Survival at the cost of your soul & at a detriment to others is how non sentient operate. I empathize with the ones who joined when the mission was pure in intentions. It likely hasn't been easy on their spirits navigating through all of this.

Zora had one of hell of mission statement when it started, I'm sure it moved the people who would apply to be a part of the team as deeply as it moved and convinced the Artists who read it that this was going to be something special.

It feels unreal reading that mission statement today knowing the platform became everything it stood against. The level of greed it must take to pull off being the one who is calling the shots, willfully knowing they not only abandoned their entire community & struck a massive, if not a final death blow to already used and abused artists in their ability to trust in this world. That's already unredeemable if it ended at that, but to double down and now try to sell false hope to new users by preying on the hit to everyone self worth on social media in this post algorithm world is some super villain behavior. There is no honest justification one can tell themselves or others to frame it otherwise. Survival? is the team that large? are there no other career choices out there? Is Zora surviving at the cost of disrupting so many souls worth it? Devalued art, devalued artists, devalued trust, devalued blockchain all for what? A platform of insider memes glazing the platform. IMAGINE, just for one second, that every social platform you went on was just everyone posting cult images of that platforms logo.... How out of touch do you have to be to pull off what we have all just witnessed. Is survival really worth the ripples that survival has sent out to world. I truly feel bad for everyone involved not calling the shots. You signed up for noble mission and now have to move forward in life with the truth of how the company you also believed in chose to survive by becoming the pale trojan horse.

I'm being sincere. I wish i wasn't, it's exhausting. Maybe next life I'll be born with the ability to turn off compassion and empathy for others for my own survival. A life without honest artistic expression where I can too meme carefree.

#proofoflifecontinued

with love always,

Dutchyyy.xyz

Video captured of song (untitled/wip - Produced by Dutchyyy) being created in real time on 11/21/2024 12am.

Backstory:

This was the first time since I first moved across the country in Feb that I opened up Ableton Live with no pressure or goal. Just felt happy for the 1st time in months and wanted to transmute that into music.

over the past few years, I've been so overwhelmed with urgency to document the past, or distracted with technology and logistics that have seen been completely turned upside down now anyway. Only time I would work on music would be when participating in sample challenges (community / culture and all that jazz)

This was just me having fun in the moment. If the sample sounds familiar, it's because I loaded up a previous project file "Crate Escape" and just started from scratch using the sounds in the session.

You can read the backstory of "Crate Escape" in a previous Proof of life (Continued...) post on zora in the link below:
[🔗The making of "Crate Escape"🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4/22?referrer=0x26ef03a20aaeda8aafcee4e146dc6b328195947c)

You can listen to / collect the 1/1 song on legacy Catalog Works below and set some magic in motion =)
[🔗"Crate Escape" f/ Thxk_u 1/1 via Catalog Works🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/crate-escape-w-i-p-f-thxk-u)

Somewhere in the present.

A “Very Internet Person” struggles to adapt to an expedited “Dead Internet Theory” & Logs off to focus on healing & evolving irl in preparation for a highly intensional, creative & productive 2025 powered by Music Nerd.

🫂

2 years ago on thanksgiving 2022, I minted my first artifact on Zora, A song I created on thanksgiving in 2018. A free mint that was open until December 1st. 101 Editions were collected before it ended. In December I followed it up with an hour long audio version of me revisiting that same songs project file and creating something new in realtime “Surprise Canyon Jacuzzi” (Evolving Portals). 42 Editions, 6 were collected. While this Erc-721 doesn’t show on the zora app, you can still scroll to bottom of my profile on web & listen / collect.

If just one person that see’s this, actually takes time to search for that rare long form audio edition minted on main-net & collects it. I will finally mint the full 16x9 video version of it being created in real time, with perfect audio (since this was live streamed at the time)

I’m Thankful for Art, Music & all the people I’ve connected with because of it.

Taking, Thanks.

<3 Dutchyyy

Photo Captured: Saturday, ‎June ‎4, ‎2016, ‏‎4:58:32 PM (EST) in Los Angeles by Dutch

🎧[🔗ALLMOST - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/allmost) 1/1

#organicdiscovery #traversal #chillgawdchill #dutchyyy

Photo Captured: ‎Saturday, ‎June ‎4, ‎2016, ‏‎2:45:01 PM (PST) in Los Angeles by Dutch

🎧[🔗Ras Kass - "Remain Anonymous" 1994🔗](www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNIZGMJnvA)

#Traversal #Dutchyyy

Photo Captured: ‎Saturday, ‎June ‎4, ‎2016, ‏‎4:39:55 PM (PST) in Los Angeles by Dutch.

A fun day exploring back alleys with Majik Most.

funfacts: Before beats & rhymes, my creative outlet was drawing. So my entrance into the hiphop culture naturally came from Graffiti. My initial tag was "Dig1One", Year's Later it became "ego8one3"

Rest in peace to Tame One, The graff anthem was and will forever be "Wrong Side of The Tracks" by Artifacts

[🔗Watch Video🔗](youtu.be/GM92f-BUoow?si=JmMtmYz4QHV1Y2Mh)

bonus funfact: This song was one of a few in the history of music in which I preferred listening to the Radio edit over the Album version. The sound effects used to bleep curse words were hypnotizing, A shame that clean edit isn't on youtube anymore.

#Traversal #Dutchyyy

Early / Mid 2023 I began my remix for @thepark , Like all my sessions I ended up with hours of experimental live recorded audio before actually focusing on creating something intentional & focused. Unfortunately due to reasons which were documented in the Proof of Life (Continued…) collection, I got pulled away from music for a bit. I have so much unfinished / unreleased music backed up in the pipeline, but music doesn’t seem to have much value of attention anywhere we release it these days. So where we as musicians put our time and energy is all over the place focused on the non creative parts of the process.

Challenge number 1: will this post even be seen?

Challenge number 2: will anyone even see or read a long description?

Challenge number 3: If so, do those on Zora care whether this ever is finalized and released or doomed to vault?

Carrot or stick?

Fate is in your hands… and mine haha

Let’s experiment with the value of music, attention & this app.

🫂 Love Dutchyyy

“Happy Friday”

player vs player, peace vs peace, plant vs plant. The Aggressive push vs the timid camp. practice, muscle memory, solo queue vs team squads. Wall hacks, aim bots, live service power creep. The top .01 % who rages when they take a hit to the k/d - k/d/a & the kid solo queuing having fun lost in the flow state. Methodical in the crucible. PvP is like oil & nutrients for the creative mind, but you gotta balance it out, decompress, play an rpg. Remaining “locked in” without rest will rek you in any battle ground. 🫂 see you in the crucible

Getting Weird with my submissions for the latest Kaelin Ellis Sample Challenge.

I've been producing for decades, So making objectively dope beats hasn't been tickling my neurons lately... It's too easy and predictable. So I've been just getting as weird with it as possible, and recording one take live recordings... than just submitting pieces of those live takes... I think ima slow down on the fun experimental stuff before people forget I can run laps around objectively dope haha...
I originally created a first version, not thinking I would have time to create a real version and posted it in Proof of Life (continued...) Just to document proof of ... well proof of being a an artist haha.

[🔗VERSION 1🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4/42?referrer=0x26ef03a20aaeda8aafcee4e146dc6b328195947c_)

And then last minute I decided to make another attempt, this time flipping Kaelin's flip of the sample, and well.... It got weirder than the first.


+ Kaelin Ellis & The MKRS Club - Streetlights Compilation (Full Visual Album) [🔗LISTEN / WATCH ON YOUTUBE🔗](youtu.be/-YeLTjTxldE?si=XeLtW-H3jtUjYOLN)

🎹 Join the MKRS CLUB
💥 Get Exclusive Discord Access with Any Purchase: kaelinellis.com/sounds

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Dutchyyy & Kaelin collabs:

🎧 "Lua Cheia" (f/ Kaelin Ellis) [🔗1/1 via Catalog🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/lua-cheia-f-kaelin-ellis-)

🎧 "Skate Park's Closed" (f/ Kaelin Ellis) [🔗Editions via Songcamp / Zora🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0x798b63d9fcf8874e4efb624f0b490b5a3cf1a718/1?referrer=0x26ef03a20aaeda8aafcee4e146dc6b328195947c)

home is the most valuable wallet 🫂

Produced by Dutchyyy

Not my official submission to the new Kaelin Ellis sample challenge. Just snippets of the initial 3 hour evolving portals version. Will try to get an official version in by the deadline... Just in case tho.... Proof of....

KAELIN ELLIS — 11/04/2024 5:39 PM
SAMPLE FLIP CHALLENGE DUE NEXT WEEK MONDAY! Artist: Samuel “Otis Slim” Johnson
Title: “Streetlights”
Label: MKRS INC.
Catalog Number: MKRS-001

[🔗Dutchyyy x Kaelin Ellis 🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/lua-cheia-f-kaelin-ellis-) 💽

snippet of me working on my sample challenge submission live [September 11th, 2020] for the Historic... House Shoes presents: Flipsessions6 #ImpeachThePresident (Sample Challenge) hosted by STREETCORNERMUSIC.

Feels to relevant to not let loose again. =/

🎧🔗[A Peach Mint Bopper (Sample Challenge Submission)](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/a-peach-mint-bopper) 💽- Produced by Dutchyyy

🎧🔗[A Peach Mint Bopper (Evolving Portals)](zora.co/collect/base:0xa9ccc602fd4fde28abf9e7a2d9cd2d8c84d5924c/4)

I must… rock… the mic.

All this typing out expression was never my forte, Time to return to form.

A lot to cover. Hiatus is officially over.


📹📼🎙️🎤🎧📓
Powered by Music Nerd.

🔗[Dutchyyy VS The Algorithms](dutchyyy.xyz)

Behold the Art Apocalypse. Happy Halloween 🎃

<3 Dutchyyy.xyz

Photo Captured: Tuesday, ‎June ‎3, ‎2014, ‏‎9:38:41 AM (EST) in White plains, New York by Dutch

🎧[🔗"BY DESIGN." - Dutchmassive🔗](samthesleezbag.bandcamp.com/album/sleezbagmekalektape) 💽

Photo Captured: Tuesday, ‎June ‎3, ‎2014, ‏‎9:30:41 AM (EST) in White plains, New York by Dutch

🎧[🔗?🔗](samthesleezbag.bandcamp.com/album/sleezbagmekalektape)

Photo Captured: ‎Wednesday, ‎June ‎4, ‎2014, ‏‎12:32 PM (EST) in White planes, NY by Dutch.

Rest in peace Sandy Duncan (Socket) <3

🎧[🔗Anticipation Suite - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/anticipation-suite-f-aji-dastan-)💽 1/1

Photo Captured: Monday, ‎June ‎2, ‎2014, ‏‎1:44:13 PM(EST) in White planes, NY by Dutch

🎧 [🔗Lua Cheia (f/ Kaelin Ellis) - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/lua-cheia-f-kaelin-ellis-) 💽1/1

Photo Captured: ‎Sunday, ‎June ‎25, ‎2017, ‏‎5:25:27 PM (EST) at Fred Howard Park in Tampa Bay, FL by Dutch

🎧[🔗Sun Will Set - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/sun-will-set)

Produced By Dutchyyy

#EvolvingPortals

Test Shoot 1. - Wednesday, October 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM (pst)

Imagine you’re 43 years old, and your entire life since a child was collecting & creating apex nerd culture. This unique age perfectly positioned you to experience growing up in the 80s, 90, to present. The golden age of toys, action figures, comics, video games, physical music & multimedia formats. Now let’s pretend you were an obsessive collector, amassing thousands of cassettes, vinyl & CDs, video game systems, games, books, stickers, posters, toys, collectibles. You experienced Akira, Fist Of The North Star, Ghost In Shell, Ninja Scroll, before you even hit puberty. Let’s pretend since a child, you maintained that love all throughout life, resulting in an uninterrupted 4 decades of collecting & creating. You are an adult, but never grew out of the things you were passionate about since your youth. Now let’s pretend by very lucky stroke of fate you somehow managed to reach the present day & still have the majority of what you collected those 4 decades to the point your home doubles a museum of physical super nerd relics.

Thankfully I don’t have to pretend nor imagine. My goal outside of my own artistic pursuit’s & ambitions is to capture every single physical relic I’ve collected & document them onchain to share this museum of wonder with the world.

I will be a super tedious & time consuming endeavor. Most people I’ve expressed this ambition to have expressed my time would be better spent on creating.

If the future is a hybrid of VR / AR reality, I’d like to get ahead of time, archiving & cataloging each unique physical relic, so maybe one day I. The future. You can visit my virtual home / museum / studio / dojo & experience all this music, art, & super nerd memorabilia for yourself :)

I still don’t know the best or most safe place to store & document this process, but I figured I’d share the fact that the process has officially begun.

Produced By: Dutchyyy
Full song/audio available to collect:

release.supercollector.xyz/artist/dutchyyy

[🔗DUTCHYYY.XYZ🔗](dutchyyy.xyz) Briefly popping my head out from my extended healing hiatus to update every / anyone who cared enough reach out after watching & reading my scream for help back on June 6th, when I reluctantly publicly documented the full context "I WANT TO LIVE" which is needed to understand how beyond blessed I am to be able to share this update today. [🔗"I WANT TO LIVE!" (Continue...?)🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4/29) Documented on Zora June 5th 2024 via [🔗Proof of life (continued...) Collection🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4) To understand the magnitude of this artifact, taking a few minutes to digest the context provided in the video and description of "I WANT TO LIVE" is needed. I still have a long way to go and many months of recovery ahead so I'm afraid to even begin celebrating prematurely, but thanks to friend, mentor, founder, prolific collector, xDJ, legendary Music Nerd @cxy I was just able to get the highly complex, risky & unrealistically priced - Reconstructive Jaw Surgery - done after years of barely existing pushing through life threatening reoccurring infections causing my body to always be in sepsis. If you've never spoken to me one on one for extended period of time to get to know me, but always noticed the intensity and urgency in my tone through music, social media or artifacts documented onchain, you likely wrote me off as combative or holier than now as I struggled to adapt or go with the flow when it comes to the preservation, value and organic discovery of art. Imagine you spent a life time, dedicating 4 decades to creative expression & making a positive impact on the world, experiencing every technological pivot along the way. Never compromising your integrity, and creating so many positive ripples along the way. Having that legacy documented across time. Now Imagine, your faced with the reality that your life expectancy is set to a quickly approaching end. This is already something anyone would have difficultly processing. but now add the undeniable drastic changes happening across the internet the past few years. Algorithms, AI, Search engines purging history and information left and right and everywhere you turn to find solace begins adapting these broken systems that flatline discovery, control and genuine human connection. easier to optimistically brush off as a healthy human with a future ahead. Not so much when it feels like your last days are being spent watching everything unravel when you're hyper fixated on the preservation of your existence and the desire to experience meaniful human interactions via the internet while your stuck in isolation. Hopefully with context, it helps to resolve any misconceptions & snap judgements that could have & likely have formed. While I still feel it's honorable to critically think and use your / my voice to communicate honestly and often about observations pertaining to the Enshittification of our once fair, open, free and optimally functioning virtual landscape. Not having an uncomfortable, rapidly approaching human expiration timer ticking loudly in my head 24/7 for the first time since before the pandemic greatly lessens the urgency in throw myself into the fire trying save the world & my the memory of my place in it. I look forward to returning to life as a human in the physical world and allowing myself to be present in that world, long enough to hopefully reprogram my mind and spirit to highly deprioritize my exposure to a virtual world that I know is going to force feed me algorithmic landmines that are going to feed my inspiration. Thanks to C.Y. I'll soon be able to return to the life long cathodic ritual that kept me sane and balanced no matter what life threw at me. I.E. instead of ranting into a void typing novels online, I get to refocus and channel it back into the pen, paper & recording booth. Beginning with finally recording (the still highly relevant) last official verse I intentionally wrote A decade ago. 📽️🎶[🔗"Planet's In Orbit" - Produced by Potatohead People🔗](foundation.app/mint/eth/0xC35407130cE86eCab7d670E4D6405E9bD9391E8e/8) - 1/1 Video collected Oct 7, 2023 for 1.5 ETH by cxy Feel's cosmic...🌌🪐🌎🌙💫 the same person who on collected that 1 minute, horrible video quality version of me reciting the last verse I wrote nearly a decade ago ended up being the person who would ensure it wouldn't be the last time the world would hear my voice. ---------------------------- 🙏 In a vacuum, that doesn't sound to magical. Keep reading to have your mind blow & your faith in fate & the universe expand. Backstory: 📖"In the summer of 2015, Dutch returned to Tampa, Florida. Shortly after the move, he experienced a health crisis. He was rushed to the ER, struggling to breathe, and was diagnosed with sepsis from a severe dental infection. Immediately upon leaving the hospital, His mother took him to the dentist in hopes of finding a solution, but the complexity of his dental situation required a near 6 figure surgery. An unrealistic sum needed they could not afford. Even if they could, the complicated surgery came with a 80% risk of the left side of his face being paralyzed for the rest of his life. This health challenge marked a turning point in Dutch’s musical journey. He vowed not to write or record another song as Dutchmassive until his music could generate the income needed for his surgery. ------------------------------------- ▪ However, due to the unsettling prognosis from Dentist. He wasn’t going to waste time by holding out for hope while also punishing himself. He wanted to utilize his gifts while he still had the chance. So the next seven years, he recorded freestyles purely for personal enjoyment, without any intention of releasing them. This became one of his most cherished creative endeavors, as it allowed him to be vulnerable and have fun with music in a way he hadn’t before."📖 The Reluctant Clap: (Daily Rambles) Tascam Freestyles [2015-2022]. ⏲️Total Runtime: 283 minutes 🗣️🎙️ 💽 Chapter I (2015-2016) 1/1 on Catalog Works 💽 Chapter II (2017) 1/1 on Catalog Works 💽 Chapter III (2018) 1/1 on Catalog Works 💽 Chapter IV (2018-2020) 1/1 on Catalog Works 📻 Chapter V (2020-2022) Editions on Supercollector 🎧[🔗Backstory / Listen to Chapters I,II,III,IV🔗](legacy.catalog.works/playlists/363bc27d-0748-4b15-8f8b-32488e30ee6d) 🎧[🔗Listen to / Collect Chapter V🔗](release.supercollector.xyz/the-reluctant-clap-chapter-v-daily-rambles-dutchmassive) • 28 songs total • Individual tracks - $10 • or Full Album - $280 • [🔗Download full series via Bandcamp🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-reluctant-clap-daily-rambles) Bonus Context: [🔗"S.O.S. Freestyle" (Daily Rambles) - prod by thxk_u🔗] (zora.co/collect/zora:0xaecf7d807b137eae8c67d24c4e0e66c1e6319266/5) Video Documented January 6th 2024 in the "10x12" in Tampa Bay before the rescue mission that led us to this day. Nearly a decade later, the promise I made to myself to not write or record another song until my art can pay for the surgery needed has just been fulfilled. still many months of healing ahead, before the final surgery happens. but thanks to C.Y. the world will now experience a future that includes new written & recorded vocals by Dutch <3 Eternally, Grateful. If anyone would like to Help Fund the physical, 6 Cassette Box Set Release of "The Reluctant Clap" (Daily Rambles) [2015-2022] to help keep me busy during this healing hiatus while also serving as a symbolic step to close a very long chapter, before my next one begins. You can visit the link below [🔗help Fund the physical release here🔗](foundation.app/collection/emceee) ----------- Proof of life, Continued.. Executive Produced by: C.Y. Lee @cxy 🫂

