This is stunning, Carl. Beautiful words, so well performed!

My kind of meditation 🤍 Lovely reverb on your vocals, love the dreamy synths... something almost hypnotic about this ✨

Atomic Love is a product of our current times, reflecting the social unrest we're experiencing with the return of the arms race and the Cold War, and the ever-growing threat of global thermonuclear war. We chose the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing as the official release date to further raise awareness about this critical issue that affects us all.
https://beatingedge.bandcamp.com/track/atomic-love-2
https://www.tiktok.com/@beatingedge/video/7419418747498155296
Released on major streaming platforms on August 6, 2024.
©2024 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

All our lives are fading
In the cold dark night
All our hopes are breaking
Man, we lost the fight

In a world of shadows
Fear takes the lead
Love can't find its way
In the nuclear breed

Boom goes the night
In this atomic love
Silent hearts ignite
Under the skies above

Running through the wasteland
No place to hide
Holding on to memories
As dreams subside

In the ruins we stand
Hand in hand we pray
Hoping for tomorrow
Come what may

Boom goes the night
In this atomic love
Silent hearts ignite
Under the skies above

Running through the wasteland
No place to hide
Holding on to memories
As dreams collide

In the ruins we stand
Hand in hand we pray
Hoping for tomorrow
Come what may

Boom goes the night
In this atomic love
Silent hearts ignite
Under the skies above

Boom goes the night
In this atomic love
Silent hearts ignite
Under the skies above

Boom goes the night
Come what may

Atomic love

Atomic Love

'slipshod decisions' with Harmful if Followed
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHEv8ZOu-xP/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

harmful: lyrics, vocals, photo
scotty: front porch pickin'

Today I thought that I had something to say 
But then it went away
Cos I’ve done nothing today 
I need to make more mistakes
I think that’s what it takes 
Christ it aches and it aches
Feels far too real to be fake
Still signs of deliberate lines
More than words for words sake

And I swear that I sometimes make slipshod decisions

To help with the sad rhymes
That I’ve made my prison
I'm living in sin of my own making
Trying to catch the sound of my heart breaking 
Is it life or art that I’ve been faking ?
Think I missed the start but I don’t know when 
Pulled myself apart and back in again
Rather overarched for a simple man
Far too grand a plan

slipshod decisions (with Harmful if Followed)

..cLOSE ENCOUNTERs.. with the artificial kind..

Listen to A Little Bruce Lee Goes A Long Way by Hand on the Rock on #SoundCloud
https://on.soundcloud.com/VfBTjH1PDx6SIDEcWZ

We inspire each other and it's so cool man.
Thanks Hand on the Rock. It was the seed of the above song that put the Bruce Lee Water in my head a while back. That's another little wonderful experience nugget that we can deliver eachother when expressing art and again if guessed by a computer you won't get those fine details and the cherries you choose won't be yours. That cherry is ours because we experienced it together. It was real! It marked properly a moment making it memorable while evoking feelings. Now new feelings link those moments. We don't get that connectivity of feeling and nice moments with art that's handed to us. We have to take it from the start to the finish and reflect on it... Music is our therapy let's not lose that

I think I'm starting to realise... When you add the amount of instances our experience offers us and multiply that by the amount of neurons... When it comes to making art which is the business of discovery ... We have the high ground still.. We have too many connections and we have the force of feeling ... The force cannot be handed to you by a computer! EVER


The Jedi Order

Star warred order for Lucas screen
For now we mute our own mind scream
One Obi Wan or it's mission Darth
Be Yoda of light or emperor of dark

It's Galaxies of neurons filling your skull
Intention to action discerns dark/light pull
Do we silence Luke and be that evil?
Your imperial pain
Wind whooshed mind Eagle

Emanations
Controlled neuron strings
Observational Force empowers all things
The things of you
The things of me
Rings of resonance
Choose jail or free

Whether Youngling, Padawan, Knight or Master
No control of others finds your Yoda faster
Grand master of me
Light like leaf
Yet all cosmic power in this chief

All magnetars tinder like in brain
Those sly supernovas tinder like in my name
Being your blackhole controls right of passage
Singularity known
Freeman charge controlled brassage
Energy
You
Bruce says, Be Water...Be new
Memory of liquid
Good and great
Guide all with pathway
That inner peace make
Deliver us light
Force for all good
Do we dopamine scroll to dark wimp with hood?

