Dutchyyy

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Vocal Sample: MoRuf - https://beta.catalog.works/moruf88
Album: Traversal
Track: 7

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:

Created: 11-11-2015
Location:Tampa Bay, FL

Created during a short visit to the "10x12" a.k.a. (the tiny apartment my Mother and Grandparents lived in).  I always had bad memories at that place and tried to avoid visiting for extended periods, but my mother was agoraphobic and rarely left her tiny room, and years of trying to motivate her didn't work until  after she saw me happy and at peace after reuniting and living with my Pops in New York for a year. The 1st few months I was back in Tampa were super turbulent and it wasn't until I finally exploded on her via an email late august that things began to turn around.  

Context:

"The Insanity Loop" -
🔗 https://foundation.app/mint/eth/0xE5982ca2bf42b713D72344A20312c1D4f0B0D84E/9 🔗

+

"The Lift" -
🔗 https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/the-lift 🔗

After that email, my mother made her best effort to course correct, even if just for a short time.  So in November she metaphorically dragged me to come stay a few days so she could take me to the dentist and in return she would leave her room and go for walks outside in nature me (that prob sounds weird, but it was a huge step in compromise in making an effort to do something i've begged her to try to do for years) so I packed up my laptop, interface, headphones and little JBL bluetooth speaker and agreed to stay a few days.

The Dental appointment she took me to was a huge turning point in my life because it was the day we both found out how severe, complicated, risky and expensive the surgery would be.  She left in tears because she wanted to help but couldn't afford how expensive it was, which made me cry.  (This appointment was why I stopped writing and recording lyrics as "Dutchmassive" and pivoted to The daily private tascam freestyles)

Context:
"The Reluctant Clap" (Daily Rambles)
🔗 https://foundation.app/mint/eth/0xC35407130cE86eCab7d670E4D6405E9bD9391E8e/1  🔗

She made good on her promise and went walking in Nature with me that day.  I used that time to shill the healing powers of being out in mother nature and tried my hardest to exude positive and inspirational energy even though I just learned something about my health that made that difficult, but i'm a trooper and I really wanted my mother to take steps (literally) in her healing process =)

After we returned from the trail, I escaped that tiny apartment immediately and brought my laptop and equipment down to a bench outside next to the pool and opened Ableton with intention to continue that conversation I had with her in nature about nature and how she needs to de and re-program her mind from everything she was taught by her parents and the world and view the beauty of this planet, untouched by human hands in the moments she's in despair about the broken man made systems that can make life very hard to bare a lot of people....So I continued the conversation but in the form of creative expression without speaking....

You can view this moment in time below...

 Context: "TRAVERSAL" (documenting the pivot) [PART 3]
🔗 https://foundation.app/collection/traversal 🔗
 

 One of the last songs created for "Traversal"....

I thought about that day, and remembered one of my favorite lines "You should open your eyes and see the evidence" from one of my favorite songs, titled "Compromise" from one of my favorite albums "Shades.Of.Moo" from one of my favorite emcees #MoRuf

Context:
🔗 https://moruf88.bandcamp.com/album/shades-of-moo-2 🔗

I thought to myself, not only was the phrase perfect, but the track title it's from also helps cement this personal moment in time.  So for the first time ever, I began with a Chorus content and started with a vocal sample and built the music around it

Heavy Heavy Heavy...

and Thus, "Third Eyes Wide Shut" was born

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Traversal

Third Eyes Wide Shut

Happy Roland SP #404day

Produced by Dutchyyy

Backstory:
Snippet of my Dibia$e Ninja Scroll Sample Challenge Submission #EvolvingPortals from 4/04/2020

This was one of the 1st Evolving Portals that got me addicted to using the SP404 as a Resample & Manipulate real time capture / storage device where I would record takes,  export/import those takes back into ableton, and mangle and experiment further and further, resampling the resampled resample.

⬇️

What are/is #EvolvingPortals ?:

🔗 https://zora.co/collect/eth:0xed4943fa35675d84903aa1a414c0836d2aa5c13b

⬇️

The 1/1 video of more snippets being created in real time will exist:

🔗 https://foundation.app/collection/portals-0d0c

Collector of the 1/1 video will be transferred this 1/1.

Happy #404day

<3 

Dutchyyy

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#404day

"Shipping & Handling" (The Odyssey)

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Guest Vocals: DJ Premier 
Album: Yawn of the Gemini
Track: 36
Created:: 2006
Released: May 23, 2010

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

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Backstory:

Created 2006 in Tampa Bay, FL using FL Studio....

When creating this track, I was imaging the Journey of priceless package on route from across the globe.  I Remember being super anxious about my package changing hands, going from post office, to truck, to airplane, to warehouse, back to a truck with lots of variables that come with human handling.   The First half of the beat I imagined tranquility....  Smooth Sailing...  All is well.....    In typical Dutch Fashion,  what's a true journey without the balance of turmoil hahah.   So the Second half of the track is anxiety personified.   

As I Document this track created in 2006 and released in 2010,  I'm stuck in the present. Feb 19th, 2024 anxiously awaiting for the delivery of everything I own and hold dear to my heart.  PC,  entire physical music collection (Vinyl, Cassettes, CD's), Books, Magazines, Paintings, Photos, Furniture....   Nearly everything I've ever collected since I was a teenager.   Things didn't go as planned at every stage of this cross country relocation, so I wasn't able to properly pack and secure my load on the trailer before having it picked up to travel across the United states...     I'm super grateful I was blessed to even be able to have this chance of relocation but until all my stuff arrives safely,  I've been super restless and fearful.   My Stuff will arrive tomorrow and I just wanted to document this track that somehow feels way to relevant nearly 2 decades later haha ...            I hope this pit in my stomach is all for nothing and i'll be able to follow this up with a new track, in a new location, during a new chapter of my life filled with unwavering gratitude.

And Thus, Shipping & Handling was Born.

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Yawn of the Gemini

Shipping & Handling (The Odyssey)

Happy 50th Jay Dee / J Dilla / James Yancey,  Thank you for making entire generation of producers level up. 

"NOWDEALWITIT!" 

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Blue Screen of Deaf
Track #: 11
Created: 2011
Released: September 10, 2012 
Artwork by: Nameless Beats

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012

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Backstory:

Created Feb 7th, 2011 in Tampa Bay using FL Studio,  A Tribute to Jay Dee that doubled as Audio Expressive Subliminal Response to my Ex ;)

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Blue Screen Of Deaf

NOWDEALWITIT!

Produced by Dutchyyy

Backstory:

This was created, mixed and mastered in Ableton Live within a 1 hour time limit beat battle verses my homie DJ (PeaceOutPremiere) using only a Single Studio Monitor (speaker) i.e. Mono =/

Created on February 26th 2016 while very briefly living at DJ's crib in Tampa, FL shortly after releasing the digital version of Traversal and a few months prior to moving back to Los Angeles while finalizing the Cassette Version of Traversal.

Everyone seemed to Love this track and begged me to put it on the cassette version of Traversal,  but I declined due to not being happy with the quick mix/master of track and not wanting to revisit the session after the fact to clean it up.

Still it remains a loose track created during the "Traversal" Arc of my Life,  So even though it wasn't a part of the digital or cassette version.  I still lump it with "Traversal" in my head.

Fun Fact: 

Since it was initially released (uploaded to soundcloud right after export) at least 20 people have messaged me over the years saying they didn't realize the beat has a hidden change up at the end and asked why I sequenced it in a way where it sounds like the track ends before slowly fading back into the final change up and that no DJ would ever have a chance to include the best part of the beat in their set because of this.

My response was and always is,  I don't make music for DJs, I make music for people like me who lost their minds hearing hidden Pete Rock Interludes after songs....    I.E.  intentionally unconventionally always trying to reward to the patient ear =)

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Believe (I want to...)

