#DEVSAYS / QUOTES & RELEASE NOTES

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Lunatic Alchemy artwork

#devsays

“Sometimes genius is just madness that figured out what to do with itself.”

Lunatic Alchemy

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#LunaticAlchemy

#devsays – “Sometimes genius is just madness that figured out what to do with itself.”

A Dev Style
Progressive Electronic × Alternative Dance × Gothic Trip-Hop

Lunatic Alchemy explores the strange intelligence inside madness - when instinct begins moving before reason understands where it is going.

Built from deep electronic bass, syncopated Reggaeton movement, Phonk attitude, Techno propulsion and Hip-Hop weight, the track layers cinematic strings, warm House pads, vintage synth grit and atmospheric textures into an increasingly urgent groove.

“I know this feeling...
I just don't know what it knows.”

Track Details
Genre: Progressive Electronic × Alternative Dance × Gothic Trip-Hop
Mood: Haunted, hypnotic, brooding, urgent, beautifully unstable

Production Notes
The original composition, melody, bass and multi-layered rhythmic identity remain central. Analog-warmed bass, lo-fi percussion, swung hi-hats, gated snares, cinematic strings and expansive House pads build progressively around the groove.

Rather than predictable EDM drops, the arrangement moves through negative space, filtered transitions, atmospheric breakdowns and increasingly dense rhythmic returns.

“Maybe all the broken pieces
know more than me.”

A smoky, trembling female alto/contralto moves slightly behind the beat with intimate breaths, vocal cracks and imperfect sustained notes. Ghost doubles, whispered fragments and widening harmonies gradually emerge as instability becomes controlled momentum.

Reason questions.
Instinct moves.

“Maybe madness isn't madness
when it sets you free.”

“I thought I lost my mind...

Maybe it just went ahead.”

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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“Sometimes you have to destroy the way you think before you can construct who you become.”

Destructive Mental Construction

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#DestructiveMentalConstruction

#devsays – “Sometimes you have to destroy the way you think before you can construct who you become.”

A Dev Style
Melodic Progressive × Atmospheric Electronica × Organic Electronic

Destructive Mental Construction explores destruction as an act of creation - tearing down the internal architecture that no longer belongs to who we are becoming.

Built from energetic synths, drum-machine rhythms and expressive bass guitar, the track evolves through warm chords, shimmering analog textures, atmospheric pads, detailed percussion and hypnotic melodic movement.

“I kept calling it protection...
while the ceiling learned to crack.”

Track Details
Genre: Melodic Progressive × Atmospheric Electronica × Organic Electronic
Mood: Hypnotic, cerebral, dark, defiant, transformative

Production Notes
The original synth motifs, groove and bass guitar remain central. Bass guitar frequently becomes a counter-melody while evolving synths, filtered sequences and cinematic textures gradually reconstruct the arrangement.

Rather than conventional EDM drops, the track develops through negative space, rhythmic mutation, atmospheric breakdowns and long tension-and-release arcs.

“If I have to lose my mind...
I’ll build a better one.”

A smoky, throaty female alto/contralto moves from intimate restraint into wider ghost doubles and psychedelic echoes as the track progresses from fracture to reconstruction.

Some things aren't meant to be repaired.
Some beliefs need demolition.

“I thought destruction was the end.

Turns out...

I was making room.”

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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“I remember everything about the things I can’t remember.”

Memoirs of a Hypnotic Amnesiac

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#devsays – “I remember everything about the things I can’t remember.”

A Dev Style
Electro Pop × Ambient Electronica × Melodic Progressive × Psychedelic Electronic

Memoirs of a Hypnotic Amnesiac lives somewhere between memory and imagination, where something can feel completely familiar even when you have no recollection of ever knowing it.
Built around an Electro Pop and Ambient foundation, the track layers melodic bass, hypnotic synth sequences, shimmering arpeggios and spacious pads over Dance, Trance and Hip-Hop rhythmic undercurrents. Psychedelic textures drift through the arrangement like fragments of memories appearing, dissolving and returning slightly altered.
The melody remembers even when the mind doesn't.

“There’s a room I’ve never entered,
but I know where shadows fall.
There’s a name behind the silence,
I can almost hear it call.

There’s a photograph with no one,
there’s a doorway with no key.
And a song I’ve never listened to
keeps remembering me.”

A haunting, throaty female alto/contralto carries the story, smoky, breath-heavy, intimate and deliberately imperfect. Her voice moves between close-mic singing, half-spoken thoughts, whispers and ghostly doubles, often sitting slightly behind the beat as though she too is searching for something just beyond recall.

