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The ones with half-finished projects on old laptops, hooks hummed into phone memos, and a DAW they only open when no one's around to hear. \n\nIf you've ever thought, \"I'm not a real producer,\" or \"my stuff’s not good enough to share,\" this track is me standing in the crowd yelling back: render it anyway. The first mix won't be perfect. It doesn't have to be. You're allowed to be clumsy, loud, amateur, and still completely valid. This one's for every unseen idea that almost stayed on the hard drive. Hit save. Hit export. 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It’s the headset kid’s hymn to keeping chaos tidy with one more save. The moment just before a major run of cues: the last cross-check, the last patch fix, the last “we good?” before the lights and FX hit on time—or don’t.", "producerNote": "Phase took the lead on Showfile.cfg because the song is really about invisible structure: the front-of-house engineer making hundreds of quiet decisions so the show can feel effortless to everyone else. Where some puppets hear only the drop, Phase hears the lattice underneath — buses, cues, comms, routing, patch notes, save points, and the tiny timed moves that keep chaos singing instead of collapsing. He built the track like an actual showfile: verses as channel notes, pre-choruses as cue calls, choruses as “GO” macros, all wrapped around Scooter as the ghost inside the booth. The dedication nods outward to the lighting directors too, because Phase understands that sound and sight only feel magical when unseen hands are working in sync. But at its core, this is a love letter to the FOH tech who never gets a bow, with every patch, route, and cue in the lyrics acting like a little spotlight on the person holding the night together. Loopette provides the female vocals." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to every FOH engineer, system tech, LD, stagehand, and quiet hero who makes the show possible—the ones who arrive before the doors, leave after the echo, and spend the whole night fixing problems that never get credited because they never made it to the audience. You’re tuning rooms, chasing feedback, repatching lines, rebooting rigs, and solving “that shouldn’t be happening” in real time, all while the crowd assumes it was always supposed to sound and look this way.\n\nYou’re the invisible heartbeat of every venue—the ones who make chaos disappear so the magic can feel effortless. You may never be paid what you’re actually worth, and your best work is the work nobody notices… but this track is for you anyway. The show doesn’t just “go on”—it goes on because you’re there.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/showfile-cfg.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/73iF5CqFwwRNOO6Z0Sa40U", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EABJA5frDI", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ColH5Qd1dWU", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=0EABJA5frDI", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0FZCW8HTG", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/showfile-cfg-scooters-run-of-show/1854123559", "soundcloud": "https://soundcloud.com/bobku85/showfilecfg-scooters-run-of-show", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/showfile-cfg-scooters-run-of-show", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-showfilecfg-scooters-run-of-show-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Showfile-cfg-Scooter-s-Run-of-Show", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/d2cc3d57-0658-4ad1-99c2-06bb45bf30ad" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 17:16:04", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/showfile-cfg.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 1003, "urlSlug": "chaos-controller-exe", "title": "Chaos_Controller.exe", "subtitle": "The Zany Compiler", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/chaos-controller-exe.html", "album": { "id": 1, "title": "Feltware", "tagline": "A Puppetcore Complication", "releaseDate": "2026-11-21", "upc": "199954652998" }, "trackNumber": 3, "releaseDate": "10/31/2025", "durationSeconds": 355, "durationDisplay": "5:55", "durationIso8601": "PT5M55S", "bpm": "155", "bpmSpotify": 155, "camelotKey": "6A", "leadProducer": "Riff", "genres": [ "happy hardcore", "hard trance", "tech-trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EW2547350", "iswc": "T-338.989.070-0", "upc": "199954652998", "bmiWorkNumber": "78235005", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/0327cb63-025c-4364-b65d-26e3a511ee0c" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "17:05", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Control Core Configuration", "narrativeShort": "Chaos_Controller.exe (The Zany Compiler) by Bobku is a tech-trance, happy hardcore, hard trance crossover set at the Feltware Festival main stage at 17:05, where a locked rig wriggles back to life and turns a bug into the feature.", "narrativeFull": "The rig “locks”… then wriggles—UI doodles wink, pixels grin, and laughter lands perfectly on beat. A toy-box troop of misfits proves the bug was the feature all along.", "producerNote": "Riff treated this track like a stress test for the rig and the crew’s sense of humor, piling happy-hardcore energy on top of tech-trance bones until the whole thing felt like a DAW having a giggle fit. She wanted the festival itself to feel like it was in on the joke—UI doodles, misbehaving pixels, and all (We're not kidding, if you look at the spectral frequency display, she smudged in a smilely face). The brief she gave the room was simple: “If you’re not smiling at the drop, we’re not done yet.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the ghostwriters, topliners, and lyricists who keep everyone else’s stories moving while your own ideas sit in notebooks, voice memos, and half-finished sessions. You’ve written a lifetime supply of “baby, baby”s and “oh yeah, party”s on demand, even when your brain was begging to build worlds instead of just hooks.\n\nThis song might be pure chaos, but the whole Feltware project is my reminder—mostly to you, a little to myself—that dance music can still be a storytelling medium. You’re allowed to use the same craft you hide behind other people’s names to tell your kind of weird, layered, honest stories too. This one is for every writer in the back room who’s itching to make the lights and lasers carry a narrative again.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/chaos-controller-exe.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3uuSXiWEYnLC3nWew68nXI", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe4fAXz97Lk", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=qe4fAXz97Lk", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0FYXGVSK9", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/chaos-controller-exe-the-zany-compiler/1850863605", "soundcloud": "https://soundcloud.com/bobku85/chaos_controller-exe", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/chaos-controller-exe-the-zany-compiler", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-chaos-controllerexe-the-zany-compiler-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Chaos_Controller-exe-The-Zany-Compiler-1", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/0327cb63-025c-4364-b65d-26e3a511ee0c" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 17:16:24", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/chaos-controller-exe.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 1004, "urlSlug": "safety-goggles", "title": "Safety Goggles", "subtitle": "Meepwave Protocol", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/safety-goggles.html", "album": { "id": 1, "title": "Feltware", "tagline": "A Puppetcore Complication", "releaseDate": "2026-11-21", "upc": "199954652998" }, "trackNumber": 4, "releaseDate": "10/31/2025", "durationSeconds": 225, "durationDisplay": "3:45", "durationIso8601": "PT3M45S", "bpm": "145", "bpmSpotify": 145, "camelotKey": "8A", "leadProducer": "Phase", "genres": [ "chiptune", "tech-trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EW2547351", "iswc": "T-338.989.106-5", "upc": "199954652998", "bmiWorkNumber": "78235013", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/6328cf8b-c65f-4c9c-9c4c-6608484a611b" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "17:28", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Stage C", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Lab Configuration", "narrativeShort": "A sonic reminder that we stand on the shoulder of giants.", "narrativeFull": "A “perfectly safe” demo keeps getting louder until the lab becomes fireworks. The earnest inventor and his trembling partner spin near-disaster into delight.", "narrativeNote": "*Front rails should be considered a high-voltage area.", "producerNote": "Phase took the lead on Safety Goggles (Meepwave Protocol) because he’s the only one in the room who genuinely believes you can make something feel dangerous and still be safe. Watching Bunsen and Beaker work, he saw two stories at once: a chaotic lab where anything might explode, and a quiet little meep trying very hard to trust the process. His approach was to build the track like a controlled experiment—every riser measured, every drop double-checked—so all the wild sound design sits inside a structure that never actually lets the listener fall. He spent ridiculous hours late at night comping Beaker’s meeps into chords and drum patterns until they felt less like a joke and more like a heartbeat, then wrapped the whole thing in that bridge about kindness resonating alone. For Phase, this one isn’t just a lab banger; it’s proof that you can align chaos and care on the same grid and still have everyone walk out smiling." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the ghosts of musique concrète and the early experimenters who thought, “What if the music is everything we can record?”—lab-coat weirdos at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and people like Pierre Schaeffer, François Bayle, Bernard Parmegiani, and so many others cutting tape, abusing radios, and turning noise into structure before there was a name for any of this.\n\nBecause of you, whole galaxies of sound grew up: tape loops into synth lines, radio hiss into ambient, machine clatter into industrial, chopped voices into house, trance, drum & bass, dubstep, J-pop hooks, reggaeton riddims, Dutch house drops, game soundtracks, film scores, and a hundred other scenes that all carry pieces of your experiments in their DNA. Every riser, every bitcrushed scream, every “what is that sound?” moment at a festival is part of your butterfly effect. This track is a thank-you note to the giants under the floorboards—the ones who proved that anything the world can throw at a microphone can become music.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/safety-goggles.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3rV0Czr2Ml391QahttEpBH", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h08WkjXbcLM", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=h08WkjXbcLM", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0FYR7QRF9", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/safety-goggles-meepwave-protocol/1850654714", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/safety-goggles-meepwave-protocol", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-safety-goggles-meepwave-protocol-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Safety-Goggles-Meepwave-Protocol", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/6328cf8b-c65f-4c9c-9c4c-6608484a611b" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 17:16:37", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/safety-goggles.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 1005, "urlSlug": "sunset-sequencer", "title": "Sunset Sequencer", "subtitle": "The Bird's Big Nest", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sunset-sequencer.html", "album": { "id": 1, "title": "Feltware", "tagline": "A Puppetcore Complication", "releaseDate": "2026-11-21", "upc": "199954652998" }, "trackNumber": 5, "releaseDate": "11/21/2025", "durationSeconds": 407, "durationDisplay": "6:47", "durationIso8601": "PT6M47S", "bpm": "138", "bpmSpotify": 138, "camelotKey": "11B", "leadProducer": "Faderghost", "genres": [ "progressive trance", "uplifting trance", "vocal trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EW2547352", "iswc": "T-338.996.227-6", "upc": "199954652998", "bmiWorkNumber": "78234351", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/9e82b90b-f00a-4282-82dd-65c16b7579f8" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "18:19", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Golden Hour Configuration", "narrativeShort": "A golden-hour festival set built on warmth and nostalgia, where melody and memory pull the whole crowd back to “home.” VIP Guest DJ: a tall, gentle friend who feathers the hi-hats and calls everyone “family.”", "narrativeFull": "Rigs catch gold; melody and memory turn the whole field toward home. A tall, gentle friend feathers the hi-hats and calls everyone “family.”", "narrativeNote": "*VIP Guest DJ * No other performances*", "producerNote": "If you ask Faderghost about Sunset Sequencer, he’ll tell you he built it like a front-of-house mix for one very tall, very nervous headliner. In his head, Big Bird wasn’t “doing a kids’ song,” he was closing a golden hour set the way the big trance guys do—only instead of lasers and pyro, the payload was home and sidewalk chalk and paper kites. Faderghost’s whole goal was to make the crowd feel like they were standing in front of a massive rig and a tiny stoop at the same time: big, wide festival low end and long, glowing tails on the synths, but with enough air in the mix that every “home!” lands like someone calling your name from down the block. He kept riding faders on imaginary kids’ voices in his head, carving space for the lyric so the nostalgia never got drowned by the drop. “It’s just a sunset rig,” he shrugs, “wires everywhere, crowd roaring—but if I’ve done my job, it still feels like one big nest.”" }, "dedication": "This one was written for Catherine Greenfield, but it's for anyone who chased an entertainment life or who needs to hear it: you are built on a real, honest foundation, and that part of you hasn't gone anywhere. It's still there under the noise, under the grind that taught you to doubt everything, under the days that feel wrong-sized. \n\nYou’re still that person. You’re allowed to come back to the part of you that’s soft, sincere, and excited to share something—even if the industry taught you to keep your guard up.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sunset-sequencer.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/2cycN3UewPzdBhu6TXTlSb", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvECUE3heE", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvECUE3heE", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G2B2V89Z", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/sunset-sequencer-birds-big-nest/1854123562", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/sunset-sequencer-the-birds-big-nest", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-sunset-sequencer-the-birds-big-nest-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Sunset-Sequencer-Bird-s-Big-Nest", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/9e82b90b-f00a-4282-82dd-65c16b7579f8" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 17:16:50", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sunset-sequencer.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 1006, "urlSlug": "googly-eye-overclock", "title": "Googly-Eye Overclock", "subtitle": "Patch Notes v2.1", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/googly-eye-overclock.html", "album": { "id": 1, "title": "Feltware", "tagline": "A Puppetcore Complication", "releaseDate": "2026-11-21", "upc": "199954652998" }, "trackNumber": 6, "releaseDate": "10/30/2025", "durationSeconds": 245, "durationDisplay": "4:05", "durationIso8601": "PT4M5S", "bpm": "141", "bpmSpotify": 141, "camelotKey": "6A", "leadProducer": "Patch", "genres": [ "chiptune", "tech-trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EW2547353", "iswc": "T-339.430.499-1", "upc": "199954652998", "bmiWorkNumber": "78552570", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/0beb66e4-231a-46e0-9267-934ae2019b63" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "18:57", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Stage B", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Control Core Configuration", "narrativeShort": "A playful, glitch-happy dance cut where squeaks quantize, widgets wobble in key, and the dancefloor “debugs itself” by laughing. For stitched-together troublemakers who ship joy as long as it squeaks on beat.", "narrativeFull": "Darkness lands and the system installs whimsy—squeaks quantize, widgets wobble in key, the dancefloor debugs itself by giggling. For every stitched-together troublemaker who ships joy if it squeaks on beat.", "producerNote": "Nova made Googly-Eye Overclock because she wanted a track that flips the whole festival from “serious night mode” into “we’re allowed to be weird now” in a single install. She’d been watching the crew grind through tense sets and perfect mixes, and she kept saying the system needed a patch—not for stability, for whimsy—something that makes darkness feel safe by making it laugh at itself. So she built it like an overclocked debug session: squeaks snapped to the grid, wobbling widgets tuned into the key, little UI glitches turned into hooks until the dancefloor feels like it’s fixing its own code by giggling. It’s Nova’s love letter to every stitched-together troublemaker who ships joy as a feature—because if it squeaks on beat, it belongs in the drop." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because sometimes I just want to make a song I’d actually listen to. 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It’s a hug to the kind bomb-artist who lands the biggest laugh by “failing” on purpose.", "producerNote": "Atlas almost never takes the lead, but The Heckler Algorithm felt personal. As the studio’s general manager, he’s the one who absorbs the notes, the complaints, the “can we tweak it again?” emails, so turning boos into beats wasn’t just a concept—it was policy. He built the track like an error-handling system: sample the groan, gate the boo, quantize the crash—treat every failure as input instead of interruption. Beneath the packet jokes and punchlines, it’s Atlas quietly proving that timing isn’t just musical—it’s emotional—and if you hold the line long enough, even a heckle can become part of the groove." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the hecklers—yeah, you too. Not because the shouting is helpful, but because it usually means you care in some sideways way, or you’re carrying something that doesn’t fit anywhere else and it leaks out loud. Sometimes it’s nerves, sometimes it’s loneliness, sometimes it’s the weird urge to prove you exist in a room that already feels too big.\n\nYou’re not the villain of the night. You’re a person. And I’m betting that if we met you outside the spotlight—in line for water, on a smoke break, walking back to the lot—you’d be kinder than your worst moment. So here’s a little reminder in song form: you don’t have to throw stones to be seen. 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A tiny, relentless critic floors the gas; his patient partner steers.", "producerNote": "Built this one out of every 3 a.m. booth nightmare he’s ever mixed through: the panicked producer who “just needs one more tweak” and the overeager idea-gremlin who keeps adding genres to bar one. He took the lead so he could ground the whole thing in something that still works on a real system, and ended up voicing the frazzled producer himself—every sigh and “it’s fine, it’s fine” borrowed from nights spent babysitting fragile egos over hot monitors. Patch jumped at the chance to play Pepe as pure chaos on the talkback mic, turning the track into a call-and-response between hard-earned live-sound wisdom and the gremlin in your DMs yelling, “More spice, baby!”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the producers, mixers, and studio ghosts who take the impossible briefs—the ones that start with “we love it, but…” and end somewhere around “can you make it bigger, but also intimate, and make it sound more orange, but also make me want to buy gum?” You’re the translators between idea and reality, the ones carving clarity out of chaos, shaping sounds until they mean something. It’s probably time to step out of the shadows and show the world how much you’ve actually contributed.\n\nAnd to the human idea firehoses on the other side of the glass (The artists, directors, and prawns with ten concepts a minute) Sometimes we all just need the reminder that you want the silly song to do well. 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When the report reads “system is confused… and happy,” that’s him smiling from the couch, knowing the groove survived because it was allowed to breathe." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to every musician who can’t sit still on the grid—every drummer who rushes the fill because the feeling hits first, every player who leans forward into the moment, every dancer who suddenly realizes their body can move faster than they thought. The ones who treat tempo like a suggestion and energy like the only real clock that matters. This track is for the moments where instinct wins, where the push and pull becomes the point, where the music feels alive because it refuses to behave.\n\nAnd to the studio musicians on the other side of that coin—the ones asked to do the exact opposite. The ones who lock in so precisely it almost disappears, who play the same part ten times so it feels like it was always meant to be there, who hold the line so everything else can bend around it. You’re the engine that lets chaos exist safely, the quiet precision behind the wild moments. 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Original mix survives only in rumor, test prints, and hard drives that “mysteriously” never got wiped.", "narrativeFull": "Spotlight equals overload: couture cache hits 100% and cameras blink in unison. A glamorous powerhouse crashes systems by entering frame—then poses in the reboot. Warning: Show may involve extreme VFX that have been deemed a hazard by the FAA.", "narrativeNote": "*Removed per The Diva (Handwritten Note: Cancelled at the Diva’s request. Original mix survives only in rumor, test prints, and hard drives that “mysteriously” never got wiped.)", "producerNote": "Riff’s original version of Hiya.ha was her dream diva runway: tech-trance lifts, uplifty chords, and a drop that felt less like a stomp and more like a perfectly timed hair flip in slow motion. She built it as a love letter to The Diva’s control over a crowd—how a single “hiya” and a strut could overload every camera in the room without ever losing musical grace. When the note came down that it was “too trance, not enough devastation,” she took the cancellation on the chin, stuck a smiley face on the session folder, and told Nova, “Go break something beautiful with it.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the VFX crews, laser ops, content wranglers, and screen teams—... the people who make sure the spotlight divas actually have a world to stand in. You’re juggling renders, safety regs, and last-second “can we just…” notes while everyone else takes the credit. Please keep patiently explaining FAA Form 7140-1 to everyone; one day it might actually sink in. \n\nAnd to the divas, streamers, and influencers living in that light: you're still human long after the metrics refresh. You were a whole person before the views, and you still matter when the numbers dip. 