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Traversal
Track: 6

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:

Created late 2015 in Tampa, FL after multiple sour encounters with much younger, very entitled and ignorant (at the time) artists.  I've always done my best to inspire and mentor the next generation but won't hesitate to check them when they are acting foul.  Everyone enjoys praise and encouragement, but not everyone handles being told when you are disappointed in them.  Felt like a Generational thing at the time, because growing up all my best relationships were with people that just kept it 100%,  I can't imagine cutting off my homies who always looked out for me based on them disagreeing with me or calling me out when I needed it.  I don't know, Maybe the Golden Era of Boom Bap / Battle Rap made for thicker skin and not taking constructive critique personally or to heart. Either way, there was just too many back to back encounters that made me feel like having a rational conversation was falling on deaf ears, so I just expressed and emoted via song =)

Most of those younger cats have grown up, apologized and mended bridges thankfully.  For the ones who held onto resentment, it's all love on my end. <3

and thus....   "Golden" (Generation Gap) was born.

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Golden (Generation Gap)

"I should have saved this hours ago" (Evolving Portals) 🌌🧎‍♂️

Back Story:

This session started on 1-6-2019 during my 1st 10 hour live stream on twitch, where my chat provided the sample for me to flip.

Probably one of my favorite beats of all time and I still haven't exported a final or normal version of it, because I made way too many change ups and have revisited and evolved/devolved the session countless times since then. (see album cover)

The last saved version in ableton was 8.6.21

but this specific version was created at the end of January 2022 as I revisited the project file one last time and Evolved a new Portal in real time on i.g. live.  

So this audio only exists because I was capturing the audio via Re-sample on the SP-404,  and I didn't even start recording from the beginning.   I do believe I have the full session in Video form tho.  If I can find it, It will to documented in the "Evolving Portals" collection below:

🔗https://zora.co/collect/eth:0xed4943fa35675d84903aa1a414c0836d2aa5c13b

The 2 minute and 18 second (Highly edited video snippet version) will also exist in that collection.  If you don't have patience for super long form music,  you can reference that version to hear all the change ups condensed in more consumer friendly digestible runtime =)
 
One Day I will export the final version. Until then, Enjoy some Portals that evolved while getting sidetracked from finalizing beats like I always do.

🔗https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/i-should-have-saved-this-hours-ago-evolving-portals

______________________


The birth of Evolving Portals: Detailed Backstory via ASMR.WAV 

🔗https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/asmr-wav-evolving-portals-

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Bonus:
Remember that 10 livestream on twitch I referenced where this Portal and this series really found its birth?

I have that video file, but it is huge.  Too large to upload to any platform as of now.

Whoever ends up collecting this. Please reach out to me and I will send you the huge video file and you can see how this all really began in (documented) real time.

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"I Should Have Saved This Hours Ago" (Evolving Portals)

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"23" (Evolving Portals)

Produced by: Dutchyyy & Howie Wonder
Album:  "BEAT HOARDER VOL. 1"
Track: Still Wonderful
Track #: 02
Created: April 3, 2015
Released: June 5, 2020

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/beat-hoarder-vol-1

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Backstory:

Shortly after leaving Sam's Point Nature Preserve where I was living w/ my pops in Upstate New York...

Context: https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/the-mountain

After scrambling to find a temporary residence w/ little to no notice about the state taking over the private nature preserve where my pops was living as the caretaker the prior 10 years and replacing him w/ a park ranger.   We briefly landed in the guest house of one of my pop friends.  By guest house, I mean a singular large room, w/ hallway for storage (where I slept and set up my equipment)..  This place was literally like 5 minutes away from Sam's Point, so we were still on the Mountain and the scenery was beautiful.   The guest house had a nice wooden front porch, surrounded by trees.  So instead of working on music in basically a closet, I would always wake up, go out on the porch, have some coffee, roll a spliff and set up my Laptop hooked to my little JBL bluetooth speaker and work on music first thing...

Winter on the mountain would usually begin in October and last through early May, so this particular morning, I woke up to a freshly fallen snow covered winter wonderland view.   I was working on tracks for my upcoming album "Traversal" (which I didn't know would be the album title until months later after moving back to Tampa, FL again) and instead of going into unfinished projects, I wanted to create something with new energy that matched the beautiful morning winter scenery...  

I loaded up drums that my friend and fellow beat scene legend "Howie Wonder" sent me to collab over, and dug through my vault looking for a specific sample I saved to flip when the right moment came....Which just happened to be shortly after sun rise on April 2rd, 2015 on the front porch of this guest house. =)

I began flipping the main beat first, watching as the sun melted away that freshy dusted winter wonderland until I got pulled away shortly after for the rest of day/night...  

The next afternoon I woke up, ready to continue where I left off the previous day, Walked outside and saw zero traces of snow.  Being me, I stubbornly decided I was going to hold off on working on the track until the winter wonderland vibe returned.  I opened up Ableton Live, loaded up another sample I've been hoarding and posted it to I.G. quizzing if anyone could guess the sample.

https://www.instagram.com/p/1BGSetqL2F/

 ADHD kicked in, when I saw the cat's enjoying the absence of snow, rolling around on the grass and I walked out to film them.  which made me think, as much as I wished it was still a winter land, It seems the cat's are grateful to be able to explore the yard again.

https://www.instagram.com/p/1BGpcBqL3F/

 I began opening up unfinished sessions and posting them to ig, I have so many unfinished, unreleased beats, so I was just going through them to see if anything stood out that I would want to refine more for the next album.

https://www.instagram.com/p/1BN5ssqL2w/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1BTocQqL0O/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1BUB3kqL00/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1BU6XLKL2e/

I decided to re-open up the Howie Wonder collab to post snippets to I.G. in real time, asking if I should proceed.

https://www.instagram.com/p/1Bb4iBqL2X/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1BdTYuqL51/

Closed up the session. To continue working on when it snows again and then I walked behind the house for some quiet time at the secluded lake.

https://www.instagram.com/p/1BqStPKL3X/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1BqcXwqL3v/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1Bqp5cKL4G/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1Bq1-UqL4a/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1BrBE4qL4s/
https://www.instagram.com/p/1BrLx8qL5H/

Guess what?

That was the final snow I would see,  Winter Wonderland never returned haha...  Shortly after, we moved from that guest house and into the basement of a new house (also a few minutes away)  but this house was amazing, and the owner was never home,  so it's like we had this amazing house to ourselves....  

and on July 7th, 2015, I would say goodbye to New York for a bit and head back once again to the place I kept trying to escape, Tampa Bay.

https://www.instagram.com/p/43B8LyKL3A/

I began working on "Traversal" upon arrival in Tampa,  but guess what you will never find in Tampa Bay, Florida?  

A Winter Wonderland...

and I'm artistically stubborn...    No Snow,  No finishing the track..... So the first version of Traversal was released and this song was not included on it as intended.

In April 2016, I moved back to Los Angeles (No Snow) and began finalizing the Cassette version of "Traversal",  Still stubborn...   It was not included on the tape as intended...      

August 19th 2016. my mother passed away, the same day I was fired from netflix for posting a picture at my work desk on twitter,  a few days later....     I'm back in Tampa Bay once again...  tho with zero intentions of staying...  (hindsight is 20/20)  

It took me a while after my mother passed to be able to bring myself to work on music.  

According to my own lore, the first time I touched music again was with this quick impromptu tribute to my mom I made on December 8th, 2016 which I posted on soundcloud with no track title, or intentions of keeping public.

https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/im-deleting-this  

Each year, following on mothers day, I would revisit the sample to flip a new version in her memory. Until releasing the 4 track EP in May of 2020 on bandcamp

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/mother-nocturnalis-ep

and later releasing the EP on Supercollector, August 19th, 2023 on the anniversary of here passing:

https://release.supercollector.xyz/mother-nocturnalis-ep-dutchyyy

While this Lore is true, there was an exception....

