Carl, thank you from the bottom of our hearts!!! We’re not even close to your poetic level, but we’ll do our very best to return the dedication and honour your beautiful art, your amazing soul and your wonderful family. We’ll see what we can come up with… something worthy of your light! ❤️‍🔥

Please let it be known that I have an intense level of admiration for you Carl and also for the good souls of Beating Edge. You both inspire me immensely. You both have rare talents and you are appreciated by me!

I love guitars and voices ! Very Nice ☀️

Pure creative expression. There's nothing like it, and it's best to let it have its way. I have given some though to that shower thing, myself!

A fantastic musical tribute to some incredible musicians!  I have only just discovered the Beating Edge myself, but I love what I've heard from them so far!  I love the raw folk nature of this track, very organic and natural sound.  Excellent work man!

Beating Edge

A very heartfelt and personal song, dedicated to those who are no longer with us. We've all lost someone we love, and with this song, we tried to translate that feeling into words and music.
For you, who have returned to being what you were before you were born! Thank you for helping us become who we are.❤️
https://www.tiktok.com/@beatingedge/video/7423058230705769761
https://ffm.to/memories-of_you
Released on major streaming platforms on September 9, 2024.
©2024 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

In the silence of the night
I feel your presence near
A love that's so profound
A bond that's crystal clear
Every note that I play
Every word that I sing
Is a tribute to your spirit
Like an angel's whispering

I remember your touch
So gentle and so kind
Your voice like a lullaby
Forever in my mind
Though you're no longer here
Your love will never die
With every song I write
You'll be right by my side

Oh
These memories of you
They carry me on
Through the darkest of nights
And the breaking of dawn
With every word I sing
And every note I play

In the echoes of the past
I find solace in your embrace
Your essence lingers on
In every melody I chase
Through the shadows of the night
Your spirit guides my way
In the depths of my soul
Your love will always stay

In the echoes of the past
I find solace in your embrace
Your essence lingers on
In every melody I chase
Through the shadows of the night
Your spirit guides my way
In the depths of my soul
Your love will always stay

I see you in the stars above
And in the whispers of the breeze
Your memory's a beacon
That guides me through the seas
Though time may pass us by
And seasons come and go
Your love remains eternal
A flame that continues to glow

Oh
These memories of you
They carry me on
Through the darkest of nights
And the breaking of dawn
With every word I sing
And every note I play
I'll keep your memory alive
In my heart you'll forever stay

You will live forever
in my mind
and in my heart 

Oh
These memories of you
They carry me on
Through the darkest of nights
And the breaking of dawn
With every word I sing
And every note I play
I'll keep your memory alive

In my heart
you’ll forever
stay

Memories of you

Memories of You

Surprise, surprise!
We had a couple of recordings set aside from mid-June, and in the meantime, a lot of other projects were spinning around in our heads. So, instead of tossing them out, we blended them with some crazy sounds here and there.
And so, here it is, the first instrumental track from Beating Edge!
©2024 Beating Edge

Throught the Darkness (Descent and Ascent) [Instrumental]

Through The Darkness (Descent And Ascent) [Instrumental]

OK, October is the month of Halloween, and this track is what happens when you spend the night trying to create something on theme... basically, a scary track in the qualitative sense.😅 But, since we found it kind of fun, we kept it. And it paves the way for the Halloween-themed tracks that will follow ( https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/night-of-the-pumpkin-strangers, https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/haunted-cycle, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDb6G-QKLRU and https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/zombie-chef-supreme).🤪 So, consider it as an appetizer!😉
©2024 Beating Edge

Spooktober

Spooktober (Instrumental)

wanted to cover Katrina and the waves -too happy- i  had to minor the shit out of it - changed the lyrics to make it a break up song -hope u enjoy

I used to think maybe you loved me now babe I'm unsure
Expect me to wait for the day when you knock on my door
Now everytime I reach for my phone gotta sit myself down
'Cause I just can't wait till you text me you're coming around
I'm walking on sunshine, 
I'm walking on sunshine, 
I'm walking on sunshine, 
And don't it feel good!