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The famous blue monster turns the field into a shared snack—om nom nom, delicious bass. (Festival Note, we don't care if he wants to do brostep, we just can't believe he agreed to come)", "narrativeNote": "*VIP Guest DJ", "producerNote": "Phase took Nom Nom Wub Wub partly as a dare to himself: could he take the loudest, silliest guest imaginable and still make a track that actually tells a story? On paper it’s “nursery rhymes meet brostep,” but he approached it like scoring a tiny monster’s hero’s journey—building the verses around small, bouncy crumbs of melody, then arranging the drops so every ridiculous “nom” and “wub” feels like a carefully timed chomp instead of pure noise. He spent a lot of late nights lining Cookie’s ad-libs up with the LFO moves, tightening the sidechain “bites” until the bass felt like it was literally chewing through the room, and kept one rule taped to the console: no joke without groove, no groove without heart. Under all the crunch and laser-lit cookie dust, Phase wanted the bridge line—“no one dances alone no more”—to hit like the real center of the song: a puppet rave where every messy, hungry little monster gets pulled into the circle. Loopette providing the secondary vocals for the track, helped make sure that happened." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the talent buyers, bookers, and festival programmers—the people who spend months stitching together dream lineups, refreshing inboxes, chasing agents, and quietly freaking out when a big name actually says “yes.” You’re the ones who know exactly how many miracles it took to get that one artist on that one time slot… and then have to listen to the internet complain about it anyway.\n\nThis one’s especially for the days you’re proud of a carefully curated program and still get, “Why is there dubstep at a trance festival?” Sometimes the wild card is the whole point. Sometimes you need a wub wub moment in the middle of all the tasteful BPM grids. When the crowd roars, enjoy your victory lap and feel completely entitled to flip off the comment section while you dance.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/nom-nom-wub-wub.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/5QGXWuGPSvGCA5eOxQciFn", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hza54wvkPMM", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEhTbOGhg2M", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hza54wvkPMM", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G1G5MB2N", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/nom-nom-wub-wub-the-snack-drop/1852620327", "soundcloud": "https://soundcloud.com/bobku85/bobku-nom-nom-wub-wub-the", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/nom-nom-wub-wub-the-snack-drop", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-nom-nom-wub-wub-the-snack-drop-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Nom-Nom-Wub-Wub-The-Snack-Drop", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/4bbfa662-d249-4c7d-99df-b7b5d9819983" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:20:49", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/nom-nom-wub-wub.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 1014, "urlSlug": "boem-kip-wav", "title": "Boem_Kip.wav", "subtitle": "The Squeaky Groove", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/boem-kip-wav.html", "album": { "id": 1, "title": "Feltware", "tagline": "A Puppetcore Complication", "releaseDate": "2026-11-21", "upc": "199954652998" }, "trackNumber": 14, "releaseDate": "11/7/2025", "durationSeconds": 215, "durationDisplay": "3:35", "durationIso8601": "PT3M35S", "bpm": "128", "bpmSpotify": 128, "camelotKey": "8B", "leadProducer": "Patch", "genres": [ "dutch house", "electro house", "experimental" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EG2539253", "iswc": "T-339.828.457-2", "upc": "199954652998", "bmiWorkNumber": "78721826", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/dea2f8c3-908c-41f9-8320-7461f473ac2c" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "01:06", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Stage C", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Kitchen Configuration", "narrativeShort": "We told him trance... He told us 'Bork, bork, bork... Dutch House.", "narrativeFull": "Rules leave, bounce stays: pots, pans, and a rubber bird lead a crooked dance that shouldn’t work—until it’s everybody’s favorite. A chaotic chef proves a dumb squeak on a deadly kick is sometimes all you need. (We told him trance... He told us 'Bork, bork, bork... Dutch House. -No Refunds)", "producerNote": "Patch talks about Boem_Kip.wav like it was the moment someone finally let him drive the forklift through the warehouse. Dutch house plus a literal rubber chicken as the lead felt like destiny: a stupid idea with a serious groove, which is basically his religion. He built the whole track around the squeak like it was a sacred synth patch—sidechained it, tuned it, EQ’d it, then refused to let anyone “fix” how ridiculous it sounded on its own. The rule in the room was simple: if the club’s laughing and their feet won’t stop stomping, the groove is working. Patch kept telling everyone, “No, no, the dumber the top, the deadlier the thomp,” and every time the chicken hit the pan on the drop, he just pointed at the meters and yelled, “See? Groove saved. Boem kip.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the Dutch—the people who took four-on-the-floor, turned it into an export industry, and somehow kept a straight face while doing some of the silliest, most joyful, most hard-hitting dance music on earth. You catch way more grief than you deserve for “that Dutch sound,” the endless kicks, the festival cheese… and you just keep filling fields, stadiums, and hearts anyway.\n\nThis track is a tiny rubber-chicken salute in your direction. Thank you for not slowing down just because anyone rolled their eyes. The world would be a lot less fun without your “too much” energy. We should all be a little more Dutch.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/boem-kip-wav.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3mTMKLH58wivGzkn7YrXzw", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gabBezJuA", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=w3gabBezJuA", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G1DZMXD2", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/boem-kip-wav-the-squeaky-groove/1852568822", "soundcloud": "https://soundcloud.com/bobku85/boem_kipwav-the-squeaky-groove", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/boem-kip-wav-the-squeaky-groove", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-boem-kipwav-the-squeaky-groove-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Boem_Kip-wav-The-Squeaky-Groove", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/dea2f8c3-908c-41f9-8320-7461f473ac2c" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:20:59", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/boem-kip-wav.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 1015, "urlSlug": "feltware-1-0", "title": "FELTWARE v1.0", "subtitle": "Reboot the Moon", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-1-0.html", "album": { "id": 1, "title": "Feltware", "tagline": "A Puppetcore Complication", "releaseDate": "2026-11-21", "upc": "199954652998" }, "trackNumber": 15, "releaseDate": "10/31/2025", "durationSeconds": 215, "durationDisplay": "3:35", "durationIso8601": "PT3M35S", "bpm": "138", "bpmSpotify": 142, "camelotKey": "10A", "leadProducer": "Nova", "genres": [ "chiptune", "club", "tech-trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EB2584432", "iswc": "T-339.932.613-3", "upc": "199954652998", "bmiWorkNumber": "78868506", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/5e03bc57-b0c7-496d-a12e-71ea53938f35" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "02:09", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Control Core Configuration", "narrativeShort": "A house-anthem moment where the festival rig feels alive—LEDs, cables, and PA “singing back” to the crew with a stitched-and-wired heart. The Feltware Festival becomes the performer.", "narrativeFull": "LEDs harmonize; cables hum a choir; the rig answers its makers with a house anthem for stitched-and-wired hearts. It’s the moment the festival itself starts to sing back.", "producerNote": "Nova took this one like it was a launch sequence, not just a song—because to her, Feltware has always been half music and half AV myth-making. She built the track as an installation: boot tones as crowd cues, “googly eye drivers” as the world’s dumbest operating system, and drops that feel like the festival’s lights physically snapping into alignment. The moon theme wasn’t metaphor for her—it was a target—so yes, she absolutely tried to get permission to project the Feltware logo onto the lunar surface with holography lasers, and yes, she was politely told to stop emailing NASA “for one tiny little test.” In the end she settled for “uploading joy to the lunar room” instead: a title track that treats every glitch as glitter, every squeak as truth, and every reboot as the moment the whole city remembers it’s allowed to be magical." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to everyone who’s still here at the almost-morning hour—the rail-riders and rail-sitters, the shufflers in the back, the ops crews in the towers, the FOH teams blinking at LEDs, the med, security, runners, cleaners, and the friends guarding everyone’s bags from the sidelines. You’ve all been sharing the same air, same kick drum, and the same slowly-melting sense of time for way too many hours in a row, and somehow the lights still feel worth it.\n\nThis is the “we’re exhausted but we’re not done yet” reset button—the moment the whole field quietly agrees to squeeze out one more wave of joy before sleep, showers, and sore everything catch up. If your caffeine, adrenaline, and feelings are all peaking at once, please drink some water, take a breath, and look around: you did this together. Crowd and crew, artists and staff—at this hour you’re all the same constellation under the same rebooted moon. This one’s for everyone who stayed.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-1-0.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/7KecKPbwQlCNcPGiQA04bg", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FfHU1exlTk", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=2FfHU1exlTk", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0FYX2L9J2", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/feltware-v1-0-reboot-the-moon/1850859210", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/feltware-10-reboot-the-moon", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-feltware-10-reboot-the-moon-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/FELTWARE-v1-0-Reboot-the-Moon", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/5e03bc57-b0c7-496d-a12e-71ea53938f35" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:21:09", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-1-0.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 1016, "urlSlug": "color-threads", "title": "Color Threads", "subtitle": "Across the Sky", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/color-threads.html", "album": { "id": 1, "title": "Feltware", "tagline": "A Puppetcore Complication", "releaseDate": "2026-11-21", "upc": "199954652998" }, "trackNumber": 16, "releaseDate": "10/31/2025", "durationSeconds": 299, "durationDisplay": "4:59", "durationIso8601": "PT4M59S", "bpm": "74→148", "bpmSpotify": 148, "camelotKey": "9B", "leadProducer": "Loopette", "genres": [ "edm", "folktronica", "uplifting trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EB2586750", "iswc": "T-339.828.343-3", "upc": "199954652998", "bmiWorkNumber": "78721901", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/d22dd435-fe8f-4ac1-b992-036ed45ee0eb" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "03:51", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Rainbow Configuration", "narrativeFull": "First pink light finds tired smiles; the last song feels like a shared memory whispered across thousands of shoulders. A small green-hearted host ties every color together and reminds us: when the dark goes quiet, keep singing.", "producerNote": "Loopette said yes to Color Threads knowing exactly what it meant: last song of the night, first light over the crowd, the “don’t screw this up” slot. Instead of chasing the biggest sunrise drop, she treated it like a question whispered into the dark and waited to hear what answered back. In the studio, she kept the room almost completely quiet—no big monitors, just small speakers and headphones—stacking soft chords and tiny melodic “threads” until the song felt like a handful of lanterns being passed from person to person. She built the chorus around the idea that every off-key voice and frayed seam still belongs in the tapestry; all the colors glow because you can see the stitching. When the others asked if it needed a bigger lift, she just shook her head and said, “If they’re still here at sunrise, they already brought the loud part. I just have to give them something gentle to carry home.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to Jim Henson and to everyone who has ever put their hands, voice, craft, patience, and weird little heart into the world of The Muppet Show and the wider Muppets universe—puppeteers, builders, stitchers, designers, performers, writers, composers, camera crews, editors, stagehands, and the people in the corner fixing the thing that’s about to break mid-take. You’re the original invisible-labor miracle: a team of humans doing meticulous work in the shadows so a felt creature can look directly into the camera and feel more alive than most people.\n\nYou taught me values I still chase: that kindness can be funny, that sincerity doesn’t have to be corny, that chaos can be choreographed without losing its soul, and that collaboration is the whole point. This project exists because you proved something essential—that you can build a world out of craft and care, and invite everyone into it. So this is a thank-you for the hands behind the characters, for the standard you set, and for the lifelong permission slip to make art that’s joyful, human, and a little bit ridiculous on purpose.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/color-threads.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/43ZSaQHt9yHN2UVA6Hnp8P", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWuWfh0CSA", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xm6TjELiEo", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWuWfh0CSA", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0FYX9MP4P", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/color-threads-across-the-sky/1850606011", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/color-threads-across-the-sky", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-color-threads-across-the-sky-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/album/Bobku/Color-Threads-Across-the-Sky-Single", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/d22dd435-fe8f-4ac1-b992-036ed45ee0eb" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:21:19", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/color-threads.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2001, "urlSlug": "switchflip-cmd", "title": "SwitchFlip.cmd", "subtitle": "Felt ∩ Steel", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/switchflip-cmd.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 1, "releaseDate": "1/7/2026", "durationSeconds": 215, "durationDisplay": "3:35", "durationIso8601": "PT3M35S", "bpm": "130", "bpmSpotify": 150, "camelotKey": "11A", "leadProducer": "Riff", "genres": [ "big-room house", "eurodance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZFZ42614338", "iswc": "T-339.932.624-6", "upc": "821520573429", "bmiWorkNumber": "78868513", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/087017ec-ee86-48f9-8eb2-174e3a5f7677" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "16:00", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage · Stage B · Stage C", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Simulcast", "narrativeShort": "Feltware Festival’s gates-open kickoff where the breakers flip and all three stages boot up at once, hitting the big red start button for the entire night.", "narrativeFull": "The gates click, the breakers flip, and three stages cough to life in the most gloriously obvious way possible. It’s the big red start button for the whole night.", "producerNote": "For the opener, Riff wanted something that felt like the festival itself flipping its own power switch: big, obvious, and a little bit cheesy in the best way. She stacked eurodance hooks on top of a stompy house chassis so the first kick would feel like three stages coughing to life at once. It’s her favorite kind of scene to captain—where one silly, huge melody tells everyone, “Okay, we’re really doing this now.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to you. Yeah, you. The one actually reading this instead of just skipping to the next track.\n\nYou’re the whole point of this mess. If nobody listens, this project is just a folder on a hard drive. It started as a dumb little kid of an idea, kept me up at 3 a.m., got torn apart and taped back together, and now it’s out there on its own. I’m just hoping it survives the world and maybe stumbles back home every once in a while.\n\nWhat I really want, though, is for you to see past the headliners and the brand logos. Most of this scene is held together by tired humans with gaffer tape stuck to their clothes and coffee instead of blood. They don’t get interviews. They just keep the lights on.\n\nSo don’t let the usual names make you bitter. They’re the tip of the iceberg, not the whole beast. Next time you’re at a show, look for the person sprinting across the field, or tweaking a knob in the dark, or hauling something heavier than it should be. Give them a nod, even if they never see it.\nThey’re why the music reaches you at all.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/switchflip-cmd.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0VL0DaXlem4RsQNPzS2Xs1?", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd648vYmnU8", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D93FhbKr8l4", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCrn7o1NLcb5xNayaiVpce5w", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0GFCMHCS8", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/switchflip-cmd-felt-steel/1867090821", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/switchflip-cmd-felt-steel", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-switchflipcmd-felt-steel-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/SwitchFlip-cmd-Felt-Steel", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/087017ec-ee86-48f9-8eb2-174e3a5f7677" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:21:31", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/switchflip-cmd.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2002, "urlSlug": "feet-beat-pdf", "title": "Feet_Beat.pdf", "subtitle": "But My Rider Says…", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feet-beat-pdf.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 2, "releaseDate": "12/3/2025", "durationSeconds": 363, "durationDisplay": "6:03", "durationIso8601": "PT6M3S", "bpm": "126", "bpmSpotify": 126, "camelotKey": "6A", "leadProducer": "Faderghost", "genres": [ "minimal tech", "tech house" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6FE2559222", "iswc": "T-339.940.625-4", "upc": "821520573429", "bmiWorkNumber": "78868535", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/8c25e3b1-f0c2-4d79-89f9-33ef35041210" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "16:32", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Stage C", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Standard Configuration (Aborted Set)", "narrativeShort": "A scheduled set that never materializes as a runner pings between the artist compound and a fully lit stage, and the timetable gets rewritten with a headset sigh when the slot finally times out.", "narrativeFull": "The Captain is technically scheduled. But the performance never arrives. A runner pings back and forth between a velvet-curtained compound and a fully lit stage, negotiating psychology, physics, and the laws of nature required for emergence. The crowd waits. The BPM holds. The clock does not. Eventually, the set times out—not with a bang, but with a headset sigh and a schedule quietly rewritten.", "producerNote": "Faderghost took this one personally. Before he was the calm in the booth, he was the one sprinting across gravel with a radio clipped to his belt and a stage plot folded in his back pocket. Feet_Beat.pdf is his love letter to the artist relations runners—the invisible miles between green rooms and loading docks—and he built the track like a shift that never quite ends: tight kicks like footfalls on asphalt, comm chatter tucked into the mids, and a break that refuses to let you rest because neither do they. The drop hits hard not for spectacle, but because the workload hits hard; it’s the sound of carrying someone else’s show on your shoulders and still making it look effortless." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the artist-relations teams, runners, wranglers, liaisons, and handler crews who live permanently in the crossfire—advocating for artists while trying not to get roasted alive by production. You’re the bridge no one notices until it buckles, translating “creative vision” into something the crew can actually execute while absorbing every rider tweak, schedule slip, wardrobe crisis, and pre-show meltdown with a headset smile and a quietly dying soul.\n\nWhen the crowd screams, the review praises the headliner, and everyone says “what a show,” you’re already in the wings lining up the next miracle. This track is for the ones who make impossible timelines feel inevitable, who absorb the chaos so the spotlight can look clean, who get called bossy by talent and ignored by crew, who know everybody’s secrets and almost never get to tell their own.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feet-beat-pdf.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/4UyJmLsTpzuUVyqKc1Npo5", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVneRsBvWdE", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=DVneRsBvWdE", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G5198WSB", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/feet-beat-pdf-but-my-rider-says/1858435614", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/feet-beat-pdf-but-my-rider-says", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-feet-beatpdf-but-my-rider-says-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/album/Bobku/Feet_Beat-pdf-But-My-Rider-Says-Single", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/8c25e3b1-f0c2-4d79-89f9-33ef35041210" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:21:47", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feet-beat-pdf.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2003, "urlSlug": "trance-rules-docx", "title": "Trance_Rules.docx", "subtitle": "Interrupted Edition", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/trace-rules-docx.