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Michele Ducci lays down synth-heavy soundscapes on new single ‘Rain On Me’
‘Rain on Me’ is the third and final single from the forthcoming album and animated film, ‘Snail in the Clouds’ by Michele Ducci, recorded and produced by Simon Milner (Is Tropical, Ysing) in his 4 am Studios in London.
The album and film tell the story of a planet called ‘Snail’, inhabited by hybrids – primarily a mixture between scorpions, snails and humans – who lead a life according to the style of Pythagoras, devoted to music. There is also a cloud man named Agostos, a writer of musical operettas, who together with a talking smoke machine called Doctor Subtilis, begins to kill all hybrids, targeting in particular the hybrid musician Diodoros and his band, in an effort to steal the ark of melodies, an ancient ship that allows the whole planet to survive with music and joy.
‘Rain on Me’ features synth-heavy soundscapes and dancing bass along with Ducci’s cracked, world-weary vocals.
About the song, Ducci says, “I wrote it thinking about what the rain would say if it could speak. Before starting the recordings, I was listening to “Born Slippy” by Underworld, appreciating the soundscape that they managed to recall with the synth. When I entered the studio Simon told me that he thought a sound like “Born Slippy” would be perfect for the song. So, I think it was a telepathic communication. We recorded all the synth and then we let Leo dance with the bass on the song.”
The video for the single, created and animated by Ducci and Letizia Mandoleisi, is a beautifully choreographed episode in which Diodorus activates the tear ducts of the planet with the song ‘Rain on Me’ and is carried in flight by an umbrella.
The album and full-length film will be released on the 5th of June on Monotreme Records. A Limited edition 200 copies 180 g vinyl LP will follow in July.
Michele and Letizia’s previous musical short film, ‘The Great Book of Nature’, is an official selection for the 2026 Venice Shorts Film Festival.

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Host Bodies’ track ‘On A Roll’ Gets a Psychedelic Reinvention from Soul Glitch
Ten years after Host Bodies first released the album Daily Apparatus, “On A Roll” has found a completely new groove.
For the Daily Apparatus: 10 Year Remixes project, multi-instrumentalist and producer Nicholas Hasty, under his Soul Glitch moniker, takes the original electronic-rock track and pulls it into deeper, more psychedelic territory.
The remix keeps the energy of Host Bodies intact while opening up the track with new beats, electronic textures and expressive saxophone solos. Electric guitar, bass and layered production give it a rich, genre-blurring sound that sits somewhere between indie electronic, jazztronica, soultronica and alternative dance.
There’s something particularly satisfying about hearing a decade-old track treated not as a relic, but as raw material. Soul Glitch reshapes “On A Roll” , finding new spaces within the original and bringing his own musical language into the mix.
The result is energetic, sensual, psychedelic and unapologetically expansive.
Ten years on, “On A Roll” proves that sometimes the best way to celebrate where a song came from is to find somewhere completely new for it to go.
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