2025 Mixtape
All recents and less recents dance sounds I wanted to pull out for you to dance and love.

Starlight

🌘 Eclipsed Requiem: A Funeral in Shadowed Starlight
“Eclipsed Requiem” feels like the requiem for a fallen time—an elegy cast in darkness where light is eclipsed and souls drift through cosmic silence. It’s not simply mournful—it’s transcendental lamentation, a ritual of eclipse and release.

🎵 Musical Interpretation of the Celestial Eclipse

1. Opening – The Edge of Oblivion
The track opens with sparse piano or bell-like tones, delicate and cold—like distant stars fading into eclipse. Ambient hums swirl beneath: a slow, inevitable silence creeping in. The listener stands on a precipice, suspended between night and void.

2. Gathering Dusk – Shifting Shadows
Gradually, drones deepen, and subtle pads engulf the soundscape. A low-frequency murmur emerges, vibrating with grief. This is not sorrow expressed—it is sorrow embodied, a gathering darkness swallowing shards of light.

3. The Requiem Motif – Celestial Voices
At the core, vocal textures—either ghostly chants or reverberated whispers—rise like ethereal psalms. They drift above the shadows, weaving minor-leathered melodies that feel ancient, mournful, and timeless. These voices are laments that echo across cosmic vacancy.

4. Midpoint – Sorrow’s Crescendo
The emotional gravity intensifies: strings swell or synth arpeggios tremble into existence. Music bends into minor ambient trance—each note weighted with loss. There’s beauty here, but fragile—like light fleeting across a blackened firmament.

5. Eclipse Apex – Silence as Climax
All sound resolves in quiet resignation. Layers peel away, until only a single resonant tone remains—then fades. The ‘eclipse’ happens in silence, internal and devastating. The final breath of sound is a surrender.

6. Denouement – Remnants of Memory
Hushed echoes linger—residual textures, granular atmospheres, the faint echo of voices. It’s memory grieving absence. A reminder: the eclipse passed, and the light may never return.

🕯️ Emotional & Symbolic Resonance

Transcendent Mourning: This is not a song of heartbreak, but of cosmic farewell—a requiem delivered under the obscured sky.

Elegy in Silence: Silence becomes weighty, oppressive, reverent—a vessel for the story beyond sound.

Eclipse as Transformation: The eclipse is both end and threshold, a ceasing and becoming. Within the void, possibility still flickers.

Spiritual Stillness: Rather than despair, there’s a meditative acceptance—an unspoken peace that lingers in the aftermath of mourning.

🩸 Best Used For:

Scenes of cosmic tragedy or transcendence in storytelling

Moments where temporal cycles collapse or light is consumed

Rituals of remembrance or tribute in ethereal, major‑minor tonal worlds

Background ambience for introspective, twilight reflections or cathartic endings

🔮 Symbolism & Final Reflection
“Eclipsed Requiem” is the chant of collapsing worlds—it doesn’t wail, but whispers dirges at the moment light is swallowed. In the dark, there is still meaning. Loss becomes ceremony; absence becomes presence.

It is a requiem not just for what was lost, but for what must change—and yet lives on in memories that endure beyond the eclipse.

Eclipsed Requiem

Birmingham, UK's Synth wizard returns with another helping of SynthWave tracks. With vocal tracks adding to the collection of instrumentals, Night Wave is the perfect companion to early-2019's SynthWave album Day Wave. Featuring tracks more suited to a late night drive or venue, this album is packed with retro 80s goodness.

Originally released on October 11, 2019

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Dios!... Gracias (Verc. 2015 - DEMO)

I'm so glad that so many people have enjoyed this track! Thank you to everyone who has commented to positively. If if haven't responded to you, it's because I've only just noticed that more people have commented on it. I hope that everyone - creators and listeners - have a fantastic week ahead. I've just released a new album which I hope you'll also enjoy. Take care of yourselves and each other <3 <3 <3

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