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 3, "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "durationSeconds": 309, "durationDisplay": "5:09", "durationIso8601": "PT5M9S", "bpm": "138", "camelotKey": "8A", "leadProducer": "Dial", "genres": [ "chaos", "drum and bass", "trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZES52683245", "iswc": "T-339.940.633-4", "upc": "821520573429", "bmiWorkNumber": "78868533", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/d5114d5b-93d4-42ad-ba18-dc6b712c50fd" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "16:38", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Stage C", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Standard Configuration", "narrativeShort": "In the wake of the aborted slot, a stern voice steps out to restore order. The stage resets to defaults. The tempo is explained. The proper way to dance is outlined.", "narrativeFull": "In the wake of the aborted slot, a stern voice steps out to restore order. The stage resets to defaults. The tempo is explained. The proper way to dance is outlined. Arms are to remain sensible. Joy is to be measured. Unfortunately, someone has discovered the pad controller. What follows is not rebellion, exactly—just unfiltered enthusiasm colliding with authority, as perfectly behaved trance drops dissolve into joyful, rule-breaking noise.", "producerNote": "Dial wrote Trance_Rules.docx as a perfectly ordered manifesto—clean builds, sensible arm angles, kick and bass aligned like well-labeled folders. He loved it. Then Patch suggested the “Interrupted Edition,” where a pad-happy gremlin keeps derailing the rules mid-lecture, and Dial experienced what can only be described as measurable physical discomfort. Still, he knew the chaos would land with a crowd, so he reframed the whole thing as exposure therapy: let the interruptions happen, then prove the grid can absorb them. The trance sections are immaculate on purpose—Dial’s comfort zone, polished to surgical precision—so every sidetrack feels like a test he chooses to survive rather than a system failure." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to my kid—the tiny chaos engine who was literally at the pads making those drops you probably hated, and the voice you’re hearing is her unfiltered joy (okay… slightly filtered, and definitely formant-shifted). This track exists because she showed up with zero shame, zero genre loyalty, and the kind of confidence adults spend years trying to earn back.\n\nKids are the only true RNG in the universe. They don’t make choices to be “correct,” they make choices because they’re curious—and that’s how new ideas get born. So if something in here makes you laugh, cringe, or suddenly rethink what “good taste” means, that’s the point. Listen anyway. The next big inspiration you’re waiting for might be sitting at a controller right now, pressing buttons like it’s magic—because to them, it still is.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/trace-rules-docx.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/5Zy8UUOWQKyXAueC0tfwfN", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKNlFTOF8ZE", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zKNlFTOF8ZE", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0GHQSLKY9", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/trance-rules-docx-interrupted-edition/1870449785", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/trance-rules-docx-interrupted-edition", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-trance-rulesdocx-interrupted-edition-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Trance_Rules-docx-Interrupted-Edition", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/d5114d5b-93d4-42ad-ba18-dc6b712c50fd" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:21:58", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/trance-rules-docx.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2004, "urlSlug": "all-stems-in", "title": "All Stems In", "subtitle": "Master Bus Family", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/all-stems-in.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 4, "releaseDate": "2025-12-01", "durationSeconds": 306, "durationDisplay": "5:06", "durationIso8601": "PT5M6S", "bpm": "150", "bpmSpotify": 149, "camelotKey": "1A", "leadProducer": "Dial", "genres": [ "edm", "festival anthem", "hard trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6FD2526875", "iswc": "T-340.444.528-5", "upc": "821520573429", "bmiWorkNumber": "79148161", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/bf399125-39ae-419a-bc69-bb6fd73b4d67" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "17:42", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Control Core Configuration", "narrativeShort": "A main-stage “we are the track” moment where kick, bass, and a thousand voices stack onto the master bus until the whole field realizes they’re part of the print.", "narrativeFull": "One by one the pieces step into place—kick, bass, strings, squeaks, and a thousand off-key voices—until the master bus glows like a sunrise. It’s the moment the whole field realizes they’re not listening to a track; they are the track, finally printed together on one big, beating timeline.", "producerNote": "Dial didn’t have to invent a concept for this one—he just described how he already hears the world. To him, people aren’t “too much” or “off-beat,” they’re just stems that haven’t been routed yet. He built the track like a literal session file: common sends for love, FX returns for the weird, a master bus wide enough to hold every crackle and shaky tone without clipping. The chorus is basically his worldview—no solo track left outside the song—because Dial believes the grid isn’t there to judge you, it’s there to hold you steady while you lock in with everyone else. All Stems In is what happens when the metronome-soul decides belonging is a routing decision, not a personality trait." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the other half of the audience—the wallflowers, the hoodie-hiders, the nervous first-timers, the friends holding everyone’s water bottles, and the ones who don’t know a single artist on the poster but came anyway because something in them hoped they might belong here.\n\nFrom the kids who spent an hour choosing an outfit and still think they picked wrong, to the older heads in comfortable shoes—the ones with a mosh-pit scar from ’96 and a chiropractor who knows their festival schedule. You’re not forgotten. You’re proof the scene has history, a future, memory, and heart.\n\nEverything feels whole because you showed up. Every crowd needs its soft edges: the watchers, the listeners, the shy shoulders swaying a little off-beat. You are the pulse between the kicks, the breath between the drops—the calm that keeps the chaos beautiful. And honestly? This is the part of the crowd where you’ll find me hiding too. I’ll join you shortly with the Advil. You’re already part of the family the moment you step through the gate. Showing up is enough. You’re enough.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/all-stems-in.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/6RMTZpjMkWyKZbplGiwopk", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwZ8aPt_Ek", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=AJwZ8aPt_Ek", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G4QG295F", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/admin-panic-log-the-system-stress-test/1851339523", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/all-stems-in-master-bus-family", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-all-stems-in-master-bus-family-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/All-Stems-In-Master-Bus-Family", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/bf399125-39ae-419a-bc69-bb6fd73b4d67" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:22:12", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/all-stems-in.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2005, "urlSlug": "cable-fault-irq", "title": "Cable_Fault.irq", "subtitle": "The Tripline Protocol", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cable-fault-irq.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 5, "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "durationSeconds": 293, "durationDisplay": "4:53", "durationIso8601": "PT4M53S", "bpm": "130", "camelotKey": "2A", "leadProducer": "Phase", "genres": [ "edm", "techno", "trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZES52683246", "iswc": "T-340.444.543-4", "upc": "821520573429", "bmiWorkNumber": "79148080", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/da661764-c534-4e25-81a1-09fe4c0672c8" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "19:26", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Primary Generator Farm", "narrativeShort": "A single foot on the wrong cable ends up taking out Main Stage.", "narrativeFull": "Somewhere behind the fence, the festival’s power spine flinches, warning lights ripple down the line, and a stage goes dark mid-beat. Cable ramps turn into tripwires, breakers get moody, and a runner with a flashlight learns that “just one quick fix” can decide whether the night comes back—or stays quiet. It wasn’t a boom—just a footstep where no one was looking.", "producerNote": "When Phase first pitched Cable_Fault.irq, everyone assumed it was a rare pun—his name, the title, the obvious “phase/cable” joke—and the room actually laughed. Then they remembered Phase only makes about three jokes a year and he’d already met his quota, which meant this wasn’t a gag; it was a warning. He wrote it like a late-night incident report turned into a track: the kind of fault that starts as a tiny crackle, becomes a misfire in the groove, and suddenly the whole system is fighting itself. The final mix is pure Phase—quiet, focused, and relentless—turning a technical failure into a story about tension, patience, and the moment everything snaps back into alignment." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the power distro crews, generator techs, electricians, cable runners, load balancers, and backup power teams—the people standing in the tiny space between “show” and “total black-out panic.” You’re the ones who turn an empty field into a temporary power grid, mapping phases and amperage where everyone else just sees grass and truss. Every kick, every laser, every pixel on every screen is riding on the lines you laid in the dirt and the numbers you did in your head six hours ago.\n\nYou pace the site with headlamps and radios, chasing mystery faults through mud at the hours where the insects went to sleep, juggling loads so the bass can hit without tripping the night. When something surges, you’re already halfway to the panel; when everything works, nobody thinks about you at all. This track is for the people who know exactly how close we are to darkness and keep a straight face anyway—the quiet hum under the PA, the invisible grid that lets the rest of us believe the lights will stay on forever.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cable-fault-irq.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3iGIqM52BKPf7O3cUrg2iW", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is9UMqSpV9s", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=is9UMqSpV9s", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0GHQSLKY9", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/cable-fault-irq-the-tripline-protocol/1870449788", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/cable-fault-irq-the-tripline-protocol", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-cable-faultirq-the-tripline-protocol-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Cable_Fault-irq-The-Tripline-Protocol", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/da661764-c534-4e25-81a1-09fe4c0672c8" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:22:26", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cable-fault-irq.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2006, "urlSlug": "cotter-prt", "title": "Cotter.prt", "subtitle": "Is This Pin Important", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cotter-prt.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 6, "releaseDate": "2025-12-12", "durationSeconds": 430, "durationDisplay": "7:10", "durationIso8601": "PT7M10S", "bpm": "140", "bpmSpotify": 140, "camelotKey": "2B", "leadProducer": "Aria", "genres": [ "cinematic", "progressive trance", "void-core" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6FN2541969", "iswc": "T-340.444.522-9", "upc": "821520573429", "bmiWorkNumber": "79148175", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/9a3ca186-86cf-463f-aed1-58c4543656a3" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "19:41", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Main Stage Truss Spine", "narrativeFull": "A single metallic plink interrupts the relative calm in the backlot. A cotter pin from the main stage truss ends up somewhere it shouldn’t. Riggers with almost interchangeable faces snap into action, because the whole sky deserves a second look to make sure the only thing that drops is the beat.", "producerNote": "Aria took the helm on Cotter.prt because she couldn’t stop thinking about how the world must sound when you’re above it—when traffic turns to texture and arguments dissolve into wind. She chose void-core not for darkness, but for altitude: wide negative space, distant pulses, vocals that feel like they’re drifting between rooftops. During the entire production cycle she moved through the studio like she was a few inches off the floor—soft-voiced, slow gestures, building huge empty skies around tiny melodic threads. Where others would have filled the silence, Aria carved it open, letting the drop feel less like impact and more like a long exhale from somewhere very high up." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the riggers, climbers, and high-angle techs who live in harnesses above the show—the ones on catwalks, roofs, and truss lines bolting the sky together. You’re the people who turned an empty grid into a ceiling of lights, PA, and motion, who double-check shackles, motors, and cotter pins long before doors open and then stay up there while the headliner plays, feeling the structure hum under your boots.\n\nDuring the set, the crowd only sees lasers and moving heads; you see load charts, sway, and the way a gust of wind hits the rig. You drink cold coffee in a hard hat and know that if a single pin lands in that cup, the answer to “is this important?” is always yes. This track is for the silhouettes in the rafters and the ghosts on the roof—the people who make sure the only thing that drops tonight is the beat, not the rig above it.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cotter-prt.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/4ubFp8gX1y46CZn0Wz0Yba", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC8qD6TSRXA", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=lC8qD6TSRXA", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G6QQY4GR", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/cotter-prt-is-this-pin-important-single/1861010521", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/cotter-prt-is-this-pin-important", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-cotterprt-is-this-pin-important-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Cotter-prt-Is-This-Pin-Important", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/9a3ca186-86cf-463f-aed1-58c4543656a3" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:22:36", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cotter-prt.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2007, "urlSlug": "wanna-buy-a-pin", "title": "Wanna Buy a Pin", "subtitle": "Merch Booth Mixdown", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/wanna-buy-a-pin.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 7, "releaseDate": "2025-12-16", "durationSeconds": 289, "durationDisplay": "4:49", "durationIso8601": "PT4M49S", "bpm": "123", "bpmSpotify": 123, "camelotKey": "8A", "leadProducer": "Philter", "genres": [ "electro-pop", "funky house", "nu-disco" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6FY2593579", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/5961cab1-8b3b-42be-8d1a-d2510d89891a" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "19:58", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Public Grounds", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Vendor Tents", "narrativeShort": "At Feltware Festival’s merch row, a fan comes for a keepsake and ends up behind the table—card readers beeping in time and pins clacking like percussion—because the night quietly recruits him.", "narrativeFull": "He shows up early with a short list and a pocket full of excitement, planning to grab a keepsake and hurry back to the crowd. Instead, card readers start beeping in time, pins clack into trays like percussion, and the line turns into its own dancefloor. One small offer to help becomes a borrowed lanyard, then a headset, then a place behind the table—running the merch booth for the headliner he came to see. By the time the set starts, he’s exactly where the night needs him. Leaving was never really part of the plan, even if he didn’t know it yet.", "producerNote": "Philter ended up with Wanna Buy a Pin because the second someone said “nu-disco / electro-funk,” the room basically pointed at him like it was a law of nature. He’s the only one who can take something as repetitive as “wanna buy a pin” and filter it into a groove instead of a headache—nudging the phrasing, riding tiny swing changes, and carving space so the chant becomes percussion, then melody, then hook. Other producers have tried to make it work and somehow it always turns into pure annoyance; Philter’s trick is that he doesn’t fight the repetition, he smooths it until it feels inevitable. By the end you’re not being sold anything—you’re just caught in the pocket, smiling, and chanting along like it was your idea." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the fans. Not “my” fans… just fans. The people who decide, for reasons even they can’t always explain, that some band or DJ or show is worth carrying around in their chest for a while. You don’t just like a song; you build little altars to it in playlists, on jackets, in group chats, on long drives home from work.\n\nYou’re the ones who show up early and stay late, who stand in lines for merch that looks suspiciously like rent money, who run fan accounts, make playlists, scream the bridge louder than the PA, drag your friends along “just trust me, you’ll get it live.” You volunteer street team, you help at the booth, you end up behind the table selling pins instead of in the crowd hearing the songs you came for. You stitch whole scenes together with nothing but enthusiasm and a half-charged phone.\n\nFandom is a sacred thing. It’s a gift you choose to give, not a tax you owe. Your time, your attention, your money, your emotional energy… that’s all power. If an artist treats you like a wallet with legs or a metric on a dashboard, you’re allowed to walk. They owe you more than you ever owe them: honesty, effort, basic decency, a safe room to stand in, and music that at least tries to be worth what you put into it.\n\nSo this is a little thank-you note to every fan who has ever carried an artist further than the artist could walk alone—and a reminder that you’re allowed to put that weight down whenever you need to. The whole machine only runs because you choose to care. Never let anyone make you feel small for that.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/wanna-buy-a-pin.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/4uaB0sF320XOQLWfaVgZxd", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c3s01mNwe4", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6c3s01mNwe4", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G7LY4L8R", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/wanna-buy-a-pin-merch-booth-mixdown-single/1861844866", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/wanna-buy-a-pin-merch-booth-mixdown", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-wanna-buy-a-pin-merch-booth-mixdown-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Wanna-Buy-a-Pin-Merch-Booth-Mixdown", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/5961cab1-8b3b-42be-8d1a-d2510d89891a" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:22:48", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/wanna-buy-a-pin.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2008, "urlSlug": "funky-trance-dll", "title": "Funky_Trance.dll", "subtitle": "Beats Need Groove", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/funky-trance-dll.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 8, "releaseDate": "2025-11-26", "durationSeconds": 226, "durationDisplay": "3:46", "durationIso8601": "PT3M46S", "bpm": "132", "bpmSpotify": 132, "camelotKey": "11A", "leadProducer": "Philter", "genres": [ "electro funk", "french house", "tech-trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6F62552468", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/ff2468d1-54bf-48bc-8b13-ff52cda7d4d5" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "20:05", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Stage B", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Funk Configuration", "narrativeShort": "On Stage B, “The Doctor” patches the grid with electro-funk swing—trance leads relax, bass gets rubbery, and off-shift crew drift in to recalibrate on a moving-couch dancefloor.", "narrativeFull": "The Doctor is In! And he’s her to fix your grid: trance leads lean back into rubbery basslines, hi-hats learn to swing, and Stage B turns into a moving couch for tired feet and nodding heads. It’s where off-shift techs, runners, and stray ravers drift to recalibrate, finding out the rig can groove just as hard as it can soar.", "producerNote": "Philter almost didn’t take the captain’s chair on this one—he’s usually the barefoot couch ghost fixing everyone else’s sessions—but the minute someone suggested a funk-leaning trance track, the whole room just stared at him. He’s been saying “trance needs funk to be functional” for so long it practically wrote the chorus itself, so he leaned into it: rubbery bass, swung hats, and just enough groove glued under a classic trance lift to prove the point. Most of the time he still insists he’s “just here to keep things smooth,” but this is the rare release where the crew agrees it sounds exactly like he talks when he thinks nobody’s listening." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to everyone today who refuses to let genres calcify—the producers, DJs, crate-diggers, and “what if we just…” troublemakers who ignore the purists and keep welding funk to trance, concrete to club, and wrong sounds to the right groove. You’re the reason the timeline doesn’t get stuck.\n\nWhen somebody says, “You can’t do that,” you hear it as a dare. You slam breakbeats under prog leads, drop cartoon samples into serious techno, drag gospel vocals through sidechains, and somehow it slaps. This track is on your side: for every mis-labeled playlist, every “what even is this?” comment, every new little micro-genre that only exists because you were bored enough to try it.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/funky-trance-dll.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/5hRJsEIRhT5tcQ6dSmAqY9", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3cHFUDB370", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=C3cHFUDB370", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G45572WQ", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/funky-trance-dll-beats-need-groove/1856816815", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/funky-trance-dll-beats-need-groove", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-funky-trancedll-beats-need-groove-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Funky_Trance-dll-Beats-Need-Groove", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/ff2468d1-54bf-48bc-8b13-ff52cda7d4d5" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:22:58", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/funky-trance-dll.