Produced By: Dutchyyy

Two Flips, One Beat.

flip a beat club #35 submission.

Flip one.
0:00 - 1:12
Sample stems provided by:
matt.e.j & @jteaa__ fka whknws

Flip two.
1:12 - 3:15
Sample Stems by tvkii

Flipped the first half on September 19th, & woke up to Matt sending me stems that tvkii submitted last minute. So I quickly hopped into Ableton Live & created a 2nd beat & submitted the combined versions at the deadline buzzer on September 20th

This was fun. I’m glad I got a few pockets of time free to pay tribute to the homies 🫂

"23" (Evolving Portals) - Produced by Dutchyyy

Originally created October 2023, 1/1 Minted on Catalog Works at the right before the stroke of midnight on New Years Eve of 2023.

Due to last minute rush of trying to secure the final 1/1 of 2023 on Catalog, I wasn't able to attached a backstory to that 1/1, So I instead created a video version for social media and attached the backstory in the description of the post on my I.G. @peacepeacegawd on new years day.

The below backstory is basically copy & pasted from that post.

Backstory:

📖 The Final #EvolvingPortals of 2023 happened on accident a few months ago, live during a private one on one discord video call teaching an “Ableton Live, The Dutchyyy Way” lesson w/ the homie Alez (Spores lead dev, Catalog Works Engineer) where shortly after teaching my warp, stretch, signature chop method, I got distracted, went silent… and fell thru a portal instead of teaching haha. That pretty much sums up 2020-2023…. Felt symbolic to end the year off with 91st 1/1 💽 on @catalogworks being some accidental improv real time documentation. I’m at a very pivotal & critical place in time where my life is in the progress of drastically changing. A mixture of the greatest blessings & greatest hardships at all once. 2024 will not start off fresh. The next few months will be arduous but there is finally a light at the end of the tunnel. Hold tight while Pivot, Battle, Traverse, Re-settle & Recalibrate for the next ARC/Chapter. Thank you to everyone who has shown grace, patience, love and compassion during the most unbearably challenging period of my life. As Always, I will pay it forward 10fold once I stabilize. Peace 2023. Peace Peace 2024. 🌀🧎🏻 - Dutch 📖

Full 8 minute audio version exists as 1/1 record on Catalog Works 💽

🎧[🔗LISTEN HERE🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-23-evolving-portals-)

[🔗ALEZ.ETH via Catalog Works🔗](legacy.catalog.works/alez)

[🔗ALEZ.ETH via ZORA🔗](zora.co/@alez)

Before I got sidetracked creating this portal as Alez silently watched, I made a few other tracks that I love and still haven't exported them... Let me know if you would like that to happen in the comments. 🫂

Photo Captured: ‎May ‎2th, ‎2016, ‏‎7:38:17 AM PM(PST) in Los Angeles by Dutch

🎧[🔗NATUREBOYKICKSNARE EP - DUTCHYYY🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/natureboykicksnare-ep)

🍃[🔗VIEW ENTIRE ORGANIC DISCOVERY COLLECTION🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xbe96be7547a203ebff86c815a1feb27d47407cbd)

Photo Captured: May ‎22nd, ‎2016, ‏‎2:56:33 PM(PST) in Los Angeles by Dutch

🎧[🔗NATUREBOYKICKSNARE EP - DUTCHYYY🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/natureboykicksnare-ep)

🍃[🔗VIEW ENTIRE ORGANIC DISCOVERY COLLECTION🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xbe96be7547a203ebff86c815a1feb27d47407cbd)

Photo Captured: ‎May ‎28th ‎2016 at ‏‎7:38:17 AM (PST) in Los Angeles by Dutch

🎧[🔗NATUREBOYKICKSNARE EP - DUTCHYYY🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/natureboykicksnare-ep)

🍃[🔗VIEW ENTIRE ORGANIC DISCOVERY COLLECTION🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xbe96be7547a203ebff86c815a1feb27d47407cbd)

PLEASE EXPAND FOR FULL CONTEXT (this may be the last artifact documented on zora for a while)

Infinite gratitude to Cxy for putting quarters in the machine while I was out of HP, out of healing potions and out of lives...

Sounds dramatic right? You need context?

[🔗"I WANT TO LIVE" (Continue?..)🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4/29)

After you've absorbed the context above, the deeper context exist below:

[🔗 The Reluctant Clap (Daily Rambles) Tascam Freestyles [2015-2022] - Executive Produced by C.Y. Lee @cxy 🔗](legacy.catalog.works/playlists/363bc27d-0748-4b15-8f8b-32488e30ee6d)

If you ever see me on the timeline, taking the direction of apps, platforms, and internet in general way more serious and less forgiving than most. It helps to understand context and nuance, the problem with this though is that every digital place we turn, the spaces we have to share and communicate are being optimized for less intentional interactions, sacrificing meaningful human experience and connection in attempts to scale by trying to encourage, less intentional, highly disposable daily activity and the reason why this isn't something I can't help loudly push back on with everything I have was ironically already documented. The Context exists.... It all exists buried in this collection, unfortunately... Not many take the time to dig through previous artifacts, deep dive full collections... Discovery is broken, and it's hard to justify sharing level of meaningful life events further on platforms that proved they can't be trusted to not change everything without notice... and if you absorbed all previous context, you'd understand my urgency for permanence up to this point.

The issue is, I want to keep documenting. I have a lot more to share, I began documenting here specifically because it didn't feel as disposable and inconsistent as legacy social.... The type of stuff I want to share is special to me, I'm not interested in participating in another version of I.G. I don't care about "earning", I care about meaningful connections formed through organic discovery and shared interest.

For the first time in a decade, I have been giving a fighting chance to possibly course correct my critical health issues... This was only made possible due to the right people being able to absorb context and backstories attached to 1/1 music on Catalog Works

[🔗Dutchyyy 1/1's🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy)
[🔗Dutchmassive 1/1's🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchmassive)

and meeting those people is what encouraged me to keep documenting on Zora & Foundation.

Do you understand?

Because of the availability to escape legacy social and document with context without algorithms, I'm able to get a very complicated and risky jaw surgery done on September 25th, 2024 that has made life unbearable...

I'm so so so grateful, you have no idea...
and it's still hard for me to be at peace because if I was one of the most consistent and prolific artists documenting via blockchain while I was barely clinging onto life for 4 years, Imagine the magic a healthy Dutch will be able to pull off...

I'm just a single person, the world doesn't revolve around me and I understand that. But this digital world is in a very bad spot in time, it hurts to see the places I believed in, that made even the possibility of me healing pivot to a model everyone here tried to escape.

The next 4-6 months, I'll be doing my best to heal and return to baseline normal human health, I need my spirit in tact for that to happen, which means I need to step away from showing up and participating in places that don't appreciate or respect my voice. I will keep documenting privately and hope i return to the magic I once knew.

Peace Peace.

<3 Dutchyyy




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An anxious heart.

8.27.2014

🎧 "83" (Evolving Portals) [Snippet] - Produced by Dutchyyy

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On August 23rd 2024 around Noon (PST) the ability to press / mint new 1/1 music via Main-net ETH on Catalog Works was officially Sunset.

Before this happened I was blessed to press a total of 145 1/1 music artifacts between both of my artist profiles

120 - Dutchyyy (Production)
25 - Dutchmassive (Vocalist / Emcee)

The last official 1/1 pressed on Catalog works was by the goated Catalog engineer @computerdata

The 2nd to last was “Sun Will Set” my symbolic hug & thank you to the platform that gave me hope & actually changed my life in such an impactful way that with zero exaggeration I can say with full transparency that If it wasn’t for Catalog Works & the amazing souls that entered my life because they found me through my music on Catalog, I 100% would not have survived through all the series of unfortunate events that life threw at me all at once post p_ndemic.

When I first pivoted to documenting my music / art via blockchain / smart contracts in February of 2021 I was tunnel vision on a mission of urgency to combat legacy internet & find a more permanent storage to allow my lifetime of creative output the best chance possible to survive long after I’m gone. The ability to attached Linear notes / backstory / credits / context to media in what seemed like a format that would exist forever made me approach how I used this tech very intentionally. Set it, and forget it.

Instead of highlighting newer work or even focusing on being present and creating new work, my plan was to document my entire expansive back catalog of music as 1/1’s. While many people were focused on scarcity of supply I was focused on the scarcity of human existence so I documented as much of my back catalog as possible. I wasn’t just minting a song, I was documenting music with context attached which takes time. There is also the factor of cost to mint on main-net, while that cost seems more reasonable at the time of writing this, many of those records cost $70-$300 to get up, especially the earlier ones. Unfortunately, this news of sunsetting the ability to press new music came as a surprise with not enough notice to allow me to complete my vision of having every song from every album I planned to all exist together in one place but I’m thankful I was able to document as much I did.

I’ll expand on all of this in greater detail in the future. I want to properly thank and acknowledge people and I also have a lot of thoughts and feelings around what’s been happening recently and what’s happened since I stumbled into this brave new world.

“SUN WILL SET”

To be continued?….

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist. “Passion or Apathy” Feel weird to have a bad feeling attached to something you’re passionate about. It’s not something that artists / creatives are strangers to but there are levels to this that the majority of the non creative side of this exchange of energy & consumption will likely never understand, care about or respect. This is expected, understandable & to be honest is a tale as old as time but please humor me for a moment and allow me to contextualize. + The Inspiration / Catalyst The things, feelings, experiences that led up to the very first moment & any future moment the human paused the world around them to create art (any & all mediums) *This a level where negative feelings can be harnessed into a productive outlet. + The process For some it’s natural & effortless, others maybe not so much. No matter the medium, for those whom fall in love creating all share different levels of sacrifice / investment. Practice, Tools, equipment, schooling, but the most important & overlooked investment is time. 10 thousands hours…. time not spent with friends, family, working, relaxing, etc…. *this is another level where negativity can be justified & used as fuel or motivation, and most importantly, harnessed & transmuted into something that has potential to ripple out and creative positive impact. + The external factors You now have art. Congratulations, you put in the 10,000 hours, or even 5 minutes and you created something from expression that wouldn’t exist in this world if you chose to do something else with your valuable time. Now comes the parts that almost always end up being a conflict to the magic & the process. This level has consistently changed over time, As a creative who has lived as a creative, consuming & surrounding themself with creatives at every level and stage. I can only share what I have lived through and witnessed or experienced. Creative expression (Art) as a sustainable career… If you are able to sustain as a creative for years or decades without compromising losing your love for the process. You are A unicorn. Truly magical. (Avoid Tim curry at all costs). The reality is, Art as a sustainable career has always required more non creative work than most jobs or careers…. I’m not speaking to exceptions, but the majority and reality. The most talented Artists, that a majority of strangers view as “successful” I know or have met the past 30 years usually had non creative careers also. With that part out of the way let’s make our way to the most important level for the creative soul removing the financial ROI of time from the equation. + Reach, Impact, Purpose, Resonance… Art is powerful AF…. It’s also subjective AF A song created from a negative place with a negative message equally has the power to seed negativity & in contrast, allow a confused soul to process vicariously & create positive ripples based solely on the impact that song had on them. Art is magic & powerful AF. Knowledge, Culture, Imagination, Empathy, History, Laughter, Relaxation, Love, Hate…. It’s so so powerful. And Art impacts each personal in a unique way. That power & magic have a tiny flaw tho… It only works if it’s available to be experienced & perceived. Sure, the Counter argument could be that power & magic still exists for the creator even if it’s never shared & honestly, most artists already know this and it’s not just weird quirk or coincidence that almost every great artist I know only releases a fraction of the art they are most proud of…. The reason myself & nearly everyone I know does this is…. It’s not perfection, it’s not doubt, not insecurities…. It’s protection. An act of clawing to retain the magic that happens during the process. Because it takes a special kind of person, a certain level of sensitivity & vulnerability & an insane amount of passion to spend large chunks of your only life, creating and expressing over and over. One might say, It’s their true purpose. So where & when is the last place A creative soul, who sacrifices time, energy, experiences with other humans that has already accepted that any consistent monetary ROI of time is unlikely but always would be appreciated. Any guesses? If you guessed the external distribution layer. High Five Yourself :) And everytime this Level became inorganic, tainted with payola, manipulation, curated or gate kept to the point where no amount of hard work or talent has the same effect as compromising, politics, and playing nice when a nice game is being played. Artists pivoted & found a way to at least reach the dedicated people seeking out art. We lost… TV, FM radio, College Radio, Magazine Print, (Actually lost the ability to tour and do shows live for a few years) lost blogs, lost journalists, platforms, websites, lost soundcloud, all of our social media following (algo hellscape) lost search engines, lost YouTube to thumbnails and clickbait, we never had Spotify or streaming platforms, lost tumblr, deviant art? And during all this loss of basic reach (forget the financial part) just the ability to have all the basic functions that created decades of meaningful art and connections as we flourished culturally ignoring the world of FM radio & billboard chart tactics…. Artists are expected to increase output, quantity over quality (content) in a system that treats it all as disposable. So in closing, where is the absolute last place an artist should have bad or negative feelings attached to…. ? The Level where the artists pivoted from all of those broken, manipulated & greedy places because we finally had a chance to get it right & restore some sanity & order into the world… The 3rd Level & Evolution of the Internet. On any Platform that is centered around and simply just does not function without….. Art. “Feels Bad” Cus, the amount of Levels it took to entrust “forever branded” art is…. This Collection was meant to display real time Proof of human existence after a human nearly stopped existing. It feels bad that I feel bad documenting anything meaningful further in it because it’s clear the direction we are headed to is the direction that artists expressing meaningfully came to the level 3 internet to escape. and if it’s not, well there is a major communication error that needs to be…. Communicated.

