Great tune, love the lyrics . IU did see the article about the Palestinian hurlers who were finding it difficult to get visas , just appalling when you consider  what these people are having to live with. Politics again . Johnny

Interesting alt rock track. The voice mood is consistent and the instrumentation has a nice edge to it. Nothing too flashy, but it holds its own and builds a solid atmosphere. Great to meet you and following you 👍

raw emotive power! Such a timeless and epic sound. And of course, those masterful lyric writing skillz on display.

Update @ 20:56 GMT - 22/07/2025 - Took the intensity out of start with a fade in and faded out the end

put in a climbing bass scale and emphasis the beginning of the verse with a slide down on the bass...

Cut from 3min 54 to 4min 58 and take back that minute it's not needed. maybe consider an extra phrase at the end to accentuate the newer ending lyrics better instead so we should end up with time friendly 4min 40 tune

90’s indie vibes for your listening pleasure — Manchester in the house

Can’t sleep ?

I couldn't resist revisiting my tilt at this 1980's classic from The Korgis, now with Rick!

@rick-4-1: Teaching The Drums
@phil-mcwalter: Learning The Other Stuff

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime - The Korgis

Change your heart
Look around you
Change your heart
It will astound you
I need your lovin'
Like the sunshine

And everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime
Everybody's gotta learn sometime

Yea ea eah

Songwriting credit: James Edward Warren / The Korgis

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime

Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime II

2025/6/30

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Flowers.

Written in January 2024.

Published in July 2025.


During the first few months of last year, I was ill with my recurring kidney stone problems.

Fortunately, that passed.

I left some of the compositions I started unfinished, and some sketches were barely started.

This is one of them.

My mother lives in a typical Andalusian house in Seville.

One of the characteristics of these houses is that they usually have a courtyard where there are all kinds of flowering and non-flowering plants.

Obviously, they need to be cared for, watered, fertilized, etc.
My mother loves doing it, and in spring she reaps the rewards of her labor.

I always give my flower icons to the women I follow (I hope I'm not annoying them by doing that), so I thought it was interesting to draw inspiration from all of that to put this together.

17 Tracks native instruments MS2 & Old Xewton forum.
3 XPad 
2 iMini Arturia
1 iProphet Arturia
2 korg IM
1 Ob-xd 
1 flowtones 


Mix: my hear 
Software. Music Studio 2
Hardware.ipad

Cover. A part of the courtyard of my mother's house

Thank you for your comments

Next…. Crossroad

Flowers

Special thanks to Cecilia for her a cappella ...of which I modified the tone in order to fit perfectly with my arrangement and atmosphere

EQUALITY FOR ALL.  🎧

(Verse1)
Pull out the stops, it’s just the beginning 
Now let the beat dropped, 
If you’re here, then we’re winning 
didn’t change my aim —my name —
I-P-G-1,——-M-V-P still in the game 
ain’t no shame perfect storm 
On the cloud, let it rain, let it reign 
beyond the norm, splatter on the rooftops 
And flowing down the drain
some say i’m crazy, but you have been warned 
Born and bred to rep deep underground 

(Verse2)
acknowledge the name 
acknowledge the game 
acknowledge— the— pieces ain’t the same 
Fame—-nah never, but these rap bars, make me a rockstar 
shout it from the rooftop, Its all under par
underground, with top notch quality 
still goes far, on the path to Victory 
the winning team is always near the finish line
Pull out the stops, one standard refined 
deep end, different styles, different flow combined 
I’m jammin everywhere, come on read the sign-
Pull out the stops, these are wicked times

(Chorus)
pulled out the stops, pulled out the stops
Never fear, I take it as it comes. 
5-4-3-2——yeah, number 1, 
I-P-G in Forefront no I’m not done 
-Don’t matter where you come from
Come on get you some
Truth filled with facts, repping  underground
We won’t stop, or hold back
That’s a fact, so stay on track, 
pull the stops, got it like that
beat drop—————bars come off the top, 
——--Expressive with the style 
That’s a difference, why not? 
pulled the stops, 
pulled the stops

[Interlude]
Pull the stops-pull the stops
[Scratch]
Pull out the Stops
Crazy shit!
[Scratch]
Pull out the Stops
Jamming everywhere 
[Scratch]
Pull out the Stops
Levels to it!

(Chorus)

(Verse3)
Ain’t gonna stop, we’ll  just keep going 
paths been laid out highs and low-end 
stay motivated it’s a positive trend 
keep on Rollin, Switch it, flip the script.
Got the hip-hop groove, With soul in it
M-V-P so the track gets lit

Pull out the Stops

Pull Out the Stops

I started making this piece with the intention of it being a set of songs that could stand on their own as well as being an open collaboration, but then it took on a life of its own, and things just got out of hand from there, lol! 

But I still managed to control myself and didn’t add too many samples though, haha! 

I was listening to 1985 and 1986 hip hop singles when making this so….

You can download this for free as well as some of the unmixed stems on Bandcamp. The lyrics can also be found on Bandcamp since SC didn’t provide enough space in the song info. I reached my description limit!

Feel free to treat it as an open collaboration if you like. The song list, BPMs, and time signatures are listed below. 

I Like To Sample Old Drums Bandcamp Link: 
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com/album/i-like-to-sample-old-drums

Funny we are now moving to Portland. Bye, bye Hillsboro. I guess this is now a farewell song. 