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2009, "urlSlug": "pyrofame-fin", "title": "Pyrofame.fin", "subtitle": "Did Someone Say Explosion", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/pyrofame-fin.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 9, "releaseDate": "2026-01-08", "durationSeconds": 230, "durationDisplay": "3:50", "durationIso8601": "PT3M50S", "bpm": "156", "bpmSpotify": 156, "camelotKey": "10A", "leadProducer": "Riff", "genres": [ "acid", "hardcore" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZFZ42682483", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/4a9f662f-fd59-490d-8730-9a9a44130087" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "21:58", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Main Stage - SFX Bunker", "narrativeShort": "In the main-stage SFX bunker, checklist-perfect flame cues and snarling acid/hardcore energy turn restraint into choreography—professional “stand by” on comms, pure joy when it’s finally “go.”", "narrativeFull": "Inside the SFX bunker, there’s enough carefully controlled firepower to capture a small country, all of it humming behind checklists, timecode, and one felt figure vibrating with barely contained joy. The acid line snarls, the tempo spikes, and flame cues stack with surgical precision as restraint turns into choreography. On comms, his voice stays flat and professional for “stand by”—but he’s absolutely living for the moment someone finally says “go,” and the night gets just bright enough to try and outshine the sun.", "producerNote": "Riff jumped at the chance to produce Pyrofame.fin because she has always, quietly, unapologetically adored Crazy Harry—not as a one-note explosion gag, but as the patron saint of perfectly timed detonation. To her, Harry isn’t random; he’s organized chaos with impeccable aim—nothing blows up unless it’s supposed to. She built the track the same way: tightly structured builds, calculated tension, and drops that feel explosive but land exactly on target. The only mild studio concern came when she started describing the bridge as “tasteful ignition,” but she assures everyone she only sets off fireworks in controlled DAW environments. “For the record,” she added, “I like metaphorical explosions. Mostly.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the pyro crews—flame ops, fireworks techs, SFX programmers, and the people who get to make the sky flinch on purpose. I’m not even going to pretend I don’t envy you. You’re the ones who turn a chorus into a core memory with a well-timed burst of heat and light—like the music itself grew teeth for a second. Everybody in the crowd acts tough until the first hit of flame, and then we all remember we’re still cavemen in our hearts. It’s spectacular. It’s art. It’s the coolest job on site and you know it.\n\nBut you also carry the part nobody cheers for: the stress, the checklists, the distances, the permits, the hard no’s, and the knowledge of exactly how bad “one mistake” can get. You’re the ones lying awake after a show replaying the one tube that didn’t fire—because you can do that math in your head, and you don’t like the answer. So this is a thank-you for the restraint, for keeping the magic on the safe side of the line, for being the people who can make the night explode and still choose control.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/pyrofame-fin.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0xMZrwJsRjxdPepzOacIdE", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyAzuOhZO_g", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m51GWAgqiuM", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RyAzuOhZO_g", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0GFK2B5BW", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/pyrofame-fin-did-someone-say-explosion-single/1867402561", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/pyrofame-fin-did-someone-say-explosion", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-pyrofamefin-did-someone-say-explosion-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Pyrofame-fin-Did-Someone-Say-Explosion", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/4a9f662f-fd59-490d-8730-9a9a44130087" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:23:10", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/pyrofame-fin.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2010, "urlSlug": "sweetums-sys", "title": "Sweetums.sys", "subtitle": "Guardian of the Gate", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sweetums-sys.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 10, "releaseDate": "2025-12-01", "durationSeconds": 229, "durationDisplay": "3:49", "durationIso8601": "PT3M49S", "bpm": "77", "bpmSpotify": 154, "camelotKey": "4A", "leadProducer": "Faderghost", "genres": [ "downtempo", "trip hop" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6FD2531558", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/5e22b2e0-ab9e-44a6-bd50-aeb1b76eec6f" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "22:12", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Central Ops", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Security Tent", "narrativeShort": "At Central Ops’ security tent, a gentle giant with a flashlight steers chaos like a hug—reuniting friends, handing out water, and keeping the monsters imaginary to a soft downtempo thump.", "narrativeFull": "Out by the edge of the noise, a massive silhouette moves slow—part wall, part hug, steering chaos with a flashlight and a goofy grin. Heavy boots thump like sub-bass, but the track itself is gentle: a tribute to every “scary” guardian who spends the night reuniting friends, handing out water, and making sure the monsters stay imaginary.", "producerNote": "Faderghost didn’t hand this one off to anyone else. Before he was the calm in the booth, he played shows in rooms where “security” could mean either the safest person in the building or the most dangerous one. He’s seen the difference. Sweetums.sys is his thank-you to the quiet giants who understand that strength isn’t force—it’s restraint. The shaved heads with soft hands, the ones who break up fights with bear hugs and dad jokes instead of boots. He wrote the dedication himself because he knows the festival only feels magical when someone is willing to stand at the edge of it and hold the line without needing applause. To him, that’s real power: not the guy who throws the punch, but the one who absorbs it and keeps the night intact." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the security teams, pit crews, perimeter guards, backstage sentinels, and venue protectors who hold thousands of strangers safely inside a single shared night. But especially… ESPECIALLY… to the quiet giants with shaved heads, arms like suspension bridges, and a Hello Kitty tattoo peeking out from under a sleeve they pretend is “ironic.”\n\nYou’re the kind of protectors who stop fights with a bear hug instead of boots, who talk a panicked kid down from the rail with a dad joke, who make sure everyone gets home whole… whether they walked in sober, stressed, overstimulated, or already halfway sideways. You take hits without throwing them, absorb chaos without becoming it, and hold the line with patience, heart, and a body built out of forklift parts.\n\nThis track is for the gentle walls… the ones who could crack a coconut but choose to carry someone’s dignity instead. The festival runs on a thousand kinds of strength, and yours is the kind that sticks with people long after the lights fade.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sweetums-sys.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/6UeYd99PILGjvPW6i9oukL", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvSWzf5-WM", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dpvSWzf5-WM", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G4QW7JXY", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/sweetums-sys-guardian-of-the-gate-single/1857879152", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/sweetums-sys-guardian-of-the-gate", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-sweetumssys-guardian-of-the-gate-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Sweetums-sys-Guardian-of-the-Gate", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/5e22b2e0-ab9e-44a6-bd50-aeb1b76eec6f" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:23:20", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sweetums-sys.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2011, "urlSlug": "feathers-up-egg", "title": "Feathers_Up.egg", "subtitle": "Hands-up Henhouse", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feathers-up-egg.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 11, "releaseDate": "2025-11-14", "durationSeconds": 233, "durationDisplay": "3:53", "durationIso8601": "PT3M53S", "bpm": "145", "bpmSpotify": 145, "camelotKey": "12B", "leadProducer": "Nova", "genres": [ "eurodance", "hands up", "trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EW2594599", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/d1027008-4d11-4ce6-8a37-576ed068448a" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "22:50", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Stage B", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Henhouse Configuration w/ Thrust", "narrativeShort": "Stage B reconfigures for a dancer-forward set—thrust deployed, booth moved aside, and the hype squad takes over. A legendary feathered dance queen turns the slot into a full-body showcase of tight counts, hands-up lifts, and relentless momentum.", "narrativeFull": "Thrust deployed. Booth to the side. This block belongs to the dancers. A legendary feathered dance queen leads the hype squad and turns Stage B into a full-body showcase—tight counts, big hands-up lifts, zero wasted motion. If you think you can dance, here’s your chance to find out what dancing really is.", "producerNote": "Nova built Feathers_Up.egg specifically for Camilla and her chicken dance crew, treating the track less like a song and more like a formation file. She mapped every build to an eight-count wing snap, every drop to a synchronized stomp that could read from the runway all the way to the back rail. The feathers weren’t a joke to her—they were kinetic light diffusers, catching strobes and turning simple Hands-Up energy into a full-field visual bloom. By the first rehearsal, when a line of chickens hit the chorus and the entire crowd mirrored them without thinking, Nova just nodded once. System installed. “Yes,” she clarified, “the BPM was chosen to optimize wing-span symmetry.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the dancers, hype crews, stage teams, flag squads, mascots, and everyone whose job is \"just be eye candy\" for a bigger name on the poster. You're not set dressing. You're athletes, storytellers, and energy generators... holding choreography, timing, facial expressions, and crowd connection all at once while pretending it's effortless.\n \nFor every rehearsal in an empty hall, every bruise covered in makeup, every night you hit your marks so someone else can look iconic on camera: this one's for you. Even when the billing forgets your name, crowds remember how you made them feel. Feathers up, heads high! 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Steel-string strums and highway kicks follow him as a sleepy clerk sells coffee, fuel, and a miracle, never knowing he just saved the diva’s big laser show and the gentle driver who’ll roll back in like it was no big deal.", "producerNote": "Dial took the lead on Starlight & Gasoline as a quiet experiment—what happens when you route folktronica warmth through a precision grid without sanding off the soul? Working with Beauregard, he built it around guitar plucks, soft pads, and a pulse that feels like highway lines sliding under tired headlights. The twist came halfway through production, when Faderghost slowly realized the lyrics were suspiciously close to one of his own old road stories—gas-station coffee, missing crates, and that random country savior who showed up at 2 a.m. Dial hadn’t meant it as a prank; he just hears memory as tempo and texture. By the time Faderghost said, “Wait… that’s my story,” the chorus was already locked, and the whole room agreed some histories sound better when someone else arranges them." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the midnight clerks, roadside angels, and random strangers who accidentally save an entire festival and never even know it. The ones who unlock the gate “just this once,” sell the last can of fuel, lend a flashlight, give directions, or say “yeah, I can help” at 2:17 a.m. without realizing there’s a whole field of people depending on that moment.\n\nYou don’t see the crowd you rescued or the stage that stayed lit because you were there. You just go back to wiping counters, or carrying on like nothing happened. But out past the highway, thousands of hearts kept dancing because you showed up and chose to be kind. This track is for every nameless human miracle who kept the night from falling apart and then quietly moved on.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/starlight-gasoline.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/6m0qokqmOWq4PuEgm6QRPm", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8Ge5Cfez4", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8Ge5Cfez4", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G5K9FJMM", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/starlight-gasoline-the-supply-line-song-single/1859355861", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/starlight-gasoline-the-supply-line-song", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-starlight-and-gasoline-the-supply-line-song-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Starlight-Gasoline-The-Supply-Line-Song", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/a7b86d39-f403-4fb6-baa1-e384c6bb0aba" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:23:45", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/starlight-gasoline.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2013, "urlSlug": "diva-ddos-devastation", "title": "Hiya.ha", "subtitle": "The Diva-DDoS Devastation", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/diva-ddos-devastation.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 13, "releaseDate": "2025-11-24", "durationSeconds": 315, "durationDisplay": "5:15", "durationIso8601": "PT5M15S", "bpm": "130", "bpmSpotify": 130, "camelotKey": "2B", "leadProducer": "Nova", "genres": [ "anthem house", "big room", "edm" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6F52529972", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/57812a6a-ca11-42a8-a0b2-01109e37bd0e" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "23:42", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Runway Configuration", "narrativeShort": "At 23:42 on Feltware Festival’s Main Stage runway, a glam powerhouse walks into frame and instantly overloads the system—cameras blink in unison, “couture cache” hits 100%, and the reboot becomes canon as a big-room, FAA-hazard VFX spectacle.", "narrativeFull": "Spotlight equals overload: couture cache hits 100% and cameras blink in unison. A glamorous powerhouse crashes systems by entering frame—then poses in the reboot. Warning: Show may involve extreme VFX that have been deemed a hazzard by the FAA.", "narrativeNote": "*Revised per The Diva (Handwritten Note: Per The Diva’s “intense guidance.” Riff’s trance draft was scraped; Nova’s big-room rewrite is now canon for this slot.)", "producerNote": "Nova approached the rewrite like a system reboot with extra pyrotechnics: bigger kicks, brighter stabs, and a mainstage drop designed to feel like the runway itself crashing through the PA. Under The Diva’s “intense guidance,” she rebuilt Riff’s elegant trance skeleton into a full big-room detonation but refused to do it alone—she kept Riff in the room, stealing her favorite melodic turns and shouty little hook ideas so the new version still carried Riff’s DNA. The result is canon now, and whenever it plays, Riff just grins and yells, “Told you the ‘hiya’ was the hook,” from the side of the booth." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the VFX crews, laser ops, content wranglers, and screen teams—... the people who make sure the spotlight divas actually have a world to stand in. You’re juggling renders, safety regs, and last-second “can we just…” notes while everyone else takes the credit. Please keep patiently explaining FAA Form 7140-1 to everyone; one day it might actually sink in. \n\nAnd to the divas, streamers, and influencers living in that light: you're still human long after the metrics refresh. You were a whole person before the views, and you still matter when the numbers dip. This track is for you too.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/diva-ddos-devastation.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0bZKkbQ95zVzpJBr6DVm8j", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23tvvFCQR64", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=23tvvFCQR64", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G3T8X2Y8", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/hiya-ha-the-diva-ddos-devastation-single/1856436203", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/hiya-ha-the-diva-ddos-devastation", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-hiyaha-the-diva-ddos-devastation-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Hiya-ha-The-Diva-DDoS-Devastation", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/57812a6a-ca11-42a8-a0b2-01109e37bd0e" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:23:56", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/diva-ddos-devastation.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2014, "urlSlug": "ticket-storm-err", "title": "Ticket_Storm.err", "subtitle": "Boomerang Concessions", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ticket-storm-err.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 14, "releaseDate": "2025-12-03", "durationSeconds": 239, "durationDisplay": "3:59", "durationIso8601": "PT3M59S", "bpm": "176", "bpmSpotify": 174, "camelotKey": "8A", "leadProducer": "Patch", "genres": [ "gabber", "uptemp hardcore" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6FE2559246", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/4351a502-1ff2-4548-9f01-2e288f7b8d2a" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "00:52", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Public Grounds", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Concession Tents", "narrativeShort": "Concessions go full gabber as fryers roar and POS beeps while trays fly out and boomerang back with more hungry faces—proof the window crew is keeping the whole party alive.", "narrativeFull": "The fryers roar like kick drums and paper tickets pour like confetti; every tray flung into the crowd seems to boomerang back with two more hungry faces attached. It’s gabber at the grill—POS beeps, grease hiss, and a rubber-armed server proving that if the line never dies and the trays keep returning, the food must be hitting just right.", "producerNote": "Patch didn’t grab this one because he was itching to make gabber—he took it because he recognizes the battlefield. Ticket_Storm.err is his salute to the food-service crews running on caffeine, call-outs, and pure survival instinct while tickets stack like error logs. He built the track to feel like a slammed kitchen: relentless kicks like printers spitting orders, snares snapping like shouted “Behind!” and drops that hit the way a rush hits—no warning, no mercy, just motion. To Patch, those workers are kindred spirits—improvising under pressure, turning chaos into choreography—and the gabber speed wasn’t aggression, it was respect." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the food trucks, fry cooks, bartenders, concession crews, and night-shift dish runners—the people keeping everybody on their feet while the lineup gets all the credit.\n\nIf anyone thinks you’re “just food service,” they’ve never seen what a rave looks like on an empty stomach. You don’t get lasers, you get grease burns; no spotlight, just a heat lamp and a line that never ends. But, when the queue wraps twice, you’re allowed to roll your eyes, swear under your breath, and treat every returning customer as proof you did it right. This one’s for everyone working the window instead of the main stage and still keeping the whole party alive.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ticket-storm-err.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3N4tD0JDi63cWbMJh2SzXd", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFGO3xe4MKM", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IxTUAtszVs", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=RFGO3xe4MKM", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G51B1YKS", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/ticket-storm-err-boomerang-concessions-single/1858437927", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/ticket-storm-err-boomerang-concessions", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-ticket-stormerr-boomerang-concessions-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Ticket_Storm-err-Boomerang-Concessions", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/4351a502-1ff2-4548-9f01-2e288f7b8d2a" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:24:06", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ticket-storm-err.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2015, "urlSlug": "hold-space-om", "title": "Hold_Space.om", "subtitle": "Bad Trip to a Good Space", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/hold-space-om.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 15, "releaseDate": "2025-12-11", "durationSeconds": 369, "durationDisplay": "6:09", "durationIso8601": "PT6M9S", "bpm": "86", "bpmSpotify": 95, "camelotKey": "11A", "leadProducer": "Aria", "genres": [ "chill club", "downtempo", "psybient" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6FL2580536", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/594b47d2-6585-461e-9d1f-b8b97b3a27da" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "01:34", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Central Ops", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Sanctuary Tent", "narrativeShort": "A warm, low-BPM sanctuary-tent song for DanceSafe, the Zendo Project, and every vibe guardian who trades drops for deep breaths, water, and gentle words—holding space for overloaded ravers to land safely without judgment.", "narrativeFull": "Inside the Sanctuary Tent, a flower-crowned guitarist with a long, lazy “fer sure” drawl trades solos for breathing exercises, pressing mugs of water and tea into shaky felt hands. While the rest of the park chases peak drops, she and a handful of harm-reduction angels keep the BPM low, talking panicked kids out of dark loops and reminding them the colors are just colors, they’re not falling, and they’re totally loved enough to ride the night out safely.", "producerNote": "Aria didn’t “write” Hold_Space.om so much as translate it. She spent an afternoon sitting quietly in one of the Zendo tents, watching volunteers offer water, shade, and steady voices to anyone who needed it, and the rhythm of that care became the track. The downtempo pulse mirrors a slowed heartbeat, the pads rise and fall like guided breaths, and the space between notes is intentional—room to land, room to feel, room to reset. She said the song practically wrote itself because all she had to do was listen to what was already happening: people holding space for each other until the night softened." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to DanceSafe, the Zendo Project and all the vibe guardians (official or otherwise). To the volunteers, peers, and staff who spend their nights sitting with scared, overloaded people and helping them come back to earth without judgment.\n\nYou’re the emotional paramedics and calm anchors of the party… the soft places where people can be honest, breathe, drink some water, and land safely. This song is a little love letter to the care you give: no panic, no punishment, just presence. Thank you for keeping festivals kinder and safer from the inside out.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/hold-space-om.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/06kmjOGQg00JycJPijV9w9", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci6xdWX1DVc", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku3qyZ7DN9Y", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci6xdWX1DVc", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G6KM92KG", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/album/hold-space-om-bad-trip-to-a-good-place-single/1860762704", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/hold-space-om-bad-trip-to-a-good-place", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-hold-spaceom-bad-trip-to-a-good-place-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Hold_Space-om-Bad-Trip-to-a-Good-Place", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/594b47d2-6585-461e-9d1f-b8b97b3a27da" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:24:14", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/hold-space-om.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2016, "urlSlug": "feltware-1-7", "title": "FELTWARE v1.7", "subtitle": "The Dance Machine", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-1-7.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 16, "releaseDate": "2026-01-05", "durationSeconds": 262, "durationDisplay": "4:22", "durationIso8601": "PT4M22S", "bpm": "174", "bpmSpotify": 174, "camelotKey": "11B", "leadProducer": "Nova", "genres": [ "eurodance", "happy hardcore", "pop" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZFZ32635549", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/bdcce358-36c8-4121-bb9d-7361b4be2ef2" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "02:32", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Control Core Configuration", "narrativeShort": "During what should’ve been a cooldown at 02:32 in the Control Core, the rig spins up on its own—BPMs snap to attention, melodies surface fully formed, lights lock into unprogrammed patterns—and the festival decides it wants to dance with no DJ touching the console.", "narrativeFull": "During what should have been a cooldown, the rig spins back up on its own. BPMs snap to attention, melodies surface fully formed, and the lights lock into patterns no one programmed. No DJ steps forward. No hand touches the console. The festival, fully awake now, decides it wants to dance.", "producerNote": "Nova didn’t pretend this was a new concept. She’s been quietly hoping a lighting rig would wake up mid-set since she was a kid staring at stage trusses like they were sleeping giants. The Dance Machine is her long-held daydream rendered in BPM: subs as heartbeats, strobes as blinking eyes, kick patterns as the first tentative steps of something realizing it doesn’t want the music to stop. She built the track so the rig doesn’t just respond to the crowd—it chooses to keep dancing, overriding shutdown cues and chasing the drop like it’s alive. When someone joked that the system shouldn’t have feelings, she just smiled and said, “It’s fine. It only wants more bass.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the scene-keepers—the promoters, resident DJs, volunteers, workshop hosts, forum mods, flyer designers, afters parents, and “hey, you good?” humans who keep a culture alive without turning it into a fortress. The ones who remember what it felt like to be new, who answer dumb questions with real answers, who tell people where the water is and which room is safer, who introduce strangers like it’s normal, who make space for awkward joy and first-time courage. You don’t guard the gate. You hold it open.\n\nYou turn music into a commons instead of a contest. You build the group chats, the playlists, the ride shares, the local nights, the practice sessions, the zines, the little rituals that make a scene feel like home. You show up when there’s no headline and no clout—just community maintenance—and you do it anyway. This track is for the ones who contribute beyond fandom: the builders of belonging, the friendly infrastructure, the reason people stay long enough to become family.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-1-7.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/3Q73zkCvHpiH9vGZEGEfIp", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fl5j_MSx4qA", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OR8zl2tL4E", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=fl5j_MSx4qA", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0GF6FD98K", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/feltware-v1-7-the-dance-machine/1866784601", "soundcloud": "https://soundcloud.com/bobku85/feltware-v17-the-dance-machine", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/feltware-v17-the-dance-machine", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-feltware-v17-the-dance-machine-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/FELTWARE-v1-7-The-Dance-Machine", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/bdcce358-36c8-4121-bb9d-7361b4be2ef2" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:24:25", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-1-7.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2017, "urlSlug": "ground-ops-dmp", "title": "Ground_Ops.dmp", "subtitle": "Night Pit Crew", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ground-ops-dmp.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 17, "releaseDate": "2025-11-18", "durationSeconds": 250, "durationDisplay": "4:10", "durationIso8601": "PT4M10S", "bpm": "138", "bpmSpotify": 138, "camelotKey": "3B", "leadProducer": "Phase", "genres": [ "breakbeat", "funky tech house", "tech-trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6EZ2558852", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/07241a08-a1f7-4794-af48-c3a31b66748a" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "02:45", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Central Ops", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Ground Ops Tent", "narrativeShort": "While the crowd chases drops, a night pit-crew of safety-vest janitors ghosts through the glowstick jungle—dodging boots, clearing hazards, and keeping the dancefloor safe and runnable. An invisible rhythm section cleaning on the sidechain between kick hits.", "narrativeFull": "While everyone else is losing their minds at the drop, a rat-sized brigade in safety vests ghosts through the glowstick jungle with grabbers and trash bags, timing their rushes between kick hits and mosh-pit lunges. They dodge boots, mop up mystery puddles, and sync their sweeps to the sidechain, turning biohazards and bottle fields into clean floor again—an invisible rhythm section of janitors keeping the rave danceable long after sanity should’ve gone home.", "producerNote": "The brief didn’t even come from Phase—it came from Philter: “Write one for the janitors who clear a broken bottle in the middle of a mosh pit without stopping the party.” Most of the room expected Phase to hesitate. Instead, he mapped it like a live show file—trash cans ducking like sidechains, broom sweeps landing on the kick’s punchline, tension rising just enough to carve out a safe lane through chaos. And in a move that surprised everyone, he refused to drop the beat in the bridge. No cinematic silence, no breath before the lift—the rhythm keeps running, because the job keeps running. For Phase, that was the point: the crowd never stops dancing, and the people holding the floor together never stop moving either." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the runners, response teams, and floater crews—the unsung ground ops getting dumped on by the job, and cleaning up the literal crap so the party never stops. I’m not even going to start listing the things you deal with. I’ve seen it. I’ve smelled it. That’s enough. You’re the ones keeping the party from becoming a biohazard, one quiet, necessary fix at a time.\n\nAppreciating you doesn’t magically make your job easier, but it’s the least I can do besides… y’know… not making it worse. At least now you’ve got a work song for the shift.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ground-ops-dmp.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/2iRNVEnfznd4wu6kK2HIe5", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXLFrlFTJy0", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=wXLFrlFTJy0", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0G2VZTTPM", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/ground-ops-dmp-night-pit-crew/1855218274", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/ground-ops-dmp-night-pit-crew", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-ground-opsdmp-night-pit-crew-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Ground_Ops-dmp-Night-Pit-Crew", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/07241a08-a1f7-4794-af48-c3a31b66748a" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:24:43", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ground-ops-dmp.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 2018, "urlSlug": "vitals-stable-rpt", "title": "Vitals_Stable.rpt", "subtitle": "Boredom Is Victory", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/vitals-stable-rpt.html", "album": { "id": 2, "title": "Festival", "tagline": "Further Complications", "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "upc": "821520573429" }, "trackNumber": 18, "releaseDate": "2026-02-13", "durationSeconds": 384, "durationDisplay": "6:24", "durationIso8601": "PT6M24S", "bpm": "125", "camelotKey": "6B", "leadProducer": "Loopette", "genres": [ "ambient trance", "progressive house" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZES52683247", "upc": "821520573429", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/34db7f25-9256-4145-a4b5-3f4f67a41ce8" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "03:27", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Central Ops", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Medical Tent", "narrativeShort": "While everyone at the stages celebrates an exciting night, a crew in the med tent celebrate a boring night. 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So she stripped everything back: no zany textures, no playful glitch, just steady ambient trance and room to breathe. She let the pads sit wide and the pulse stay calm, because in her mind the real drop wasn’t a kick—it was a quiet log that read “minor” and an ambulance that never had to start. For once, she didn’t stitch chaos into harmony. She left it alone, and called that beautiful." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the med tent crews, EMTs, nurses, and on-call docs who spend the night hoping to be bored—and staying ready for when it doesn’t go that way. You’re the steady hands behind the noise: the ones who notice when someone’s not okay, who keep your voice calm when everyone else is spiraling, who treat strangers like people instead of problems.\n\nMost of the crowd will never see you, and that’s the best-case scenario. 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Working with Sam felt like collaborating with a metronome in a red suit—every rule stated, every frown measured—yet somewhere between the respectable synths and the ridiculous majesty, Dial found himself enjoying it more than he would ever admit. Patch, notably, remained very quiet during this session. And for once, the universe received no formal complaints." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me. I made this one because I liked the sound of it. That’s the whole reason. 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The result isn’t a producer flex so much as a successful collaboration with a force of nature: Philter holds the frame, Pepe fills it, and the crowd learns very quickly that resisting is optional but dancing is not." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because every once in a while I need to remember that joy is a valid workflow. No lesson. 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Clipboards appear, wires multiply, and the lab assistant with the red tie and permanent panic is volunteered for “controlled chaos” in the name of science. Every squeal becomes data, every misfire becomes a feature—until one button press briefly folds reality into neon haze and the experiment is triumphantly logged as working as intended.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "Loopette took the lead on this one because she could hear what Beaker was feeling underneath all the sparks. The brief was breakbeat, electro, glitch hop—sharp edges, popping transients, beautiful malfunctions—but she felt a quiet responsibility to make sure the chaos didn’t turn cruel. As Bunsen gleefully documented every squeal and misstep, Loopette softened the glitch just enough to let Beaker’s panic become rhythm instead of pain, tuning shrieks into percussion and clicks into something almost playful. She treated the lab like a padded room for bad ideas: still buzzing, still popping, but held together by a gentle melodic spine so the joke stays kind. In the end, it’s still a spectacular mess—but one where Beaker survives, the atoms mingle, and the malfunction feels more joyful than dangerous." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because I still love music. I still love dancing. 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A crooked red tie leans over the deck, and suddenly the nervous syllables get routed into rhythm—fear sidechained to the kick, stutters sliced into hooks, squeaks transformed into full sentences at 190 BPM. What starts as a glitchy coping mechanism becomes a revelation: the lab assistant wasn’t silent… he was just waiting for a system that could translate him.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "Patch took the lead on More Than Meep because if Beaker was going to find his voice, it needed to hit at 190 BPM. He built the track as a full-tilt j-core / speedcore surge—kicks relentless, snares snapping, energy high enough to turn anxiety into propulsion—but the emotional groundwork came from Loopette, who helped Beaker realize the deck and MPC could function as a vocal prosthesis instead of a panic trigger. Together they mapped his “meeps” to pads, sliced them into leads, pitched fear into melody, and routed stutter into rhythm until the squeak stopped being a joke and became a statement. Patch amplified it without irony, letting every chopped syllable punch through the mix like a declaration: not background noise, not comic relief—just Beaker, finally speaking in the only language that ever felt natural to him." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the introverts, the non-verbals, the selective talkers, the overwhelmed, and the ones who learned to speak through machines—samplers, sequencers, chat boxes, MIDI, emojis, patches, and perfectly timed silence. Not because you’re a quirky subplot, but because you’re proof that communication isn’t one shape. Sometimes a sidechain says more than a speech. Sometimes a loop is a sentence. 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A small green presence steps forward—steady hands, steady heart—and lifts the tempo without losing the warmth. Pads bloom, kicks stay patient, and a chorus about belonging carries from barricade to back rail. The message is simple: no one stands alone under these lights.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "Aria took the lead on Green Lights Over Mainstage because she wanted Kermit’s “small voice on a giant stage” to feel honest—not heroic, not ironic, just real. She built it like a community anthem with gentle hands: uplifting/progressive trance lift, singalong drops, and enough space in the verses for that nervous mic-tap to land like a confession instead of a performance. In the booth, Aria kept reminding everyone that the hook wasn’t “mainstage energy,” it was belonging—so the synths rise like string lights, the chants are written for shy people as much as loud ones, and the drop isn’t a flex so much as a shared exhale. By the final mix, it felt like the whole field was holding Kermit up, and Aria was quietly proud because that’s exactly what she was trying to produce: a crowd that sounds like home." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because I wanted a song that feels good in my headphones at 1 a.m. No grand meaning, no moral, no homework.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/green-lights-over-mainstage.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/5shbSGkkAEgn6RmNkYFeRq", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thxAoTccE0A", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=thxAoTccE0A", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/green-lights-over-mainstage/1879781361", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/green-lights-over-mainstage", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-green-lights-over-mainstage-lyrics", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/ec1537e2-938d-4dc9-ad0d-f81e569cbf23" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:26:38", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/green-lights-over-mainstage.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 3007, "urlSlug": "back-on-wax", "title": "Back on Wax", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/back-on-wax.html", "album": { "id": 3, "title": "Cameos", "tagline": "A Backstage Detour", "releaseDate": "2026-03-20", "upc": "821311359294" }, "trackNumber": 7, "releaseDate": "2025-03-20", "durationSeconds": 231, "durationDisplay": "3:51", "durationIso8601": "PT3M51S", "bpm": "95", "bpmSpotify": 95, "camelotKey": "10A", "leadProducer": "Faderghost", "genres": [ "boom bap", "electronic", "trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZMEN2643763", "upc": "821311359294", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/e2d11aeb-b07f-49df-9942-6f4a7896ccba" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "19:10", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Default Configuration", "narrativeShort": "The festival’s livestream ringmaster sneaks five minutes from the comment storm to flex on the decks—backspins, cuts, and warped trance—before record-stopping back into duty.", "narrativeFull": "The festival’s online ringmaster finally steals five minutes away from the comment storm and the livestream dashboard to remind everyone he didn’t get famous for being responsible. 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Drawing from his own punk-roadie instincts, Faderghost leaned into texture: dirty breaks, weighty kicks, scratches left imperfect on purpose, giving Gonzo space to steal the room the old-fashioned way. The whole session felt less like a feature and more like a jailbreak—five stolen minutes where the turntables weren’t content, they were identity—and by the time the radio crackled “REPORT,” Faderghost was already grinning. Sometimes the best production choice isn’t polish. It’s letting someone prove they still deserve their name." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because I’m allowed to make “just a banger” for the fun of it. 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He doesn’t give a speech—he just sits up, straightens the tie, and lets the sax do all the talking while the kick ducks politely underneath. Swing snaps into house, brass rides the sidechain, and the whole speakeasy shifts from “afterthought” to “main event” the moment that first bent note lands.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "Loopette led Zoot in the Back Room because she understands restraint—and she knew Zoot didn’t need clutter, he needed space. Instead of overproducing the electro-swing angle, she built the track like a dimly lit room: kick ducking politely under brass, upright walking just enough, subline creeping instead of stomping. She treated the sax like a lead vocal you don’t interrupt—sidechaining the groove so every bent note could breathe, every drag in the pocket could feel intentional. Loopette’s touch kept it intimate and warm, letting the swing wobble just slightly imperfect on purpose. By the time Zoot leaned into that one long, crooked note, the whole mix tilted toward him—and she smiled behind the glass, because sometimes the most powerful production move is knowing exactly when not to speak." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me. 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What looks like cleanup duty doubles as crate-digging hustle—every dropped chant, every crowd shout pocketed for later flips. Quick paws, quicker punchlines, and a bassline that refuses to leave scraps behind. By the final reload, the floor’s spotless and the bins are full of bangers.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "If Any Color Low End was Aria stepping into the pocket, Rats in Hi-Vis Selecta was Philter stepping back into his natural habitat. The second Rizzo pitched the idea—UK garage swing, bassline snap, speed-garage bounce built around the cleanup crew—Philter was already barefoot in the booth mapping the groove like a floor plan. He treated every sweep, spill, and squeak as rhythmic data, tightening the drums so they shuffled instead of stomped and letting the subline feel like it was gliding between cones in a mosh pit. Rizzo brought the swagger; Philter brought the balance—making sure the chaos never tipped, the two-step never tripped, and the low end stayed plush even when the lyrics were about mud and crumbs. Behind the glass he just nodded, because to him this wasn’t novelty—it was proof that maintenance has rhythm, night shifts have swing, and sometimes the cleanest mix in the festival comes from the dirtiest job on site." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because some songs are for the world, and some songs are for keeping myself sane. 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The jokes miss on purpose—the bass never does. By the third break, even the groaners are dancing.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "Riff volunteered for this one immediately because she knew two things: disco house can survive almost anything, and Fozzie absolutely cannot be told “no.” She built the track like a glittered safety net—funky basslines, punchy breaks, and drops timed perfectly to rescue jokes mid-flop. Instead of fighting the “waka-waka,” she doubled down and matched it with tight record scratches—“wika-wika”—turning the punchline into percussion and the scratch into a rimshot with swagger. Every boo became pre-drop tension, every awkward pause a build. Behind the glass she kept one hand on the filter, ready to slam the bass back in the second a joke hit the floor. 