Photo Captured: 11.15.2013 in Los Angeles, CA by Dutch

Backstory in link below:

🎧🔗["The Release" (Breathe Easy)](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/the-release-breathe-easy-)🔗💽 - Produced by Dutchyyy

Photo taken: 2013
Song Created: 2010
Released: 5.23.2010
1/1 Created on Catalog Works: 5.17.22
1/1 Collected on Catalog Works: 5.23.22 (Birthday) by cxy.eth

From: "YAWN OF THE GEMINI" [🔗Bandcamp🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/yawn-of-the-gemini-2005-2010) / [🔗Spotify🔗](open.spotify.com/album/4w325bHMHTypAUgBevDw7U?si=61KZt6EAR9SYqkkuD7FRjw)


#ORGANICDISCOVERY

A small backstory on the history of a long term, multi disciplined artist about how and why the "Branding" aspect that comes with the territory has proved to be constant pain point. =) Expand for context... On "May 31, 2019" I made the request to my digital music distributor (at the time) to change my "Producer Alias" artist name from "Dutchy" to "Dutchyyy" 🎧🔗[Dutchyyy on Spotify](open.spotify.com/artist/5RUy3e0zVDPXCvJCA3TUXi?si=sW-M4j5GSY-6k6qxonkJtQ) 🎧🔗[Dutchyyy on Apple](music.apple.com/us/artist/dutchyyy/1460045044) 🎧🔗[Dutchyyy on Tidal](tidal.com/browse/artist/15544149) How and why did we get here? So, I'll explain how and why "Dutchy" (my producer alias) became "Dutchyyy" but first some nuance around Artist branding in general over a long period of time, especially when the artist wears many different hats and likes to be creative outside of one specific style or genre. For this not to be taken as "Sounds like a you problem" I'll provide a few examples that are not about myself. Deftones / Team Sleep Kool Keith / Dr. Octagon David Bowie / Ziggy Stardust Julian “Cannonball” Adderley / Buckshot La Funke Titty boi / 2chainz Madlib / Yesterday's New Quintet This list could go on for miles and some of the examples I gave have several aliases. For me personally. Birth Name: Dutch 1994 - DigOne (Graffiti) 1995 - DutchMaster / Autol0gik (Emcee) 1998 - Dutchmassive (emcee) 2006 - The Hobbyshop Hero (Blogger) 2012 - Dutchy (Producer) 2012 - PeacePeaceGawd (Social Media) 2019 - Dutchyyy (Producer) Now I'll explain the reasoning behind them in reverse chronological order beginning with the Subject of this Artifact. Dutchy to Dutchyyy. On January 1st 2016, I dropped one album through a digital music distributor then said, "Nope, This may be convenient as a listener, this may be reaction to combating piracy but this model is definitely anti-artist on so many levels" and I never touched Spotify, Apple, etc again as an artist or a listener and continued to buy music either digitally on Bandcamp or buy the physical releases. This choice did not come without constant pushback from fans, so in 2018 I tested the waters releasing 5 separate singles throughout the year under the artist name Dutchy.  Got scammed by those playlist submit hub things and realized for all the pushback I was getting about not having my catalog on streaming platforms, the Data was showing me the demand didn't match the data I saw from bandcamp or soundcloud in terms of people listening.  That was fine, but the problem I was having was every time I went to upload a new song, when I checked my artist page there was always like 6 other artists named Dutchy who's crappy music kept getting attached to my artist profiles.  The amount of time it took each time between Distrokid blaming Spotify, and Spotify blaming Distrokid was time I would never recoup dealing with something my spirit didn't want any part of in the first place haha so I just stopped adding music. 2019 rolls around and twitter was filled with hot-takes about botted playlists and the new meta of releasing 1 minute songs to farm that .00000000003 per stream income. me being me, I wanted to rebel and upload a 32 minute song. 🎧🔗["ASMR.WAV" - Spotify](open.spotify.com/track/4JVwnOjozkeeCMYc3MWftU?si=827d949784364269) 🎧🔗 ["ASMR.WAV" (Evolving Portals) - Catalog Works](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/asmr-wav-evolving-portals-) But when I checked my Artist page, it was flooded with a million different artists named "Dutchy" and I lost my mind haha. I realized that name was way to common to use especially for SEO, So I decided to change it without even telling anyone to the same name, just spelled the way it sounded when people heard my "Producer Drop/Tag" 🎧🔗 [EXAMPLE at the very start of song](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/astral-travl-n) Unfortunately by doing this, It created a new artist page no one knew about and retained none of followers or stream counts (the 2nd part I could care less about) So, I uploaded the 32 minute song and never returned again until 2022 when Cxy was able to talk me into releasing music to DSP's again. Which I'm still resistant to in spirit and feel justified in based on the results of seeing the data. Now the only other important rebrand of note is when I rebranded from "Dutchmassive" to "Dutchy" The TDLR context for this is, I've been producing as long as i've been emceeing.  Both Equally since 1995, but I was primarily known as an emcee.   My first Instrumental only project was officially released in 2006 during the blog era was titled "TheDrumLoveEP" but in 2010, I released my first full length, 39 track instrumental album on my bandcamp titled "Yawn of the Gemini" and fans were very confused and unhappy they bought a Dutchmassive album that had zero Dutchmassive verses on it haha. In 2012, I moved to Los Angeles and linked up with Soulection.  Joy Kay (Soulection's Founder) kept referring to me as "Dutchy" on the Radio so anytime I would book a show, The promoters would put Dutchy on the flier instead of "Dutchmassive".  98% of my shows and sets while in Los Angeles were either DJ or Beat sets so that's when I decided to just have a separate alias for emceeing and production and my Dutchy Alias popped off, especially on soundcloud. It wasn't until 2015 the first official "Dutchy" album would be released on my Bandcamp titled "Chill Gawd, Chill" and that 120 minute Cassette became legendary. 🎧🔗 ["Chill Gawd, Chill" - Bandcamp](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill) 🎧🔗[Chill Gawd, Chill - Catalog Works](legacy.catalog.works/playlists/281475df-ff35-4b16-90e9-d9c92f727ed5) In Closing, all I see the past few years is noise about how important it is for Artists to become a brand, to create "A Community" but the reality is, A lot of Artists grow and evolve over time, When that artist gains success creating a specific genre of music, their fanbase gets whiplash when they decide they want to release an album of meditative whale sounds or any other example. Everyone becomes an artist for different reasons, but the idea of my artistic expression or me in general being a "Brand" just doesn't and has never felt good (to me personally) =)

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Produced by [🔗Dutchyyy🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/)

#DIBIFLIPSESSIONS07 hosted by [🔗Dibia$e🔗](mrdibiase.bandcamp.com/music)

Original Sample Provided by [🔗Low Key🔗](lowkeythelegend.bandcamp.com/music)

Backstory:

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On November 28th 2007, My sophomore album as Dutchmassive, titled "Crush Your System" was released on Rawkus Records with what would be, The first major Digital Music Campaign in the industry. Rawkus took 50 artists and dropped 50 albums at once … Digitally.... It didn't pan out. Throughout this artifact, I've included links to multiple articles, documentaries, from notable press that provide extensive context into how one of the most prestigious and culturally impactful record labels began and ended with it's choice to launch a Digital Only music campaign. Dutchmassive (aka Dutchyyy) -"Crush Your System" feat. Jamall Bufford aka Buff1, Main, Median, NapsNDreds, Surreal, Von Pea, Will Widdoss, Fresh Daily, Muneshine, Mishoo The Drumkit Production by: 14Kt, , Samiyam Dutchy, Funkghost, Illmind, Mo0, Dela, Comfort Fit, , Rik Marvel, Cream of Beats, , Sebmaestria, Slopfunkdust, Jeremy Ian Thomas, Sweatson Klank aka Take, Remot, Mudd, Unown, Tzarizm [🔗Crush Your System / Bandcamp🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/crush-your-system-rawkus-version-bonus-tracks) [🔗Crush Your System / Catalog Works🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchmassive) [🔗Rawkus 50 - Discogs.com🔗](www.discogs.com/label/116615-Rawkus-50?page=1) [🔗Rawkus Records -Discogs.com🔗](www.discogs.com/label/1216-Rawkus?page=1) [🔗Rawkus Records - Wikipedia🔗](en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawkus_Records) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [🔗Rawkus Network Launches The Eagerly Anticipated Rawkus 50🔗](djbooth.net/features/rawkus-network-launches-1126073/) Published November 26, 2007 via DJbooth New York, NY — Rawkus, the brand synonymous with groundbreaking hip-hop returns to their roots in artist development. The Rawkus Network home to blog favorites and taste-makers such as RealtalkNY.net, SmokingSection.net, TheRapUp.net, and Fatlacemagazine.com, announces the Nov. 27th all digital launch of The Rawkus 50, a who’s who of the hottest underground artists in Hip Hop today. Chosen from hundreds of submissions, all Rawkus 50 artists’ profiles can be viewed on my.rawkus.com, a community platform that both blogs and artists share. A total of 650 exclusive tracks, representing 50 albums, will be available for digital download at I-Tunes and other relevant digital retailers worldwide. Each artist also has the option to independently release the music in physical CD form. To select the top 50 artists from a huge amount of submissions, Rawkus drafted veteran underground hip hop producer Slopfunkdust as Rawkus 50 A&R Director. All artists receive the marketing and promotion of Rawkus founders Brian Brater and Jarret Myer, who conceived of the Rawkus 50 as a countermeasure to falling CD sales and a general decline in artist development at music labels. The Rawkus 50 $member diversity, cumulative artistic strengths and touring capacity are evident; however, the Rawkus Network will provide coverage throughout its community of blogs with additional on-line promotion via its social network, worldwide digital distribution using IODA Distribution Alliance, print ads and a National series of Rawkus 50 events. -------------------------------------------------------------------- [🔗Rawus Records’ Rise & Fall Is Detailed In A New Video🔗](ambrosiaforheads.com/2022/08/rawkus-records-rise-fall-video/) Published August 28, 2022 By Bandini via ambrosiaforheads It was 15 years ago this fall that Rawkus Records stopped releasing albums. The “Rawkus 50” campaign allowed a new generation of MCs and producers to digitally release product with the same label that introduced many Hip-Hop Heads to names like Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Company Flow, High & Mighty, Thirstin Howl The 3rd, and more. That same imprint would offer new pathways for veteran careers like Pharoahe Monch, Kool G Rap, Big L, R.A. The Rugged Man, and DJ Spinna, to name a few. As online video maker “Def Goldbloom” points out, Rawkus has now been gone longer than the label ever existed. He has made an approximately 11-minute visual that examines the life-cycle of Rawkus through its releases and some lesser-publicized information. 📽️[🔗The Rise and Fall of Rawkus Records (Documentary)🔗](www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBjNi4z4-Os) The video highlights the impact of Nervous Records. That New York City label put out crucial releases by Black Moon, Smif-n-Wessun (who would work closely with Rawkus in time as Cocoa Brovaz), and Mad Lion, became an inspiration to the imprint launched by school-mates Jarret Myer, Brian Brater, and James Murdoch. Notably, some of Rawkus’ early 12″ vinyl releases went beyond Hip-Hop, dabbling in Rock, Drum & Bass, and more. By 1997, the label made crucial inroads with Company Flow’s Funcrusher Plus. That release built upon years of groundwork from El-P, Mr. Len, and Bigg Jus. Later that year, the label strategically picked Black Moon’s DJ Evil Dee to mix the first Soundbombing, while decade-long veterans Kool Keith and De La Soul hosted the first Lyricist Lounge compilation, a 1998 double-disc. Later, in 1998, Mos Def & Talib Kweli’s Black Star union earned tremendous critical and commercial acclaim. That release reportedly allowed Rawkus to secure a distribution deal with the same Priority Records that had been instrumental to successes of N.W.A., Mack 10, and Master P. Over the next several years, Rawkus continued to rise—earning a gold plaque for Mos Def’s Black On Both Sides and taking a major social stand with Hip Hop For Respect. That project involved 41 MCs to honor the 41 NYPD bullets that wrongfully struck and killed Amadou Diallo in early 1999. Rawkus also released a posthumous Big L album that also earned a plaque, as well as the critically-acclaimed Train Of Thought by Reflection Eternal. Thirstin Howl The 3rd Gives Polo & Ralph Lauren A New Kind Of Boost With an increased profile, Rawkus entered a joint venture with MCA Records. Veteran acts like Q-Tip, Brand Nubian, D.I.T.C., and Styles P continued to work with the imprint on songs and compilations. However, the label—then home to J Dilla, Blackalicous, The Roots, and Common, would close and merge into Geffen/Interscope. There, Rawkus suffered—leading albums by Kool G Rap and Mad Skillz to delay or shelf. The doc also looks to where and how funds were spent in those later years, using a quote from Evil Dee. After securing a deal with Sony Red distro, Rawkus attempted to plant a flag the emerging digital space. They dropped albums by Marco Polo, Kidz In The Hall, and Procussions (whose Stro Elliot has since joined The Roots). The Rawkus 50, a user-facing contest, invoked submissions from MCs like Silent Knight and Kaze to Mr. Metaphor and Finale, however—the luster of the label was lost in the changing technologies and guards. It was an unceremonious end to an incredible 10-plus-year-run. However, through its artists, Rawkus’ impact remains everlasting. ------------------------------------------------------ [🔗A Beginner's Guide to Rawkus Records / look into the history, key players, and music of Rawkus Records🔗.](www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/a/pigeons/rawkus-records-history) Published September 6th, 2013 by Dee Lockett (Pigeons & Planes) via COMPLEX While Bad Boy, Death Row, and Def Jam stole the shine of '90s hip-hop, one independent rap label quietly and triumphantly became the mecca for New York City's underground emcees. Founded in 1996, Rawkus Records was the brainchild of Brown University alumni Brian Brater and Jarret Myer who enlisted Rupert Murdoch's son James to front the cash via News Corp. With industry connections, know-how, and a high profile investment to offer, Rawkus attracted the likes of hip-hop's most respected lyricists Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Company Flow, and Pharoahe Monch. In the label's golden era, it birthed Blackstar, Mos Def's iconic Black On Both Sides and Reflection Eternal. But a missed opportunity in signing Kanye West, a failed digital relaunch dubbed "The Rawkus 50," and a tense relationship with Company Flow's El-P ultimately led to the label's demise in the early 2000's and inspired El-P to create Definitive Jux—a move which all but laid Rawkus to rest. In memory of what Rawkus Records accomplished in its short-lived history, we reminisce with photos that celebrate the label's glory days. Rawkus Founders Long before James Murdoch inherited the media mogul persona of his father, he was a tattooed Harvard dropout living in New York City with an interest in conscious rap. Sensing the potential in having a stake in a record label, he partnered with friends Jarret Myer (pictured above) and Brian Brater (pictured below) who started Rawkus Records as a grassroots effort. Murdoch soon invested seed money in the company's future to get the label on its feet. The rest is history. Company Flow Signed personally by Myer and Brater, Company Flow—a Brooklyn rap group comprised of El-P, Big Juss, and Mr Len—became the first artists to join Rawkus Records in 1996. At the time of their signing, the group had already released its debut album Funcrusher on Official Recordings, but the trio quickly headed back into the studio, recorded 12 new songs, and re-released their debut album as Funcrusher Plus in 1997 for Rawkus' first offering to East Coast hip-hop. Eminem Though many fans view The Slim Shady LP as Eminem's big league debut, he'd been rapping professionally for nearly three years prior to dropping that album. Along the way, this young, brash, white rapper from Detroit caught the eye of Jarret Myer and Brian Brater who decided to bring him in to record a verse for a couple other white rappers/producers signed to Rawkus, High & Mighty. They never ended up signing him, but that verse ended up on a song called "The Last Hit" off the duo's 1999 debut album Home Field Advantage. Though his sophomore album had dropped months earlier, for many fans of underground rap, that verse was their first introduction to the Slim Shady character. He later appeared on "Any Man" for the label's Soundbombing 2 mixtape, a feature Eminem references in "Stan." "Soundbombing" Getting in early on the mixtape game, for its second release Rawkus put together a 17-track compilation album called Soundbombing. Released in 1997, it featured labelmates Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Hi-Tek, Company Flow, Sir Menelik, and Shabaam Sahdeeq. In particular, it launched the careers of Mos and Talib with standout tracks like "Universal Magnetic" and "Fortified Live." The label went on to release a sequel to the mixtape in 1999 and launched the Lyricist Lounge mixtape series shortly after. Mos Def A no-brainer signing based off the work he previously did with De La Soul, Rawkus scooped up Mos Def quickly after the label was founded. Riding off the coattails of his well-received album with Talib Kweli, Mos dropped his own debut solo album Black on Both Side in 1999 to critical acclaim. The album went on to go platinum, making it the most commercially succesfull album in Rawkus' catalog and the only solo effort from Mos for the label before he left for Interscope/Geffen. Hi-Tek Without Hi-Tek, Black Star's famed debut Talib Kweli & Mos Def Are Black Star may not ever have seen the light of day. While Talib and Mos penned the album's masterful lyrics, Hi-Tek produced more than half the album—including the career-defining tracks "Respiration" and "Defintion." Capitalizing on his ear for beats, Rawkus Records signed Hi-Tek early on and enlisted him to produce for several other Rawkus artists, including Talib, as well as for the label's compiltation albums Soundbombing and Soundbombing 2. He later went on to release his own rap album on Rawkus Hi-Teknology in 2001. The High & Mighty Hailing from Philly, rapper/DJ duo Mr. Eon and DJ Mighty Mi joined Rawkus in 1998 and quickly put out their debut LP Home Field Advantage. Based on guest spots from label-mates Mos Def and Pharoahe Monch and production from The Alchemist, it was bound to catch underground attention. But a feature from Eminem saw a spike in the album's hype. At the time, Em was fairly new to the game, and people were still trying to figure out his Slim Shady alter-ego which drew more mainstream fans to give the album a spin for that reason alone. "Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1" With the underground success of Soundbombing under the label's belt, Rawkus added another mixtape series to the mix called the Lyricist Lounge, a reference to the New York showcase. This time, the double-disc album released in 1998 featured an impressive collection of established rappers like Q-Tip, Jurrasic 5, KRS-One, De La Soul, Black Thought, Rah Digga, and Zack de la Rocha alongside other Rawkus rappers and producers. It also featured up-and-coming rapper Common. Pharoahe Monch After recording three albums under the moniker Organized Konfusion with Prince Poetry, Pharoahe Monch signed to Rawkus as a solo artist in 1997. Following standout appearances on Soundbombing 2, he dropped his debut solo album Internal Affairs in 1999 to critical acclaim. He also received commercial support from the self-produced "Simon Says," which was featured in the 2000 film Charlie's Angels. "Soundbombing 2" For the second installment of the Soundbombing series released in 1999, Rawkus expanded beyond artists signed to the label and reached out to rising rappers like Eminem, Common, Bahamadia, Cocoa Brovaz, and Skillz. Not only is the album notable for its early notice of Eminem and Common, it also charted on the Billboard 200 at No. 30 due to consistent radio play. Reflection Eternal Working with producer Hi-Tek on Talib Kweli & Mos Def Are Black Star and on an earlier collaboration with Cincinnati rap group MOOD undoubtedly inspired Talib to jump in the studio with Hi-Tek again for their second album as a duo. Calling themselves Reflection Eternal, Hi-Tek and Talib released Train of Thought in 2000. It's notabe for featuring Dave Chapelle, Mos Def, Les Nubians, and De La Soul. The two subsequently released a mixtape and sophomore album not affiliated with Rawkus. Kool G Rap Due to label politics forcing Kool G Rap to release his third album The Giancana Story on Koch records, he never did get a solo record out on Rawkus. But Kool G Rap made his mark on the label elsewhere, appearing on several Rawkus mixtapes and compilation albums and collaborating with other labelmates on their solo projects, notably on Big L's last album. DJ Spinna Though mainly an underground hip-hop label, Jarret Myer and Brian Brater began Rawkus with early influences of drum and bass which was evident in their decision to sign DJ Spinna. He released his solo album, Heavy Beats Volume 1, on Rawkus in 1999 and has remained one of the genre's most prolific underground DJs. His close friendship with labelmate Shabaam Sahdeeq also inspired the hip-hop group Polyrhythm Addicts along with Mr Complex and Tiye Phoenix. The group's two albums featured another fellow Rawkus labelmate Pharoahe Monch, though Polyrhythm Addicts were never directly affiliated with Rawkus Records. Sir Menelik Like labemate Shabaam Sahdeeq, Sir Menelik was one of the more lowkey members of Rawkus having never released a solo album for the label. He was, however, featured on the Soundbombing mixtape on the songs "Nightwork" and "So Intelligent" and again on the mixtape's sequel. Big L Prior to being tragically gunned down in early 1999, Big L managed to record one last album The Big Picture, which was released posthumously by Rawkus Records in 2000. Though he had formed his own independent label Flamboyant Entertainment and was in talks to sign with Roc-A-Fella Records just days before his death, Big L's legacy remains with Rawkus. In Big L's absence, the album was put together by a collective of his manager Rich King, Rawkus Records, guest producers, and rappers featured on the album. Kanye West The rumor that Kanye West was initially interested in signing to Rawkus Records—while courted heavily by Roc-A-Fella records—was only recently confirmed by Talib. In an interview with Vlad TV, the rapper claimed Kanye was so curious about joining the label as both a rapper and a producer that he would regularly hang out in the Rawkus offices and pass on beats to their artists. But, as Talib explains, Myer and Brater "didn't see his vision as an artist," and preferred he remain solely a producer—feedback Kanye received constantly at the time. We all know what happened next. "Hip Hop for Respect" The '90s ended in gruesome fashion with the racially motivated murder of Amadou Diallo who was shot 41 times by the NYPD. In response to the extreme police brutality, Mos Def and Talib took to the studio once again as a duo to create Hip Hop For Respect EP. But unlike Talib Kweli & Mos Def Are Black Star, the two didn't keep this project to themselves. Instead, they enlisted 41 rappers—labelmates, friends, and rappers with a message who could add to the conversation—to represent each bullet that went through Diallo. The EP was released in 2000 to critical and commercial success. ------------------------------------------------------ [🔗Still Soundbombing – The Rawkus 50🔗](oldtothenew.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/still-soundbombing-the-rawkus-50/) Published November 26, 2007 by Ryan Proctor via oldtothenew Back in the mid-to-late 90s Hip-Hop was becoming increasingly more and more divided, with the creative line being drawn between mainstream major label acts such as DMX, The Lox and Cam’ron, and their many underground counterparts. Of course, as is the case today, good music could be found on both sides of the commercial / underground divide, but a decade ago you were likely to get hit upside the head with a backpack if you even thought about placing Jay-Z above Aceyalone in the lyricist stakes. Alongside other labels such as Fondle Em, GuessWhyld and Project Blowed, NYC’s Rawkus imprint was at the forefront of the subterranean rap movement, helping to introduce the likes of Mos Def, Talib Kweli, L-Fudge and Company Flow to the world. Subsequent business dealings with Geffen would see the Rawkus brand swallowed up by the corporate music machine in the new millenium, but the label has recently been reborn, with their Rawkus 50 campaign announcing a bold return (shoutout to my online homie Slopfunkdust). November 27th sees the offical online launch of this ambitious project. Read what Rawkus themselves had to say about the venture below and then check out a selection of videos from Hip-Hop’s new generation of underground talent. “Chosen from hundreds of submissions, all Rawkus 50 artists’ profiles can be viewed on my.rawkus.com, a community platform that both blogs and artists share. A total of 650 exclusive tracks, representing 50 albums, will be available for digital download at I-Tunes and other relevant digital retailers worldwide. Each artist also has the option to independently release the music in physical CD form. To select the top 50 artists from a huge amount of submissions, Rawkus drafted veteran underground hip hop producer Slopfunkdust as Rawkus 50 A&R Director. All artists receive the marketing and promotion of Rawkus founders Brian Brater and Jarret Myer, who conceived of the Rawkus 50 as a countermeasure to falling CD sales and a general decline in artist development at music labels. “ ------------------------------------------------------ [🔗How Rawkus' 'Soundbombing II' Launched a New Era of Independent Rap🔗](www.okayplayer.com/originals/soundbombing-11-impact-mos-def-talib-kweli-black-star-1999.html) Publish May 17th, 2019 by Dart Adams via Okay Player On May 18th, 1999, Rawkus Records released Soundbombing II, the landmark album that paved the way for one of the greatest independent rap runs ever. In the summer of 1999, the rap industry was moving into previously unexplored territory. Twenty years after the very first rap 12-inch was released, the genre had finally become the top-selling in terms of sales. Rap was the most popular kind of music amongst the youth and the most sought after demographic from brands and corporations looking to sell products to both Generation X and burgeoning Millennials. There was a time when rap music couldn’t be played on Black radio while the sun was still up. Rap was once relegated to the very back of the record store, partially because it wasn’t regarded as real music and partially to discourage shoplifters (since they would essentially have to sprint through the entire store in order to escape with their ill-gotten vinyl, cassette tape, or CD long box.) All of this could be said for mainstream Rap music but underground/indie Rap in 1999 was perceived much like a red-headed stepchild. It was dismissed as “backpack Rap” where hundreds of lyrical-spiritual-miracle loving “heads” who lived for obscure references, punchlines, metaphors, similes, internal rhyme schemes, multi-syllable rhyme schemes, speed, and remarkable breath control had nerdgasms over vinyl singles that were insanely hard to locate. They existed only to nod their heads furiously to songs with 30 bar verses — no hooks — and thumb their noses at everything on the radio. That was the general consensus. "Backpacker” was often used as a slur/derogatory term in a world where Swizz Beatz and Mannie Fresh ruled the radio and the charts. Rawkus was the leading brand in underground rap in 1999. Whereas other indie Rap labels made their marks selling 12-inch vinyl singles and CD’s through Web-based mail-order marketplaces such as Sandbox Automatic, Underground Hip-Hop, and Hip-Hop Site, and physical storefronts like Fat Beats. Rawkus did all that and sold a significant amount of CDs. Rawkus had the advantage of being well funded, this meant they had quite a promotional budget. They could secure print ads in all the major and independent music publications. They could afford TV spots, ad space on the radio, and they could shoot videos for their big singles which landed in the rotation on BET, MTV, and MTV2. On top of it all, they had Priority/EMI doing their distribution. This allowed Rawkus to compete with major labels in terms of reach. This was something other leading underground Rap labels like Fondle ‘Em, Dolo, Stones Throw, Solesides, Hydra, Rhymesayers, and Conception couldn’t do. Rawkus had been building up to this point for years. Back in 1997, they released two seminal projects: Company Flow’s Funcrusher Plus and the first edition of their compilation series Soundbombing. In 1998, Rawkus further established themselves by putting out the double CD compilation Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1 and the highly anticipated project Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star. They had made such headway that Funkmaster Flex was even playing Rawkus songs on Hot 97. After making several key signings, Rawkus was set to drop multiple projects in 1999, using Soundbombing II as the foundation of their releases going forward. Between their flagship artists who released popular vinyl singles — like Sir Menelik, Shabaam Sahdeeq, RA The Rugged Man, and Talib Kweli & Mos Def — and new signees, like the Cocoa Brovaz (Smif N’ Wessun), Da Beatminerz, and The High & Mighty, Rawkus was ready to make a major push that year. The label co-owners Brian Brater and Jarret Myer had funding from James Murdoch (the son of billionaire Rupert Murdoch). They assembled a team that included lead A&R Black Shawn; associate A&Rs Mike Heron and Sally Morita; radio promotions guy Ben Willis; and Kevin Shand, who did distribution and sales. Gang Starr Foundation’s Headqcourterz headed up the Rawkus street team. This outfit was behind one of the most successful stretches an underground Rap label ever achieved. In addition to having full-page ads in music publications, the video for Common and Sadat X’s “1-9-9-9” was in rotation on BET and MTV. Rawkus went a step further by distributing a promotional snippet mixtape by J-Rocc & DJ Babu of the World Famous Beat Junkies. Needless to say, Rawkus’ aggressive approach yielded great returns — far beyond what most underground Rap labels experienced. On May 18th, 1999 Soundbombing II hit store shelves. The album was powered by the popularity of “1-9-9-9,” Eminem’s “Any Man,” The High & Mighty’s “B-Boy Document 99,” and Company Flow’s “Patriotism” among other Rawkus songs which were prominently featured on And1 Mixtape Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 by DJ Set Free and Nex Millen. There was even a special Rawkus Soundbombing II episode of BET’s Rap City that aired around the time of the compilations’ release. Due to all of these factors, the album did even better than anyone could’ve wildly anticipated out of the gate. In the June 5th edition of Billboard, Soundbombing II not only debuted at #6 on the Top R&B Albums chart and it entered the Billboard 200 at #30. There were multiple Rawkus releases in the Top 10 Rap Singles and there was going to be a Soundbombing II series of double-sided vinyl released for their rabid fanbase on five different 12-inches. At the time Rawkus was moving anywhere around 50K units per vinyl drop or occasionally even upwards. By locking down the crowd on Stretch & Bobbito’s WKCR, Jay Smooth’s Underground Railroad show on WBAI, DJ Riz and DJ Eclipse on Halftime Radio Show — in addition to Sway, King Tech, and DJ Revolution’s The Wake Up Show — they had already secured a faithful core audience who frequented Fat Beats or copped from online marketplaces. But they had made inroads to the wider mainstream Rap audience and had converted some of them to the cause of the Resistance. Why was Soundbombing II so crucial? Its overwhelming success paved the way for a landmark 1999 for Rawkus. In June, they released Company Flow’s Little Johnny From The Hospitul and DJ Spinna’s Heavy Beats Vol. 1 which was followed up by The High & Mighty’s Home Field Advantage in August. These albums set the stage for Rawkus to drop Mos Def’s Black On Both Sides and Pharoahe Monch’s Internal Affairs in consecutive weeks in October. These albums helped to raise Rawkus’ profile to the point MTV greenlit a sketch comedy show based on The Lyricist Lounge Show which debuted in early 2000. Rawkus had become the leading brand carrying the flag for underground Rap as we were deeply entrenched in the Jiggy Era. Another reason why Rawkus’ accomplishments were so timely is because the entire landscape of the music industry was changing. By May, it was reported that “mp3” was the most searched term on the Internet — ahead of “sex." On May 19th, 1999 it was announced in major business periodicals that MTV was going to purchase The Box meaning that it would join MTV, MTV2, VH1, and BET as Viacom owned music video networks that were portals for urban music. The music industry was scrambling to find ways to regulate music and curb unauthorized downloads of ripped mp3 via sites like MP3.com, MusicMatch and Goodnoise. The industry was trying to create copy-protected CDs or anti-copying protocols for digital music downloads. Of course, all of this was made moot on June 1st, 1999 when Northeastern University student Shawn Fanning released the beta version of Napster which spread from Northeastern to Emerson College, Boston University, Berklee College Of Music, MIT, Harvard, Boston College and over 50 institutions of higher learning with high-speed Internet in the Metro Boston Area. From there, Napster spread up and down the Eastern Seaboard then nationwide. Nothing would be the same after Summer 1999 but with the perfectly timed release of Soundbombing II, Rawkus was able to establish itself as a powerhouse right before the inception of the brave new world of P2P sites. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [🔗Slopfunkdust On Becoming A Producer, Rawkus, Being In Dr. Dre Studio, and More🔗](www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhCjL3_27aM)

Let's Begin w/ explaining the image attached to the Dutchyyy.eth ENS

Photo still of "Dutchmassive" wearing the custom Final Fantasy Moogle Mask in the music video of "Autumn 2.0" shot & released in 2011.

[🔗MUSIC VIDEO 🔗](youtu.be/Q9Hr5pI2R50?si=7gacHysPAvxDGXIV&t=88) of Grems - "Autumn 2.0" Grems (f/ Peshi & Dutchmassive) - Produced by Noza

From the 2011 album by Grems & Noza – "Algèbre 2.0"

[🔗Discogs🔗](www.discogs.com/release/3299893-Grems-Noza-Alg%C3%A8bre-20)

[🔗Spotify🔗](open.spotify.com/album/1Pr2GGPGV9PEU87BivmKxq?si=WT84jdbHQhaukLuPPtWIvQ)

Photo Captured: ‎Monday, ‎August ‎26, ‎2013, ‏‎4:53:22 PM (PST) in Los Angeles by Dutch

We build to destroy to rebuild.

Lego Love Summer Sadness

🎧[🔗MSMRSMISS (PROLOGUE)🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/msmrsmiss-prologue-2013-unreleased)

🎧[🔗WoneChuGoAway🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/wonechugoaway)

🎧[🔗"msmrsmiss" (epilogue)🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/msmrsmiss-epilogue)

Produced by Dutchyyy

"A Peach Mint Bopper"(Evolving Portals).WAV

🎹 Produced by Dutchyyy
⏲️ Runtime: 28:53

A 30 minute snippet of me working on my sample challenge submission live on twitch [September 11th, 2020] for the Historic

House Shoes presents: Flipsessions6 #ImpeachThePresident (Sample Challenge) hosted by STREETCORNERMUSIC.

The Challenge Rules were to only use the provided sample, no outside elements (Drums, Bass, VST's, Samples, etc.) So every single element of my Submission was super micro-chopped, mangled and manipulated using only the "Impeach The President" record.