I used to think maybe you loved me, now I know that’s not  true
And I don't want to spend my whole life, just waiting for you
I don't want u back for the weekend
Not back for a day, 
I really don’t want you back dont expect me to stay

I'm walking on sunshine
I'm walking on sunshine,
I'm walking on sunshine,
and dont it feel good

I feel alive, I feel alive, I leave the love that wasnt  real
I feel alive, I feel alive, I leave the love that wasnt real
and dont it feel good

walking on sunshine -purpleclaire (cover)

My daughter Matilda (8) holding her painting today. She's so proud of it and man I can see why. She's so talented. Looking like peace to me 🖼️🔆


Lyrics

I feel your pain Dear friend
Some sum of family found end
Where from a River?
Where to some Sea?
Where Brotherhood with brevity?

Let's make peace like we make love
Says this honest beautiful blue dove
I agree, say it to the Sea
Maybe it's power can set us free

I plead with sane
Dear friends, our pain!
The sum of family found again
The sum of peace in Gaia grind
Green, White, Red, Blue
None left behind

Let's make peace like we make love
All colours bonding bold beauty like dove
Let's agree, let's ask the river
Good Earth sees peace and gets back shiver

I feel your pain Dear friend
Less sum in family can't have vain end
Let's stare at our River
'Both scared of the Sea
Come now brother
Bond with brevity

From a River to some Sea

File Updated 11/04/25 @ 11:38am GMT - Harp and second lead vocal added and got the bike sound effect run in too

A song appreciation for cycling. Best saver of heart on planet Earth. In the lyrics I refer to a few special cycling moments in my life...

The first, I was maybe 3... We were going a long a path beside them main road and the wheel came off my trike... In my head it had just disappeared and I hadn't a clue what was going on... But I rember Mum saying we had to go without getting the wheel... So that was the end of trike 1...

Fast forward to 4-2 wheels. I rember like a video when first went on two wheel and I knew I was in control. It's one of best feelings of my life. I was on a flat part of the estate road at the top of a hill. So cool how excitement sticks with you forever. 

Fast forward. again and I refer to an incident with my neighbour Evelyn. I was pelting it down a mountain road full speed and nearly hit her head on... I managed to Marc Marquez my way through but she told on me and I was banned from the road for a good while haha ... So Shit I'm banned for a while ws real shit and no game consoles yet!




Lyrics (Words written listen to Mozart Piano Sonata C Major)

Earth sees kind
Rotational Force of body from mind
A cycle just like these lives
Find fittest body when pedals wind

My first a Trike!
We're talking three,
Not quite a bike
I remember it well
'Lost one wheel to road
'Mum, my wheel...'
"Sorry Carl, it's too dangerous, Let's go"

So, four wheels next
The big two and some stabilisers
Zipping around,
Cog and wheel energisers
Then one day we try...
Top of the estate..
I'm balanced... I can do it...
I'm cycling mate!

I'll NEVER forget that beautiful feeling
It's me.
I can do thing cool thing of everyone's meaning.
Go faster.
Woo hoo.
A hill, ohhh my...
Close head on with a car..
Shit, I'm banned for a while

Ours were refurbished
Appreciation truly nurtures
I wanted a Raleigh, But rolling... Didn't care!
Cheers Mum and Dad for seeing us clear

Earth sees kind
Rotational Force of body from mind
A cycle just like these lives
Find fittest body when pedals wind

Cycling

File Updated 26/04/2025 @ 12:58 GMT - Improved Vox lead line and removed layering of that. Added some more keys and extended with a timing change from 9/8 to 3/4 as an experiment. It's not perfect but should work with tlc... will scrap that change if I don't improve it

Lyrics

Bargain serpent sits on top
A common fate we measuring up
Real as army
Rhythmic troop
Invested in leveling liers with truth
Creating unique as free mind can
Actual feast feeding soul where we stand
Good brain at home ai can't ever clone
Eternal with free will megaphone

You're right...
I am the best version of me
Or at least that I believe that wholeheartedly
Dempsey lays it bare
Kiss a mirror
Then all love becomes clear
For how can we teach if we dont know
Positive highway to emotion reform

Oooo Oooo Oo Ooo
Ahhhh ah ahhh

I used to feel fear
Then I found me like you
Path oh so clear
Disillusioned, but true
This barricade is for the fake
A caged poison
'Throw away that key...