The Jedi Order
Good mind be broader
Octillions of atoms
Sayeth Bruce, Be Water
Whether Youngling, Padawan, Knight or Master
Be your liquid Light
Grand Yoda pasture

Use the force
Be Water

🧬 The Jedi Order 🧬

There is one difference between real creativity and artificial guess work. FEELING

That's what this song aims to achieve is spell that out. I'm pretending to be Obi Wan Kenobi telling all the prompters Jedi Master style why they are poisoning themselves and the younglings of planet Earth. I couldn't give a shit what that comes across like. what's more important to me is to have inspirational opposites to the poison being delivered to little humans that haven't figured themselves out yet or haven't figured out how to be creative. So meet Jedi vocal! Fuck the prompters... you'll all get sick of your own with smell soon and you'll soon realize the only fucking way to make art is to FEEL it. That's the life force and the best most powerful FEELINGS come from love and linking love or your Heart to ART. So stop insulting what inspired us all up to this point and feel it. Just because your brains are being poisoned with constant advertisements telling you AI is the answer to everything doesn't make it true... It will have lots of answers for society but if we are not careful it will destroy your individualism if it hasn't already. So wake the fuck up... Our children are worth more then that shallowness

I'm starting to lean towards spirituality existing in our DNA. Maybe it's the potential energy we all have and maybe that's where the spirits past lie in wait for us to still inspire us. it's the most scientific place my head has ever being tying modern scientific reality to the spiritual feelings we all have of we open ourselves up to that or if we want to keep a valid connection open to the inspiring people that have left us


Feel the force
The force is feeling
Deoxyribonucleic acid preening
Seeds of our souls
Double helix kneading
Serve now free will
Sound has artist scening

Feeling the force
That force of feeling
Fluidity flouts the highground of meaning
Feathered truth now bows to new
Only fools get stuck with what they knew

Feel the force
This force is feeling
Coded roots
Spiritual peeling
Potential of past
Will see's free
Curation of conscious force field seed

Feel the air
The force of breathing

Feel the force
The force is feeling
Deoxyribonucleic acid preening
Seeds of our souls
Double helix kneading
Serve now free will
Sound has artist scening

Feeling the force
The force of feeling
Fluidity flouts the highground of meaning
Feathered truth now bows to new
Only fools get stuck with what they knew

Feel the force
The force of feeling
Coded roots
Spiritual peeling
Potential past
Will see's free
Curation of conscious force feel seed


🧘🏿‍♀️ Path of Feeling 🧘🏿‍♀️

Musically this piece is the track Path of Feeling bounced, reversed and pitch shifted down an octave. Then a Tom only beat is played forwards over it, bounced and then also reversed and pitch shifted down an octave. All voicings are voiced without pitch shifts. Went proper sith Lord for this one...

The Dark side. Even the dark side is filled with feeling. The feelings are that of control of others because you cannot control and feel your pain. It mutes love and never finds it as a reference to move forward towards the greater good for all life.

Artificial art doesn't even have these feelings.

That's how out of touch with reality it is. You're not even the sith. You align closer with human beings from the movie Equalibrium and here the population is given a drug to stop them feeling because society decided feelings were too hard to control. Sounds very familiar to me and that's what advertising has been doing since we stopped bartering and companies started making subliminal decisions for us instead placing things as what we worship when we see value. It's time to become aware of that and stop allowing it control you and start feeling yourself outside the shallow material world you are all forced to live in. You love this world because it's easier to mute your feelings but let it go on and we have our collective Matrix whether we like it or not. This isn't sensationalist this is the actual reality we are seeing unfold before our very eyes and this is going to be accelerated as AI becomes more powerful and companies in turn have more power to make decisions for us based on what they feed us and by what we rotate in our own heads by self inflicted confirmation bias which tends to make us hold onto belief. That could be a phone or a creed or a fake music software. it's all limiting your view of yourself and the universe. So find your fucking Jedi and let's have a bit of fun. We don't need light sabres in this episode that's coming.
We are the light sabre...

