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"I wanted to make an album that gave people hope; an album that said, the worse things get, the more we need to find the wonder in life.  In these difficult times, optimism isn’t naive, it’s imperative to our survival.  In doing so, I ended up telling my own story of ongoing recovery from chronic depression/anxiety and PTSD; the lesson I have learned and the ones I am still struggling to learn.  By using recycled voices, from old public service announcements and Sci-Fi B-Movies, I found I could hide in plain sight.  I found I could talk about subjects far more personal and painful than I could ever with my own voice."

All The Tobisonics

Described by music blogger, Listen to Monger as, "a slick but lo-fi electro-disco spoken-word masterpiece."   A collaboration with Scottish Poet/Spoken Word Artist, Chris Ingram aka Wee Scots Poet [ft. BBC Wales & BBC Radio 6], "All The Little Things" is a Nu-Disco Spoken-Word groove for dancing around your home to. Upon hearing the preview, Jaguar [BBC Intro Dance & Mix Mag] said, "This is everything.  I want more." 


Here is the Spotify Link:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5m5EgwbkSNips4JwK3zQrc?si=0a46575a56f740a6

"All The Little Things" is my second release of 2021, and follows up on "Eye of the Storm" [ft. Fresh on the Net Fresh Faves (Batch 390)].  My music has been played by DJ Tobi Lynn of Amazing Radio US, featured on KGUP ’s daily rotation, as well as attracting the attention of Abbie McCarthy [BBC Radio 1] “Enjoyed listening to this, ace production 👏🏼”.

Chris Ingram won the Burns Award aged five.  He has performed alongside the likes of British Sea Power, 9 Bach, Ben Waters, Cate Le Bon, and Dizraeli. Described by Tom Robinson [BBC Introducing Mixtape] as, “Some of the finest writing I've heard come through BBC Introducing", and “One of our picks for Artist of the Week for 2020" by Scotland on Sunday.1

We've already been lucky enough to be picked up by Artefaktor Radio's Sneak Peek Show [Mexico], Trust the Doc [w/ Neil March FOTN Moderator] & Monday Night Ride Out via Exile FM [UK], Radio RKC's #TheWelcomeShow [France], and added to Indie Live Radio's rotation [New Jersey, USA].

Disco is the electronic genre of hard times.  Right now, people need their Saturday Night Fever.  

***Lyrics***

Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo

The Wee things
All those little things

You and me, we can be a Toucan
Rainbows at the end of your nose
Time blows bubbles emerge from rubble
Haldon collide with me, let's gaze through Hubble.

The Wee things
All those little things
The Wee things
All those little things

Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo

See it all glorious microscopic
Mandala seahorses so kaleidoscopic
Like sunshine kisses, she makes it better
It's midnight, slide into that slipper Barbarella

The Wee things
All those little things
The Wee things
All those little things

The Wee things
All those little things
The Wee things
All those little things

Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo

The Wee things
All those little things

Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo
Bdah bdah bdah bdah booo

***Credits***

Music: @tobisonics
Words: Wee Scots Poet @ceg-records
Mix Engineer: @Emilsson
Mastering Engineer: @tobisonics

All The Little Things

Friday, 27th May, with his debut LP due out in the Summer, Alt-Indie Electro Pop Artist Tobisonics delivers an spontaneous single aimed squarely at westerners who hero-worship Vladimir Putin, “Putin’s Got a Gun against Your Head”.

Annoyed by westerners hero-worshipping Vladimir Putin, while he held the threat of Nuclear War over the West, Tobi originally made “Putin’s Got a Gun against Your Head” for TikTok; a 16 second short-form production, he had no intention of releasing; but the ongoing horrors in Ukriane, not to mention, having friends in Odesa, compelled Tobi to work up an official release.  

Having spent his increasingly volatile teenage years in a series of awful/awesome indie guitar bands; music fell away in Tobi’s early 20s, as he wrestled with his, as yet undiagnosed, mental health problems. By his mid-30s, Tobi felt trapped, evermore socially isolated, every turn leading to thoughts of suicide.  A last roll-of-the-dice appointment with a Psychiatrist finally led to regular therapy sessions and medication.  Tobi found himself flooded with years of repressed emotions and the songs fell out of him.  The slow grind of his recovery and music-making evolved together.

Nominated Radio WigWam Best Electro Act 2021, Tobi’s music has been played by DJ Tobi Lynn of Amazing Radio US, featured in Fresh on the Net’s Fresh Faves [Batch 390], as well as attracting the attention of Abbie McCarthy [BBC Radio 1] “Enjoyed listening to this, ace production 👏🏼” and Jaguar [BBC Intro Dance Radio 1/Mix mag] “This is everything. I want more.”

Intended as an exploration of the imperative of optimism, Tobi gradually released this his debut LP was, in fact, an acutely personal project about the lessons learned in his ongoing recovery from chronic depression/anxiety and PTSD, and those he was still struggling to learn.