They may get numbers
Take the fucking money
As their souls fall asunder
We can shine sound like honey
Beehives of beasts who lovin' art receipt
Lasering love
Towards their meaningless deceit

I used to feel fear
Then I found me like you
Path oh so clear
Disillusioned, but true
The barricade is for their fake
A caged poison
'Throw away the key...


Oooooon ahh ah
Hey ha ha





File Updated: Day mode vox in first attempt... It's very different! I liked the soft version too so might do a more ambient version again and bring that back but I think this is where I want to go for the main version. Acoustic rhythm and Acoustic rhythm/lead lines put in also

This is for artist Barricage. Song kudos for saying it like it is!
https://soundcloud.com/davemillz

I'll gradually fill this out properly but first note is the lyrics were written on the back of the page the lyrics for Symbiosis were written on. They appreciate the connection with that song so I think that was a nice nugget for writing a song for them on the same bit of tree 🔆

The other worthy note for now is this is the first ever song I've written in 9/8... also a hat tip to the lads thinking outside the box

Discuss how we are the last generation with a pre artificial intelligence reference so have a great responsibility to pass onto the next generation what its like to be creative without it at all and as we fully integrate it's mechanisms, those mechanisms need to expand not contract general human creativity. This is also critical in an existential sense as we need to evolve minds to be more creative to move passed current negative bottlenecks holding us back...

AI certainly has a part to play in helping us become more consciously good as a collective but there has to be an allowance for the indivdual to be empowered by that transition also and not dumbed down by it. That cedes more power and the top 1% becomes the top 0.5% unless we are all lasered to what it is doing and what we actually want from it

Barricage

Very close to Romeo & Juliette, Gothic Relationship Counterpart Love Story.

Frog Prince Final Goodbye to The Scorpion Princess, Again

01 DONT FADE ME OUT MASTER 2024

Update: Ukulele added

The initial intention here was to make a heavy number but I think after what came out I'll keep it folky. It's too nice to not retain that feel I think

This is about and for this wonderful band
Check out Beating Edge on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/AFohXS0FFXREcMZuIu

To mark the moment. My three wonderful half Italian kids play connect four with their amazing Mum in the background 🏠🌍


Lyrics

Once upon an Alien rhyme
Five tifosi broke free from line
They feel with time
Paint BE melody
Easel frames morph to instrument hegemony

Seed of instinct
Sponges of love
Nicknames to normalize mystery glove
What spaceship
Andromedan Starseeds
Grounded in greatest transcendence knead

Good musical hedge
From the Beating Edge
Good musical hedge

Viscious vampira
Vixen of vibrant
Brad beats on brains
Rolled rhythmically highest
Silence for D
It's bass bed were making
Maux moulds aid
Lucifer tuned to soul station

Grafting the good
Tuned life building blocks
Substance for sustenance outside of most box
Harmonized clouds
More blue sky for crowds
Beating Edge grounds new galactical allowed

Good musical hedge
From the Beating Edge 

Food for our ears
The proof through tougue taste
Mood for our eyes
Fear finds loosened like lace
Paces for pathways
Heavy and high
Energy for us made on Earth from the sky

Once upon an Alien rhyme
Five tifosi broke free from line
Harmonized clouds
More blue sky for crowds
Beating Edge grounds new galactical allowed


Notes 🎶 
Musically this turned out very different. I'm away so tools are limited. In my view that should never limit you from still expressing an idea. Michael Jackson used to humm bass-lines I believe... That tells me a lot if it's true and it makes complete sense. It's the quickest, easiest and most convenient way to not forget an idea. From my experience doing that over the years... A dictaphone (your phone) is the most important tool if you never want to forget something. Your musical memory will take over when you humm something close to what you want then execution later can still be perfect with that instinctual reference. The other really handy thing about doing that is you can leave yourself voice notes. A faster arguably less distracting method then writing them down especially if you are trying to honour a pure train of thought on a subject. For me shower time is one of the most important times to have it to hand afterwards. I always think of stuff in the shower even when I'm not trying to. I heard an emotional intelligence expert talk about that on the radio and it seems to be the white noise and random noise of the water that allows our brain to rest from reasoned thought and during that time secondary processes take over that solidify memory. So I regularly have notes to make straight after the shower which is pretty cool. Just sharing this as BE and moi have been chatting in comments together about playing to your instinct. In my pea head opinion being ready to always honour that and you'll capture ideas all the time as opposed to just when you sit down to try. The sit downs more become a process to process your ideas as opposed to writing the whole thing in one moment :-)