“I remember everything
about the things I can’t remember.

Every color without a name,
every July without December.”

Track Details
Genre: Electro Pop × Ambient Electronica × Melodic Progressive × Psychedelic Electronic
Style: Atmospheric Electro Pop × Progressive Electronica × Psychedelic Ambient
Mood: Hypnotic, haunting, surreal, introspective, melancholic, cosmic

Production Notes
The original Electro Pop/Ambient identity remains at the core, with punchy electronic drums, melodic bass and synth movement supported by restrained Trance propulsion and syncopated Hip-Hop rhythmic weight.
Warm evolving chords, shimmering arpeggios, wide pads, analog textures, long delays and recurring melodic motifs create the sensation of memory continuously reconstructing itself. Rather than relying on oversized EDM peaks, the arrangement develops through atmospheric space, harmonic variation, psychedelic transitions and gradual emotional expansion.
Motifs emerge, disappear and return in altered forms, blurring the line between recognition and imagination.

“Maybe forgetting took the memory...
but forgot to take the fear.”

Memoirs of a Hypnotic Amnesiac isn't really about forgetting.
It's about everything that somehow survives forgetting.
A familiar room you've never entered.
A goodbye whose pain remains after its reason disappears.
A song you've never heard that somehow remembers you.

“If I forgot you...
why do I miss you?”

Maybe memory isn't simply what remains.
Maybe sometimes it's what never really left.

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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“When life gets worse than terrible, getting back up becomes its own kind of beautiful.”

Terrible than Terrible

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#TerribleThanTerrible

#devsays – “When life gets worse than terrible, getting back up becomes its own kind of beautiful.”

A Dev Style
Afro House × Hip-Hop × Atmospheric Electronic

Terrible Than Terrible lives somewhere between the fall and the decision to get back up.
Built from an unusual collision of Afro House rhythm and Hip-Hop weight, the track combines deep rolling bass, syncopated low-end, organic percussion, hypnotic synth sequences and cinematic strings with a spacious, emotionally charged electronic atmosphere.
The groove moves forward even when the story doesn't.

“Sometimes strength
doesn't make a sound.
No victory speech.
No crowd around.”

A low, conversational male rap carries the reality of defeat without dramatizing it, while a smoky female alto emerges from the atmosphere as its emotional counterpoint. Breath-heavy, intimate and noir-tinged, her voice gradually moves from distant fragments into the track's melodic release.

“I've seen bad.
I've seen worse.
I've seen terrible...

Then terrible got worse.”

Track Details
Genre: Afro House × Hip-Hop × Atmospheric Electronic
Style: Deep Afro Groove × Hip-Hop Rhythm × Cinematic Electronica
Mood: Hypnotic, bruised, defiant, soulful, cinematic

Production Notes
The arrangement preserves the original Afro/Hip-Hop crossover at its core, layering deep sub-bass, punchy Hip-Hop low-end, rolling congas, shakers and polyrhythmic percussion against atmospheric synths, evolving sequences, textured melodic fragments and cinematic strings.
Rather than relying on oversized EDM drops, the track develops through negative space, percussion-led transitions, bass movement and gradual harmonic expansion.
The final melodic lift brings the two emotional worlds together:

“Terrible than terrible...
and I'm still here.

Terrible than terrible...
and I don't disappear.”

Terrible Than Terrible isn't about pretending everything eventually becomes easy.
Sometimes it doesn't.
Sometimes getting back up is the victory.
And sometimes, after everything...
the sky still looks beautiful from here.

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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Almost on Purpose artwork

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“Some of the best things we become happen almost on purpose.”

Almost on Purpose

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#AlmostOnPurpose

#devsays – “Some of the best things we become happen almost on purpose.”

A Dev Style

Melodic Progressive House × Atmospheric Electronica × Rap | 113 BPM

Almost on Purpose is about falling without believing the fall defines you.

It began as a deeply melodic progressive-house idea, warm analog bass, evolving chords, shimmering arpeggios, spacious pads and a recurring melodic motif. But somewhere along the way, the track found another voice.

Rap entered the story.

A restrained male delivery carries the bruises, uncertainty and reflection, while the female vocal gradually brings melody, openness and light. Rather than simply trading verses, the voices represent different stages of the same emotional journey, from defeat and questioning toward acceptance, resolve and purpose.