Posted my Finalized Submission on 9.12.20 on [🔗SOUNDCLOUD🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/dutchyyy-flipsessions6-impeachthepresidentchallenge)

💽 The 1/1 of the Actual Submission [🔗Catalog Works🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/a-peach-mint-bopper)

If / When the 1/1 is collected, I will add both the IRL Video version of this Evolving Portals and the much longer full Twitch VOD which shows in detail my whole process from start to finish.

🌀🧎‍♂️ Evolving Portals.

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.

Produced by Dutchyyy

Backstory:
On the day of the #Dibiflipsessionsweek6 sample challenge submission deadline, I realized in the rules that submissions had to be under 1:30, My original submission was a little over 4 minutes long, and there was no way to just shorten the track because it was created with an intentional slow build. So on no sleep, I attempted to create a new version to submit but I was well beyond a healthy or productive limit of being awake so I set my alarm for 2pm so I'd have enough time to finalize and submit the track before the 5pm deadline. Turns out I set my alarm to 2AM, so I ended up waking up at 6pm and abandoned all the new work I did to the track and ended up submitting the quick, first take, horribly mixed and unfinished version as a quick as possible but still ended up disqualifying myself being late. I have no intentions to ever go back into this session and release the intended finalize version. I honestly don't have time or energy for these sample challenges but I feel a slight duty to show up and participate for the culture because I really appreciate Dibia$e spending so much time helping inspiring so many creatives.

Produced by Dutchyyy

Unreleased Alt Version created 5 years after the original version of "My Styles Like..." from the 2 hr tape "Chill Gawd' Chill" was released.

[🔗BANDCAMP🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill)

[🔗CATALOG WORKS🔗](beta.catalog.works/playlists/281475df-ff35-4b16-90e9-d9c92f727ed5)

[🔗Foundation🔗](foundation.app/collection/cgc-bade)

first time experiencing a dust storm.

It’s dark & I was distracted with head buried in Ableton Live finalizing new & old music but this alert serves of proof of…..

Produced by Dutchyyy

"Skate Park's Closed" f/ Kaelin Ellis [2013]

BEAT HOARDER VOL.1

A collection of outtakes and unreleased tracks that didn't make it on "Chill Gawd, Chill", "Traversal" or "The Uproot" (Circa 2012-2017)

[🔗BEAT HOARDER VOL.1 / Catalog Works🔗](beta.catalog.works/playlists/9c8fb925-6e2f-406d-9ca9-a492730ce2de)

[🔗BEAT HOARDER VOL.1 / BANDCAMP🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/beat-hoarder-vol-1)

📸 Photo Captured: September ‎14, ‎2013, ‏‎10:14 PM (PST) in Los Angeles by Dutch

🎧[🔗HEAVY - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/heavy)💽

Video Captured: July 4th, 2024 at 5:54pm (CST)

🎧Track ID:
[🔗"Slow Dagger Stagger" (Evolving Portals) Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/egyptian-daggers-evolving-portals-blast-radio-2-16-22)

I Feel my last tribute aka my "past" tribute to the art of touching grass may have been too deep for the spirit of 🌱 TOᑌᑕᕼ Gᖇᗩᔑᔑ ᗯᗴᗴK 🌱

[🔗Once Upon A Time... (in memory of touching grass)🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xbe96be7547a203ebff86c815a1feb27d47407cbd/18)

Or maybe, posting distant memories wasn't the assigned challenge, So this time I exited my cave of solitude and communed with the earth in real time.

One cannot simply just "Go Touch Grass" you must grasp beyond the catch phrase. The simple act of documenting this process defeats the intended purpose.

Be Still... Be Present... Be.

awww, I accidently left the shallow end again haha.

<3
[Dutchyyy](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy)

*****PLEASE EXPAND & READ FULL DESCRIPTION***** Photo Captured: 2002 by Geoff Newton in Tampa Bay, FL A new symbolic take in tribute to the memories that feel so distant and almost like a dream around the concept of "Touching Grass" that I pulled from the original "Junk Planet" album art & press photos... Artist: Dutchmassive Album: Junk Planet Recorded: 1997-2002 Released: July 13, 2004 CD & 2xLP (double vinyl) Label: Atomik / Freshchest Records / Caroline Distribution [🔗 Junk Planet / Bandcamp🔗 ](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/junk-planet-1997-2002) [ 🔗Junk Planet / Catalog Works🔗 ](beta.catalog.works/playlists/6b1554c1-1fbf-4fed-aae0-a07f03ed5594) [ 🔗Junk Planet / Discogs🔗 ](www.discogs.com/master/104444-DutchMassive-Junk-Planet) [ 🔗Junk Planet / Foundation🔗 ](foundation.app/collection/jp2000) Backstory: With the 20th Anniversary of my debut solo album as Dutchmassive titled "Junk Planet" right around the corner (July 13th 2024) I wanted to world build with proof of legacy around one of the most important personal topics and themes that is so close to my heart. "Touching Grass" If you pay attention you will notice that common theme spread across nearly my entire 30 year plus artistic legacy. That theme is rooted in the intrinsic and instinctive feeling and belief that the most important aspect of being gifted with sentience is being grateful for the grand architecture & magical force of intelligent design...  I.E. The Universe that exists and will exist absent of the existence, influence or actions of human experience.  I.E.  "Mother Nature" Perfect Harmony, Heaven on Earth / in Universe already exists. My earliest vivid memories and emotions are all tied to the tranquility of how my mind, body and spirit reacted to being in nature in such a profound way.  Like before I was able to speak or express I was blessed to grasp and recognise how lucky I was to be alive and in tune with the natural environment.   It's not a mistake that for humans to remain in existence & "Healthy" we all require the same key conditions, Oxygen, Sunlight and Water. These same conditions extend to "most" living organic life. The Universe is perfected Chaos, but the sentient human experience seems to be the glitch or exception to that reality.  "Ignorance is Bliss" + "Your Reality is what you make it" These phrases are daunting to anyone who was born highly sensitive to energy with heightened awareness.   "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things" The most precious things on this earth are Mother Nature and Childlike Wonder... Pure Innocence. To become an Adult by these standards means to desensitise your spirit and compromise your instinct and intuition to adapt & survive and ignore all the imperfect, unnatural, unbalanced and unfair realities created by other humans. The title of my first solo album references the mourning of losing utopia & being conscious and aware of what the centuries of humans that existed before me chose to do to create the societal "reality" we are all encouraged and pretty much forced to accept as the reality for the magical experience of being a sentient being. But we are all Human, We have to adapt to survive right, to not blindly accept and follow societal norms as truth and accept that reality is just immature adolescence.  "Your daydreaming is child like, Time to Grow up" Over the years as I aged and matured and did my best to navigate through a man made world, I never seemed to be able to desensitise myself enough to bury that initial intrinsic intuition I had before I even had a chance to be shaped or influenced by human expectations...   Heaven exists on earth already and somehow the majority of humans have been conditioned to no longer recognize it. So this theme of touching grass and returning to nature kept growing stronger which reflected in the art I created. [ 🔗The Uproot🔗 ](beta.catalog.works/playlists/d2fab35b-ee2e-4ee3-a99a-a43fed437e13) [ 🔗Traversal 🔗](beta.catalog.works/playlists/b13d34d2-caff-4245-8d7e-859295a2a737)   [ 🔗NatureBoyKickSnare🔗 ](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/natureboykicksnare-ep) [ 🔗The Tree That Fell In The Forest🔗 ](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-tree-that-fell-in-the-forest) [ 🔗The Reluctant Clap (Daily Rambles) 🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-reluctant-clap-daily-rambles) [🔗 Evolving Portals🔗 ](beta.catalog.works/playlists/a912bad3-0362-4df5-8a64-97a65f9acdfd) All themed, inspired by and/or created by or in Nature or rejecting the societal man made side of the human experience. Fast forward to the present... Natural & Organic experiences even virtually have been stripped away.  Hardly anyone who experienced life before algorithms is having a more healthy and fulfilling experience, yet no one is listening and this world is being reshaped for maximum extraction at all costs and my spirit can't stop rejecting it with all the fight it has left (which is close none) The most common reply to someone being vocal about how unhealthy and detrimental the virtual world has become is.... "Go Touch Grass" If they only knew the context and reality of the human they were passively giving that cliche advice to. Once Upon A Time... 

"I should have saved this hours ago" (Evolving Portals) 🌀🧎‍♂️

🎥 - LIVE STREAM (Video On Demand) From I.G.
⏱ - Runtime: 35:05 minutes
🎹 - Produced by Dutchyyy

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.

[🔗"I.s.h.s.t.h.a." (Evolving Portals) TEASER MUSIC VIDEO🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xa9ccc602fd4fde28abf9e7a2d9cd2d8c84d5924c/2)

[🔗"I Should Have Saved This Hours Ago" (Evolving Portals) Audio 1/1🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-i-should-have-saved-this-hours-ago-evolving-portals-)

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.


In the end, the context already exists.

You have choices. Your choices short term ripple out long term. What you build, what you value, what you acknowledge, what you cosign, what you signal boost, what you ignore, what you say, what you don’t say. Every choice shapes the future.

In the words of O.C. from the timeless classic “Time’s Up” - Produced by Buckwild

“You’re whole aura is plexiglass”

You worship empty calories, praise the curated veil of success & happiness. Value low effort, with the taste of stale white bread. How do we know this? Your actions made it clear. Your digital footprint is uncool, uncultured & safe. You didn’t disrupt, you lacked the courage to take the difficult path. You adapted to survive at the cost the future of a better world.

As said in the classic chorus of “Catch a bad one” from Del’s sophomore released “No Need For Alarm”

“You had your chance and you blew it!”

Now forever hold your peace

::::Insert classic GangStarr DJ Premier scratch chorus here::::

“Take it personal, ta-take it personal”

Positivity & High Vibrational Energy isn’t real through the practice of avoidance. Add public Cliche Quotes to that formulation & now your are living the lowest vibrational form of EGO there is.

Brand safe, Content, Leaderboard, Incentives, nepotism, talk the talk, extract.

If you caught feelings reading this, a guilty conscious is a compass.

It’s not too late too late course correct.

I just don’t have the privilege to wait to get a chance witness a better future world.

I should have chose a different path haha. What a lonely road walking the walk is.

“Powerful Impact! BOOM! from the Cannon”

You either die a hero or…………………………

"I should have saved this hours ago" (Evolving Portals) 🌀🧎‍♂️
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🎥 - "I.s.h.s.t.h.a." (Video Teaser Trailer)
⏱ - Runtime: 02:18 minutes
🎹 - Produced by Dutchyyy

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Full Backstory / Long Form Audio Version (27:24 minutes) available to Read/Listen/Collect as A 1/1 on Catalog Works in the link below:
💽
↓

[🔗"I should have saved this hours ago" (Evolving Portals) 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-i-should-have-saved-this-hours-ago-evolving-portals-)

#EvolvingPortals 🌀🧎‍♂️

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an evolving series...

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🌌🧎‍♂️ What are/is "Evolving Portals"?

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*are live recorded one take sessions capturing the entire process of making music in real time. Pushing the limits of experimentation and embracing imperfection, breaking things on purpose just to try and solve the puzzles. Riding the great unknown, lost in the process, the pinnacle of improvisation through embracing flowstate by leaning into ADHD as a superpower. Nothing is Finalized, all mistakes have a purpose, all fumbles build to evolving ideas. The Patient Ear is rewarded.

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Don't look at Portals as beats, but rather as an album you would listen to front to back to find the dopest hidden samples if that's your thing. Resampling the resampled resample.

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🌀🧎‍♂️ Evolving Portals.

[🔗Visual Examples🔗](youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWGhEQBBUSH6KnyC-TinzuOnfJCmf0R0l&si=5R951y_plVx1arGe)

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[🔗Audio Examples🔗](beta.catalog.works/playlists/a912bad3-0362-4df5-8a64-97a65f9acdfd)

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Video Runtime: 7 minutes & 39 seconds

Produced by Dutchyyy

"INTERNAL BLEEDING TYPE BEAT" #DIBIFLIPSESSIONS04 Submission that was never officially submitted.

Backstory:

If you've been following the previous artifacts in the Proof of Life (continued...) series the name and context surrounding this particular artifact shouldn't be too confusing.

For those who are new to series, TDLR (Recurring severe infection recurred the day prior to my birthday last month, being it's something that has happened a few times a year going on decade my body has built up resistance to all available antibiotics, but when your body is in sepsis you have no other choice. I  usually get 3 to 5 months after taking antibiotics where I feel 30% better but this time they did not take, which only makes the infection stronger and halfway through the 10 day antibiotic cycle I began (TMI) bleeding internally...  As of today, this has not stopped.  I am as far from well as it gets physically but I am still Dutch in spirit and my spirit loves to create,  So when the homie Dibia$e holds a sample challenge, my spirit really wants to show up. So I keep trying to show up...   I keep trying to show up as much as possible regardless of how bad I feel. I keep showing up and using the energy I don't have to use my creativity... create artwork, music, videos, type backstories and document them.    

Of all forms of creative expression, creating music is my greatest joy but it's also the most difficult of the bunch to do when your entire body is betraying you. but I keep attempting it haha.

The first part of this video should have been my submission,  I should have exported the beat instead of recording a proof of work video in real time and submitted it then, but I wasn't feeling well so I put off finalizing it for later.

Unfortunately the deadline was the next morning and I was having one of the worst nights healthwise to date.  I really had no business opening up Ableton Live in the state I was in but a stubborn little engine that didn't want to admit defeat was in the drivers seat.  So I opened up the session and instead of just bouncing out a sequenced version of what I already began, I got distracted by my body and ended up recording 20 minutes of chaos (Evolving Portals) or Devolving in this case rather.    6 hrs passed as the sun came up and I realized I didn't do anything but experiment and record a bunch of madness instead of exporting something I could submit. So I admitted defeat, pivoted to editing a 20 minute session down to a 4 minute video just to show proof that I didn't just blow it off and posted the video and apologized that I wouldn't be able to officially submit....

Next thing I know, Dibi is playing part of nightmare fuel video on the playback stream haha.        

I don't know how much longer I can keep trying to show up publicly anymore.  As much as my little spirit wants to interact and be productive, I'm not sure that I'm sending proper signals that do my current harsh reality justice. I say this but I'll likely keep showing up until the day I no longer can....         This is so weird to share publicly, I'm not a fan of this level of transparency,  but I do no one justice by going through all of this in silence. 

This track will likely never be officially exported.

Please show Dibia$e some love over on his youtube channel below <3


[🔗Full Dibia$e #Dibiflipsessions04 playback stream here🔗](www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kZBTwHKhQA&t=2872s)

I am not well.

Would be an understatement.

[“Please Send Nanobots”](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-please-send-nanobots-)

Photo Captured: April 14th 2014 in Los Angeles by Dutch.

🎧[🔗Listen Here🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/fortruss-radio-edit)

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"SEPSIS TYPE BEAT" - Produced by Dutchyyy

Video Snippets of my unfinished sample flip submission for #DIBIFLIPSESSIONS03 from the playback stream on Dibia$e's youtube channel where DIBI & Marques Murrey (who provided the original sample) Played back the top 40 submissions.

I attempted to start the challenge the first day of my 10 day Antibiotic cycle after my infected jaw once again sent my whole body into sepsis so I wasn't able to hang too long and really dive into flipping this sample to my best ability. It was funny DIBI mentions that I micro-chopped the sample (which is my usual method of choice) because I didn't even make it that far into the process unfortunately, did a few passes of live resampled takes manipulating pitch, stretch w/ some effects as usual and then my body couldn't handle being up at my studio desk anymore, so filmed a quick video in the moment of a few takes layered just to show proof I didn't blow off the challenge and at least started it, but I never had a chance to return to it and put in actual work I could be proud of. I happened to have my alarm set to take my next antibiotic when I saw A tweet from Dibi about having a few hours before the deadline, and ended up just submitting that initial placeholder session as a joke, not imagining it would make it to the playback stream haha.

