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This is my debut EP, released on Friday 20th May 2016.

All tracks written, performed and produced by Web Sheldon except:

Memory Of Footsteps (written by Yoko Ono)
Raat Ka Nasha (features vocals by Of Embla)
All tracks Mastered by Nick Burchall of Audio Animals.

Modern Life Is Lies (Debut EP 2016)

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This is the 2nd track from my debut EP 'Modern Life Is Lies', released on Friday 20th May 2016.

Music has always been running through the inner most part of me.  It consoles me when I am down, it motivates me, encourages me, and makes the best days even better.  In 2014 though, I decided to take things a little more seriously and I quit my job to attend Point Blank Music School in London and be taught by professionals how to produce music.

It was at the same time that I started meditating.  Part of this practice can include taking note of the thoughts running through your head and being aware of what you're thinking, and not just letting your mind run away with itself.  I started to find this useful to control my thoughts a bit more.

A few months later I found myself walking through the London underground tube and instead of being caught up in the all the rush and stress of everyone else speeding their way through the walkways, I started to chill, observe what was around me, what was happening.  I noticed the smell of the underground, something that I used to love when I came to London as a tourist.  I noticed the different decorations on the walls, the old stations, the new ones...  It made me realise how powerful the mind is and how much control we have over how we feel and react to something.

I remember a time during the summer of 2006, I was working in Manchester and we were in the middle of an amazing heatwave.  During lunches, I used to go out to these dis-used tennis courts and just sit in the sun for 30 minutes, against a wall, and think about... nothing.  I was so relaxed, and it came so naturally because I wasn't even trying.  I realised this was a time I'd kind of meditated before I even knew what it was.

There's a link between heat and feeling relaxed too... I remember in 2004, I used to be a cleaner in a supermarket from 5am till 8am and then go to a reception job from 9 until 4.  By 4:30pm, I would already be home and laid on my bed, in the spot where the sun came through the window every day, and I'd sleep for half an hour.  I would wake up feeling super relaxed. When I sing, 'I feel the sun in my sleep', I'm really thinking about that moment.

For the rest of the song though, it's really about my love of the city, how the energy can either drain you or feed you - and it's really up to you how you react to it.  It's how you can be surrounded by the craziness, and by hundreds of stressful people, yet you don't have to be sucked in and feel part of that stress, you can just take a step back, and observe, and enjoy that moment in life for what it is.  Maybe smile at someone who looks like they're having a bad day.  There's often a lot of people who looks like that on the tube.

Lyrics:
I feel the sun in my sleep
I feel the sun, I feel the heat

I’m gon' be alive, when I feel my
Mind free, get free, lost in the people
I’m gon' feel alive when I rake my
Seeds from the flowers of the purple steeple

Every time you say your truth
You grow a little inside

Mmmm slow motion
Bathing in the ocean
Of the people and the laughter
In the streets

Mmmm slow motion
Mmmm calm in the commotion
Drinks, rocks and
Harmonies and feet

While I recharge
Somethings goin' down in the city
I need this time
To cleanse my soul

While I recharge
People are spinning 'round in the city
We need this time
To feel worthwhile

When I wake up
I’m walking down to the city
I feel the waves
Washing over me

When I wake up
I’ll be venturing through the city
I wanna feel the life
It makes me feel alive inside

I’m gon' be alive, when i feel my
Mind free, get free, lost in the people
I’m gon' feel alive when i rake my
Seeds from the flowers of the purple steeple

Every time you say your truth
You grow a little inside

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Written, performed and produced by Web Sheldon.
Mastered by Nick Burchall of Audio Animals.

Web Sheldon - Purple Steeple

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1st track from Modern Life Is Lies (Released 20th may 2016).

This song is about a personal struggle to turn an inherently negative mind into a positive one and how that is further impacted when you start to think about all the corruption, conspiracies and lies that we face in modern life.

Most of us work too hard to even think clearly when we get home at night - and so what happens?  We want to zone out and forget about our day and the world outside us and we don't want to have to forced to deal with anything else in additional to what we already have to.  So we start to ignore important issues, we get caught up in celebrity gossip, drinking 10 pints on a Friday night and being spoon fed our views by the media.

But we have the Internet now and we have a world of information at our fingertips. We don't have to blindly accept what the television tells us, what our favourite newspaper tells us, or what the corrupted media tell us - we can do a bit research and make up our own minds. 

Lyrics:
I found myself
3 years ago
Didn’t need meditation or
Any kind of control

As quick as I rose
Sliding back into despondency yeah
Nothing is permanent
But change

Do you visualise?
Do you believe you’ll make it right?
Do you think you’ll rise in spite of
The great divide
Or will you cower, cover your ears
Detach until you disappear?
This is modern life now

And the stories they tell...