Tobi’s debut LP is out this Summer.

Putin's Got a Gun against Your Head

Putin's Got A Gun Against Your Head

“I wanted to make an album that gave people hope; an album that said, the worse things get, the more we need to find the wonder in life.  In these difficult times, optimism isn’t naive, it’s imperative to our survival.”   

Friday 7th October Luxembourg-Based Experimental Electro Artist Tobisonics releases his debut album, ‘We Need Light in the Dark’.  

“We Need Light in the Dark” arrives on the back of two single releases; Opening track, “Panic” [Friday 5th August]; “..gives you elements of Pet Shop Boys, early Daft Punk, Erasure” [The Songbird/In Your Ears Music ‘Track of the Day’]; “it made me think of what I love in Daft Punk, Giorgio and Public Service Broadcasting” by Martha Richler [Resonance FM].  And “How Do You Say Life is Wonderful?” [Friday 2nd September], “it will give a special feeling to your Friday night, it sounds like a fast trip towards an intergalactic road” by Zone Nights [Translated from Spanish].

April 2021, Tobi began work on what was intended to be 4 - 5 Track EP in collaboration with Spoken Word Artist Wee Scots Poet.  When the collaboration didn’t work out, Tobi needed to find a voice; and so he turned to vocal samples, as he had done with his first single, “All These Things”.  Using recycled voices from old public service announcements and B Movie Sci Fi, Tobi found he was able to hide in plain sight.  The album quickly developed into a far more personal story than he had ever intended.  The lessons he had learned from his own struggles with chronic depression/anxiety and PTSD, and the lessons he was still trying to learn.

Having spent his increasingly volatile teenage years in a series of awful/awesome indie guitar bands; music fell away in Tobi’s early 20s, as he wrestled with his, as yet undiagnosed, mental health problems. By his mid-30s, Tobi felt trapped, evermore socially isolated, every turn leading to thoughts of suicide.  A last roll-of-the-dice appointment with a Psychiatrist finally led to regular therapy sessions and medication.  Years of repressed emotions and music welled up inside Tobi.  The slow grind of his recovery and music-making evolved together.

Nominated Radio WigWam Best Electro Act 2021, Tobi’s music has been played by DJ Tobi Lynn of Amazing Radio US, featured in Fresh on the Net’s Fresh Faves [Batch 390], as well as attracting the attention of Abbie McCarthy [BBC Radio 1] “Enjoyed listening to this, ace production 👏🏼” and Jaguar [BBC Intro Dance Radio 1/Mix mag] “This is everything. I want more.”

‘We Need Light in the Dark’ is out on all platforms on Friday 7th October.

We Need Light In The Dark

All I Ever Wanted

You Just Gotta Dance

Snakes

Friday 5th August Luxembourg-Based Indie Electronic Artist Tobisonics releases his debut LP ‘We Need Light in the Dark’ on an exclusive early release via Bandcamp [Official Release Friday 7th October All Platforms].

Never intended to be autobiographical, but rather an exploration of the imperative of optimism; Tobi gradually realized ‘We Need Light in the Dark’ was, in truth, about the lessons he had learned during his ongoing recovery from chronic depression/anxiety and PTSD, and the lessons he was still trying to learn. 

“I wanted to make an album that said, the worse things get, the more we need to find the wonder in life.  In doing so, I ended up talking about my own journey from a dead-end life to my debut LP.”

‘We Need Light in the Dark’ came together over a period of 15 fraught months; Tobi pushed himself to higher standards musically and technically, while enduring, terrible mood swings as memories and feelings he had buried deep inside himself were dredged up and exposed, raw and ever-painful.

“I was a mess during the making of ‘We Need Light in the Dark’.  I wasn’t sleeping much and when I did sleep, it was only for a few hours. 9 months into it, and I’d tripled my anti-anxiety dosage just to get through the day.”  

When the initial intention to build upon the collaboration with Wee Scots Poet quickly proved unworkable; Tobi instead fell back on what he had first tried with his debut single, ‘All These Things’, concocting the lyrics from a ragtag assortment of Vocal loops, B-Movie Quotes, and Vocoders.

“It’s liberating to express myself through other voices.  I can hide in plain sight.  The subjects I touch upon in ‘We Need Light in the Dark’ are so personal, so painful, I could never find words for them in my own head.”

Having spent his increasingly volatile teenage years in a series of awful/awesome indie guitar bands; music fell away in Tobi’s early 20s, as he wrestled with his, as yet undiagnosed, mental health problems. By his mid-30s, Tobi felt trapped, evermore socially isolated, every turn leading to thoughts of suicide.  A last roll-of-the-dice appointment with a Psychiatrist finally led to regular therapy sessions and medication.  Tobi found himself flooded with years of repressed emotions and the music fell out of him.  The slow grind of his recovery and music-making evolved together.

