Dutchyyy

"GuudBye Jawn" - Produced by Dutchyyy

Backstory:

2020 Harris Cole Discord Sample Challenge.  

From 2019 to Present, instead of finalizing albums or focusing on refining projects,  I kept allowing myself to sucked into community sample challenges back to back,  So much so that they have became the bulk of time allocated to music which led to more than enough loose tracks to release them as an album.  I intended to do this in  2021 under the album name "I'll do it tomorrow" but....  I just kept taking on new samples challenges.  At one point, I had so much unreleased music, both short form and long form stacked up.  I released an free album on bandcamp titled "I got distracted" with over 60 tracks only meant to exist for a week or so to both serve as an apology for hoarding music as well as proof that I was well into my productive creative bag....   

I regretted uploading this almost immediately, because I still intended to release most of what was included separately.  but I didn't want to delete the album since it would remove it from peoples collections.      

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/i-got-distracted-evolving-portals

I have so much unreleased music stacked and have zero motivation to refine or release any of it as direct pipelines have all been severed and all platforms to release  music on feel extremely broken.

I honestly don't know what to do.  For the first time ever,  I don't even have any desire to create new art.  Day to Day survival, fight or flight.  

It all feels off and feels like the things I don't align with will only worsen rather than be improved on and that just makes me want to Vanish on my own terms.

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GuudBye Jawn

"The Lift"

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Traversal
Track: 22
Released: December 30, 2015 (Bandcamp)
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal

Released: January 1st, 2016 (Streaming)
https://open.spotify.com/album/3dYlFQTK2ZHNEOxsWTv2AX

Released: December 2nd, 2016 (Cassette) via GrandGardenRecords
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden

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Backstory:

+ https://foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd/traversal/9

Is it possible to do light work while also practicing the "Protect your peace" trend?.

That pseudo positivity practice instinctually feels like the biggest low vibrational bait trap out there.  "This person seems be going through it, having a really rough time,  I need to protect my peace and protect my vibration, they aren't as enlightened as I am"  

What a paradox huh?  

Self Preservation vs sacrifice.  which is really the low vibrational road to take.

This topic was always something I was passionate about.  Of course fight or flight is always a part of us, often the smart decision for self preservation is, cut ties, run...   This used to be a much harder fork in the road one would have to pause at before choosing a path.  Family members, Friends, Partners, Loved ones, acquaintances.    Choosing to evade conflict or turmoil or sacrifice your own peace for a chance of possibly lifting someone out of a dark place was not as easy to make IRL.  

In Modern times,  with everyone on the planet instantly connected at a moment's notice, all digesting fragmented short form thoughts and opinions.  quickly passing judgement and clicking "mute" is the new age "protect your peace".

Positivity isn't a personality trait, nor can it be a selfish act.  It definitely isn't something humans can realistically sustain in life without selfishly applying ignorance is bliss armor.  

I've wasted what feels like a lifetime, literally sacrificing peace by never giving on people.  The people I wanted to help heal the most, those closest to me,  I was never successful in breaking them out of their funk.  My Mother being the life long mission that I couldn't just give up on,  ironically I was finally able to break through and see positive change and impact after a lifetime of failing,  This song was specifically created for her.   The last year of her life,  she improved her outlook tremendously and I'm thankful to have witnessed the effort even if she ended leaving this world she found so heavy very shortly after.  

For all the people I cared about and couldn't impact through attrition and not giving up on them to "Protect my peace",  I was able to lift and inspire so many others in life.  I always wished there was someone to lift me, push me, motivate me, so how I could I could take the easy road and cut off someone clearly having a hard time just to "Protect my peace"    

Lightwork isn't supposed to be easy.   Don't let toxic positivity dressed up in cliche catch phrases fool you.  

Tiny Ripples are worth it.  It feels like the majority of the world, at least through the lens of social media, lost sight of this.  

Please, Remind your soul.

- The LIFT

 

Traversal serves as a means of pivoting in all aspects of life. Created in Headphones, For Headphones.

trav·erse

verb
1. travel across or through.

synonyms: travel over/across, cross, journey over/across, pass over; cover; ply; wander, roam, range

2. move (something) back and forth or sideways.

u·ni·ver·sal

1. of, affecting, or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases.

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Traversal

The Lift

Produced by Dutchyyy

Backstory:

As Hurricane Idalia slowly approaches,  I'm eerily  reminiscent of 2017,  After a decade of being Uprooted, Traversing state to state, and a lifetime of living in apartments,  I finally rented my first house.  I wanted a home I could create at night or day, free of anxiety or worrying about neighbors if I had the volume too loud while creating music.   I moved in May of 2017, and finally just reacquired all my long lost personal belongings that were scattered across the US being safeguarded by trusted friends.    

My House was a half mile away from the gulf of mexico.  Close enough to walk or ride my bike or scooter to nature, relax and breathe easy...   I'm most productive when I have nature nearby so this was heavenly, the only trade off was isolation from friends / family,  but I made that isolation work leaning into recording daily rambles and evolving portals....

Fast Forward to September and the Category 5 Hurricane Irma was projected to make direct landfall literally right over my house.  I just required everything precious in the world to me as well as invested in new studio equipment and furniture.  Being .5 miles from the ocean, My house was in the most severe evacuation zone,  at even at a category 2 hurricane, a direct hit would put my house 12 feet underwater minimum.  

The anxiety and fear I felt was unmeasured. So I did what I do best when I feel powerfulless,   I transmuted that emotion into music.

As I was creating,  I imaged the soundtrack to the eye of the storm.  Calm and clear while causing absolute devastation around it....   and tried to end the song with the resolve of peace and relief felt by anyone with RNG lucky enough to emerge on the other side of the storm safely...      

Originally meant to be on the 1st of 4 unreleased albums created since releasing Traversal in 2016,  "The Waiting Room" originally titled "Workin' Thru it" only saw a soundcloud release, and was uploaded the moment it finished.

https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/workin-thru-it-irma-dutchy

After exporting and uploading.  I packed my most sentimental belongings up and whatever expensive studio equipment I could fit in my car,  locked my doors and drove inland to stay with good friend and fellow Equilibrium group member, Celph Titled to weather the storm as far away from the storm surge as possible.  Thankfully,  RNG blessed Tampa that day and IRMA shifted last minute but it's always been impossible for me to celebrate missing a direct hit from a hurricane, because it means that direct hit just destroyed other people's lives..   

I have no Idea how things will turn out this time around,  no one does...  I just know it's been one of the hottest years of our lifetime and this is just the beginning of hurricane season.  I really really really tried to escape this state and city so many times.  I hope the next time I have a chance to leave Tampa, FL     I don't return for a very long time.

Adding to the forever library while we still have electricity.

Stay Safe.

<3 

Dutchyyy

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The Waiting Room  (the calm before...)

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album:  "Chill Gawd, Chill" 
Track: Como El Hielo
Track #: 3
Created: 2013
Released: February 5th, 2015 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

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Backstory:

https://foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd/life-3fc3/6

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Chill Gawd, Chill

Como El Hielo

"FEEDBRA!NER" 

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Blue Screen of Deaf
Track #: 8
Created: 2009
Released: September 10, 2012 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012


Backstory:

Late 2009, I was chilling at my friend Brian's townhouse in Tampa, FL (prior to me moving in),  and we were watching videos of Low End Theory sets at The Airliner in Los Angeles and random beat sets in general from like 2006 - late 2009.  There were no "Beat sets" happening in Tampa at the time, so our only window to see instrumentals being rocked in front of a crowd was online.  We were romanticizing about how dope it must be to live in a city that appreciates instrumentals in a live setting, and at one point in the conversation we had one of those "Jinx!" moments, where we both mentioned the same observation at the same time.   I can't remember the exact wording used,  but we both basically picked up on how heavy and often most people playing live sets would trigger the SP404 (& Other Samplers) Beat Repeat or glitch FX....    If only we would have known, people would be overdosing on & overusing triggering those FX to fill time during live sets for the next two decades all over the globe haha.      

I had my Laptop with me, and was using FL Studio at the time, so I downloaded the Plug in "Glitch 1.3" and started to make a beat trolling....    and thus "FEEDBRA!NER" was born.   

Bonus Fun Fact:

The first person that I personally remember, besides Prefuse 73 back in 2001 to use this glitch/stutter effect in beats was Sweatson Klank (fka Take) back in 2005/2006,  So when he hit me up to submit a Remix for his upcoming album "Only Mountain".  I pulled out that "Glitch" Plug-in one more time to pay tribute...       I remember vividly him saying,  I love how you flipped my track, but I don't like all the Stutter/Glitch FX in it because even back then,  he said it became way too overused in the scene.  He asked if I could Submit it without all the FX,  but back then, in fact the entire lifespan of me using FL Studio (2005-2012) , I didn't know there was an arrangement view.   So how I sequenced out my beats back then, was I would individually export each 4/8 bar loop, and sequence my beats by cutting and pasting them in the intended order via Sony Sound Forge.  Then I wouldn't save the original FL Studio Sessions,  So I couldn't re-send him a version without the FX, cus the session was already deleted haha.

That track also exists on "Blue Screen Of Deaf" as well as in the Forever Library. =)

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-insane-go-all-don-t-we-if-w-sweatson-klank

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Blue Screen Of Deaf

FEEDBRA!NER

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Vocals by: aji & dastan [The Kitties]

"Catalog Cook Off 010  (athena)"
https://catalog.community/

Backstory:

I almost missed this sample challenge.  Ended up loading up the sample folder the day of the playback stream and among all the amazing violin samples was a super long experimental recording I fell in love with and then I stumbled on the recording of her two cats doing asmr <3

I love cats so much so there was no way I wasn't taking this chance to use those samples and create a theme around them.  As I listened to the audio file fully, I imagined the stages of anxiety domesticated cats must go through when their human family/friend is away...  

"are they ever coming back"
"who is going to feed me"

Those stages of emotions that the seemingly independent feline go through... from no cares in the world to how i am going to survive and relief they must feel once we return.

I made this track in a few hours, super rushed but super inspired and drove my cat nuts the entire time blasting it through my studio monitors in the process.

I have a more refined version of this track but I love this initial, real time live demo version so much.   I'm thankful I was able to finally make time for this challenge  even if it was right at the submission deadline buzzer.   This track makes me happy,  I'm thankful I received the blessing to share it <3.

immortalizing aji & dastan on the forever library.

The Anticipation Suite.

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Anticipation Suite (f/ aji & dastan)

"Treadmills" (Blue Screens Jazz Remix) [Version II]
Produced by: Dutchyyy
Vocals by: Jon Waltz
Original Version: https://beta.catalog.works/jonwaltz/treadmills

Backstory:

I was late to begin my flip for "Catalog Cook Off 012 (Jon Waltz)"
I was planning on taking a brief hiatus from sample challenges but saw it was Jon's Birthday,  Downloaded the stems & quickly did my initial flip ( Version I - Deep House vibes ) Time passed... distracted, multi-tasking, survival pivots and all that jazz, I realized the deadline (Listening Party) was the next day and all I had was a super quick unrefined flip I did on his birthday.  Carved out some time to dedicate to refining my initial House version that night.  Took a gummy & opened Ableton Live and began refining my flip,  swinging the drums more, mixing, mastering and all that Jazz....    but.....

Gummies have this RNG aspect to them...  It could take effect in 20 minutes, or 2 hours later....   Not Ideal for ADHD.....   Don't know exactly when it kicked in, but I noticed the sun was out, and somewhere in the refinement process,  I got distracted, Pivoted, opened a mini Portal and came to the other side of the session with a completely different version haha.  

We played both the initial unrefined b-day house version & this version during the playback stream.  I already checked the session and that gummy must have kicked in before I could save the more refined house version, and I altered the session so drastically that I would need to start all over from the b-day session and start the refinement process all over again.  After speaking w/ @jonwaltz we decided to add both versions to the forever library (50/50% splits)...   I have some other creative deadlines and life stuff before I can go back in and refine Version I again for release, but it will eventually also be added to the forever library =)

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Jon Waltz  - "Treadmills" (BlueScreensJazzRemix) [catalog cook off 012]

"Thoughtful Jawn"  

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: "hedsTAPE14" 
Original Sample Provided by Harris Cole
Track: 3
Released: June 06, 2023

+ https://www.heds.app/tape/16

+ https://www.sound.xyz/heds/hedstape-14-feat-harris-cole

heds.

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"Thoughtful Jawn"  hedsTAPE14 (Harris Cole)

"The Mountain"
Produced by: Dutchyyy 
Album: "The Uproot" 
Track: 16
Year Created: 2015
Song Released:  March 6, 2015  (soundcloud only)
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-uproot
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-b-demo-version-

Backstory:

After losing my mind living in Los Angeles (2012-2014) then having my spirit crushed moving back to Tampa Bay in record time,  I ended up Traversing to New York summer of 2014.    For more context & to avoid redundancy I've attached an Article on what followed that move to catch up and fill in the blanks surrounding this songs backstory.

https://medium.com/@SolarSounds/shawangunk-stomp-the-story-of-dutchyyys-uproot-4235a4eb66ff

Caught up?  Let's continue....

In February of 2015,  My Pop's (Ziggy) who was the caretaker and lived on the property of Sam's Point Preserve for nearly a decade was blind sighted after receiving a call that the private nature preserve was purchased by the state and they would be replacing him as caretaker with a park ranger (my pops was chef, who by fate was originally offered this lifechanging position and opportunity at his fathers funeral (My Pop Pop) My pop always said he felt like that was his fathers final gift to him, so to hear news that he was losing his home and job was devastating.  To add to the stress,  This was place my father and I reconnected and closely bonded after nearly 15 years of bad blood and no communication.  We were both so happy and at peace on that mountain.  My family has always been poor,  my father worked hard his entire life, after nearly being killed working as prison guard before I was born,  he shifted to his passion of being a cook.   He worked multiple chef jobs and owned a hot dog stand when we lived in New Jersey.   I ended up moving to Tampa when I was 5 years old with my grandparents,  My Mother and younger Brother moved down a year later, and Father moved down a year after that.  He never liked Florida, and being far from his family but he worked every single day, never taking a sick day,  He opened a NY pizza shop in Tampa "Ziggy's Pizzeria" which closed down after his business partner robbed him and fled the country.  After that he worked endlessly as a cook at a sports pub in Town n Country.   He worked hard his entire life, just didn't work smart.  When I was 14 years old my parents divorced and pops moved back to NY.  As A teenager, I didn't understand the context... all I knew was he abandoned my mother, brother and me, which my mother was not ready for which resulted in me having to grow up fast and take on the parent roll.  So I resented my pops for nearly my entire teenage and adult life span.  

After reuniting on the mountain,  I learned the context behind their getting divorced and him moving back to NY and realized I wasted my whole life being angry at him for something beyond his control.  He always felt shame and guilt he was never in a position to help his children out in life financially after our child support ended. 

So now here we are,  reconnected, deeply bonded with mutual respect and that shame and guilt melted away as he saw me flourish creative and spiritually being on that mountain with him.   So finding out he was being displaced and Uprooted with almost no notice,  all he could think about was me, but NY is expensive AF.  Especially the area we lived, which he could not leave because his mother (my grandmother) lived close by with dementia and he had to be close to take care of her.   We searched far and wide and nothing was even close to realistic or affordable and we had to be out of there in 30 days.  I absolutely didn't want to move back to Tampa or Los Angeles so I offered to split rent but we just couldn't find anything in time except a small guess house attached to a friend of a friends house that we could only move to temporally.       

On March 16th 2015 the caretaker house was fully empty and we were about to drive off when he asked if I wanted to walk through one last time to say goodbye.   

I asked him if he would give me 1 hour in the house alone to say goodbye in a way that would help me process this abrupt change the only way I know how.   Making Music.....

I unpacked my Laptop and my portable JBL speaker and walked up the 3rd story Attic I had been living in and creating in the past year.  I loaded up one of my fathers favorite songs and set the timer...   One Hour. 

After I expressed,  I walked out to the jeep in tears and said "we don't even have internet so I can't properly stamp this moment in time"     He reminded me that there was internet in the welcome center and he had to leave the keys in there anyway so I could use the internet to do what I needed to do.  

A few minutes later,  I documented my farewell on SoundCloud.

https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/the-mountain-dutchy

and thus, "The Mountain" was born.

We didn't have much time we were able to live in the guest house we moved to and saw the stress my pops was under trying to find a place for us both where I would be able to make music and I made the tough decision of moving back to Tampa with the plan to move back to NY when I could afford to do so.       

This return to Tampa was soul crushing, but lead to the re-birth of my DailyRambles (The Reluctant Clap) series...    I ended up working a contract at a hospital in NY in spring of 2016 and ended up visiting my Pops in new place (A basement he was renting for very cheap in an amazing house less than two miles away from where we used to live) He was very happy and he wouldn't have gotten that place If he had me to worry about also so it made my choice to leave feel like it was destined, which helped.  I was only supposed to visit a few days after my contracted ended but ended up staying for a month, working on  the cassette version of the album I had just released digitally "Traversal" Shortly after returning back to Tampa, I was offered a place to live in Los Angles, so once again I was a rolling stone.     

I miss that mountain so much,  I often think of what life would be like if we didn't have to move,  I had access to free healthcare,  I was super happy but would I trade all of turmoil, discomfort and pain that Lead to everything I've created musically since if I could turn back time and stop the state from acquiring the nature preserve?...        Not a chance.......       because I know transmuting my experiences good or bad into art ripples out and helps others navigate through life.

Thank you listening and taking the time to read. 

If you are interested in digesting further context and world building surrounding my life and artistic career.  I'll be documenting photo's, videos, artifacts more consistently here:

https://foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd

Love, Light & all that Jazz.

- Dutch

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The Uproot

The Mountain

Album: "The Uproot" (Side A)  [Demo Version] 
Artist / Produced by: Dutchyyy (fka Dutchy aka Dutchmassive)
Runtime: 0:26:39
Created: 2013-2015
Year Released:  Officially Unreleased
Cover & Back Art by: TARTWURK (Tyrell Waiters)
Notes:  The Uproot was meant to be the album released after "Chill Gawd, Chill" & before "Traversal".  The Laptop containing the full & finalized version of the album was destroyed by water damage.  All that remained was a single Audio track of a demo version I exported in the early stages to test how the album sounded from front to back after removing 4 songs "The Scramble" / "Evolution of a shrug" / "Lamb's Bread" & "OneForShoes" at the last minute to place on "Chill Gawd, Chill" 

SIDE A / TRACKLIST:

00:00 - THE FIRELIGHTER
02:21 - THE UPROOT
06:02 - THE STONE
09:13 - NOTYUREYES
12:44 - 5THFLOOR,ROOFTOP (f/ Sleepyeyes)
16:14 - MSMRSMISS (EPILOGUE)
21:43 - MSMRSMISS (PROLOGUE)
24:39 - ABALONE COVE (f/ Simon Sverdlov & Equal Status)

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Album Review by: John Morrison (2020)

Created in the wake of great struggle and turmoil, MC/producer Dutchyyy aka Dutchmassive’s latest project The Uproot is a testament to the power of music, family and personal resilience. In 2013, Dutch found himself on the tail end of a stint living in California. Facing the loss of his job, apartment and relationship, Dutch wound up in Tampa, Florida and eventually New York, couch-surfing, staying with friends and trying to figure out his next move.

“My man Sam Sleezy invited me to visit in NY. He spent months trying to motivate me to record new raps, but all I wanna to do was make beats. I recorded a few tracks that Apathy gave me (still unreleased) as well as my track for the SleezbagMekalekTape, meanwhile hiding outside alone in his hidden forest backyard. I was making beats, then my pops (who I had not spoken with in over a decade) invited to me visit him for the weekend in upstate NY, so I accepted, When I arrived I was surprised to find out my pops was the caretaker of one of the illest nature preserves in upstate NY on the top of the Shawangunk ridge mountains.”

Tucked away in one of the most beautiful natural environments in the country, Dutch began to work on The Uproot, a rich and highly personal work that showcases his ability to craft moving instrumentals. One can’t help but envision the landscapes that inspired Dutch’s process.

“My back and front yard had ice caves, waterfalls, forests and scenery that looked like it came from Tomb Raider meets Lord Of The Rings, on top of that, my pops’ knowledge and collection of music is next level. So I spent a year alone, building with him, inspired by this sacred mountain, creating music all day and night long, in the attic, in the basement, near the waterfall. During this time, I rejected and pulled myself out of any beat collective and just wanted to focus on art without any politics period, I rejected what society had programmed into me.”

With tracks like “The Firelighter” and it’s woozy, dreamy, pitched-down vocal samples or the jazzy minimalism of “The Stone”, The Uproot is full of chilled-out beats and introspective sounds. Featuring guest spots from Simon Sverdlov & Equal Status, Son Of Ziggy, and Sleepyeyes, the album maintains a free-flowing, meditative tone. Putting his mastery at twisting and flipping samples with ecstatic fervor on full display, Dutchyyy has maintained his status as a formidable voice in the contemporary beat scene. Experiencing loss, resetting and rebuilding is never easy, but to pull so much beautiful, life-affirming music out of the process is a feat in it’s own right. Looking back from the other side of that time in his life and all its challenges, Dutch reminds us in his own words that creating The Uproot was all about “losing everything, breaking down, and building up again.”

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Backstory:

Shawangunk Stomp: The story of Dutchyyy’s Uproot.
 Written & Published by: Mecca83

https://medium.com/@SolarSounds/shawangunk-stomp-the-story-of-dutchyyys-uproot-4235a4eb66ff

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In Closing,

While I did recover the Hard drive that contained the original sessions for "The Uproot" in 2019,  Ableton couldn't locate most of drums and some of the samples. which is a disaster as my production style is centered around sidechain compression routed all over the place and changing the drums completely changes the movement and intentional swing/groove of the track. However, in May of 2020 I was contacted by my friend and fellow producer "Mecca83" who convinced me to take the time to finalize the album to the best of my ability and release it on cassette and double vinyl.  I agreed.

2 Days Later,  Height of the pandemic,  I received an Eviction notice from my house in retaliation for me reporting them for doing a fake black mold remediation on my house.   This changed the course of things in a major way as I was dealing with health issues, on top of losing my career teaching at the hospital and Florida not giving anyone access to their unemployment March 2020-August 2020.  My body was on the fritz, and now any sort of peace I had evaporated as I had to plan my next move with zero income,  I had places both in Los Angeles and New York I could move to but that would have required placing all my belongings from my 2 bedroom house that I literally just required in 2017 after years of bouncing and Traversing State to State but I proceeded to open up The Uproot sessions anyway to use what time I had left having access to my studio monitors to properly mix and master.  Unfortunately,  my mind just couldn't focus on the task and instead of refining old songs,  I did what I tend to always do when I'm overwhelmed, and just started making new beats from those old sessions, and then I just kept reflipping the same samples over and over a million different ways...    This was basically the turning event that made me lean into #EvolvingPortals and I kind of never looked back ever since.   Shortly after, my uncle called me and demanded I move in with my 90+ year old grandmother who wasn't handling the pandemic well.  I refused for selfish reasons as I knew there would be no way I could play music loud enough to mix down music properly, but after speaking to her and hearing how bad she was doing.  I put most of my belongings in Storage and moved into this 10x12 room I'm typing from now.   After moving here, I abandoned the idea of remixing down The Uproot and began my next evolution leaning 100% into creating music in real time and recording the whole process, something I dabbled with a few times living at my house, but after being uprooted again as some sort of cosmic joke days after agreeing to finalize this old album about being uprooted haha,  The thought of refining old music and attaching new energy to it while always trying to stick to the original vision was just not something I could bring myself to do....           So,  Only this Demo version exists....  and it is what it is...   and I've made so much new music since that helped me get through some tough times so I have zero regrets.