“Maybe purpose isn't never falling,
it's choosing why you rise each day.”

The arrangement deliberately keeps evolving. Melodic motifs return in altered forms, harmonies widen, breaks interrupt the expected path, and the track repeatedly falls away before rebuilding itself.

Much like life.

Track Details:
Genre: Melodic Progressive House × Atmospheric Electronica
Style: Progressive House × Male Rap × Female Atmospheric Vocal
Mood: Reflective, resilient, melodic, hopeful, cinematic

Production Notes:
Tempo: 113 BPM
Key: C minor / E♭ major tonal center
Structure: Progressive melodic journey with rap passages, vocal transformation, atmospheric breaks, evolving motifs and late emotional lift

Sound Design:
Warm analog bass, shimmering arpeggios, evolving pads, melodic synth motifs, delicate plucks, filtered textures, granular vocal atmosphere, restrained percussion and cinematic ambience.

“I fall, I rise, I change my mind.
I lose the road and still I find
another reason, another way,
another life inside today.”

Almost on Purpose isn't about having life figured out.

It's about realizing that wrong turns, broken plans, changing direction and touching the ground occasionally don't make a life purposeless.

Sometimes they are how purpose is discovered.

Not perfectly.
Not certainly.

Almost on purpose.

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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Modern Nostalgia artwork

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“Sometimes the future feels familiar because the past never really stopped speaking.”

Modern Nostalgia

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#ModernNostalgia

#devsays – “Sometimes the future feels familiar because the past never really stopped speaking.”

A Dev Style

Progressive Mythic House × Organic World Electronica | 123 BPM | D minor

Modern Nostalgia explores the strange feeling of remembering something you may never have experienced.

Traditional percussion, expressive woodwinds and cinematic strings meet melodic bass, progressive house drums, shimmering arpeggios and mythic saws, allowing ancient textures to live inside a distinctly modern electronic world.

“I remember things I've never known.”

The journey begins with reversed harp, whispers and atmospheric textures before tribal percussion and subtle arpeggios build into a driving progressive-house pulse. Woodwinds remain a melodic voice rather than decoration, while strings, thunder, ritual chants and granular textures gradually expand the track into a cinematic, uplifting peak.

“Yesterday moves through tomorrow.”

Track Details:
Genre: Progressive Mythic House × Organic World Electronica
Style: Tribal Percussion × Woodwinds × Cinematic Strings × Melodic Progressive House
Mood: Mythic, nostalgic, hypnotic, uplifting, cinematic

Sound Design:
Reversed harp, thunder, ritual chants, phoenix textures, granular atmospheres, layered saws, melodic sidechained bass, stereo shimmer and long reverb tails.

“The past never left us.
It only learned a different sound.”

Modern Nostalgia isn't about recreating the past. It's about hearing it differently - something ancient, something modern, and something strangely familiar.

“Remember. Forget. Return. Begin.”

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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Bruised Melody artwork

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“Some melodies become beautiful only after life leaves a bruise.”

Bruised Melody

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#devsays – “Some melodies become beautiful only after life leaves a bruise.”

Track Details:
Genre: Melodic Progressive House × Atmospheric Electronica
Style: Warm Analog Bass × Emotive Minor-Key Chords × Shimmering Arpeggios × Cinematic Pads × Dark Trip-Hop Vocal Texture
Mood: Bruised, intimate, melancholic, hypnotic, hopeful, ascending

Bruised Melody lives in the space between hurt and healing - where life's scars don't disappear, but somehow become part of something beautiful.

Built around a deep four-on-the-floor pulse, warm analog bass, evolving pads, shimmering arpeggios, and restrained melodic progression, the track carries darkness without surrendering to it. A throaty, smoky female alto/contralto sits slightly behind the beat, cracked and intimate against the polished electronic landscape.

“I wore the dark against my skin,
let every shadow settle in.
Some nights were longer than they seemed,
some scars found places in my dreams.”

As the arrangement grows, ghostly doubles, granular delays, widening harmonies, and filtered transitions slowly pull the track toward the light.

The chorus carries its central thought:

“Bruised melody,
still beautiful to me.
Every broken note still finds
another way to breathe.”

Bruised Melody is about accepting that life leaves marks. Some wounds fade, others become part of who we are. But darkness doesn't stop morning from arriving, just as life's bruises don't stop a melody from finding its beauty.

“The night can take the light away,
but it can never stop the day.”

