# set it out!
posted ****2026.02.27****
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I've recently kinda finally gave music up, after several times saying I would do it but always come back with new music I feel pressure to release on stores or send to promoters after, and bearing many, many blocks, financial or outright social, or even just burnout.
I felt like I was living a double life online and was kinda hiding how I truly behave (even though I still kinda do with the music people I added back in my "personal" Discord, since I deleted the "music" one), that's hard to keep dead genres and legacies up when "that's not what people are looking for anymore".
Erasing my musical Instagram and trying to restart a musical TikTok again, the first three IDs I promoted were three remixes, of an attempt at Future Room, but not really with the right sound design, looking back. It just sounded so big that I think it would look good enough, but even I cringe at certain moments. I should be confident if I share my music with other people.
- Ahmad Irfan - Starts With You (REDACTED Remix)
- VIPER (VIP3Rx back then) - NEVER (REDACTED Remix)
- Josbel Lugo & Kubak - Life Turnover (REDACTED Remix)
I've been a bit more so when I started to share my Bad Reputation-style[1] IDs,[2] the first post reaching 738 views[at the time of writing] on Instagram and 2,105 views[at the time of writing] on TikTok. It was a derived melody from their [Not You remix](https://soundcloud.com/badreputationmusic/alan-walker-emma-steinbakken-not-you-bad-reputation-remix-2).
The second ID after that, was yet another remix of Arman Irfan (and M1CK3Y), *Endless Nights*. This one got viewed 3,360 times on TikTok and I'm really proud it did, even though technically the first Bad Rep-like ID is less messy and has more energy somehow.
## My brain won't stop trying to link artist monikers and track relations.
I noticed, after remixing *Life Turnover* that the pitched-up vocal
***Josbel Lugo & Kubak - Life Turnover***
[…] But they don't know
But they don't
But they don't know
But they don't
**But they don't know things you do to me**
[Buildup]
matches a line I heard in another track
***Ummet Ozcan - Don't Stop (Bobby Rock Remix)***
People say that I'm a fool
For keeping you around
They tell me that you're just no good
Some day you're gonna put me down
**But they don't know the things you do to me**
Or the way they make me feel inside, girl
Your sweet love just keeps me
Girl, it keeps me satisfied (set it out, yeah)
[Buildup]
At first I told myself it was probably a free royalty vocal Ummet Ozcan got to make *Don't Stop*, but after research, I actually found that Ozcan partially sampled Donald Ray Mitchell's vocals on *Set It Out* by an 80's dance group called Midway.
Why do I say partially? *Don't Stop* itself didn't include the "People say I'm a fool […] Some day you're gonna put me down" part. But the future house remix from duo Bobby Rock did.
## Conclusions and change of direction
I'm not releasing the three remixes I previously listed in the bullet points, because I really wanna only release well-produced this time, with this new moniker. Alone's remix was put online but only because of the Instagram reactions on an old IDs post from my previous moniker in the context of a missed remix contest participation.
Though, I'm making a couple Android apps, and even made a readme.md on my profile describing the progress. I hope I will make a few of these apps (those I've written from the ground up, not the ones I'm forced to) open source. And considering I understand more JavaScript stuff than TypeScript and Kotlin stuff, I may be damned.
Oh also I'm "stupid enough" to have paid the Google Play Store fee to distribute my apps there, but haven't entered a single app yet.
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[1] **Bad Reputation**: A Belgian Future Bounce music duo consisting of two brothers, known for their high-energy remixes and original tracks in the EDM scene.
[2] **IDs**: Short for "Identification". In the electronic dance music community, this term is used for unreleased tracks whose title and/or artist are unknown or not yet officially announced.