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Ishome – Earth

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Even when factoring in that electronic music has a knack for the unusual, this still is an unusual song. There are unusual voices, unusual rhythms and an unusual atmosphere. And all this makes it unusually pleasant.

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location.

https://fuselab.bandcamp.com/track/earth^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4sXaCQ-1E^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/4mBWPW3MRX77JJCiKvmyIq^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/644365652^

Oh, and one more thing. Here’s the artist that created this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUIG8P8bvSQ^

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Chaos Chaos – Do You Feel It

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It’s fascinating how a song can be so full of energy and yet so soothing. It might have to do with the rough percussion smashing the soft reverbed piano. And with the secretive voice soaring to passionate highs.

True to its title, this is a song that invites feeling. Evocative lyrics open spaces for the imagination to embark on ever-more adventurous rides.

“Do you feel it, do you feel it?
Do you feel that I can see your soul?
Do you feel it, do you feel it?
Do you feel the beat in your heart?

I-I want it, I want it real
Run away with me now
I-I want it, I want it real
Run away with me now

Drinking in the summer, I’m good at running
I beat you in the race again
Are you afraid, when I look your way?
It’s easiest to stay at home
But then we taste it, we got to have it
We have no control
Where is the love, the kind we dream of?
The kind that makes us young
The kind that makes us young”

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location.

https://chaoschaos.bandcamp.com/track/do-you-feel-it^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTA0DSfrGZ0^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/3lOok0REf4j3790abX26PR^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/86788941^

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Yppah – Film Burn (feat. Anomie Belle)

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This song is a wonderful advocate for the ground-breaking sound that can be crafted when artists take their audio alchemy to the next level. Alongside the innocent guitar, dry samples yearn for Anomie’s dreamy voice like the desert yearns for water.

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location.

https://yppah.bandcamp.com/track/film-burn-ft-anomie-belle^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du604JpvWfQ^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

http://open.spotify.com/track/56fonqFGvKsBMLc3ngRuH8^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

http://www.deezer.com/track/16620382^

This Weekly Song entry has been brought from the FaceBook archive of Weekly Song^. This exploration was originally started through a FaceBook page, about 13 months prior to launching Mentatul. Slowly but surely, the entire FaceBook archive will be brought here.

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t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者 – 愛慕

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Envelop yourself in this space aurora made of sound. Let soft synth tendrils caress your eardrum while soft percussion drips around you. Electronic space music at its best!

The artist translates to “t e l e p a t h Telepathic Ability Person” and the song title is “Love”. Love it indeed!

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glPDCeW6XTc^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/4OZ8xUgQPa8h77An2VqdLh^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/130293552^

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Lamb – We Fall in Love

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This tinkling gem shines with some of the most beautiful lyrics about love I’ve ever had the pleasure of experiencing. The music itself is curiously at odds with the message and the evocative voice sculpting it into soundwaves. But weirdness is the hallmark of the greatest works of art…

“Face to face
One to one
Two hearts race
All is lost and won

Air to air
Light to light
All laid bare
Senses taking flight

It all begins
When stars align
And two paths meet
To re-define

We fall in love
We fall in love
We fall in love

Flame to flame
Dust to dust
We became
Tenderness and trust”

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-UJ6bcdBsg^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/3V6GBpH80UmAv6ONh3prgF^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/653840592^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Lamb-Backspace-Unwind/master/743512^

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Kryptic Minds – Six Degrees

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Some songs are purely about the atmosphere. This is one such song. It’s repetitive, dark and it’s probably a love it or hate it piece. As the saying goes, the brightest stars shine when it’s the blackest. So, feel free to indulge in the darkness when you want to see more clearly, when you want to deconstruct just so you can reconstruct.

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ENNbC_UmEM^

For SoundCloud Users (high quality):

https://soundcloud.com/hristo-kozhuharov/kryptic-minds-six-degrees^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Kryptic-Minds-One-Of-Us/master/184427^

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Geomatic – Plasma Spirals

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In this almost occult piece, the mystic meets dark electronic music. In the darkness of long-forgotten circuitry, there is life. Watch your step, puny one. There be slumbering gods here, among these echoes, underneath the Universe.

You can listen to the melody for free, in good quality, on BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists. You can also purchase the song (or album) from this same location. And in case you’re wondering, yes, I did purchase Geomatic’s album :).

https://m-tronic.bandcamp.com/track/plasma-spirals^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGe7LwX3viA^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/1UIXx5h5pETV10UGfqWxqo^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/94384880^

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Dimmu Borgir – Perfection Or Vanity

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Here’s an atmospheric symphonic metal song from one of the world’s premiere extreme metal bands. It’s loaded with light and beauty, offering contrast to the merciless, dark album it belongs to (and which I brutally recommend).

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onaF93-NpFE^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/47lHaN4JicIXU2c6YLDWKM^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/622118442^

And here’s the Discogs entry for whoever wants to buy this album:

https://www.discogs.com/Dimmu-Borgir-Puritanical-Euphoric-Misanthropia/master/12678^

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Kiasmos – Wrecked (65daysofstatic Remix)

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Some songs really know how to spring a surprise. Don’t worry, it’s not going to bite, but boy when this baby kicks in… it makes one appreciate the value of a good build-up. Top-notch electronica!

You can also purchase the song from BandCamp, which is one of the best websites when it comes to supporting artists.

https://kiasmos.bandcamp.com/album/thrown^

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54uz8GgEIg^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/1AsBxZYhAzHKtuWiQMgd75^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/625572042^

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The Kovenant – Jihad

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Perhaps not the happiest song out there but one that deserves a good play nevertheless, if only to open the history book and listen to how people found ways to express and experience anger at the end of the 20th century. This tune can be safely labeled “industrial dark symphonic metal”. Beside the staple metal instruments, we’re treated to a diverse side-dish of keyboarding while Sarah’s reverbed vocals contrast Nagash’s angry growls. And beware, the lyrics are even darker than the song:

“Get down on your knees and feed the illusion
Get down on your knees and prolong the delusion
Superstition is the religion of the feeble mind
Liberty and justice, the illusions of mankind

A dogmatic expression in every direction
There is no redemption in divine intervention
The world is a disease that cannot be cured
The truth is a voice that cannot be heard

Jihad, the twisted hands of faith
Jihad, in the name of hate
Jihad, the twisted hands of faith
Jihad, in the name of hate

Hate is the solution to life’s evolution
Love is a high that you cannot sustain
For each age is a dream that is dying
And freedom is a whore that we love to adore”

YouTube (decent quality):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AomNDsA_s6k^

For Spotify Users (high quality):

https://open.spotify.com/track/29rDytS9v4Y55UkvgalOgZ^

For Deezer Users (high quality):

https://www.deezer.com/track/668832312^

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