I opened one project shortly after arriving in Tampa after my mother passed...

A project I was too stubborn to work on unless the perfect conditions lined up... Something I learned the hard way is that tomorrow is never promised.  So I opened up the Howie Wonder Collab in tribute,  No snow in sight, and attached new energy to this track....     The first time opening up Ableton since my mother passed, and I created the intro......    I realized in that moment my energy was too chaotic and off balance and I wasn't ready to return to creating music just yet.      

I added the new intro, added the brief interlude and attached them to the original beat,  No Winter Wonderland in sight,  but in spite of all the loss, and traversing, I had hope and optimism.....

and on September 3rd, 2016, I uploaded the track to Soundcloud with the description:

"Everything is going to be o.k."

https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/still-wonderful-dutchy-x-howie-wonder

And thus, "Still Wonderful" was born.

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BEAT HOARDER VOL. 1

Still Wonderful f/ Howie Wonder

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album:  "BEAT HOARDER VOL. 1" 
Track: December 22nd
Track #: 03
Created: 12.22.2012
Released: June 5, 2020

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/beat-hoarder-vol-1

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Backstory:

Remember back when everyone thought the world was going to end on December 21st 2012?  I do haha.  If you're reading this in the distant future and have no idea what I'm talking about, search your history archives for the Mayan Calendar Apocalypse.

I woke up on December 22nd 2012, in my San Pedro Apartment, overlooking the Port of Los Angeles, and smiled.  Felt it was only right to celebrate by quickly cooking up in Ableton Live to document the historic moment.  

Super quick flip,  Immediately, uploaded to Soundcloud the moment I finished with the description reading "APOCALYPSE AVERTED IDDISH."  

https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/december-22nd-ruff

I meant to put this on "Chill Gawd, Chill" but it was hidden away with a few other tracks in a untitled folder I didn't find until long after that album was released.

and thus....

"December 22nd" was born.

P.S. - I did a bit mastering on this version, since the original version was very low in volume due to the nature of its origin story =)

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December 22nd

Produced by Dutchyyy
Runtime: 31 minutes, 31 seconds

"Cook Off 008 kicks off today, with samples provided by the one and only @Dutchyyy" - Athena [02/03/2023 12:15 PM]

The full audio version of "Cook Off 008: Dutchyyy" (Evolving Portals) 

Where I flipped my own samples from the 5.26GB [110 files] folder I submitted for others to choose and flip from. While I didn't submit officially for my own challenge,  I always planned to flip my own samples live on stream after listening to everyones submissions during the Catalog Works Discord Playback Live Stream which happened March 2rd, 2023. So as soon as we all said goodnight & ended that super inspirational playback stream in the Catalog Works Discord.  A Portal was opened live @ twitch.tv/peacepeacegawd

Cook Off 008 Submissions from:

lordtstxn + Chucknessa + thxk_u + Es-K + Devin Burgess + Hammered Gold + Laotree + whale.cx + Harris Cole + YoshiroMare + KSG + ali wan kenobi + Stonewax + AshTreJinkins + tvkii + matt.e.j + whknws + AjaxX + indacouch + Tired Eyes + Appa (Jzs) + gozu the DJ + adamschmadam + Devon Who + b l o o p r + Athena Yasaman

"Massive love and appreciation to you all for tapping in for Cook Off 008 ft. @Dutchyyy! This was one for the history books thanks to everyone coming together around these portals. of multi-hour" - Athena [03/02/2023 10:47 PM]

_________________________

You can view/collect a 10 minute video snippet of my "after the challenge, challenge" live stream here:

https://zora.co/collect/zora:0xaecf7d807b137eae8c67d24c4e0e66c1e6319266

It's available as a [free / unlimited edition] as part of my #starterpack because seeing #EvolvingPortals unfold with your own eyes helps to understand what's actually happening during these 100% improv, one take, long form audio recordings in a way that's kind of hard to believe or understand when just hearing them in audio form.   

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Backstory:

On January 26th 2023, while trying to test out if my new PC could handle playing music, while gaming using my virtual avatar a critical user error was made.

New PC, new methods.  For this test all I needed was a playlist of my own music in the windows default media player but I wasn't familiar with the one that came installed w/ my pc "Groove Music".  It wouldn't let me drag and drop music into playlists, songs had to be imported and by mistake I chose to import my entire F drive (which was the main External SSD that held all my Ableton Live Project Files, Drums, Samples, Album Masters, Unreleased.  Basically my master vault.

As soon as I clicked on that drive it began importing every single media file on that SSD (over 16k files to be exact) including drum one shots, everything....   Not ideal for what I was attempting to quickly test out,   which was just create a mini playlist of my curated music to stream to.  I wasn't trying to sort through 16k files so I just [shift] selected all and deleted everything that was just imported so I could just import a specific folder instead.  When I went to create a specific folder in my External SSD, I noticed all the audio files were gone.  I panicked, and quickly checked my trash and saw everything I deleted from the playlist in groove music was removed from my SSD and placed into the trash,  so I quickly restored the files but realized almost everything was still missing.  Then I saw the recycling bin had a storage limit, one that greatly exceeded and after research learned that the largest files that couldn't fit were permanently deleted. 

I'm now in full blown meltdown mode.  I consider myself somewhat computer savvy but hours and hours of research on how I could possibly recover my life's work were a bust.  Every page, video, forum all pointed to paid recovery software and I couldn't tell what was legit or not so I took to twitter and sent out an S.O.S. Flare...

The homie Alez reached out and offered to pay for the recovery software,  and I spent the next 12 hrs, watching this software slowly move its progress bar.   The problem was, there was no way to recover files lost from the External SSD back on to the same SSD drive, so I had to set the recovery path to D: drive which is my 10TB disc hard drive.   The SSD was only 1TB, but when the software finally finished it said it recovered 2.7 TB worth of data...   I still don't understand this.....

While I was able to recover a majority of the audio files,  most were recovered with different, incoherent file names.  So all of those Ableton Live Project Files had no way of finding where any of the samples or drums were located.  This absolutely decimated my spirit since there were like 7 project files I never even exported a rough version of and they were all the music I was most excited and proud of, now forever lost.

Within the same 24 hrs as this happened, on my 52nd hour of not sleeping, I got an email from Catalog asking If I wanted to be the next artist to submit samples for the upcoming Cook Off 008...         Crazy timing huh?        

I accepted, but explained the situation that just happened and said I would do my best.  I just lost access to all my Ableton Project Files, 2019-2022 so all the new stuff I would have loved to submit, so I ended up using my laptop and hooked up on old drive and dug into every project file I didn't recognize...    and began exporting chops, loops, drums of stuff I barely remembered making.

By the time I was finished I had a 5.26GB Folder with 110 files in it...     The Largest amount of samples submitted for a Cook Off Challenge.

My biggest pet peeve w/ sample challenges is when the artist submits like 3 files, and there is hardly any Harmonic or Melodic diversity to work with, so I made sure I provided enough variation in that folder for people to choose from to make submitting a flip as stress free as possible while in the most stressed state possible at that time haha.     

I'm still feeling the loss from that day,  It messed up a lot of planned things in motion that were near completion and I've barely made new music this year because of that.  I'm very grateful to Alez for reaching out and lending support, I'm very grateful to Catalog for being a Platform that values music and not only holds these creative fun challenges but also participates in nearly all of them. Lastly, I'm thankful to everyone who showed up for my challenge.  It was super inspiring hearing so many talented producers putting their own spin on my samples. To this date, Cook Off 008 was the largest turn out in terms of submissions. That definitely makes me smile but I would love to see that record get shattered by more people joining in on future cook offs =)

and thus, "Cook Off 008: Dutchyyy" (Evolving Portals) was born.

