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Rayhan ascends new heights with “MISTY MOUNTAIN”

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Toronto artist Rayhan is back with this genre-defying single that is as introspective as it is cinematic. “MISTY MOUNTAIN” produced on the edge by Mèhti, is a sound journey collaging hip hop storytelling, with the textural landscape of electronica, really quite something other. “MISTY MOUNTAIN” envelops listeners in a cloud of fine synths and rumbling basslines, depicting a landscape that’s simultaneously ancient and of the future. So it’s no wonder the song’s title is the name of the epic and that Rayhan takes on the role of a modern day guide, who’s dealing with a new kind of dragon that includes addiction and the frustrating grind of east-end Toronto.

And what makes “MISTY MOUNTAIN” punch even harder is its emotional honesty. Rayhan is not simply appropriating from fantasy, he’s stitching it into the unbleached cloth of his lived experience. He carries it with clear-eyed yet urgent calm, street corners turned shrines, friendships forged in flame, and moments of quiet when it all feels like it’s falling apart. It is daring, but intimate. Mèhti creates a soundscape that pulses like a heartbeat. The beat feels like it breathes with Rayhan, shrinking in moments of vulnerability and inflating in peaks of triumphant persistence. It’s a short film in sound. “MISTY MOUNTAIN” is about the ascent of the draw to the high life, the price it extracts, and the spirit it takes to descend with your soul intact.

Rayhan doesn’t offer easy answers. Instead, he offers snippets of myth, memory, and movement, pieced together with a sense of fraternal complicity and bone-deep self-scrutiny. It’s not your typical hip-hop release. It’s a quest that comes tucked into verses, a confession in kicks. And for anyone who’s ever been lost in the clouds and trapped in the fog of ambition, “MISTY MOUNTAIN” is a reminder that even in the darkest woods, there’s always a way home to yourself.

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MORPHEUS VON DOBENHAUSEN lets go of the chaos, dancing steady soft and slow in latest release “GOODBYE CHAOS”

MORPHEUS VON DOBENHAUSEN

MORPHEUS VON DOBENHAUS’s new song, “Goodbye Chaos,” is a calm end to a lot of chaos. From the first beat, you can tell that this is a message. Now there is a beat instead of noise. This groove is relaxing and welcoming, like stepping into a rhythm that has been waiting for you. No more spinning in the storm, just letting go and getting into the rhythm.

The piece goes from calm to lively without stopping. The way each beat is put together makes the listener feel at home and also moves them forward. Things have gotten better, there is no more noise. MORPHEUS has created a track in which the storm stops and the sounds are almost calm. The groove is good, the rhythm is right, and the beats sound like a heartbeat of peace after a lot of noise.

People who listen will feel like they are in a place that is both small and big. “Goodbye Chaos” doesn’t just want your attention, it needs it. The beat makes you feel like you belong, and you want to stay that way even after the song is over. You can find peace in the middle of chaos where every beat feels like home, this is the rhythm listeners would want to know. The change is here goodbye chaos.

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pixelgrinder powers up a dark and fully charged new release titled “Nocturnal”

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Manchester, NH-based electronic-rock artist pixelgrinder steps boldly into the dark with debut release “Nocturnal.” It’s an amped-up set that trims both mood and muscle. As a creator of music made with cochlear implants, pixelgrinder has always found ways to defy listeners’ expectations creatively, by crafting all-encompassing soundscapes that are equal parts cinematic, mechanical, and deeply human.

“Nocturnal” ventures deeper into rock-based space than the artist’s debut album without straying from the dark electronic pulse that makes up pixelgrinder’s persona. Industrial textures scrape against great guitar lines, with driving rhythms injecting an alt-rock urgency that lends the project a solid late-night energy. The effect is less that of a gradual slipping into darkness than that of movement through it, unbending, concentrated and thrilling.

What makes “Nocturnal” interesting is how transitional it feels. This release serves as a stepping stone of sorts, linking past experiments in digital emotion whatever’s next. Hints of influence seem to come from darkwave and industrial rock, edging towards the more aggressive electronic body music on offer here, with its intensified percussion and broadened vocal arrangements that White Mask promises to deliver. On “Nocturnal,” pixelgrinder crystallizes a vision, and it’s a dark statement that hints at evolution, ambition, and an unquiet creativity that refuses to go into standby mode.

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