Nominated Radio WigWam Best Electro Act 2021, Tobi’s music has been played by DJ Tobi Lynn of Amazing Radio US, featured in Fresh on the Net’s Fresh Faves [Batch 390], as well as attracting the attention of Abbie McCarthy [BBC Radio 1] “Enjoyed listening to this, ace production 👏🏼” and Jaguar [BBC Intro Dance Radio 1/Mix mag] “This is everything. I want more.”

“I hear a lot of music that is so easy to consume, it’s like sonic wallpaper.  I want to make music that demands attention, that provokes a reaction.” 

‘Panic’ is out on all platforms Friday 5th August; the opening track of Tobi’s debut LP, ‘We Need Light in the Dark’; an exploration of the lessons learned by Tobi during his ongoing recovery and the lessons he is still trying to learn. ‘We Need Light in the Dark’ is out on an exclusive early release via Bandcamp on Friday 5th August and out on all platforms on Friday 7th October.

How Do You Say Life Is Wonderful?

Scream

“With a fusion of funky synthesizers and drum machines, the musician breaks through with his single Panic.” Zone Nights [Translated from Spanish]

Friday, 5th August Luxembourg-based Indie Electronic Artist Tobisonics releases ‘Panic’; the first single from his upcoming debut LP ‘We Need Light in the Dark’. 

Never intended to be autobiographical, but rather an expression of the anxiety caused by the voices within and without; Tobi gradually realised that ‘Panic’ was, in truth, about the shame he felt over his own failures to hold down a steady job as he struggled with chronic depression, anxiety, and PTSD.

“I loved 'Panic' instantly and it made me think of what I love in Daft Punk, Giorgio and Public Service Broadcasting (2015) and I'm crazy about it.” -Martha Richler [Resonance FM]  

Having spent his increasingly volatile teenage years in a series of awful/awesome indie guitar bands; music fell away in Tobi’s early 20s, as he wrestled with his, as yet undiagnosed, mental health problems. By his mid-30s, Tobi felt trapped, evermore socially isolated, every turn leading to thoughts of suicide.  A last roll-of-the-dice appointment with a Psychiatrist finally led to regular therapy sessions and medication.  Tobi found himself flooded with years of repressed emotions and the music fell out of him.  The slow grind of his recovery and music-making evolved together.

 “...gives you elements of Pet Shop Boys, early Daft Punk, Erasure, and it’s done so well.” - The Songbird/In Your Ears Music ‘Track of the Day’

Nominated Radio WigWam Best Electro Act 2021, Tobi’s music has been played by DJ Tobi Lynn of Amazing Radio US, featured in Fresh on the Net’s Fresh Faves [Batch 390], as well as attracting the attention of Abbie McCarthy [BBC Radio 1] “Enjoyed listening to this, ace production 👏🏼” and Jaguar [BBC Intro Dance Radio 1/Mix mag] “This is everything. I want more.”

“Panic is not just 15 months of work.  It’s 10 years of therapy to get to this point. where I could talk about this.”

The opening track of Tobi’s debut LP, ‘We Need Light in the Dark’; an exploration of the lessons learned by Tobi during his ongoing recovery and the lessons he is still trying to learn, out on an exclusive early release via Bandcamp on Friday 5th August and out on all platforms on Friday 7th October.

We Need Like in the Dark

Panic

Download the single for free: https://www.tobisonics.com/90secondstomidnight

Breaking with conventional release strategies, Tobisonics delivers a Doomsday clock inspired call-to-action across web and social platforms.  “90 Seconds to Midnight” fuses music and sound design, with innovative AI-generated video, to encourage both educational engagement and financial support for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Juxtaposing a sample of Putin's nuclear ultimatum against cutting-edge vocal synthesis, and featuring the voice of popular educational content creator, Astrid Lundberg aka OddPride [500k+ followers on TikTok], the 90 seconds in duration single plunges the listener into the devastating reality of The Hiroshima Bomb.

“90 Seconds to Midnight” is made with the blessing of the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, the organization responsible for The Doomsday Clock, founded by Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer.  The Bulletin works to prevent Nuclear War and other human-made existential threats by providing access to reliable information for policy makers and the general public alike.

The passive listening experience of playlist-based ecosystems made streaming a bad fit for “90 Seconds to Midnight”.  Understanding that awareness is as valuable as financial support, Tobi set up a dedicated landing page where the single is available exclusively and for free.  The page serves as an introduction to both the Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists and The Doomsday Clock, encouraging deeper engagement with these critical issues.

