For your reference, this is an awesome little album player from Jamendo, a site that has free music for unlicensed musicians using Creative Commons to distribute.

I stumbled my way onto Jamendo searching for music for Sole Mates. Someone suggested I use urban hip hop or something to set the tone for the city, so I went about trying to find that kind of music license-free, and Jamendo is where I ended up. After searching for a bit at work, I found Xtasy.

From what I can discern, Xtasy is a German rapper. His profile, roughly translated, says:

Xtasy grew up in its childhood rather alone.

The pitch pursued it again and again.

It gave went a short time in that it it well

Again a hard fate blow followed on that.

He retained himself long time all for itself and deepened into the music

Until he himself began to rappen.

So it was able to flee from the everyday life. …. In the end its past tore up it, but it caught newly on, became stood a completely other person… everything it now openly.

I think rappen might be the verb “to rap”, but I have no German language abilities, so that’s just a layman’s guess.

So as you’re going through the player (I’d recommend going through it all, and also downloading it if you like it), take note of Deutschlands Kinder which made it into the second cut of Sole Mates and I think may stay there, depending on the audience’s reaction.

But there was a song I found that was just as powerful, Jezt Bis Du Weg. Translated from the YouTube video of the song:

At new year’s eve, a friend of me died.

A drunk driver, went on the incorrect side of the street.

I wished could hear it this song.

This song belongs to my album “Rap out of passion”.

Who wants to download it, or generally interest has goes up.

The internet is such a small place, the way it overcomes language barriers to show that we all have pretty similar lives, situations and problems. This music, his voice, the beats… they all show his grief and his passion.

For me, there is no barrier here. There’s really just the music.