When you think about it... A company is another entity that lacks feeling. Unless the ethos is there to be conscious of the customer which in 99% of cases it's not... Money becomes the only decision maker not the health of the receiver of the service. So we can all blame AI or wake up to the phycology of it all. AI is a tool.pfr all of us, that's it. We choose how we embrace it. We are complicit because we feed the beast. We are the beast because we are a cog in that machine. Bit we don't have to be and can escape it at any point. Once enough cogs leaves... The machine won't work anymore

The Dark Side

The Dark Side of the Force
Power that need not love
Fear of pain holds power human
Insane takes hold as answers wane
Pain not felt
No love refrain

The Dark Side

Heal by crushing lessons lost
Peal back life
Jedi the cost
We are afraid so mind makes Mordor
No Lord of Ring fills heart any further

The Dark Side of the Force
Power that need not love
Fear of pain holds power human
Insane takes hold as answers wane
Pain not felt
No love refrain

The Dark Side

'Through passion I gain strenght.
Through, strenght I gain power.
Through power, I gain victory.
Through victory, my chains are broken.
The force shall free me' Sith code

Artificial doesn't feel pain or love...

Be Light


👹 The Dark Side 👹

The Jedi Code

To inner peace
Controlled emotion
Not overwhelmed
Fluid with motion
Feel not suppressed but understood
Seek wisdom in polar mind wood
Decide your fate like Albert says
Control just point of view in your head
It's magnetism in the mind
Here ignorance won't delete defined
Serenity through calm compassion
Stability from just right ration
We tap a truth with no pitfalls
Misinformation fused to trolls
These trolls are filtered
Feathered fine
Chaos is there
But our harmony chime
There is no death
We are water drop
Separated from sea
We suffer shock
One fine day we return to source
Just like our life
Part of The Force
Now we are all cosmic power
We're coded Spirit for Youngling flower
We watch all water
Drops good and bad
Tune us in?
More knowledge had
Centered Sons
Good Earthly ones
The Jedi Code
Great with no guns
To inner peace
Controlled emotion
Not overwhelmed
Fluid with motion
Feel not suppressed but understood
Seek wisdom in polar mind wood
Decide your fate like Albert says
Control just point of view in your head...

📜 The Jedi Code 📜

Jedi Training

Are you Force-sensitive?
Do you feel the tree?
Good initiate
To the temple please
Tend to trials
Prove readiness
With education
You we bless

You will become strong
Less will you wonder of wise
To proof Padawan
Trust Masters' eyes
Go feel your song
Ring genes of just
Repeal mind wronged
Master peace a must

Feel your pain my dear apprentice
Curate your courage
Mute that selfish
Your ego houses doubt and fear
Give skill to flesh for spirit clear

Trust intuition
Control the force
Subconscious clear
Mutes reason first
Go charge inate
Webbed strenght of mental
Clarity clued in
Full gist with leaf like gentle

Be combat ready
Force tilts to block their anger
We have silence for the dark side demonic slander
The dark will impose & control & insist
Hold onto belief and true balance you miss

Five times a day you find inner peace
Ones deep connection
Meditative release
We're not about take
Release and absorb
You are knight good spirit
Mastered by word

How train you your master?

🧘🏿‍♀️Jedi Training 🏋🏿‍♀️

🕉️ Yoda or Do Not 🕉️

Today marks 80 years since 🇯🇵Hiroshima🇯🇵, a day that reminds us of the horror and loss caused by the atomic bomb. We want to honor the lives affected and the resilience of those who survived. This is a moment to reflect, remember, and hope that nothing like this ever happens again.
We’re releasing a new version of Atomic Love (here you can find the original version released a year ago: https://soundcloud.com/beatingedge/atomic-love), featuring our awesome friend Carl aka The Beautiful Dark @thebeautifuldark, as a tribute to this day. 
Our wish is simple but strong: may humanity never face such devastation again!✌️🕊️😌

At the moment, this track is exclusively available on SoundCloud.
Released on August 6, 2025.
©2025 Beating Edge - The Beautiful Dark

Lyrics:

All our lives are fading
In the cold dark night
All our hopes are breaking
Man, we lost the fight

