The way you've seamlessly integrated various musical elements showcases your versatility as an artist and composer.

@andixoffical: Thanks, just what I'm aiming for 😅💥👌🏼

Awesome melodies!🔥🔥 Enjoy every part of this sick track

@cyclo-pop Thanks! Ye, could possibly have been faster, but I’ve been working with 125-130 for so many years now, that I felt 138 was spinning out of control 😂

Back†hen - cemetery winds

Andrea Gambardelli - Magic flute

For over a year now, Denni Kindred, a.k.a. Longstocking, has been captaining the ship that is Feral One Records.

From the beginning her philosophy has been clear: pour into every release the unbridled love she feels for her hometown of Seattle while creating space for PNW artists to produce music that honors their own personal connection to the region (and to the dancefloor).

Now Longstocking is back with another release of her own on Feral One. A release that is the most extensive and diverse in the history of the label: her new album, Creating Space.

Seattle is Kindred’s space.

The musical contributions of Seattle and the PNW span all different genres and time periods, and the 16 tracks on Creating Space represent the diversity in sound and persona found within that space. It’s as much an alternative album as it is a dance album.

Kicking things off is “Good Stuff” (the title of which gives an unambiguous hint as to what is coming from the track and the rest of the LP). This track is just pure joy. There is a playful use of samples that plays like a child throwing different colored paints at the wall and ending up with a Jackson Pollack. Simultaneously, different string patterns, from arpeggios to chordal pads, provide a sense of acoustic groundedness, like that same child knew exactly what they were doing from the start.

“A Little Too Much” is another indicative title, communicating the degree of Kindred’s love of Seattle. The combination of rhythmic dulcimer strings and warm, inviting vocals is like the sonic version of a charter boat coasting on Puget Sound at sunset. The kick drum is just a reminder that after the boat docks, everyone is heading to the club.

But remember, this album is not just for the club. And past the halfway mark, “Bombom” comes in to combine hip-hop, breaks, and IDM into one delectable, heady whole. Where does each of these manifest? Hip-hop comes through in even more airtight sampling. Breaks are found in erratic drum patterns. And the synth passages are so gruesome, there is no other genre classification that remotely makes sense besides IDM.

The alternative side of the album reaches its zenith at “Office Window” when Kindred abandons all sense of dance music. But one thing she doesn’t abandon even slightly is a sense of groove. The drum kit glides along a swing beat that Coltrane would be happy to riff over, but instead of bebop tenor saxophone, it’s sound design that is equal parts precise and minimalistic.

To close is another curveball in the form of “Green & Me.” Given the context of this album, it should be clear that “Green” represents the lush, arboraceous environment of Seattle (as well as another plant that is as aromatic as it is combustible), and “Me” is Kindred, who so candidly shares over a serene lo-fi hip-hop beat that there’s no other place that she could ever be.


Original Art: Fernando Xerxes (BR)
Mastering: Hume Audio

Longstocking
www.LongstockingMusic.com
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Feral One Records LLC
www.FeralOneRecords.com
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Creating Space

Don't

Longstocking - Don't

# Thanks all for your kind words and cheers! Really appreciate it 😅💥👌🏼

## Link to downloadable Extended Mix if you want to play around with this tune in your mix / set: https://on.soundcloud.com/d4y4L
Please PM me if you plan to use it in your release, radio, podcast etc
 ❤️

Heavy beat with a melodic line-up, the basis of this tune was created with my 1 year old daughter on my lap, piecing together a melody on my synth! Turned out great I think! Hope you do too! 🤞🏻

Check in on my Spotify profile for the Extended Mix and other tracks!

Penumbra

Nothing (ft. Antonia Bourdillon)

Chuck1-K Poppinn

Deep Thoughts | Prod. @TnTXD

LORD'TYZA _JEALOUSY

Black Card -

Trip

Lyrics:

Feel the pulse, it races through the night (Night)
Echoes of the storm, a dance in flight (Flight)
In this rhythm, lost, we find our way (Way)
With every beat, the shadows start to play (Play)

Together we transcend, we rise (Rise)
With the thunder roaring in the skies (Skies)

Voices weave like lightning in the dark (Dark)
Chanting echoes, leave an eternal mark (Mark)
As we move, the rain starts to fall (Fall)
Unite the rhythms, hear the ancient call (Call)

In the swirl of colors, we lose control (Control)
Guided by the energy, let it unfold (Unfold)
Hypnotic entrancement, in every sound (Sound)
As we rise together, feel the underground (Underground)

Transcend the limits, in electric waves (Waves)
With the ancients guiding from the caves (Caves)

Voices rise like spirits in the rain (Rain)
Merging rhythms, breaking every chain (Chain)

Through the mist, we connect as one (One)
Reflections of the cosmos, we become (Become)
In the echoes of the night, our spirits soar (Soar)
With every heartbeat, we’re craving more (More)

Ride the lightning, merge with the bass (Bass)
With every pulse, ignite the space (Space)

Chants in the ether, dance beneath the cloud (Cloud)
Unraveled melodies, singing fierce and loud (Loud)
Feel the storm, let it wash away the pain (Pain)
In this moment, we are free again (Again)
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Lyrics: NTENSEIFIED
Music & Vocals: NTENSEIFIED, Lisa Eriksson
Produced By: NTENSEIFIED

Rise with the Thunder - Feat. Lisa

V3GARD is an EDM project of mine. I'm a big enthusiast of electronic, dance, trance, both uplifting and "downlifting" (is that even a word..) moods and heavy melodic angles. I try to hit a nostalgic nerve with the 90's and 00's being a central inspirational part of my work and mindset. Melodic strolls, nostalgia, and anything that makes the heart pump and head bump!

I grew up with learning music through the demoscene and modules/tracking from 1997 onwards with Fast Tracker 2, then later ModPlug Tracker, before moving to Renoise - which is the DAW I still use this day. Different projects over the years before starting to focus on heavier EDM in 2021 under the V3GARD name.

I'm a big fan of electronic music in general, and leaning more into instrumental music than vocal to be honest. Creating interesting and catchy music without vocals is more impressive to me. But I must admit, prog trance with a beautiful, haunting vocal is also amazing! 
I'm inspired by anything that is catchy, be it a melody, part of a hook, a bassline, or even just some percussions, or a brilliant reverb on a snare -- anything that can possibly grab attention.

Artists who definitely have inspired and motivated through the years:
Tiësto (pre-2015 mostly), Ferry Corsten (+Gouryella), Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, Röyksopp, Infected Mushroom, Pendulum, Jonas Steur, Chicane, Calvin Harris, Rank1, Moonbeam, Todd Terje, Martin Garrix, Mauro Picotto, Shingo Nakamura, Talla 2XLC, Joonas Hahmo .. among several other brilliant artists.

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