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Looking for the ewoks

Ultigama - Minus Zero

Roman

RoboGrovo

Another reworking of a track from my bandmate Ian Stephen. Songwriting and lead vocals by him, everything else by me.
Lyrics:

BENDER

IT'S 93 INSIDE IN SEPTEMBER
I'M HIGH AS HELL I'M ON A BENDER
   
DOWN TO MY LAST BOTTLE OF VODKA

I HATE THE RUSSIANS, I DON'T TRUST 'EM
FIRING MY PISTOL AT SOME CATS IN THE YARD

I BLEW THE HEAD OFF A PUMPKIN
IF A PUMPKIN'S GOT A HEAD I DON'T KNOW

GONNA DRIVE MY TRUCK DOWN TO THE SALTON SEA
AND BUILD A CAMPFIRE FOR YOU AND ME

ONLY YOU AIN'T THERE 'COS I DROVE YOU AWAY      
DUMPED YOUR BODY IN A RAVINE AND THAT'S WHERE IT    
LAYS

SO I'M GOIN' TO THE STORE TO GET MORE BOOZE
TRY AND RUN OFF THESE SEPTEMBER BLUES

     
THE AIR CONDITIONER IS HUMMIN' LOUD
AND THE US ARMY IS MARCHING PROUD
(PROUD)
     
SO YOU LOST.... YOUR SENSE OF FUN
YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR FINALLY CAME UNDONE
    
NOW YOU LAY SO SENSELESS ON THE GROUND
I TOOK MY KEYBOARD AND I SHOT YOU  DOWN
I SHOT YOU DOWN
I SHOT YOU DOWN
  
I TOOK MY KEYBOARD AND I SHOT YOU  DOWN
AND NOW YOU'RE  SENSELESS ON THE GROUND
                   
I SHOT YOU DOWN
I SHOT YOU DOWN
I SHOT YOU DOWN
I SHOT YOU DOWN
I SHOT YOU DOWN

Bender

Every now and then…

welcome to yourself - raponnow

Many decades ago, the amazing and multifaceted David Blair spent a short while crashing in my home town before settling in Detroit. At the time, he was just learning the basics of guitar. His innate musicianship and poetic prowess took us all by surprise. Even he was a little wowed. Digging through my stuff recently, I found a boom-box recording of a song of his from then. The cassette is labeled only “David Blair”, but the lyric “My One True Companion” stands out as a good choice for a title. His life cut terribly short, I was thinking it would be lovely tribute if people made remixes and reworks of this fantastic and almost-lost track. Please let me know if you decide to participate. Be creative, respectful and have fun! I’ll make a playlist of all the takes. Thanks!

MY ONE TRUE COMPANION

DAVID BLAIR - "MY ONE TRUE COMPANION" OPEN COLLAB, READ DESCRIPTION.

flakebelly // long, it goes over again

Drums tumble in a surrealistic ballet, cascading like erratic heartbeats, as the indie rock spirit pirouettes on the precipice of a psychedelic unknown.

A home-made indie track, flirting with dadaist poetry, the tale of a girl's struggle for meaning in the world and a pilgrimage through the labyrinth of the human condition. Keyboards, drums & bass cast us into a surreal twilight zone where happiness is a ghost of the midnight hour.

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Long, It Goes Over Again

The Dragon Hunt

Still Care For You - outro

Indie, Acoustic & Psychedelic music from The Western Isles of Scotland.

Hidden away in the windswept landscapes of the Outer Hebrides, flakebelly shapes songs that wander between psychedelic indie rock, folk-jazz, and the quiet strangeness of the everyday. Acoustic warmth, blues-stained guitars, jazz-streaked piano, and dreamlike textures fold into each other, creating music that drifts between clarity and haze.

His track In Parks Of Tall Trees found its way to Tom Robinson’s BBC 6 Music Introducing Mixtape, a small ripple in what has become a steady tide of restless ideas. From first picking up a guitar in the late 90s and stumbling through those formative songs in the early 2000s - many of which later resurfaced on Apprentice Green - flakebelly’s path has been one of constant diversion and reinvention. The early singles collections - The Orkney Tapes (2022) and The Christmas Morning Outcome (2023) - were restless, experimental documents of sound-searching, sketchbooks where ideas were tested, broken apart, and pieced together again in the pursuit of a voice. Those experiments fed directly into the indie-folk EP Behaviours (2022), the rough-edged Lo Fidelity (2024), and the kaleidoscopic album Apprentice Green (2024), described by SNACK Magazine as “like being Alice in Wonderland, transported through a maze of moments in flakebelly’s imagination.”

Now comes The Boy In The Diving Bell - out now - a 17-track reckoning with past ghosts, unfinished business, and the fragments of memory that refuse to settle. It is a psych alt-folk soup of acoustic laments, fractured tape loops, and warped dreamscapes. Much of the sound was dragged through the teeth of a battered 1960s reel-to-reel, used not as a recorder but as an instrument - reels halted, jolted, rewound, coaxed into blurples, screeches, and ghostly echoes. Mistakes are left in, first takes are preferred, imperfections celebrated. The result is an antidote to the sterilised sheen of digital perfection and the creeping spread of AI-reproduced music: deliberately irregular, defiantly human. In keeping with that spirit, the album is not available on Spotify or Apple Music. It lives on Bandcamp, CD, and vinyl, with a single concession to SoundCloud’s chaos.

The Boy In The Diving Bell is only the beginning - the first of three interconnected albums, the demos for which are already written. Yet even as that arc unfolds, flakebelly has begun detouring into a very different landscape: a new project built from vinyl samples, drum loops, and dirty guitars driven through vintage outboard gear, cassette recorders, and battered mixers. It is dark, abrasive, and deliberately uncomfortable - sound pushed to the point of collapse, distorted tape glued together with transformer saturation, live mixes through old delay units, dials twisted until frequencies scream. If The Diving Bell trilogy is haunted by memory, this parallel work dives into raw sound destruction and the strange beauty of degradation.

True to his solitary instincts, flakebelly writes, records, and produces everything from his home studio. The result is music that feels lived-in and handmade - always shifting, never fixed, and forever searching for new shapes in the sound.

All socials: @flakebelly //

"Extensive and wildly eclectic sonic adventures" - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

"flakebelly is ultimately the sort of the artist we need more of – a genuine weirdo-auteur carving his own path purely for the love of the game." - Lewis Wade, Is This Music?

"Refreshingly individual and very likeable" - Neil March, Trust The Doc Media

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