I'm finally minting this album because a major shift in my life is taking place.  As much as I rejected the idea of releasing this early version into the world knowing how it's final form sounded and hoping one day I would revisit it to bring that version back to life.   That Chapter has closed,  and in a way, if you couldn't already tell from all my backstories and subtle hints,  I'm preparing myself to close the book in general. Which is why documenting my life's work and attaching so much context has been a mission.   I will keep creating new art for as long as humanly possible, but I can't waste precious time going backwards to refine old energy. Every time I try,  I just create a bunch of new stuff haha.           

This album has so much back story, context and experiences woven into as it was intended to be a double album,  the rest of it you might know as "Traversal" =)       I reference these two albums often in backstories as they were the final bodies of work where I created with intentions of creating a meaningful full story that flows from start to finish.    It's been real time, improv, autopilot wizardry documenting expression ever since and I have no current intentions or desires to go back to putting this much time and thought into creating a conventional album again.

So many people Adore this album even in its demo form.  It's hard for me to share that same sentiment when I know what it evolved to become.

I'm releasing this as is, on chain as Side A and Side B.  
Both at 5eth each.    I never mint with the expectations of songs ever being collected.  Just grateful to document my story and creative expressions.

If someone does want to collect both Side A & Side B.   Just bid 7eth on one. and I will gift you the other side.  If / when they are both collected.  I will finally release this version on Cassette with a special dedication to you in the credits. To be clear, I mean this version you are listening to now.  I would love to make a grand gesture that I would finally take time to go back into the sessions to refine the more finalized version,  but trust me.   You want me to utilize the remaining time I have expressing current energy and emotion, not going back in time.

There are so many photos and videos surrounding this album and most of the albums I would love to document on chain soon,  but worse comes to worse,  I'll just send a SSD drive with it all nearly organized to whoever collects these first.  

When I decided to mint these, I was gonna avoid any added backstory beyond the write ups done by John Morrison and Mecca83, but the Rambles just happen.   Autopilot. mind Portals if you may.
If you are curious about the context or backstories around any specific song, please don't hesitate to reach out..

- Dutch

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THE UPROOT (DEMO LP)

"The Uproot" (Side A)  [Demo Version]

Album: "The Uproot" (Side B)  [Demo Version] 
Artist / Produced by: Dutchyyy (fka Dutchy aka Dutchmassive)
Runtime: 0:29:26
Created: 2013-2015
Year Released:  Officially Unreleased
Cover & Back Art by: TARTWURK (Tyrell Waiters)
Notes:  The Uproot was meant to be the album released after "Chill Gawd, Chill" & before "Traversal".  The Laptop containing the full & finalized version of the album was destroyed by water damage.  All that remained was a single Audio track of a demo version I exported in the early stages to test how the album sounded from front to back after removing 4 songs "The Scramble" / "Evolution of a shrug" / "Lamb's Bread" & "OneForShoes" at the last minute to place on "Chill Gawd, Chill" 

SIDE B / TRACKLIST:

00:00 - SHAWANGUNK STOMP (Son of Ziggy)
01:23 - SPRING CHOPS IN THE FALL
06:39 - YEBICHAI SWEAT
11:26 - THE ANCIENTS
14:05 - THE MEDITATION BLOCK
16:34 - THE PROTAGONIST 
19:13 - THE TAME
23:49 - THE MOUNTAIN
26:40 - THE RUDE AWAKENING.

------------------------------------

Album Review by: John Morrison (2020)

Created in the wake of great struggle and turmoil, MC/producer Dutchyyy aka Dutchmassive’s latest project The Uproot is a testament to the power of music, family and personal resilience. In 2013, Dutch found himself on the tail end of a stint living in California. Facing the loss of his job, apartment and relationship, Dutch wound up in Tampa, Florida and eventually New York, couch-surfing, staying with friends and trying to figure out his next move.

“My man Sam Sleezy invited me to visit in NY. He spent months trying to motivate me to record new raps, but all I wanna to do was make beats. I recorded a few tracks that Apathy gave me (still unreleased) as well as my track for the SleezbagMekalekTape, meanwhile hiding outside alone in his hidden forest backyard. I was making beats, then my pops (who I had not spoken with in over a decade) invited to me visit him for the weekend in upstate NY, so I accepted, When I arrived I was surprised to find out my pops was the caretaker of one of the illest nature preserves in upstate NY on the top of the Shawangunk ridge mountains.”

Tucked away in one of the most beautiful natural environments in the country, Dutch began to work on The Uproot, a rich and highly personal work that showcases his ability to craft moving instrumentals. One can’t help but envision the landscapes that inspired Dutch’s process.

“My back and front yard had ice caves, waterfalls, forests and scenery that looked like it came from Tomb Raider meets Lord Of The Rings, on top of that, my pops’ knowledge and collection of music is next level. So I spent a year alone, building with him, inspired by this sacred mountain, creating music all day and night long, in the attic, in the basement, near the waterfall. During this time, I rejected and pulled myself out of any beat collective and just wanted to focus on art without any politics period, I rejected what society had programmed into me.”

With tracks like “The Firelighter” and it’s woozy, dreamy, pitched-down vocal samples or the jazzy minimalism of “The Stone”, The Uproot is full of chilled-out beats and introspective sounds. Featuring guest spots from Simon Sverdlov & Equal Status, Son Of Ziggy, and Sleepyeyes, the album maintains a free-flowing, meditative tone. Putting his mastery at twisting and flipping samples with ecstatic fervor on full display, Dutchyyy has maintained his status as a formidable voice in the contemporary beat scene. Experiencing loss, resetting and rebuilding is never easy, but to pull so much beautiful, life-affirming music out of the process is a feat in it’s own right. Looking back from the other side of that time in his life and all its challenges, Dutch reminds us in his own words that creating The Uproot was all about “losing everything, breaking down, and building up again.”

-------------------------------------
Backstory:

Shawangunk Stomp: The story of Dutchyyy’s Uproot.
 Written & Published by: Mecca83

https://medium.com/@SolarSounds/shawangunk-stomp-the-story-of-dutchyyys-uproot-4235a4eb66ff

-------------------------------------

In Closing,

While I did recover the Hard drive that contained the original sessions for "The Uproot" in 2019,  Ableton couldn't locate most of drums and some of the samples. which is a disaster as my production style is centered around sidechain compression routed all over the place and changing the drums completely changes the movement and intentional swing/groove of the track. However, in May of 2020 I was contacted by my friend and fellow producer "Mecca83" who convinced me to take the time to finalize the album to the best of my ability and release it on cassette and double vinyl.  I agreed.

2 Days Later,  Height of the pandemic,  I received an Eviction notice from my house in retaliation for me reporting them for doing a fake black mold remediation on my house.   This changed the course of things in a major way as I was dealing with health issues, on top of losing my career teaching at the hospital and Florida not giving anyone access to their unemployment March 2020-August 2020.  My body was on the fritz, and now any sort of peace I had evaporated as I had to plan my next move with zero income,  I had places both in Los Angeles and New York I could move to but that would have required placing all my belongings from my 2 bedroom house that I literally just required in 2017 after years of bouncing and Traversing State to State but I proceeded to open up The Uproot sessions anyway to use what time I had left having access to my studio monitors to properly mix and master.  Unfortunately,  my mind just couldn't focus on the task and instead of refining old songs,  I did what I tend to always do when I'm overwhelmed, and just started making new beats from those old sessions, and then I just kept reflipping the same samples over and over a million different ways...    This was basically the turning event that made me lean into #EvolvingPortals and I kind of never looked back ever since.   Shortly after, my uncle called me and demanded I move in with my 90+ year old grandmother who wasn't handling the pandemic well.  I refused for selfish reasons as I knew there would be no way I could play music loud enough to mix down music properly, but after speaking to her and hearing how bad she was doing.  I put most of my belongings in Storage and moved into this 10x12 room I'm typing from now.   After moving here, I abandoned the idea of remixing down The Uproot and began my next evolution leaning 100% into creating music in real time and recording the whole process, something I dabbled with a few times living at my house, but after being uprooted again as some sort of cosmic joke days after agreeing to finalize this old album about being uprooted haha,  The thought of refining old music and attaching new energy to it while always trying to stick to the original vision was just not something I could bring myself to do....           So,  Only this Demo version exists....  and it is what it is...   and I've made so much new music since that helped me get through some tough times so I have zero regrets.

I'm finally minting this album because a major shift in my life is taking place.  As much as I rejected the idea of releasing this early version into the world knowing how it's final form sounded and hoping one day I would revisit it to bring that version back to life.   That Chapter has closed,  and in a way, if you couldn't already tell from all my backstories and subtle hints,  I'm preparing myself to close the book in general. Which is why documenting my life's work and attaching so much context has been a mission.   I will keep creating new art for as long as humanly possible, but I can't waste precious time going backwards to refine old energy. Every time I try,  I just create a bunch of new stuff haha.           

This album has so much back story, context and experiences woven into as it was intended to be a double album,  the rest of it you might know as "Traversal" =)       I reference these two albums often in backstories as they were the final bodies of work where I created with intentions of creating a meaningful full story that flows from start to finish.    It's been real time, improv, autopilot wizardry documenting expression ever since and I have no current intentions or desires to go back to putting this much time and thought into creating a conventional album again.

So many people Adore this album even in its demo form.  It's hard for me to share that same sentiment when I know what it evolved to become.

I'm releasing this as is, on chain as Side A and Side B.  
Both at 5eth each.    I never mint with the expectations of songs ever being collected.  Just grateful to document my story and creative expressions.

If someone does want to collect both Side A & Side B.   Just bid 7eth on one. and I will gift you the other side.  If / when they are both collected.  I will finally release this version on Cassette with a special dedication to you in the credits. To be clear, I mean this version you are listening to now.  I would love to make a grand gesture that I would finally take time to go back into the sessions to refine the more finalized version,  but trust me.   You want me to utilize the remaining time I have expressing current energy and emotion, not going back in time.

There are so many photos and videos surrounding this album and most of the albums I would love to document on chain soon,  but worse comes to worse,  I'll just send a SSD drive with it all nearly organized to whoever collects these first.  

When I decided to mint these, I was gonna avoid any added backstory beyond the write ups done by John Morrison and Mecca83, but the Rambles just happen.   Autopilot. mind Portals if you may.

If you are curious about the context or backstories around any specific song, please don't hesitate to reach out..

- Dutch

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"The Uproot" (Side B)  [Demo Version]

"Traversal" (Side A) [Grand Garden Cassette Masters]

Album: Traversal (Cassette Version)
SIDE A.
Produced by: Dutchyyy
Co-Production by: Ruff Draft, Rnd1, Sleepyeyes, AshTreJinkins, Cazal Organism, Eludem, Kaelin Ellis, and Scott Xylo.
Label: Grand Garden Records
Released: December 2nd, 2016
Artwork & Layout by: Chris Hund (Paxico Records)
Traversal Logo by: Dutch
Runtime: 0:44:27

SIDE A:

Tracklist:

SIDE A:
01.) "Sacred Goddess Cave" [00:00]
02.) "ReyOfLight" [03:51]
03.) "The Lift" (feat. Ruff Draft) [07:32]
04.) "Where are we headed?" [13:16]
05.) "Set Your Intentions" [16:39]
06.) "Stop sleeping in so much" (feat. Rnd1) [20:30]
07.) "Golden (Generation Gap)" [22:44]
08.) "Third Eyes Wide Shut" [21:51]
09.) "Japan4" [30:23]
10.) "Sun Will Set" [33:27]
11.) "Aurora Obscurecer Excursiona" [36:52]
12.) "Heavy (KeepYuSatisfied)" [41:54]

Originally release January 1, 2016 digitally on Bandcamp and DSP, 'Traversal' has been re-sequenced, Remastered exclusively for cassette including a few bonus tracks to provide a different listening experience more accurate to the original intended vision.

Traversal serves as means of pivoting in all aspects of life. Created in Headphones, For Headphones.

trav·erse

verb
1. travel across or through.

synonyms: travel over/across, cross, journey over/across, pass over; cover; ply; wander, roam, range

2. move (something) back and forth or sideways.

u·ni·ver·sal

1. of, affecting, or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases.

TRAVERSAL would be the last official album to be released by Dutch even as of today 6.7.23

*Collector will receive a sealed copy of the Sold Out Cassette Version.

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TRAVERSAL (GRAND GARDEN) CASSETTE MASTERS

"Traversal" (Side A) [Grand Garden Cassette Masters]

"Traversal" (Side B) [Grand Garden Cassette Masters]

Album: Traversal (Cassette Version)
SIDE B.
Produced by: Dutchyyy
Co-Production by: Ruff Draft, Rnd1, Sleepyeyes, AshTreJinkins, Cazal Organism, Eludem, Kaelin Ellis, and Scott Xylo.
Label: Grand Garden Records
Released: December 2nd, 2016
Artwork & Layout by: Chris Hund (Paxico Records)
Traversal Logo by: Dutch
Runtime: 0:44:49

SIDE B:

Tracklist:

01.) "Extra Introverted Extraverts"  [00:00]
02.) "Analysis Paralysis" [01:17]
03.) "Catch The Fade" (feat. Eludem) [05:12]
04.) "NoUse" [07:31]
05.) "This Could Be Us..." [09:18]
06.) "Walk In Your Shoes" [12:27]
07.) "Time Me" [15:46]
08.) "Entry, descent and landing" (feat. Scott Xylo) [20:47]
09.) "Dive Off The Deep End" (feat. Cazal Organism) [24:19]
10.) "Rooftop, 5th Floor" (feat. Sleepyeyes) [28:33]
11.) "Submarine Under Brooklyn" [31:17]
12.) "Lua Cheia (feat. Kaelin Ellis) [34:50]
13.) "Sacred Moon Vagina" (feat. AshTreJinkins) [41:04]

Originally release January 1, 2016 digitally on Bandcamp and DSP, 'Traversal' has been re-sequenced, Remastered exclusively for cassette including a few bonus tracks to provide a different listening experience more accurate to the original intended vision.

Traversal serves as means of pivoting in all aspects of life. Created in Headphones, For Headphones.

trav·erse

verb
1. travel across or through.

synonyms: travel over/across, cross, journey over/across, pass over; cover; ply; wander, roam, range

2. move (something) back and forth or sideways.

u·ni·ver·sal

1. of, affecting, or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases.

TRAVERSAL would be the last official album to be released by Dutch even as of today 6.7.23

*Collector will receive a sealed copy of the Sold Out Cassette Version.

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"Traversal" (Side B) [Grand Garden Cassette Masters]

"Untitled in April"

Produced by: Dutchyyy, Vik
Album: "Chill Gawd, Chill"
Track: 10
Released: Feb 5th, 2015

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

-------------------

Backstory:

One night, while scrolling through tumblr, alone in my Los Angeles apartment, on a random impulse I ended up sending a message to Vik (fka Viktor Stone / Vktrstn) who was the founder of  the infamous #AstralBasement Collective (one of the 1st "Lofi-HipHop" Collectives.   We knew of each other but hadn't spoken up to this point.  If I remember correctly, I think my message just said "Send me some drums to lay Chops Over" and gave him my email.    

A few hours later [Mon, Mar 25, 2013, 12:56 AM] I got an email titled "$$$$$$$$" with no words, just a file attached named "Drums4dutchy.wav".  About a week passed, between spending time with my GF and working I didn't have a chance to load the drums up, I honestly Didn't see the email until a week later when I reminded him not to forget to send me drums and he told me he already sent them a few hours after I originally asked for them.  I loaded them into Ableton as soon as I got home from work around 9:30pm, and uploaded my quick flip to soundcloud a few hours later just before the stroke of midnight.

https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/viktorstone-x-dutchy-untitled

The Next Day, Vik invited me to join #AstralBasement 

A few months later, we dropped the Compilation: Vol. 1.5: Pre-Explorations

https://astralbasement.bandcamp.com/album/vol-15-pre-explorations

and began working on 2.0...     but all good things must come to end.  And like most collectives that existed during that Golden Era of Soundcloud, everyone went their separate ways for the usual reasons most crews, groups and collectives do.  

I still have all the unreleased songs from 2.0 on an old hard drive and it still holds up to this day.


Fast Forward, to winter 2014 while in the attic of the house I was living in at Sam's Point Nature Preserve in New York.  While brainstorming and organizing my next official release "Chill Gawd, Chill" (The 120 minute Cassette) I decided to revisit that Session to remove the intro and extend the beat with some slight change ups.

A few months Later, The 2 Hour Tape was released

and thus "Untitled in April" was born.

You can find more of Vik's music here:
https://vktrstn.bandcamp.com/music

Peace to Astral Basement and quick flips to start the month of April.

PeacePeace.

- Dutchyyy

***While we all know that "Music is the Utility" the Collector of this 1/1 will receive one of my personal copies of the sold out final pressing of the 120 minute "Chill Gawd, Chill" Cassette Tape and a box of Authentic (Original) Satyary a "Nag Champa" Incense (100 grams) , From Bengaluru, India w/ the Custom "Chill Gawd, Chill" Sticker on it.***

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Untitled in April (f/ Vik)

"CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE"

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Yawn of the Gemini
Track: 25
Released: May 23, 2010

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

-----------------

Backstory:

Created 2010 in Tampa Bay, FL using FL Studio.  Not much of back story for this one.  Relationship woes and all that Jazz.   I didn't let go tho,  which led to further music about relationship woes haha.

To Be Continued.

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Yawn of the Gemini

CAN'T DO THIS ANYMORE

"Aurora Obscurecer Excursiona (Cruise)"

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Traversal
Track: 10
Released: December 30, 2015 (Bandcamp)
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal

Released: January 1st, 2016 (Streaming)
https://open.spotify.com/album/3dYlFQTK2ZHNEOxsWTv2AX

Released: December 2nd, 2016 (Cassette) via GrandGardenRecords 
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden

---------------------------------------------------
Backstory:
I began this project on April 9th 2015,  on the front porch watching the snowfall in Upstate New York just before Abruptly having to move back to Tampa, FL.  A few months passed as I let the reality set in that I was once again back in the state I kept trying to escape and I put all of that emotion and energy into finalizing my next album "Traversal" after deciding to hold off released the "The Uproot" (The Prequel to Traversal, which is still officially unreleased to this day)  I stumbled back onto the session I began in NY, and Finalized it with new energy  in Tampa, FL on November 15th, 2015 before working on what would be the Last track created for Traversal "Set Your Intentions"  then released the album on bandcamp on December 30th of 2015, and Jan 1st on all streaming platforms while living in Tampa, FL,  A few months later,  I moved back to Los Angeles,  dropped the 2nd Edition pressing of Chill Gawd, Chill which sold out instantly which is when Grand Garden Approached me to release Traversal on Cassette.   The album was re-released on Grand Garden Records as A Cassette only release with different songs not on the original digital version and a sequence that flowed more accurately to my intended vision of how the album should be heard as front to back complete story,  but this release didn't happen until December of 2016,  Which was a few months after my mother passed and once again had to return back to the State I tried so many times to escape haha.   So the album name really holds meaning as it was created while constantly in motion bouncing from state to state.

Traversal serves as means of pivoting in all aspects of life. Created in Headphones, For Headphones.

trav·erse

verb
1. travel across or through.

synonyms: travel over/across, cross, journey over/across, pass over; cover; ply; wander, roam, range

2. move (something) back and forth or sideways.

u·ni·ver·sal

1. of, affecting, or done by all people or things in the world or in a particular group; applicable to all cases.

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Aurora Obscurecer Excursiona (Cruise)

"WRMRAIN"

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: "Blue Screen of Deaf"
Track: 05
Released: September 10th, 2012

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill
From https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012

Original Sample by @AhmedSirour 
https://beta.catalog.works/ahmedsirour/warm-rain-featuring-myles-kayne-
-------------------------

Blue Screen of Deaf - Backstory:

In the great hard drive crash of 2011, A very irresponsible Dutchy lost all the music created that year. The only thing that existed from that era was all the unfinished versions found on scratched burned cd's for "the car tests" ; these are the files that have been recovered.

Fast Forward to Spring of 2012,  After months of planning and saying goodbye to friends and family in the place I called home (Tampa Bay) since I was a child.  I took the leap and decided to move to Los Angeles after taking what was supposed to be a 4-6 month long contract teaching at Cedars-Sinai Hospital.  Unfortunately, we taught them too well & too fast and the contract was cut short, only lasting a few weeks.  I was already committed to making Los Angeles my home but now I was limited on funds, and about to lose the hotel I was supposed to be at for months while searching for apartments, but As fate would have it,  I was about to get a life raft.  After jokingly posting on Facebook,  "I'm hungry, someone bring me some food".   Someone commented, "You're in Los Angeles?  I'm a huge fan of your music and my family owns a restaurant".  It was my day off, so I commented. "Come Scoop" jokingly, not realizing he would want to follow through.   Long Story Short,  We became good friends and that night would change the course of my life.  Meeting multiple strangers who became best friends. When the contract ended.  My new friend (Anthony) allowed me to stay with him while I searched for a place to move into.   During this time, I taught him and a few of his friends (who are now my close friends) how to use FL Studio.  He was a huge fan of my music,  so I played him a bunch of unreleased music I never planned on releasing.  He lost his mind when I was adamant about never releasing the music I was playing him.   What he didn't know was a few months prior on Xmas night 2011,  My Laptop filled with my upcoming Dutchmassive album titled "Romanticizing" along with every beat I made from 2008-xmas 2011 was lost when hard drive got corrupted and dealt me the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death.  I didn't have any of it backed up on extra hard drives.  All that remained from 2008-2011 was the crappy first draft versions I burned to CD's for "The Car Test" and well,  I didn't take care of those either so they all had scratches and were sun damaged.  So the things I was playing him,  where unfinalized early versions of songs that I know became so much greater than the versions I was left with.  He wouldn't take no for an answer and eventually offered to pay my 1st month's rent and my security deposit if I swallowed my pride and uploaded the few early versions I salvaged to bandcamp. He didn't want any profits from it, he just wanted those songs to exist online and be heard by the public. I agreed and moved into my new apartment a few miles down the road from him in May 2012, and Released the album In September 2012.

"WRM RAIN" - Backstory:

This track samples "Warm Rain" by Ahmed Sirour.  It was from his EP "The After 2am Sessions" was originally released May 5th 2011.  

The version of "WRMRAIN" that exists was not the final version,  I feel like I need to disclaimer that for pride sake haha.  The Final Version like, everything else on the album was lost when Laptop Crashed, and the only version I had was the 1st test bounce I burned to CD for the car test. 

Ahmed's EP came into my life at one of the most turbulent times,  and It spoke to me like no album had prior.   Every Melody, Harmony, Chord felt so familiar,  Like language from my soul I didn't know how to communicate myself.   I remember vividly being out of town, working the nightshift in the E.R. of a Hospital in Pittsburg and all the computers were down, and they were so busy and so angry and blaming us (The ones teaching them how to chart on the computer) and they were super Harsh about it.  I managed to escape for lunch, and made my way to the roof of the hospital in anticipation of my phone blowing up at Midnight for my 30th birthday (May 23rd).  I sat up there in silence, til about 12:45 and my phone never rang.  This was the first time in my adult life,  loved ones didn't call me at midnight to wish me a happy birthday,  So on top of everything else going on,  I broke down crying up there.   I put on headphones and hit shuffle and Ahmed Sirour "Warm Rain" came on.  It was like instant healing.  The Cleansing of the soul.   As soon as I returned back to Tampa,  I immediately loaded it up and flipped it,  which was fitting, because it was summer, and it was raining while I worked on it with the sliding glass door wide open.  I really wish I still had access to the finalized,  fully sequenced and mixed version,  but I'm thankful that any version still existed at all because it allows me to time travel and transport myself into memories I probably wouldn't ever recall without.  