Beating Edge (Raw)

Another rescue from 2022. The vocals are the originals.... I had to work around them. Everything is tuned to D#. This was a doozy to transcribe....
Lyrics:
tranetolomicri
retremeletincing rontisline,
rantromilot, rantrulomatrine,
wipotrine
ramponitteamiclast,
relentronitrampline,
rantromiclast,
wenemmatrine ,wenemmatrine,
renemmatrine, renemmatrine,
vokasildrone, vokasildrone,
trampolonit, tranfreeanisrine,
vokasildrone, vokasildrone, vokasildrone,
ronslamonnit  trompolonitrine
retramas relatrite,
rontramiclonitrantos,
rampotruss,
rompolont,
leeslolomis, trommatrannilantitrine,
relampotrine, relampotrine,
ren

Wipotrine

(Book, Lucero, Paskowitz, Paskowitz, Perdichizzi; arr. Sharbaugh)
Michael Ash Sharbaugh [ https://soundcloud.com/michael-ash-sharbaugh ]: vocals, drums and drum machine programming, synths and sequencer-programming, samples and sample-editing, and 'found sounds'
~BONES1327~ [__]: guitars
Composed and Recorded ca. 1998 to July 24, 2025.
sm57 [INST no GTR] [LV] [RAW] [48-32AIF]-02.

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hey, what's the point of this?
oh hey, what's your favorite song?
maybe we could hum along?

well, I think you're smart
you sweet thing
tell me your name
i'm dying here

ah-ooh, got you where I want you, oh yeah
ah-ooh, got you where I want you, oh yeah

hey, maybe just a smile?
oh hey, did you know that i can dance?
could we talk for a while?

well, I think you're smart,
you sweet thing,
tell me your sign
i'm dying here

ah-ooh, got you where i want you, yeah
ah-ooh, got you where i want you
where i want you, i want you, yeah

(suffer, suffer
me don't get no rougher
rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other
suffer, suffer
me don't get no rougher
when me rock me, baby, put me pain on me, lover
suffer, suffer
me don't get no rougher
rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other
suffer, suffer
me don't get no rougher
when me rock me, baby, put me pain on me, lover)

i think you're smart
you sweet thing
tell me your name
i’m dying here

ah-ooh
(suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher)
rub it up, baby girl, torture me like no other)
got you where i want you
(suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher)
yeah, i've got you where I want you
(suffer, suffer, me don't get no rougher)
yeah, i've got you where I want you, want you, want you
got you where i want you
i've got you where i want you
got you where i want you

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WIP: "Got You (Where I Want You)" sm57 [INST no GTR] [LV] [RAW] [48-32AIF] (temporarily released)

Watch the 📹Video: https://youtu.be/PhE7afina30👈
Lyrics interpretation, here: https://beatingedge.blogspot.com/2025/08/vacant-stares-interpretation-of-lyrics.html
Here we are with our last track of the month.
Lately, Carl @thebeautifuldark has been working on some important projects to raise awareness about the indiscriminate use of AI in the world of art. This track came from deep conversations between us, exploring themes of identity, authenticity, and the growing trend of music that’s “AI-made” but never truly felt or played.

Vacant Stares is a cryptic, cult-like vision of a digital future, where prompters replace creators, and artistic expression is reduced to hollow commands.
Blank stares. Selfish prayers. Fake songs for simulated feelings.
This track is a warning. A question. A reversed ritual.
It asks you: who are you, when you no longer use your own voice?