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"Cook Off 008: Dutchyyy" (Evolving Portals)

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album:  "Chill Gawd, Chill" 
Track: Simplemente
Track #: 32
Created: 2012
Released: February 5th, 2015 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

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Backstory:

Shortly after transitioning from FL Studio to Ableton Live in 2012,  My dear friend Ivera ( fka Peanut Butter Cookiez ) that I've known since the early days of myspace came out to Los Angeles to visit.  She ended up coming to my apartment in San Pedro and brought a friend with her @lowleaf

My GF (ex) at the time was at work, so I was already locked in getting lost in Ableton when they showed up.  Low Leaf asked why I wasn't using the Arrangement view and I said "huh, what arrangement view" haha.  Then she showed me how to tab over to Ableton's other view.  I thanked her and proceeded to get busy in session view =)

I saved what I was working on and asked them to choose their favorite sample/song so I could flip it.  They agreed on a song, and I began doing my thing....

[short interlude]

My ex knew Ivey was supposed to come through that day and also knew I had a song on "Blue Screen of Deaf" dedicated to her titled "PBC Activity" (one of the first beats I made w/o samples) so she was a bit worried even tho I tried to explain Ivey is like my sister and i've known her for years. She had to work until 5 so I didn't expect to see her during Ivey's visit since her lunch wasn't long enough to drive to our apartment and back to work so it made no logistical sense to ever drive home during lunch.  While working on my flip, we all heard the door open, but didn't see who came in since they went directly into the restroom.  We looked at each other confused since I already told Ivey (who wanted to meet my girl) that she wouldn't be here during the limited time she had to visit.  I was wondering if I left the door unlocked and maybe Ahwlee, or another friend or one of neighbors just walked in and needed to use the restroom.  After a few minutes passed, I just kept working on my flip since I set an hour time limit for myself to get it finished and exported. 15 minutes later,  my ex quietly walks into the living room unable to hide the shocked expression on her face.  She was already familiar with how objectively Beautiful Ivey was, but I don't think she expected to see two objectively beautiful women sitting behind my shoulders when she walked in and she kinda went stun locked as Ivey and Low Leaf tried to greet her.  I asked what she was doing at home and she came up with an excuse that didn't make sense before quickly having to say goodbye and speed back to work.

I was hyper focused on finishing my flip and adding synths to really pay any attention to what just happened but both Ivey and Low Leaf brought up how weird and uncomfortable that brief encounter was and mentioned it probably isn't a good sign that my girl didn't trust me and both felt like she was trying to pop in unannounced to catch me in act or something and wished me luck and said godspeed on the night ahead of me haha.   

I finalized the track and exported within the hour time limit I set so I was happy.

The most memorable moment from that day was a conversation w/ Low Leaf about our process of creating music.  She warned me not to let myself get lost in a trance while creating because you become vulnerable to being channeled by undesired forces...    that stuck with me......        Unfortunately, I was never able to follow that advice because my creative process is my form of meditation,  and I'm definitely in a trance during it.  though I don't feel I'm channeling anything or anyone other than my higher self, surfing the fringes of the flow state waves....  and I would totally lean into this trance years later as I entered the era of Daily Rambles, Long Story Short & Evolving Portals =)

I can't remember if that night ended up good or bad, I just know I was happy to see my friend Ivey and meet Angelica in person for the first time and cemented that memory in the form of a song.

And thus, "Simplemente" was born.

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Chill Gawd, Chill

Simplemente

"Dive Off The Deep End" (f/ Cazal Organism)

Produced by: Dutchyyy, Cazal Organism
Album: Traversal
Track: 23

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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Back Story:

Created March - October 2015 at Sam's Point Nature Preserve, i.e. the highest point of the Shawangunk Ridge in Upstate NY.

On September 10th, 2014 the Homie Cazal Organism sent me some drums to get busy over and imo there is nothing like that signature Cazal Bounce when it comes to drums so I wasted zero time.  Immediately opened up Ableton Live and let my expression loose.  At the time,  I was having super in depth conversations with multiple people about how unfulfilling surface based interactions, convos and even art was for our spirits.  It felt like so many people were so closed off and guarded, playing it safe in so many aspects of life.      How boring.....

The track creation process wasn't like my usual tunnel vision process,  I was multitasking multiple songs at the time,  and building tracks over time.   Around April 2015, I ended up sending the 1st draft ableton session to Cazal so he could add some bass over my micro chops.  After I got the session back, I added keys, synths, more bass and got super weird with it.  The version you are hearing is the Digital Release Version, which varies slightly from the Cassette version of Traversal.  Different mix, master, some additions, subtractions were made and that quiet gap towards the end of the track was filled with what I intentionally made open space for.    

If you would like to compare the differences for yourself, you can listen to the full Cassette Version of Traversal in full the way it was intended to be sequenced and heard.  "Dive Off The Deep End" is on Side B, but I'll include links to the full tape for anyone who wishes to experience the full front to back journey.

TRAVERSAL (CASSETTE VERSION / SIDE A)
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-traversal-side-a-grand-garden-cassette-masters-

TRAVERSAL (CASSETTE VERSION / SIDE B)
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-traversal-side-b-grand-garden-cassette-masters-

and thus, "Dive Off The Deep End" was born.

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Dive Off The Deep End (f/ Cazal Organism)

"CREW FACES"

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Yawn of the Gemini
Track: 8
Released: May 23, 2010

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

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Backstory:

Created fall 2009 in Tampa, Florida using FL STUDIO.

I guess I always made super long tracks looking back hahaha.  A least they had a million change ups 95% of the time.  If I were to have to point out my own weakest trait in terms of music production I guess it's always been basslines.   Maybe it's from always creating in cheap headphones for the 1st 20 years of making beats and not be able to ever play music loud enough to feel the bass where i was creating or maybe never taking the time to learn music theory was not the best move.  I feel like my ear excels in term of creating melodies and harmonies without training, but basslines I just never seemed prioritize.   Imperfection is spirit animal I guess =)

Not a lot of memories attached to certain older beats,  probably means I was just getting lost having fun creating in the moments I could find.

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Yawn Of The Gemini

CREW FACES

"BONITAFLIP" 

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Blue Screen of Deaf
Track #: 10
Created: 2011
Released: September 10, 2012 
Artwork by: Nameless Beats

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012

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Backstory:

Created spring of 2011 in Tampa, Florida using FL STUDIO.

Originally created for the RoyAyersConnection f/k/a  RoyAyersProject est. 2010

Simple Backstory.

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Blue Screen of Deaf

BONITAFLIP

"Spring Chops In Fall"

Produced by: Dutchyyy (fka) Dutchy (aka) Dutchmassive
Created: 11/11/23
Album: Cosmic Compositions Avant Garde Series Vol.3 [Sun Ra] 
Digital Release Date: November 21, 2013
3xLP / Vinyl Release Date: August 11, 2014 (Limited 500 copies)
Album Artwork By : Jordan Cuthers Clark

Digital:
https://cosmic-compositions.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-compositions-avant-garde-series-vol-3-sun-ra

Vinyl:
https://www.hhv.de/shop/en/item/cosmic-compositions-avant-garde-series-volume-3-dedicated-to-sun-ra-377201

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Backstory:

Created in my Los Angeles apartment in Fall of 2013. This track began the same hour Addison Chase (of Cosmic Compositions) reached out to me to be included in their next Avant Garde Series for Sun Ra.  After telling me my track "Astral Traveling" for **Cosmic Compositions Avant Garde Series Vol.1 [Pharoah Sanders]** was one of his personal favorite tracks as well as one the fan favorites, I was pretty inspired to jump into this flip without a moment's delay.