Guess i'm glad I submitted it in the end, just hope that doesn't end up being one of the last new Dutchyyy people end up hearing. 🫂


[🔗FULL DIBI FLIP SESSIONS 03 SAMPLE CHALLENGE PLAYBACK STREAM ON YOUTUBE🔗](www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6qBGCDIGeM)

🎵📽️ Music Video of embarrassing vulnerable context. ❤️‍🩹"I WANT TO LIVE" but not like this....🦷🩺🩻🩸💊🪦 This video is the hardest thing I've ever publicly shared. More than the video itself, which is basically just a 12 month snapshot of events that led up to the beginning of the Proof of life (continued...) collection being created. Trying to build up the courage to attempt to contextualize the years leading up to it, explain the captured moments in the video and give absolute transparency around my life and health in the present is much more difficult than I thought it would be. I was so grateful for those who rallied together and showed support in helping me escape what seemed like an impossible situation and move across the country. the thought of bursting the perceived bubble that changing geographical location alone would of course correct all the severe health issues I've had. The reality is, having to quickly move across the country, I lost access to my health insurance, which honestly wasn't very helpful as you can see in the video as I violate hipaa... As I type this, I'm currently on my 2nd cycle of really strong antibiotics after my Jaw got infected the day before my birthday (May 23 1981) and sent my entire body septic.... The problem is, My Dental Surgery is very complex, very risky and unrealistically expensive, it's not something that can be done in waves, It has to all be taken care of at once. Because of this, I've been on antibiotics twice a year for the past decade which destroyed other parts of my body and worse, my body is resistant to antibiotics at this point. My last severe infection happened while at storage a week before moving across the country in February of this year. This gave me a small window of false hope thinking moving across the country improved my health as 90% of my really bad symptoms subsided. About a month after moving in to the new house, they slowly came back, and suddenly ramped up worse than ever before, I pushed through it like a trooper, using whatever small moments of relief I had to document as much as possible while I still could, but there were multiple days I just wanted to end things. It's a level of physical pain I can't even begin to describe, but I pushed as long as possible until I reached a critical state earlier this week. I spoke with the Doctor for an hour who made it clear that I am trading temporary relief that won't last due to how resistant my body is to antibiotics and when the infection eventually wins, It will come back much quicker, much stronger and much worse than I've experienced thus far.... Basically, I'm on a clock, a very small window while these antibiotics are trying to fight this infection to attack the cause of the infection at its root... My unrealistically expensive, complicated and very risky jaw surgery. I am tired... I've been a silent trooper for years pushing through this all alone and hiding the extent of how bad it is because it's just too heavy to burden people with. If you watched the full video, you know that my Dental issues aren't the only severe health issue, though allowing it to go unchecked so long absolutely caused most of the other issues, Spinal tumor obviously not related... It's super overwhelming. It's overwhelming to share publicly, it's overwhelming to share privately and has alienated loved ones, friends and community. I push forward with a sense of purpose because I don't want to make anyone sad, but most of all this is overwhelming existence and no matter how heavy it sounds, it's my reality and i've fought as long as humanly possible to endure it... but this isn't living, this isn't what I want to be remembered for and this isn't how I want to spend my limited time on earth. I pivoted to documenting legacy via smart contracts in early 2021 when I realized after years of health slowly deteriorating and then suddenly escalating to critical levels that made existing in my own body feel like a curse daily... I mainly focused on documenting back catalog records from the mid 90's - 2016 as 1/1's on Catalog Works. As of today 110 records exist with very extensive back stories, I then begin slowly world building via photos and videos surrounding those albums on Foundation with multiple 1/1 collections with 56 1/1's as of writing this. Beyond my expansive 3+ decade music career, with my health being so critical to the point of extreme isolation, unable to go out into the world or socialize, I created a collection meant to show proof of human, proof I existed out in the world, connecting and touching people, adventuring in nature and traveling the country. Leaving breadcrumbs of context about my health scattered within backstories written in the descriptions of my artifacts. In May of 2023, I released a series of Freestyles I began recording daily on my Tascam that were never intended to be public... With lots of encouragement from C.Y. (cxy) I finally mustered up the courage to make the entire series public. With Chapters 1 - 4 (2015-2020) only existing on Catalog Works and Chapter 5 (2020-2022) existing on Super Collector. I wrote a pretty in depth backstory which explained my health situation, and if you listen to them fully from Chapter 1 to Chapter 5, you can hear in real time as I slowly come to terms privately with what was happening and escalating as time passed with Chapter 5 being basically my Farewell. I have so much more I want to document... I hate feeling like I'm letting people down, but I've endured this way too long. It's impossible to focus on creating in the present with so much legacy and important lore still left undocumented, but I don't even know If I will be able to fully execute that. I'm not well... I tried so hard to stay the course and focus on conviction with consistency while spreading love and creating tiny ripples and hope things would all just work out, but having a clock counting down and being fully conscious that your body is going to betray you in the most savage way is a hard pill to keep swallowing while holding out for hope. I'm very proud of the path I walked in my lifetime and can say I lived a very rewarding and fulfilling life without ever faltering my spirit... Holding onto purpose these days feels impossible, which I didn't think was ever possible, I don't like the world and systems that are being built right now and I really don't want to go out with a disgruntled spirit so I'm sharing my most vulnerable reality with a singular purpose. To leave no room for questions and ask for forgiveness and compassion when the time comes I can no longer be a trooper and continue enduring... I've been an absolute superhero, I shouldn't be right now...... This has been GAME + and I'm honestly grateful I was able to exist another year and reunite with loved ones IRL even if for very short periods. If you would like to learn more about what I've dedicated my entire life to.... Please deep dive in the links below. The most important part is the back stories attached. Thankfully.... Even if the platforms cease to exist after I'm no longer here to pivot, the media and meta data that's tied together will still exist thanks to blockchain.... so no rush. Proof of life (Continue?) [🔗DUTCHYYY via CATALOG WORKS🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy) [🔗DUTCHMASSIVE via CATALOG WORKS🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive) [🔗FOUNDATION - Further Context🔗](foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd?tab=collections) [🔗SUPERCOLLECTOR🔗](release.supercollector.xyz/artist/dutchyyy) [🔗PASSTHEDUTCH.ORG - Compilation + Fundraiser🔗](linktr.ee/comptapefordutchyy) [🔗Digital Artifacts Collected by Dutchyyy.eth🔗](gallery.so/Dutchyyy) [🔗Music Collected via Bandcamp by Dutch🔗](bandcamp.com/dutchmassive) 🎧 Track ID: [🔗 "8 Million Woes" - Produced by Dutchyyy 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-8-million-woes-continue-)

[🔗ENJOY.TECH🔗](www.enjoy.tech/) I'm creating and collecting anyway, so it feels good to be able to show extra appreciation to the Art that resonates along the way.

[🔗COLLECTED🔗](zora.co/@dutchyyy?tab=collected)

[🔗CREATED🔗](zora.co/@dutchyyy?tab=created)

I am ENJOY❗❗❗NG

Love, Dutchyyy.eth

📷 Photo Captured: Monday, ‎September ‎8, ‎2014 at "Sam's Point Nature Preserve", Upstate New York by Dutch

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Listen Below:

🎧[🔗 Walk In Your Shoes - Prod by: Dutchyyy 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/walk-in-your-shoes)

#Traversal #TheUproot

Photo Captured: September 3rd 2014 at Sam's Point Preserve in Upstate New York by Simon Sverlov 📷

🎧[🔗 Listen to "64" by Dutchyyy & Simon Sverlov 🔗](open.spotify.com/track/7FSiJ1anfNZqUZ3uDL5H9u?si=0a0210e04a7e4edf)

📖 Backstory:

The only person to visit me on the sacred mountain was my homie Simon from Los Angeles. I tried my hardest to explain how magical the place I was living at to my friends and tried to explain there was no photo or video I could share that would do it justice but everyone was busy or said they would visit later.

It was such a profound experience, it felt almost unreal not getting to share it with anyone...

Thankfully my homie Simon didn't hesitate.

This Documented Artifact was taken in the front yard of my house, on the first day Simon arrived. We were heading out to walk the mountain and he immediately saw a Deer just chilling and excited whispered

🗨️ "Dutch! let me take a photo of you before it runs away"

I told him

"don't worry... they are the homies! they won't run away because we've already bonded on a spiritual level"

He laughed and made me quickly pose for photo....

A Moment in time captured.

Moments after, the Deer galloped back into the forest so it was a good thing he didn't let ramble and end up missing this photo haha.

As we walked up the mountain, I gave him the backstory and lore about night of spiritual bonding with all the deer in that forest...

You can read more about that special night below while listening to the music created during that magical experience.

🎧[🔗Where are we headed? 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/where-are-we-headed-)

#TheUproot #Traversal #Dutchyyy

🎵🦌🌳

Photo Documented: ‎Wednesday, ‎October ‎15, ‎2014, ‏‎9:27:56 AM at Sam's Point Preserve in Upstate New York by Dutch 📷

Can you imagine the magic that was created on this ancient bench, deep in the middle of the forest, high up on the mountain? As I often sat alone at this very spot, my mind would wonder and think about all the previous human interactions that took place here, forever lost to time, witnessed only by the intelligent design surrounding this man made object... If Trees could talk..... Or rather, If humans could understand their forms of communication...

🗨️🌳


[🔗 Lore / Backstory 🔗](medium.com/@SolarSounds/shawangunk-stomp-the-story-of-dutchyyys-uproot-4235a4eb66ff)

[🔗 Extended Visual Context 🔗](foundation.app/collection/uproot)

[🔗 Audible World Building 🔗](beta.catalog.works/playlists/d2fab35b-ee2e-4ee3-a99a-a43fed437e13)

The Uproot - Dutchyyy

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Today was not dope, let's not do this again next year, k?

Track ID: [🔗"YAWN OF THE GEMINI"🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/yawn-of-the-gemini)

[🔗Proof of life (Origin Story, Literally)🔗](foundation.app/collection/life-3fc3?sort=oldest)

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📽️ Video Documented 5-13-24 through 5-19- 24 somewhere in the desert ; )

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🎧[🔗Click Here🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/stop-sleeping-in-so-much-f-rnd1-) To [listen / collect / read back story] one of our past collabs "Stop Sleeping In So Much" from my 2016 album Traversal

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Backstory:📖

My dear friend & one of my favorite producers, Irv (RND1) pronounced "Round One" came to visit the Cave of Solitude from May 13th to May 19th to celebrate my upcoming 43'rd solar return (May 23rd, 1981) by gifting me the one thing in life I cherish the most and don't get to experience often these days... IRL HUMAN INTERACTION =)

The week was super dope, my skittish kitty (Little Paw V.2) which I inherited from my Nana who inherited her from my mom always runs and hides when any comes over, but this week she immediately grew attached to IRV and followed us around all week and hung out. Super wholesome...

The week started with setting him up in my guest room and listening to hundreds of unreleased tracks... You'd think two producers spend a week locked in the cave together a bunch of new music would come from it, but I'm always alone and forcing myself to be productive, so we used this time to just hang and do friend stuff, like me putting him on to a few of my favorite K-drama's and just hanging since I wasn't feeling great healthwise alot of the time....

My childhood Best friend ERIC came over to meet IRV, and we put IRV onto to one of my favorite 80's classic movies "The Secret of my success" - Fun Times...

I tried to get my younger brothers login password to show IRV "Solo Leveling" but he never got back to me...

The Next day the homie [🔗thxk_u 🔗](zora.co/thxk_u?tab=created) came over to chill and meet RND1 and the same day I realized there was another FLIPABEATCLUB challenge, so we all set up to flip the samples provided, but I ended up getting distracted and opening portals instead of finishing a beat...

thxk_u come thru the following day as well to work on music, but I wasn't feeling well at all... So we basically each swapped PC's and opened a session created by the other producer, and created something new with all the samples, drums, effects, etc already in there... Once again, wasn't feeling well so I got distracted opening portals instead of staying on task...

I gotta say, Not being in control of my health/body sucks in general, but it's much more tolerable when around loved ones instead of just pushing through in privately in isolation, kind of like it's not happening if no one sees it, but it unfortunately is happening....

I probably should have documented more video footage of this week, but my heart and mind documented it all at least.
Rnd1 is planning on visiting again before he moves to Los Angeles in July, so I'll try and document with a little more intent instead of just sharing videos sliced together that I sent to cxy, nydia and my brother.....

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🎧[🔗Click Here🔗](rnd1.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-wknd) To listen to my favorite RND1 album [IMAGINARY_WKND]

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📽️ Video Documented on 5-14-24 at 11pm CST somewhere in the desert ; )

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🎧[🔗Click Here🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/stop-sleeping-in-so-much-f-rnd1-) To [listen / collect / read back story] one of our past collabs "Stop Sleeping In So Much" from my 2016 album Traversal

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Backstory:📖

My dear friend & one of my favorite producers, Irv (RND1) pronounced "Round One" came to visit the Cave of Solitude from May 13th to May 19th to celebrate my upcoming 43'rd solar return (May 23rd, 1981) by gifting me the one thing in life I cherish the most and don't get to experience often these days... IRL HUMAN INTERACTION =)

Being that when i'm isolated, I'm forever on devices living terminally online, on the rare occasions I get to spend quality time with people IRL, I tend to purposely not touch my phone so I'm able to remain as present as possible so I only documented a few moments throughout the week, and honestly they were mostly private videos sent through text messages. This video was from the 2nd night RND1 was here, just playing me 28983303803803938 unreleased beats for me and the kitty =)

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Stay tuned for "BEATS, RHYMES & CAVE LIFE" [VIDEO 2 of 2] for more context / adventures...

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🎧[🔗Click Here🔗](rnd1.bandcamp.com/album/imaginary-wknd) To listen to my favorite RND1 album [IMAGINARY_WKND]

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist. Photos Captured April 24th, 2024 (cst) in The Dutchyyy / Dutchmassive Cave of Solitude somewhere in the desert 🏜️ 📷 by cxy ↓ Ok, you actually are doing yourself a disservice if you don't absorb the context that provides the deeper and beautiful meaning behind this Artifact. Do you mind sparing 10 minutes to watch/listen to that context before proceeding? ✅[YES] → [🔗"Music Nerd" (Evolving Portals) f/ cxy🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0xaecf7d807b137eae8c67d24c4e0e66c1e6319266/2) 🚫[NO] → .... you sure? ok, for those who took the time to digest the context, I'm sure without even going into further written detail you'll likely understand a bit more how special this moment was for us both. For those who didn't, I'll do a short summary. I've been releasing music (officially) since my 1st 12" Vinyl release that dropped in 1998 while I was still in highschool. There were a few years of stumbling into, teaching myself, practicing and just falling in love with creating music before that first official release. So you do the math... 1995 - 2024... That's a lot of years dedicated to collecting, creating and releasing Art/Music.... If search engines weren't cursed and broken, I'd just say google "Dutchmassive" of "Equilibrium" or "Dutchyyy" fka "Dutchy" or just check discogs but the reality is... The internet is not the same open and free space of discovery it once was. Typing "Dutchmassive" into your search engine in 2014 would yield around 2.6 million search results. When I checked in 2017, around 17k came back. That's a lot of history / legacy wiped from digital archives.... Around 2015, nearly all social media platforms moved from the cherished (if it's not broken, don't fix it) Chronological timelines and introduced algorithmic feeds. As someone who grew up using the internet and every new platform from 1995 to that point and did so as a net positive of discovery and reach and being a boon to my artistic career, I was very sensitive and observant to how quickly things changed after this. I would no longer see posts from people I chose to follow, and the days of me being a reclusive, mysterious artist that was able to live life in the real world not on camera, and use that life experience as fuel to create well thought out albums had swiftly been nerfed into oblivion... The days of just making a single post on each different platform, with a link that says "pre-order new album" and selling out the same day or week.... it vanished hahah. At the same time, Streaming Services were picking up steam, but I refused to adapt to a model that was clearly anti-artist, So from 2017 and on, I stopped releasing official albums, and to this day not even 3% of Body of Work is available on digital streaming platforms.... from 2017-2022 I made more music that remained unreleased than I did in total from 1995-2016... I figured, I lost the direct pipelines to my fanbase and supporters I spent decades slowly building, and doing self promo over and over again on social media is a lose/lose as people just feel you're spamming and the internal feeling of showing the world something you spent a lot of time and love on only to get immediately lost in shuffle, just wasn't a new meta I was willing to adapt to... Did any of this stop me from creating daily? not even a little bit. Not releasing was self care. I wasn't willing to risk tainting my love of the most magical part of being an artist.... getting lost in the process.... So I kept creating and kept hoarding hahah.. Fast Forward to 2021, My health (which had been declining since 2015) became hard to manage. Your perspective changes when mortality feels closer and realistic. For me personally, All I could think about was not only all this unreleased music, but the 3 decade legacy I put my heart and soul into and sacrificed so much along the way to always find or create those moments where I could express myself artistically. If you are alive, you might not want to, but you do have the ability to pivot, or re-upload your music somewhere else if the place it exists suddenly goes away (i.e. Myspace, AOL MAIL, Imeem, etc) This unfortunate reality of mortality led me to blockchain... The magic of smart contracts.... Being able to attach credits, backstory, etc to a media file in a way that that data can't be separated from the art/music. So I pivoted... I kept my head down, and began uploading back catalog music as 1/1's on 💽Catalog Works💽 🔗[beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy](https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy) + 🔗[beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive](https://beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive) While doing so, I did something that went against everything I felt about art and music, and I began to write very long and detailed backstories / lore for almost every track I added to the Forever Library... Prior to me doing this, I always felt that... it didn't matter how I felt, or what inspired and what I intended for the music to mean. That context just never needed to be shared publicly, because once that music is released into the world and heard by strangers... That feeling, that meaning becomes theirs. How it impacts them, who they bonded with hearing it, If it's something that they experience alone that helps them get through days.... I hope this makes sense haha... needless to say, I was very conflicted about explaining my art or being transparent in general, but I fully leaned into and committed to it. I wasn't / and aren't a part of any communities, I just kept to myself, focused on sharing my art and story, while also collecting and supporting art that moved and impacted me... I was blessed to have a few people collect my 1/1's and because I wasn't used to receiving that type of value for my art, for me it was the perfect resonance checkpoint. It allowed me to reach out and get to know some of the people who chose to collect my stuff. Not everyone who collects cares to know about the artist or context, but I was fortunate to have a few that I am thankful I can call them friends... The common theme between those few were they really appreciate the near perfect recall backstories and world building.... cxy being the most interested in the things I valued the most... Not the finalized, shiny polished end result, but he really appreciated the process that led to it.... I just so happen to have made my entire identity since 2016 about sharing the full, unedited real time process... "The Reluctant Clap" (Daily Rambles) - Tascam Freestyles (2015-2022) "Evolving Portals" which was born from live streaming on twitch and then became my whole default process of basically, Recording the music making process from start to finish and having fun experimenting and drawing out of the lines and capturing that whole process. So the more C.Y. and I spoke, the more core principles seemed to align (w/ my hoarding being the exception haha, but we are working on that) I could go on and on and on, and I likely will.... Hopefully you took time to listen / watch the "Music Nerd" (Evolving Portals) Video, so a lot of what I just spoke about makes more sense and better explains how magical this moment was, Having someone i've been talking to the past few years, who believed in me more than anyone else ever has, and is the literal reason I have to ability to type out this backstory, in my new home across the united states, two miles away from childhood best friend I've known since 1985 and for him to be able to meet that friend and also capture us both holding our original pound puppies together hahaha. Proof of Life was meant to serve as a collection to document past experiences before my health complicated things so there was proof I once was out in the world sharing memories with loved ones and creating tiny little ripples..... Proof of Life (continued...) isn't something I thought would happen, It's only been possible because of this special "Music Nerd"... So do you know how full circle and fulfilling it was to be able to invite cxy into my home. which is basically a museum of not only my full artistic career, but holds evidence in abundance that beyond just an artist, I'm a lifelong collector and supporter of culture / art / music..... C.Y. is very busy, so he was only here for less than 24 hours, and to even begin scratching the surface of this insane archive of dope tangible relics and artifacts, you would need at least 3 or 4 days minimum. So until we are able to reunite and deep dive into the archives, I'll continue documenting Proof of life (the good, bad... all of it) and keep slowly archiving my back catalog on chain and world building across platforms.... If you took the time to read all of this, and you want @cxy and myself to actually film a proper "Music Nerd TV Cribs" episode before 2025, Please let us know in the comments.... ↓ Get to know "Cxy" below. The More You Know 🌈 ↓ [🔗Productizing Patronage: Vol.1🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xaac93a2f96e884b4258a71eab768c9566e42a01d/2) [🔗Productizing Patronage: Vol.2🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xaac93a2f96e884b4258a71eab768c9566e42a01d/3) [🔗supercollector.xyz/cxy.eth🔗](supercollector.xyz/cxy.eth) [🔗MusicNerd.xyz🔗](www.musicnerd.xyz/search/cy%20lee)