You can listen to Ahmed Sirour's album here: (The Original EP was deleted a while back but all the songs from it exist on the LP version which was released a little over a year later)

https://ahmedsirour.bandcamp.com/album/the-after-2am-sessions-lp

Ahmed was the 1st Artist I reached out to Onboard to Catalog when I was given the opportunity to become a Curator for Catalog for Cycle 2.

https://beta.catalog.works/ahmedsirour 

This is a 50/50% split with Ahmed Siour

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Blue Screen of Deaf

WRMRAIN

"Lamb's Bread"

Produced by: Dutchyyy, AshTreJinkins, Sleepyeyes
Album: "Chill Gawd, Chill"
Track: 20
Released: Feb 5th, 2015

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

-------------------

Backstory:

"Bright green and sticky, Lamb's Bread gives you energy and positive introspection."

I've held off on uploading this record even though it's one of my favorite songs of all time.  I've collabed with countless people over the years but 97% of the time,  that collab is a producer sending me a drum loop and I end up doing everything else, including most of the time, altering the drum loop and adding more drums, but this collab is the absolute exception.  

"Lamb's Bread" was created in KoreaTown (Los Angeles) in October 2013 right around Halloween at Sleepyeyes Apartment.  AshTreJinkins and I took the train to sleepy's crib to chill and when we showed up,  Sleepy had a plastic canister of :::air quotes::: "Flowers" called "Lamb's Bread".  We lit some Nag Champa then all partook in the  ritual of passing the "flowers".  You know those magic flowers that enhance taste, sight and sound and boost creativity =)

We then began talking about our favorite artists and albums to sample,  So i mentioned an artist I've sampled 390390394 times since the mid 90's [REDACTED] and I proceeded to transfer the full discography to Sleepy's harddrive.  What do 3 producers do when they get in a room after passing the creativity flower?   Rhetorical question!   We opened the DAW (ABLETON LIVE) and I began to show them my insanely quick workflow when it comes to setting up and preparing a sample to turn into an actual instrument through a billion tiny Micro-chops.   

This track has 3 change ups. It was the ultimate form of collaboration and something I was not used to.

1st part of the beat was all Dutchyyy.  Drums & Sample Chops....  
2nd part of the beat was Tre on Bass (except 1 note I shifted), Sleepy on chops and Dutch on Drums.
3rd part of the beat was Tre on Drums, Sleepy on bass and Dutch on the Chops

We all did a little EQ and mixing and the next day Sleepy sent over the track with the added Vocal samples and better master version in general.

I uploaded the track to Soundcloud a little over a week from when we created it and the rest was History.  

https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/lambs-bread-dutchy-x

The track has about 58k plays on Soundcloud, comments from legends and to this day remains one of the most requested songs to be uploaded to DSPS.

The track also caught the Ear of the well respected & highly elusive "GodsConnect" who's seal of approval was stamped by him creating Visuals around your track (Usually stuff with vocal samples)

You can view his Visual edit here: 

https://www.youtube.com/watchv=hylhY2MjuM8&ab_channel=GodsConnect

"Lamb's Bread" was created during a transitional stage in my life,  A great shift in energy.  I had already begun working on what was supposed to be my next official album "The Uproot" and this was intended to be released on that album.   It's one of 4 songs I pulled from "The Uproot" at the very last moment and added to the critically acclaimed,  3 times best selling & sold out Cassette.  The infamous 2 hour Tape "Chill Gawd, Chill".   This decision was made because "Chill Gawd, Chill" was a vast collection of older songs I created 2012-2013 while living in Los Angeles,  but none of those songs except the albums title track were new or sonically represented my current direction of sound at the time.   I'm still a bit regretful for pulling these songs from "The Uproot" since it derailed the album for a time and then fate stepped in and destroyed the hard drive where all the master session files so that album still remains officially unreleased except a long form, early demo version which can be heard on bandcamp.

and thus, "Lamb's Bread" was born.

Thank you for taking time to read the back story and thank you for listening.

-Dutch

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This record will be a 3 way split.  Currently Catalog only allows splits with 1 other person,  So 33.3% split will be on chain w/ @AshTreJinkins who is also an Artist on Catalog Works.
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*****Collector will receive one of my personal copies of the sold out "Chill Gawd, Chill" Cassette Tape & A Box of authentic Nag Champa Original Incense with Custom "Chill Gawd, Chill" Sticker.

*****Collector will also receive access to something that doesn't exist publicly.  Access to the Separated Demo tracks from "The Uproot"

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Lamb's Bread (f/ AshTreJinkins & Sleepyeyes)

"ESCAPE S!LENT H!LL"

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Yawn of the Gemini
Track: 34
Released: May 23, 2010

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

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Backstory:

Created October 2009 in Tampa Bay, FL using FL Studio.  Was chilling at a friends house watching horror movies & ended up putting on the movie Silent Hill for him to watch for the first time, and I ended up getting distracted in headphones working on music since I already saw the movie a bunch a times and needed a peaceful escape from all the horror movie vibes honestly haha.   So I went into my zen state, but decided to add A change up based on that creepy scene in Silent Hill where the Emergency Alarm starts going off and the world starts decaying & transforming into that terrifying world of ashes.       

and thus,  ESCAPE S!LENT H!LL was born.

Thank you for taking the time to read the backstory and for listening. 

Dutch

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ESCAPE S!LENT HILL

"WHNTHENGHTCMS PART II" 

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Blue Screen of Deaf
Track #: 13
Released: September 10, 2012 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012

Backstory:

Created: Early May 2012 in my San Pedro apartment overlooking the Port of Los Angles.   Not much of back story for this one.   Though I do vividly remember making these back to back "WHNTHENGHTCMS PART I" & "WHNTHENGHTCMS PART II".   I was home alone after a breakup,  Nag Champa burning,  watching the last bit of daylight fade away and decided to keep myself distracted by being productive.  I remember it so vividly because I distinctly remember trying to open old sessions in FL Studio  of tracks I made prior to the great hard drive crash  of Xmas 2011 and getting really depressed that the ones that did load up where missing all the drums and vsts.   I had only been in Los Angeles a few months at that point,  Most of that time was spent either working at Cedars-Sinai, couch surfing at a new friends house, or just busy being distracted and in love.  I only made like 2 or 3 beats while living at my friends house up the street. "THE RARARA!" is the only one of those tracks I ended up adding to "Blue Screen Of Deaf". 

So shortly after moving into this apartment with my ex I moved across the country for, and I mean like the first week,  we broke up (for the first time) and I didn't know what to do with myself honestly. Being alone during the day was one thing,  but this was my first night alone in that apartment and I was dreading it, So as soon as it got dark it was finally time to get my zen on and get lost in creation.  I kinda blacked out after that moment, which is  normal when i'm alone getting lost in the DAW even to this day.  It's like time stops. I pop out from working and the reality is time did not stop at all. Like a Portal =)   

I didn't know it at the time but these would be some of the last beats I would ever make in FL Studio.  Shortly after these were made, Ahwlee entered my life and introduced to me to the real love of my life, Ableton Live =)

I was hesitant to put these tracks on the album because they were created after the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.  I added these two songs,  ANGLWNGS, and THE RARARA! to the album literally at the very last moment before I uploaded it considering when I released the album, I had already been using Ableton for like 5 months and wanted to keep the FL Studio tracks separate.   The one exception to this was "Just Be Yourself" which I saved to use for something I was more proud of. 

For full context around the album, Please read the backstory written here:  

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-insane-go-all-don-t-we-if-w-sweatson-klank

I guess there was A backstory to these tracks after all.   It's pretty amazing being able to transport back in time and re-live moments attached to creating art.  I got that pit in my stomach I haven't felt in nearly a decade re-living this memory though.   

Thank you for listening / Reading,

Dutch

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WHNTHENGHTCMS PART II

"WHNTHENGHTCMS PART I" 

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Blue Screen of Deaf
Track #: 14
Released: September 10, 2012 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012

Backstory:

Created: Early May 2012 in my San Pedro apartment overlooking the Port of Los Angles.   Not much of back story for this one.   Though I do vividly remember making these back to back "WHNTHENGHTCMS PART I" & "WHNTHENGHTCMS PART II".   I was home alone after a breakup,  Nag Champa burning,  watching the last bit of daylight fade away and decided to keep myself distracted by being productive.  I remember it so vividly because I distinctly remember trying to open old sessions in FL Studio  of tracks I made prior to the great hard drive crash  of Xmas 2011 and getting really depressed that the ones that did load up where missing all the drums and vsts.   I had only been in Los Angeles a few months at that point,  Most of that time was spent either working at Cedars-Sinai, couch surfing at a new friends house, or just busy being distracted and in love.  I only made like 2 or 3 beats while living at my friends house up the street. "THE RARARA!" is the only one of those tracks I ended up adding to "Blue Screen Of Deaf". 

So shortly after moving into this apartment with my ex I moved across the country for, and I mean like the first week,  we broke up (for the first time) and I didn't know what to do with myself honestly. Being alone during the day was one thing,  but this was my first night alone in that apartment and I was dreading it, So as soon as it got dark it was finally time to get my zen on and get lost in creation.  I kinda blacked out after that moment, which is  normal when i'm alone getting lost in the DAW even to this day.  It's like time stops. I pop out from working and the reality is time did not stop at all. Like a Portal =)   

I didn't know it at the time but these would be some of the last beats I would ever make in FL Studio.  Shortly after these were made, Ahwlee entered my life and introduced to me to the real love of my life, Ableton Live =)

I was hesitant to put these tracks on the album because they were created after the dreaded Blue Screen of Death.  I added these two songs,  ANGLWNGS, and THE RARARA! to the album literally at the very last moment before I uploaded it considering when I released the album, I had already been using Ableton for like 5 months and wanted to keep the FL Studio tracks separate.   The one exception to this was "Just Be Yourself" which I saved to use for something I was more proud of. 

For full context around the album, Please read the backstory written here:  

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-insane-go-all-don-t-we-if-w-sweatson-klank

I guess there was A backstory to these tracks after all.   It's pretty amazing being able to transport back in time and re-live moments attached to creating art.  I got that pit in my stomach I haven't felt in nearly a decade re-living this memory though.   

Thank you for listening / Reading,

Dutch

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WHNTHENGHTCMS PART I

"Chill Gawd, Chill" - Produced by Dutchyyy

The title track from the infamous  2hr Tape  "Chill Gawd, Chill" 

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"Don't over think it" / "Utility"

***By collecting this record, you will unlock the full 39 track album from being exclusive to Bandcamp & Cassette only, and finally make it available on all streaming platforms.  Which will make you a superhero in eyes of everyone who's been asking for this to become a reality since it originally dropped in 2015***

***While we all know that "Music is the Utility" the Collector of this 1/1 will receive one of my personal copies of the sold out final pressing of the 120 minute "Chill Gawd, Chill" Cassette Tape and a box of Authentic (Original) Satyary a "Nag Champa" Incense (100 grams) , From Bengaluru, India w/ the Custom "Chill Gawd, Chill" Sticker on it.***

***Collector will also receive a 1TB Samsung SSD drive which will have a zip of the original Ableton Live (ALS) Project File / Session with all the samples and stems from when this track was originally made and exported on February 4th, 2015.  The SSD will also be loaded up with the "Dutchyyy VS The Algorithms" Master Vault which is over 120GB of my nearly my full released & unreleased discography (1996-present) as well as a folder of videos, photos,  previous live streams from Twitch, Youtube & IG. @PeacePeaceGawd ***

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Album Title:  "Chill Gawd, Chill" 
Runtime: 120 minutes
Release Date: February 5th, 2015 

Tracklist:

SIDE A

1. The A-Side 01:55
2. Turning Point (f/ Chester Watson) 02:15
3. Como El Hielo 04:48
4. Sunday Chops 03:23
5. Fat Night Session (f/ NiceGuyxVinny) 02:14
6. EIRYNGHT (f/ OriJanus) 03:38
7. The Boogie & The Search 02:38
8. His Orchestra (f/ Ben Jamin) 04:12
9. AllMost 01:48
10. Untitled in April (f/ Vik) 01:55
11. Hero Hair 02:28
12. MyStylesLike... 01:41
13. That Uh Make You Say... 01:29
14. DeadAss 02:22
15. Nah B 02:26
16. The Hardest 03:46
17. AnotherLilCrumble 02:35
18. The Scramble 05:52
19. Evolution of a Shrug 06:27
20. Lamb's Bread (f/ Sleepy Eyes & AshTreJinkins) 03:54

SIDE B

21. The B-Side 01:53
22. Chill Gawd, Chill 03:07
23. Just Be Yourself 03:33
24. In Headphones, at your party 02:17
25. Aini 02:29
26. Broken Circadian 01:32
27. The Eraser (Part I) 03:42
28. The Eraser (Part II) 03:57
29. Dedicado 04:15
30. Medutayshun (f/ Ahwlee) 02:22
31. Astral Travl'n 03:43
32. Simplemente 03:38
33. SuprNatrl 03:53
34. Ridiculous! 04:28
35. ShameOnYu 04:52
36. Star In The East (f/ Kaelin Ellis) 02:58
37. Rik's Jawn 04:54
38. WoneChuGoAway 01:47
39.  OneforShoes 01:58

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Backstory: 
Before we time travel to the beginning, Let's start this at the very end.
"Chill Gawd, Chill" was the last song created for the album.  When I say last, I mean it did not even exist 48 hrs prior to the album being released .  The title track was created in Upstate NY at Sam's Point Nature Preserve on Feb 4th, 2014 the day prior to the Album being stealth released and immediately selling out on Feb 5th 2015.  
"Chill Gawd, Chill" held Bandcamp's top selling HipHop Cassette and Digital release for 2 weeks straight long after all copies were sold out. Before we get into how and why this particular track was made, let's time travel back to 2012 and visit my tiny apartment in San Pedro, CA. overlooking the Port of Los Angeles where this album first began.

Since this backstory will be revisited in detail in the near future when I mint the song "Medutayshun" (f/ Ahwlee) I'll Just summarize the important part.  My friend Kronika / Angel of Soulection introduced me to a produced named "Ahwlee".  We vibed and clicked pretty fast and he would come stay at my apartment and we would both be making beats in headphones on separate laptops,  Him on Ableton and me on FL Studio.  Long Story Short,  after multiple visits of him making entire albums in Ableton Live  while I was still working on One beat in FL Studio,  I finally asked him to teach me Ableton.  The next morning (May 16th 2012), We put that teaching into practice and collaborated on our first track. Him on drums, synths and me on chops. We knocked this track out in a matter of minutes, and exported the track.  He packed up his laptop and headed home and as soon as he left, I immediately uploaded the track to Soundcloud ( https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/ahwleexdutchy-meduhtayshun ) and history was made.  While I didn't know at the time,  this would become the first track created for "Chill Gawd, Chill".

For the following week I would make a few more beats in FL Studio (which ended up on my album "Blue Screen of Deaf) and I was getting frustrated with how long everything took compared to Ableton.  Ahwlee came back over on my birthday (May 23rd 2012) with the intention of installing Ableton onto my laptop.   I decided to close a chapter in my life and made my very beat in FL Studio titled "Just Be Yourself" (which was the first track from the album I minted on Catalog that @StvdioNoveau /  @snvault  just collected which unlocked the title track of "Chill Gawd, Chill" to be minted for a chance to unlock the album to DSP's) - https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-just-be-yourself-

To bring us back on track,  Ceremoniously closing the chapter and giving FL Studio a proper send off was like being reborn.  I immediately dove into Ableton Live and started cranking out music I loved at a rapid rate.  Going from FL Studio to Ableton was like taking ankle weights and chains off.   I was having so much fun, and I was able to execute ideas very very quickly.  Over the next 2 years, I made a lot of music, collabed with alot of my friends and every song was done in 15minutes to an hour max.  Fast forward to mid 2013, while living in a new apartment in Hawthorne, A ridiculous chain of events would happen that would create a new Arc for how I approached music.  Times were heavy, my heart was broken so the music became more intentional.   After a nasty breakup and nearly tossing my laptop out of the window, my friend Kaelin Ellis called me to calm me down and convinced me to take all that pain and anger and channel it into making music.  After we hung up,  I created "The Firelighter" which became the first track created for what was meant to be my next album "The Uproot". After that night,  There was a different energy attached to what I was creating.  Shortly after, I lost my job at Warner Brothers, got evicted from my apartment and was painfully ejected from Los Angeles.  After a short return back home to Tampa, FL I moved to Upstate NY and went through a little more pain before finally achieving peace on a secluded mountain where my spirit, outlook and sound would evolve.  (you can read more about that back story here - https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/set-your-intentions )  The Reality is,  I had so much new music I was excited to release which became the albums "The Uproot" & "Traversal" which I wanted to release as a double album telling a full very intentional story. 
but I was sitting on so much unreleased music that I made while in Los Angeles and it felt weird releasing this super heavy double album while all this other unreleased music that represented a whole Arc of life where I was just having fun was still in limbo.  So I started sorting all of that music and decided to release the older music first on cassette.  I realized I had too many songs to fit on a 90 minute Tape,  So I decided to press a 120 minute Cassette.  At the last minute, I lost a few tracks due to corrupted  Ableton projects so I filled in the gaps by pulling 4 songs from "The Uproot" which I regret.  At the time, I was able to justify it in my mind because, everything else was so old and didn't really represent where I was currently at musically so I added "The Scramble" / "Evolution of a Shrug" / "Lamb's Bread" / & "OneForShoes" to fill out the cassette.  This choice would eventually come back to haunt me and become the catalyst of years of hoarding music due to releasing music out of order from when it was created which seems silly but Chronological documentation has always been something I value.    

To wrap this up where we first began in this story,  It was the day before I planned to release the album I titled "Chill Gawd, Chill"  An album I titled in response to everyone asking non stop when I would drop a new album. I've been burning "Nag Champa" incense ritualistically since the mid 90's.  Nearly every beat on that album was created with smoke drifting in the air,  I got all of my friends in Los Angeles hooked on burning Nag Champa and the album also represented a period in my life where I was super chill and didn't approach music with too much intent or heaviness so I had my friend DJ (PeaceOutPremiere) to Design the cover artwork and stickers,  and attached stickers to boxes of Nag Champa to mail out with the tapes but something was missing.  The album needed one final track, created with intent to convey the overall vibe of the album.  The entire album was full of sample chops,  but while I was on the mountain, I also started making music under the alias "Sonofziggy" which was no samples,  just one take, live recorded long form sessions of me blindly playing keys and instruments.  So for the final track,  I wanted to sample myself,  So I played some keys,  Then I chopped up my own recording like I would any other sample, laid some drums,  Played some more keys, bass and synths and Bounced out a song live in one take, and thus was born the title track to the 2 hour tape "Chill Gawd, Chill"

The next day, I quietly dropped the album on Bandcamp with pre-orders for the Cassette. It sold out immediately and was Bandcamp's best selling Cassette. Due to high demand and fomo, I was pressured into doing a second pressing of Cassette w/ Nag Champa which dropped on my birthday, May 23rd 2016. Once again, it sold out immediately and was Bandcamp's best selling cassette for 2 weeks in a row. Obviously, my most popular / successful instrumental album as Dutchyyy (fka Dutchy) the demand to upload this to streaming was unbearable. To this Day, "Chill Gawd, Chill" remains only available on bandcamp. In fall of 2020, I did one final pressing of the two hour tape w/ Nag Champa. It was the last time I will press "this version" of the cassette

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"Chill Gawd, Chill"

Be one with the Cosmos.  Rest in Eternal Peace. <x3

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Astral Travl'n

*This record is a 50/50% split with @RND1  

"Stop Sleeping In So Much" 
Produced by: Dutchyyy & RND1
Vocals by: @RND1
From the 2015 digital version of "Traversal"

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal

Backstory:
I'd like to start this off by going on record that anytime the Question who my favorite producer is, the answer has been RND1 for the last decade so with that out of the way lets time travel a bit.

I met @RND1 (pronounced Round One) in 2012 when I first moved to Los Angles & joined the beat collective "Astral Basement" founded by Vik (previously known as Viktorstone) 

https://astralbasement.bandcamp.com/

I had been following Astral Basement since before I moved to L.A. during the infamous Tumblr Era, so when Vik reached out and asked if I wanted to be involved I said yes without hesitation.   The age of beat collectives,  I was apart of so many during the soundcloud era (Astral Basement, Soulection, FlyByNight, Expansions Collective, Cosmic Compositions,  Collective Resonance, Rootnote collective , etc)   

It wasn't until July 19th 2013  I got to meet RND1 in person for the first time at the Astral Basement show for Beat Soup at PooBah Records (Rest in Peace Ras G)  in Pasadena.   I remember meeting RND1 for the 1st time and him being so shy and quiet in person,  I noticed he looked cold so I gave him my Jacket to wear (something he must of really appreciated because I forgot about this but it's something that stuck with him for years to follow as he always reminds me) It was crazy to me this producer that I basically fanned out over constantly was so humble and reserved and we just clicked instantly.   RND1,  like most amazing producers I know has the all too common "BEAT HOARDER" syndrome.  He does release music,  but I have countless folders upon folders of the greatest music I've ever heard dating as far back as 2012 and he's yet to release any of it haha.   We grew closer as friends after I moved away from Los Angeles and he was the first person I went to for beats when I was living in New York and entertaining the idea of recording another "Dutchmassive" album.   He sent me batch after batch and instead of writing to anything, a new series would be born.  "DailyRambles" (The Reluctant Clap)  A series where I would blindly load up batches of beats I haven't listened to yet on my portable Tascam DR-05 and attempt to Freestyle over whatever I hear (this was my way of gauging if a beat had potential to sit and write to) and while I didn't end up writing or recording another "Dutchmassive" album,  I recorded 6 years worth of freestyles (Dailyrambles) and that all started by RND1 sending batches of absolute heat.  

In 2015,  I moved from New York back to my home town of Tampa, FL which came with very different energy and challenges than I had living on a secluded mountain in NY or the overstimulating energy of Living in Los Angeles,  So I decided to finish an album I began while living in Los Angeles, continued in New York and now would close that Chapter back in the state I tried my hardest to escape.  It was really important that I had a collab with RND1 on this project, so he sent me batch of beats he recently started and I didn't even make it through the entire folder before asking him to send me the Ableton Session for this beat. Most of ground work had already been laid, but I was able to go in and Dutchify it up enough adding an intro, horns, layered chops, some drums and drop outs etc but this is the one collab where I can say,  I didn't do most of the heavy lifting.   Usually I just get a drum loop and then do everything from there with very few exceptions.   There's much more to the RND1 x Dutchyyy story,  but we will pick back up where we left off in future backstories for future uploads.  To Be Continued  =)

"Stop Sleeping In So Much" was the 2nd to last song created for "Traversal" and I'm very thankful to have crossed paths with RND1 and gained a best friend / brother in process.

one of my favorite instrumental albums of all time is by RND1

https://trashsupply.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-wknd

You can find more of his music here:
https://rnd1.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/rnd1 

and hopefully soon @ https://beta.catalog.works/rnd1

If you'd like to experience "Traversal" the way it was intended to be digested.  You can listen to the Cassette version (which has a different mix, master, sequence and even songs that vary from from original digital release.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden

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Stop Sleeping In So Much (f/ RND1)

"Evolution of a Shrug" - Produced by Dutchyyy

From the 2 hour Cassette "Chill Gawd, Chill" 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Backstory:
Created  October 2014 while living in Upstate New York on the Sam's Point Nature Preserve.  Originally created with the intent of being released on "The Uproot".  It was one of four songs I pulled last minute to include on "Chill Gawd, Chill" to showcase more current music since the Majority of Chill Gawd, Chill was created 2012-2013.

