“Second Skin” is about tearing away the identity built from fear, pressure, and years of making yourself smaller for other people. It follows someone who no longer recognizes the face in the mirror, but is finally ready to split the seams and discover what remains underneath.

Driven by alternative rock, synth-rock tension, post-punk shadows, and dream-pop atmosphere, the track moves from quiet emotional restraint into a forceful release. It is not about returning to an older version of yourself. It is about accepting the unfamiliar person who survives after the false layers fall away.

Recorded Date: 9/2/26
Playlist: Fractures

Second Skin

Every version of us leaves something behind.

“Ghost Between My Fingers” is about watching old identities slip away while becoming someone new. It follows the fear of no longer recognizing yourself, the pressure to remain who others remember, and the moment you finally stop treating change like a wound.

Driven by rolling breakbeats, dark electronic textures, deep bass, and emotionally charged male vocals, the track moves between uncertainty and release. The ghosts are not people who abandoned us. They are the selves we had to shed in order to survive.

Recorded Date: 9/9/26
Playlist: Shadows & Static

Ghost Between My Fingers

A personal field recording piece made during a year spent in Greenwood, Nova Scotia, while waiting for the opportunity to move to a larger city. Recorded at a local gym, it reflects on being a gay man in a small community, the role of fitness in finding confidence, and the feeling of being somewhere temporary while imagining where you want to be next. Created as an entry for the Silver Sound Biannual Sonic Dash in Spring 2026.

Go For Gains

🖤 OUTCAST — AssassinEDM

“I finally told you who I was… and you walked away.”

Outcast is a dark trap / emotional rap track about the painful reality of coming out as transgender and discovering that the people you once trusted may not accept the person you truly are.

The song explores the loneliness that follows when friendships disappear, messages stop coming, and people who once promised they would always be there suddenly become strangers.

But Outcast isn't just about rejection. It's about finding the strength to keep moving forward, even when the people you expected beside you choose to walk away.

Sometimes becoming yourself means losing people along the way. And sometimes, standing alone in your truth is better than spending your life pretending to be someone you're not.

This song is for anyone who has ever felt like an outsider, been rejected for being themselves, or had someone they love walk away because they couldn't accept the real them.

You are more than someone else's rejection.
You deserve to exist as yourself.
Keep walking.

🩷🤍🩵 OUTCAST

Identity • Coming Out • Rejection • Isolation • Resilience

Outcast

Pieces

A soulful Nigerian Afrobeats and hip-hop story about home, identity, love, and the journey from Ikare Akoko to Houston and beyond. For listeners who love Afrobeats, Afro-fusion, Naija music, street pop, and melodic hip-hop. Like, repost, and comment with the place you call home.

Prince Oye 2.0 — Houston to the world.

I Carry My Home

expressions on peoples faces is like a mask, it doesnt display what there feeling on the inside

Heavy Smile

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What if one of the greatest reasons people struggle to trust God is that they’ve never actually seen Him represented accurately?
You were created in the image of God for a purpose. Genesis 1:26 shows us that humanity was created to represent God on the earth: to make His character and nature visible to the world around us. But we can’t accurately represent a God we don’t truly know.
In this episode, Revealing God to the World, we’re going deeper into what it means to live “in His image.” You’ll discover why faith isn’t blind, why evidence matters, and how Jesus gives us the clearest revelation of who God really is.
This isn’t about trying harder to act religious or presenting God according to our traditions, denominations, or personal opinions. It’s about knowing God as He revealed Himself through Jesus and allowing His love, character, and nature to become visible through the way we live.
When we begin harmonizing our beliefs and our lives with God, something powerful happens. We don’t simply tell people what God is like. They begin to see evidence of Him through us.
You were created to be His representative. Discover what that can look like in your everyday life in this episode of In His Image.


3. Revealing God To The World

Strip away the names, roles and identities — what’s left underneath?

Aliases (LIVE) is a GreenWIZ exploration of the selves we perform, the labels we inherit, and the strange continuity that survives beneath every version of who we think we are.

Different names. Different masks. Same signal underneath.

🧙‍♂️ DJGreenWIZ — Aliases (LIVE)

#DJGreenWIZ #Aliases #LiveMusic #AlternativeRock #PsychedelicRock #ProgressiveRock #ArtRock #ExperimentalRock #AtmosphericRock #Identity #GreenWizard

Aliases (LIVE)

Written by Ioannis Ntizoglou: owner of Royalties 2025 all rights reserved

Search Your Soul
By 9000UK

Search Your Soul is a reflective reggae song about identity, self-discovery, inner strength, and finding your own direction when the outside world tries to define who you should become.

