Into Strange Dust

"Weight of this world"

Feeling followed, Terror in your dreams. Angels in the night, demons walk among us through the day.

Every breath you take, is another mistake. You trust, and you seek. forgive, and try to forget.

The weight of this world, working long hours each day. Wearing down to your bones, pain that never goes away. 

Is there a way to survive, without killing yourself in the end. We fight the fire, the family and our friends. 

From our heart, most thrive to do what’s right, just need a way for this to ease, we all share this world, why can’t we all be. 

The weight of this world, working long hours each day. Wearing your skin down to your bones, pain that never goes away. 

Is there a way to survive, without killing yourself in the end. We fight the fire, the family and our friends.

Weight of this world

Distant Lives is the result of my first experiments with frequency modulation. I finally opened Ableton Operator to see how it works, and when I heard this three-overtone saw wave modulated by a 4-bit sine, I instantly fell in love with it. I randomly played some notes on my MIDI keyboard, and this surprisingly sweet melody emerged.

It reminded me of a few images I shot last winter at the Siófok pier—a red lantern coloring the shoreline and casting new light on the dusk. Aren't we all just mesmerized by the sight of great lakes and seas? Contemplating distances and unreachable goals? Are there people standing on the other side, looking in our direction with the same curiosity as us? Is there a better life waiting for us all, or is this the better life?

This is a rare case of image and sound inspiring each other in a feedback loop. I quite like this piece, and I hope you find something in it too.

Distant Lives

Far Away...sometimes, thoughts and mindsets are far away and not within reach. Then, sit down, relax and make some music that describes that particular moment in time.

Far Away

Hard2PleaseU Demo

⚠️Disclaimer: This song makes fair use of the name 'Superman' in a general context and is not affiliated with or sponsored by DC Comics or its subsidiaries.

Have you ever dreamed of being a superhero and solving all the world's problems? Well, this song is a bit of a glimpse into that dream!😉
https://ffm.to/be-mighty
Released on major streaming platforms on September 17, 2024.
©2024 Beating Edge

Lyrics:

All the things 
That I can see  
Every time  
I take a look at the news of the world

Are all about  
The madness and evil and grief 
And murders  
It makes no sense at all

I would like to be  
The Mighty Superman  
With the power to help  
This mad world  
Every time I can  
I would like to be  
The Mighty Superman  
So I could stop all the wars of the world  
Much more 
Than I can

What can I do 
But to sing this song  
What can I do  
But to stay alive  
What shall I do  
But to keep the faith  
What shall I do  
But to hold on tight  
I'll keep the dream alive

I would like to be  
The Mighty Superman  
I'd fly faster than light to stop  
The bad things  
Every time I can  
I would like to be  
The Mighty Superman  
Maybe I could turn back time and avoid the wars  
If I were Superman

If I only were Superman  
If I only were Superman

Life  
Is just what it seems  
Life is so real  
Much more real  
Than you can think  
In your dreams  
Your dreams of glory  
Fading away  
In the real life  
Of every day

All the things  
That I can see  
Before I fall asleep  
Are just a summary  
Of evil times we're living in

Everything  
Fades to black  
In the dark of the night  
There's nothing left

All the things  
That I can see  
Before I fall asleep  
Are just a summary  
Of evil times we're living in

Everything  
Fades to black  
In the dark of the night  
There's nothing left

I would like
To be the Mighty Superman  
With the power to help  
This mad world  
Every time I can  
I would like to be  
The Mighty Superman  
So I could stop all the wars of the world  
Much more than I can
As a normal man
Yeah much more 
Than I can

Mighty

have a break

"Down Draft" is an intense instrumental rock track that blends powerful guitar riffs, driving bass, and dynamic drums. With its storm-like energy and dramatic crescendos, the song captures the band’s signature mix of technical skill and atmospheric sound.

The Devils Detail

Down Draft

DOWN DRAFT

Otie the ghost

The Chase

Wild Christopher Lyrics & Vox
Mike all instruments 

“This Road”

Dirt, gravel and bricks
Soft shoulders, speed bumps 
and try to avoid the ditch

I head out with arms wide open
I don’t know what could happen next
Born to fly 
I keep learning to try expanding 
Out from the inside

I look up
I check both ways
A little fear but not enough to stop me 
From this trip I am destined 
To find out the meaning in all of this

Day after day I keep on dreaming
I’m on my way but not yet succeeding
Don’t know the way This road is leading me
But today’s the today 
I start breathing

Shady pathways and tricks
Cold shoulders, getting dumped 
and always in a tight pinch

I head out a little bit broken
I don’t know what could happen next
Lovers lie
I keep learning to try expanding 
out from the inside

Don’t give up
Look to new day
Have no fear
It’s not enough to stop me 
On this trip I am destined
To find out the meaning in all of this

Day after day I keep on dreaming
I’m on my way but not yet succeeding

Don’t know the way this road is leading
Today’s the day I start breathing

SOLO

I’m still standing arms wide open
I don’t know still what can happen next
Born to fly 
I keep learning to try expanding 
Out from the inside

Still looking up 
Things going my way
Have no fear
There is nothing to stop me 
In this trip I am destined
To find out the meaning in all of this

Day after day I keep on dreaming
I’m on my way almost succeeding
Don’t know the way this road is leading me 
Today is the today 
I start breathing
Released by:
Questionable Enterprises
Released by:
LLC September 2024©

Wild Christopher & Unguided Express This Road

Billie Holiday by Goodstaff.