 ( https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-uproot )

The theme & inspiration of the song was in line with most of music created for "The Uproot" which was rebelling against the current Meta and Trend of the time (which is still relevant) of switching up to making more short, upbeat, dance type music.   I have nothing  against short songs,  upbeat or dance music.  I make that type of music as well but the majority of people at the time were pivoting so hard from their originally identity,  that I couldn't tell who's music was who in a blind listening test and I was pretty vocal about it which didn't earn me any  "cool points" haha.   I missed hearing music that rewarded the patient ear with slow builds and subtle changes and told a story, so I decided to stop worrying about what anyone else was creating and be the change I wanted to see.  This was around the time I decided to Live & Let Live and just focus on creating what I wanted to express and tuned out all the noise. 

Deep Isolation + Heavy Introspection = "I don't care"  Do you, have fun,  I'll be over here evoking & evolving.  PeacePeaceGawd

and thus "Evolution of a Shrug" was born.

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Evolution of a Shrug

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Vocals Written & Performed by: MsMMMcG (aka Margaret "Mousey" McGlynn) https://www.msmmmcg.com/

Backstory:  3:19am, December 19, 2016, I received my 1st twitter DM from Mousey saying "Hey check yr gmail- sent you 2 songs of yours I recorded vocals for today." Mousey and I spoke prior in Gmail and ran in the same circles where she had Residency (Beat Cinema / Low End Theory, etc) So I was already familiar w/ and a fan of her work.  At the time, I was out of town on A contract, teaching  at the hospital but I listened on my break and sent her back a message on IG. Letting her know I loved what I heard and added my critiques on the mixing.  She recorded over two  beats that were already officially released on my album/cassette, so I didn't put too much thought into it.  A few months later in March 2017  I asked if she minded if I posted one of the songs on my Soundcloud on her birthday (which is the demo version of Adult and varies from the version on the official "Dutchess EP"

https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/mousey-mcglynn-adult-prod-by-dutchy-niceguy-x-vinny

MsMMMcG did a lot of live performances so I told her that she can record vocals over any song of mine that inspires her.  Months passed and she said she wanted to record enough tracks for an EP. I said that's fine, as long as I can mix the vocals to my beats. She ended up choosing more beats from albums that have already been released, so I said I'm cool with the EP being a free promo thing because I personally didn't want to monetize tracks that I've already released and made money from. More time passed, she would send vocals as she recorded them but I was in the process of working on two new albums and a side project when I was home, and I was out of state traveling teaching at hospitals every other month, So admittedly, I was super busy and I procrastinated on mixing the tracks, until she lit a fire under me letting me know she wanted to shoot multiple videos for the songs.   Sent out a few different versions, more time passed, and I finally agreed to her releasing the EP on Bandcamp & Streaming.  She was insistent on splitting any profits 50/50 but I declined and told her not to worry about splits because I still felt weird about double monetizing my beats. (I know, I know... I'm not the most business savvy artist on the planet)

In April of 2019 she released the "Dutchess EP" on bandcamp & Streaming

DUTCHESS EP LINK: https://msmmmcg.bandcamp.com/album/dutchess-ep

Also releasing 3 videos from the EP throughout 2019

The more you know:

The Instrumental used for this song is from the 2015 (Digital Version) album "Traversal" and it's originally titled "The Chop & The Loop".

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/the-chop-the-loop

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Dutchess EP

"the stakes" (f/  MsMMMcG)

"Jawn'adelphia" - Produced / Composed by: Dutchyyy

Backstory, Details, & Videos available at:

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/portals-jawnadelphia

Let's talk about Utility: 

I want to try something a little different this time, as always:  

*****All bidders on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography. *****

In addition:

1.) If auction ends at the reserve price set and no higher,  "Jawn'adelphia" will be uploaded to my DSP (Distrokid) i.e. Spotify, Apple, Tidal, Amazon, Etc as a single.  

2.) If auction ends at .5 eth or above, winner will be added to the royalty splits on DISTROKID in perpetuity for a 20% split and the 2nd highest bidder will receive a 10% split (If there is only one person bidding, they will receive the full 30% royalty split on the single)

3.) If Auction reaches 1 eth,  I will upload the full 10 track "Jawn'adelphia" (Evolving Portals) Album to DistroKid.  winner will be added to the royalty splits on DistroKid in perpetuity for a 40% split and the 2nd highest bidder will receive a 10% split (If there is only one person bidding, they will receive the full 50% royalty split on the entire album) https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/portals-jawnadelphia

Important Note: 

To receive splits you will need to have a DistroKid account to collect your earnings. If you're not already using DistroKid, you'll get a 50% discount to sign up!  I will need the email address that you already use or would like to use for DistroKid for this to work. Until you accept my invitation, your assigned split of the earnings will be held in DistroKid's bank. Once you accept and create an account, the held earnings will be available in your own Bank within 24 hours. Bank access is permanent so if you decide not to renew your DistroKid membership you will still be able to keep earning royalties and withdraw it.  If you aren't familiar with how streaming payouts work on DistroKid or how long it takes for reported earnings to hit after music is first uploaded. Feel free to visit DistroKid & look through the FAQ's

While it's my hope that you collect my music with the intent of holding onto it forever. In the name of Utility, If you would like to use these Streaming Royalties as an incentive to sell to another collector for any reason I can either transfer your full split to the person who collects it from you, or I can add them in at any time for whatever percentage you and that person agree on based on your percentage of the splits (mine will remain the same) This of course requires a bit of trust & communication.  So feel free to reach out to me Privately on twitter @dutchmassive. 

* I'm also willing to add this feature on other uncollected songs of mine on Catalog so feel free to reach out if you'd like to discuss further.

*also because of this unique added utility, I set the the creator share to 15% for this release instead of my usual 10%*

This is my attempt at saying thank you & bringing more value and building lasting bonds with my collectors.  I've rejected the streaming model for years and have so much music I could have uploaded and decided not to, I'd like to change how I approach streaming and start uploading more music instead of exclusively posting to bandcamp or hoarding it away in the "Dutchyyy VS the Algorithms" cloud drive.  We will see how this goes,  maybe it will become the start of exciting future and you will be the catalyst. =)

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"Jawn'adelphia" (Evolving Portals)

Jawn'adelphia

"A DAY AT THE POOL"  - Produced by Dutchyyy

Released on my 2010 album "Yawn of the Gemini" 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

Backstory:  
Created early 2010, on FL Studio on my Laptop while getting some sun at the pool.   This was one of my no samples, practice beats. It sounds like I sampled the waves from the NES game "T&C Surf Design" but sadly,  that sound is just a by product of using unregistered VST's  ; )   It fit the vibe of being at pool so I just ran with it.  Back then, and still to this day,  I would/will alternate and dedicate different days to different methods of production,  I.E.  "loops only day",  "Micro-chops day",  "No samples day".  and thus, "A DAY AT THE POOL" was born.

Fun Fact: This instrumental was later used on the digital version of "Traversal" released winter 2015.  It was released under the name "Esoteric" and featured A Vocalist by the name C M O

You can read more about that back story here:
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/esoteric-f-c-m-o-

Thank You Ture.
Sincerely,
Dutch

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A DAY AT THE POOL

"Wait for it...!" - Produced by Dutchyyy

Backstory: 

I was on a contract, mid shift working at a hospital in St Louis when I found out about the House Shoes (STREETCORNERMUSIC) Flip Sessions IV.  The deadline was too close for me to wait till I got back home to Tampa to begin working on a flip but I really wanted to participate.  I was working 16hr nights, back to back the entire contract with no days off.  So I had to get creative after my shift.  As soon as I got off at 7am, I took an Uber to the Airport and rented A jeep with an Aux input, I drove back to the Hotel on zero sleep, downloaded the sample to my laptop, took a short nap and then packed my laptop in my backpack to bring to work.  Over the next two shifts,  I'd escape the ICU and head out to the parking lot where I was strategically parked as far as possible from any other cars.  Instead of taking four 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch.  I asked if it was ok if I skipped breaks and just took 2 hour lunches but told staff I would be right outside in the parking lot and to call me if there's an emergency and I'm needed.  I ended up  doing the first half of the beat the 1st night  I took a lunch,  Then decided to flip the sample a completely different way for the 2nd half of the beat on my next lunch break, hence the name of the track.  When I got back to the hotel in the morning.  I uploaded my flip to Soundcloud (February 6th, 2018) and did not miss the deadline =)   

and thus,  "Wait for it...!" was born. 

*****All bidders on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography. *****

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"Wait for it...!"

"OneForShoes" -Produced by Dutchyyy

From the 2 hour Cassette "Chill Gawd, Chill" https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Backstory: The date was May 15th 2014, I was getting onto a flight heading back to Tampa Bay when I learned House Shoes (STREETCORNERMUSIC) was doing his first sample challenge "Flip Sessions" but the Deadline was at Midnight. So I quickly reached out and let him know that I'm boarding a flight but will home in a few hours but will be cutting it super close and asked If I could submit the following the day. He said "Midnight sharp, no exceptions" So I landed at Tampa International, my friend picked me up and I told him we need to stop at Best Buy or somewhere I can purchase speakers since mine were stuck in storage back in Los Angeles at the time. Ran into Best Buy and they didn't have any decent monitors in stock so I purchased a little blue tooth JBL flip speaker. We got to his townhouse and I scrambled to download the sample with less than 2 hours until deadline. Opened up Ableton Live, Laid some basic drums down and went to work manipulating and micro-chopping the sample. Made something quickly and decided, it needed some dope change ups and some extra layering. Did my very best, mixing as I went along and exported right at the buzzer. Turned out to be one of my favorite tracks I've made due to the changes ups so I'm glad I went back to put in more time. I uploaded my track to Soundcloud 6 minutes after the deadline passed. He was definitely not joking when he told me "Midnight sharp, no exceptions" because he did not accept my entry haha. I didn't get discouraged, I ended up submitting to Flip Sessions 3, 4 & 6. I created an entry for 5, but didn't end up submitting it. I intended to use this track on my (at the time) upcoming album "The Uproot" but last minute pulled it to place on "Chill Gawd, Chill" to end out the tape and take us to the next chapter, and thus..... "OneForShoes" was born. 

"Chill Gawd, Chill" was released initially February 5th 2015 Digitally on Bandcamp and as A 120minute (2 hour) Cassette, that came with Nag Champa. It sold out immediately and was Bandcamp's best selling Cassette. Due to high demand and fomo, I was pressured into doing a second pressing of Cassette w/ Nag Champa which dropped on my birthday, May 23rd 2016. Once again, it sold out immediately and was Bandcamp's best selling cassette for 2 weeks in a row. Obviously, my most popular / successful instrumental album as Dutchyyy (fka Dutchy) the demand to upload this to streaming was unbearable. To this Day, "Chill Gawd, Chill" remains only available on bandcamp. In fall of 2020, I did one final pressing of the two hour tape w/ Nag Champa. It was the last time I will press "this version" of the cassette. The problem was, I pulled 4 songs from what was supposed to be my follow up album "The Uproot" and placed them on "Chill Gawd, Chill" last minute. Those songs were "OneForshoes" / "Evolution of a Shrug" / "The Scramble" / "Lamb's Bread" (feat. ashtrejinkins & sleepyeyes) and removed a few songs that were created specifically for "Chill Gawd, Chill".  This decision derailed the release of "The Uproot" which it still remains officially unreleased to this day.  Instead I released "Traversal" next, which is actually the follow up album to the "The Uproot". 

(confusing huh?)

 *****All bidders on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography. *****

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OneForShoes

Produced by: Dutchyyy

Backstory:  
ACT I: Long Story Short, there is no short way to unravel this backstory so buckle in and let's time travel a bit because this journey isn't linear.

"Set Your Intentions" was the last song created for "Traversal", the song title is very specific and symbolic in nature (pun intended) . The album's creative life span started as early as 2013 while still living in my first apartment in Los Angeles.  The creation of "Traversal" would run parallel to the creation of "Chill Gawd, Chill" and more significantly, "The Uproot".  Spanning multiple states and multiple environments / situations that all inspired these sessions in very different but equally profound ways.  After leaving Los Angeles abruptly in early 2014, I jettisoned back to Tampa, FL to be met with extreme heartbreak and disappointment, quickly reminding me when I moved away in the first place.  Fate would extend it's hand in the form of a long time fan & friend of a lot of rappers in my immediate & extended family tree (Demigodz, AOTP,  etc) reaching out and offering an escape hatch to NY to get off the couch I was surfing on in Tampa and come stay a few months in #Yetiville where I would have my own room and access to a studio upstairs. The condition was that I have to write & record a song for his album/mixtape. 

https://samthesleezbag.bandcamp.com/album/sleezbagmekalektape

 I agreed and was on a plane to NY a few days later.  It was dope living in this multi-story 5 bedroom house on hill surrounded and secluded by trees (Lord Digga named that house Yetiville because it was hidden and only accessible by a long narrow dirt road)  Keep in mind, at this point (spring/summer 2014) I had not released an album as Dutchmassive since 2008.  I was not rapping,  I was in my producer bag and that bag wasn't always typical boom-bap beats either.  I make a lot of music and I'm not always trying to make "beats" or at least not ones that traditional 90's hip-hop fans would care about.  I was also at the peak of my trauma & anxiety from what happened prior in LA & Tampa,  So I wasn't really in the mode of the "Dutchmassive" that all these rappers on the east coast remember as,  The over-confident, call em out, battle rapper from the Mid/late 90's was not in building to say the least.  On top of that,  I evolved from that version of myself shortly after releasing my Debut album "Junk Planet" anyway.  My sophomore album on Rawkus "Crush Your System" was crafted with more humility and responsibility so even If I wasn't shaken up by traumatic events.  I don't know how or why anyone expected me to channel that younger version of myself.  Over the next few months, I did song's with Lord Digga,  started an album entirely produced by Apathy (Demigodz) all while taking moments to myself to escape and  hide while having existential crisis and channel that energy into what came natural to me, making beats.  I made "Lua Cheia (f/ Kaelin Ellis)" on my laptop,  sitting in a lawn chair, hidden in the forest.   I made "Analysis Paralysis" outside on the front porch at like 4am during one of the only times in Life I ever thought about taking my own life just to stop feeling this extremely heavy weight I couldn't seem to shake.  In other words,  while trying to be the Dutch all my Hip Hop friends wanted to be again,  I had to sneak time to make the genuine and unconventional music I really desired to create.  Late summer, at the turn of Autumn.  My Pops who I had not really had contact with for well over a decade reached out since he saw I was in NY.  He wanted me to come visit him for the weekend a few hours north of where I was living.....

ACT II: Long Story Short.  I've covered a bit of this Arc in previous backstories on my records on Catalog Works so to condense this a bit.
This Article will fill in some of the blanks so I can bring this story to its neatly wrapped up resolve.

https://mecca83.com/2020/05/shawangunk-stomp-the-story-of-dutchyyys-uproot/

ACT III:  Everything is connected and has purpose, even the Chaos

In spring of 2015, my secluded mountain, return to nature healing Arc came to a close.  I had to once again return back to Tampa Bay after a Year of peace of self discovery in a magical place I never wanted to leave.  When I arrived in Tampa,  it rained for 32 days straight......  and I mean non-stop.  So all I could do was create in doors,  back on the same friends couch I jettisoned from in the first place.  Thankfully my friend, while not a musician himself, shares the same love and taste in music as I do.  So I was able to create minus any pressures or judgements allowing me to continue experimenting and pushing my limits.   

I already messed up "The Uproot" by removing 4 specific tracks intended for that album and throwing them on "Chill Gawd, Chill" and what was originally intended to be A Double album "The Uproot / Traversal" ended up with a different fate.  The laptop I created most of The Uproot was destroyed by water damage.  So I held off on releasing that album and decided to release just "Traversal" and release it out of the intended order by releasing it first.  I had too many songs stacked up,  So I knew I could only fit one more song but knowing that.  I really wanted to create the last song with intention, when the energy felt right.   On July 7th, 2015 I opened up Ableton.  I knew which sample would end this album,  I did the normal boring prep work, finding drums, getting the sample ready and something felt off.   It was ridiculously hot & humid and there was no way I wanted to end this album attached to Florida summer memories. If you are confused about this sentiment,  I invite you to let me explain further in form of lyrics:

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/ajar-produced-by-redacted-2011

Did you listen to the link above?  Make more sense now?  If not, it's ok I'll continue anyway. 

July,  August,  September,  October...   months and months go by and global warming is a bitch.   It felt like Autumn would never come.  Then on October 24th 2015,  The first chilly breeze was felt.  It was now time,  Opened all the doors and windows and embraced the fresh air and then I opened up the project file I started back in July.   The cool weather didn't last long but I was already committed and on October 29th 2015, I Finalized and Exported the track.

So why the elaborate backstory just to get to a song I waited for a specific season to create?

The Theme of my life and fueled by specific parts of that story is,  I began creating music in the mid 90's.   I was birthed from Golden Era HipHop & Jazz.  It's what a very large portion of my long term fanbase expects and wants from me,  but I'm not just a Boombap lover.   I spend more time listening to Video Game Ost's,  obscure library music than I do listening to hip hop or beats.  It's harder to tell who inspired me more,  DJ Premier or Portishead haha..  So Traversal has a lot of music that doesn't fit that classic hip hop vibe that I know people expected from me.  So I wanted to end the album by creating an ode to an Era and expectations, with love, sincerity and optimism,  I had to Set my Intentions while completely freeing myself from that day forward of anyone's expectations.  
and thus "Set Your Intentions" was born.

*****Anyone who bids on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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Set Your Intentions

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Vocals Written & Performed by: MsMMMcG (aka Margaret "Mousey" McGlynn) https://www.msmmmcg.com/

Backstory:  3:19am, December 19, 2016, I received my 1st twitter DM from Mousey saying "Hey check yr gmail- sent you 2 songs of yours I recorded vocals for today." Mousey and I spoke prior in Gmail and ran in the same circles where she had Residency (Beat Cinema / Low End Theory, etc) So I was already familiar w/ and a fan of her work.  At the time, I was out of town on A contract, teaching  at the hospital but I listened on my break and sent her back a message on IG. Letting her know I loved what I heard and added my critiques on the mixing.  She recorded over two  beats that were already officially released on my album/cassette, so I didn't put too much thought into it.  A few months later in March 2017  I asked if she minded if I posted one of the songs on my Soundcloud on her birthday: https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/mousey-mcglynn-adult-prod-by-dutchy-niceguy-x-vinny

MsMMMcG did a lot of live performances so I told her that she can record vocals over any song of mine that inspires her.  Months passed and she said she wanted to record enough tracks for an EP. I said that's fine, as long as I can mix the vocals to my beats. She ended up choosing more beats from albums that have already been released, so I said I'm cool with the EP being a free promo thing because I personally didn't want to monetize tracks that I've already released and made money from. More time passed, she would send vocals as she recorded them but I was in the process of working on two new albums and a side project when I was home, and I was out of state traveling teaching at hospitals every other month, So admittedly, I was super busy and I procrastinated on mixing the tracks, until she lit a fire under me letting me know she wanted to shoot multiple videos for the songs.  When it came to mixing "Song4u" one of the songs she wanted to shoot a video for,  I realized she recorded her vocals over the Soundcloud / demo version of the instrumental "Set Your Intentions"  (from Traversal) So when I brought the vocals into my Ableton Live session to mix them, nothing properly line up.  So I had to do some finessing,  while also multi-tasking a few other deadlines I had to finish before leaving for my next out of state contract.  Sent out a few different versions, more time passed, and I finally agreed to her releasing the EP on Bandcamp & Streaming.  She was insistent on splitting any profits 50/50 but I declined and told her not to worry about splits because I still felt weird about double monetizing my beats. (I know, I know... I'm not the most business savvy artist on the planet)

In April of 2019 she released the "Dutchess EP" on bandcamp & Streaming

DUTCHESS EP LINK: https://msmmmcg.bandcamp.com/album/dutchess-ep

Also releasing 3 videos from the EP throughout 2019,  One of which being "Song4U".
VIDEO LINK: 
https://youtu.be/STg6K76aTWI

The more you know:
The Instrumental used for this song is from the 2015 album "Traversal" and it's originally titled "Set Your Intentions".
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/set-your-intensions

*****Anyone who bids on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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"Song4u" (f/  MsMMMcG)

.insane go all don't we If

Backstory: ACT I

"insane go all don't we If" (Dutchyyy Remix)  was created in 2010 on FL Studio in Tampa, FL.  

A Remix of "If We Don't All Go Insane" by Sweatson Klank (f/k/a Take) https://beta.catalog.works/sweatsonklank
Originally meant to be on his 2011 album "Only Mountain: The Remixes", which was A follow up to his 2010 sophomore full length album "Only Mountain" both which were released on Alpha Pup.

Due to the limitations of time / space available on physical releases and multiple producers submitting versions of the same song, The Dutchyyy remix along with remixes from Shlomo, Teebs, Free the Robots and a few others didn't make the final cut.

Backstory: ACT II

Fast Forward to Spring of 2012,  After months of planning and saying goodbye to friends and family in the place I called home (Tampa Bay) since I was a child.  I took the leap and decided to move to Los Angeles after taking what was supposed to be a 4-6 month long contract teaching at Cedars-Sinai Hospital.  Unfortunately, we taught them too well & too fast and the contract was cut short, only lasting a few weeks.  I was already committed to making Los Angeles my home but now I was limited on funds, and about to lose the hotel I was supposed to be at for months while searching for apartments, but As fate would have it,  I was about to get a life raft.  After jokingly posting on Facebook,  "I'm hungry, someone bring me some food".   Someone commented, "You're in Los Angles?  I'm a huge fan of your music and my family owns a restaurant".  It was my day off, so I commented. "Come Scoop" jokingly, not realizing he would want to follow through.   Long Story Short,  We became good friends and that night would change the course of my life.  Meeting multiple strangers who became best friends. When the contract ended.  My new friend (Anthony) allowed me to stay with him while I searched for a place to move into.   During this time, I taught him and a few of his friends (who are now my close friends) how to use FL Studio.  He was a huge fan of my music,  so I played him a bunch of unreleased music I never planned on releasing.  He lost his mind when I was adamant about never releasing the music I was playing him.   What he didn't know was a few months prior on Xmas night 2011,  My Laptop filled with my upcoming Dutchmassive album titled "Romanticizing" along with every beat I made from 2008-xmas 2011 was lost when hard drive got corrupted and dealt me the dreaded Blue Screen Of Death.  I didn't have any of it backed up on extra hard drives.  All that remained from 2008-2011 was the crappy first draft versions I burned to CD's for "The Car Test" and well,  I didn't take care of those either so they all had scratches and were sun damaged.  So the things I was playing him,  where unfinalized early versions of songs that I know became so much greater than the versions I was left with.  He wouldn't take no for an answer and eventually offered to pay my 1st month's rent and my security deposit if I swallowed my pride and uploaded the few early versions I salvaged to bandcamp. He didn't want any profits from it, he just wanted those songs to exist online and be heard by the public. I agreed and moved into my new apartment a few miles down the road from him.  Shortly after moving into my new place overlooking the port of Los Angeles,  My friend Angel (Kronika) introduced me to another producer who went by the name Ahwlee.  

Backstory: ACT III

Ahwlee & I vibed pretty quickly. He would come stay at my apartment and make entire EP's on Ableton Live in one night and not even save what he made. He deleted some of the best beats I've ever heard and he did this frequently. While I was taking all night on a single flips that I would maybe finish at a later date.
 

So one night A few days before my birthday, while he was knocking out an entire EP in Ableton Live,
https://bumps.bandcamp.com/album/dutchist

and I was stuck working on one single song in FL Studio.
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/anglwngs

I thought to myself "How is able to knock out fully fleshed out albums during the same time it takes me to finish one song" Later that night,  I said "enough is enough, teach me Ableton please!"  So he taught me everything he knew and the next day we made the song "Medutayshun" with Ahwlee on the drums and synths and me chopping on Ableton for the 1st time.

