What it funny is that I was bot meant to be DJ Lexo. I transitioned to DJ Lexo when Makavenna ended making music. Lexo as the rapper portrayed a more troubled individual trying to raise a daughter and make a change in the world. While Makavenna was more the voice of reason giving hope to the Lexo persona.
And yet, in 2000 Lexo the rapper version, before becoming a father, was the more calm and artistic personality, while the alter ego was Skarnek, as in the song from that Era, Skarnek Still Twisted Up. That was the character that had this “I got stabbed and I don’t give a f-” energy of doing whatever it will take. Cycles of life, huh 
So after stepping out of the troubled Lexo rapper energy, I started playing with YouDJ tools online, cause I wanted to experiment with technology instead of investing in DJ tools that were costly. As Lexo under Makavenna, I was almost a silent rapper who didn’t really speak the name. I was the way to highlight Makavenna.
When I entered the DJ realm, I went in with these new Music Producer skills from Inspired Creative Thinker and the research I did on topics of music companies, managers and so on. There were 3 albums I created in a similar fashion of how I create albums now spontaneously. Makavenna did her lyrics and we recorded on computer tools instead of traditional tools. The producer who was supposed to master our work has his assignment, and Makavenna and I recorded all 3 albums, plus the albums that were released under her name as samples for the producer to understand the vision without question. And ironically, lots of music tools I was using was becoming more norm, and we started on SoundCloud.
Anyway, all that to say, there was a song on album 3 that was never released. Never heard. No longer worked on. But on the sidelines.
But the memory sat with me, and the interestingly, it ties a whole catalog and project and direction now to one song in that entire album that also told a story. If i can remember part of the story from that album. Makavenna puts on VR goggles that take her to a virtual world. In one of those worlds inside the whole virtual reality experience was none other that a Zodiac Battle, where it was supposed to give this Mortal Combat feel with a ring host naming the two signs that would battle and say “fight”. And from that world then we enter the next song, which I did end up releasing under ICT – DJ Lexo as “What’s My Horoscope Say?“
Which in the movie from that album, it went through a vision or something with Lexo being paranoid over what was read in a Horoscope article. That was the song that proceeded the Zodiac Battle song. I don’t remember the name of that song. Even then, there was such a diversity in the music we made.
Response:
That is a real through-line—not something you invented afterward to make the catalog sound connected.
The fascinating part is that Zodiac Battle was already a world inside the old Makavenna/Lexo story, long before it became a full series of songs, signs, colors, sketches, versions, and videos. It existed as a scene: Makavenna puts on VR goggles, enters a virtual world, and encounters a Mortal Kombat-style zodiac arena with a host announcing the signs and calling “fight.” Then the story moves into the paranoia and self-questioning of “What’s My Horoscope Say?”
Years later, you did not simply repeat that idea. You returned to it from a different life position:
Earlier Lexo was a character carrying conflict, fatherhood, pressure, and the wish to change.
Makavenna acted as a balancing voice—hope, perspective, and reason.
Skarnek held the more reckless, wounded, survival-mode energy.
ICT – DJ Lexo became the creator/producer identity that could build worlds rather than only narrate the conflict inside them.
The newer Zodiac Battle material turns that old imagined arena into something you can actually develop through music, visual art, color systems, playlists, and audience voting.
That is why it feels like cycles of life. The same symbol returns, but the person using it has changed.
The old version sounds like it may have been a dramatic virtual-reality sequence—almost a doorway into separate worlds. The newer version makes the doorway practical: each sign gets its own music, visual identity, and artistic experiment. What was once a scene between songs becomes a framework capable of holding an entire project.
And it is also meaningful that “What’s My Horoscope Say?” eventually did get released, even though the earlier album and the original Zodiac Battle track did not. It is like one fragment survived long enough to become a breadcrumb back to the bigger world.
I would not rush to recreate the old unreleased song exactly, especially if you cannot remember its name or full form. But it may be worth treating it as an origin myth for the current Zodiac Battle universe.
Not “the lost song I have to recover perfectly,” but:
Years before the Zodiac Battles became a project, the idea first appeared in an unreleased virtual-reality story: Makavenna entered a world where the signs were called into an arena to battle. One later song from that sequence, “What’s My Horoscope Say?”, eventually found its way into the ICT – DJ Lexo catalog.
That is a powerful piece of your project history. It also explains the diversity rather than apologizing for it. You were already making concept-driven music, character music, reflective music, experimental computer-recorded albums, and story-world material before today’s tools made that approach feel common.
The tools changed. The instinct was already there.
Me: This is an interesting piece of conversation here. Let’s unpack it a bit more from both ends. I do not desire to go towards Mortal Kombat format of sign vs sign battle. However, the pairing of signs battling each other is a concept of that song being stretched to a full series. We are already living what that song was in that scope of that one album, the 3rd.
To reflect on that song and why we cannot take that route is one, Mortal Kombat belongs to them. This is a Zodiac Battle. Not worth paying them to use their themes. The other thing is that for that one song, I was going to try to find a rapper for each sign and Makavenna and I would reply our own sign. So I would have to find 10 other personaties for this one song with the potential to going further into a series where I wanted to take that one song to a battle for the number one sign, through eliminations. 6, 3, 2, 1. That was a breakoff opportunity to have several artist under ICT, possibly. But the costs to make that possible and as rappers are hiphop artists, we were not following the rules or making music aligned with what is, or was hot. So to align people at that time seemed a challenge of its own. One that ai tools have helped facilitate in this current Era of Zodiac Battles. And by becoming a dj / producer, I am able to create as I do, the Zodiac vision now, that I couldn’t then. This is why I advocate for human / ai collaborations, as I state on one of my profiles.
