desert, waiting for sound to call them back.
Every beat, every pulse, is a whisper from that timeless world —
a blend of Sumerian rhythm, dust, memory, and divine silence.

Step into the dunes.
Let the ancient ones breathe again.

Dunes of the Old Gods

Above the silent desert sky,
where the night opens like an ancient book,
the stars begin their quiet ceremony.

Each one a distant fire,
each spark a memory from a world we’ve never seen —
guiding travelers, whispering secrets,
and shining with the light of thousands of forgotten suns.

In this track, the stars become rhythms:
slow pulses, cosmic echoes,
melodies drifting across the dark like dust made of light.

A journey into the endless sky,
where time dissolves,
and the universe speaks in frequencies older than humanity.

Let the stars lead you.
Let the night unfold.
Let the music shine where no light ever reaches.

STARS   |   ستاره ها

thousands of forgotten suns

Lyric

I was moving through my days like a quiet echo,
shadows passing, lights fading,
until your voice cut through the silence
and everything shifted.

I’d been drifting for a long time,
keeping my distance from the world,
trying not to feel the weight
of all the things I never said.

But you appeared like something steady,
something I didn’t know I needed
a calm in the noise,
a moment that felt real again.

And suddenly the walls inside me
didn’t feel so permanent.
You made the dark a little softer,
and the light easier to face.

Stay close tonight,
not because I’m lost
but because something in you
feels like the truth I’ve been avoiding.

You look at me like you see it all,
and somehow I’m not afraid.
Stay close tonight…
just close enough to matter.

I never trusted quiet moments
they always felt like endings.
But with you, the silence breathes,
opens,
lets me exist without pretending.

Your hands, your calm, your presence
they don’t fix me,
they don’t try to
they just make the weight feel lighter
for a while.

And I’m not searching for salvation,
just someone who feels real
when the night pulls everything apart.

Stay close tonight,
not to rescue me
but because you fit in places
I thought were closed forever.

You look at me like I’m still here,
like I’m worth being seen.
Stay close tonight…
just close enough to matter.

Maybe this isn’t chance…
maybe it’s something waking up in me.
And if it is
I’m ready.

If you stay close,
I’ll stay honest.
If you stay close,
I’ll stay real.

This piece explores longing, presence, and the quiet space between two hearts. It moves slowly, deliberately, allowing emotion to rise naturally into a final release filled with depth and tension. A cinematic, spiritual flow designed to be felt, not just heard.

Written, mixed and mastered by Paulo Oliveira (Echoes of Light).

Stay Close

Echoes of Light is an independent music producer who transforms emotion, memory, and real human experience into atmospheric, progressive and cinematic sound. The project was born during a period of deep personal loss, where music became a way to survive, to heal, and to give meaning to moments that words could no longer carry.

With roots in the classic hi-fi world of the 80s and 90s, and supported by formal training in sound engineering, Echoes of Light combines technical precision with emotional depth. Years of work in mixing through the Cambridge Music Technology program helped refine a unique approach to sound design — from controlling bleed in drum recordings to shaping immersive textures and expressive dynamics.

On the technical side, the project has been strongly informed by educators and engineers such as Dan Worrall and Mark Daniel Nelson, whose in-depth explanations of plugins, dynamics and mixing workflows helped shape a deeper understanding of modern audio. The creative inspiration itself, however, comes from within: from lived experience, personal dedication and a constant search for honest expression.

Musically, Echoes of Light blends progressive metal, atmospheric rock, and cinematic soundscapes, creating tracks that feel intimate, emotional, and expansive. Every composition carries a fragment of a story — a moment of truth captured in sound.

Echoes of Light exists where emotion, technique, and storytelling meet.
Here, every track means something.
Here, every sound has a past.
And every listen is a connection.

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Conduit

Formed in 1989 as various other names until we settled on Conduit in the early 1990's. Started jamming in a chicken coop, recorded music on a 4-track reel-to-reel, evolved to digital technology, Cakewalk, Acid Loops, etc... in the 1990-2000's.

Producer & visual artist exploring desert rhythms, ritual bass, and ancient Sumerian echoes.
My music blends deep dub, slow electronic grooves, and Middle-Eastern textures to revive the spirit of the first civilisation.
Soundscapes shaped by dust, memory, and myth.

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