**Reference**

Avant Garde Series Vol.1 [Pharoah Sanders] Digital / Vinyl Release:
https://cosmic-compositions.bandcamp.com/album/cosmic-compositions-avant-garde-series-vol-1-pharoah-sanders

1/1 of "Astral Travl'n":
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/astral-travl-n

"Astral Travl'n" would later be featured on the 120 minute cassette "Chill Gawd Chill" 
https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Both of these Artists we were paying tribute to were some of my biggest inspirations musically over the years.  Hearing their music always made me feel like my creative intuition to embrace the abstract and create contrasts between chaotic moments and peaceful/harmonious moments either  through sudden unpredictable shifts that would feel jarring to most people or through slow builds that tell a story that may or may not have a resolve, This was something I always got pushback on from friends but was something I myself was proud of.  Methods both Sun Ra & Pharoah Sanders both implemented often. So when the chance was presented to pay official tribute to & honor these legends, I made absolutely sure I came with my A game and made tracks at least I could be proud of.

"Spring Chops In The Fall '' was created in Ableton Live, but it was also the 1st song I used the Original SP404 compression and isolation on.  I really wanted to flex the art of micro-chopping and show off my ability to turn entire songs into a instrument, rather than cherry picking the obvious part(s) most people would usually gravitate towards. So I flipped my chosen track multiple different ways while still finding a way to sequence all the change ups in a way that told a cohesive sonic story.  Honor A Legend, Create A Journey. This remains one of my personal favorite tracks to date. 

The song also landed on the B-side of my album "The Uproot"

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-uproot

Which will hopefully one day see a physical release, even if in the Demo form in currently exists in.  =)

[1/1] THE UPROOT (DEMO VERSION) SIDE A 
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-

[1/1] THE UPROOT (DEMO VERSION) SIDE B
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-b-demo-version-

(Bonus) Original Soundcloud Golden Era upload:
https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/spring-chops-in-fall-avant

And Thus, "Spring Chops in Fall" was born.

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Spring Chops in Fall

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album:  "Chill Gawd, Chill" 
Track: The Hardest
Track #: 16
Created: 2013
Released: February 5th, 2015 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

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Backstory: 

This one is lengthy,  some music is born from just sitting and making music. I have countless tracks I couldn't attach a backstory worth writing about.  while some music only exists due to specific series of events and would not exist otherwise.

This is definitely one born from a complex backstory that feels like a movie script trying to write out.  This gets pretty wild, strap in... 

526 weeks ago to this date of upload (10/15/2023) on September 11th, 2013,  I was dropped off by homie Simon at Los Angeles Greyhound station around 2 AM, to catch my 4:30 AM Bus to Phoenix, AZ. Where I was headed to be the best man in my best and longest friend, Eric's Wedding.  This gets a bit crazy in a moment but need's a bit of context to set up the context.  We will return to the greyhound station momentarily. 

So, I'll do my best to condense this part.  I obviously knew about my best friend's wedding long in advance.  A few keynotes:  

1.)  Eric had been holding my entire cassette collection along with my physical album masters (A-DATS and DAT tapes) in his garage in phoenix since like 2010...  I was very hyped to be united with my collection which was thousands of cassettes to show off to all my homies in Los Angeles.  This would require a Car to drive them back which was the original plan. (spoiler alert: I did not end up being able to take my collection back to Los Angeles at that time, which honestly worked out for the best or they probably would have been lost 6 months later)  I did get a few hours to reunite w/ them and inspect their condition.  I know Arizona is hot AF, so I spent years afraid my collection would melt in that garage.  I took a few photos and posted them to instagram in real time.  One of those photos would later be collected by @cxy as a 1/1 on foundation:

https://foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd/jp2000/1

2. Eric was my best friend since I first moved from NJ to Tampa when I was 5 years old,  He was deeply ingrained into life, until he moved to a different state.  So he let me know our friend, and my ex-girlfriend whom I dated from the late 90's - 2006 would be attending the wedding with the guy we broke up over.  That break up moment in time was solidified over a 14KT beat in 2006 which was released on "Crush Your System" in 2007. Under the context of this news at the time, I was not looking forward to the awkward reunion even though we always remained cool after. (Spoiler Alert: I ended up loving her boyfriend after getting to meet him and spend time w/ him) 

3.) I was in a relationship at the time, and Eric figured it wouldn't be awkward since I would be attending with my gf at the time who also owned the car we would be driving to and from the wedding to bring back my cassette collection.

4.) A few days prior to the wedding,  my ex and I had a very bad break up (context provided in the back story of:

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/lua-cheia-f-kaelin-ellis-

I condensed it as much as possible, but all of those factors and events play a critical role in how the next part of this story plays out.  I'm very hard to upset,  I'm able to brush so much off in life and remain peaceful in my heart.  But if you combine (part 2) of my back story for "Lua Cheia", with the keynotes I just provided. A super, completely out of f***'s given Dutch as he is dropped off in the middle of the night to catch a bus alone to his best friend's wedding should make more sense.  

I had two large suitcases with me,  One carrying my clothes, and critical documents my ex left behind (birth certificate, proof of 100& Navajo records, Social Security Card) A lot of vital stuff you wouldn't want in the hands of strangers.  This was with me, because on the way back from phoenix, I had to stop in Las Vegas where her parents lived to pick up my friend Ivera who was moving in with me. So since i'm a nice guy, I planned on dropping all those important documents off with her mother who I spoke with beforehand about doing.  

The other suitcase had studio equipment in it,  Sp404, APC40, Laptop, etc...  

Again, all this is critical info leading up to understanding my state of mind during what's about to happen next.

So I walk into the Greyhound station, wearing a Hat with a hoodie over it, headphones in, wearing my backpack and dragging two heavy bags of luggage behind me.  I make a right aftering entering,  and some ragged middle aged white man, wearing a bandana looking like a cliche fresh out of prison tough guy is lying down on the floor next to the front window and immediately tries to get my attention.

I have no idea what he said, because I was blasting music in headphones, but I said admittedly in a rude tone "I can't hear you, I'm just here to catch a bus, not socialize, but have a good night"  then I scanned the room and looked for a place I could sit alone, with a full view of the station.   So I walked to the back right corner,  Sat down,  put my luggage in front of me and extended both my legs on top of my luggage.  There's still 2 hours before my bus arrives.  I'm sitting in this station listening to music,  thinking about the events of last two weeks, thinking how embarrassed I am, knowing I'm going to have to explain why I took a bus to the wedding without my GF, and thinking about the Cassettes I was so hyped to bring back home that I no longer was gonna be able to do...    I wasn't sad, I was super angry.  My spirit didn't feel defeated, It felt on fire ready to explode...     As I'm sitting and processing everything, I keep peeping the same ragged man who tried to get my attention talking to another guy who wasn't white, had a super tight slicked back ponytail and also looked like a cliche bad guy from a movie....    I know,  that sounds judgemental and in bad taste but bare with me.....     I watched them for like an hour bothering other people entering the station the same way they did me, but had no idea what they were saying..  I was blasting music...  Then the guy with the ponytail starts walking slowly in my direction super obvious...    I'm alone here,  I got this corner to myself..   He walks just slightly past me,   points to luggage and does a weird air traffic controller hand/arm gesture towards my luggage and the guy laying down...   I'm ignoring him, so he gets in my face trying to get my attention, so I pulled out one of my headphones and rudely said "yo! What do you want man?"  he said,   "My friend is trying to talk to you and ask you something"....   I responded "first of all, if your friend wanted to talk to me, why did you slowly waddle over here, and point at my luggage like a weirdo messenger, more importantly...  I don't care to hear what you, your friend, and anyone else has to say.  Pretend I'm not here, because I'm not even supposed to f***ing be here! I'm not having a good day, so no disrespect, but please leave me alone so I can process all the crazy sh*t happening in my life right now"   He said "Alright" then went strait, and made a left in the middle of the station, rather than going back the way he came..... I didn't see him again and stopped paying attention and figured they took the hint.  30 minutes passed and I had to pee really badly,  there was no way I was leaving my luggage unattended for a second,  So I dragged it behind into the bathroom....    The next thing I felt was getting punched in the back of neck (thankfully my hat and hoodie made it to where it kinda shifted the blow so it wasn't direct, but it was enough to send me flying forward, ripping my earbuds out and knocking my phone out of my hand and into the bathroom wall and the battery separated from it.