The song begins with a simple idea: every person carries a story, yet truth often appears in quiet moments rather than through the loudest voices around us. To understand who you are, you have to look inward.

The winding road represents the uncertainty of life. The heavy load represents pressure, expectations, fear, and experiences carried from the past. Against these forces stands the soul, described as an internal compass pointing towards a more authentic sense of self.

Babylon represents outside pressure, control, and systems attempting to shape identity. The lyrics answer this pressure through reflection, meditation, self-awareness, and independence of thought.

Nature becomes part of the symbolism. Mountains, rivers, deserts, and the deep roots of an old mango tree represent endurance, exploration, stability, and connection to something deeper than temporary outside influences.

At the centre of the song is the repeated message, “You never know who you are until you search your soul.” Silence becomes a place for truth, while the inner light represents understanding emerging after fear and outside expectations are stripped away.

Search Your Soul is ultimately about knowing yourself before allowing the world to decide who you are. Its message is one of self-reflection, purpose, personal freedom, spiritual strength, and staying rooted in your own identity.

Written by Ioannis Ntizoglou
Artist: 9000UK

Website: https://www.9000uk.music

Discography: https://www.9000uk.music/discography/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@9000UK

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/9000.uk

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/9000ukFacebook/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@9000uk


Search Your Soul

Episode 140 brought on former Team Canada long-track speed skater, Brooklyn McDougall.

This episode, we talked about the hockey to speed skating pipeline, rising through the Canadian speed skating ranks, medaling in World Champion and World Cup settings, Olympic berths, post-Olympic depression, art as therapy, and the places an improved mental state can take you!

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Lyrics:

I'm still waiting, I'm still contemplating
Even after all this time, I still feel I'm fading
And if I'm still aging, am I still awaiting
The pieces of my life that still need some explaining
I wake up lonely, I want someone to hold me
Every day's a test for me, the ground isn't below me
I break up slowly, the world don't even know me
Can I live this agony, do I continue posing?

I live a life of peace, if peace means agony
I live a life, believe me, it's train wreck travesty
I live a life, I'm honest, I'm careful and I'm cool
I live a life, an artist must never break the rules

I want a life that brings me joy
I want a life where I have a choice
I want a life where I can stay
I want a life where I'm okay

I'm still waiting, I'm still contemplating
Even after all this time, I still feel I'm fading
And if I'm still aging, am I still awaiting
The pieces of my life that still need some explaining
I wake up lonely, I want someone to hold me
Every day's a test for me, the ground isn't below me
I break up slowly, the world don't even know me
Can I live this agony, do I continue posing?
I want a life that brings me joy
I want a life where I have a choice
I want a life where I can stay
I want a life where I'm okay

I want to lie in bed, to go to sleep tonight
I want to fix my head, this melody ain't right
I want to be myself, I wanna dream
I want to fix my health, I wanna be

I want a life that brings me joy
I want a life where I have a choice
I want a life where I can stay
I want a life where I'm okay

I'm still waiting, I'm still contemplating
Even after all this time, I still feel I'm fading
And if I'm still aging, am I still awaiting
The pieces of my life that still need some explaining
I wake up lonely, I want someone to hold me
Every day's a test for me, the ground isn't below me
I break up slowly, the world don't even know me
Can I live this agony, do I continue posing?
I want a life that brings me joy
I want a life where I have a choice
I want a life where I can stay
I want a life where I'm okay
I want a life that brings me joy
I want a life where I have a choice
I want a life where I can stay
I want a life where I'm okay

I'm Still Waiting (prod. peril)

In this moment I am what I am, Constantly striving to be
All I've gathered I bring forth to share my life with you
As I often reached out to grasp a distant star
I regret all the dreams have not come true...
Chorus
From now on, time will  pass much slower
When love's gone only memories remain
Healing will occur and grieving will persist
Until the hearts let's go of all that's missed. (bis)

Still I hope to find the pure love in you
And I struggle to believe someday we'd be free
In the end all that matters will be kept alive
Within the memories carried in our hearts
Chorus
From now on, time will  pass much slower
When love's gone, only memories remain
Healing will occur, and grieving will persist
Until the hearts let go of all that's missed.(bis)

And You'll know that what we share cannot dissolve
Or be torn apart by time or space or death
Our creations will endure for many lifetimes
And our love will still shine in those we've loved...

