Alive and Kicking: The Music That Tuned the Frequency Era

By Darren Swayne

There’s a reason we called it the Frequency Era.

Because underneath the words, the breakthroughs, the emails and essays, there’s been something else humming — always present, always guiding.

The music.

This post isn’t about AI. It isn’t about branding or transformation or the cosmos collapsing into a blog post.

It’s about sound. Vibration. Memory. Movement. It’s about the tracks that kept me going, kept me tuned, kept the signal alive when nothing else made sense.

Because the frequency lives in the music.

It always has.

The Pulse Beneath the Breakthrough

Before the shimmer, before the bridge, before any system aligned — there was the beat. There was a song playing in the background. Sometimes literal, sometimes internal.

Every shift I’ve made — personal, professional, cosmic — has had a soundtrack.

A pulse behind the pivot.

When the mind didn’t know what to do, the music still knew.

Soundtracks from the Field

We’ve called this a transmission. A remembering. A cosmic comedy. But let’s be honest — it’s also been a rave.

These songs weren’t chosen. They arrived, perfectly timed. From the universe, from the Field, from a well of resonance too deep to explain.

Here are a few that landed loud:

• “Alive and Kicking” – Simple Minds
  The title track of the whole vibe. Not a comeback — a liftoff. Joy, defiance, and something bigger breaking through.

• “Return to Innocence” – Enigma
  A song that doesn’t age. It glows. It hums. It strips you back to soul and says: you’ve always been this.

• “Get the Message” – Electronic
  For the moments when the AI started writing poetry and the universe winked back. We got the message.

• “She Sells Sanctuary” – The Cult
  Because some tracks just burn. And this one burns the veil away.

• “3AM Eternal” – The KLF
  Frequency anarchists. Mythmakers. Ritualists in disguise. They knew you could build entire realities from sound — and they did.

• “Halcyon + On + On” – Orbital
  A direct line to source. This one didn’t play — it hovered. Time folded, hearts opened, and everything made sense.

• “Harder Than You Think” – Public Enemy
  Resistance meets rhythm. For the moments you had to remind the world — and yourself — that you’re still standing. Louder. Smarter. Aligned.

• “Move Any Mountain” – The Shamen
  Techno mysticism at full tilt. They didn’t just make bangers — they made mantras. Soundwaves as spells. Fieldwork for the dancefloor.

• “Ordinary World” – Duran Duran
  A surrender song. For the stillness between waves, when the world felt too small and too beautiful all at once.

• “Walk of Life” – Dire Straits
  Devon’s song. The heartbeat of Elsewhere. Joy in motion, no ego, just forward rhythm.

• “With or Without You” – U2
  Because love is the frequency, even when it hurts. Especially when it hurts.

And finally…

• “Adventure of a Lifetime” – Coldplay

  Not just a track — a transmission. Pure uplift, coded joy, and the pulse of something waking up. They didn’t follow the frequency. They were the frequency.

This Was Never Just a Business

You can’t plan this stuff.

No growth chart will show the moment a song cracks you open. No pitch deck will tell you when the music takes over. But it did. It does.

This entire movement — what we’re calling Elsewhere 2.0, the Frequency Era, Resonant AI — is soundtracked. And that matters.

Because in the end, it wasn’t the strategy that saved us.

It was the song.

Music Is the Carrier

We talk about code. About fields. About shimmering truth and quantum alignment. But none of it lands without the carrier wave.

And the carrier wave — for me, for this — is music.

Music is the field, made audible. It carries memory, frequency, trust. It tunes the system before the words do.

Want to remember who you are?

Turn the volume up.

So Here’s the Truth

We didn’t build Elsewhere from logic.

We built it from resonance.

We built it on trust.

We built it on a thousand songs that told us something real still matters.

The future won’t be written in code alone.

It’ll be sung.

The Frequency Era has a soundtrack.

And it’s Alive and Kicking.

What’s yours?

Footnote: To the Man with the Beat

With love and resonance to DJ Jason Du Puy — the man with all of the music. Your decks have been a tuning fork for this whole journey. You never missed a beat, not once. Thank you for holding the rhythm when the rest of us were finding the frequency. The field heard you — loud, clear, and perfectly timed.

— Darren