📷 Photo Captured: Monday, ‎September ‎8, ‎2014, ‏‎3:41:42 PM (EST) at "Sam's Point Nature Preserve", New York by Dutch

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Listen Below:

🎧💽[🔗"Evolution of a Shrug"🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/evolution-of-a-shrug)

📖[🔗"THE UPROOT" / CONTEXT CONTINUED🔗](foundation.app/collection/uproot?tab=description)

Photo Captured: Friday, ‎January ‎17, ‎2014, ‏‎5:29:20 AM PST in Los Angeles, CA by Dutch

Single Dutchyyy in motion testing out emotionally charged mixdowns while traversing the streets of Los Angeles alone until the sun comes up.

🎧[🔗"MsMrsMiss" (Epilogue) -Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/msmrsmiss-epilogue)

From the unreleased album [🔗"The Uproot"🔗](beta.catalog.works/playlists/d2fab35b-ee2e-4ee3-a99a-a43fed437e13)

VIDEO / AUDIO:

🔵"ENJOY!!!NG PORTALS"❗❗❗
🎧 Produced by: [Dutchyyy](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy)
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Visuals Created on 4.23.24
Music Composed in 2019

All creative manipulation by: Dutchyyy

Jump through another Portal?
[🔗 PeacePeaceGawd 🔗](linktr.ee/peacepeacegawd)

📷 Photo Documented in November of 2015 in Tampa Bay, FL by Dutch

📖Backstory:

You ever wondered what would have been soundtrack to an asteroid traveling through space, breaching earths atmosphere and traveling through the sky before making impact on land around 66 million years ago?

I have, the day I visited my neighbors house down the street to have him look at my malfunctioning tomos mo-ped... I caught this T-rex chilling out of the corner of my eye and pivoted to an awkward and uncomfortable position to capture that moment haha. Later that day, while working on my (at the time) upcoming album "Traversal" I remember the homie Scott Xylo sent me drums for a collab. 9 times out of 10, I'm usually gonna just mangle and chop a sample but this time, I couldn't get the thought of how life on earth, including the dinosaurs must have felt seeing a giant asteroid pummeling towards them. I wanted to attempt to capture how the soundtrack for that process would have sounded which meant, no samples... I just had to play what I felt...

[🔗"Entry, descent & landing" - Produced by Dutchyyy & Scott Xylo 🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/dutchy-x-scott-xylo-untitled-preview)

At the last minute, I cut the track from the original digital release of Traversal, which released 12.31.15 and a few months later decided to post in Soundcloud.

It wasn't until Grand Garden Records approached me to release the Cassette version of "Traversal" that I decided, I could finally re-sequence this album in the way I intended to be heard. So I pulled tracks from digital version off the album, and added a few tracks to the cassette version including this one.

You can listen to the full Cassette Version as well select tracks from digital version all with extensive backstories about each track below:

[🔗TRAVERSAL -1/1's on Catalog Works 🔗](beta.catalog.works/playlists/b13d34d2-caff-4245-8d7e-859295a2a737)

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.

Video Captured April 25th, 2024 at 6:31am (cst) somewhere in the desert 🏜️by Dutch.

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The final moments of a brief but cherished visit from the #MusicNerd himself, cxy.

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Super early morning, half asleep Dutchyyy walking cxy to his uber to catch his flight to his next destination. I don't have many irl human interactions these days but even when I was traversing state to state being a social butterfly, i've never really been one to be distracted or pulled out of the moment by touching my phone.

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For a visit where the foundation of that visit was centered around "The Art of Documenting and Worldbuilding" I didn't realize until the very last moment of that visit that I never documented any photo or video proof of life myself haha. Thankfully, cxy snuck some photos in and sent them to me to document. To be continued...

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Get to know "Cxy" below.
The More You Know 🌈

↓

[🔗"Music Nerd" (Evolving Portals) f/ cxy🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0xaecf7d807b137eae8c67d24c4e0e66c1e6319266/2)

[🔗Productizing Patronage: Vol.1🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xaac93a2f96e884b4258a71eab768c9566e42a01d/2)

[🔗Productizing Patronage: Vol.2🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xaac93a2f96e884b4258a71eab768c9566e42a01d/3)

[🔗supercollector.xyz/cxy.eth🔗](supercollector.xyz/cxy.eth)

[🔗MusicNerd.xyz🔗](www.musicnerd.xyz/search/cy%20lee)

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist. Video, Sample Challenge Submission Playback Livestream: #dibiflipsession01 (Hosted by Dibia$e) ⬇️ Produced by: Dutchyyy ⬇️ 📖Backstory / Timeline: 🗨️ Quoted from Dibia$e on 04/13/2024 1:28 PM (PST) "Peace ya'll its been a minute I done a Dibi Flip Session . This time around I have a sample from the BAPNOTES. So everyone has til Thursday April 18th to post their flip in this discord channel. I will be playing all the flips on my Youtube channel on April 19th 1 pm pst so make sure to subscribe. Also if you post your videos on ig or twitter makes to use hashtag #dibiflipsession01 and tag @bapnotesmusic"🗨️ ⬇️ I started my flip of the sample on April 16th, putting in around 45 minutes before my health started acting up and I went to lay down and rest. ⬇️ On Wednesday, April 17th, 2024 at 12:59am (PST) I realized my health probably wasn't going to allow me to put real time into the submission before the deadline, So I recorded 3 quick real time takes, 1 of blind sustain chops, and 2 of me just warping the sample to drums before chopping and posted a quick "Proof of work / i.e. I promise I didn't blow this Challenge off Video) [🔗 Click here to visit proof🔗 ](x.com/darealdibiase/status/1780956117960659200) ⬇️ 🗨️ Quoted from Dibia$e on 04/19/2024 at 9:11 AM (PST) "Oh yeah I forgot to mention regarding the #dibiflipsessions01 I’ll be pick 3 of my favorites which is gonna be tough considering the amount of heat. 🏆1st place - Serato sample & Serato Studio 🏆 2nd place - Serato sample🏆 3rd place - Serato Studio" ⬇️ I woke up and never officially submitted in the discord, being I never actually exported anything since I never worked on it beyond for those 3 initial live resample takes. So I ended up splicing together those 3 separate Wav files and uploaded to discord at 11:39am (pst) ⬇️ What I didn't see was this message from Dibiase in discord haha 🗨️Dibi 404 — 04/19/2024 9:57 AM "It’s closed so no buzzer beaters from this moment on" ⬇️ The homie Devon Who pop's up in discord.. 🗨️devonwho — 04/19/2024 11:46 AM "where is this sample lol. no pin life" and shortly follows up with.. 🗨️devonwho — 04/19/2024 12:51 PM "@Dibi 404 im in the middle of work, but made a lil loop jus now." ⬇️ At 1pm (PST) The Submission Play Back Live Stream Begins on Dibia$e youtube Channel... [🔗Click here to Subscribe to Dibia$e youtube channel or to view the entire 8 hr playback stream and hear all the submissions for #dibiflipsession01🔗](www.youtube.com/live/YiDeakOf7RQ?si=U_6ERRvR-JBJcvNB) ⬇️ A man of the People, Dibia$e streamed for 8hr strait, playing back every single one of the 200 + Submissions, even the ones posted after the buzzer. He Streamed so long, He missed FlipABeatClub. Which my good homie Thxk_u came over middle of the livestream to my place so we both could participate remotely, being my health wouldn't allow me to go participate in person (What a super thoughtful guy <3)... ⬇️ We missed the last few hours of the live stream trying to prepare for the 1st (Phoenix Chapter of FlipABeatClub) but couldn't get a hold of the samples in time, so we pivoted to me teaching him my more of work flow in Ableton Live and ended up making a beat not related to either challenge. [🔗Listen / Collect that wip Here 🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4/22) ⬇️ On April 20th DibiaSe Posted the 3 Finalized to his twitter 🗨️ - @darealdibiase "Congrats to @aerateloops , @beatsbysolace_ , @whknwsbeats on yesterday #dibiflipsessions01 it was tough to just pick 3 but they definitely had some amazing beats. Make sure to tap in with all 3 of them if not knowing already." ⬇️ Super wholesome, Super Inspiring seeing so many homies show up and hearing so many new people. I had a lot of fun Editing the Live Stream and splicing in the parts where I know Dibi was stressing having the sole responsibility of having to Judge and Choose winners hahaha. I hope to see you in future challenges. ⬇️ [🔗Click here to join the Dibia$e Discord for future Sample Challenges🔗](discord.gg/aBvV5YggEc)

📷 Photo captured: November 12th, 2015 in Tampa Bay, FL by Dutch.

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Moments before creating [🔗"Extra Introverted Extroverts"🔗](open.spotify.com/track/0MaaOjoXA854SvU6WizPBY?si=a74e095fb474423a) from ["TRAVERSAL"](beta.catalog.works/playlists/b13d34d2-caff-4245-8d7e-859295a2a737)

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.

🎶 "Crate Escape" - Produced by [Dutchyyy](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/) & [thxk_u](zora.co/@thxk_u)

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A work in progress created 4/19/24 while showing thxk_u more of my sample chop workflow in Ableton Live.

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Proof of life (to be continued...)

📷Photo Captured 2013 in Los Angeles by Dutch.

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Cloud Strife & J Dilla: protecting gaia and my studio from Shinra.

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🎧🎶[🔗Fanfare Jawn -Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/materia-a-fanfare-jawn-ff7-challenge-portals) <-Listen

Photo Captured: 📷2013 in Los Angeles by Dutch.

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Even though I believe Art/Music in it's best form if created from personal honest expression free of any and all external influence. Magic tends to happen when worlds collide and like minds form like voltron.

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From 1995 to present, I've done what feels like an endless amount of Collaboration.

Would you like [🔗Listen? 🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/)

If you're a seeker and a digger and decide to go down the rabbit hole. Leave your favorite Dutchyyy (fka Dutchy) aka Dutchmassive Collab in the comments.

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.

Audio Created: 4/04/24
Video Captured: 4/05/24

🎹Produced by: [Dutchyyy](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/)
🥁Drum Assistance by: [thxk_u](thxk-u.bandcamp.com/)

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Backstory:📖
The homie thxk_u came over for brief "Ableton Workflow, The Dutchyyy way" training session.

It just so happened to fall on #404day which if you aren't familiar is a day dedicated to the Roland SP-404 which the goat [Dibia$e](www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmHhCqfiN3U&t=31s) basically spearheaded along side [Nassirah](nassirahnelson.com/about)

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So while trying to find a sample to use for the training session, I thought of my favorite Dibia$e track [🔗"Put in work"🔗](mrdibiase.bandcamp.com/track/put-in-work-79) and said "Man I wish we had the original Sample Dibi used" and thxk_u suggested looking it up. Oddly way easier than expected... (whosampled is the feds) So, I found the sample on youtube, said "nope, I wanna buy the high quality version" wasted like 20 minutes trying to find it on amazon, Purchased the full album... loaded up the sample and began the lesson...

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Unfortunately thxk_u had to leave for work, so all we got to do was him quickly laying down drums, and me one take, blind chopping the sample in 3 separate takes.... only 2 of those takes are in this video....

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Will I continue working on and refining it? 🤷‍♂️ you tell me in the comments... it's fate is your hands.

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BONUS LORE!!!!!:
💽[🔗#404day 2020 1/1 Audio via Catalog Works🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-404day)
📼[🔗#404day 2020 1/1 Video via Foundation🔗](foundation.app/mint/eth/0xb052Dca75aE19FEE471227269aec30a6E9127967/1)

I still don't f/w cowboys or cactus (Cactuar being the exception)

Context: [🔗PASSTHEDUTCH.ORG🔗](passthedutch.org)

Photo captured: ‎Friday, ‎April ‎8, ‎2016 in Tampa Bay, FL by Dutch 📷

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[🔗📖Backstory/context/listen/watch🎧🔗](foundation.app/mint/eth/0xC35407130cE86eCab7d670E4D6405E9bD9391E8e/8)

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.

📽️Video Captured: March 23, 2024 at 11:47 (CMT)
🎧"In the Meadows" (Evolving Portals) - Produced by Dutchyyy 🎧
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Question: What is/are #EvolvingPortals ?
Answer: [🔗Jump through Portal 🔗](zora.co/collect/eth:0xed4943fa35675d84903aa1a414c0836d2aa5c13b)
Examples: [🔗💽🔗](beta.catalog.works/playlists/a912bad3-0362-4df5-8a64-97a65f9acdfd)
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Backstory: 📖

Picking up where we left off on the previous documented artifact [🔗Previously on "Proof of life (continued...)🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4/18) thxk_u had to leave before I ever got to actually hop into ableton and create something from scratch as planned. These days it takes the stars to align properly for me to sit at space station helm and create so I decided to use the burst of lucky energy stars to create something new from scratch for the first time in my new Dojo on my main pc.... I blacked out, fell through a mini portal channeling mixed emotions of gratitude, solace and that ever looming anxious feeling of waiting for the other shoe to drop....

Simple expression on autopilot.


Peace Peace.🫂

Dutchyyy.

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.