Chorus
From now on, time will  pass much slower
When love's gone, only memories remain
Healing will occur, and grieving will persist
Until the hearts let go of all that's missed.(bis)




From Now On  2022

Masks (English version)

English
“La Sangre No Se Traduce” was born from growing up half Puerto Rican and half Black, but feeling like I had to prove a part of myself I was never given the chance to know. As a kid, other Latinos questioned my Spanish, my culture, and even my right to call myself Boricua. This song carries the anger of that child, but underneath all that pain is a question that never completely went away. You heard my voice. You heard my story. Is my heart Boricua enough now?

Español
“La Sangre No Se Traduce” nació de crecer siendo mitad puertorriqueño y mitad Black, pero sintiendo que tenía que demostrar una parte de mí que nunca tuve la oportunidad de conocer. De niño, otros latinos cuestionaban mi español, mi cultura y hasta mi derecho de llamarme Boricua. Esta canción lleva la rabia de ese niño, pero también la pregunta que todavía queda debajo de todo ese dolor. Escuchaste mi voz. Escuchaste mi historia. ¿Mi corazón es Boricua suficiente ahora?

La Casa Tronaba Como Trueno

La Sangre No Se Traduce - Versión Trap

“Electric purple” is the dominant color of my life. It has been a great source of inspiration for me lately. I believe each of us is called to discover our own color, so that we can live with full awareness.

13. Electric purple

This track recorded at Andy Patterson's SLC studio on 09/19/2009. This poem is published appears on pages 80-82 of Caldiero's book "Sonosuono" (Elik Press, 2013).

Sonosophy: Caldiero's hybrid concept combining sound, poetry, philosophy, performance.

ANALFABETISMO - Alex Caldiero (2009)

For anyone who’s ever been told to pick a side when all they wanted was room to think.
“Third Side” by Unlike Any Other is an introspective rap about belief, doubt, identity, and the pressure to have an answer. It started as a poem about a coin balancing on its edge—neither heads nor tails, but the overlooked part that connects them.
This song is for the part of you that can love where you came from and still question what you were taught. For the times you’ve said “maybe” and heard “make up your mind.” For learning to stand somewhere without pretending you have everything figured out.
“I ain’t heads.
I ain’t tails.
I’m the line that makes them sides.”

Lyrics:

This is the third side.
Neither heads.
Nor tails.
Just the edge.
Yeah.

Neither heads nor tails
I live along the edge
Where everyone else wants an answer
I got questions instead
Lightly grazing the surface
Never landing flat
I keep asking what I stand for
Like I gotta pick a half
But I been balancing
On a sliver of silver
Whole world pulling both ways
And I'm stuck in the middle
One face says believe it
One face says you don't
Both of 'em swear they're certain
I don't know if I am
Maybe that's the point though
Maybe truth don't choose
Maybe certainty's a comfort
Some of us can't use
So I stay where it's narrow
Where the tension never ends
Not enough to call it faith
Not enough to call it sin

I'm on the third side
Neither yours nor mine
Between what I believe
And what I can't define
(Third side) Third side
Thin line (Thin line)
Whole life (Whole life)
Balanced on the outside
I don't need an answer
I just need some room
For the part of me that questions
Everything I thought I knew
(Third side)
Third side
(Third Side)
Desperate to be seen
Without choosing what you see
Without choosing what you see

Discomfort lives here
In partial existence
Every time I say "maybe"
I hear indecision
Like doubt is a weakness
Like questions are cracks
Like changing your mind means
You can't ever go back
But I see both faces
From the place where I stand
Every absolute looks different
When I hold it in my hand
That's the curse of the edge
That's the gift of it too
I can understand the believer
And still understand you
I can hold contradiction
Without breaking in two
I can love what I came from
And still question what's true
Everybody wants a label
Something simple they can read
But the edge ain't got a picture
Ain't me, ain't a real thing
Just a thin piece of metal
Holding both worlds together
Never getting recognition
Still connecting 'em forever

I'm on the third side
Neither yours nor mine
Between what I believe
And what I can't define

{Third side)
Thin line (Thin line)
Whole life (Whole life)
Balanced on the outside

I don't need an answer
I just need some room
For the part of me that questions
Everything I thought I knew

(Third side)
Third side
(Third side)

Desperate to be seen
Without choosing what you see

So don't mistake the balance
For me scared to take a stance
I've watched too many people
Call assumption circumstance
Seen a question turn to treason
Seen belief become a cage
Seen a person pick a side
Just to make the room feel safe
Nah.
I'd rather feel the tension
I'd rather feel the weight
I'd rather leave a question open
Than force the wrong shape
'Cause truth ain't always waiting
On the side you wanna choose
Sometimes truth is in the friction
When you're scared that both could lose
So if you ask me where I'm standing
I can finally tell you why
I ain't heads.
I ain't tails.
I'm the line
that makes them sides.