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The drummer answers—never with words. Each shout gets a snare crack, a tom roll, a full-kit explosion. Jungle tempos meet primal instinct as sticks blur and cymbals scream. It’s less conversation, more controlled detonation. By the reload, the crowd isn’t chanting—they’re bracing.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "Philter insists this track only exists because he stopped trying to control it. “You don’t direct Animal,” he said later, laughing. “You point him at the drums and survive.” The idea was simple—an MC calls, Animal answers—but in practice it meant Philter building a groove sturdy enough to absorb whatever rhythmic explosion came back across the kit. “The trick wasn’t tightening him up,” Philter explained, “it was leaving space so the crash could be the punchline.” Every break was shaped like a question mark, every drop built to give Animal room to detonate. “Most drummers follow the groove,” he added. “Animal hunts it. My job was just to keep the floor steady while the conversation got louder.”" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because I didn’t write a message, I wrote a mood. 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A lead hen calls the steps—left, right, spin, stomp—each cue harder and faster than the last. What starts like a dance craze mutates into a professional endurance test. If you can keep up, you’re certified. If not… observe from a safe distance.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track * Advanced Choreography Only*", "producerNote": "Riff thought she was producing a schranz / hardstyle track. Camilla thought she was staging a war drill. Within ten minutes it was clear who was actually in charge. Camilla barely commented on sound design—but she had sixteen-count combinations mapped before the first kick was finalized, demanding specific BPM ranges, exact drop lengths, and clean, unforgiving transients because “we land on that.” Riff leaned into it, tightening the kick until it felt like a metronome with teeth, carving space so every stomp, neck snap, and talon pivot would read from the back rail. The half-time bridge wasn’t for vibe—it was for breath control before the burst. By the final render, Riff admitted something rare: this wasn’t a dance track with choreography added. It was choreography that forced the music to become sharper, faster, cleaner. Camilla didn’t produce the song—but she absolutely engineered the pressure." }, "dedication": "I know I said this album was avoiding dedications, but I’m cheating—again. This one is for the dancers, hype crews, stage teams, flag squads, mascots, and everyone whose job is “just be eye candy” for a bigger name on the poster. Again.\n\nYou’re not set dressing. You’re athletes, storytellers, and energy generators—holding choreography, timing, facial expressions, and crowd connection all at once while making it look effortless. For every rehearsal in an empty hall, every bruise covered in makeup, every night you hit your marks so someone else can look iconic on camera: feathers up, heads high. You’re part of the show, not the wallpaper.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/camillas-clockwork-cluck-crew.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/4ePKbwQ7LffRwzpIzXg28v", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8wwFWU0vs", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=GT8wwFWU0vs", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0GP9TK2K7", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/camillas-clockwork-cluck-crew/1879369993", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/camillas-clockwork-cluck-crew", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-camillas-clockwork-cluck-crew-lyrics", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/Camilla-s-Clockwork-Cluck-Crew", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/d1fa9ec9-c4ad-47f0-bbd0-bad48a780269" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:26:51", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/camillas-clockwork-cluck-crew.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 3015, "urlSlug": "runway-runaway", "title": "Runway Runaway", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/runway-runaway.html", "album": { "id": 3, "title": "Cameos", "tagline": "A Backstage Detour", "releaseDate": "2026-03-20", "upc": "821311359294" }, "trackNumber": 15, "releaseDate": "2026-02-15", "durationSeconds": 156, "durationDisplay": "2:36", "durationIso8601": "PT2M36S", "bpm": "128", "bpmSpotify": 128, "camelotKey": "12B", "leadProducer": "Nova", "genres": [ "big room", "deep", "edm", "electro", "pop" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZK6J2661941", "upc": "821406416420", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/62a82dd9-0639-4f19-89e8-ded72291cd55" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "23:53", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Runway Configuration", "narrativeShort": "With the system rebooted, the Diva refuses to clear the deck—turning the stage into a catwalk where every drop is a heel-click and every lighting cue an accessory.", "narrativeFull": "With the system rebooted and every camera still blinking, The Diva refuses to clear the deck—she turns the runway into a victory lap and treats lighting cues like accessories. A full-send strut set where the drop is a heel-click, the pyro is punctuation, and the festival briefly becomes her catwalk by force of will.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "After Diva-DDoS Devastation, Miss Piggy didn’t want a cool-down—she wanted momentum. She was thrilled with the “devastation” Nova delivered, so she kept Nova in the captain’s chair and demanded the follow-up be pure runway adrenaline: tighter, shinier, and even more obedient to the catwalk. Nova treated it like an AV cue stack disguised as a banger—spotlight hits as percussion, flashbulbs as accents, drops timed to heel-clicks and hair flips—so every “HI-YA!” lands like a pose and a punch. Piggy handled the attitude and command; Nova built the machine that makes the crowd mirror it. The result is a back-to-back mainstage flex where the runway doesn’t just sit on top of the beat—the beat chases it." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because I never stopped loving the drop, the sway, the stupid little grin when the kick lands right. Not every joy needs a justification.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/runway-runaway.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/2XsQgLsv76jYR5gH0z4X72", "youtubeVideo": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_DARv_C-O8", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/runway-runaway/1879781359", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/runway-runaway", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-runway-runaway-lyrics", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/62a82dd9-0639-4f19-89e8-ded72291cd55" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:26:11", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/runway-runaway.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 3016, "urlSlug": "bork-bork-boom", "title": "Børk Børk Bøøm", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/bork-bork-boom.html", "album": { "id": 3, "title": "Cameos", "tagline": "A Backstage Detour", "releaseDate": "2026-03-20", "upc": "821311359294" }, "trackNumber": 16, "releaseDate": "2026-02-02", "durationSeconds": 179, "durationDisplay": "2:59", "durationIso8601": "PT2M59S", "bpm": "128", "bpmSpotify": 129, "camelotKey": "10B", "leadProducer": "Patch", "genres": [ "dutch house" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZHN92655490", "upc": "821451473232", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/2d070f89-4663-458b-bf07-ca09c224c544" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "01:10", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Stage C", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Kitchen Configuration", "narrativeShort": "The chef ignores the brief entirely—Dutch house kicks bounce while ladles fly and rubber poultry squeaks, leaving organizers confused, translators unemployed, and the dancefloor somehow packed.", "narrativeFull": "At this point, we have accepted that he will not read the brief. The kicks bounce, the ladles fly, and the syllables remain confidently untranslated. Dutch house arrives by way of cookware and rubber poultry, and somehow the floor stays full. We have filed the paperwork. He has ignored it. The crowd approves.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track * No Translations*", "producerNote": "After surviving their first collaboration, Patch should have known better than to give the Swedish Chef a microphone again—but the moment Chef walked into the booth with a rubber chicken and a saucepan full of drumsticks (the musical kind and the poultry kind), the session was already lost. Patch leaned all the way in: every børk, squaaak, and pan clang got sampled, sliced, and turned into percussion until the track basically became a kitchen operating at festival volume. The rule quickly became “if it makes noise, it’s an instrument,” which meant ladles became hi-hats, skillet hits became snares, and Chef’s completely untranslated gibberish somehow locked perfectly to the groove. Patch handled the structure just enough to keep the pot from boiling over entirely—but the real magic was realizing the Chef’s chaotic nonsense already had rhythm hiding inside it. The result is a track that sounds like a rave breaking out in a restaurant kitchen, with Patch trying (and failing) to keep the recipe under control while the Swedish Chef proudly shouts the only lyrics he knows: “BØRK BØRK BØØM.” 🐔🥁" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to me—because I’m not always trying to say something. Sometimes I’m just trying to feel something—and that’s plenty.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/bork-bork-boom.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/7kdB56ncffjDX189p3ClNm", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1rnAjhdSaY", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=e1rnAjhdSaY", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/b%C3%B8rk-b%C3%B8rk-boom/1879781360", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/b-rk-b-rk-boom", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-brk-brk-boom-lyrics", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/2d070f89-4663-458b-bf07-ca09c224c544" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:26:24", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/bork-bork-boom.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 3017, "urlSlug": "a-soft-reset", "title": "A Soft Reset", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/a-soft-reset.html", "album": { "id": 3, "title": "Cameos", "tagline": "A Backstage Detour", "releaseDate": "2026-03-20", "upc": "821311359294" }, "trackNumber": 17, "releaseDate": "1/29/2026", "durationSeconds": 319, "durationDisplay": "5:19", "durationIso8601": "PT5M19S", "bpm": "86", "bpmSpotify": 172, "camelotKey": "11A", "leadProducer": "Aria", "genres": [ "chill dub", "downtempo", "psybient" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZHN82663421", "upc": "821311359294", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/a18f13c6-e544-4c93-892b-c4942422ea74" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "01:40", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Central Ops", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Sanctuary Tent", "narrativeShort": "As the strobes fade, warm pads and slow pulses invite the overwhelmed to sit, breathe, and reset—reminding the festival that not every drop needs to land loudly.", "narrativeFull": "The strobes dim. The tempo exhales. A gentle voice drifts over warm pads and slow pulses, inviting anyone who needs it to sit, sip water, and breathe. Glitter fades into soft light; the bass becomes a heartbeat instead of a demand. Not every drop is loud—some are meant to land quietly.", "narrativeNote": "*Cameo Track", "producerNote": "Not every track at Feltware Festival is meant for the mainstage, and Janice was very clear about that from the start. She didn’t want a drop, a buildup, or anything that would pull people back into the frenzy outside—she just wanted something slow, warm, and steady for the Zendo Sanctuary Tent while she helped people ride out the occasional festival brain spiral. Aria immediately understood the assignment. Instead of writing a “song,” the two treated it like emotional infrastructure: low-BPM psybient pads that breathe like lungs, a sub that sits where a resting heartbeat should, and space left intentionally empty so Janice’s calm, grounded voice could guide people back to themselves. The brief glitch moment in the bridge was even intentional—Aria’s idea to mimic the sudden spike of anxious thoughts before letting the track settle again, giving Janice a moment to gently call it out and defuse it. The result isn’t a banger; it’s a quiet piece of care hidden inside a festival built on noise—a little room where the music slows down long enough for people to remember they’re okay." }, "dedication": "I know, I know—two songs for the same group. I’m not even pretending to be consistent anymore.\n\nDedicated to DanceSafe, the Zendo Project and all the vibe guardians (official or otherwise). To the volunteers, peers, and staff who spend their nights sitting with scared, overloaded people and helping them come back to earth without judgment.\n\nYou’re the emotional paramedics and calm anchors of the party… the soft places where people can be honest, breathe, drink some water, and land safely. This song is a little love letter to the care you give: no panic, no punishment, just presence. Thank you for keeping festivals kinder and safer from the inside out.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/a-soft-reset.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/6CIVE1WiAcy9tKR4hmKL5W", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UqzkA6S7u8", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=6UqzkA6S7u8", "amazon": "https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0GKZTGMCK", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/a-soft-reset/1879781644", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/a-soft-reset", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-a-soft-reset-lyrics", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/a18f13c6-e544-4c93-892b-c4942422ea74" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-20 18:29:51", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/a-soft-reset.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 3018, "urlSlug": "cameo-parade-alt", "title": "Cameo Parade", "subtitle": "Alternate Version", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cameo-parade-alt.html", "album": { "id": 3, "title": "Cameos", "tagline": "A Backstage Detour", "releaseDate": "2026-03-20", "upc": "821311359294" }, "trackNumber": 18, "releaseDate": "2025-03-20", "durationSeconds": 214, "durationDisplay": "3:34", "durationIso8601": "PT3M34S", "bpm": "170", "bpmSpotify": 170, "camelotKey": "4A", "leadProducer": "Aria", "genres": [ "happy hardcore", "hardstyle" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZMEN2643765", "upc": "821311359294", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/8dc9e6e2-ab47-4fe8-9343-6b0ce6212b3c" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "17:11", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuation", "secondaryDetail": "Control Core Configuration", "narrativeShort": "A communal hardstyle roll call where every cameo in Feltware City gets their moment in the light.", "narrativeFull": "A sunrise roll call for Feltware City. Aria’s version stacks voices like lanterns—every cameo, every side-stage hero, every wild guest slot stitched into one communal hardstyle lift. It’s less about spectacle and more about belonging: a full-crowd chant that turns the entire festival into a living organism shouting “we’ve got” together until the sun shows up to clock in.", "narrativeNote": "*We're not actually sure which version will play, but we'll find out!", "producerNote": "Aria wrote the first version as a roll call of the whole city—a love letter to every cameo, every strange little guest slot that keeps the festival alive. She wanted it to feel like the crowd itself was doing the counting, like everyone in the room was part of the same stitched-together organism. The “we’ve got” hook was intentional: it wasn’t about spectacle, it was about belonging. When the room hit that final chorus, Aria wasn’t thinking about peak pressure—she was thinking about arms around shoulders." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the guy at the gas station. That energy drink he sells me is the reason this project is getting finished. He fuels the guy making the dedications. That means he’s basically Stagehand Zero. No spotlight, all impact.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cameo-parade-alt.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/59jCzB3Jl8iRA5QXcMfM2r", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/cameo-parade-alternate-version/1879781645", "bandcamp": "https://bobku.bandcamp.com/track/cameo-parade-alternate-version", "genius": "https://genius.com/Bobku-cameo-parade-alternate-version-lyrics", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/8dc9e6e2-ab47-4fe8-9343-6b0ce6212b3c" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-21 02:07:29", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/cameo-parade-alt.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4001, "urlSlug": "feltware-2-3", "title": "FELTWARE v2.3", "subtitle": "Dance Mode On", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-2-3.html", "album": { "id": 4, "title": "Unscheduled Performance", "tagline": "By Special Request", "releaseDate": "2026-02-27", "upc": "825486022779" }, "trackNumber": 1, "releaseDate": "2026-02-27", "durationSeconds": 242, "durationDisplay": "4:02", "durationIso8601": "PT4M2S", "bpmSpotify": 156, "camelotKey": "1B", "leadProducer": "Riff", "genres": [ "eurodance", "hardstyle" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZNWR2677898", "upc": "825486022779" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "02:37", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Control Core Configuration", "narrativeShort": "After the rig “wakes up” on its own, the crew simply plays along—one more Control Core anthem while the schedule quietly agrees to sort itself out later.", "narrativeFull": "Nobody argues with a rig that boots itself. After the console “decides” it isn’t done, the crew does what crews always do: they stop asking why and start making it safe. Someone rides the faders like they’re calming a living animal, someone else throws a look at the schedule like it can explain itself later, and the Control Core leans into the moment—one more clean load, one more locked tempo, one more song the festival seems to be requesting by name. If the night wants Dance Mode, Ops will… note it for post-mortem.", "producerNote": "Riff treated this song like a mass-activation anthem—something halfway between a Eurodance love letter and a hardstyle ignition switch. She wanted the chorus to feel like the whole sky tipping open, so she borrowed one of Loopette’s favorite harmonic tricks: a Lydian #4 lift that makes the hook feel brighter, stranger, and bigger than the chords underneath have any right to be. Between the duet, the gang-shout hook, and that little harmonic flash of “upward,” the whole track was designed to flip the crowd from self-conscious to fully committed. To Riff, that was the mission: not just getting people to dance, but making them feel like they’d been switched on together." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the listeners. I know, I know—very original. After all the effort to shine a light everywhere else, it feels almost backwards to end up here. But the truth is, an idea by itself doesn’t go very far.\n\nIt needs someone to hear it, to carry it, to give it a moment of their day. Without that, it’s just noise in storage. So even if it sounds obvious, this is for the people who chose to listen—and in doing so, gave this whole thing a reason to exist.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-2-3.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0MP9zwWaveWYXdn1Wdxvff", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG3JbE4qQ2g", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=zG3JbE4qQ2g", "amazon": "https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0GQNS9P9P" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-21 02:08:24", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/feltware-2-3.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4013, "urlSlug": "dance-and-crew", "title": "The Dance & The Crew", "subtitle": "Built for You", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/dance-and-crew.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "trackNumber": 1, "releaseDate": "2026-04-17", "durationSeconds": 205, "durationDisplay": "3:25", "durationIso8601": "PT3M25S", "bpm": "139", "bpmSpotify": 139, "camelotKey": "4B", "leadProducer": "Bobku", "genres": [ "big room", "big-room house", "festival anthem" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZTB82670453", "upc": "825583608142", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/2ecf0de1-f45e-4801-88a2-86a14970c0be" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "16:04", "primaryType": "Location", "primaryDetail": "Main Stage · Stage B · Stage C", "secondaryType": "Configuration", "secondaryDetail": "Simulcast", "narrativeShort": "A festival-wide simulcast “thank you” ritual—an organizer’s call for the crowd to honor the crew before the night fully ignites.", "narrativeFull": "A second after the anthem, the festival pauses on purpose. Every stage locks to the same heartbeat and a message rolls across the grounds like an organizer’s note—simple, ceremonial, non-negotiable: before we disappear into the night, we acknowledge the people who made it possible. Not the names on the posters, but the hands that built the site, keep it safe, keep it powered, and keep it beautiful. The track functions like a call-and-response blessing for the whole field: a shared moment of gratitude that turns the crowd into a single choir, then releases everyone back into the rave with the feeling that this place is being held together—by real people—right now.", "producerNote": "This song is my little baby unicorn. I’ve been taking care of it for years, and I think it might finally be ready to face the world. I know you’re supposed to play it cool and act like it doesn’t matter whether a song breaks out or not, but I’ll be honest about this one: it always mattered. It was always my dream to write a festival ritual song — one of those tracks that gets played across the major festivals, right after the opening anthem, while people are still walking in and the whole site is waking up. In my head, this was the second song of the day: the one that rolls across every field just long enough for everyone to nod toward the crews still doing last-minute checks and quietly hoping nothing too big goes wrong." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the crew—and to you, if any of these dedications ever made you look up from the drop long enough to notice the hands holding the night together. If you saw a stagehand moving at a sprint, a medic watching quietly from the edge, a security guard de-escalating with patience, a lighting tech painting the air, a bartender surviving the rush, or anybody else doing invisible work—and gave them a nod, a thank you, or even just a second of real recognition—then this one is for you too.