Dutchyyy

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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Yawn of the Gemini

MORE SPACE?!?!

"NO POP CHORDS" - Produced by Dutchyyy

Backstory:  Created in Ableton Live,  January 24th, 2016 in Tampa, FL.

  One night, while attending "Ol' Dirty Sundays" (A weekly event that's been a staple in Tampa for over 2 decades) at Crowbar in Ybor City,  I ran into my good friend Jeremy (Jeremy Ian Thomas aka Soulajit fka Surreal) whom over the years has made some of my favorite music of all time. Examples: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7y7ezlysH53CCHbRt72PdS 

  He also appeared on my sophomore  "Dutchmassive" album titled "Crush Your System" released late 2007 on Rawkus Records (Song originally recorded in 2004 for his  unreleased album titled "Godspeed") 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/life-lines-f-surreal-produced-jeremy-ian-thomas

   Jeremy was visiting from Los Angeles at the time, so it was dope to run into him by chance and catch up since even back then,  It was rare to see me out in public at events.  We ended up in a conversation about the current state of music, where for the previous few years, a lot of "Beat Scene" producers were pivoting to making more dance / industry friendly music that no longer sounded like the music they were known for.  I think the convo was sparked based on me uploading "Where are we headed?" to soundcloud, which was my sonic response to this topic the year prior. ( you can read that backstory here: https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/where-are-we-headed- )
  At the time Jeremy was heavily inspired by Kanye's Auto-tune Arc and actually preferred the more industry friendly direction a lot of people were going, which at the time blew my mind and caught me off guard. Don't get me wrong,  I enjoy pop, dance, and more commercial sounding music as well, but I was definitely sad to see so many of my favorite producers changing their entire sonic identity to try and ride the  current wave that had gained so much momentum at the time.  He spoke about the science of Major Chords and how they resonate more with the general public. People that just turn on FM radio and don't really go out their way to dig for music they love. A topic I was very familiar with at the time. Since I had recently watched a video about the same few Major chords, scales being used in the majority of the top100 pop radio hits for a few decades running.  We both had to leave the venue pretty early on in the night, so we cut the convo short, agreed to disagree,  hugged,  said peace and I ended up bouncing shortly after.   
   As soon as I got home,  I loaded up Ableton with the aim of making a Anti-Pop, Radio friendly track haha.  A defiant response to the sentiment that you had to use happy Pop chords to appeal to the general public.   I went in multiple directions pretty rapidly,  I didn't want to create a trap song but I still wanted to keep the track up-tempo.  I love House music and have released a few house tracks over the years since 2006 so I didn't want to go in that direction and keep things out of my comfort zone.  Ironically starting with the same sample I used for "The Turning Point" then switching gears multiple times and touching on multiple emotions that could be seen as "uncomfortable" by "The General Public" before ending the song by re-playing the "Buck Town" sample on my synths. Exported the track,  made simple artwork, and immediately uploaded it Soundcloud before midnight.  

 https://soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/dutchy-no-pop-chords

When I moved back out to Los Angeles later that year,  We ended up grabbing dinner with some friends and he laughed and said he knew my song was direct response to our conversation at "Ol' dirty Sundays" If that conversation didn't happen, this song wouldn't exist so I'm glad I decided to leave the house that night instead of staying in.

In 2020,  I decided to begin releasing a series of unreleased songs and tracks created between albums or that I couldn't fit on albums titled "Beat Hoarder".  The Intention was to release a new volume every few months to all streaming services since I have so much unreleased music that doesn't belong on any album.  I ended up releasing Vol. 1 on bandcamp along with the pre-order for "The Uproot" on cassette. 

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/beat-hoarder-vol-1

A few days later, I got an eviction letter from my landlord. After a year of battling the leasing company and going thru a failed black mold remediation they had me living in for 2 years. The moment the "eviction memorandum" was lifted in Florida.  They used the pandemic to kick me out instead of properly getting rid of the mold and just rent to new unsuspecting tenants.  This was super stressful on-top of already super stressful times so all my plans for this series and "The Uproot" cassette got derailed.  A week prior to the eviction letter, My uncle had been trying to get me to move in with my 93 year old grandmother who lived alone and needed someone to take care of her, especially during the height of the pandemic, but I didn't want to leave my house and all my plants and lose the ability to create music 24/7 as loud as possible without worrying about bother neighbors. So the eviction was glass half full at least and had a positive outcome.  So I packed up my 2 bedroom, 2bath House,  placed almost everything in storage and moved into this tiny 10x12 room in a retirement community and focused on live streaming, video editing and real time, long form live sessions #EvolvingPortals where everything is raw and in the moment since I lost the ability to play music loud in speakers to properly mix outside of headphones. Long story short, I basically got distracted forgot about my plans to release the Beat Hoarder series in general.   Maybe I'll resume that now.  
If / when this record is collected.   I'll submit Vol. 1 to my DSP / distributor and make it available on all streaming services a month out from when this record is collected =)