Probably the most important part of this story is the song I was listening to while I walking into the bathroom and when I got struck:

Mr. Carmack - "Shroomeries"

If you've never heard this song before,  this jawn is hard AF...   The type of music you put on before you are gonna fight....    I was already more mad than I'd been since my teenage years....     I flip around where I land fast first on the bathroom floor and immediately see these two cliche prison break extra looking a** suckers pointing a gun at me....

(Remember what I had in my luggage, The documents, Equipment....   I want you to think of every single event that leaded up to this moment to better understand what  happens next)

As soon as I saw those two guys, with zero pause or hesitation, I sprung from bathroom floor like a damn cheetah, arms behind me like i'm naruto running and slammed my chest into the barrel of the gun and went absolutely apesh*t yelling half crying and half laughing repeating do it b*tch!!!  and making fun of how they turned out to perfectly live up to my judgements of them looking like raggedy prison escapees..     I don't think they expected me to resist, let alone bark back and much louder....   Security was in that bathroom so quickly from how loud I was, and then I shifted my anger onto the security guards, still yelling and cursing (very out of character for me) about how insane it was that I watched these guys bothering everyone in that station for almost two hours and knew they were up to no good, how on earth did you let them stay in the station and stalk people....  Actual cops came, arrested the two guys,  My bus is now here, and the cops are talking about arresting me cus I just couldn't calm down...    They held up the Bus and finally let me go....    I now get on this bus at like 4:50 am, find a seat and the Bus driver says, we are gonna to make a one stop just before exiting California (towards the border) and said I advise everyone to get food and use the restroom when we stop, because after that he's not stopping, He also said in a very serious tone "No one for any circumstance get out of your set and approach the front of the bus"  Keep in mind....  I never got to use the restroom...   I was jumped almost immediately after entering the restroom and the cops almost made me miss the bus...  I've never ridden A Greyhound before and it was pitch black.  I was unaware there was a restroom on the bus...  So I'm holding my bladder, unable to process what just went down, watching my phone gps slowly approach the town he said were stopping in, and then watching us pass the exit and enter the desert where there is nowhere to stop or turn around for a very long time...    Everyone is sleeping on the bus... the lights are off, and I'm in the middle of the bus,  I try speaking up asking why we didn't stop but he didn't hear me...  So I got up out of my seat to go ask him,  I guess the lights are motion detection cus it got super bright and the bus driver literally yelled "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ALL NOT TO EVER DO!"  I whimpered,  I'm sorry but you said we were stopping and that once we passed that exit, there would be no more chances to stop the bus, I've had to use the restroom for hours really bad...   He said, the plans changed and to sit back down and hold it...   (Now, I wasn't aware there was a restroom on the bus until after Eric picked up, but that damn bus driver knew there was a restroom on the bus and didn't tell me)   This trauma, stacking on top trauma...     Eric takes me to a gas station, since the place we got dropped off at wasn't another station,  but like a weird desolate parking lot...     and I just relay the same info to him I just wrote about....  Not the greatest way to start what's supposed to be one of the happiest few days of his life huh?  We joked about that, as that's what we do... Laugh off and make light of the hardships we are handed...     It wasn't until I laid down alone to try a nap that I was able to process what happened and how stupid my reaction was and that I could have died.   Now on top of everything else I already was embarrassed to have to explain to the family and wedding party, now I had this unreal story added to the mix...  I think that was the 1st time I ever even entertained the thought of suicide if even only for a moment...  It was my ultimate low, the fire in spirit was used up...  Now I am sad beyond belief...       When I woke up,  Eric I joked about the time I was working at Subway, and the same thing happened,  where I was robbed at gunpoint,  they made Eric lay on the floor, and I refused to, made jokes about making them a sandwich and even scolded them for taking the quarters out of my tip jar...  It was nice being around my best friend again, and my mood shifted pretty quickly, because I wasn't trying to ruin the mood or memories he would have attached to these few days...      He reunited me with my collection briefly, and then we had to head out to drive to Tucson, where they had the National Observatory rented out for their wedding reception.  The entire wedding party met up at a hotel close to the location near Kitt Peak. We vibed, drank and all went to bed....       The next morning,  A lot of us met up in the gazebo, next to the pool, to have coffee and talk...  My Childhood Ex Athena and her boyfriend, Eric's Dad, his dad's friend, Our best friend Brian... and some people I didn't know....   I had my laptop w/ me and decided I needed to process some emotions and stamp the timeline the way I know how to do best....  I went into headphones and started making music haha.....    2 Hrs Later....     The first draft of "Greyhoundblap" was saved...   We drove up the mountain,  had the most magical experience at the observatory ever..   You could literally see the spirally Galaxy of Andromeda with Binoculars..    As I was looking at it,  A shooting star appeared...  The Milky way was so vivid it was like you could touch it....        When we got back to the hotel that night,  while everyone was swimming,  I continued working on the track,  Adding change up, adding keys,  vocal samples and finalizing what would be titled something that involves the name "Greyhound" in it haha.

Next Day was the Wedding.....      

Life is crazy B.    

 Thus, "The Hardest" was born.

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The Hardest

"Heavy" (KeepYuSatisfied)

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Traversal
Track: 11
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:

HEAVY, HEAVY, HEAVY!

The weight of gravity...

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Heavy

"Lua Cheia"

Produced by: Dutchyyy, Kaelin Ellis
Album: Traversal
Track: 16
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 (ACT I):  
"Chill Gawd, Chill" [It's all connected]

In summer of 2012, shortly after permanently converting from FL Studio to an Ableton Live main.  The homie Kaelin Ellis (f/k/a Mr. Mockwell) sent me a few drum loops to get busy and chop over.   I was still new to using Ableton, but I was able to quickly execute ideas from start to finish in a way and at a speed I was never able to pull off using FL Studio, Logic, Mpc2000, Mod-Edit, etc...  

I wasn't in album mode at the time,  I was just having fun quickly making beats and exporting them without over thinking.  (2012-2014 Soundcloud Era was a magical time! all the legends uploading microwave tracks daily they just finished making)  

I ended up cooking up a track super fast, sitting on the floor of my (at the time) unfurnished new apartment in San Pedro, CA overlooking the Port of Los Angeles.  As per protocol of the times,  I didn't overthink it,  exported it and immediately uploaded it to soundcloud.  Shortly after, I did become much more comfortable with Ableton Live, which was reflected in the crazy amount of output I had during that  2012-2014 Los Angeles Arc of my life. This particular track for me personally, didn't feel up to par since it was basically a quick warm up track.  At that time, there was an upload limit on soundcloud (before pro was introduced) so this track ended up getting deleted from my SC page along with many other tracks made before I finally decided to pay for more upload space haha. Years later, it resurfaced when I decided to release a 120 minute Cassette of a lot of those old loose tracks created during that 2 year Los Angeles chapter of my life.

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/star-in-the-east-f-kaelin-ellis


Backstory (ACT II):
(Origin Story) "The Uproot" [The End of the Los Angeles Chapter begins]

The very first track created for "The Uproot" titled "The Firelighter" only exists because I was at my wits end about to get evicted from my 2nd Apartment in Los Angeles for the same reason I got evicted from my first apartment.  "Love?"....