The song is divided into two parts:

Beating Edge's part:
It’s gothic, cinematic, full of ritualistic and unsettling imagery. The atmosphere evokes abandoned temples, secret cults, carved symbols… with that sense of existential disorientation like “they’re initiating me into something but I don’t know what.”
It feels like a lucid nightmare or a hallucination induced by an intelligence simulating spirituality.
Carl’s part:
More brutal, direct, anti-establishment. Almost a rap/spoken-word poem loaded with accusations towards those who use AI in a sterile, heartless way. “Selfish prayers / Fake / Unfair” hit like punches in the gut in just four words. It’s the awakening from hypnosis.

Let’s reflect! And use AI as a tool to amplify art, not to replace it!
Love you all!🫶

Lyrics:

(Tom)

Veil of whispers, carved in stone
Guiding hands, but I'm alone
Golden masks and hollow eyes
Chanting words that crystallize

Candles flicker, shadows climb
Marble echoes bend through time
Steps resound in hollow halls
Silent lips behind the walls

And they move like ghosts through the fevered air
With their silver robes and their vacant stares
Do I kneel, do I run, do I play along?
Or is this the place where I belong?

Smoke is rising, threads unwind
Painted symbols twist my mind
Fingers trace the silent vow
No way back, it's over now

And they move like ghosts through the fevered air
With their silver robes and their vacant stares
Do I kneel, do I run, do I play along?
Or is this the place where I belong?

A voice like thunder in my head
Tells me secrets left unsaid
A crimson door, a silver knife
A choice to stay or trade my life

Lights go dim, the world dissolves
A hollow chant, a fate evolves
In the mirror, I can't see
Is that me, or what's left of me?

(Carl - The Beautiful Dark)

Vacant stares
Selfish prayers
Fake
Unfair

Unnatural wear
Expressionless
Ghost digital smile
Simulated pain
You making fake dog pile

Guesses pluggs in
Self matrix is made
Showing young kids
Their artist mind grave

Not on our watch
Sing your own feeling
Talk your reflections
Save children's true meanings

Feeding them new
They'll amplify this
They'll stay plugged out
All now's reminisce

Prompters, have that reckoning
With fake thoughts you feeding

Respect the souls of past inspire
Their spirit will help you transcend the mire

Vacant Stares

Official Music Video

Hi everyone! Since it’s Sunday and we happened to meet in the studio to say goodbye to each other, we realized completely by chance that we’ve uploaded 98 tracks on SoundCloud. So we decided to release a chiptune track to mark number 99, and then come back with the 100th song!😉

We’ll still be online for a few more hours, then we’ll take a break from SoundCloud for a while. We can’t say exactly how long. But don’t worry, we’ll be back to annoy you again!🤪

Enjoy listening, drop us a comment , and happy holidays to those who, like us, still haven’t taken them! In any case, enjoy the summer (and if you’re in the southern hemisphere, enjoy the cool weather! Sorry, dear friends in Antarctica, no joke intended!😆).

All our Chiptune tracks are here: soundcloud.com/beatingedge/sets/8-bit-vibes.

Love you all!🫶
Ciao!!😘
©2025 Beating Edge

Loading Holidays (Instrumental - Chiptune)

Backing track credits: 
https://youtu.be/M7DO9k0uF3Y?si=Fbyl27gFE_tFqEiK

iris (cover)

Verse 1
Another dawn
Another song
Another way
To carry on

Another smile
Another cheer
Another gentle word
For all to hear

Chorus
And every moment shines
Brighter than the day that came before
The little things in life that turn the world
Are the treasures that’s worth searching for

Verse 2
Another friend
Another hand
Another faithful ear
To understand

Another hope
Another light
Another chance to dream
Through every night

Chorus
And every moment shines
Brighter than the day that came before
The little things in life that turn the world
Are the treasures that’s worth searching for

Carry On…

Outro
Another step
Another mile
Another story told
To make me smile

Every Moment Shines

Peace and Love. Welcome to human made music... by lungs and hands. All words written with a pen and thought of by a brain. Thanks for all of your wonderful support. Much love, Carl

Love Earth to love yourself

Beating Edge (Raw)

The Beautiful Dark

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