**** Whoever ends up collecting this will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" over 110gb's of nearly my full released and unreleased discography.  *****

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BEAT HOARDER VOL. 1

No Pop Chords

"Turning Point" - Produced by Dutchyyy  / Co-Produced  Chester Watson (https://chstrwtsn.com)

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill

Backstory:
Created in Ableton Live, Fall of 2014 at Sam's Point Preserve in Craigsmoor, NY.
I was challenged to recreate one of favorite 90's golden era songs after making a post online about how I tried to do my best to stay away from certain samples that meant a lot to me growing up.  I love a challenge and I wasn't busy, so I immediately agreed to the challenge and said I would have it posted to Soundcloud later that night.  I ended up choosing the sample used in Smif & Wessun's classic single "Buck Town".  I quickly programed a kick & a snare, then began chopping.   A few hours later it was uploaded to the Soundcloud.  The original version was a bit slower, had a few more chop change up's and only a kick and snare.  A few days later,  I was speaking with Chester Watson about my upcoming Cassette while we were swapping songs back and forth just showing each other unreleased & new music. The next day he sent me back the version you hear now.  Slightly sped up,  added some filler drums and a bassline that melts your face along with any decent system it's played on.  I added a intro,  and decided to place it on my upcoming cassette "Chill Gawd, Chill" and thus "Turning Point" was born and the original version was deleted from Soundcloud.


"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.  *****

********If this auction reaches/surpasses a bid of 1.0 ETH,  I will send the winning bidder one of my remaining copies of the now Sold "Chill Gawd, Chill" Cassette w/ Nag Champa + Stickers***********

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Chill Gawd, Chill

Turning Point

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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Traversal

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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"Chill Gawd, Chill"

AnotherLilCrumble

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

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Tingles

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

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Sub(Marine)UnderBrooklyn

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

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Where are we headed?

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

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Greenscape_Probe (EMERGENCY!)

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

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NO THEME

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

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

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

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"Just Be Yourself"

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

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

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The Release (Breathe Easy)

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

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"Traversal"

Esoteric (f/ C M O)

Dedicated to my late mother, Debbie.  Whom, like myself, always felt at peace at night when the world was quiet and still.  Happy Mother Day.  

Track list:
1.) Nocturnalis I [00:00]
2.) Nocturnalis II [02:21]
3.) Nocturnalis III [06:02]
4.) Debbie. [08:39] 

Backstory:

   I was living in Los Angeles when my mother Debbie got sick in August of 2016.  She was the text case of a hypochondriac so when she told me,  I basically told her to walk it off in a nice motivational way.  A few days passed and she was admitted to the hospital.  My family all told me the Doctors said she would be fine.  At the time,  I just started a job doing master QC for Netflix.  I was on a probationary period,  living on my friend Josh's couch ( Sunjet /Josh Jetson ) and didn't even have enough money to get back and forth to work yet,  so my mom would PayPal the little money she had to help. A few days passed and mom had to be intubated. Obviously things were more serious than my family led them to be.  My heart was heavy.  I just started this amazing job making $120 hour and all I wanted was to fly home and see my mother,  but my family insisted I focus on the Job my mom was so proud I landed and that it was in my best interest not to see her like this and that the doctors said she will be fine. 2 days later,  My probationary period ended and I finally started getting paid.   I was at work trying to keep my calm & stay positive by listening to Bobby_Hutcherson's "Nocturnal" on repeat. My phone abruptly rang and when i picked up  my brother was crying his eyes out.   My heart dropped, He couldn't form many words so He put me on the phone with the doctor. They wanted my permission to take her off life support. At this point, I'm shell-shocked because the last time I spoke with my family, they down played how serious her condition was. The doctor passed the phone to someone specialized in breaking this type of news to people and she tried her hardest to comfort me and advise me that taking her off life support was the best option and what the rest of family already had came to terms with, but i refused..  My mother was full of love and empathy,  she felt this world too deeply and it was difficult for her. As much as she loved us,  she always had a hard time navigating thru this world (The same goes for myself and my brother,  we feel things deeply and always feel out of place).   I was listening to  "Nocturnal"  when i got the phone call my mother wasn't going to make it. A song once used to help calm and center me now had this traumatic energy attached to it.  I told my job what was happening and they told me to take a few days off to process.  The next day,  I got an email from my Job saying do not come into work before calling.  Apparently,  it was against policy to take pictures in the building, and I had posted a picture of me at my desk on twitter when i got 1st got hired saying verbatim - "thank you universe for 2nd chances,  I am eternally grateful"  - With regret in their voice,  they had to terminate me immediately.  It was a zero tolerance policy.  My boss was crying telling me this, because they grew fond on me my short time with them and I was very very good at my job, plus they knew what I was dealing with, but it was flagged by someone very high up in the chain and no exceptions could be made.  My heart was smashed, I worked so hard to get that job and my mother and family were so proud of me.  I didn't know how to break the news to them.  I just kind of fell to pieces, paralyzed in the motel room I was in.  40 minutes later I got the call.   My mother had passed.  August 19, 2016.      I was on the next flight back to Tampa Bay to help take care of my family and became super numb.  After the celebration of life, I needed to express and grieve in my own way. So the first time i touched music since she passed,  I decided to flip the bobby_hutch sample.   I did it very fast,  didn't overthink or mix it down,  just quickly flipped the sample  uploaded it to soundcloud titled "I will delete this" (which i didn't, just changed the track name to "...".  The following year on mothers day 2017,  I revisited the o.g. sample and made 2 more flips dedicated to her.  Nocturnalis I, II  and I also recorded a freestyle over one of them (that didn't make it to the ep).  One year later on mothers day 2018,  I revisited it one last time and created Nocturnalis I.
   I haven't ever truly recovered from losing my mother.  My big heart crew cold. The defensive walls I built after such a traumatic experience have never really went away to this day.  I've never officially dropped an album since, like I'm protesting Finality.  The crazy thing is, I've made more music from 2017-present,  then I made from 1995-2016.  Multiple unreleased albums,  changed my entire creative process as therapy and began evolving portals and never stopped.   I hope one day to feel light and at peace again, and I hope where ever you are mom.  You are finally at peace. 

Debbie (May 1st, 1953 - August 19th 2016)

I love you and miss you so much, you always loved my spacey, sleepy, mellow music, so I know you would sleep to these on repeat. 

Eternally....Your Son, Dutch.
  

 ***** I was going to upload this on my mothers birthday, but decided I would wait until mothers day to keep it more consistent with when most of the tracks were created.  I'm not sure if this EP will resonate or be collected anytime soon, but i wanted to pay tribute to my biggest supporter. Once this does get collected. I will revisit the original project file and create "Nocturalis IV" and I will contact the person who collects the EP, and mint it for basically the cost of gas so they/you can not only be the first to hear, but also collect it.

****Collector will receive access to mymaster vault cloud drive titled "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms", with over 110gbs of nearly the full released discography, (1996-future).  Multiple unreleased albums and WIP,  Portals / Evolving Portals (real time sessions, making music from start to end, with the intention of resampling that session in the future and continuously evolving it), side projects, as well as videos posted to my instagram, youtube, and previous twitch vods.  This drive is constantly being updated/added to which will never stop happening.****


Sidenote: 
I used to fight with my mother constantly about engaging on my music posts on facebook with personal stuff.  I was pretty mean about it, and it wasn't until after she passed I found out she created a secret tumblr account ( https://hopefulninja.tumblr.com/ ) so she could keep up with what I was doing and show love.  I cried pretty hard when i found it, cus she just wanted to support me and I was too worried about supporters/fans, seeing a bunch of personal stuff or stalking her page. I had no idea she was on tumblr. I just teared up looking at that page again haha. Fast forward to 2022,  The entire social media space is ruled by engagement, sometimes i feel like karma is haunting me on twitter when i post all this art i'm proud of with nearly 3k followers, and maybe 4 people consistently show up (if they see it) You really don't know what you have til it's gone.  Cherish your loved ones.

PeacePeace. <3

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"Mother" (Nocturalis) EP

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

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

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

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"My Hatin' Jawn"

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

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

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"No Time to Be Sad"

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

@ PeacePeaceGawd.com

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