By the final lift, the melancholy hasn't disappeared - it has transformed. The groove opens, harmonies widen, and the track rises toward sunrise before leaving one final thought suspended in the fading atmosphere:

“Bruised… not broken.
Still beautiful.”

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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Breathing Life artwork

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“As long as there is breath, there is still a reason to fight.”

Breathing Life

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#devsays – “As long as there is breath, there is still a reason to fight.”

Track Details:
Genre: Cinematic Electronica × Dark Trip-Hop × Atmospheric Alternative × Progressive Electronic
Style: Deep Electronic Pulse × Breath-Heavy Baritone × Ghostly Female Vocals × Granular Atmosphere × Cinematic Lift
Mood: Resilient, intimate, wounded, hypnotic, defiant

Breathing Life lives in the space between exhaustion and surrender ... It's the moment when you realize something inside you is still fighting.

Built around a dark electronic pulse, breath-heavy male vocals, ghostly female textures, vocoder shadows, granular delays, and a slowly expanding cinematic atmosphere, the track moves through scars, weight, survival, and the battles we carry long after everyone else thinks they're over.

“I wore the weight until it felt like skin,
Held every war I never thought I’d win,
But somewhere underneath the scars I keep,
A restless soul still refuses to sleep.”

As the arrangement rises, gated reverbs widen, synth layers bloom, reverse tails pull voices through the darkness, and the distant female vocal becomes an almost spectral presence.

The chorus turns survival into quiet defiance:

“I am breathing life back into me,
Every breath says I’m still here,
Let the broken parts remind me,
I survived another year.”

Breathing Life isn't about pretending everything is healed. It's about recognizing that survival itself has value, that as long as there is breath, there is possibility.

“I don’t need the world to save me,
I don’t need to make it right,
As long as these lungs keep breathing,
I’ve got one more day to fight.”

By the final half-time rise, orchestral pads, trip-hop drums, whispered doubles, and electronic textures converge without turning the moment into easy triumph.

This isn't victory. It's continuation.

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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“Silence isn’t empty… it’s where the truth finally speaks.”

Stillness of The Night

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#devsays – “Silence isn’t empty… it’s where the truth finally speaks.”

Track Details:
Genre: Dark Ambient × Noir Electronica × Minimal Deep Pulse × Cinematic Atmosphere
Style: Low‑frequency Drone Pads × Ethereal High Synths × Breath‑Heavy Noir Vocals × Rising Momentum Lift
Mood: Still, suspended, nocturnal, intimate, quietly ascending

Stillness of the Night drifts through a world where everything has stopped moving... a nocturnal landscape held in deep, breath‑heavy calm.
At 128 BPM in D minor, a warm pulsing drone forms the foundation, breathing gently beneath a sparse grid of soft percussive ghosts and distant high‑frequency shimmer.
The arrangement feels weightless, suspended, almost fragile… until a subtle momentum begins to rise.

A faint rhythmic lift emerges... widening delays, swelling pads, and a slow‑burn tension that pushes the track forward without breaking its stillness.
The high‑pitched ethereal lead glows like a distant light, weaving through the darkness with long reverb tails and cinematic restraint.
Everything feels quiet, yet alive.

The throaty, breath‑forward topline moves slightly behind the pulse, carrying a cracked, intimate edge:

“Shadows trace my skin…
quiet pulling in…
In the stillness of the night…
I fall into the fading light…”

As the track evolves, the lift grows, widening harmonies, rising octave whispers, and a deeper emotional pull.
The stillness becomes motion.
The darkness becomes ascent.
The quiet becomes revelation.

In the final rise, the pulse, drone, and vocal layers collide in a soft surge of momentum, not loud, not aggressive, but deeply human.
By the end, the narrator isn’t escaping the night… they’re becoming part of it.

When everything dissolves into atmosphere, the truth arrives softly:

“stillness…
in the night…
drifting…
apart…”

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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“Sometimes the road becomes home long before you know where it leads.”

Nomadic Madness

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#devsays - “Sometimes the road becomes home long before you know where it leads.”

Track Details:
Genre: Psychedelic Trance × Ritual Electronica × Acid Trance × Cinematic Psychedelia
Style: Triplet Psy Bass × Staccato Resonant Saws × Acid Sequences × Ritual Percussion × Granular Vocal Textures
Mood: Nomadic, hypnotic, primal, psychedelic, restless

Nomadic Madness is a collision between relentless electronic motion and something older, instinctive and untamed...
Moving at 145 BPM in F# minor, a punchy compressed kick locks tightly with a rolling triplet bassline while staccato resonant saws, acid sequences, off-beat hats and 16th-note shakers drive the track forward.
But beneath the psychedelic machinery, another rhythm begins to emerge.
Low ceremonial drums, woody percussion and galloping rhythmic accents create an ancient, geographically ambiguous pulse beneath the electronic grid. Granular vocal fragments, reverse textures, evolving delays and atmospheric washes turn that landscape increasingly surreal.