You're in control
Be your best friend
Contentment is inside you
It’s not a place at the end

When I am true
To myself I find
I find
Life is my own design

Our time on Earth is short
They keep you working/drinking
You’re not thinking smart
When you’re only just surviving
Question all; our lives, their lies
They want you dumb and compromised
This is modern life now

And the stories they tell...

Even with our eyes we see different waves of energy, different reality
Everything around us is just interpretation
Are you waiting for a revelation? For the summer? For a holiday?
Or do you need to be told that death is on its way?

And the stories they tell...

We don’t need the might of fear to bless us or forbid
We know in ourselves whats good and whats destructive
We don’t need the threat of guilt to be good people
If we can’t think for ourselves, we can’t live without help
If we can’t think for ourselves, we’ll buy every story they sell

Web Sheldon - Li(v)es

Cheat Codes X Kris Kross Amsterdam - Sex (The Remixes) is out now!

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This year’s biggest hit getting remixed by some of the best out there. Hasse de Moor turns SEX into an uptempo, broken beats monster of a track, providing the vocals with nice percussive elements. TV Noise on its turn gives the sultry vibe of the original an even more laidback vibe, creating a fantastic version made for every R&B, trap influenced music lover.

Meanwhile, TWRK & Doobious give the track a twisted interpretation, with beats and effects taking things to a whole other level. Following this, Gregor Salto adds his trademark house sound, full of energy, ready for the floor. KWINT does the same, taking care of the uplifting side of the track with cool drum ‘n bass rhythms.

CARTA also drops a monster of a remix, moving SEX to the world’s electro mainstages with a major progressive tune, hot and heavy on the drops. As if the track can work on any level, it’s Jasper Dietze taking it sky high with a beautiful melodic version, working up exciting progressive elements into big climaxes, surely going to raise temperatures everywhere!

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Cheat Codes x Kris Kross Amsterdam - SEX (TV Noise Remix)

The 3rd song taken from my debut EP ‘Modern Life Is Lies’, released on Friday 20th May 2016.
Available worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Bandcamp and Spotify.

This is a song I wrote back in 2012.  I had been using Abelton to record my music for a few years but I didn't have a laptop at the time, so in order to play live, I started to use Garageband and I wrote Summer Storm on there.  A few years later, I found myself teaming up with an massively talented musician Beth Swain and we made an album under the name 'Bilamie'.  We covered Summer Storm and made it pretty rocky! Now, this is the third version of it - sound more like the original, but just as dark, if not darker!

So the song is about love.  My only 'love song' on the EP.  You know at the start of a relationship, where things are going great but you haven’t had ‘the conversation’. Then a few months pass, feelings intensify, but you’re still not sure where you stand?

Starts of relationships are wonderful times filled with life affirming excitement and passion. But for someone with self esteem issues, there can also be a darker side to this period. Constant doubt, questions of worthiness, anxiety, overthinking - and all the time keeping it all inside because you want to be their ‘rock’ and you want to be strong for them. That’s what this song is about.

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Lyrics:
Please don't leave me wondering
Please don't blow so hot and cold
Please don't say that you miss me
Then stare blankly and withold

Touch me like you always do
Let me know you're always there
I'll hold you, I’ll love you,
If you let me, I'll take care of you

If you allow me to
I'll take care of you
If you allow me to

I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take, take, take good care
I’ll take, take, take good care of
I’ll take, take, take good care
I’ll take, take, take good care of you

No don't shield your heart from me
No don't close up and resist
Your head might choose a safer route
But only a heart can feel this kiss
Use my shoulders when you're climbing
Sleep on me when you need rest
Rest on me when you're broken
I will try to do my best for you

If allow me to

I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
If you allow me
I’ll take, take, take good care
I’ll take, take, take good care of
I’ll take, take, take good care
I’ll take, take, take good care of you

I know you’re on a different plane
Every day swallowed into a hole
I know you’re living for survival
Everything else on constant hold
I'll still be here when it's all over
And you've weathered the Summer Storm
I'll still be here, I want no other
Ready to take you in my arms

I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
I’ll take care of...
If you allow me
I’ll take, take, take good care
I’ll take, take, take good care of
I’ll take, take, take good care
I’ll take, take, take good care of you

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Written, performed and produced by Web Sheldon.
Mastered by Nik Burchall of Audio Animals.

Web Sheldon - Summer Storm

The 4th song taken from my debut EP ‘Modern Life Is Lies’, released on Friday 20th May 2016.
Available worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Bandcamp and Spotify.

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Back in 2007, I heard the music of an artist whose name I knew, but I didn't know very much about her. The music I was listening to was an album called 'Yes, I'm a Witch', by Yoko Ono.  And from that moment, I fell in love with her music almost instantly.