"https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/medutayshun-f-ahwlee

This would be the beginning of a new chapter for me.  I was very proficient in Ableton and could never go back to the slow and limited work flow I had while working in FL Studio.  I wanted to make one final beat in Fruity loops and then close the book on my FL Studio Arc for good.  So I made one final song in FL Studio on my birthday May 23rd 2012. titled "Just Be Yourself"

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-just-be-yourself-

A few months went by, and I was countless tracks in using Ableton.  I truly got distracted and got lost in a new extended burst of creative energy. Until one day, I believe it was rent day so September 1st if I'm remembering correctly, Anthony reminded me that I still owed him that album of unreleased tracks from my old hard drive that needed to be uploaded to Bandcamp.  

Most of the songs were too badly damaged by scratches in the CD or sunspots so I salvaged what I could, I added a few beats I made in FL studio after moving to Los Angeles. Then, on September 12th, 2012 I reluctantly uploaded the album "Blue Screen of Deaf".  

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012

Never touching FL Studio again, becoming an Ableton main and moving to the next chapter creating what would later become the 2 hour Cassette "Chill Gawd, Chill"

- Closing -

This backstory was pretty lengthy, and covered a lot of info that I would have preferred to reveal in future back stories for songs like "ANGLWNGS" or even "Medutayshun" (f/ Ahwlee) because the bulk of story revolves around those songs more than it does to "insane go all don't we If" but the reality is,  This song would have never been released to the public,  especially since it's an early, unfinished version of the song like 95% of "Blue Screen of Deaf" is.  So the elaborate backstory became necessary since I wanted to release this song in tandem with our 1st collab together from 2006 titled "Dream Suite" which is being released as my Genesis drop on my other artist profile (focused on my career as a Vocalist, Writer, Emcee : Dutchmassive

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive


*****Whoever ends up collecting this will gain access  to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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"insane go all don't we If" w/ Sweatson Klank

Runtime: 32 minutes
ASMR.WAV (EvolvingPortals) - Produced by Dutchyyy

"I should have saved this hours ago"

Backstory:
This isn't the most technical or intricate piece of audio I've ever shaped, However is by far one of the most important and pivotal tracks for me personally, out of everything I've ever made since I began creating music in back in 1995. But Why? 
This was very first long form Portal I captured on my SP404, but to understand the significance of this recording. Let me start from the beginning.

What are these Portals?

Portals are live recorded sessions, capturing the entire process of making music in real time. Nothing is Finalized, all mistakes have a purpose, all fumbles build to evolving ideas. The Patient Ear is rewarded. 

How did we get here?

I've created multiple albums worth of songs from 2017-Present. Yet I haven't released an official  album since I dropped "Traversal" on Cassette shortly after my mother passed late 2016 while I was living in Los Angles. After a lifetime of living in apartments, getting evicted nearly each time for noise complaints, after couch surfing while traveling and Traversing across the country bouncing from Los Angeles to New York non stop. I moved back to Tampa and finally rented my first house in April of 2017.

No more noise complaints, No Relationships to distract me. No room mates or family.  Just solo and super isolated alone in a 2 bedroom house a half a mile away from the ocean (Gulf of Mexico). Living alone, So close to nature in walking distance with no one around that I could bother or that would question what or how long I was creating. (if you ever lived with a producer, you probably understand the pain of listening to us audition 600 snares in a row before finally choosing one, and that's just choose one drum haha) I was able to experiment and create endlessly. I'd black out for 16 hrs at time with extreme creative tunnel vision and come to, realizing I was on my 40th version of flipping the same sample. I would have so many different variations I liked,  I could never choose or settle on which version I would choose to make a final beat.

There was something about finality that I wanted to defy with every fiber in my being.  I just couldn't find the desire to complete or polish tracks. I put so so so much love into my official albums. A lot of emotion, time & energy go into making long elaborate journeys that flow like a story. So in an age where albums maybe have about 10 to 12 one minute tracks, and algorithms that make it near impossible to reach the fans we've spent all these years building up. I found myself needing to slowdown and re-evaluate how to navigate in this brave new music industry. I put a pause on releasing new albums. However I never stopped creating. Truth is, I've made more music from 2017 to present,  then I made from 1995-2016 combined.  All while having the most fun  i've ever had experimenting while no one was focused on me.  So many long sessions of inspiration and I wasn't capturing any of it.  I began thinking about music in a different way.  Thinking about our favorite albums.  The collection of songs that only last a few minutes each.  Knowing that to get to those refined final versions.  Hours or days of creating went into shaping them into the tracks we end up with.  I thought about albums like Miles Davis "Bitches Brew" and Arthur Verocai's 1972 self titled album and thought to myself,  how crazy would it be if we had access to the entire creative process for those albums, or any of your favorite artists albums.  The jam sessions and sketches before they turned into the truncated and finalized versions we ended up with.. Magic tends to happen during the experimental phase of music production,  a lot of which is never heard on refined and released songs. Think about it like this,  you ever noticed how people do their best work when the pressure of being recorded isn't there.  Ever did something so inspired and just couldn't replicate it once you remembered to press record.  I became obsessed with wanted to document those possible moments of magic, mistakes and all but unfortunately,  I wasn't able to pull this off in Ableton alone,  Id capture long takes,  but the moment I pressed the stop button,  it would stop the recording (resample) which led to hundreds of recorded files and killed my hard drive space very quickly.    I needed an external source to capture everything I was doing on my computer.  So I decided to stream on twitch.   I would stream my sessions for hours, and forget I was streaming, completely neglecting chat because I so tunnel in the creative zone.  I would start to read back the chat after I ended the stream and realized people where trying to interact and ask me questions and felt neglected.   I felt bad because I wasn't purposely ignoring anyone,  I just have severe ADHD and I get lost in the creative process, constantly moving from idea to idea which is why I wanted to begin capturing the entire process in the first place so I could try and understand how I work while in this meditative state.   People started making a big deal about me not interacting with chat when I was live so I had to disclaimer my streams with intent and label them as a Portal opening inside my home that allows you to just see and hear what I'm doing but I'm lost in the portal and can't see you.    This went over well and people would sit and watch me for hours at time just to see where I was going to take things.   The twitch culture was changing and I started to notice more and more new people come in and lose interest when I didn't answer their questions.   So on January 4th 2019.  I promoted my first live stream in which I would be periodically  popping out of my creative zone to make sure I could interact with chat.   I began the stream in the morning playing ambient, improv keys and practiced looking at chat,  I then began to go thru some sessions,  allowing chat to look thru the file names and choose which session I would open.  It was dope, like I was hanging out with people in my house, but I'm still me, so I'd go long periods where I'd get lost in a project and forget about chat haha.  As someone who loves a challenge,  I decided to let chat send me samples to flip.   The stream ended up being 10 hours,  and because I was unable to hyper focus in my zone and felt the pressure of knowing chat was watching and craving interaction,  I had this voice in the back of head to constantly keep changing up the sample.  Which worked out because it forever altered how I approach sessions.    

You can watch the entire 10 hour live stream here for Free.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o8T4qm6kHwuos6h_3cLbkYgX8QvDBXkb/view?usp=sharing

This session would end up fundamentally changing how I approach music and ended up becoming the first #EvolvingPortal  A project file I would revisit over and over for the next 3 years.  Constantly resampling what I did the previous session and evolving it into something new.  I perfected this method by 2020 and went absolutely bonkers evolving multiple portals until I eventually forgot how to create a normal, short song haha.  

But it all began with this Project file titled:

"I should have saved this hours ago" or "ishstha" for short.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/portals-i-should-have-saved-this-hours-ago

This isn't every session for this project file.   If you inspect the Artwork, you will see how many different versions exist.  I still have never exported the initial version I began creating in that 10hr live stream,  but the version on bandcamp has the 2 most recent Portals I recorded in 2021 plus the video attached in the bandcamp link is a truncated snippet version of the newest most evolved version in which I did all the visuals for as well. Plus, one other portal which brings us back to this 1 of 1 you are reading about now and why it's so important to me.

Capturing my sessions on twitch was nice.  But converting twitch streams to audio files would result in super degraded audio quality. So I first attempted to capture my audio coming out of my audio interface and into my portable Tascam-DR05 but all the recordings would come out thin and didn't sound anything like they did in Ableton.   I sold my OG SP404 a few years prior,  but remembered I could resample for an extended amount of time when I had it even though I never used it in that manner.  So I copped a SP404SX from the homie, even though I wanted the OG404 again,  I wanted to test this method out as quick as possible so I payed to have SX shipped overnight and went to make sure I bought any cable I would need to execute pulling this simple task off.   The SP arrived the following evening after the sun went down. I opened up the project file "I should have saved this hours ago" created a new version, added a few new samples into the project for some new creative energy.   Hooked up the SP404,  Pressed Record and thus was born the first, long form, in the moment live captured Portal as one long file.   

ASMR.WAV

I've gotten way more advanced in my methods evolving portals since, While this may not be my favorite Portal.  It is the most pivotal and special one since it was the first time, I realized I would be able to pull of my vision.

Since then, I've recorded thousands of hours worth of Portals.  32 minutes is now a short "song" to me.   Most ranging from 1hr to a few hours each.  Due to live, real time nature of Portals,  if you don't have patience or faith in where I'm going take things,  I recommend approaching long Portals like you would putting on a new record you found to dig for samples, and maybe skip around at first,  because most portals are albums inside albums with the dopest music I've ever made tucked in between the weirdest experimental pockets.  In a world obsessed with short form content,  Portals have no chance of surviving in terms of marketing or monetary value.   All streaming services like Spotify pay fractions of a penny per stream.   I can't imagine a 3 hour opus getting millions of unskipped plays.   I had to have bandcamp, specifically and manually increase the size of my uploads because the wavs were so large, I couldn't even fit a fraction of a portal, which brings me to the other difficulty.  Attempting to separate and/or name hours of improv recording that changes so often while also revisiting the early parts for new passes to evolve the ideas in different ways.   Because of these issues and file size limits,  Most portals remain unreleased with a few exceptions that exist on bandcamp,  even more for bandcamp subscribers and even more exist on "Dutchyyy VS the algorithms" master vault cloud drive and because that drive holds most of released discography also,  I have to be selective with what I upload to not max out the 200gb limit which I'm quickly approaching with 142 of 200gb used.

So for this Auction,  I'm going to do something different.   

*****Anyone who bids on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

and

*****Winner of the auction will get a 1TB Samsung SSD portable drive that not only holds everything on the cloud drive,  but all the Portals unreleased in super long raw form directly from their master folders strait from the SP404SX and All the long videos and twitch streams that are too large to upload anywhere*****

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ASMR.WAV (Evolving Portals)

"MORE SPACE?!?!" - produced by Dutchyyy

BackStory:  Created using FL Studio in Spring of 2010 in Tampa, FL

A short story:
Boy meets girl., Boy is smitten, falls head over heals. Girl has boy wrapped around finger for the first time in boys life.  Boy is overbearing,  Girl is cold, Boy is sad, Girl needs space, again.... They date on and off 2009-2014. Boy makes a lot of songs about or inspired by Girl through the ups & downs.  This was one of those times.  - The End (To be Continued)

Released on my 2010 album "Yawn of the Gemini" 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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MORE SPACE?!?!

Backstory:  Created winter 2009, in headphones at Barnes & Nobles in Tampa, FL. using FL Studio.  Not much of extensive backstory for this one.  Made this for my friend Vanessa who moved to Tampa from Chicago (who moved back to Chicago).  She loved to sing and was huge hiphop head so I made something for her to sing over, which never ended up happening.

Released on my 2010 album "Yawn of the Gemini" 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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CHI FYE

From the 2015 (digital version) of my album "Traversal"

Backstory:  Created on Memorial Day (2013) in Los Angeles.  I was at a friends BBQ trying to convince them to give Ableton Live a shot instead of using FL Studio.  They were very resistant to change and wanted no part in learning a new DAW haha.  After a few hours of repeatedly asking, I was finally able to get him to sit down and let me show him how fast my work flow was compared to FL Studio.  The pre-warping step is where every person i've taught Ableton to gets frustrated.  When you are dealing with Jazz, classical or any form of music that isn't quantized or that changes time signatures,  it extends the amount of time it takes to properly warp the sample.  Everyone has different methods for this, for me personally.  I create a new clip at each new time signature change.  It's a lot of prep work so this is where I usually lose people that are used to just manually chopping records quickly.  Especially since I take the time to always do the entire song instead of just "the dope parts".  The Warp and Auto-chop feature allows me to turn a sample into a instrument.  Having each note at my disposal.  I also take extra steps like tapping the tempo,  half timing the sample.  Then Re-sampling at the slower tempo.  Freezing it.  bringing the tempo back to its normal bpm, then once again resampling it so I can chop it and retain the more stretched out version.  Which is a lengthy process but one I feel is worth it for what i'm trying to achieve.  Then i'll Autochop multiple instances to different samplers.  Some at 1/4 notes,  some at 1/8 notes,  1/2 notes etc..       Sounds like it's more complicated than it is, but after repetition,  this process goes by pretty quickly.  So after I showed him all the steps,  He was beginning to get frustrated and didn't want to keep learning. At this point,  I didn't even have any drums loaded up and he was becoming super Antsy.  I didn't want him to walk away before I showed him why I took the time to do all that. So I pressed record,  and blindly laid some chops in one quick take.  No metronome, no grid.  Because I took time to do all the prep work,  I was confident any chop I chose would perfectly land on beat. People are usually hesitant to sample songs with loud drums and try to chop around them, but I usually can mask any loud drums by using ghost kicks and sidechain compression. Since I had no drums loaded up or any effects.  I knew the drums in the sample would be present in all my chops, so I used them as my compass and thus,  "NoUse" for was born. He hated the beat and to this day he still uses FL Studio haha. 


"Traversal" ended up seeing two separate releases, each with slight variations.  

The Original version that I released digitally on bandcamp and all streaming services in Winter of 2015 (which was the first and last album I ever uploaded to the streaming services) 
[ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal ]

and the cassette version released in Winter of 2016 via Grand Garden Records.  
[https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden]



**** Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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NoUse

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Backstory: 
"Yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo!" - Stretch Armstrong

Not much of backstory on this one, created in 2013 while living in Los angles.  This was just one of those sessions where I was just having fun, making beats.  Not a lot of emotional or situational inspiration,  just a quick beat for fun you know? Just AnotherLilCrumble. 

"Chill Gawd, Chill" was released initially February 5th 2015 Digitally on Bandcamp and as A 120minute (2 hour) Cassette, that came with Nag Champa.   It sold out immediately and was Bandcamp's best selling Cassette.   Due to high demand and fomo,  I was pressured into doing a second pressing of Cassette w/ Nag Champa which dropped on my birthday, May 23rd 2016. Once again, it sold out immediately and was Bandcamp's best selling cassette for 2 weeks in a row.   Obviously, my most popular / successful instrumental album as Dutchyyy (fka Dutchy) the demand to upload this to streaming was unbearable.  To this Day,  "Chill Gawd, Chill" remains only available on bandcamp.  In fall of 2020,  I did one final pressing of the two hour tape w/ Nag Champa.   It was the last time I will press "this version" of the cassette.  The problem was,  I pulled 4 songs fromwhat was supposed to be my follow up album "The Uproot" and placed them on "Chill Gawd, Chill" last minute.  Those songs were "Evolution of a shrug" / "The Scramble" / "Lamb's Bread" (feat. ashtrejinkins & sleepyeyes) and removed a few songs that were created specifically for "Chill Gawd, Chill"   this decision derailed the release of "The Uproot" which it still remains officially unreleased to this day.  Instead I released "Traversal" next,  which is actually the follow up album to the "The Uproot".  (confusing huh?) 

*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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AnotherLilCrumble

Wanted to upload something accessible by anyone during these turbulent Bera times.  I'll be taking 0% creator share on this one. 

Backstory:
Not much of a backstory here,  back in 2017 when twitter was plagued by the same 20 rotating music production Hot-takes, the age old question of which takes more skill, Sampling or playing instruments was trending.  The days of being able to just focus on art,  then post said art to social media with a link is gone.  You must engage or perish haha, so I respectfully engaged.  As a producer that does both,  I prefer to sample.  Not just loop up samples (tho I also enjoy loops and there is nothing wrong with loops),  but I like to mangle samples into new worlds so they are no longer recognizable or able to be detected by any form of "content I.d.". Turning Samples into instruments through a billion micro chops is my favorite pass time and anyone paying attention without a doubt knows this.  However,  I've been making non-sample based music for over 2 decades as well.  Someone on twitter responding to my neutral attempt to squash this age old argument so we can focus on more important things said "What would you know, all you do is sample anyway".  When I told them,  I do everything under the sun, skill and level of difficulty like music in general is all subjective. What feels impossible to some is a simple as breathing air to others and vice versa. All that matters is creating art you enjoy creating.  They then challenged to me to make a "Chill-hop type beat" in an hour.  30 minutes later A track I never intended to release was born "Tingles".  I've been watching Asmr since 2015 to relax,  so I hopefully the track title makes a little more sense.  

May you find peace during turbulent times.   

PeacePeace. 


**** Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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Tingles

From the 2015 (digital version) of my album "Traversal"

Backstory:  Picking up from the backstory written on "where are we headed?"  I was living upstate, at the secluded Nature Preserve "Sam's Point" in Craigsmoor, NY trying to find my peace  again after a few years living in Los Angeles being over stimulated and broken down fundamentally to the core.   Being on the mountain in nature, isolated and having space to walk outside without running into strangers at every step was a much needed change of pace.   I blossomed isolated surrounded by so much natural beauty untouched by man mad hands. Towards the end of my stay,  Early 2015, my friend reached out to me and asked me if I would play a show in Brooklyn.  As much as i loved playing music for people.  NY city is the polar opposite of a secluded Nature Preserve,  and after a year in isolation, the thought of taking trains and subways gave me a panic attack which I wasn't expecting.  I thought I healed and was past all that.  So I declined.  He would not take no for an answer, and I didn't like the fact that I had gained a fear of doing such a normal thing like traveling into the city,  something I've done a million times before so I caved and agreed to do the show.   I took a train to union station, and I remember  walking up those stairs and stepping out into the city and there were literal Tanks lined up, cops everywhere and more people than I had seen in years.  I felt like a time traveler out of place, spooked by loud noises and anxiously tried to find directions to get to Brooklyn.  When I finally arrived at the apartment my friend was staying at.  I told myself, I never walking out of the door haha.  My friend DJ introduced me to his friend and our host Brian, and we immediately started talking about music.  He asked what I used to create and told him Ableton Live.  He said he always wanted to learn Ableton, so without hesitation I said,  "well class in session, I'm going to teach you right now"  he asked if I was hungry,  I said "I'm too anxious to eat at the moment, but we can reward ourselves with sustenance after we get a quick session in" .  I pulled out my laptop,  let him pick a sample and showed him my process.  You know,  all the boring set up stuff that happens before you're able to properly execute ideas.  In Typical Dutch fashion,  I got tunnel vision but had anxiety, knowing I would eventually have to walk out the door and go out in public. So I channeled that energy and imagined an escape route,  bypassing all the crowds of strangers and my mind wondered to thoughts of climbing down a latter that leads to a submarine that could just go under the city instead of through it to get back to the mountain and thus, "Sub(Marine)UnderBrooklyn" was born.  You can hear me working through my emotions trying to find a peaceful resolve and reaching conflict in the middle, but in the end I make it peacefully to the surface.  I personally like the Cassette version of this song more (Dynamics Crushed, but a little more punchy) but I don't think most people would be able to tell the difference and this was the original export.

P.S.  I was fine for the rest of the trip.  Played a dope house set,  said my goodbyes and took the train back to the nature preserve.  This remains one of my favorite tracks of the thousands I've made over the years.  Music is a form a meditation.  It's saved my life, more times than I can count, quite literally...  but we will save that backstory for another time.  

"Traversal" ended up seeing two separate releases, each with slight variations.  

The Original version that I released digitally on bandcamp and all streaming services in Winter of 2015 (which was the first and last album I ever uploaded to the streaming services) 
[ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal ]

and the cassette version released in Winter of 2016 via Grand Garden Records.  
[https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden]

**** Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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Sub(Marine)UnderBrooklyn

From the 2015 (digital version) of my album "Traversal"

Backstory:  In 2014 I moved from Los Angles back to Tampa Bay for a week, then moved to NY with my friend Sam Sleezy.  My pops who had had not had contact with in over decade saw that I was in NY and invited me to visit him for the weekend in upstate NY.  Reluctantly,  I accepted. I was surprised to learn my father had become the caretaker of the Nature Preserve "Sam's Point Reserve" in Craigsmoor NY.   After reconnecting as adults,  we caught up, hashed out previous issues and bonded instantly,  swapping music and stories.  I ended up deciding to stay on the mountain with my pops.  The Nature Preserve was massive, open to public from 8-4pm then after that the whole place was mine to explore.  Coming from Los Angeles where I was overwhelmed with over population, cliche's, politics, trend chasing, etc.  being on a secluded mountain with access to waterfalls, ice caves, etc was just the medicine I needed.  I dropped the 2 HR Cassette "Chill Gawd, Chill" which sold out immediately, and Began working on my opus, A return to the spirit of Nature,  "The Uproot" & "Traversal" were born.  I created so much music I had to split the release into separate albums.    
"where are we headed" was created in a way where it doesn't even sound real, but I promise you it is.   One night on a full moon,  I took my laptop and blue tooth speaker to the big open field surrounded by the mountain and set up on a trailer bed.  I thought of how the music scene was shifting from beat scene to dance / future bass and how all my favorite producers stopped sounding like themselves chasing trends and then i channeled that energy under the Full Moon and blacked out getting lost in creation,  when I finally looked up from the blinding laptop screen,  I saw I was surrounded by like 40 pairs of glowing eyes,  I was terrified,  until I turned the flashlight on to find out that I had Pied piper a parcel of Deer.   They where all sitting and surrounding me watching me and listening to this song being created.   One of the most profound experiences and memories of my life"  

more backstory on my time at Sam's Point Preserve creating these albums can be read here: 
https://mecca83.com/2020/05/shawangunk-stomp-the-story-of-dutchyyys-uproot/ 


"Traversal" ended up seeing two separate releases, each with slight variations.  

The Original version that I released digitally on bandcamp and all streaming services in Winter of 2015 (which was the first and last album I ever uploaded to the streaming services) 
[ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal ]

and the cassette version released in Winter of 2016 via Grand Garden Records.  
[https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden]



**** Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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Where are we headed?

Backstory:
Created in Fall 2020 while chilling in the Omari Jazz Discord after 2 back to back sample challenges,  A 20 minute Challenge, and a 30 minute challenge.  It was like 5am and most people tapped out for the night,  but 6 of us were still inspired and wanted to keep going, so I got to choose the sample and we had 1 hour to create and upload our flips.  The sample I chose was from the PS02 ost (PhantasyStarOnline2) This was my submission.  


*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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Greenscape_Probe (EMERGENCY!)

Created on my birthday, May 23rd 2016 in San Pedro (Los Angeles) CA while helping my friend, Matt E.J. (OrganicBeatSessions/PharcydeTV) Dog sit.  The original session was titled "FoodsGettingCold" because my friend would always cook these amazing meals and I would be tunnel vision in the DAW saying one more second, which lasted hours.   This was one of many of my Final Fantasy flips over the years and was intended to be on my follow up album to "Traversal" but after losing my mother a few months later,  no official album has dropped since.

This song only exists on soundcloud. 
https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/no-theme

*****Collecting this record will unlock it from the vault, and I will upload it to all streaming services one month from the date it's collected*****

*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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NO THEME

Dutchmassive -"The long cold hot take" (Produced by Dutchyyy & Rnd1) is from Season 5 of my unreleased freestyle series "DailyRambles" i.e. "The Reluctant Clap"   was Recorded on my Birthday, May 23rd 2021.