17 September 2023

90 Seconds To Midnight ft. Astrid Lundberg

Song Whip: https://songwhip.com/song/tobisonics/all-these-things

Title:  All These Things
Artist: Tobisonics

Producer: Tobisonics
Mix Engineer: Magnus Emilsson
Mastering Engineer: Tobi

Lyrics:

All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember

To catch the moment
We always run
To catch the moment
We always run

All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember

We are kissing we are far (This body)
We are kissing we are far (This body)
We are kissing we are far (This body)
We are kissing we are far (This body)

Nobody can stop me
Nobody can stop me
All these things I remember
All these things I remember
(We are kissing we are far)
All these things I remember
(We are kissing we are far)
All these things I remember

Nobody can stop me I am running
Nobody can stop me I am running

All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember
All these things I remember

All These Things

Luxembourg based alt-electro-pop artist Tobisonics delivers a politically-charged dose of driving electronics, fierce percussive grooves, and striking sound design with new release, “Military Industrial Complex”.

In this, the follow-up to his debut single, “All These Things”, the reclusive producer sets President Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address to the American people against President Trump’s Rose Garden speech in reaction to the Black Lives Matters protests (June 1st, 2020).

Eisenhower, five-star general & Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in World War II, who planned & supervised the invasion of Normandy in 1944-45, and went on to become Supreme Commander of NATO (1950 - 1952); who, while recognizing the need for the Military Industrial Complex, warns of the need for perpetual vigilance to safeguard the liberties of the American people in, what is, a nuanced and prophetic speech.

And Trump, the real estate mogul/reality TV star who avoided the vietnam draft thanks to an apparent bone spur in his foot; who talks of dominating the streets, as he announces plans to deploy thousands of heavily armed military personnel into the cities and towns of America.

Tobisonics skillfully constructs a dynamic electronic production around the two highly contrasting speeches; the groove and pulse of the track present throughout, as he blends elements of sound design & vocal FX with filtered piano & shifting ambient.  The 2 min 47 sec track punctuated by its driving chorus of synthwave and fierce percussion; a robovox mantra of the world’s 5 biggest arms manufacturers delivered in rhythmic roll call.

“I’d finished the production back in July and was looking for the right Artist to add vocals, but then I remembered Eisenhower’s Farewell Address.  The contrast between the dignified, nuanced, and hopeful tone of Eisenhower’s speech and the macho, antagonistic and fatalistic language of Trump’s speech was so striking, I know I had to put them together.”

“Military Industrial Complex” is to be released exclusively via Bandcamp on “Bandcamp Friday”, October 2nd, before being available across all streaming platforms on the following Friday, October 9th.

****
Production: @tobisonics
Mix: @Emilsson
Master: www.tobisonicmastering.com
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www.tobisonics.com

Military Industrial Complex

Release Date(s): Wednesday 20th January (Early Release via Bandcamp Monday 11th January)

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**Lyrics (& Kennedy Speech)**

The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight
The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight

Welcome to the running man
Just keep running man
Did it for dogs said he was the Son of Sam
No terms for the job that’s determined by god
Or the man with the complex cursed with the job

Sympathetic to his symptoms
Introspective with his wisdom
But they never seem to listen
Intercepted by the system
Counting the seconds as they ticking
Terror setting in they stricken
Power is taken not given
We ain’t playing that’s the difference

The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight
The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight

We ride all the way to the eye of storm
Can’t keep up the pace as race as chase
The greats to the place where the fire is born
Raise again just to die for the cause

Welcome to the thunderdome admission is a hundred souls
Feeling like the hunger games but I ain’t hungry though

Overworked and undersold
Couldn’t see the signals said
The plan went up in smoke
Seven with the double oh
Bonded by their difference
The city that they living in
Hoping for deliverance
But never get the dividends

The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight
The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight

In the long history of the world
Only a few generations
Have been granted the role
Of defending freedom
In its hour of maximum danger
I do not shrink from this responsibility
I welcome it
I do not believe that any of us
Would exchange places
With any other people
Or any other generation
The energy the faith the devotion
Which we bring to this endeavor
Will light our country
And all who serve it
And the glow from that fire
Can truly light the world

The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight
The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight

The futures bright that’s the neon lights
(And so my fellow Americans)
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
(ask not)
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
(what your country can do for you)
Countdown started and we leave tonight
(ask what you can do for your country)
The futures bright that’s the neon lights
Demolition man put your dreams on ice
Said it’s going down if you’re seen on sight
Countdown started and we leave tonight

My fellow citizens of the world
Ask not what America will do for you
But what together we can do
For the freedom of man

**Credits**
Music & Production: @Tobisonics
Vocals & Lyrics: @Costithe
Mix Engineer: @Emilsson
Mastering Engineer: @Tobisonic

www.tobisonics.com

Eye of the Storm

Eye Of The Storm (w/ Costi)

Powerfully uncool electronic pop grooves for sarcastic introverts.
Working the Recovery Chronic Depression/Anxiety
Trekkie 🖖