Bass Funkin - prt 11

It stands slender and dark as midnight, a column of polished shadow waiting for breath. At its silver fingertips, tiny moons glint like secrets, restless to be touched. One inhale, and life pours into its narrow throat—warm, trembling, eager to speak.

The first tone slips out like velvet smoke, curling through crowded rooms and quiet hearts alike. It is a whisper that becomes a river, smooth and winding, never breaking even as it rushes faster. It tells stories with curves instead of words, bending melodies like streetlights bending puddles into gold.

Sometimes it weeps, soft as rain beneath umbrellas. Sometimes it laughs, bright and sharp, scattering notes like confetti over a dance floor. In the hands of its keeper, it becomes a sly magician: one moment mournful, the next bursting with mischief, never revealing how it changed so quickly.

Crowds draw close, pulled by the mystery of its voice—an instrument of longing, of joy, of smoke-filled jazz rooms and moonlit sidewalks. It does not shout to be heard. It simply sighs, and the world listens.

When the final breath leaves it, silence falls heavy, as though the night itself is holding its pulse. And though it rests, unplayed, a quiet promise lingers in its dark body: the music is still there—sleeping, waiting for another breath to wake it.

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Scouts the Vibes🎵 “Polished Black Wand” Album: Vibrations, Frequency, and Sequence. -2025

Echoes in the Hallway

In the morning, the building hums awake. It starts with the neighbor above, who slams drawers like she’s packing her fury into them. The pipes beneath the bathroom sink murmur, gossiping through metal like they’ve heard far too much. Someone’s blender roars to life at 6:17 every morning, as if shredding fruit can grind the whole world into something smoother.

You live three doors down from the guy who laughs too loudly at shows he watches alone. His laughter tumbles through the vents, reaching you just as your coffee brews. It’s almost contagious. Almost. On nights when the loneliness gets loud, you wait for it again, hoping it will arrive like a familiar punchline.

Behind thin walls, whole lives happen in pieces. Children stomp like miniature giants. Couples argue in low voices, the way some people pray—intensely, in spurts, with long silences afterward. Someone plays the same guitar riff over and over, chasing perfection that almost never lands. A baby cries like it’s trying to remember who it came here looking for.

You hear them all. You don’t see their faces, but their moods echo through drywall like ghosts with schedules. Sometimes you want to knock on every door just to say, I hear you. I’m here too. But this building is full of closed doors and busy stares in moments of elevator awkwardness. People carry groceries, take out trash, scroll through their phones, and pretend none of you share a heartbeat through the plumbing.

Yet, sometimes, kindness slips through the cracks. A neighbor holds the door a little longer than necessary. Someone leaves extra oranges in a basket by the mailboxes. The guitar player gets better, the riff finally landing clean. On those nights, applause rises in your chest, though you clap only in thought.

The building sleeps differently than it wakes. At night, it sighs. Footsteps soften. Arguments become murmurs. Pipes cool their gossip. Laughter fades into the glow of silent TVs. And in the hush, you hear something unexpected—not the noise of lives colliding, but the quiet fact of living together.

Everyone alone, yet not entirely.

You lie in bed and listen, feeling the thin walls thicken in a way that isn’t physical. You realize you’re part of the echo too—one more story folded into the building’s restless heartbeat. And though you may never know the names behind the drywall, you know this: every sound is a reminder that you are surrounded by human life, loud, flawed, messy, and beautifully present.

And even if you never speak, you belong to the chorus.

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Scouts the Vibes🎵 “Echoes in the Hallway” Album: Vibrations, Frequency, and Sequence. -2025

Setting up the striped tent of magic - Scouts The Vibes

Beneath the last blush of daylight, where the sun softened into evening like melting sherbet, a caravan of circus wagons rolled to a quiet patch of field. Dust rose, dancing in the warm breeze, and the performers stepped out—clowns with paint still smudged from rehearsal, trapeze flyers with chalked hands, musicians humming scales into the air.

They gathered around the bundled canvas, thick and heavy like a sleeping giant. The clowns cracked jokes as they pulled ropes taut, pockets jingling with stray confetti. The trapeze team worked in silence, eyes sharp and reverent, fastening metal beams as if building a cathedral for the sky. Musicians hammered stakes into earth to the rhythm of a slow drumbeat, laughing when the tempo synced by accident.

As dusk spilled deeper, the big top rose—red and gold stripes swelling upward, claiming space against the darkening horizon. Ropes tightened, stakes settled, and then, like the first breath of a waking dragon, the lights flickered on. Rows of bulbs circled the tent’s crown, glowing amber and honey, shimmering against the cool blue of the early night. One by one they brightened, until the field no longer felt like a field at all, but a gateway to another world.

