Markenzwang®

||| Emergence |||
Dark ambient meets downtempo in this haunting track. 

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https://open.spotify.com/album/70bXj7TuYqK4cggyUWc2fQ

Watch the video here 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67DzyxoF7UU

Walking The Black Dog

Emergence

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19082024 Scorching Drone

Breath, voice, violin bow on electric guitar, electric piano, effect pedals, percussion, non synchronized loops, two tube amps. Field recording: Electromagnetic waves made audible with Soma Ether. Spoken words: "Ariel" (1962), last verses, read by Sylvia Plath. All sounds (except Plath's reading) mixing and production: Velvet Something Superdark.
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"And I 
Am the arrow,

The dew that flies
Suicidal, at one with the drive
Into the red

Eye, the cauldron of morning."
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This piece is related to “Magnetic Clouds”; it uses some of the same material: https://soundcloud.com/velvetsomethingsuperdark/magnetic-clouds

Ariel

Places we have been, do they guide us somehow? I would love to return to certain ones. Central Park Manhattan is one of them.

The field recording is from Peter Stets, Public Domain, published on aporee.org (https://aporee.org/maps/?loc=66553&m=satellite).

Manhattan

electronic avant-pop track from the 2025 EP FERAL DIGITAL ANIMAL by vaste.

special thanks to Ed Chang (@momo17) for noise samples 

lyrics:

Well I fall into haze 
On my bad days
And I can’t explain
The rain’s been knocking

Like a mouse in the mall
I go unseen amongst the people 
At their feet
Like a mouse in the mall
I bide my time before the poison sets in

I’d rather be no one than someone like you
Keep it all cold like snow in the middle of J-J-June
Always been a rat in the back 
Packed out in my vintage crew
Fashion toxic:
Algae Bloom

Well I dive into a craze
On my mad days
And I can’t explain the pain’s
Stayed locked in

Like a mouse in the mall
I go unseen amongst the people
At their feet

Like a mouse in the mall
I bide my time before the poison
(Ok)

I’d rather be no one than someone like you Keep it all cold like snow in the middle of J-J-June
Always been a rat in the back
Packed out in my vintage crew
Fashion toxic:
Algae bloom

ALGAE BLOOM

Slight break from my C tracks. Remixed original «Chords» track released a while back and made only using Elektron Cycles. Added drums/percussion + Moog Labyrinth to main track. BPM was changed from 80 to 124. Enjoy and check the original track through «buy» link.

Chords release

Chords (remix)

https://youtube.com/shorts/ePrKQtCvfXI?feature=share

Noodles

Honk if you don't exist is inspired by a bumper sticker I saw in the desert.

Honk If You Don't Exist

Scherzo 1

C: I   IV   iii ii
F#
d Hungarian Minor, F Hungarian Major
am  E7

97 bpm

12/4
11/8, 13/8, 9/8
4/4, 5/4, ¾
4/4


The sound of a several, sticky pieces of tape was used to enhance the Kicks, and for all kinds of percussion. Also a basketball, whirling objects swung by a microphone. A reverse vibraphone and a few synths and sinewaves. Plus some funny drum sounds by Sonic Charge.

The endoplasm is the innermost part of the Cytoplasm. Just around the nucleus. The urbun area right around Time Square so to speak. The most traffic in all of the cell, where the fluid atmosphere becomes granular. This place is tight and alive, day and night.