Track Credits:

The Couch King: Lyrics, Vocals, Production
https://musiciselation.bandcamp.com
Russell Sinfield: Mix and Master
https://soundcloud.com/russell-sinfield

I Like To Sample Old Drums
Rap Attack: 112 BPM 4/4
Take The Max Down To Hillsboro: 189 BPM 4/4
Peach ’N Plum: 132 BPM 3/4
What, Would, When: 112 BPM 5/4
I Like To Sample Old Drums: N/A
This One Goes: 101 BPM 4/4
Bllll: 92 BPM 4/4
The Couch Can’t Help It: 87 BPM 4/4

Here are the lyrics just for: 

Rap Attack

I will
Put you in a tourniquet
Bleeding there’s no stopping it
Got a pimple 
I be popping it
Tripple nipple
Don’t be knocking it
I be chopping it off
Now blood is slopping  
I ain’t mopping 
You be dropping
When you slippin’ in it 
Finna sit and watch as I scoff
Maybe lickin’ ice cream soft serve, huh
What cha sayin’ I can only seem to catch ya gurgling brah
Nah, No one can hear you scream 
When you got a severe stream of
Foam bumbling, bubbling from your mouth, tumbling gravitationally south
Bro, i’m feeling bad for your health
See you reeling keeling over looking so sad 
had I know your noncongealinkg slow at healing
I might have
Not tried to put you in a tourniquet 
Tried to put you in a tourniquet
Tried to put you in a

I Like To Sample Old Drums

Bandcamp

Russell Sinfield and the Couch King -I Like To Sample Old Drums

Lyrics

Give me some jazzy dream
Come on fill my heart
It's an abyss in there for your good clean
Call it storage for making art
Children can learn whats real
If they're lost, Here a soul they'll find
Who lays it all bare for the team
Just to show the truth can still rule our kind

Mirror You Mirror Me
Positive truce or negative need
Let stillness seed and silence show
The less control of others the more you'll know

Observable this Universe
Discernment grows those other views with worth
Each niche can teach
In evolution we reach
Fittest of physical traits
Good bye to that fake behaviour you make

Mirror You Mirror Me
I'm tilting away from your false realities
Let stillness seed this stern nuclear glow
I won't mirror others where fake is all they show

Mirror feed
Be positively free
Stand your ground
Don't be afraid
Defend your friends from weak bullies

It's subtle light funkamental
Shove away the dark
Get a grip on the mental
Be your brightest human light
Make your own new fundamental

Deal dust in night power moth
Let's hug a tree so sayeth this goth
Mirror Free Mirror True
Never fear rips all power from you
It's the tree wrapped arms that bring this glow
Churn that chime
Tree let know

Mirror You
Mirror Me

Mirror You Mirror Me
I'm tilting away from your false realities
Let stillness seed this stern nuclear glow
I won't mirror others where fake is all they show

Mirror Mirror on the wall
Where's that love
Now, for us all
Give us a bit
Hope to enthral
Don't be a glitch   
Our darkness will fall

Mirror Mirror on the wall
We got the love
Our biggest ball
The game is good
Game time for all
Lest scratch that itch
Light, waves, air
Enthral
Mirror Mirror on the wal

This is one peruses how we mirror eachother behaviourally and energetically. Unless we tilt away from less conscientious behaviour it's difficult to not absorb the feelings thrown at you by others and for them visa versa. That's why I call for that positive wave from people so much as the more of us that consciously project positivity the more positive Earth becomes for everyone. Live your own prayers of positive please. I try hard. It's easy to make a song about it but it's visciously hard to live it all the time, but I'll keep trying to get better at it everyday for Earth and my Kids. They deserve it and it could be their only hope at survival . The current & next generations need to finally find that positive human niche collectively or it may be game over for human planet. Earth will move on with new life with or without us. I know which outcome I'd prefer to try and mould.

That's how we wipe out depression, by not creating fear filled realities for our children. Once they start experiencing more and more positive upbringings then they won't need to figure out the fear as they will have transcended being afraid from young and there will be nothing for them to be depressed about.

A bit of Light 🕯️ 

GAA - Gaelic games in Ireland involves two sports. Gaelic Football & Hurling. For the last while the GAA has established itself in Palestine. It's a beautiful bit of light for me & they love it apparently. There was meant to be a delegation coming to Ireland from the West Bank over the coming days but red tape has stopped it. Here's hoping they get to where that bit of light was born and they can continue to amplify and expand it for themselves. Love you Palestine 🫡🔆

The struggle
https://youtu.be/z0jPYvauusA?si=YojB6DRUwO98I4DN

Another roadblock
http://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0716/1523766-gaa-palestine-visa/

But we will always sing, play and call the names of our Palestinian brothers and sisters because they need our love now and forever like we need theirs

This song isn't directly about the middle east but for us all that is top of the list as the negative scourge on our reality so let's project all the positivity we can towards the people there and maybe it will help a little bit.

Mirror You Mirror Me

I thought I'd have a go at remixing this track and hearing how it would sound in instrumental form.
Music: Graham Williams - Produced by Graham Williams & Heliopolis 5
Lead Guitars & Rhythm Guitars: Graham Williams
Brass, Bass, Drums & Keyboards: Heliopolis 5
Photography and artwork: Graham Williams

Check out more of Heliopolis 5's excellent work by visiting his page: @user-555484870.

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