After a long stressful day at work, where I did Master QC for Film, TV,  Stream, DVD & Blu Ray Warner Brothers and absolutely loved it and was the best at my job. The guy who worked the night shift and took over my bay to do a different job than I do never showed up so I had to stay late (un-paid) doing back to back Ad-Pub for the movie "The Hangover 3" which for reference was 180 variations of the movie trailer, where you had to carefully monitor multiple scopes i.e. CIE Chromaticity, Histogram ,Waveform Monitor, Vectorscope, DB, LUFS, while also watching and listening for audible and visual errors, Only different regions have very different and strict regulations around specs.  2 hrs in, my direct manager called and said my co-worker was fired, and told me that I would need to switch to night shift starting the next day, because Ad pub was the highest priority due being it generated the most revenue and he couldn't trust anyone but me to do it.  I'm a team player but my deal with warner brothers was I don't work nights (because I was also a musician that (at the time) did a lot of DJ/Beat set gigs) and asked if I could just do them in the day,  He told me that they are purposely delivered to us to be done overnight, plus he would still need me to do my normal master QC work in the day. So basically I was just informed, for the unseeable future I would need to work my normal shift 9-5, go home and come back before midnight every night for at least 4 hrs of unpaid work.  Which meant no more doing shows, or events.  My world was just rocked, since I already had shows lined up.   I told him, I'm going home now and we'll talk about this in the morning if that's ok.   Shut everything down, and rode my bike home in silence...   Just as I carried my bike up the stairs and went to open my door at like 9:30pm, my landlord (who just happened to be one of the neighbors my apartment shared a wall with) w/o a hello or any context or small talk told me very compassionately. I know [Redacted] isn't here right now which is why I stayed up to make sure I caught you.  He said that he understands and sympathized with my situation and loved having me as neighbor and tenant but he couldn't sit by any longer and show her  grace after sharing a wall with us and all the neighbors witnessing and complaining how chaotic my (ex) GF was time and time again and told me I can only stay if I promise to never let my (now ex) back into the apartment or property again or I would also have to be evicted. He knew we moved in together as a couple, but remembered that when we were trying to get approved, putting her on lease drastically raised our deposit, so he did us a favor and let the lease just be under my name, but allowed her to live there.  (For context: He was a super nice, sweet guy, very rare in a landlord) He had already given her warnings and too many neighbors complained for him to not take action and since she wasn't on the lease and he was just trying to be nice letting her stay.. It was now on me to make a choice.  What a day this was turning out to be.

I was alone, losing my mind, feeling stupid and embarrassed that my entire apartment complex knew what was happening and all felt bad for me or thought I was a sucker for putting up with that madness and kept letting her come back. I was spiraling pretty hard taking this all in once. My phone rings, and my heart drops, dreading who could be calling. I was ugly crying in the middle of breakdown. I'm pretty disorganized so I tend to forget to save peoples names on my phone.  I picked up the phone and it was Kaelin.......I didn't have time to switch modes and play it cool.  He could tell immediately I was going through something heavy. He asked what was going on, He already had previous context so he wasn't surprised to hear any of what I just was told by the landlord. and he didn't try to give me any advice, or bad mouth my ex or try to sway the choice I had to quickly make.  He calmly told me to be quiet, breathe,  Open up ableton, and focus all that rage and frustration into a song..  He wouldn't get off the phone until I actually opened up ableton.  Once I said it was open, he said,  Love you, everything will be alright, as soon as I hang up don't waste any time, focus this energy you're feeling right now into music....  

The next morning "The Firelighter" was uploaded to Soundcloud and people went nuts.  (this was also deleted from sc)  but exists as the first track that plays on demo version of "The Uproot" album

https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-

A few months later,  I had a show with Soulection and Ahwlee,  My boss was cool with me requesting the night off since I did it weeks in advance. But the new boss at Warner brothers above my boss fired me for calling out. I found out a few weeks later from my old boss that 40% of the most integral people were laid off with no warning.  Told me, I would have lost the job even if I didn't call out so I shouldn't feel bad, and told me not to worry that he will always be a reference for me. (He kept his word, which is how I ended up doing Master QC for Netflix in 2016 very briefly)

Obviously... Lost my income so I lost that apartment shortly after haha, but that ties to other backstories for other songs so we will pick up on the rest of Los Angeles Uproot backstory when we get those songs.... Now let's tie this to the song all this world building leads up to directly shall we?


Backstory (Part 3)  
[Uprooted? Let's Pivot...and Traverse through the trees of New York]

"Lua Cheia"

Ejected from Los Angeles, pit stop in Tampa quickly rejected, a week later.  New York is where I'm headed.

Winter/Spring 2014:  Welcome to Yetiville

So I'm alone at my friend Sam's house in White Plains NY which is tucked away in the dope secluded area surrounded by lush forest (A welcomed contrast to Los Angeles, but once again feeling lost and angry and untethered, too much trauma back to back, any sense of comfort or home feels temporary...  I don't like this energy but I'm thankful for the blessing I was given to escape Tampa.

I'm in album mode finally. I have the life experience to meaningfully translate, I have the theme, I know the purpose I'm aiming for,  Let's hyper focus and harness those intentions.

As I'm sitting alone in the house while everyone's at work, I'm recalling the path that led me here and wondering where I will eventually end up where I can call home and feel comfort that doesn't feel fleeting...   I remembered that conversation with Kaelin from fall of 2013 where the album first began.  I still had the original drum loops he sent me back in 2012 and always felt I never did them proper justice, so I wanted to use them again and work Kaelin into the album he unknowingly set in motion.  But channeling negative emotions into music wasn't the route I was trying to go.   So I charged up my laptop,  rolled up a spliff and hiked deep into the forest until I found a clearing I could set up this little red folding chair at,  lit my spliff...  took about 15 minutes just staring up at all the trees swaying in the wind...    It was super peaceful and healing... It was very important that my energy was calm and grounded before I began touching this track.  Nature is healing....  I put on headphones,  Loaded up the drums.....    and created a soundtrack based on the motion of all the trees around me swaying in harmony... I worked on this track from afternoon non-stop (with a short battery recharge intermission, back out into the forest, sun was gone, but the moon was out and was full and bright enough to dance off those swaying trees in the dark.    

from Uprooted, to the UP root. Nature had the answers.  Tree Traversal.

"Lua Cheia" (f/ Kaelin Ellis)
The song first debuted on the Hot Record Societe Compilation paying homage to Brazil.

HRS Vol. III: Lá Vem A Onda

https://hotrecordsociete.bandcamp.com/album/vol-iii-l-vem-a-onda

Fast Forward to fall 2015,  After moving to Nature Preserve on the mountain w/ my Pops in Upstate NY,  After creating so new songs they wouldn't even ft on double album, After my friends GF spilled water on my Laptop in my hotel room while I was working at The Hospital in Manhattan, that had all the finalized sessions of The Uproot album on it, We now land back in Tampa, FL where I once again had to pivot, lose comfort, and harness that energy and those life lessons into a conceptional, very intention driven album.

It's all connected.

The Uproot + Traversal

and thus,  "Lua Cheia" was born.

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Lua Cheia (f/ Kaelin Ellis)

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album:  "Chill Gawd, Chill" 
Track: The Scramble
Track #: 18
Created: 2014
Released: February 5th, 2015 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

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Backstory:

Scrambled (Eggs) - Dedicated to RINGGO

Originally created for and intended to be on "The Uproot" album. 

Continued World Building/Backstory/Context:
https://foundation.app/collection/uproot?tab=description

"The Uproot" (Demo) Side A - 1/1:
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-

"The Uproot" (Demo) Side B - 1/1:
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-b-demo-version-

The Scramble was the 1st of 5 different flips of one of my favorite songs and videos of all time.

https://beta.catalog.works/mndsgn/eggs

Unlike the majority of music created for "The Uproot" & "Traversal" at the time.  Which were either created in Attic using my KRK Studio Monitors, Or outside in nature in various sacred locations on the mountain (Sam's Point Preserve) either in headphones or using my little portable bluetooth JBL speaker. The Scramble was created on the 2nd story of the house, sitting on the floor, with my Laptop HDMI cable being fed to the TV screen, and my Audio interface being routed into my pops super analog diesel stereo system,  and playing through his huge speakers, but first a bit of pre-context is needed.  