The musicians tuned beneath the glow, their instruments catching the light—horns blazing like fireflies, violins glimmering like polished moonbeams. Trapeze bars were lifted to their heights, swaying gently, waiting for hands to grab and hearts to trust the fall. Clowns painted the final flourishes on their faces, their mirrors shining back a thousand exaggerated smiles, each one full of mischief and devotion.

In the hush before the crowd would come, the performers stood together outside the glowing tent, breathing in the scent of sawdust, popcorn, oil lanterns, and grass. Night gathered above them like a velvet curtain, studded with shy stars. The circus lights hummed like constellations remade by human hands, warm enough to rival the heavens.

And in that moment—before the applause, before the leaps and laughter, before the drums ignited the air—they felt it:
magic unfolding in the dark,
like a promise written in light.

Tonight, they would not just perform—they would turn night into wonder. 
They would make the stars jealous.

Scouts the Vibes🎵 “Love Craft” Album: Vibrations, Frequency, and Sequence. -2025

In the gray-blue hush of early morning, the crew gathered on the spit—boots crunching over frosted gravel, breath drifting like smoke in the cold Alaskan fog. The boat waited at the dock, its hull beaded with dew, deck lights casting soft halos in the mist. No one spoke much; they didn’t need to. Out here, the day always greeted you first.

They cast off quietly, the engine rumbling low as they slipped into the stillness of Cook Inlet. The fog clung to the water like a heavy blanket, and the shoreline faded behind them as they made their slow turn toward the long reach of Turnagain Arm. It was a place they all knew well—tide-worn, unpredictable, full of the kind of moods only Alaska could muster.

Fishing for a living had shaped them, sure—callused hands, stubborn hope, a willingness to meet whatever the ocean decided to throw their way. But even more than that, it had given them seats to the greatest show on earth. As the sun began to push through, pale gold spilled across the fog, turning the inlet into a shimmering sheet of light. The mountains rose in ghostly silhouettes, sharp and patient, their snowcaps glowing like embers under fresh breath.

Seals watched from drifting ice. Gulls hung suspended in the calm morning air. Far ahead, where the inlet narrowed and twisted, the bore tide whispered its slow approach.

They checked their gear. They talked weather and tides. But mostly, they looked.

Because out here, the work was only half the story. The other half was this—the quiet wonder, the heartbeat of distant glaciers, the way the water seemed to hold ancient secrets under its silver skin.

As they headed north, deeper into the arm, the fog finally lifted, revealing a sky so wide it felt like a promise. The crew smiled at one another—not because the fishing would be good, though they hoped it would be—but because they were right where they belonged.

In the wild breath of Alaska, living in harmony with nature and finding beauty at every turn.

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Scouts the Vibes -🎵 “Bumpin on the Bay” Album: Vibrations, Frequency, and Sequence. - 2025

The Comet and the Three - Scouts the Vibes

The town had long forgotten the old brick building at the edge of the rail yard. Its windows were broken, its paint sun-bleached, and its hallways haunted by the whispers of decades-old echoes. But on nights when the moon was thin and the air felt charged, it became something else—a sanctuary for sound.

Tonight was one of those nights.
Three musicians, wandering souls with horns slung over their shoulders, arrived one by one like shadows returning to a familiar dream.

First came Jax, carrying his dented trumpet that still glowed like gold under even the faintest moonbeam. He pushed through the crooked door, sending dust swirling around him like a greeting.

Then Milo, tall and quiet, with a tenor sax strapped across his back. He nodded toward Jax, no words needed—just that mutual spark musicians share when the night calls them.

Last was Rhea, the heartbeat of their trio, cradling her gleaming brass trombone. She always arrived last, but her presence filled the space first. When she stepped inside, the abandoned building seemed to shift, as if waking up after years of silence.

They didn’t need a plan, or even a count-off.
They simply gathered in the open room beneath the shattered skylight where stars spilled in like confetti.

Jax lifted his trumpet. Milo let his sax breathe. Rhea slid her trombone into position.

Then they played. Bomp Bom Bomp - Into the night

Loud.
Free.
Wild.
As if the empty building were a cathedral and their horns were holy fire. The walls trembled, the dust danced, and their sound traveled up through the busted roof into the night sky.

It was in the middle of their improvised storm of melody that the stars shimmered.
Then one star broke loose.

A comet streaked across the heavens, blazing bright and silent, painting the sky in a trail of silver flame. Its glow poured through the skylight, bathing the trio in light as though the universe itself had stopped to listen.