Backstory:

Last album released rapping as Dutchmassive was released in 2008 on Rawkus Records.
Social media and life kind of killed the magic of words for me. I see too many thoughts daily, So I shifted my creative energy into expression without words. beats, keys, sample manipulation, experimenting with creating new worlds from nothing, or evolving a sample into the unrecognizable just music in general, just speaking without using words.

Hip Hop stopped inspiring or surprising me, with minimal exceptions. The fun aspect of being an emcee or making music kind of fell out of style. where up until about 2011, it was everywhere, so accessible. such a vibe, easy to bounce that creative energy back into the world.

but I still am an emcee, passionate, over talkative, TMI, super expressive human IRL.

but losing chronologic timelines on social media (yep i'm going there again) really changed how humans communicate online. Expansive conversations don't happen by design, everything is fragmented, and anything long form is taboo, especially using your words to communicate on these apps. you see a paragraph, you think rant. Crazy right? I'm the crazy one? nah this new fragmented, A.I. manipulated timeline we all living in doesn't want nor allow for expansive dialog to happen in real time anymore. Everyone's on a soap box, trapped, reacting, and dunking basically always in offense or defense mode. hahaha I grew tired of battle rap in the early 2000's, now soccer moms, senators and the whole worlds has battle rap energy haha.

You think this discouraged me, nah. I let that lil light shine in private haha, I missed when hip-hop was fun, so i had fun with hip-hop in private, got all my venting out and recorded it every time. Freestyling and flipping samples is all do, while rebelling publicly, hoarding insane amounts of beats, and albums, i got super addicted to recording everything in real time.. The rawest and truest form of expression.... having fun, being introspective on autopilot.

Absolute freedom.

but this stuff was never intended to be heard by anyone. DailyRambles is me loading up a batch of beats on the Tascam DR-05 that i haven't listened to yet, and blindly freestyling and seeing which ones move me enough to make me wanna sit and write, and having fun with the ones that don't fit my voice or style and have fun trying to make it work.

I had zero intentions to make any of these freestyles public,  but due to severe health complications, I might not always be here and even if I am able to somehow course correct by pure miracle and insane amounts of debt,  it would alter my ability to speak the same and/or articulate the way I do now. 

There may never be another well thought out, written and recorded "Dutchmassive" album in the future. But there is 6 years worth of "DailyRambles" right now.
I'm reluctant about even dropping this as Dutchmassive, even though polls on all "social media" unanimously chose it over the alias "Reluctant Clap"

I won't always be here. I'd rather this silly introspective gibberish be out in the world, then locked away on my hard drive.

********Collecting this, will Unlock a new Artist profile on Catalog Works. "Dutchmassive" where I will release freestyles from the Reluctant Clap / Daily Rambles series as well as songs from my official albums known as the emcee Dutchmassive. I will mint a slightly different version of this under the new Artist page you will be able to collect that version for as free as possible as I can make it just for consistency sake"

+ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/track-37-dutchmassive-single
+ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/crush-your-system-rawkus-version-bonus-tracks
+ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/project-reach-radio-promo-ep-2003-2006
+ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/junk-planet-1997-2002
+ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/equilibrium-1997-2009 ********

*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  I will also ship them a 1TB Samsung SSD in June filled with everything in the cloud based drive + a few folders of music that no one else has access to *****

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"The long cold hot take" (f/ Dutchmassive)

"Just Be Yourself" was the last song created on FL Studio on my Birthday "May 23rd 2012" before switching to maining Ableton Live.   So it was the first track created for "Chill Gawd, Chill"

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Backstory: 
"Chill Gawd, Chill" was released initially February 5th 2015 Digitally on Bandcamp and as A 120minute (2 hour) Cassette, that came with Nag Champa.   It sold out immediately and was bandcamp's best selling Cassette.   Due to high demand and fomo,  I was pressured into doing a second pressing of Cassette w/ Nag Champa which dropped on my birthday, May 23rd 2016,  Once again it sold out immediately and was bandcamp's best selling cassette for 2 weeks in a row.   Obviously, my most popular / successful instrumental album as Dutchyyy (fka Dutchy) the demand to upload this to streaming was unbearable.  To this Day,  "Chill Gawd, Chill" remains only available on bandcamp.  In fall of 2020,  I did one final pressing of the two hour tape w/ Nag Champa.   It was the last time I will press "this version" of the cassette.  The problem was,  I pulled 4 songs what was supposed to be my follow up album "The Uproot" and placed them on "Chill Gawd, Chill" last minute.  Those songs were "Evolution of a shrug" / "The Scramble" / "Lamb's Bread" (feat. Ash Tre Jinkins & Sleepy Eyes) and removed a few songs that were created specifically for "Chill Gawd, Chill"   this decision derailed the release of "The Uproot" and it still remains officially unreleased to this day.  Instead I released "Traversal" next,  which is actually the follow up album to the "The Uproot".  (confusing huh?)  

Collecting this,  you will receive a copy of rare / sold out final pressing of "Chill Gawd, Chill" + Nag Champa (which will ship in June with all the other orders)  It will also Unlock me minting the title track "Chill Gawd, Chill" which if collected, will finally unlock this from being gated to bandcamp only.   I will finally end my protest and upload "Chill Gawd, Chill" to all streaming services. 

*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

The most valuable wisdom I can offer to anyone, is "Just Be Yourself".  Especially when it comes to creating art.

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"Just Be Yourself"

May 23rd 1981

Title track to my first "official" released instrumental album "Yawn of the Gemini" - released on my birthday (May 23rd 2010) 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

After 2 decades of being known primarily as an emcee,  Dutchmassive got bored with hearing and speaking words and pivoted to speaking without saying a word.  The next Decade was the decade of Dutchyyy, the Producer.

*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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"If you love something, let it go. If it returns, it's yours; if it doesn't, it wasn't. If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were." 

Backstory:
Created early 2010, Obviously I was head over heals in love at the time.  We dated long distance 2009 - 2011,  moved to Los Angeles together and dated on and off until 2014.  Long story short,  I've been single ever since haha.  However, I have a deep and meaningful monogamous relationship with music so i'm pretty content =)

Released on my 2010 album "Yawn of the Gemini" 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

*****Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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The Release (Breathe Easy)

From the 2015 (digital version) of my album "Traversal"

I wanted to mint something to uplift and bring some peace today. Given all that is happening in the world and how the markets feel right now, I thought instead of my usual spacey, abstract or more heavy tracks,  I'd upload something that has a chance of lifting people up.   

Backstory:  The instrumental was made early 2010, on FL Studio while getting some sun at the pool.  Originally titled "A day at the pool" and released on "Yawn of the Gemini" (May 23rd, 2010 / My Birthday)  [ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010 ] This was one of my no samples, practice beats.  Back then, and still to this day,  I would/will alternate and dedicate different days to different methods of production,  I.E.  "loops only day",  "Microchops day",  "No samples day".  Then one day early 2015,  my homie C M O sent me an unsolicited email with a demo version of this song attached.  I was blown away, that he turned something that I considered a throwaway beat and turned it into such beautiful introspective opus.  So I told him, that I was in the process of releasing my new album "Traversal" and the next day,  he sent me this version.  

"Traversal" ended up seeing two separate releases, each with slight variations.  

The Original version that I released digitally on bandcamp and all streaming services in Winter of 2015 (which was the first and last album I ever uploaded to the streaming services) 
[ https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal ]

and the cassette version released in Winter of 2016 via Grand Garden Records.  
[https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden]

The album was too long to fit on a 90 minute cassette,  So I took that as a opportunity to make the cassette version different from the digital version. Different track order, Different master, and A few Different tracks in general.  So the digital version has a few songs that aren't on the cassette version,  and the cassette version has a few songs that aren't on the original digital version.   The cassette allowed me to really refine and sequence the album how I truly wanted it to be digested in full so personally,  I love the cassette version more.  but tracks like "Esoteric" didn't make it on to the cassette, along with "The Chop & the Loop", "Dimples",  "Please Take Care" (of yourself), "64" & the 3 Bonus tracks featuring my friends Toonorth & Sunjet,  which were just 3 different versions of my remixing my homie Apathy's song "Chemical"

****I hope "Esoteric" provides you some healthy escapism. and as always.  Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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"Traversal"

Esoteric (f/ C M O)

"GG" (Too O.P. Please Nerf) - is my track from the sold out compilation "Earwax Headspace" released on Fuzzoscope in 2019 

(https://fuzzoscope.bandcamp.com/album/earwax-headspace)

Winner of the Auction will receive a link to my master vault google drive titled "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms", with over 100gbs of nearly the full released discography, (1996-future).  Multiple unreleased albums and WIP,  Portals / Evolving Portals (real time sessions, making music from start to end, with the intention of resampling that session in the future and continuously evolving it), side projects, as well as videos posted to my instagram, youtube, and previous twitch vods.  This drive is constantly being updated/added to which will never stop happening.
Just email PeacePeaceGawd (at) Gmail w/ proof of winning bid, and I'll send it right over.

*****if this auction reaches 1eth or beyond, on top of the google drive link, I will ship the..
+ my sealed copy of the sold out CASSETTE for  "Earwax Headspace" 
+ a 1TB Samsung SSD portable drive, loaded with everything on it from the google drive, that way you can add to it whenever I upload new stuff to the google drive or release thru bandcamp, etc...  (or use it however they please) ******

Track Backstory: One sunny after noon after going on hike & chilling on the beach,  I came home, immediately jumped on Xbox (Destiny 2) and hopped into Crucible (PVP) to get my blood flowing and flex my reaction time muscle. As a kid and young adult,  I only played RPG's because the soundtracks were always dope, especially JRPGS.  I took a decade off of playing video games, then ended up getting sucked into Destiny after an EX recommended it.  My backstory as a musician began in the mid 90's,  so battle rap was first love,  why is this relevant?  cus PVP in Destiny gave me that same competitive rush that emceeing did in the mid to late 90's,  so when i wasn't getting lost in nature, or making music, I was sweating in the crucible (PVP) =) 
I began to notice,  my music sessions would end up better after playing a little PVP to wake my brain,  so after i turned off the Xbox,  I loaded up Ableton and loaded up an old session titled "Reset" ( https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/reset - which I originally uploaded to soundcloud to celebrate 10k followers 6 years ago ) and I instead of refining it,  I ended up wiping the slate clean and try to breath new live into.  A few hours later "GG" (Too O.P. Please Nerf) was born.

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"GG" (Too O.P.  Please Nerf)

"My Hatin' Jawn" - is my track from the sold out compilation "Earwax Shelf Life" released on Fuzzoscope in 2017 
( https://fuzzoscope.bandcamp.com/album/earwax-shelf-life) 

Winner of the Auction will receive a link to my master vault google drive titled "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms", with over 100gbs of nearly the full released discography, (1996-future).  Multiple unreleased albums and WIP,  Portals / Evolving Portals (real time sessions, making music from start to end, with the intention of resampling that session in the future and continuously evolving it), side projects, as well as videos posted to my instagram, youtube, and previous twitch vods.  This drive is constantly being updated/added to which will never stop happening.
Just email [PeacePeaceGawd (at) Gmail] w/ proof of winning bid, and I'll send it right over.

*****if this auction reaches 1eth or beyond, on top of the google drive link, I will ship ..
+ my sealed copy of the sold out VINYL for  "Earwax Shelf Life" 
+ a 1TB Samsung SSD portable drive, loaded with everything on it from the google drive, that way you can add to it whenever I upload new stuff to the google drive or release thru bandcamp, etc...  (or use it however they please) 
+ Will also include the Ableton Live PROJECT FILE / Session for "My hatin' Jawn" which you have my permission to remix or manipulate and release your own version ******

Track Backstory: Summer of 2016, I living in DTLA at the Pod Inn managed by friend Josh Jetson (Sunjet). One day, My friend Matt E.J. (PharcydeTV/OrganicBeatSessions) came thru to work on music.  At the time, he was using FL Studio to produce (which I also used 2005-2012) so every chance I had, I did my best to convert him over to Ableton Live =)  
He was very resistant since he was already familiar with FL Studio and Ableton can be daunting because there are multiple ways to achieve the same result. So as always,  my selling point was to show how quickly I work in Ableton. So I let him choose the sample, and 30 minutes later...
"My Hatin' Jawn" was born.

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"My Hatin' Jawn"

My Submission for hedsTAPE 03. 

Though it wasn't chosen to be amongst the finalist on the official tape, I'm proud of my entry and how i managed to flip the original sample. 
These days my songs can range from 6 minutes to 6 hours (EvolvingPortals)  

Knowing that only 1 minute would be used,  I needed to express my full emotional range in a micro fraction of what I've grown accustomed to.  This was definitely a fun challenge that took me out of my comfort zone. Short songs like this are something you will rarely see from me,  I made sure that it loops perfectly for seamless looped meditation =)

Peace to hedsDAO for allowing me to release this, and shout to Mr. Carmack for providing the original sample.

You can listen to the original sample provided,  and support the 10 finalists here: 

https://heds.io/tapes/ht/3

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heds SPIN

"No Time to Be Sad" - is my track from sold out compilation "Earwax Day Dream" released on Fuzzoscope in 2018 
( https://fuzzoscope.bandcamp.com/album/earwax-daydream ) 

Winner of the Auction will receive a link to my master vault google drive titled "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms", with over 100gbs of nearly the full released discography, (1996-future).  Multiple unreleased albums and WIP,  Portals / Evolving Portals (real time sessions, making music from start to end, with the intention of resampling that session in the future and continuously evolving it), side projects, as well as videos posted to my instagram, youtube, and previous twitch vods.  This drive is constantly being updated/added to which will never stop happening.

*****if this auction reaches 1eth or beyond, on top of the google drive link, I will ship them my sealed copy of the sold out Cassette "Earwax Daydream" and a 1TB Samsung SSD portable drive, loaded with everything on it from the google drive, that way you can add to it whenever I upload new stuff to the google drive or release thru bandcamp, etc...  (or use it however they please)  ******

Track Backstory:  Back before the pandemic wiped out my career, my career was traveling state to state working at hospitals teaching physicians and nurses how to chart electronically.   I would work a few contracts a year, 30 - 90 days in a row, no days off,  which gave me the freedom to come home and have the time and freedom to create with no pressure or distractions.  However, I always want to create so always brought my laptop to work.  One day in 2018, I was outside of the hospital sitting on a bench during my lunch break, and my co-workers came over and asked what I was doing.  I was working on a song from my album, and they said "oh you make beats?, we want to see you make one from scratch" so I asked them to the choose the sample,  then created this on laptop speakers in front of six co-workers in 15 minutes.  When I got home from the contract, I put more time into the track, adding more swing to hi-hats, some bass, and a few minor mixdown changes.  However, I accidently opened up a new session,  erasing all the progress I made, so the 15 minute hospital bench version is all that exists..... for now. =)

I'm very grateful to be releasing this on Catalog Works.  For someone with such an expansive catalog, I've only uploaded one album and a few singles to Streaming sites since 2015 in protest of criminally low artist pay outs per stream.  More than the loss of potential exposure and income, I always feel bad that I don't make my music easily accessible to the majority of people who use those services.  I am a lifetime collector of music, Cassettes, CD, Vinyl, etc.  It feels right being able to add to this special space of collectors, so thank you to all the collectors of art out there.  You are appreciated.

- Dutchyyy

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"No Time to Be Sad"

^ Sample Mangler, Undisciplined Chord Fumbler, Dynamics Crushing, Beat Hoarder. #EvolvingPortals.

(Discography: 1995-Future?)

aka
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012

In the great hardrive crash 2011, A very irresponsible Dutchy lost all the music created that year. The only thing that existed from that era was all the unfinished versions found on scratched burned to cd's for "the car tests" these are the files that have been recovered
credits
released September 10, 2012

A Special Thank You to Anthony Iacono for pushing me to release my unfinished catalog of Blaps.

Artwork by: Nameless (nameless.bandcamp.com)

"Chill Gawd, Chill" 
Released: Feb 5th 2015
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Tracklist:

1. The A-Side 01:55
2. Turning Point (f/ Chester Watson) 02:15
3. Como El Hielo 04:48
4. Sunday Chops 03:23
5. Fat Night Session (f/ NiceGuyxVinny) 02:14
6. EIRYNGHT (f/ OriJanus) 03:38
7. The Boogie & The Search 02:38
8. His Orchestra (f/ Ben Jamin) 04:12
9. AllMost 01:48
10. Untitled in April (f/ Vik) 01:55
11. Hero Hair 02:28
12. MyStylesLike... 01:41
13. That Uh Make You Say... 01:29
14. DeadAss 02:22
15. Nah B 02:26
16. The Hardest 03:46
17. AnotherLilCrumble 02:35 [COLLECTED BY: CR4IG]
18. The Scramble 05:52
19. Evolution of a Shrug 06:27 [AVAILABLE TO COLLECT]
20. Lamb's Bread (f/ Sleepy Eyes & AshTre Jinkins) 03:54
21. The B-Side 01:53
22. Chill Gawd, Chill 03:07 [AVAILABLE TO COLLECT]
23. Just Be Yourself 03:33 [COLLECTED BY STVDIO NOUVEAU]
24. In Headphones, at your party 02:17
25. Aini 02:29
26. Broken Circadian 01:32
27. The Eraser (Part I) 03:42
28. The Eraser (Part II) 03:57
29. Dedicado 04:15
30. Medutayshun (f/ Ahwlee) 02:22
31. Astral Travl'n 03:43 [AVAILABLE TO COLLECT]
32. Simplemente 03:38
33. SuprNatrl 03:53
34. Ridiculous! 04:28
35. ShameOnYu 04:52
36. Star In The East (f/ Kaelin Ellis) 02:58
37.  Rik's Jawn 04:54
38. WoneChuGoAway 01:47
39. OneforShoes 01:58  [COLLECTED BY STVDIO NOUVEAU]

"Traversal"
Released Dec 30th 2015
Digital Version: 
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal
Cassette Version: https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden

Tracklist:

1. Sacred Goddess Cave 04:05
2. The Chop & The Loop 04:15
3. Where are we Headed? 03:20 [COLLECTED BY: Alez]
4. Set Your Intentions 03:50 [AVAILABLE TO COLLECT]
5. Stop Sleeping In So Much (f/ Rnd1) 02:19  [AVAILABLE TO COLLECT]
6. Golden (Generation Gap) 03:03
7. Third Eyes Wide Shut 06:33
8. Japan4 03:44
9. Sun Will Set 03:01
10. Aurora Obscurecer Excursiona (Cruise) 04:36
11. Heavy (KeepYuSatisfied) 02:27
12. Please Take Care (Of YourSelf) 05:38
13. Dimples 05:21
14. 64 (f/ Simon Sverdlov) 02:52
15. Sub(Marine)UnderBrooklyn 04:00 [COLLECTED BY: M3]
16. Lua Cheia (f/ Kaelin Ellis) 06:14
17. Extra Introverted Extrovert 01:58
18. Analysis Paralysis 03:20
19. Catch The Fade (f/ Eludem) 03:25
20. NoUse 02:06 [COLLECTED BY: STVDIO NOUVEAU]
21. This Could Be Us (But...) 03:03
22. The Lift (f/ Ruff Draft) 04:56
23. Dive Off The Deep End (f/ Cazal Organism) 03:54
24. Rooftop, 5th Floor (f/ Sleepyeyes) 02:58
25. Esoteric (f/ C M O) 02:53 [COLLECTED BY: STVDIO NOUVEAU]
26. Sacred Moon Vagina (f/ AshTreJinkins) 05:07


"Yawn of the Gemini" (2005-2010)
 Released May 23rd, 2010
 https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

Tracklist:

1. !ntro Unlimited 00:13
2. FIREWORX 05:17
3. FLGHTOFTHEWTCH 07:30
4. The Great Distance 03:30
5. BEHIND BARS?!?! 02:10
6. Guilty Vampire Knight 04:30
7. Tickets Please 05:25
8. CREW FACES  07:52
9. Here I Am02:53
10. Understanding Anthem 03:46
11. The Jolly Madison Suite 2.006:50
12. Stand in Limbo 06:51
13. Epic 04:00
14. The Kingdom of Hearts (2005) 03:23
15. Travelers Inn 04:07
16. The Spring 06:27
17. Yawn of the Gemini 05:40 [COLLECTED BY: jarrodT123]
18. Lake Moss (yawn of the Gemini pt 2) 04:16
19. VIVA LOVE 05:14
20. CHI FYE 03:00 [COLLECTED BY: STVDIO NOUVEAU]
21.  NO NY FOR ME | TROPICAL ANTI STRESS ANTHEM 06:10
22. A DAY AT THE POOL 01:46 [COLLECTED BY: STVDIO NOUVEAU]
23. NEVER RELEASE ME | SHIELD MY HEART 02:38
24.  The Release (Breathe Easy) 04:01 [COLLECTED BY Cxy)
25. CANT DO THIS ANYMORE | We need 2 LET GO 02:35
26. MORE SPACE?!?! 01:52 [COLLECTED BY: STVDIO NOUVEAU]
27. Vikter Duplaix - Electric Love (Dutchyyy  Remix) 03:45
28. Banana's - Majik Most & Laws - (Dutchyyy Remix) 04:59
29. A TRIBUTE TO GURU & DJ PREMIER 01:03
30. MODERN MODELS 03:36
31. SHELL SHOCKED 02:56
32. YOU LOSE! 01:30
33. The Rebirth (33.3 rpm) 03:26
34. ESCAPE S!LENT H!LL 05:45
35. Outro Unlimited 00:25
36. Shipping & Handling (The Odyssey)

Records that have already found a home =)

Collected "Dutchyyy" Catalog

Dutchmassive

"Oh, Pen..." 

Written by: Dutchmassive (October 2011) in Tampa, FL
Recorded: (June 2012) in Los Angeles, CA 
Produced By: [Redacted]

Lyrics:
[Verse 1 – Dutchmassive]

"I usually never reach the pen / until the first time A Chilly Breeze begins / roll out the long sleeves, then I breathe it in / if it ain't cool, it ain't for me my friend...../ And usually this A taboo subject / but weather is the reason why I'm usually upset / they asking if I'm done? Duke, I haven't begun yet / humidity just beating me down like a drum set... / asking, "So when your next album drop?" & "How come them last two albums flopped?" "If I had all them beats, I would rap a lot, the secret to success is, keep new album's stocked. '' / Man... Even if I didn't have writers block / I'd never saturate just to make sure my album's copped / I gotta keep it simple & direct / and write something down that the listeners can get"

[Chorus]

So 1, 2, Let the dopeness begin.
I'm close with my pen, cus i'm focused again.
waves in the water, the ocean, I send,
Like notes in a bottle, I'm open again...
I'm floatin' again, I'm getting open again
I'm close with my pen cus I'm focused again.
waves in the water, the ocean, I send,
like notes in a bottle I'm open again.....

I'm getting open...
I'm getting open... (1,2)
Getting Open...
Getting Open....

I usually never reach the pen
until the first time A Chilly Breeze begins
roll out the long sleeves, then I breathe it in
if it ain't cool, it ain't for me my friend, me my friend...
said if it ain't cool, it ain't for me my friend, me my friend.
Yo....
Dutchyyy!