My pops and I were constantly making time to be present and each shared music with each other the entire time I was living there.  We had rules,  No distractions, no interrupting and listening to the songs but usually, full albums from start to finish before we shared our thoughts with each other.  After a lifetime of him not appreciating hip-hop,  I first won him over with the album "Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde" by The Pharcyde, after explaining to him that he was sitting right next to me as a kid the moment I went from Listening to Kris Kross, and stumbling on a more mature and evolved form of hip-hop.  This very life changing moment in time was eating dinner, while we were watching In Living Color, and Pharcyde Performed "Passing me by" live as the end credits began to roll.  This changed the course of my life so it was important, I started with that album and he Dug it.  After months of playing hip-hop albums I loved,  there were some he liked a lot and some he said were horrible,  so I switched up my strat and met him where I knew his taste was.  Playing him the Thunder Cat "Golden Age of the Apocalypse" Vinyl and Flying Lotus's "You're Dead" Vinyl which he went ape sh*t over.

I had already purchased the Surface Outtakes when it dropped in the Summer, and showed my pops the video that dropped for "Eggs" the day it was released in august. He not only loved the song, but was blown away by the music video (My Pop's dig's the left field, far out abstract art in life.

Months Later,  The Surface Outtakes finally got a Vinyl Release.  I ordered it, paid for expedited shipping and we sat and Listened to it from beginning to end and he loved it.  Pointing out he remembered that "Eggs" song with the "Far out video!" hahah

He had already spent months talking sh*t about how me making beats isn't as respectable as playing an instrument.  A Convo that made me buy the Ableton Push earlier in the year and begin "The Long Story Short" improv, real time, no samples, one take live long form playing keys series in front of his a** hahah.

He asked if I would play the Video for Eggs again, so I did..  and he told me to pause it halfway through and got curious.   He didn't really understand hip-hop production no matter how many times I tried to explain it prior, he couldn't get past the sampling records part.

I explained that I understand, why he feels that way,  If someone is just taking 4 or more bar loop from a song,  not altering and just adding drums,  but I explained to him that even though I will also do this sometimes,  the way I have approached sampling from the first time I had to deal with limitations on Mod-Edit in 1997, was that I treat a record like a inspirational canvas,  and then I dissect that canvas down in the a million separate pieces and turn that into the instrument. 

He was impressed by that answer, but said "I hear you Dutch, but I can't make sense or wrap my head around what you are telling me,  why don't you just show and prove and i'll be the judge and call B.S. if you can't sway me"

I asked him to choose any of his records he wanted me to sample and I moved all my equipment downstairs and hooked it up.  When I was finished, he said...   "I really dig that far out video of the guy dancing in a disco space suit,  can you do what you say you can do with that"

I said....   "Bet"

So I bored him for hours, with all the tedious prep work that takes place before I can even begin to make the music and he went to bed, and told me don't worry about the volume,  do what you gotta do.  I'm not worried about it being loud.

I didn't want to start making the beat without him witnessing it,  So I took that night to experiment with new processes,  new plug in chain methods to better replicate the thing he loved most about Jazz music....  The Call & The Response...  

This would change how I approached music moving forward and also gave me my very distinguishable signature sound that people love that I've since tried to push even farther.     The Goal was to make music that sounded analog and aged, as far from modern polish as possible while using Sidechain Compression and Delay as the main instrument..   Shifting the priority of focusing on having the swing and movement being driven by the drums, and rather achieving this movement, swing, call & response through the chops,  via sidechain compression, strategically routed a million different ways.  My goal was to have the audio feel like it's alive and jumping out of the speaker and in the room with you.    

Up until this track, this was the longest time I ever spent working on a single track, I worked on it on and off from December 2014 into mid January.   

He said I was driving him crazy every day, working on the same song, but I was determined to achieve a specific sound I didn't know how to achieve which meant a lot of experimentation and trial and error.    Plus, any room mates, significant others unfortunately are used to being casual bystanders of hearing producers auditioning 309309302 different snare drums at max volume before settling haha.      I can make a dope beat in 5 minutes, 10 minutes, or maybe spend a year on a track.   This one happened to take around a month, being I needed breaks from self induced deafness and ear fatigue trying to pull this off haha.   Once I was Satisfied,  I exported and played him the final result and his mind was blown.   He said, "I should send it to the space suit guy"... So I hit up RINGGO (Mndsgn) and told him the story and that I planned to put it on The Uproot album.     "Do your thing my guy, sounds dope"   

Being that this song was the current evolution of my sound and where I planned on taking things more in future.  This definitely was intended to be on my upcoming album "The Uproot"    

But at the sametime as creating this,  I was finalizing the 2 hour tape to be sent to pressing "Chill Gawd, Chill" which was basically like 50 tracks I made 2012-2014 while living in Los Angeles,  most songs I made quickly in front of other producers with a short time limit challenge.    I was still proud of this body of work,  but it was 2015 and I wanted at least some of my more current evolution to be heard.  So I shifted some songs around meant to be on "Chill Gawd, Chill" which resulted in me accidently hiding them in an unnamed folder, inside another folder which I didn't find until 2019 which prompted the "Beat Hoarder" Series.  

but i made the fatal mistake of pulling "The Scramble" / "Evolution of A Shrug" / "OneForShoes" / and "Lamb's Bread" from The Uproot at the last minute and put them all on "Chill Gawd, Chill"     

But I needed to make one last track for the tape,  Something that embodied the carefree fun spirit of 2hr Tape, while also being a timestamp of where I was sonically at that very moment.   

The Day before sending the Masters to the pressing plant,  I decided to keep in mind my pops critique about sampling, and made a beat, sampling myself playing. This became the title track of the album "Chill Gawd, Chill"

you can listen to it and read the full backstory here:
https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-chill-gawd-chill-

The Scramble is a special track to me,  It marked a creative shift in my sound, I've gone back and re-flipped EGG's like 10 times since... haha.     

 I gotta send love to Mndsgn, because he's not only one of the most chill, humble and talented humans I've ever met. but he's given me so many years of inspiration all the way back to the klipmode days w/ Devon Who, Knx, Suzi but he stays consistently making inspirational and transcendent art. 

Thus "The Scramble" was born.

- Dutchyyy

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The Scramble

"Travelers Inn"

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Yawn of the Gemini
Track: 15
Released: May 23, 2010

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010

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Backstory:

Travelers Inn is 4 different beats all in one track.  Created on FL Studio, Fall of 2009....   The theme was reaching the Save Point.  A Staple of saving progress after a long adventure full of battles and discovery in The Final Fantasy Series as well as various classic JRPG.    To save your progress, Regain your HP....   Make your way to the Travelers Inn.

Rest is important for healing.

I guess it makes sense why my body began betraying me the past few years.  I spent an entire lifetime having so much difficulty getting to sleep.

Story of my life.

Please send Nano-bots.

zzzzzzzzzzZzzzzzzz.

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Travelers Inn

"YOWAKEUP!" 

Produced by: Dutchyyy
Album: Blue Screen of Deaf
Track #: 4
Created: 2011
Released: September 10, 2012 
Artwork by: Nameless Beats

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/blue-screen-of-deaf-2011-2012


Backstory:

Simple backstory.... Created January of 2011 on FL Studio on a rainy afternoon with sliding glass door open.  Nag Champa lit,  Multi-tasking scrolling tumblr,  super lifted from the organic plant medicine.... Inspired by listening to an AFTA 1  song titled "The Facts"

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"YOWAKEUP!"

"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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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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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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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)

------------------------------------

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 (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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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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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

-------------------
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.
-------------------

*****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

-----------------

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" 

--------------------------

"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?

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

(Discography: 1995-Future?)

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