In a world of shadows
Fear takes the lead
Love can't find its way
In the nuclear breed

Boom goes the night
In this atomic love
Silent hearts ignite
Under the skies above

Running through the wasteland
No place to hide
Holding on to memories
As dreams subside

In the ruins we stand
Hand in hand we pray
Hoping for tomorrow
Come what may

Boom goes the night
In this atomic love
Silent hearts ignite
Under the skies above

Running through the wasteland
No place to hide
Holding on to memories
As dreams collide

In the ruins we stand
Hand in hand we pray
Hoping for tomorrow
Come what may

Boom goes the night
In this atomic love
Silent hearts ignite
Under the skies above

Boom goes the night
In this atomic love
Silent hearts ignite
Under the skies above

Boom goes the night
Come what may

Atomic Love - 80 Years Later

🇯🇵80 years after Hiroshima.. we won’t forget! 🇯🇵


🥳Our New Band🥳 Check out Scratch the Dark
https://on.soundcloud.com/jaIr6WCilkWRR85WeP
= Scratch Kelly & TBD


Dear Universe. Please bring peace to planet Earth 🙏🏽 Thanks Universe ✅


Thanks a centillion for ALL the support. I love you all for helping me in so many ways with what I've loved doing for 38 years, making music. This is a human made list of life dives. I'd happily explain any process to you if you wish or are wondering something about TBD. Just ask, I'm Carl and I love sharing what I've discovered and learned especially in the songs themselves. I see songs as one of the finest ways to learn something and bolt your truth to on any subject in a direct yet maybe less imposing manner as your singing it and making it mellifluous. It's hard to sing what you feel is a lie so in my view writing truly honest lyrics and making them songs can be a mini thesis for you on any subject.

No AI here... AI creativity insults my entire existence and the memory of all the dead artists that got their amazing work plagiarised to build current LLMs. I actually hope we legislate to fix that in the future if possible. Delete it and start again in my view. Building an Artificial Intelligence on stealing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Very clever! I'll stick with my actual intelligence thank you very much!
I do respect there are positive applications using AI music and in the future they will hopefully grow to being great for humanity. Right now though I believe there's a responsibility for artists to paint how humans make this world of music so generations that will only experience the world with AI music have a proper reference to retain and grow with. It's a fight for the soul of art until the soul of art is saved. Then we can utilise AI creativity more in my opinion but we have to make it an environment that doesn't wipe out individual evolution evolving music like they have done. A machine doing it for you is more matrix then artist. 

I had actually collaborated with a couple of AI artists and naively excepted them at face value. I nuked those songs though even though I made them very real... No thanks don't want to spread any of that shit! If you noticed this and saw me as a hypocrite I don't blame you but unfortunately that's the fake vs real guess world we are starting to need to navigate at the moment! It has made me overly protectionist about who to embrace!

Something needs to change fast. I've decided to stop following obvious AI accounts and I'm sorry if we have built up a relationship but it's a battle so... and it's not ok the current status quo... and every AI account that.doesnt lay bare what it is you are creating the problem so I can't support you any more and I don't mind if you stop spreading my music either. Thanks human to human but not with AI music as the medium thanks very much!

My shorterm plan is to start making a method to audit a SoundCloud profile as a reference to make it easier to avoid more AI typists. The more we avoid them the more we take the algorithm away from them. So in my view that's the tactic... We drive them all into a corner so they can digitally  pee all over each other and we can listen and share music. Hopefully culturally it will evolve more thoughtfully and we can come back to it and maybe even embrace it in cool creative ways. But it cannot in my view be allowed become the shortcut to result that kids get inspired by and don't bother learning music. That will limit the wiring of their brains and it's probably true to say overall health because of that.

Thanks a million for spending the time to read my bio... It changes like the wind. I feel a little bit sorry for you 😆 But I loooooove SoundCloud and I love getting upgraded off all the geniuses here so feel free to poke me anytime and I'll poke you back with my ears and honest opinion ❤️‍🔥 (and probably point out why you're better then AI 🕺🏽)

📜 The Jedi Code 📜

🇯🇵 The Beautiful Dark 🇯🇵🙌🏽

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