-----------------------------

Backstory:

This was the last song I wrote while living in Tampa Bay before Losing what would have been my 3rd official solo album as Dutchmassive titled "Romanticizing" on Xmas Day (Night) to A Fatal "Blue Screen Of Death ''.  Every year, like clockwork, the first chilly day of the year would always start on October 1st.  This Began Changing around 2009 ish,  with summer lasting longer and longer, with some years, it remaining hot and humid into the end of December.  Since I first began writing rhymes in the mid 90's, I would almost always take the summers off (with a few exceptions) but generally, my ritual was to wait for that first brisk day, free of crippling humidity. The reason for this was, I very rarely sat indoors when writing songs, almost everything I've ever written was done outside, pacing back and forth any place I could find free of other humans haha.  I think it was around October 29th/30th of 2011 after weeks of complaining,  I woke up just as the sun was setting and stepped outside and was instantly greeted by a brisk, cool breeze, completely absent of humidity.  I was waiting specifically for this initial change in weather to put on this specific beat that I refused to listen to again after the first time I heard it because I didn't want my brain to start getting inspired and ruin the ritual.   I was very big on saving beats I knew I wanted to rhyme on for the right times to pull out, that way that initial energy was cemented with the memory of that 1st feeling of peace and relief....    This might sound silly,  But Florida isn't just hot,  it's beyond humid to the point you can shower,  walk out of your door to your car and sit down, dripping wet in a matter of moments...Plus the Mosquitos were relentless and usually stopped bothering people during fall / winter weather, which is a plus for someone who likes to walk at night while writing =)

I Vividly, remember sitting in the backyard of the condo and the weight bench on the deck, looking up at the stars feeling grateful and inspired.   Effortlessly penning those feelings down and deciding to keep this song short and to the point.  I already had 95% of my album recorded that I had been working on since 2007/2008 but I really wanted to include this beat on the album, so I patiently waited.  At this time,  I had no idea what was to come in terms of losing the entire album, nor that I would also be spontaneously deciding to move across the country after learning I had a very high paying contract working at Cedars-Sinai Hospital coming up in Feb 2012.

I had no Intentions at the moment of writing this song to stop writing and recording songs,  In fact, as you can hear, it was the complete opposite.  While I will admit the frequency of me wanting to write songs the past few years leading up to this was few and far between as I pivoted super hard in 2009 to making more instrumentals than I was writing or recording songs.  I was supercharged,  excited and proud to release the album I had been working on the past few years documenting my experiences as a much more mature young adult in his late 20's,  where Junk Planet I was a teenager that understood the harsh ways of the world much too young, and my sophomore album, I decided to focus more on being responsible with my words and do more uplifting than flexing thru battle raps and clever word play.  Romanticizing was me coming to terms with knowing the world has a balance of light and dark and that's just how it is,  Observe the injustice, call out the B.S. and bully the bullies of the world, while being thankful and choosing to focus on the beauty in this world.   The Beats I had for this album were so far ahead of their time.  I could use them today and the album wouldn't feel dated to me.  

Sadly,  I already wrote and recorded songs to those beats, and losing the hard drive right before I was moving to a new city with my (at the time)  "long distance GF" was just a blow I could not recover from.   I was able to partially recover the hard drive before leaving Tampa and moving to Los Angeles,  but what I received was just a million folders, and each folder just had jumbled files,  completely re-named to things "kk39ahd0fh002421"  It took me over a month going through each folder blindly playing files to try and organize and see what was recovered and as luck would have it, I recovered nearly every single beat from that album.   But all of the Project files / Sessions, Recordings, Settings, Mixdowns were all lost.        Not only did I not have time to re-record the album, but as you will learn,  I am very very very much attached to the magic of 1st take energy.  There was no way I was going to re-record songs and experiences without the initial energy I felt when I first recorded them.  So I scrapped the album and said to myself,  I'd get new beats, live through new experiences in a Different city and go from there, and thankfully,  I did not record the song you are reading about yet,  So I planned on starting with this track when I got to Los Angeles.      

Well,  Life is funny and takes you down different paths haha,  After moving to Los Angeles,  within the first 2 weeks of getting my apartment (more back context and back stories scattered though-out my other Artist account [ https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy] My girlfriend I moved from Las Vegas cheated on me haha,  which sucked but worked out because it gave me time alone in the apartment to create,  So I Recorded this song finally....   I was close with Joe Kay & Kronika of Soulection Prior to moving to Los Angeles, so as soon as I touched down,  I was already connected with everyone dope in the city.  Joe Kay would call me "Dutchy" on the Radio,  So when I'd book shows,  they would always mess up the flyers and put Dutchy instead of Dutchmassive,  I took this as a sign to separate my Rapping Alias and my Production/DJ Alias. At the same time,  Kronika introduced me to Ahwlee, who would come over every weekend and stay over, and that's where Ahwlee introduced Ableton Live into my life.....        I'm gonna be honest,  pivoting from FL Studio to Ableton was like unlocking a new world that made it so easy to execute my ideas and well..........   I spent the next few years as the producer main you now know as Dutchyyy =)

Los Angeles is not like Tampa...      There is no place, you can walk outside that isn't crowded with humans,  and being I like to be outside, alone away from humans while writing...        Dutchmassive went on extended Hiatus.  All while collecting beats from my favorite producers with the intent of eventually, sitting and writing a new album.......

This is a long back story huh?  but I posted this song for a reason as it was pivotal, combined with the loss of the hard drive and album,  being in a city, where I was overstimulated by people and could never find a place outside to be alone in my thoughts...    Prospects of new Dutchmassive album rapping kind of evaporated as I leaned super heavy into expressing my feelings and thoughts without saying words and instead translating a billion micro chops into my new language.          

The next song I would write and record would not happen until fall of 2014, in upstate NY.  "TRACK 37" aka "How Nice I Am"       

Please stay tuned, as that song is coming next, and sets the stage for what became the most personal, important body of creative work (to me personally) that I ever created......  DailyRambles aka "The Reluctant Clap"

Thank you for taking the time to listen and read.  I hope you dive into what is about to follow.

Love & Light - Dutch

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"Oh, Pen..."

"By Design" also known as "Track 37: Dutchmassive""
Year created: 2014
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive
Cuts / Scratches: DJ Mekalek
Recorded by: Sam The Sleezbag @ Yetiville, NY
Mixed & Mastered by: Dutch & Sam The Sleezbag
Album: #SleezbagMekalekTape
Track: 37
Released: August 19, 2016
Label:  Sleezbag Records (f.k.a. Yetiville)

https://samthesleezbag.bandcamp.com/album/sleezbagmekalektape

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Lyrics:

[Verse 1 – Dutchmassive]

"Hello, Hi, Handshakes, High five's  / Peace, Namaste, (Smoke Bombs) No goodbyes / exit stage left & leave no trace behind / Master Tatsu, Ninja Vanish by design / I identified you're not f***ing with I / the eye of beholder, this universe is mine / mind your own business, I'm universally kind / If I don't like it? I don't like it!, that shouldn't damage your pride / soft ass, sensitive suckas they wasting time / the airtime is limited, well already been dried / we've been digging loops, I'll flip em and redesign / we some sample chop kings but that's secondary to rhymes / Peace to 95' I've been poking the hive / agitating giants, the villains never survive / the skies open up when you learn to silence your mind / you could gain a new perspective by honing that triple eye / side stepping lies, they conscious in disguise / that "Sound of Tomorrow" has hypocritical vibes... / with eyes on the prize, you're reaching the wrong side and a balloon (Buhloone) mind state can only fly so high / tie down that ego, make sure it doesn't escape / or i'll be behind you to make sure that it deflates / play date with destiny, solitude is my fate / till the day one's taste is no longer considered hate (biiiiiitch)" 

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Backstory:

Picking up from the backstory of "Oh, Pen..." (with added context, interwoven in the backstories of songs from "Chill Gawd, Chill, "The Uproot" & "Traversal" available to read: 

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy

I'll do my best to not repeat my backstory so many times haha.

Long Story Long,  I wrote and recorded two songs shortly after moving to Los Angeles (summer/fall 2012) and then completely stopped writing songs and hard pivoted to a Producer main (Dutchyyy) and informally retired the "Dutchmassive" chapter of my life.   During my time (1st time) living in Los Angeles (Early 2012 - Spring 2014) I created "Chill Gawd, Chill" (120 minute Cassette) and Began my next album "The Uproot" towards the tail end of that Arc.   At the same time,  I was collecting beats from my favorite producers to "potentially" use if I ever decided to Record another Dutchmassive album.  Now, being in Los Angeles around so many like minded, super talented creatives all making dope beats and doing shows weekly meant,  I was in freestyle heaven,  able to bounce spontaneous, fun, improv freestyles off other people (Something I never really had in Tampa after the 90's)  While I had zero impulse or urge to ever sit (or walk) and purposely write a song.  Getting in the habit of allowing myself to have fun with hip hop, just freestyling with friends flexing my improv muscle and scratching that ego driven / competitive / show off itch was a much needed change of pace.  but........  there is a very distinct personality clash with most people I've met born and raised on the west coast that doesn't quite speak the same language as us overly expressive, ball busting (in jest/ out of love) speak your mind loudly east coast personalities.   Which was something I've never really encountered before in excess living on the east coast.     So there were definitely a lot of times where jokes or sincerity did not land and created friction.   Around the end of 2013,  My long term "Dutchmassive" fans were coming out of the woodwork, all vocally frustrated to see everything I was releasing was Instrumental.   There was an enormous amount of pressure from long term and even new fans that recently stumbled on my debut solo album "Junk Planet" and they were bombarding me daily to please return to the vibe and style of that album I created as a teenager.   I did my best to explain that while I'll always have that side of me that wants to call out B.S.   The whole Ego Arc was loooong looooong past, and I'd never be able to replicate an album I created mid/late 90's in my teens, as a 30+ man that just wants to inspire people but I did my best to least semi play that role on social media to keep fans from completely jumping ship.  At the same time,  a lot of the more "conscious" people (mostly more mature women) in my circle, were yelling at me to dead all that public ego / bravado and just evolve into who I am currently and let the old fans move on if they don't like who I had been growing into.

I remember like yesterday, being at the airport, leaving Los Angeles to move back to Tampa Bay, and my friend "ReyofLight'' literally yelling at me on the phone about this.      I Landed back In Tampa feeling confused, conflicted, pulled in all directions, and I had no idea how bad my short stay in Tampa was about to be....    I'm not even going to expand on that backstory,  but fast forward a month or two and homie Sammy the Sleezbag hit me up after seeing and hearing about what I was dealing with and offered me a free room to stay in at his house in NY,  the only stipulation was that while I'm there, I write and record new music.       About a month into my stay, We drove out to meet up with people Celph Titled and Apathy of (The Demigodz / Army of the Pharaohs)  who still made that super aggressive battle rap I was trying so hard to move on from.  Apathy pulled me aside and said, he would produce a whole album for me, and not to worry about trying to be overly aggressive and lean into my more personal songs like "Bus Stop Building Block" or "Just me & my Walkman" cus that's his favorite version of me.  I thanked him, and agreed and he sent me batches of beats to choose from.    I ended up writing and recording two songs, one being a part two to "My own sh*t" from Junk Planet where I addressed in great detail the pull and push I was getting from fans to display an Ego through music I no longer possessed.   Probably one the dopest songs I've written and homie Lord Digga (from Masta Ace) came through and laid a verse on the song as well.

A few days Later,  My Pops, who I hadn't seen or spoken to since the early 2000's,  saw I was living in NY and reached out to me, and asked If I wanted to come visit him for the weekend, since he lived like 90 minutes from where I was staying,  I was very reluctant to reconnect but figured life is too short to hold grudges, and he came and picked me up........

The rest of this very transformative backstory is better read here:

https://medium.com/@SolarSounds/shawangunk-stomp-the-story-of-dutchyyys-uproot-4235a4eb66ff

but Long Story Short...    I Promised Sam I would write and record a song for this historic album/mixtape he was A&Ring for years, getting verses from Golden Era and Independent HipHop Legends....     He begged me to please, just give him one last "Take no shit / attack mode" Dutchmassive verse,  but I was happy and in a good space..   So I channeled all the energy into calling out the hypocritical B.S. that was happening after I left Los Angeles,  as the scene pivoted from beat scene, to future bass / mashup / remix culture with a dash of insane twitter ego and told same, I'm announcing my retirement as Dutchmassive in this song just to let you know haha.   

Secretly I was stacking beats from homies at a more rapid pace, to begin a new album minus the Dutchmassive name and the expectations that came with it.

This would be the very last song, that I both, wrote and officially recorded as Dutchmassive up until this date (6/01/2023)  

The Private Nature Preserve I was living at in upstate NY w/ my Father, where I grew, healed spiritually, and felt at peace, was suddenly bought out by the State, and we had to move with a week's notice.    A few months later, I ended up back in the place I kept trying to escape haha, Tampa, Florida..  Where I would return to an insane amount of trauma and hardship once again, but also finished and released "Traversal" .......       and now the entire reason, I minted this song and "Oh, Pen..."

I already explained that I have never been able to sit inside and write lyrics..    but I don't think I mentioned the part about how I wrote lyrics since the mid 90's...       Back then, I had a Sony Walkman that came with a lapel mic.      So my version of writing lyrics was freestyling gibberish over and over and letting myself piece together the cohesive parts on paper later.      After smartphones became a thing,   I pivoted to doing this via voice memo...        The Problem with this method was you could not play music on the phone and also record a voice memo,  So I always had to walk around with the phone to record into, and a walkman, Cd player, ipod attached to a mini speaker for this work, or else I would never remember how my cadence was intended to me (which was always my most important first step with writing)...    So here I am in Tampa once again,  I Just released "Traversal" and the homie Fresh Daily, hit me up to be on Collab, and at the same time, the homie Astrological from PotatoheadPeople hit me up to record a song for their new album and the beat he sent me was perfect.   Holding the phone, mp3 player and bluetooth speaker method was too distracting, So I looked everywhere to see if there was a work around on the android phones, where you could play and hear a beat, and record over on the phone..     It did not exist......  but my search led me to the TASCAM DR-05..........

So I went and copped one....

I've had the Tascam since the end of 2015, and have recorded hundreds of files on it.        But I only used it one time, for its original intended purpose which was to write new songs......  "Planets in Orbit" would be the Actual last song I ever wrote,  but write after I finished writing it,  I got a call from homie Josh Jetson (Sunjet) telling me to move back out to Los Angeles and He has a Room for me as long as I need,  48 hrs Later,  I'm living in Downtown Los Angeles.....        April 2016.....     I couldn't really focus on music,  had no place to record that verse and had to find a job.    Landed a Job doing the same thing I did for Warner Brothers but now for Netflix..  (MASTER QC)  A month Later,  My mother suddenly passed away, the same hour they pulled the plug, NetFlix fired me for posting an image on twitter of the Netflix logo (They geolocated it I guess)  48 hour later guess where I am.......  Back In Tampa, Florida....        Where I would completely pivot my approach to creating music across the board.   I had a major beef with finality, So I rebelled against it with every fiber of my being.... Continuing with a series I began after the first time I ever used the Tascam...        The Daily Rambles..   from 2015-2022, I would secretly be recording daily freestyles, documenting the next 5 or 6 separate  arcs of my life, with zero intention of ever letting anyone hear these recordings..   As they were a hybrid of my own personal journal and sandbag I would use to train and keep my creative juices flowing minus any pressure, expectations and just have fun while also being super super introspective and vulnerable between mumbling quietly in public where 90 percent of these were recorded.     At the Same time,  I stopped Releasing official albums, and began #EvolvingPortals which is the same concept as DailyRambles / The Reluctant Clap....    1 take, live, long form recordings of the entire process of working on music, mistakes and all and riding the unknown like it's the main instrument.......

There is so much context I'm leaving out,  It's too heavy, embarrassing and scary.....None of these were Recorded with the intention of being heard by the public....that was the whole point.   The Freestyles were my safe space to express all the things I was too proud to share with the world.    But if you've been following my journey since 2017/2018 you can tell I'm in preserve the legacy mode, on my own terms because tomorrow is never promised,  So DailyRambles/EvolvingPortals have been my way to stay 100% present in the flowstate, to escape the embarrassing and unbearable painful reality that my body is failing at a rapid rate and degrading exponentially, and I'm way too prideful to tell people how bad it really is, and equally prideful and have had a fear that If I make all these recordings public,  people won't understand the context and think they are written songs, when every single one is 100% improv and also not meant to be shared hahaha.  As my health got worse the past few years, I contemplated secretly releasing them all under an alias.....  That alias become "The Reluctant Clap"    
   
  I was recently inspired by my friend Cxy that what I've accomplished documenting consistently in private is beyond special and deserves to be heard.  To drop my pride and fear and let anyone patient enough to sit through hours of chronological creative context into my most personal and unfiltered thoughts....         There's so much more context hahah,  I should have saved all this for when they actually drop.

An overload of evolving Context all linked together....

BY DESIGN.

***THIS SONG IS BEING UPLOADED FOR ACCURATE WORLD BUILDING CONTEXT ONLY, TO EXIST LONG AFTER I DO NOT.   THIS SONG CANNOT BE BID ON, BOUGHT OR COLLECTED IN THIS FORM.

Thank you to anyone who takes time to listen and read all of these.

- Dutch

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"By Design."

Recorded October 20th, 2015.
Location: Hillsborough River (Tampa Bay, FL)

The final voice memo Freestyle I ever recorded as I wrapped up the final touches on my last official instrumental album "Traversal".

https://open.spotify.com/album/3dYlFQTK2ZHNEOxsWTv2AX

I just finished mixing "Welcome My Darling" on the park bench, next to the river. (which I ended up not using for Traversal, and would later appear on "BeatHoarder Vol. 1"

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/beat-hoarder-vol-1

While Listening back through the Aux connected to my JBL mini speaker on Loop, I spontaneously started freestyling into my outdated crappy android phone.

After listening to the freestyle back, I was strangely satisfied that an unplanned freestyle session actually turned out super cohesive in terms of documenting my experience creating Traversal.      

But it sounded horrible haha, you can barely hear the vocals....     This is when I said "Enough is Enough" and searched endlessly for a work around or app that would let you play music on the phone while also recording your vocals on the phone....   it did not exist at this time.......      Further searches lead me to the "Tascam DR-05" and as I closed the chapter on Traversal. (The Digital Version at least) A new Chapter Began.

The Reluctant Clap: Chapter I (DailyRambles) [Tascam DR-05 Freestyles]  

aaaaand began the Era of working on the cassette version of "Traversal" =)

+ https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-traversal-side-a-grand-garden-cassette-masters-

+ https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-traversal-side-b-grand-garden-cassette-masters-

Were Building Context here....  

Incoming!

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"The Final Voice Memo" (Traversal Summery Freestyle)

"The long cold hot take" (Produced by Dutchyyy) is from Chapter V (2020-2022) of my unreleased freestyle series "DailyRambles" i.e. "The Reluctant Clap" 

Recorded on May 23rd 2021. (Birthday)
Released on May 23, 2022 via my main artist profile on Catalog Works @dutchyyy 
Record sold for 0.5 ETH to @alez on July 8, 2022 which unlocked the creation of the @dutchmassive artist profile on Catalog Works

The Reluctant Clap: Chapters IV, III, II, I  will exist via Catalog Works,  Each Chapter as a single Long form album.

The Reluctant Clap: Chapter V will exist as a full album with separated tracks via Super Collector / Release 

https://release.supercollector.xyz/

01. "The Workaround" - Prod by Yimello
02. "Self Dialog" - Prod by thxk_u
03. "Marked as Safe" - Prod by thxk_u
04. "A.O.L. Chatrooms" - Prod by edac
05. "Noise Pollution" - Prod by Vinny Cuzns
06. "Muted" - Prod by Elaquent
07. "10x12" - Prod by WonPound
08. "Lame Energy Thesis" - Prod by Rnd1
09. "Day" - Prod by Rnd1
10. "Breakin' Atoms" - Prod By adamshmadam
11. "Session View" - Produced By Dutchyyy
12. "wUnderwhealming" - Prod by edac
13. "A Smarter Contract" - Prod by edac
14. "Exit Strategy"  - Prod by edac
15. "Gardening" (The Stone Evolved) - Prod by Dutchyyy
16. "He Solo'd It" - Prod by Dutchyyy
17.  "Evolving Eternity" (ACT I) - Prod by Dutchyyy
18. "Eternally, Internal" (ACT II) - Prod by Dutchyyy
19. "The Eternal Now" (ACT III) - Prod by Dutchyyy
20. "The Enemy of Eternity" (ACT IV) - Prod by Dutchyyy
21.  "I need Portals" - Prod by Dutchyyy
22. "Hopus Copium Opus" - Prod by Dutchyyy
23. "We're Special" - Prod by Dutchyyy
24. "The Long Cold Hot Take" (Eulogy) - Prod by Dutchyyy
25. "The Reluctant Clap" - Prod by Dutchyyy
26. "I Sense Danger" (Act I) - Prod by Thoto_leing
27. "I Sense Danger (Act II) - Prod by Dutchyyy
28. "Context > Content" - Prod by Dutchyyy

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I want to extend gratitude to @Alez for Collecting the first available public Daily Ramble and unlocking this @dutchmassive artist profile.

I want to extend gratitude to @cxy for being an advocate for real time documentation and inspiring me to finally make this private series never meant to be publicly heard available publicly and most importantly added to the forever library  to help add/fill in all this missing context of my legacy as an Artist/Human even though I was stubborn and very Reluctant to execute and commit.

Lastly I want to extend gratitude to  @jzs (Jeremy Stern) and the rest of the Catalog Team for going above and beyond to help ensure my legacy/story could exist in it's intended chronical long form existence.

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Backstory:

Last album released rapping as Dutchmassive was released in 2007 on Rawkus Records.

Social media and life kind of killed the magic of words for me. I see too many thoughts daily, So I shifted my creative energy into expression without words. beats, keys, sample manipulation, experimenting with creating new worlds from nothing, or evolving a sample into the unrecognizable just music in general, just speaking without using words.

Hip Hop stopped inspiring or surprising me, with minimal exceptions. The fun aspect of being an emcee or making music kind of fell out of style. where up until about 2011, it was everywhere, so accessible. such a vibe, easy to bounce that creative energy back into the world.

but I still am an emcee, passionate, over talkative, TMI, super expressive human IRL.

but losing chronologic timelines on social media (yep I'm going there again) really changed how humans communicate online. Expansive conversations don't happen by design, everything is fragmented, and anything long form is taboo, especially using your words to communicate on these apps. you see a paragraph, you think rant. Crazy right? I'm the crazy one? nah this new fragmented, A.I. manipulated timeline we all living in doesn't want nor allow for expansive dialog to happen in real time anymore. Everyone's on a soap box, trapped, reacting, and dunking basically always in offense or defense mode. hahaha I grew tired of battle rap in the early 2000's, now soccer moms, senators and the whole worlds has battle rap energy haha.

You think this discouraged me, nah. I let that lil light shine in private haha, I missed when hip-hop was fun, so I had fun with hip-hop in private, got all my venting out and recorded it every time. Freestyling and flipping samples is all do, while rebelling publicly, hoarding insane amounts of beats, and albums, I got super addicted to recording everything in real time.. The rawest and truest form of expression.... having fun, being introspective on autopilot.

Absolute freedom.

but this stuff was never intended to be heard by anyone. DailyRambles is me loading up a batch of beats on the Tascam DR-05 that I haven't listened to yet, and blindly freestyling and seeing which ones move me enough to make me wanna sit and write, and having fun with the ones that don't fit my voice or style and have fun trying to make it work.

I had zero intentions to make any of these freestyles public,  but due to severe health complications, I might not always be here and even if I am able to somehow course correct by pure miracle and insane amounts of debt,  it would alter my ability to speak the same and/or articulate the way I do now. 

There may never be another well thought out, written and recorded "Dutchmassive" album in the future. But there is 6 years worth of "DailyRambles" right now.
I'm reluctant about even dropping this as Dutchmassive, even though polls on all "social media" unanimously chose it over the alias "Reluctant Clap"

I won't always be here. I'd rather this silly introspective gibberish be out in the world, then locked away on my hard drive.

Reluctantly,  INCOMING!