The lyrics, about turning negatives into positives, being at one with yourself and with others, questioning what we believe to be the norm and pushing the boundaries of art, music, lyrics and singing.  As I got more of her albums and read more of her history, I was becoming more fascinated with her journey.

When you love music, you obviously want to share it with people and so ever since 2007, I have been playing her music to people and talking about her a lot.  I have never been met with so much resistance.  I feel like people have been brainwashed to dislike her without barely knowing anything about her. But that is a different story. 

Yoko has been a massive inspiration to me in the last few years.  I think she has always been more than happy being an outsider, but personally I am thrilled to see her getting rave reviews for her latest albums from the likes of Pitchfork, Uncut, Rolling Stone, Mojo and Q Magazine.  I wanted to pay some respect to Yoko for this inspiration so I took a song from her 2009 album, a song that is originally very gentle, slow and heartfelt and I made it into a kind of gritty electronic, psychedelic version of my own. 

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Lyrics:
He was standing on the seventh floor opening the door
"Welcome to life!" he said
He was on the top of the game as it were
"Welcome to the world" he said, with a guff

One day, years later I heard quiet footsteps
Approaching slowly from behind
I turned around, we hugged each other
"Welcome to time," I said
The great equaliser of all things

I know my little memory of footsteps will be
Swallowed into eternal oblivion
By the ruthless ocean called the Universe
But for now it’s there with all its might

Like the death of a butterfly in the child’s heart
My life, my love, but mostly love
Thank you for being here and now
Thank you for being you…

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This song is written by Yoko Ono @yokono and was originally released on her 2009 album ‘Between My Head and The Sky’ that she released with Yoko Plastic Ono Band. You can find the original version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xEwP-xYIj0.

I do have a licence to use this song - please contact me at management@websheldon.com or via Soundcloud messaging if you require further details or the evidence. Original version released via @chimera-music

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Web Sheldon - Memory Of Footsteps

The 5th song taken from my debut EP ‘Modern Life Is Lies', released on Friday 20th May 2016.
Available worldwide on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Bandcamp and Spotify.

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If I'm completely honest, this song just came out of nowhere.  I had some dirty electronic beats that I was messing with and a keyboard hook.  At the time of writing the lyrics, I was thinking about this studio apartment that I used to live in back in 2012 in Manchester.  I had this awesome job that I loved, living 10 minutes from work, I had loads of time for music and I was running lots and lifting weights regularly and generally just felt like I had a good control over my life.

At the time of writing, I'd played a gig a few months before in a venue called The Good Ship in North West London.  It was actually a gig my former band Bilamie had meant to play but we'd broken up a few weeks before so I decided to get my s**t together and play a solo electronic style gig.  On that night, there was an group called Of Embla @ofembla playing, the singer was called Maiken.  I already heard one of her songs online called 'Puppet' and it kind of blew me away.  It was sultry, dark, sexy, jazzy and just a combination of pure magic.  I got talking to her on that evening and we said we would work together at some point.

So I when this track came up, I asked if she'd like to sing the chorus.  When she came over to record, she brought a poem she had written called Chaos Machine.  We had a jam to incorporate it into the song and she did this awesome performance, just speaking the words to the music... I loved it and thought it fitted perfectly - she sounded powerful (like when I felt I had control over my life), the lyrics were coherent but disjointed (like the lyrics in the first part of the song) and the performance was perfect.

Raat Ka Nasha is a rough translation from Hindi meaning 'Enchanted Evening'.

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Music & production by Web Sheldon
Lyrics & performance by Web Sheldon & Maiken Marlen Sunby
Mastered by Nick Burchall of Audio Animals

www.websheldon.com

Lyrics:
Warm nights
Walls are windows wide
Gentle wind blows
Over my skin
Circulating

Indian spices, home is
Stubbed roach and rollies
In my finest wine glass
Rocks of ice

Every night is
Soft, unfocused
Long contented sighs

Every night is
Long, unfocused
Long contented sighs

Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine

City air, city noise
Summer bliss intoxicated joy
Just like my mind
Alive with
A streaming of feelings and drive
These evenings of diving and crashing and
Blissfully feeling my place
In the world

Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha
Raat Ka Nasha

Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine
Every, every, every night is mine

Calm, chaos
Chaos machine
Machinery
Rhythm
Rhythm and blues kitchenettwork..
Coffe shop - ping basket - ball..
Calm, chaos machin - ery - thm..

Idelogically speaking,
On behalf of..
Me? You!
The panel has spoken,
Solar panel - electricity
Chaos machinery

Web Sheldon - Raat Ka Nasha (Feat. Of Embla)

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