\n\nBecause that was the whole point. Not just to write about the unseen labor, but to widen the spotlight by even an inch. A festival is more than the names on the poster. It’s built out of passing effort, shared care, and a thousand people doing their job well enough that the magic looks effortless. So this is the final bow: to the crew who made the night, and to the people in the crowd who chose to see them. Love the dance. Thank the crew.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/dance-and-crew.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZEe6VzmfmOXvn042I8SNK", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAoe9v_j_d8", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=tAoe9v_j_d8", "amazon": "https://amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0GW14G4NP", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/the-dance-the-crew-built-for-you/1890834926", "soundcloud": "https://soundcloud.com/bobku85/the-dance-the-crew-built-for", "musixmatch": "https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Bobku/The-Dance-The-Crew-Built-For-You", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/2ecf0de1-f45e-4801-88a2-86a14970c0be" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-02 03:09:38", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/dance-and-crew.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4008, "urlSlug": "bass-and-barricades", "title": "Bass & Barricades", "subtitle": "Boo the Dragon", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/bass-and-barricades.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "durationSeconds": 271, "durationDisplay": "4:31", "durationIso8601": "PT4M31S", "leadProducer": "Dial", "genres": [ "dub", "ebm", "industrial techno" ], "festival": { "narrativeFull": "*Song still being developed*", "producerNote": "*Song still being developed*" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the safety compliance officers, inspectors, clipboard legends, and “hi, quick question…” professionals—the ones nobody cheers for and everyone secretly needs. The crowd thinks you’re here to kill the vibe, the crew thinks you’re here to kill the schedule, and you’re just here to kill the part where someone gets hurt and the whole festival becomes a cautionary tale.\n\nSo yeah, you’re going to get grumbled at. You’re going to get called a narc by someone wearing glitter and a hydration pack. But you’re still part of the crew—the unglamorous co-author of every night that ends with “that was amazing” instead of “that was a lawsuit.” This track is a little nod to the people who say “no” so the rest of us can keep saying “again.”", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/bass-and-barricades.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-07 02:34:34", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/bass-and-barricades.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4004, "urlSlug": "ops-and-warden", "title": "Ops & The Warden", "subtitle": "Yes But Yes", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ops-and-warden.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "genres": [ "acid house", "tech house" ], "festival": { "narrativeFull": "Song still being developed", "producerNote": "*Song still being developed*" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the fire wardens, safety officers, and ops-tower night owls—the ones watching the whole festival from a little room full of radios, weather maps, and blinking LEDs. While we’re losing our minds at the drop, you’re tracking crowd density, and “how close is too close” on a dozen different dashboards. You’re the ones who know exactly how fragile this whole thing is, who carry the weight of being the person that might have to say, “That’s it. We’re done. Shut it down,” and then live with everyone’s anger so everyone else can live, period.\n\nFrom the field, it’s easy to see you as buzzkills and party cops. From the tower, you’re just people trying to make sure thousands of strangers get to walk back to their cars in one piece. So this track is for you: the unseen guardians in the box at the edge of the site, the ones who will absolutely get called a butt when you enforce the hard stop—and absolutely deserve to know that, underneath the grumbling, that insult is laced with gratitude. You’re the reason the “worst case” mostly stays on paper.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ops-and-warden.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-09 01:24:34", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ops-and-warden.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4017, "urlSlug": "paths-and-patience", "title": "Paths & Patience", "subtitle": "Make a Little Room", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/paths-and-patience.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "festival": { "narrativeFull": "Song still being developed", "producerNote": "Song still being developed" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the ADA support crews, accessibility coordinators, mobility teams, platform attendants, interpreters, cart drivers, and everyone doing the real work of making sure the festival is actually for everybody. Somewhere along the way, some people forget what PLUR is supposed to mean the second they hear “ADA,” like access is a special perk instead of the bare minimum for human dignity. You’re the ones pushing back against that—quietly, practically, and all night long—making routes work, making sightlines matter, making space where space should have existed in the first place.\n\nThis isn’t pity, and it’s not charity, and nobody deserves a medal for doing the right thing. It’s dignity. It’s belonging. It’s making sure more people get to feel the bass, see the lights, find their friends, and be part of the same shared night as everyone else. This track is for the people who make the festival live up to its own ideals—not with slogans, but with ramps, patience, radios, planning, and actual care.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/paths-and-patience.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-05-06 04:01:59", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/paths-and-patience.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4006, "urlSlug": "ravers-and-reviews", "title": "Ravers & Reviews", "subtitle": "Breaking News on the Dancefloor", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ravers-and-reviews.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "leadProducer": "Philter", "genres": [ "edm", "eurodance", "italo-disco", "synthpop" ], "festival": { "narrativeFull": "Song still being developed", "producerNote": "*Song still being developed*" }, "dedication": "Inspired by Bobby Lally. Dedicated to the press corps—the reviewers, writers, photographers, videographers, bloggers, zine kids, stringers, and local reporters trying to document something that was designed to disappear at sunrise. You’re out there with a plastic badge and dead phone battery, scribbling notes under lasers, translating bass and fog into sentences that make sense to people who weren’t there. You catch the sets that never get recorded, the openers who stole the night, the little scenes that don’t have budgets but do have heart. In ten years, when the flyer is faded and the links are broken, your words and photos are what’s left.\n\nAnd yeah—most of you don’t get the glamorous version of this job. You’re not always interviewing legends in a clean backstage lounge. You’re hauling gear through mud, trying to find a place to write where the Wi-Fi works, filing on deadline with your ears still ringing, and getting treated like background noise by people who want coverage but not critique. So this track is a nod to the 99% doing the unglamorous history work anyway—the ones who show up, pay attention, and tell the truth with care. Thanks for being the record keeper for everyone who couldn’t make it.\n\nAnd to the 1%… if you save me a spot—I’ll carry your gear.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ravers-and-reviews.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-09 01:24:11", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/ravers-and-reviews.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4007, "urlSlug": "sparkle-and-sponsors", "title": "Sparkle & Sponsors", "subtitle": "Champagne Assurance", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sparkle-and-sponsors.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "leadProducer": "Philter", "genres": [ "deep house", "lounge house", "trance" ], "festival": { "cueIn": "20:47", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Public Grounds", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "VIP Zone", "narrativeShort": "A velvet-rope lounge trance where Johnny Fiama smooths sponsor panic into champagne shine—keeping the VIP room calm while the festival burns bright outside.", "narrativeFull": "Behind the rope, the night runs on reassurance. A velvet-voiced fixer turns noise complaints into “texture,” schedule slips into “mystery,” and sponsor anxiety into a toast—while his comms stay lit like a heartbeat. He doesn’t solve problems; he reframes them until Ops can.", "producerNote": "Philter took the lead on Sparkle & Sponsors because he immediately understood the job behind Johnny Fiama’s smile: not flashy heroics, just constant low-grade crisis filtration until the whole room still feels expensive. That made the lounge-house / deep-house brief feel perfect to him—warm sub, brushed hats, glossy chords, and trancey pads that could hold real pressure without ever looking rushed. He approached the track the same way Johnny works a VIP lounge: smooth the edges, keep the pocket elegant, and never let the panic arrive wearing its real name. What he loved most was the humanity under the polish—the idea that all this sponsor gloss and velvet-rope diplomacy is still, at its core, about protecting a fragile little bubble where people can feel special for a night. So even when the chorus lifts, it doesn’t sneer at the luxury; it treats it like another kind of service work, just done in cufflinks instead of work gloves." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to sponsor relations, VIP wranglers, partnership liaisons, and every “smile-through-it” professional working the festival floor. You’re the ones walking the sponsor village like it’s a diplomatic summit—making sure the branded lounge looks effortless, the photo ops happen on time, the right people feel seen, and nobody important has to notice the duct tape holding the world together behind the curtain. You speak fluent small talk with a headset on, translating chaos into calm: “Yes, absolutely—let me check on that,” while you’re already sprinting to fix it.\n\nAnd you carry a special kind of pressure: knowing that one poorly-timed tantrum can yank real money out of the whole machine, and somehow it still becomes your fault when it does. You’re the human shock absorber between ego and logistics, between “experience” and reality, between “everything is fine” and “please don’t pull the plug.” This track is for the ones who keep the patrons happy without selling out the soul—who hold the line so the lights stay on and the community still gets its night.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sparkle-and-sponsors.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-07 02:58:58", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sparkle-and-sponsors.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4016, "urlSlug": "lost-and-found", "title": "The Lost & The Found", "subtitle": "Return Channel", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/lost-and-found.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the lost & found crews, reunification teams, info-desk saints, and everyone working the strange little crossroads where panic gets turned back into relief. You’re the people sorting phones, wallets, keys, jackets, wristbands, inhalers, and the thousand tiny pieces of someone’s night that slipped loose in the dark. Half detective, half therapist, you take “I swear it was right here” and somehow turn it into “okay, let’s figure this out.”\n\nBut the real miracle isn’t just the stuff—it’s the people. The friends who got separated, the overwhelmed kid trying not to cry, the exhausted stranger who just needs one calm human and a place to start over. You’re the desk lamp glow in the chaos, building little islands of order inside a city designed to be loud and overwhelming. This track is for the ones who help missing things, missing plans, and missing people find their way home.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/lost-and-found.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-09 01:34:35", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/lost-and-found.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4003, "urlSlug": "thunder-and-drops", "title": "Thunder & The Drops", "subtitle": "Go - No Go", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/thunder-and-drops.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "durationSeconds": 295, "durationDisplay": "4:55", "durationIso8601": "PT4M55S", "bpm": "89", "leadProducer": "Phase", "genres": [ "cinematic", "dark ambient", "electronic" ], "festival": { "narrativeFull": "*Song still being developed*", "producerNote": "He took this one because weather holds are where a festival stops feeling like a party and starts feeling like judgment. Phase built it like a tower log with a pulse underneath it—half spoken, half sung, all tension management—letting the “GO / NO-GO” refrain do the work of a chorus while the pads, steel hum, and distant kick hold the field in suspension. What interested him wasn’t the storm itself so much as the people inside the pause: the Whatnot on watch, Bunsen doing math in his head, Ops holding their breath, everybody needing one small joke about a giant fan just to keep their hands steady. For Phase, that’s what made it cinematic: not lightning, but procedure under pressure, and the quiet faith that skill sometimes gets to keep the night." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the weather whisperers and storm-watch crews: the ops-tower meteorology nerds, radar wranglers, safety officers, and field spotters who spend the night staring at clouds instead of lasers. You’re the ones juggling wind speed, cell movement, lightning radius, and “how mad will everyone be if we call it?” on three different screens at once. Every “we’re good for now” and every “we have to shut this down” comes with a knot in your stomach and a silent prayer you’re wrong in the harmless direction.\n\nAnd to the spotters who get the call, “We think there might be lightning—can you go climb that giant metal pole with binoculars and double-check?” and somehow answer, “Yeah, sure.” You stand in the wind so the rest of us can stand in the crowd, taking on the burden of being the party’s least popular hero when the sky says nope. This track is for you—the people who pull the plug so we don’t get fried, who choose disappointment over disaster, and who let the rest of us keep pretending storms are just a cool backdrop instead of a hard boundary.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/thunder-and-drops.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-07 02:32:37", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/thunder-and-drops.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4002, "urlSlug": "diva-and-comet", "title": "The Diva & The Comet", "subtitle": "Make It Shine / Keep It Kind", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/diva-and-comet.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2025-12-27", "durationSeconds": 453, "durationDisplay": "7:33", "durationIso8601": "PT7M33S", "bpm": "140", "bpmSpotify": 140, "camelotKey": "2B", "leadProducer": "Loopette", "genres": [ "big-room house", "tech-trance", "trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QT6G92575663", "upc": "199938474127" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "18:06", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Central Ops", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Media Tent", "narrativeShort": "In Central Ops’ Media Tent, a spotlight-hungry diva and a daredevil feed-wrangler negotiate the night—make it shine, keep it kind.", "narrativeFull": "Three cameras are hot, the dashboard is full of stages and timestamps, and the night’s online mirror is already sharpening its knives. A runway-grade powerhouse storms the tent demanding her name pinned, the spotlight louder, and the trolls erased from existence; a cape-wearing high-wire poster knows rage multiplies, so he redirects the feed—gold clips, fan-cams, soft smiles, a better story in real time. They split the difference: she gets the moment, he keeps the room kind, and the festival’s digital sky stays lit without catching fire.", "producerNote": "Loopette took the lead on this one because, to her, the argument already had a soundtrack. Piggy’s side of the exchange arrived like big-room commands—bright, vertical, demanding to be seen—while Gonzo’s came through as steadier trance motion, all flow, threading, and emotional continuity. Because ideas and moods tend to register as sound in her head before they register as language, the whole collision made immediate musical sense to her. Her real job wasn’t choosing one over the other; it was keeping the big-room shine from swallowing the human pulse underneath it. So she let Piggy have the spotlight without letting Gonzo disappear inside it—stacking the chorus wide and glamorous, then keeping the trance engine underneath alive enough that the song still feels like a conversation, not a takeover. In Loopette’s hands, “make it shine” and “keep it kind” stopped being opposites and became the same hook." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the social media managers, community wranglers, and mods who live in the glow of comment sections so the rest of us don’t have to. You’re part therapist, part diplomat, part janitor with a delete key—mopping up bad takes, redirecting rage, coaxing shy joy into the light, and quietly steering whole fandoms away from cliffs. You write the captions that make chaos look intentional, translate “tonight was a nightmare” into “so grateful for this magical crowd,” and somehow remember to credit the openers, the crew, and the dog in the green room.\n\nAnd then there’s the most fragile equipment you protect: not the moving lights, not the LED wall, but the headliner’s ego. You’re the shield between them and the worst of the scroll, filtering out pure cruelty while letting enough reality through that they don’t float away. You remind them it’s okay to log off, talk them down from subtweeting a whole continent, and nudge them toward apologies when needed. This track is for you—the unseen psychologists and social engineers keeping the narrative (and a few nervous artists) from cracking under the weight of their own mentions.", "dedicationSourceDoc": "Track Dedications.docx", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/diva-and-comet.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-09 01:23:08", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/diva-and-comet.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4011, "urlSlug": "hustle-and-hope", "title": "Hustle & Hope", "subtitle": "Ten-Dollar Dreams", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/hustle-and-hope.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2026-02-08", "durationSeconds": 149, "durationDisplay": "2:29", "durationIso8601": "PT2M29S", "bpm": "145", "bpmSpotify": 145, "camelotKey": "3A", "leadProducer": "Nova", "genres": [ "baltimore club", "jersey club" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZK6P2607194", "upc": "821440125982" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "01:18", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Public Grounds", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Parking Lot", "narrativeShort": "In the festival parking lot at 1am, the perimeter economy hustles with laptops and blank lanyards—trying to turn static into signal before the battery dies.", "narrativeFull": "Beyond the gates, under floodlights and bass bleed, the unofficial workforce runs its own aftershow: laptops on low battery, blank lanyards worn like armor, and a chorus of “I can cut that fast” drifting between cars. It’s not glamour—it's rent, groceries, and a fragile maybe, pitched one handshake at a time. They call it spam; the lot calls it work: people trying to turn static into signal before the night ends.", "narrativeNote": "*Not affiliated with Feltware Festival staff or operations.", "producerNote": "Nova took this one because she knows the parking-lot ecosystem is part of the festival too—the freelancers, shooters, editors, brand-polishers, and maybe-managers trying to turn one conversation into next month’s rent. She built it as Jersey/Baltimore club on purpose: fast, clipped, restless, all forward motion and no cushion, like a dead-phone hustle with a red battery and a full pitch deck in your head. The staccato rhythm gave her a way to mirror the language of the grind—two clips, one hook, one shot, one maybe—while still treating the people in it with respect. To Nova, the song isn’t about “clout chasers.” It’s about all the half-visible creatives orbiting the lights, trying to become signal before the night packs up and drives away." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the “perimeter economy” around a festival—the people who aren’t on the bill and aren’t on payroll, but still show up trying to turn proximity into opportunity. Not villains. Just ambition with rent due. The ones walking the edge of the lights with a phone at two percent and a pitch they’ve practiced until it sounds casual: “two clips, one hook,” “one dance video,” “I’ll clean up your bio,” “I can get you seen.”\n\nThis track is for the micro-creators selling deliverables, the growth dealers selling reach (the real grinders and, yeah, the ones reaching a little too far), the connectors selling access, and the almost-crew selling commitment—time, sweat, presence—hoping it converts into a door that stays open. You’re part of the ecosystem nobody puts on the poster: the shadow marketplace of hope, hustle, and half-chances. You’re not background noise—you’re the sound of people trying.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/hustle-and-hope.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-21 02:08:48", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/hustle-and-hope.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4009, "urlSlug": "food-and-fame", "title": "Food & Fame", "subtitle": "The Great Equalizer", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/food-and-fame.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2026-02-27", "durationSeconds": 161, "durationDisplay": "2:41", "durationIso8601": "PT2M41S", "bpmSpotify": 122, "camelotKey": "12B", "leadProducer": "Aria", "genres": [ "electro-pop", "festival-pop" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZNWR2677899" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "20:58", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Catering", "narrativeShort": "In the Backlot Catering zone, headliners and crew share the same line and the same tray—forks up, egos down, back to showtime.", "narrativeFull": "For a few minutes, the entire hierarchy dissolves into one slow-moving queue: VIP wristbands, gaff-tape badges, riggers with dust on their shoes, and headliners in sunglasses all balancing the same trays. Gossip stays quiet, radios keep humming, and the only status that matters is “Food’s up.” Forks rise like a crew salute—because stomachs don’t care who’s on the poster.", "producerNote": "Aria fell in love with this one because the catering line felt like a tiny, accidental utopia hiding inside the festival—one of the only places where hierarchy softens, everybody’s holding the same tray, and the person on the poster stands shoulder to shoulder with the person who taped the stage together. That warmth shaped the whole production. Instead of pushing for something flashy or ironic, she built it bright, open, and friendly: sidechained pads that feel like shared breath, duet vocals that sound like people meeting in the middle, and stacked harmonies on “catering line” so the chorus lands less like a slogan and more like a communal smile. To Aria, the song wasn’t really about food at all—it was about those three quiet minutes when the whole machine remembers it’s made of people." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the catering crews—the cooks, servers, dish runners, coffee saviors, and back-of-house wizards running the one place at the festival where hierarchy actually breaks down. In that line, headliners, interns, stagehands, managers, and drivers all become the same creature: tired, hungry, and pretending they’re fine. You keep the trays full, the coffee flowing, and the vibe just human enough that people remember they have bodies.\n\nCatering is the great equalizer. It’s where egos get humbled by empty stomachs, where a “VIP” still has to wait their turn, and where the crew who carried the whole day finally gets something warm. This track is for the ones feeding the entire machine—quietly, constantly, and without applause—so the show can keep running like it has a soul.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/food-and-fame.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/0O1EPxogmLU5yPb77jlMGS", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOp7KB2zbX8", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=QOp7KB2zbX8" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-21 02:09:54", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/food-and-fame.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4005, "urlSlug": "roi-and-dream", "title": "The ROI & The Dream", "subtitle": "The Medici of the Rave", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/roi-and-dream.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2026-03-17", "durationSeconds": 323, "durationDisplay": "5:23", "durationIso8601": "PT5M23S", "bpm": "135", "bpmSpotify": 135, "camelotKey": "11A", "leadProducer": "Atlas", "genres": [ "detroit techno", "electro" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZTAS2683130", "upc": "825702941167" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "00:54", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Production Offices", "narrativeShort": "A Gregorian-trance hymn from the Production Office where JP Grosse holds the festival together—ledger, gates, risk, and resolve—until the night earns a final “Green.”", "narrativeFull": "Inside the Backlot Production Office, the festival’s primary financier becomes the calm nerve-center behind the chaos—monitoring gates, exits, comms collisions, POS failures, and weather/insurance pressure in real time. While the crowd hears bass, he hears risk: every “one more song” weighed against load, liability, and the fragile math that keeps the dream alive—until he whispers the only word that matters: “Green.”", "producerNote": "Atlas almost never takes the captain’s chair, but this one was too close to the bone to leave to anybody else. He wrote it as a cathedral for operations people—the ones holding gates, budgets, weather plans, sponsor calls, radio traffic, and risk assessments in the same shaking pair of hands while a thousand people outside just hear the bass and call it magic. Detroit techno gave him the machine pulse; the Gregorian chant gave the whole thing the weight he thinks that job deserves, because to Atlas, keeping the dream alive is a kind of sacred accounting. The bridge is the real confession: invoices behind the eyes, insurance down the neck, every cheer outside the tent arriving with a cost attached. But that’s why the last word is “Green.” Not because the pressure was imaginary—because the numbers trembled, the crowd stayed alive, and for one more night, the ledger and the dream both held." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the organizers, backers, and money-people—the ones who probably don’t care what the drop does to your spine, because you’re busy watching what it does to the budget. You’re counting tickets, deposits, insurance, permits, payroll, vendor splits, and the thousand invisible “if this goes wrong, we’re cooked” line items that nobody puts on a poster. You don’t get to live in the fantasy the way the crowd does—you have to make the fantasy survive contact with reality.\n\nAnd still… you’re funding the arts. Even when it’s messy, even when it’s risky, even when the numbers don’t behave. You’re paying for a temporary city where strangers get to become a community for a night—where a kid finds their first favorite song live, where someone meets their future best friend, where a whole field of people remembers they’re not alone. So this track is a nod to the ones holding the spreadsheet and the dream at the same time: if you’re going to care about the bottom line, thanks for also caring that the lights come on at all.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/roi-and-dream.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/1P9ucWCixu1jyRx9PHKA5K", "amazon": "https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B0GSYKJJFS", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/the-roi-the-dream-the-medici-of-the-rave/1886170177" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-03-22 21:37:30", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/roi-and-dream.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4015, "urlSlug": "steel-and-stitches", "title": "Steel & Stitches", "subtitle": "Changeover Gospel", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/steel-and-stitches.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2026-04-10", "durationSeconds": 278, "durationDisplay": "4:38", "durationIso8601": "PT4M38S", "bpm": "138", "bpmSpotify": 138, "camelotKey": "4A", "leadProducer": "Riff", "genres": [ "electro-breaks", "festival electronic", "tech trance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZTBE2635794", "musicbrainzRecordingUrl": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/0baee9e2-e5f2-40eb-9192-0a2ef2bd2f57" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "17:48", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Main Stage BOH", "narrativeShort": "During Main Stage changeover, the crowd hears a BOH “work gospel” as the crew sings the flip into existence and the night turns toward Golden Hour.", "narrativeFull": "(Main Stage changeover: Control Core → Golden Hour)\nAs Main Stage drops out of show mode and the changeover swarm moves in, the audience doesn’t get “dead air”—they get a glimpse behind the curtain. From the BOH corridor, a work-song rises through comms chatter and rolling cases: a stitched-together anthem for hands that tape, lift, patch, reset, and make miracles on a clock. The PA carries it out like a gift—part chant, part hymn—so the field can hear what usually stays hidden: the sacred rhythm of the flip, sung by the people doing it.", "producerNote": "Riff took the lead on this one because she’d spent enough time around rave culture to know the party only exists because a small army of invisible weirdos can rebuild a stage at a dead sprint. But the soul of the song came from Faderghost—specifically the old roadie stories about basement punk shows, bad load-ins, failing monitors, wet cables, and the kind of competence nobody applauds because if you’re doing it right, the crowd never notices it happened. She translated those stories into tech-trance pressure: rolling bass like wheels on concrete, electro-breaks drums snapping like road case latches, and harmonies that stay unresolved on purpose because changeovers never really get to relax. What she loved most was the gospel of it—the way stagehands joke, sweat, swear, and survive together in the dark while building someone else’s miracle. So even at its biggest, the track never turns polished or pretty; it stays gritty, heroic, and a little funny, because to Riff the real anthem wasn’t the headliner’s drop—it was hearing someone yell “deck clear” and knowing the whole night was still alive." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the grunts—the stagehands, roadies, loaders, push crews, deck teams, cable haulers, case-stackers, forklift dodgers, and “yeah, I can grab that” army at the bottom of the pyramid. The ones who build the stage, flip the room, move the impossible thing, find the missing thing, and somehow become responsible for every other thing the second it stops working. If a festival is a temporary city, you’re the people actually hauling the bricks.\n\nYou don’t get to specialize in just one miracle. You get all of them: fast, heavy, dirty, late, under-labeled, and somehow urgent. You’re the hands under the fantasy, the backs under the budget, the reason “we can still make this happen” is more than just a lie people tell on headsets. This track is for the massive invisible workforce carrying the whole pyramid on its shoulders. The show might have stars—but it runs on grunts.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/steel-and-stitches.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/6LweHkwlue29UibsMk3jXM", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9eP8R8GydE", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9eP8R8GydE", "apple": "https://music.apple.com/us/song/steel-stitches-changeover-gospel/1892616559", "musicbrainz": "https://musicbrainz.org/recording/0baee9e2-e5f2-40eb-9192-0a2ef2bd2f57" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-11 15:32:27", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/steel-and-stitches.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4010, "urlSlug": "chaos-and-curtain", "title": "The Chaos & The Curtain Call", "subtitle": "The Beautiful Wreck", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/chaos-and-curtain.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2026-04-10", "durationSeconds": 264, "durationDisplay": "4:24", "durationIso8601": "PT4M24S", "bpm": "130", "bpmSpotify": 130, "camelotKey": "2A", "leadProducer": "Aria", "genres": [ "dark symphonic edm", "gothic rock", "neo-classical" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZTBE2635793" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "03:14", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Main Stage BOH", "narrativeShort": "A 3AM backstage anthem for stage managers and show callers—turning the collapsing run sheet into a “beautiful wreck” that still makes curtain call.", "narrativeFull": "At the edge of the deck, where radios hiss and the run sheet starts bleeding time, the night becomes theater again. Cue lights blink like warnings, spike tape turns into scripture, and every missing prop is solved with gaff, nerve, and one more lie told politely to the clock. It’s the 3AM hymn for the callers and managers who keep the show standing when it’s cracked, overbooked, and somehow still alive—lights up on the beautiful wreck.", "producerNote": "Patch, trying to explain it afterward: Aria was impossible to interview on this one because she basically moved into the track and started haunting it. She kept saying she wanted something that felt like “the moment the chandeliers are still sparkling, but everyone knows the palace is already on fire,” which apparently translates to gothic rock colliding with dark symphonic EDM in a very serious, very beautiful way. She leaned all the way into that goth-meets-rainbows thing she does, except this time the rainbow got swallowed by cathedral choirs, baroque strings, overdriven guitars, and these huge female belts that sound like they’re trying to love something while it’s falling apart. Even the drop doesn’t feel like a party trick — it feels like a glamorous collapse timed perfectly to the beat. Honestly, I think she loved this one because it let her make ruin sound majestic instead of sad." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the stage managers, show callers, production managers, and everyone whose job is arguing with clocks. The ones holding the run-of-show in one hand and a radio in the other while the universe quietly decides the schedule was more of a suggestion than a plan. Because somewhere between a surprise speech, a fan invited on stage, a DJ deciding the crowd “needs one more,” and a headliner discovering storytelling, someone still has to make the rest of the night happen.\n\nYou’re the quiet mathematicians of chaos—turning a 60-minute slot into 70 minutes, then somehow compressing the next three sets back into reality before the curfew notice arrives. When the crowd sees a seamless night, it’s because you bent time, moved mountains, and politely convinced the clock to cooperate again.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/chaos-and-curtain.html", "spotify": "https://open.spotify.com/track/5bRqljSO04ioWU32Akg4ms", "youtubeSong": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jONfazMuNQ", "youtubeMusic": "https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=9jONfazMuNQ" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-10 20:33:28", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/chaos-and-curtain.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4014, "urlSlug": "pumps-and-panic", "title": "Pumps & Panic", "subtitle": "Honey Wagon Hotline", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/pumps-and-panic.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2026-05-08", "durationSeconds": 309, "durationDisplay": "5:09", "durationIso8601": "PT5M9S", "bpm": "128", "bpmSpotify": 127, "camelotKey": "5B", "leadProducer": "Faderghost", "genres": [ "acid breaks", "electro", "industrial dance" ], "identifiers": { "isrc": "QZWFJ2622455", "upc": "825406014990" }, "festival": { "cueIn": "00:01", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Dirty Haul Road", "narrativeShort": "At midnight on the Backlot Dirty Haul Road, diesel and radio calls become an acid-breaks sprint as honey wagons keep the festival’s “plastic city” from failing.", "narrativeFull": "Midnight hits and the glamour peaks—so the backlot hotline lights up. Diesel hum, blue beacon, gravel grind: operators run bent route sheets and twitching tank gauges while radios trade clipped “copy / on my way” behind the stages. Vacuum pumps thump in acid-breaks tempo as operators restock, rotate, and hold the line before it breaks. It’s containment as choreography—restock, rotate, hold the line—so the crowd never learns what “failure state” smells like.", "narrativeNote": "*Restricted service corridor — if you can smell it, you’re too close.", "producerNote": "Faderghost took this one because he’s spent enough years around shows to know there are jobs so essential people only notice them when they fail, and honey wagon crews might be the purest example. He built the track dirty on purpose—acid chewing at the edges, breaks stomping like boots on gravel, pump-motor rhythm baked into the low end—because the job itself is mechanical, urgent, thankless, and one radio call away from disaster. What got under his skin wasn’t just the filth; it was the dignity of it. The lyrics treat the worker like what he really is: not comic relief, not gross-out background texture, but the person holding the edge of the city together while everyone else chases lasers. For Faderghost, that bridge is the whole song—the moment where the worker steps into the light, gets looked through, and goes back to saving the night anyway." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the honey wagon operators, restroom crews, pump-out teams, and everyone doing the kind of sanitation work that is simply too horrible to commit to words. We all know enough. I don't need to share the details. What matters is this: while the rest of the festival pretends waste just vanishes by magic, you’re the ones making sure a temporary city doesn’t turn feral by midnight.\n\nAnd yeah, it’s rotten that sometimes nobody wants to sit next to you in the catering tent after a shift like that. That part sucks, and it’s unfair. This track is for the people carrying one of the roughest jobs on site with more grit than glamour, doing essential work that everybody depends on and almost nobody wants to think about. The party stays civilized because you do.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/pumps-and-panic.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-08 01:06:16", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/pumps-and-panic.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4012, "urlSlug": "sight-and-sound", "title": "Sight & The Sound", "subtitle": "On Cue", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sight-and-sound.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2026-06-05", "durationSeconds": 251, "durationDisplay": "4:11", "durationIso8601": "PT4M11S", "bpm": "140", "leadProducer": "Nova", "genres": [ "edm", "festival trance", "tech trance" ], "festival": { "cueIn": "20:32", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Backlot", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "Main Stage BOH", "narrativeShort": "Backstage at Main Stage, the Penguins run a timecode-perfect lighting cue stack that turns trance drops into pure visual impact—on cue, on time, every time.", "narrativeFull": "Behind the LED wall, four tuxedoed specialists run the night like a silent heist—headsets low, cue stack armed, timecode rolling. While the crowd watches the drop, they’re counting bars, holding frames, and firing lasers on the exact syllable of impact, turning rhythm into architecture. It’s a VFX-heavy set built from discipline: blackout to strobe, white to blue, flash to fade—proof that what you see can make what you hear hit harder", "producerNote": "Nova took the lead on this one because no one in the collective reveres lighting crews more than she does—but for once, she didn’t approach the subject as a spectacle-chaser. She treated it almost like a technical prayer: restrained, precise, and completely locked to the discipline of the people it honors. Instead of overloading the track with gimmicks, she built it with clean tech-trance mechanics—cue-stack vocals, laser-tight sequencing, gated synths that behave like programmed light, and drops that hit with the exact confidence of a crew that knows the show lands on “go,” not by accident. The bridge is the real tell on her: not flashy, just deeply sincere, spelling out the philosophy she’s always believed—that light doesn’t decorate sound, it rewrites how the brain receives it. For Nova, this wasn’t a chance to show off. It was a chance to salute the people who make music visible, and she handled it with more restraint than almost any other song she’s ever led." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the lighting designers, programmers, operators, followspot crews, rig techs, and everyone shaping what we see. You’re painting with photons—turning math, timing, and muscle memory into color, motion, and mood that hits before the music even has a chance. A huge part of our brain is wired for sight, and you speak directly to it: guiding attention, amplifying emotion, and making a drop feel bigger than sound alone ever could.\n\nMost people will never notice the cues, the palettes, the pixel maps, or the hours spent previsualizing a moment that lasts half a second. They just feel it—and that’s the point. This track is for the ones behind the console and up in the truss, turning darkness into meaning, making sure when the lights hit, they don’t just illuminate the show—they are the show.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sight-and-sound.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": true, "format": "plain", "updatedUtc": "2026-04-09 01:23:44", "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/sight-and-sound.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } }, { "id": 4018, "urlSlug": "line-and-laminates", "title": "Lines & Laminates", "subtitle": "Access Denied", "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/line-and-laminates.html", "album": { "id": 5, "title": "Untold", "tagline": "Stories You Never Heard Because You Heard the Music" }, "releaseDate": "2026-06-26", "leadProducer": "Dial", "festival": { "cueIn": "16:14", "primaryType": "Area", "primaryDetail": "Public Grounds", "secondaryType": "Location", "secondaryDetail": "West Ticketing Concourse", "narrativeShort": "At 16:14 in the East Ticketing Concourse, Marvin Suggs runs the only acceptable people-filter—stamps, scans, comps, and “Denied/Approved/Next” set to electro-swing breaks.", "narrativeFull": "At the elevated entry choke point, the festival meets its only culturally-approved tyrant: a fuzzy little clerk with a ledger, a scanner, and the power to turn “VIP” into “maybe” with one squint. While bass leaks through the ramp complex, he stamps, scans, and untangles wristband math—artist escorts, comps, cousins, and QR codes that swear they’re real.", "narrativeNote": "*Handwritten note: This is the one gatekeeper job you’re allowed to respect.", "producerNote": "Dial took the lead on this one because, to him, credentialing chaos already sounded like a beat: scanner blips, stamp hits, clipped denials, line tension, and the tiny mechanical panic of a system coughing at the gate. He built the track from that exact contradiction—electro-swing polish and acid-breaks momentum up front, then a darker bureaucratic grind underneath, where one typo can stall a thousand people and one fuzzy little gatekeeper can hold the whole fantasy in place. What amused him most was how danceable the stress became once it was properly arranged: brass stabs for the false confidence, rubbery 303 for the creeping dread, sidechained low end for the pressure of the line inching forward. In Dial’s hands, Marvin isn’t just comic relief—he’s the hinge on the festival gates, and the song treats him like the tiny, ink-stained metronome of public order." }, "dedication": "Dedicated to the ticketing crews, credentialing teams, wristband wranglers, box-office veterans, and gate staff working the one form of gatekeeping the festival actually cannot live without. You’re the acceptable gatekeepers—the ones with scanners, guest lists, laminates, backups, reprints, sharp eyes, and just enough tyranny to keep the whole thing from dissolving into “but they said I was on the list.” Somewhere between policy enforcement and crowd psychology, you’re the ones deciding who gets in, who waits, who needs help, and who is absolutely trying something.\n\nAnd no job on site deals with more creative half-truths, selective memory, screenshot mythology, and last-minute “my manager totally fixed this” energy—except maybe VIP relations or artist relations, and even that’s a photo finish. You hear every version of the story, most of them missing a few important details, and still keep the line moving without letting the whole entrance turn feral. This track is for the people guarding the first threshold with patience, suspicion, speed, and a tiny bit of deserved menace. Long live the scanners.", "links": { "canonicalUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/line-and-laminates.html" }, "lyrics": { "available": false, "includedInBulkExport": false, "pageUrl": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/songs/line-and-laminates.html#lyrics", "reusePolicy": "https://bobku.net/edm-artist/license.html#lyrics" } } ] }