The smoky, throaty female topline moves slightly behind the frantic rhythm...

“Let me go...
where the wild wind goes...
Through the dark...
where nobody knows...
I disappear...
into nomadic madness...”

As the journey progresses, wandering slowly becomes acceptance.
The acid resonance rises...
the percussion grows...
the road disappears...
and eventually even the electronic machinery falls away.

For a moment, only the voice and ritual rhythm remain...

“I left my name...
where the road began...
I left my fear...
where the mountains end...
No destination...
only madness...”

Then the full psychedelic engine returns - triplet bass, acid, ritual percussion and fractured voices colliding in one final surge.
By the end, the narrator is no longer searching for somewhere to belong.
As everything dissolves into atmosphere, the answer arrives quietly...

“no map...
no home...
still moving...
maybe...
that’s home...”

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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Beautifully Hostile artwork

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“Somberly wild, beautifully hostile.”

Beautifully Hostile

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#devsays – “Somberly wild, beautifully hostile.”

Track Details:
Genre: Industrial Techno × Acid Techno × Melodic Electronica × Dark Cinematic
Style: Distorted Long-Decay Kicks × Metallic Percussion × 16th-Note Acid Bass × Bitcrushed Vocal Hooks × Atmospheric Synths
Mood: Somber, wild, aggressive, hypnotic, strangely beautiful

Beautifully Hostile lives inside a contradiction...

A high-energy industrial techno framework drives the track forward with a distorted long-decay kick, sharp metallic percussion, and a resonant acid bassline pulsing relentlessly in tight 16th-note patterns.

But underneath the machinery... something softer is trying to escape.

Warm atmospheric synth layers rise through the distortion, bringing melody and emotional depth into an environment designed to feel cold, mechanical, and oppressive. Bitcrushed vocal fragments become rhythmic hooks, repeating through the mix like signals trapped inside the machine.

The topline follows that same struggle...

“Let me out...
of the beautifully hostile sound...
I’m rising through the metal now...
mmm... let me out...”

Breath-heavy verses, whispered shadows, falsetto harmonies and ghostly vocal doubles create a fragile human presence against the industrial weight surrounding them.

As the track progresses, that fragile presence refuses to disappear.

The machinery keeps moving...
the pressure keeps building...
the signal begins breaking...

but something inside still glows.

By the final passage, aggression and melody are no longer fighting each other. They have become part of the same sound... somberly wild, beautifully hostile.

And when everything finally begins to disappear into delay, distortion and mechanical silence...

one thought remains...

“still here...”

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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Outrun the Nightmares artwork

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“Every nightmare I outran became a map to who I really am.”

Outrun the Nightmares

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#OutrunTheNightmares
#devsays – “Every nightmare I outran became a map to who I really am.”

Track Details:
Genre: Trip‑Hop × Psychedelic × Orchestral × Alt‑Pop
Style: Vinyl‑Saturated Kicks × Hypnotic Bass × Arpeggiated Echo‑Synths × Cinematic Pads
Mood: Mythic, immersive, introspective, emotionally charged

Outrun the Nightmares unfolds like a lucid dream —
a steady 128 BPM pulse softened with vinyl saturation and ghostly hi‑hats.
A deep, hypnotic bass anchors the mix while arpeggiated synths morph into guitar‑like echoes,
drenched in delay and reverb.
Dreamlike pads and spectral textures create cinematic depth,
while vocal‑like synth motifs carry emotional tension through the haze.

Breakdowns dissolve into fragile piano lines and ambient swells,
inviting introspection before surging back into distorted bass and fractured percussion.
The production thrives on contrast — lo‑fi grit against lush stereo expanses,
hypnotic repetition against sudden dynamic bursts.
It’s a mythic, hair‑raising journey through fear, resilience, and rebirth —
a soundscape where nightmares become motion, and motion becomes light.

Composed, arranged, produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Gautam Dev

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Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/gautam-dev/1197681651

#OutrunTheNightmares #GautamDev #TripHop #Psychedelic #Orchestral #AltPop #MythicSound #EmotionalJourney

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