Their music grew softer then, more tender—no longer a rebellion but a conversation with something ancient and celestial. The comet arced slowly, gracefully, and as it dipped toward the horizon, its brilliance pulled the edge of dawn behind it.

The first hints of morning spilled across the abandoned floorboards, washing away the night’s shadows. Their final notes drifted out into the cool dawn air, merging with birdsong and the distant hum of a waking world.

Jax lowered his trumpet. Milo exhaled. Rhea smiled.

They had met in darkness, played under starlight, and ushered in the morning with nothing but breath, brass, and the kind of magic only music could summon.

And as the sun rose, the three musicians walked out together, leaving only the quiet echo of horns and comet-light lingering in the lonely, forgotten building—
a secret the coming day would never quite understand.

Scouts the Vibes -🎵 “Bomp Bom Bomp” Album: Vibrations, Frequency, and Sequence. - 2025

It starts with a beat—one song that catches a spark in the air. A rhythm drifting through glowing screens, caught by the hearts of a generation like fire flies in jars. It's heard through their phones, their earbuds, their hearts, and without thinking, their bodies move. 
Each dance is its own language, born in bedrooms, school halls, parking lots, and parks. 
They record it, share it to their Tik Toks and suddenly the world hums in unison—bedrooms and playgrounds, rooftops and basements, all pulsing to the same vibration. Across oceans and time zones, a generation converses without words, their dances writing poetry on the wind— No borders, no translations—just rhythm. The universal pulse of a generation that speaks through motion, through joy, through the dance that only they could have created and released.

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Scouts The Vibes is a global sound traveler, exploring the world in search of the energy that connects us all through music. From dusty records to fresh beats, every track carries a story — every frequency a feeling.

Scouts The Vibes - Bomb bom Bomp-
That sound moves through the distance like the echo's of a train horn in the night.

Scouts the Vibes -🎵 “Bass and Movement” Album: Vibrations, Frequency, and Sequence. - 2025

Howdo? I've gathered together another tasty selection of funk/soul & hip-hop numbers for this week's Bootlegs & B-Sides mix. It's the usual mix of fresh tunes and older gems, so turn up the bass.

Track List:
Featurecast - Funky Introduction
Funkin' Basstards - Miss Broadway
Daytoner & Mr Bird feat. The Audible One & Daisy B - Earthly Crowd
Lyn Collins - Rock Me Again and Again
Bomb the Bass feat. Merlin - Megablast (Del Gazeebo's Old School Education)
James Brown - The Payback (Angelo Ferreri Edit)
Ben E.King - Supernatural Thing (Angelo Ferreri Edit)
Ali B feat. Afika NX - Swing It (Fort Knox Five Remix)
Daytoner - Ooh Lalo
Ludacris - How Low (Lucaj's Funked Up Remix)
Funky Boogie Brothers - Funky Flame
Beat Le Juice - The Power
Canned Heat - World In A Jug (Ross Go Edit)
Omegaman feat. Ikenna & Roddy Radiation - Rebel Rock (Qdup Remix)
Father Funk - Don't Stop
Basement Freaks - Gypsy Breaks

Bootlegs & B-Sides #52

ONLY LOVE KNOWS (GHETTO FUNK  )

closing set for the wonderful LOVEFEST Festival in Melbourne, 6th December 2025.
All tracks with a 'love' theme

live @ LOVEFEST

"Salutations to the extraterrestrial architects who anointed Mickey Space as the harbinger of sonic wonder!”

Emanating from the depths of interstellar realms, Mickey Space embodies the essence of celestial groove.

Dubbed the Oceanic Jack Sparrow of beats, Mickey fearlessly thrives on adventure and embraces the unknown. With a daring spirit, he's propelled his eclectic career into the cosmos. From soulful rhythms to electronic enchantment, Mickey has serenaded the most discerning dance floors across the galaxy!

While rooted in Melbourne, Mickey's odyssey began amidst the sun-kissed shores of a Thai island, launching his diverse musical journey over two decades ago! A stalwart of Australia's festival circuit, he's graced the stages of countless gatherings, leaving an indelible mark on a spectrum of dance cultures, from house to bass and beyond.

In recent years, Mickey's sonic explorations have intertwined with his spiritual pilgrimage, weaving elements of the sacred and shamanic into his sets, guiding dancers on mystical journeys of the soul.

This is where you'll find my mixes and editions of my Bootlegs & B-Sides shows from Radio RapTz (Paris), Radio Byron (Byron Bay) and PlayFM (Dublin)

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