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The Reluctant Clap: Chapter V (DailyRambles) [2020-2022]

"The Long Cold Hot Take" (Eulogy) - Prod by Dutchyyy

"DR_0001" (Ocean Causeway Freestyle)

The first audio recording captured on the Tascam DR-05

Date: November 1st, 2015
Time: Between 10pm-12am EST
Location: Tampa Bay, FL (Courtney Campbell Causeway) 
Coordinates:	27.9669°N 82.6498°W


Back Story before the Backstory:

I don't know where to begin?  A brief summary?  I began recording freestyles on my moms Panasonic Auto Logic Answering Machine late 1994? Early 1995? (one of these was actually released on my Debut Album "Junk Planet" as a skit/interlude,  Where Celph Titled, Majik Most & Myself were all just being goofy freestyling over Celph's beats (you can hear my mom yelling and my little brother squealing) but that came later haha,  I started alone, and I moved to freestyling on a karaoke machine summer of 1995.  (I Literally have every single one of these recordings on cassette still which is crazy)  Fast Forward, late 1996. Early 1997 I got a Sony Walkman that came with a lapel mic, So I was able to play beats and freestyle, talk and record directly on it.  I brought it everywhere,  Recording everything,  Walking alone at night, talking to myself,  freestyling...  just expressing...   This died down as my career took off and what started as a hobby just having fun,  Led to having Multiple Vinyl singles while still in high school.  My Daily Rambles Tradition just fell off as I became an official artist focused on writing and recording songs.  My Writing Method was the same though,  I never could focus being idle with pen and paper,  So a lot of freestyling catching how I wanted to fit on the beat first, then refine my thoughts after pacing in circles outside.    Daily Rambles picked back up after cell phones that record voice memos  became a thing.  This method was flawed because there was no way to play music and record vocals on phones, a decade passed and this still wasn't possible.  The Lyrics I write are of course important, but recording lyrics without having the beat to reference,  I would tend to forget how my cadence was originally intended,  which I'm very intentional about.  I played Quads, and Lead Snare in the marching band,  So how I rode a beat was more important than what I was saying at times..           Fast Forward Another Decade,  Post Rawkus, Post Chill Gawd, Chill..   Tampa, to La, back to Tampa, Up to New York (Now is probably a good time to open up another tab and read the back stories for "By Design" & "Oh, Pen..." Since I just filled in a lot of this context.    I recorded my Last Voice Memo Freestyle (which was also my 1st voice memo freestyle since the like 2010?) and searched again for a work around to be able to record vocals on the phone while also playing the beat on the phone (this did not exist as of October 2015)  My Search led me to the Tascam Field Recorder.  So I wasted no time,  rode my moped up to Guitar Center and copped the Tascam DR-05 as soon as I got paid....

Backstory:

I copped the Tascam... Fast Forward A week or so Later,  After finalizing Traversal, I...  had a really bad day...   The Entire (Post NY) back in Tampa Mini Arc was just traumatic.  I left Tampa for A reason haha.  Long Story Short,  I had not seen my younger brother since early 2012 right before I moved to Los Angeles (The first time)  Then I was living in NY 2014-end of summer 2015.   I felt super Uprooted, Traversing State to State,  Super untethered and just needed to feel grounded and see my little brother.  Called him explaining what was happening and that I needed to escape where I was currently living for a few hours,  and he said, "I'm not driving there, and wasting gas"  I was leaving in a few days to work a month long contract out of state teaching at the hospital,  and when my contract was ending,  He was leaving on one,  So it was the chance I could see him.    So, even though I lived pretty far (considering I had Moped, and not a car) I hopped on my 2007 Tomos Targa LX Moped and told him I would meet him somewhere closer to where he lived.  We decided that we would meet at the Causeway (Long Road / Bridge connected Tampa and Clearwater in the middle of the Ocean (Gulf if we are being technical)..  I got there around 8pm and waited silently,  staring out into the ocean (something I did miss about living in Tampa) and I waited, and I waited,  and I called, and Texted..  and about a Quarter after 10pm,  He texted me saying he's not gonna make it,  then never responded after....      I brought my Newly Purchased Tascam with me,  thinking I could do some field recordings of the waves....  So I dug it out of my backpack and turned it on,  took a few minutes to figure out how it works,  then I stood on the rocks at the edge of the bridge to record the sound of the ocean,  but the waves stopped... It was a Sunday Night,  but there were so many people partying and being loud.   It's usually the hangout spot on Friday / Saturday,  but Sunday was usually empty...    So the weight of everything going on in my life, combined with that last sigh of feeling like the Universe was pranking me by making the ocean still just as I went to record waves and how the noise of cars and people partying got way louder in that moment......     well..........     This Recording was born.     I had Zero Intentions of Freestyling,  I just pressed record and blacked out on autopilot and ended up recording one of the most personal, vulnerable and exposed thoughts blacked out in the flow state, unintended and just let my soul explode, while drunk girls kept trying to get my attention and kept going until I realized a huge storm was heading my way and I had to drive 17 miles, on a moped that went 35 mph max speed haha....

That session was unplanned and the most cathartic experience.  Though there was no way another human, outside of my room mate at the time I would ever let hear it.     

That Traumatic ass day, night, week, month was erased with a single recording...   I would come to find out that recording blindly without zero pressure of anyone ever getting to hear them, led to the most healing, fun and addictive form of expression I ever experienced...    From Nov 1st, 2015 - Present Day.    I would ritually and secretly continue and evolve this process which completely changed my approach creating music and expressing in general.          Enter a new Private Era.....  Documenting in real time, raw expression w/ zero filter or over thinking......... 

This was the Rebirth of the Daily Ramble....     

"THE RELUCTANT CLAP".  

INCOMING!!

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"DR_0001" (Rebirth of the Daily Ramble)

Records still available to collect on Catalog works.

Uncollected "Dutchyyy" Catalog 

Written & Performed by: 
Dutchmassive (aka Dutchyyy) 
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy

Produced / Composed by: 
Sweatson Klank (fka Take) 
https://beta.catalog.works/sweatsonklank
https://www.friendsoffriendsmusic.com/sweatson-klank

From:  "Earthtones & Concrete" - Take (aka Sweatson Klank) Debut Full length album, released August 2007 on CD & 2xLP via Inner Current Recordings.

Backstory:  The year was 2006,  Myspace top 5 was a very relevant flex and easy identifier for like minded musicians to connect.  2 years had passed since I released my debut solo album as an emcee  "Junk Planet".  Released world wide July 13, 2004 on CD / 2xLP.  
For context, I began writing and recording for Junk Planet late 1997 while also recording an album with my group at the time "Equilibrium" (Celph Titled, Majik Most & Myself) and finished recording the the last song for Junk Planet in 2002.  Time moved slower for music back then. There was no "keeping up with daily content".  You had the freedom to live and experience life and use that experience for inspiration to craft well thought out albums.
   
   I was taking my time recording my sophomore album "Crush Your System" An album I began writing & recording for in 2003, which would later be released on Rawkus Records as part of worlds first digital only campaign "The Rawkus 50" but i'm getting sidetracked.
 
Taking my time, building an arsenal up of production from my favorite producers at the time:  Samiyam, 14KT, Take, Dakim, !llmind, Dela, SlopFunkDust, Mo0, etc... All friends I made through the power of Myspace.   I had just released my first official instrumental project titled "The Drumlove EP" as well as the mixtape "Project: REACH" when Take (Sweaton Klank) sent me the perfect beat.  He was able to match my voice and style so well,  but instead of me using the beat on my upcoming album he wanted me to be the only emcee to feature on his debut full length.  The pressure of knowing I would be the only person rapping on this album made me take writing this song very serious.  I didn't want to just do some typical braggadocios battle rap since I knew the album was going to more like a movie score in a sense rather than just a collection of random beats.   At the time,  I was dating a girl who was very inspirational and had me exploring things outside of my normal wheelhouse.  She had perfect recall when it came to dreaming and was able to lucid dream with ease. So the months leading up to writing "Dream Suite" I had been using a dream journal every morning and studying Astral Projection and Lucid dreaming in general.  Something I've only ever been able to achieve a few times in my lifetime and once I realized I was in control,  I would immediately wake up haha.  So I decided to make Lucid dreaming the subject matter for the song I was going to write.  Nearly everything I wrote about was true to form and directly inspired by the research I had been doing.  I did take one creative liberty and changed "Greek Dream Temples" to the inaccurate "Egyptian Dream Temples" but that's because I was obsessed with the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt since I was a child and thought Egyptian sounded "cooler" than saying "Greek".  Plus I needed a word with multiple syllables haha.  I recorded, mixed and mastered my vocals and sent them off to Take (Sweatson Klank) - The beat I wrote to was just a rough sketch, so when he sent me the final version with all the change up's and the outro that transports you to a different world.  I don't know what else to say.  This became one of my favorite tracks of all time, and I couldn't believe I was lucky enough to be apart of it.   

Years later,  long after "Crush Your System" was released on Rawkus,  I released an updated version on bandcamp with added songs (since my 3rd solo album as Dutchmassive titled "Romanticizing" was lost on Xmas 2011 to corrupt hard drive resulting in the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death")  After losing all of my beats from 2008-2011 and the album I spent years writing and recording.   I just took a few extra songs I featured on, added them to Crush Your System and decided to hang up the mic and focus primarily on Production moving forward.   I know, I know, what a sad ending haha,  but truth is,  I'm an emcee at heart, so I never stopped rhyming.  I just stopped writing and recording albums.  Instead,  I began recording freestyles daily for fun.  What started out on voice memos,  graduated to a Tascam DR-05 in 2015.  The creative fulfillment that came with recording freestyles for fun without the pressure of them ever being heard was the ultimate therapy and would get me thru the toughest of days while also having fun keeping the spirit of the emcee alive 2015-present and thus was born DailyRambles aka "The Reluctant Clap"   

This Catalog Record is a 50/50 split with @sweatsonklank 
I wanted my Genesis drop as "Dutchmassive" to feature another Catalog Artist and it just worked out that one of my favorite songs I've recorded to date was produced by a producer who also an artist on Catalog Works =)

*****Winner of this auction will receive A copy of "Earthtones & Concrete" on CD (Digipack) & 2xLP (Vinyl) from our personal collections*****

*****Anyone who bids on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" of nearly my full released and unreleased discography over 110gb *****

and

*****Winner of the auction will get a 1TB Samsung SSD portable drive that not only holds everything on the cloud drive,  but all the Portals unreleased in super long raw form directly from their master folders strait from the SP404SX and All the long videos and twitch streams that are too large to upload anywhere*****

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"Dream Suite" - Prod. by Sweatson Klank

"Just Me & My Walkman" 

Year created: 1998
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive
Produced by: Deeskee
Recorded by: Dan Smith @ Bay Sound (Tampa, Florida)
Mixed & Mastered by: Celph Titled @ The Chrome Depot (NYC)
Album: "Junk Planet" (Released July 13, 2004) CD & 2xLP (double vinyl)
Label:  Atomik / Freshchest Records / Caroline Distribution  
Original Concept Drawing by FILTER - Recreated by Skawty Shaw and SlopFunkDust
Graphic design and layout by Open Mic

"Junk Planet" was created 1997-2002, Released world wide 2004.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/junk-planet-1997-2002

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Lyrics:

(Verse1)
"Yo a lot of credit due to sidekick / my get me through the day kid / my wake in the morning with a smile on my face thing / My energy, my mellow out in stressful times of need / my drug to block me out from the world when i feel / my man who keeps me new to all the music that I hear / the one who's always close to my pockets and  my ears, / my man throughout the years, always been my best friend / and introduce to ya'll my one and only walkman!"

(Bridge)
"Yo did he say walkman?  yo i know this cat ain't dedicating a song to walkman. What's this, some Me, Myself & My Microphone type ish?!"

(Verse 2)

"Yo, ya'll don't understand, damn, my headset is my man / first to play me Kris when he dissed MC Shan / Been there for Dividends (The World is Very different now) to Passing me By / Still bumping De La, Del, and what's left of Tribe / My god! the mixtapes that i've gone through / and the shoes i've worn out walking down waters avenue / my lunch money would go towards batteries / they was from the Dollar Store but that ain't matter to me / Sadly in the same predicament / I'm addicted to listening / Hoping that my kids will see the visions, that I had as child playing tag in the courtyard /  dreams to proceed and overcome all the odds / The Gawd & his headset, Never will my ears rest / I stay zoning out listening to Common Sense / The best of all friends from beginning to the end / throughout all the problems it's just me and walkman"

(Chorus)
"It's Just Me & My Walkman, When I wanna hear the classics, I don't wanna hear that loud mouth ish / It's Just Me & My Walkman, When i'm stressed and I need to get away, I have nothing to say / It's Just Me & My Walkman, When I wanna just chill and sitback, relax and ill! It's Just Me & My Walkman, my Walkman,  my Walkman"

(Verse 3)

"Now i've grown a little older / released Vinyl, got exposure / sold my memories on tape, to reach to lower side of what ya'll music / but it's polluted / I never buy hip hop anymore cus it's foolish / No excused\s, I need new Cassettes / hense you make better songs, then I might represent / my walkman would hate me if I played some wack ish / so please do me a favor and make more classics! / I push pause and wonder / What if he was gone, cus he died of hunger / Live in the past though, Never regretting / Trade all my tapes for Cd's, Forget it / never feed him wack tapes cus that would be a no no / Always rocking classics, never play a demo / to the dopest friend to ever touch this land / come on, give a hand to my mother-ucking Walkman! (The Best friend in the world, the best friend in the world, the world)

(Chorus)
"It's Just Me & My Walkman, When I wanna hear the classics, I don't wanna hear that loud mouth ish / It's Just Me & My Walkman, When i'm stressed and I need to get away, I have nothing to say / It's Just Me & My Walkman, When I wanna just chill and sitback, relax and ill! It's Just Me & My Walkman, my Walkman,  my Walkman, my Walkman, my waaaalkmaaaan"
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Backstory:

"Just Me & My Walkman" was the 2nd song I wrote and recorded for my Debut solo album "Junk Planet" in 1998.  At the time, I was also an emcee in the Tampa Bay native underground hip hop group "Equilibrium" (Celph Titled, Majik Most, Dutchmassive & DJ Kramtronix)  We had been recording our full length album "Tropic States" (which still remains unreleased) since 1996,  Celph moved to NYC to work at Buds Distribution & helped formed Demigodz & joined Army Of The Pharaohs.  We had just released our 1st 12" vinyl as Equilibrium "Fahrenheit 813" B/W "Critical Conditions" (feat. Vex of The Boogiemonsters) & "Windows 98" and getting ready to release our 2nd 12" "Do that" B/W "Hold Something".   

With Celph in NYC taking on more projects and responsibilities and Majik Most no longer in the group for a short period of time, I was getting antsy waiting to unleash all this creative energy I had pent up as a Teenager.  Celph Introduced me to the producer Deeskee, who he met while working on Braille's first album Lifefirst: Half The Battle.  Which was half produced by Celph & half produced by Deeskee.  I fell in Love with Deeskee's Production on Braille's album so we linked over the phone and he sent me a demo of his upcoming instrumental album "In Loving Memory Of..."   which still remains one of my favorite and most influential albums of my life.  Deeskee was very good at creating music that fit the vision of the emcee he was working with.  He wouldn't allow me to choose any existing beats and wanted the challenge of creating new and very specific beats designed around my voice and the concepts I wanted to execute.   He Produced 5 tracks on "Junk Planet" 
"Bus Stop Building Block" which was the very first song I recorded as a solo artist.
"Just Me & My Walkman" which was the 2nd track I recorded for this album.
"My own sh*t"
"Pipe Dreams" & "Take A Break" (interlude)

I wanted the first single on vinyl to be "Just Me & My Walkman" b/w "My Own Sh*t" & "Bus Stop Building Block" but the Label wanted to release the more "Battle Rap" Aggressive tracks as the singles that had Alot of at the time "Famous" features.  A Decision I'm sad about to this day.  The Label told me,  we could release the tracks I want as the 3rd single but 3 months after the album was released.  The Label "Freshchest" filed for bankruptcy not only killing any chances of a 3rd single but also sealing the fate of no artists on the label getting paid.   The album was created from 1997-2002,  This was prior to home studio's being the norm so the amount of my I invested into studio time,  flights, and just years of expression never saw a single penny of return. This dismantled me hard at the time. I was riding this high with my CD being in every store worldwide and the vinyl being in all the record shops across the globe.  Write ups in the Source, XXL, Blaze, URB etc..   I really thought my life was going to change and my family would stop saying I'm wasting my time putting so much effort into music. This gave them and everyone else who doubted me the ammo they needed to rub in "I told you so" which hurt more than not getting paid.  "Junk Planet" took 2 years to be released after I finished recording it, So by the time it was released to the world, it was old to me and I was well into into recording my sophomore album "Crush Your System" with Production from Samiyam, 14KT, Illmind, Dela, SlopFunkDust, etc which would eventually be released in 2007 on Rawkus Records and meet pretty much the exact fate,  Almost to a T,  where the Labeled filed for bankruptcy 3 months after release and for those who aren't familiar with how Major / Independent releases went at the time.  You didn't get your first payment until after 3 months.   

As for the backstory around the song,  I think the song speaks for itself.  I've been very reluctant to mint music on my Dutchmassive Artist Profile since the music is nearly 3 decades old and pretty dated.  Also, I don't think "web3" is very familiar with History as an artist and how long I've been creating as Dutchmassive and as Dutchyyy.  I know not everyone takes time to read these long backstories and I only have 2 official albums as Dutchmassive, that were pretty momental releases for their time so I've been holding off because I don't want people to think I'm insane when I set the auction prices for songs from the releases.  I've come to terms with that now though.  It doesn't matter when or if these tracks get collected.  It's just important to me, they are on chain and my history and story is solidified.  

I chose to lead with "Just Me & My Walkman" because I think it's Audible Proof and provenance that not Only am I one of the OG artists that helped pave the way for underground / independent hip hop but I am also one of the OG Collectors and I haven't slowed down on creating or collecting ever.   Music truly is the healer,  it is the utility.  Music saved my life as a teenager and it's never let me down spiritually or emotionally.  I haven't Recorded a new album as Dutchmassive in well over a decade, but I never stopped rhyming, I just pivoted to recording daily Freestyles to stay sharp and have fun in private.  In a world where everyone has a soap box and we spend all day and night reading each other's thoughts. The Magic of words and expressing thoughts kinda lost its special place in my heart.  There's more to expand on that but I'll save that for another backstory.

*Collector will receive a sealed copy of "Junk Planet" on CD & and a sealed copy of "Junk Planet" on Double Vinyl.

*Collector will also receive a 1TB Samsung SSD filled with my nearly my full released & unreleased Discography as Dutchmassive / Dutchyyy 

Thank you for taking time to read the backstory, and thank you for listening.

Sincerely, 

Dutch

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Junk Planet

"Just Me & My Walkman" - Produced by Deeskee

"Classic" 

Year created: 2001
Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive
Produced by: Celph Titled
Recorded by: Dan Smith @ Bay Sound (Tampa, Florida)
Mixed & Mastered by: Celph Titled @ The Chrome Depot (NYC)
Album: "Junk Planet" (Released July 13, 2004) CD & 2xLP (double vinyl)
Label:  Atomik / Freshchest Records / Caroline Distribution  
Original Concept Drawing by FILTER - Recreated by Skawty Shaw and SlopFunkDust
Graphic design and layout by Open Mic

"Junk Planet" was created 1997-2002, Released world wide 2004.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/junk-planet-1997-2002

------------------------
Lyrics:

(Verse1)
"Ayo remember the days that you could say what you want / you  could smile, act a fool, talk about who you robbed / you could talk about women in a positive way / have fun with your album, talk about your bad days / you could be hardcore without murder and guns / or you could shoot a million people and you'd still catch love / it was all about expression and the cause and effect / battling was just for fun, I used to love to catch wreck / every group was flat broke, but they videos was dope / recording everyone so I could watch when i'm old /  I used to leave my books at home and bring my radio to school / we'd have ciphers after class and outside the lunch room / love was in the air, it wasn't bout who's the best / I never forget, walking through the negative stress, i'll never forget"

(Chorus)
"Whatever happened to the ways of mankind (Remember) / classic material is so hard to come by / I know that hip-hop's going through some hard times / but through the drama, I'll be rhyming from dark to light sky" (Repeat x2)

(Bridge / Scratches)
"Back in the day when I was a teenage / I let my tape rock till my tape pop / in my younger years, we used to rhyme out loud, that we create, cus that's our mission"

(Verse 2)

"Ayo ima be triumphant, I'll pass all this dumb ish / independent or mainstream, I rise about kids, I love this / nothing can make me stop / I be the king emcee, so i'm bound to be on top / I'll rock any show on celph titled production / any vinyl I release, Kramtronix the one cuttin / back spin to the past / I want to speak to the masses / the way things are going, yo hip-hop won't last / and conditions still critical / times is pitiful, I wanna change the world but i'm just an individual / (Just Me & My Walkman) I journey on to A land of dope emcee's where we live like gawds / A shining star, dreams of succeeding in life / I'm seeing the light / no wonder I can't sleep at night / my thoughts take flight "

(Chorus)
"Whatever happened to the ways of mankind (Remember) / classic material is so hard to come by / I know that hip-hop's going through some hard times / but through the drama, I'll be rhyming from dark to light sky" (Repeat x2)

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Backstory:

"Classic" was one of the last songs written & recorded for "Junk Planet". I began the album during the very cusp of the "Golden Era" of hip-hop in 1997 when the jiggy / masiofo / casio keyboard era started to dominate radio & television. Little did I know this was not going to be just a phase and would ultimately change the course of rap / hip-hop and music in general as this was also the same time Clearview (now iheartradio) would take over all major urban fm radio stations and pivot to only playing a select amount of the most popular / commercial songs on repeat every hour.  This was also around the time Record labels learned that fans were more than o.k. consuming watered down, generic keyboard production and paying for sample clearance wasn't necessary to sell hit records.  Anyone that grew up as an active fan of hip-hop from the early 90's to around 97/98 knows that we were spoiled with an abundance of unique and diverse forms of hip-hop,  stuff you couldn't even imagine being played on MTV or BET these days. It was truly an overwhelming amount of classic music that painted abstract pictures, transported you and captivated your heart & soul.   

I'm sure every generation thinks the music they grew up with is "their" golden era and created memories and have nostalgia attached to those songs,  I wasn't an "old head" when this shift occurred so we can't use nostalgia as an excuse.  You just kinda had to be there to understand. Going from the wild west of musicians creating the type of music they want to hear, no matter how silly, aggressive or experimental and it would get played on The Box, Rapcity and Yo! MTV Raps.  It began with flexing unrealistic ways of life and making it seem very obtainable.  Mob lifestyle & flexing material possessions became the standard.  "Fake it, till you make it" At this time,  Artists were not making the type of money from music they were acting like they had.  This would change over the decades and slowly seep into society, making the majority of the population hyper focused on wasting money on excessive name brands, jewelry, vehicles they probably never would have cared about or thought twice about if not having those things programmed and shoved in your face 24/7.   

I need to make it clear,  while radio & mainstream tv were playing the pop-ish, watered down, party records.  The underground was in full steam.  The dope music didn't stop being created,  it just no longer had the mainstream stage any longer, but if you were a head, you had nearly an unlimited supply of styles of sincere music to listen to.   All this excessive, over the top unrealistic music dominating the airways would be fuel for the underground and even spawned a semi-mainstream arc of "Conscious-HipHop"  I could go on and on about the history above and underground from the late 90's all the way to 2022 as I've been a head my whole life and I always payed attention and sought out dope music while also being an artist through-out all the waves and changes but when "Classic" was created.  It honestly wasn't even that bad in hindsight haha,  If we only knew then, how far down the corporate., cookie-cutter rabbit hole  music would continue for the rest of time.  There was always classic music being created from 97 to present,  this song was just my dedication to a time when it had the same mainstream platform as we hear the "top 10" in now. 

I will continue to create and collect dope music til my very last breath.  You will never have to worry about me burning out, losing interest or moving on from genuine music.  


Thank you for taking time to read the backstory, and thank you for listening.

Sincerely, 

Dutch

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