🇬🇧 BLaKL1st + Lazar 🇷🇴BLAK RIVER 2025 ☠️ Basement tape demo #'1 #lofi #ukindie #psychopop #gb #rom

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Demo of ☠️ BLAK RIVER ☠️. #1 psychopop album demos 2025 #londonmusicscene #londonlife #britishmusic #lofi #singersongwriter #demos #basement tapes #britpop #thamesmead #southmerelake #binseywalk #aclockworkorange #stanleykubrick #beautifulthing

I noticed something ' shoutout to alison goldfrapp btw and shirley manson . both ladies with scottish roots that we ..... with scottish roots 2 ........ respect and admire both of these ladies . and we're honoured you might read this :)

Blak River written by BLaKL1st and Lazar 2025
Lazar added a lot to this version i wrote the original version 15 years ago .

2 iconic movies were made in this location a clockwork orange by stanley kubrick and beautiful thing by hettie macdonald

I have to say the cultural residue of the cinematic history of thamesmead south east london you can feel it when you're there it's tangible.

Info about thamesmead


Thamesmead as it is now was built at the end of the 1960s. Efforts were made to solve the social problems that had already started to affect earlier estates. These were believed to be the result of people being uprooted from close-knit working-class communities and sent to estates many miles away, where they did not know anybody. The design of the new estates meant that people would feel more isolated than they would have done in the terraced housing that had been typical in working-class areas. The solution proposed was that once the initial residents had moved in, their families would be given priority for new housing when it became available.

Another radical idea of the GLC division architect Robert Rigg was taken from housing complexes in Sweden, where it was believed that lakes and canals reduced vandalism and other crime, mainly among the young. He used water as a calming influence on the residents.


Aerial view, looking south, of Thamesmead South and Central, with Southmere Lake which is fed by the River Wogebourne in foreground (2017)
Much of Thamesmead was initially built by the Greater London Council (GLC) for rent to families moving from overcrowded back-to-back Victorian housing (also referred to as slums) in south eastern parts of Inner London. The area had been inundated in the Flood of 1953, so the original design placed living accommodation at first floor level or above, used overhead walkways and left the ground level of buildings as garage space.[6] There is also an elevated 'escape route' from the estate to be used in the event of flooding, which runs along the top of a grassed mound to the north of Lesnes neighbourhood.

The first residence was occupied in 1968, but already there were rain penetration problems.
The pre-1974 parts of Thamesmead are a mix of modernist town houses, medium-rise and 12-storey blocks system-built in concrete, which have featured in various films due to their 'rough urban look'; the design of the newer buildings is more traditional and in brick.

I have a long standing admiration and fascination for this area 'particularly the brutalist soviet inspired architecture . sadly they have demolished all the best bits of this architecture and continue to do so ' pretty soon all the old architecture will be gone .

so this song / video is my own auditory document of my affection for this place .


This was recorded on a reel to rell tape so the quality is not that great but basement tapes never really are and thats where all our song start on an old tape machine in a basement ' then we take them to studios and keep demoing till we have something that communicates the idea of the song fully to the listeners . we usually know when it's right and we dont mess about with songs beyond that point. some people remix the separate stems not us.

#iconiclocationslondon