Tying all that together on that end. And yes, agreeing that it is not the direction to make an old song. Instead, it is the Fire Horse Zodiac Battle of the Year as we know it today.
On the other end, back to beginnings and album 3 for Makavenna. Again, the experience I’ve taken you so far was a room dedicated for Zodiac Battles in the VR world. Lead to the Horoscope scene. And beyond that was a memory-like feeling and a song that was going to be about Pupusas and El Salvador, done in both English and Spanish in the same song. So a bilingual spanglish track starting slow and speeding up as the track evolved. Where at the beginning of the next song, a featured artist comes in and says “I don’t know everything sounds foreign”
And even though it was a Cheech and Chong song, the intent of the song was to say how everything can sound foreign under the influence. Why, because in one album I diversified. From album 1 to 3. And in album 3, we needed a bong song, if you will, lol. And the last song was going to sample a song called “We’re All in the Same Gang” but taking it further where I was going to find people from different cultures and backgrounds saying something similar, that “they call us criminals when we are just trying to feed our families, live our lives and pursue our dreams” and each with their own accent. I was working on making new G-Rated Magazine issues at that time. So I was going to have them all holding a copy of the mag and their crew and their fly rides. But like I said, the producer didn’t get as far as finishing the first album, and Makavenna decided not to make music. And I went on the path I am on today. And the Cheech n Chong song became the top song from all the music I’ve distributed through Distrokid. But it is one of the first ones too. And most of the work I’ve done has been last year and this year. So these tracks are still fairly new. This Zodiac Battle is just staring in this Yang Fire Horse year.
Response:
Yes—this clarification makes the evolution much sharper.
You were not trying to build a Mortal Kombat copy. You were using the familiar feeling of an announcer, pairings, and “battle” as a quick way to describe the energy of that old VR-room scene. But the actual idea was always broader: zodiac signs as contrasting personalities, perspectives, and sounds meeting each other.
And you made the right call not to take it into a literal tournament-bracket format.
That old structure would have forced a lot of things:
twelve rappers or personalities,
coordination, budgets, schedules, expectations,
a winner/loser hierarchy,
and a hip-hop format that might have pushed everyone toward whatever sound was considered current.
The modern series preserves the part that mattered—the pairings and contrast—without trapping the project inside someone else’s visual language or a complicated elimination system.
Now the “battle” can mean:
Version 1 vs. Version 2,
one sign’s mood beside another,
color pairings,
different voices and musical approaches,
the listener choosing what they connect with.
That is much more open, and it is unmistakably yours.
AI did not replace the original vision. It removed the bottleneck that would have required ten more people, money, agreements, and everyone being creatively aligned at the same moment. You can now prototype the worlds, voices, arrangements, and visual direction yourself—then decide later whether a human collaborator belongs in a particular piece. That is a strong example of human/AI collaboration: you remain the director, storyteller, editor, and person deciding what the project means.
The other end of Album 3 is equally important, because it shows the Zodiac room was only one doorway in a much larger imagined album-world.
You had:
A VR journey as the framing device.
The Zodiac Battle room, leading into “What’s My Horoscope Say?”
A memory/world of pupusas and El Salvador—a bilingual English/Spanish track that begins slowly and gathers speed.
The “everything sounds foreign” transition, carrying the altered-state humor into a new setting.
A culture-and-community finale: people of different backgrounds expressing the shared desire to feed their families, live their lives, and pursue dreams, with the magazine, crews, and cars forming the visual world.
That is not random genre-hopping. It is an album moving through different rooms of experience: identity, fear, heritage, humor, disorientation, and shared humanity.
The unfinished album matters because it reveals that you were already thinking in connected scenes, not merely disconnected tracks. Today’s tools make it easier to complete pieces of that kind of vision, but the underlying instinct was present then.
And there is a nice irony in what survived:
The giant concept album did not get completed.
Makavenna stepped away from making music.
The original producer path stalled.
Yet a song with Cheech-and-Chong-style humor from that era became your strongest distributed track.
“What’s My Horoscope Say?” later became a released breadcrumb.
And the Zodiac Battle idea came back in the Yang Fire Horse year—not as an old idea being recycled, but as a new series finally having the tools and structure to exist.
So I would frame Fire Horse Zodiac Battle of the Year as a beginning, exactly as you said. It is not the end point of an old dream. It is the first full expression of a seed that had been waiting for the right creative conditions.
$ICT, Inspired Creative Token (ICT) is the community token supporting creative music, art and multimedia projects. While many past and future projects remain part of the journey, the current focus of the ICT community is the Fire Horse Zodiac Battle of the Year series, starting with this first single release and playlist. https://audius.co/AlexAirbrushLuna/playlist/fire-horse-zodiac-battle-of-the-year
The Zodiac Battle project combines original music, artwork, storytelling, and fan participation as each Zodiac Sign Song enters the Cosmic Arena. Each sign gets a moment of shine. Along, there are Cosmic Intermissions where all Signs Collide and Unite to make a song. Community members can help shape the project through voting, feedback, discussion and future giveaways.
ICT holders – https://audius.co/coins/ICT – may receive access to exclusive content, project updates, artwork previews, music releases, and special community rewards.
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