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ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 397

Around The Bend

Deep End

We Want WAAN

Mirrors

Work It Out

This is the instrumental version of Cyrano's recent EP 'Limitations'

Music For The Late Night Overthinkers (Volume 2)

Stream on Spotify

Heavy Dust (Instrumental)

Guitar and vocals by Michael Jablonka 

Cello by Danny Keane 

Recorded and mixed by Michael Njuguna at Fish factory studios

Mastered by Caspar Sutton Jones at Gearbox records

alone, together

This is the first song I released in 2025 after a 5 year break.

GLOW

Third annual synthy Christmas soundscape, all kinds of analogue, digital and 8-bit wonder laid over a bed of stretched-out Karen Carpenter. Ideal background music for Xmas dinner weirding out your relatives. 

TRAX: Sy Mann with Jean-Jacques Perrey: We Wish You A Merry Christmas / Plastiq Musiq - O Tannenbaum / Erasure - The Christmas Song / Sufjan Stevens - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing! / Grandaddy - Alan Parsons in a Winter Wonderland / Sufjan Stevens - I'll Be Home For Christmas / The Carpenters - Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (time-stretched x 10) / Sufjan Stevens - Ave Maria (feat. Cat Martino) / Joseph Byrd - It Came Upon A Midnight Clear / Binaural Space - Peace On Earth / Psywave ft. Naqed Disco - The First Noel / Sy Mann with Jean-Jacques Perrey - Joy to the World / Douglas Leedy - Good King Wenceslas / Sufjan Stevens  - Angels We Have Heard On High / The Moog Machine - Silent Night - O Holy Night / Erasure - Bleak Midwinter / Douglas Leedy - We Three Kings / The Moog Cookbook - Silent Night / PlasticPancake - The First Blip Blop Noel / Binaural Space - Three Ships / Armen Ra - O Holy Night Theremin / Donghyuk Heo - Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Modular Version) / Venus Hum - Let It Snow / Plastiq Musiq - Chorus Noel

Synthmas Mix 3:  Synthing in the Air

To mark 40 years of "West End Girls" becoming a hit, I edited together several of the key versions and mixes over the years, to trace the evolution of the recording. 
Tracks in order: Nightlife Tour Intro / Original Bobby 'O' Version / Theme For The Pet Shop Boys ('88 Remix) / West End Sunglasses / Shep Pettibone Mastermix / Sasha Mix / New Lockdown Version / Grum Dub Mix / DJ Hell Mix / Sleaford Mods - Pet Shop Boys Remix

Pet Shop Boys - WEST END GIRLS - The Evolution Megamix

You Are The Only One

Eden is a Red Row

From my album 'October Man' released in October 2019.

October Man

Pet Shop Boys The Early Years - Mixed. TRACKS: Two Divided By Zero / West End Girls (Shep Pettibone Disco Mix) / Love Comes Quickly (Dance Mix) / Why Don’t We Live Together? (New York Mix) / Opportunities (Version Latina) / Paninaro (Italian remix) / West End Sunglasses / A Man Could Get Arrested / In The Night / Theme for the Pet Shop Boys (Part 2) / One More Chance (Bobby O Remix) / That’s My Impression (Disco Mix) / Suburbia (The Full Horror)

Pet Shop Boys - DISCO 1.1 (Divided By Zero)

Luka - Past The Point Of No Return

Venn Smyth live gigs
3 May / 7.30pm / Pride's Got Talent Semifinals, Phoenix Art Club: https://phoenixartsclub.com/book/?instanceid=130001
12 May / 7pm / Babel Art House: https://www.outsavvy.com/event/14069/venn-smyth-hermes-gig-live-at-babel-art-house

This version of Sunrise was recorded in the garden in Scotland during the summer of 2020. It captures the sounds of the outdoors as well as giving a gentler take on the song, inviting you to put on your headphones and listen closely.

Download/stream here: https://ffm.to/sunrise-acoustic

Sunrise is a song about grief. In the original release, its poetic lyrics and meaningful message are set to electronic, uplifting eighties throwback sounds. This is a summer pop song for reflection and dancing in equal measure.

Download/stream here: https://ffm.to/vennsmyth-sunrise

Sunrise lyrics by Venn Smyth

I thought it was an ocean
I see it now a river
I know it comes in waves

It may last a lifetime
And time won’t cast a lifeline
But hold on

(I don’t) Don’t have answers
(I’ll wait) Wait however
Long it takes
Long it takes

For the sunrise
Some rise
More than the sun sets
Some things are said
Some things are set
Our sun will set

But we will sunrise
They say that some will rise
There will be sunsets
But we will get 
When all is said
Our day in the sun 

Matter, moments, memory
Sound and silence, senses
Weigh down your every move

(You swam) Swam through currents strong
(And ran) Ran into the storm
(You crept) Crept through grief and love
(In debt) Debt to those above

(I don’t) Don’t have answers
(I’ll wait) Wait however
Long it takes
Long it takes

For the sunrise
Some rise
More than the sun sets
Some things are said
Some things are set
Our sun will set

But we will sunrise
They say that some will rise
There will be sunsets
But we will get 
When all is said
Our day in the sun

For the sunrise
Some rise
More than the sun sets
Some things are said
Some things are set
Our sun will set

But we will sunrise
They say that some will rise
There will be sunsets
But we will get 
When all is said
Our day in the sun

Recorded and produced by Venn Smyth

Sunrise (Acoustic from the Garden in Scotland)

Tom Loffill - Say The Right Thing, Do The Right Thing

"Wild Bird is a song which was inspired from a feeling of huge admiration for a quirky friend of mine" Eileen-singer-songwriter with Fishing4Compliments

Wild Bird

Fresh On The Net is a music blog hosted by Tom Robinson and Team Freshnet, offering independent artists an open door and a level playing field for their music. Our inbox is open at http://freshonthenet.co.uk every Monday to Thursday morning - if you share a track with us there it will be heard by every member of our moderation team.

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Tom Loffill is a musician and painter based in North London.
He's after the surreal and spiritual in the mundane and everyday. His fourth album 'Honest Living' is released 12th Feb 2021.

"An alt-rock troubadour" Time Out

Tom Loffill - Say The Right Thing, Do The Right Thing

Tom Loffill

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