I'm on the third side
Neither yours nor mine
Between what I believe
And what I can't define

(Third side)
Thin line (Thin line)
Whole life (Whole life)
Balanced on the outside

I don't need an answer
I just need some room
For the part of me that questions
Everything I thought I knew

(Third side)
Third side
(Third side)

Desperate to be seen
Without choosing what you see

Third Side

I am a music producer on Youtube
I create original tracks and the occasional remix
all remixes will be uploaded here to soundcloud to listen to my original songs go and find me on youtube with the links provided
Hope you all enjoy the songs that i have created and remixed
please refrain from trying to sell services to me as I will only give a "no" as an answer

I write poetry, songs, and produce music.

Tag: Political spiritual idealist/activist

My three spirit helpers: Polar bear-strength and persistence, golden eagle-vision and wisdom, and monarch butterfly-flexibility-adaptability-mobility, tenacity. together they assist me in staying focused, directed, and single-minded.
My musical history dates back 65 years as I learned classical piano for 3 years from the age of 8, then developed my ear by listening to pop and rock songs on the radio and learning them on piano. It's not till I was 17 that I began playing with others in bands for a few years and performed locally. 
I started composing and singing and recording my songs when I turned 50, my mother was dying, she had been a chorist for 30 years, and i wanted to show her that I could sing a lovely love song before she passed at the age of 80 in 2005. I sang « L’important c’est la rose » de Becaud.
I've composed 145 songs and have 140 on Soundcloud for monetizing and distribution. 
I am semi-retired massage therapist and am making more time to compose and record.
The sculptures which I highlight in my song art are made by me from Alabaster.
J'ai crée cette page de ma musique et de mes chansons- J'invite vos commentaires et votre partage de ma musique et chansons. Merci pour votre passage.

Just a guy with a voice. If my music speaks to you, that means the world to me

9000UK is the musical project of Ioannis Ntizoglou (Politou), a UK based independent multi genre artist creating music shaped by lived experience. Struggle, hope, mistakes, growth, truth, and the determination to rise define every release.

For years, Ioannis faced mistreatment, judgement, and false narratives placed onto him. None of them lasted. Truth outlives noise, and this belief lives at the core of his music. Every track, joyful or heavy, playful or painful, comes from real moments. His catalogue functions as a personal record of a life endured, understood, and transformed into sound.

9000UK blends Pop, Rap, Hip Hop, Trap, Indie, R&B, Reggae, Gospel Blues, Country, Rock, and AbsurdCore. AbsurdCore is a genre Ioannis created himself, built around experimental sound design, emotional distortion, and the surreal edges of human experience. Genre labels matter less than emotion. Feeling and intent drive every song.

All lyrics are written by Ioannis. Every idea, structure, vocal direction, melody path, and creative decision begins with him. AI is used as a production tool, not a source of authorship. He records his own voice, uses sounds he has created or fully licensed, and builds each track from the ground up. No labels. No producer teams. No marketing machinery. One person doing the work.

Ioannis began writing lyrics at 17 during compulsory national service in the Greek Army. A period forced upon him became the foundation of his creative life. For years he searched for vocalists and musicians who could match the sound in his head. The gap between vision and reality drained time, money, and momentum, eventually pushing music aside.

On 01 January 2025, everything shifted.

While developing his teaching practice in Computer Science, Ioannis encountered AI tools capable of turning lyrics into music. After dozens of failed attempts, one early song finally aligned with the original vision. Not polished. Not perfect. Honest. That moment restarted everything.

He worked relentlessly, often on minimal sleep, transferring thousands of handwritten lyrics into digital form, refining language, shaping melodies, directing vocals, and developing a repeatable creative process. This happened alongside full time lecturing, fatherhood, and family life.

Today, 9000UK has released over 1,500 original songs, with more than 3,000 still in progress. Each release carries a fragment of lived experience, emotion, imagination, and truth.

9000UK extends beyond an artist name. It functions as proof. Proof to listeners, supporters, and students, especially ages 16 to 19, that technology lowers barriers, removes gatekeeping, and gives people the means to pursue creative work regardless of background or resources.

Am I human. Yes.
Every lyric is written by me.
Every emotion is real.
Every song carries intent.

This is 9000UK.
Music with purpose.
Energy with meaning.
Art without limits.

Dream Loud.