Goodstaff were Silverton’s finest post-punk extreme sports band of the late nineties and early noughties.

Goodstaff were an awesome live band. Besides creating a most joyous hullabaloo on stage, they were visually one of the most interesting bands of their time and sounded unlike any other act in the south west. Many of their songs were about subjects such as snowboarding and the winter sports lifestyle and some of their songs were used on snowboarding videos.

Frontman Ross Martin was the main songwriter and provides all the guitars and main vocals that you can hear, including some rather interesting and unusual stomp-box effects. He played his guitar slung so low you would think that his knuckles must drag along the ground when he walked. Mik E played the keys, sang backing vocals and provided a lot of stage presence and psychotic uber-geek strangeness and digital waveform finery.

Goodstaff had one of the finest rhythm sections around. John Thornhill was an awesome drummer and highly visual, especially during Superstitious White or Black which was mostly in seven time. Ant Barron on five-string bass also had a great stage presence with his facial hair and piercings and numerous coloured contact lenses. He also provided backing vocals and acted superbly as a dry foil to Ross’s on-stage wit.

Despite a couple of years of success playing the south of England and developing a formidable reputation for their live shows, which had a much bigger and far more powerful sound than these recordings, the band ground to a halt when Ross failed to return from a snowboarding holiday in New Zealand. As far as we know, he is still there.

Tracks 1-5 recorded at CrazyCat Studios Exeter.
Mixed by Rick November 1999.
Copyright © Ross Martin and Goodstaff 1999.

Tracks 6-8 recorded and mixed at Torna-K’s studios.
Engineered by J.Burrough.
Mastered by Dave Bliss.
Copyright © Ross Martin and Goodstaff 2000.
6635 Records.
More details can be found at peoplesound.com

See also:
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives
http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/archives/goodstaff
https://twitter.com/WudRecords

Goodstaff

Billie Holiday

Goodstaff: Billie Holiday

SC msgs blocked. Contact: info@wudrecords.co.uk
UK/EU indie label founded 1984. Eclectic, outsider, progrock composition and musicianship. Demos, oddities, archives, unfinished works appear here. Downloads from Bandcamp. We tweet all reposts. Wud! You have just been wudded. ;-)

We're very sorry but we're unable to reply to SC messages. We can read them but cannot reply. Please email info@wudrecords.co.uk instead. We answer most emails within a week.

ACTIVE ARTISTS:
Flicker, Dark Company, Pok the Bard, The Bastard Sons of Dennis

LEGACY ARTISTS:
Alchemeon, Clonk!, Dr Watson, The Ug Brothers, Alien Heat, Rough Terrain, The Subterraineans, The Addled Eggs, The Masters of Drone, Laughing Sun, Wud, Lemming Meringue, Sirius Rising, Now, Fooog Dinboffin and the Release, Mark Drower and the Everyones

ARCHIVE ARTISTS:
Andromeda, Critical Error, Dayglow, Demon Groove Lizards, Ember, Fruit Bats, Goodstaff, Guarana, Murdock, Prism, Pyg, Recluse, Search Party, Spacegoats, Stephen Yates, The Chillun, Watershed

* For DIY musicians:

Looking to grow your fanbase? Here's a proven strategy for success. It's a bit time-consuming at first because you need to work at it often. However, the awesome results will make it worth your while:

http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/be-discovered-on-social-media

That article was published in March 2017. While some of the links may no longer work, the theory absolutely will. Try it for yourself!

* Unfortunately...

Due to brexshit, broken britain, rip-off britain, corruption, lies and bias in the media, bigotry, racism, intolerance, polarisation, the fact that some of our family members would not be allowed to remain post-brexit, state-sponsored child trafficking (yes, that's right, we said it - it's pretty shocking, start reading from here if you don't believe it: https://forced-adoption.com/), an increasing sense of frustration and exasperation, and general total weariness of being treated with nothing but derision, ignorance and contempt by the entire shebang since the early 80s, we decided enough was enough and moved our entire operation from brexeter in the uk to begin our grand brexodus in 2017. We are now brefugees, living in brexile very near the border of the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. If you live in (the crumbling remains of) the uk, do yourself a favour and leave. The upgrade in life quality will blow your mind.

* What do we stand for as a label?

We support all independent musicians who are doing something we find interesting. Our team members all have formal music education qualifications.

We are against corporate brainwash muzak, their puppet friends in the mass media, and many other corporate activities. We will fight their desecration of music until either it stops or we die. 

We believe in helping others in the face of corrupt laws and a broken system. We are pro democracy, green energy and free speech.

We're politically liberal. We cannot support the republicans, maga or gun violence in the usa. We don't see there's any real difference, other than in name, between the christian far right in the USA and the taliban in Afghanistan.

In the uk we are broadly pro LibDem/Green/Labour/SNP. We are VERY anti-tory, bnp, ukip, and any of their friends and associates. We have no trust at all in the uk right wing press monopoly and the bbc. Beware the bbc and its claims of neutrality. It is the propaganda mouthpiece of the tory party. It even charges a propaganda tax called the licence fee. But we like Test Match Special and Radio 6, so does that make us hypocrites...? Hmm.

We support independence for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Cornwall. We support the individual and the underdog. We are anti-putin and his war, and pro-Ukraine.

Please notice the careful use of capitals. Capital letters imply respect!

We're only interested in the colour of your soul. Not your skin, hair or socks.

We like cricket! Most of us support Somerset County Cricket Club.

Goodstaff: Billie Holiday

Wud Records

Related tracks