OFFICIAL LINKS
Official website: https://www.9000uk.music
Full discography: https://www.9000uk.music/discography/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@9000UK
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/9000.uk
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/9000ukFacebook/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@9000uk
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/9000uk.bsky.social
X: https://x.com/9000uk
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntizoglou/

Prince Oye 2.0 is a Houston-based Nigerian Afrobeats and hip-hop artist from Ikare Akoko, Ondo State, Nigeria. He blends Afrobeats, Afro-fusion, Naija street pop, melodic rap, and motivational anthems into honest stories about identity, resilience, ambition, and finding your way.

Stream the latest releases: I Carry My Home, I Go Find My Way, Still Here, Still Standing, and Roots Have Shade. Follow for Nigerian music, Afrobeats, African hip-hop, conscious rap, and uplifting new music from Houston to the world.

#Afrobeats #Afrobeat #HipHop #NigerianMusic #NaijaMusic #AfroFusion #AfricanHipHop #StreetPop #HoustonMusic #MotivationalMusic #PrinceOye2

Independent music project exploring multiple genres and moods.

All lyrics and concepts are written by me first.
ChatGPT is used only for refinement and flow, not for creating lyrics.
Music: Suno.
Visuals: ChatGPT & Perchance generators.
The vision is mine.

New albums and projects released regularly.
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All licensing and collaborations are handled professionally through verified payment methods only.
I do not accept or send payments via gift cards or third-party transfer requests.
Refunds are only issued after payments fully clear and will be returned through the original payment method.
I do not conduct business through messaging apps like WhatsApp for transactions.
Serious inquiries only. All terms are contract-based.

For serious inquiries: [message on SoundCloud]
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Schedule:
- Mon, Wed & Sat
- Minimal of 2 tracks on the selected days

Also on TikTok: @noirverse15 🖤

El Jacho is a bilingual singer songwriter who transforms lived experience into emotionally charged Latin infused music that blends reggaeton, salsa romántica, modern R&B, and heartfelt balladry. Raised between cultures and shaped by both absence and resilience, his songwriting explores identity, family, love, loss, and survival with rare honesty. From stories of childhood hardship and cultural displacement to intimate portraits of forbidden love and emotional vulnerability, El Jacho writes with a voice that is both deeply personal and widely relatable. His lyrics are raw without being reckless, poetic without losing their edge, grounded in real life and delivered with dramatic intensity.

At the core of El Jacho’s artistry is a commitment to truth, even when that truth is uncomfortable. His music does not chase trends. It tells stories. Whether confronting generational trauma, navigating complicated relationships, or searching for belonging, he invites listeners into moments most people are afraid to share out loud. Singing in both Spanish and English, he bridges worlds and builds connection across borders, cultures, and identities. With each song, El Jacho turns pain into purpose, memory into melody, and lived experience into anthems for anyone who has ever felt unseen and refused to stay silent.

RIP Alex Caldiero (1949–2026)

This is The Sonosopher Audio Archive. A work in progress. 

See also: https://www.thesonosopher.com/
And: https://vimeo.com/ohomedia/thesonosopher

"The Sonosopher: Alex Caldiero in Life...in Sound" is a 2010 documentary film which can be viewed in its entirety at the link above. It was co-directed by Torben Bernhard & Travis Low. The film explores Caldieroʼs lifelong artistic investigation into "Sonosophy," a unique hybrid of sound, poetry, and philosophy. Most of the audio that will be shared here was recorded between 2007 and 2010 during the film's production.

Profile photography credit: Ashley Thalman (https://www.ashleythalman.com/)

Field recordings, sonic sketches, and small experiments in listening.

Hello I am 16  years old and                                     Started Original songs in 2024 and starting posting hope you enjoy!

Roytan is an Italian composer whose work bridges symphonic music, electroacoustic composition and reflective writing, exploring the human person as a place of transformation, knowledge and Beauty.
His music emerges from a daily practice of listening, contemplation and composition, grounded in the belief that art can become a living testimony to what is possible for the human spirit. Each work is conceived as a sonic landscape where orchestra, electronics, choir and silence interact to express an ongoing journey toward deeper awareness.
Following AENEIS, the project Fulgida remissio – Nova AENEIS marks a new creative chapter, presenting Remission not merely as the absence of suffering, but as a daily practice of inner renewal.
For Roytan, music does not simply describe the world—it invites us to inhabit it with greater attention, care and gratitude.

Closer Mentality is a peak performance-focused, documentary podcast. Each episode tells the stories of elite athletes, coaches, and sport psychologists and their relationships with the mental side of the game.

Psychedelic electronic rock, bass music and philosophical transmissions from rural Aotearoa. Enter the Green Wizard universe ↓

New tracks tagged #identity