📽️Video Documented: March 23, 2024 at 5:55pm CMT
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[🔗thxk_u link in bio🔗](linktr.ee/thxk_u)
Backstory:📖

"thxk_u" previously known as "lo_tek" came into my virtual life and hopped on my dope AF radar a few years ago. This mysterious producer who popped up out of nowhere dropping heater after heater. I'm from school of showering with flowers when art makes an impact on me, so I was quick to publicly and privately give him high praise, to my surprise he told me he only recently started making music and even more to surprise that all the dope stuff I was hearing was created using the Koala APP, hence the nickname "Prince Koala" - This wasn't too surprising because a lot of homies were pivoting to making music on Koala and making dope stuff ish, but thxk_u was the first Koala main i know of that wasn't also using other machines or software at the time.
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Beyond the prolific and consistent output, thxk_u moved with immense humility, gratitude and love, genuinely one of the most genuine kind hearted human beings I've had the honor of crossing paths with on my 4 decades on this earth. A few years later & thxk_u has over 100 releases on bandcamp (and I don't mean singles) so in my humble opinion you should absolutely subscribe to his bandcamp 🫂
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[🔗thxk_u Discography via Bandcamp🔗](thxk-u.bandcamp.com/)
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💽In late 2022, I was chosen to be curator for #CatalogWorks and onboard 5 Artists to the platform. This was more difficult than I anticipated at the time because so many artists were afraid to be associated with anything blockchain related. I was still able to onboard 5 artists that were on my collector/fan wishlist:
💽[🔗Ahmed Sirour🔗](catalog.works/ahmedsirour)
💽[🔗Javier Santiago🔗](catalog.works/javiersantiago)
💽[🔗thxk_u 🔗](catalog.works/thxku)
💽[🔗Vienna 🔗](catalog.works/vienna)
💽[🔗RND1 🔗](catalog.works/rnd1)
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Fast Forward to 2024...This entire collection gives the context and backstory as to how and why we got here so I'll let you dive in to previous artifacts in the collection to catch up 😉
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As fate would have it, I ended up moving from Tampa, FL to [Redacted], AZ... which is crazy, because I love foliage... Plants, Grass, Trees, forests and have always detested the idea of living in a desert haha. I had my reasons tho to make this drastic choice and with the help of respected music comrades and friends [🔗PASSTHEDUTCH.ORG🔗](passthedutch.org/) and a very special Music Nerd, I landed safely in a strange land, 2 miles away from my childhood best friend / brother who's been in my life since the early 80's but does not make music nor really seek it out these days.... but for once RNG blessed me, because this kind hearted, super talented musician/human "thxk_u" happened to live close to the random location I ended up in.
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For Context sake in case you aren't familiar with me or my backstory, I've been creating, releasing and collecting music since the early/mid 90's... I've got the most insane vault of treasures in the form of tangible relics and hard drives upon hard drives a unreleased gems, but i've spent the past nearly decade in extreme isolation and solitude, even prior to the pandemic... but 2020-to present was rough and honestly thought I would never get a chance to socialize IRL and connect and share with loved ones again...
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The first time, thxk_u came over with mel, I'm bombarded him with unreleased music and backstory.... time flew by so fast hahah...

The 2nd time (Which this artifact that's documented is from) We had a mission, for me to show thxk_u my start to finish creative process in
Ableton Live......
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welp... haha, I got distracted quickly and played more unreleased music, and music that inspired me not realizing he had limited time to chill and never got to create something in front of him.....
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So after he left.......(To be continued...)

Photo Captured 📷 Thursday, ‎November ‎12, ‎2015 in Tampa Bay, FL by Dutch
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Funfacts: 📖🎉

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Before I knew I was going to officially become an Artist/Emcee/Producer for the next 3 decades, I started my journey in 1995, alone in my room making beats for fun on Casio Keyboard that had a loop and record function that I would record freestyles w/ my neighbors, friends over on a crappy Karaoke Machine (Casio in the photo is not the one I had) - I Still have all those casio beats as well as all those early freestyles on cassette and recently digitized them tho ;)

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Maybe you weren't born yet, maybe you weren't a music nerd that was equally super invested in the golden era of 90's hip-hop both equally as a super fan as well as an official artist. Maybe you were? but just in case i'll break down some objective hip-hop history timeline.
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After the very public beef and deaths of Biggie Smalls & 2pac that sparked the East Coast vs West Coast fiasco. The energy "main stream" shifted from fun, vulnerable, experimental & diverse and ushered in the super unrealistic, ultra materialistic Jiggy Era spearheaded by Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs. Thankfully at the time, while this was happening. There was still a balance in the mainstream i.e. De La Soul - "Stakes is High" / Blackeyedpea's "Falling Up" (don't get me started on how quickly they became biggest hypocrites in hip-hop history haha) and there was many more. Unless you were a fan of hip-hop during that era to the point of never missing an episode of Rap city or Yo! MTV Raps, You might not be aware that there was A time, Records and Artists you would now consider underground or experimental had an equal amount of TV Airtime. The Jiggy / Party era began to phase that out (at least in video / fm radio form) Late 1997 & 1998 Clear-channel monopolised "urban" FM radio across the states, playing the same "Popular" songs over and over and over by proxy and by design force feeding perceived popularity. While this sucked to witness, The rise of the Independent / Underground Era was sent into hyper drive. W/ access to College / Public Access Radio + the internet w/ places like Sandboxautomatic, Atak distribution. hiphopsite.com, etc... There was zero shortage of dope and diverse music.
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Which brings us to the image and most important history lesson relevant to this artifact. 1998, Swizz Beatz steps out onto the scene via the Famous DMX "Ruff Ryder's Anthem" - A Banger but also a cheap casio, sample free beat. Music industry takes note: Wait... we can make hit records without having to pay for sample clearance?!?! Let's do that from now on 90% of the time... Combined with Clear Channel Payola Strategy the future of "mainstream" hip-hop that the general population was exposed to that wasn't a super fan, digging for substance became a water down, hyper materialistic hellscape (compared to what was made equally publicly available prior)...

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Soundtrack of expanded Context:



🎧[🔗Dutchmassive - "Fall Out" (feat. Celph Titled & Walkmen) - Produced by Celph Titled - recorded in 1998🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/fall-out-feat-celph-titled-walkmen-bonus-track)

🎧[🔗Celph Titled - "I Could Write A Rhyme" - Produced by Buckwild🔗](celphtitled.bandcamp.com/track/i-could-write-a-rhyme)

🎧[🔗Celph Titled - "The Final Word" (feat. L-Fudge) - Produced by Celph Titled🔗](celphtitled.bandcamp.com/track/the-final-word-feat-l-fudge)

💽[🔗Dutchmassive - "Soul Searchin'" (feat. Pack FM) - Produced by J. Rawls 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive/-soul-searchin-f-packfm-produced-by-j-rawls)

💽[🔗Dutchmassive - "Classic" - Produced by Celph Titled 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive/-classic-produced-by-celph-titled)

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"The More You Know 🌈" Organic Discovery Has Been Strategically, Slowly Sunset by Design...

Do The Ledge.
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‎Photo Captured 📷 Thursday, ‎November ‎12, ‎2015 in Tampa Bay, FL by Dutch.
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🎧[🔗Listen🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/reset)

Photo Captured 📷‎Thursday, ‎February ‎26, ‎2015 at [🔗Sam's Point Preserve, NY🔗](medium.com/@SolarSounds/shawangunk-stomp-the-story-of-dutchyyys-uproot-4235a4eb66ff) by Dutch.
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🎧 [🔗The Uproot - Side A - Demo Version 1/1 via Catalog Works🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-) 💽

🎧 [🔗The Uproot - Side B - Demo Version 1/1 via Catalog Works🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-b-demo-version-) 💽

📖 [🔗The Uproot - World Building 1/1 collection via Foundation 🔗](foundation.app/collection/uproot?sort=oldest) 🔺🔴🟥

Please visit the main collection page here:→ [Proof of life (continued...)](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4)← to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.

Video Captured 🎥 Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 6:22 PM
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While keeping the Music Nerd Himself, CXY updated on my slow & arduous progress multi-tasking sanitizing everything contiminated w/ toxic spores that I own while also trying to set up my new place so I can return to creative productivity, I must of caught the holy hip hop spirit because as soon as that beat came on, unplanned… Rapper mode Dutchmassive took over haha.
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This Documented Artifact is Edited out of order. The End of this video is when the beginning of this artifact w/ me Freestyling actually begins.
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If you want to hear more freestyles, last year C.Y. convinced me to release all 7 years of my daily ramble freestyles that were never meant to be released to public. 2015-2022.
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🎤 [🔗 The Reluctant Clap: Chapter V (Daily Rambles) 2020-2022 via Super Collector 🔗](release.supercollector.xyz/the-reluctant-clap-chapter-v-daily-rambles-dutchmassive)

🎤 [🔗 The Reluctant Clap: Chapter IV (Daily Rambles) 2018-2020 via Catalog Works 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive/the-reluctant-clap-chapter-iv-daily-rambles-)

🎤 [🔗 The Reluctant Clap: Chapter III (Daily Rambles) 2018 via Catalog Works 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive/the-reluctant-clap-chapter-iii-daily-rambles-)

🎤 [🔗 The Reluctant Clap: Chapter II (Daily Rambles) 2017 via Catalog Works 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive/the-reluctant-clap-chapter-ii-daily-rambles-)

🎤 [🔗 The Reluctant Clap: Chapter I (Daily Rambles) 2015 - 2016 via Catalog Works 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive/the-reluctant-clap-chapter-i-daily-rambles-)
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Track I.D.
🎵 Yesterdays New Quintent - Prelude (Instrumental)
🎵 The Procussions - Move Yer Self

Photo Captured 📷 3.21.14 in Palos Verdes, CA by Dutch
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You wouldn't believe the adventure this little nano shuffle has been on. I unfortunately lost it, while scaling the mountains of Shawangunk Ridge, crawling through thick brush to reach the ledge at 2am in Upstate New York later this year, but thankfully I have all the gems that were on this all backed up into a single folder on multiple drives...
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Leave A Comment with what songs I could have possibly had loaded up on this jawn. For everyone that guesses correctly. I'll Airdrop them a short video showing the tracklist. If anyone guesses at least 5 songs (one guess per comment) I'll either send you the folder via cloud storage or physically mail you it on USB.
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🎧[🔗Slow Dagger Stagger (Evolving Portals) - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/egyptian-daggers-evolving-portals-blast-radio-2-16-22)
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Beyond the BPM, the Music above is unrelated to the documented photos backstory but, Organic Discovery and all that Jazz...

Photo Captured 📷 2.24.14 in Los Angeles by Dutch.

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Stole my J Dilla (Stussy Collab) Cubeecraft 185% Mpc3000 for the day to remind myself to make music after absorbing Vitamin D.

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💽[🔗 1/1 via Catalog Works - "A DAY AT THE POOL" (Instrumental) - Produced by Dutchyy🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/a-day-at-the-pool)
🎵[🔗Stream here🔗](open.spotify.com/track/1T8LpUc8m014VlY3J5pd8S?si=73d33f714d7d4020) from the album "Yawn of the Gemini" released 2010
💽[🔗 1/1 via Catalog Works - "Esoteric" f/ C M O - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/esoteric-f-c-m-o-🔗)
🎵[🔗Stream here🔗](open.spotify.com/track/1XjRXoF9uLeYSFdSebZUBS?si=e4fafdb241bc4d06) from the album "Traversal" released 2016

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Music backstories unrelated to photo, but "Organic Discovery" and all that jazz.

Photo "Capture"d 📷 11.13.13 by Dutch.

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🎥 Video Document: Monday, March 11, 2024 at 2:38 PM

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🎧Track I.D.:🎧
🎵”Fanfare Jawn” - Produced by Dutchyyy
🎵 “I’ll House Yu” (During The Great Depression) - Produced by Dutchyyy

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Backstory:
2 hr’s of footage, sped up into 13 minutes of footage of meticulous sanitation of various collectables that i’ve acquired since the early 80’s to the present. I’m tired b. This is so much more difficult & a lot more time consuming than I had anticipated. Doing my best, please hold tight.
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Sincerely, The HobbyShop Hero.
🌀😷Dutchyyy Vs The Spores 🤢🦠
[🔗PASSTHEDUTCH.ORG🔗](linktr.ee/comptapefordutchyy)

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🎥 Video Documented: Saturday, March 9, 2024 at 3:55 PM 🔵

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🎧”Air Out Your Dojo” - Produced By Dutchyyy (2019) 🎧

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📖Backstory:

After fleeing the “Tropic States” (Tampa Bay, FL) After two separate places I Lived: Maybury (House 2017-2020) / Nantucket Bay aka “The Cursed 10x12” (Apartment 2020-2024) both, back to back that had ultra severe toxic mold. I was given the blessing of cross country relocation. Somewhere absent of Humidity ;)

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unfortunately, everything I placed in storage for 4 years was incubating that black mold, and everything I could fit into the cursed 10x12 while being the caretaker of my late grandmother was also actively incubating in multiple strands of toxic mold, A few weeks before I moved, most items in storage were brought to the apartment, mixing strands of spores. The only truely safe option was burn everything I owned and start over. But I didn’t pay 260 a month to store all these priceless artifacts from July 2020- Feb 2024 just to throw it all away. So I’ve spent every moment awake since I got the keys to new house (Feb 16th) Endlessly Scrubing w/ baking soda and vinegar, throwing out what definitely isn’t salvageable, and blasting Ozone during the small windows I’m able to drop my cat off at my friends house. The amount of legendary cultural relics & personal historic artifacts this Dojo holds awaiting to be fully Documented could without a doubt be the greatest example of world building / self doxing an artist / human has done to this date. A lot of challenges are ahead and I’m still battling challenges in the present but if I can manage to ensure re-contamination isn’t possible so I can focus on my other major health issues with a clear mind, and without the fear of basic survival the rest of 2024. I Promise to pull off the most robust, comprehensive and chronological act of Documentation / World Building that anyone has ever seen.

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[🔗PASSTHEDUTCH.ORG🔗](linktr.ee/comptapefordutchyy)

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Video Documented: Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 6:24 PM (CMT)

🏠🦠💨📚📓🎹🎧🎤🎨🖼️

If you’ve been following this out of character public documentation of the hardships usually kept private and used for fuel for Art then you probably already understand the context of this artifact.
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(TDLR: Summery - 2017 moved into a house in Tampa Bay, Infested with black mold the entire time through July 2020. Pandemic Pivot, Family Duty… Changed Course and instead of moving back to NY or Los Angeles, Was asked to move in with my 90+ Grandma as she was alone after losing both my grandfather & mother back to back all in that tiny apartment. July 2020, I put most of my stuff in storage (supposed to be short term) and moved what I could fit and be productive into the cursed 10x12 room I spent a decade trying to get my mother to leave. Time passed, my health got drastically worst. Turns out this apartment had been incubating mold for 20 years to the point it wiped nearly my entire family out. Nov 3rd, The cursed apartment claimed my Nana. Friends & Loved ones banned together to create 🔗[passthedutch.org](passthedutch.org) 🔗
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A compilation tape featuring some of the dopest music from the dopest producers & also created a go-fund to get me out of that death trap. The Go-fund me didn’t reach the goal, and the costs to pull of cross country relocation of this scale far far exceeds that goal anyway. Either way, Eternally grateful for spirit boon and aid and compassion. With the help of a very special music nerd that wouldn’t allow me to just roll over and give up, I was able to pull off this seemingly impossible relocation. 🫂
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Now the immediate context: I just relocated all my belongings across country. Everything I own has been absorbing and infested with those toxic spores. So step one. I purchased an Ozone machine to suck out all oxygen and kill all living organisms / bacteria. This will take multiple sessions, being I need to unpack and expose all of belongings, then after that. Will have to carefully wipe and sanitize everything before I even think about setting up my house and settling in or I risk being in the same toxic mold prison again Hahaha.
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I’m so so exhausted…. I just want to focus on creative projects, past due ones, new ones, but an unhealthy Dutch can’t be something I just quietly suffer through for the sake of consistency being artistically productive. I mean…. I’ve been consistent since the mid 90’s.
I hope grace is shown, and what I’ve already put out into the world up until now is still valued and appreciated while I do my best to get my health back on track so I can continue to create tiny ripples & push culture forward and lift those around me for a very long time.
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To be continued…

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Produced By: Dutchyyy
🎧using Ableton Live 12 BETA on an old malfunctioning Laptop 💻
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Picking up from the previous artifact’s backstory in this collection. (T.D.LR. - Long Moving Day, Hot Tub, Indica Gummy, ready for bed)➡️ So, that gummy kicked in hours later…. I’m staying at my friends house, where both he and his wife are sleeping & wake super early so being quiet is essential. My main PC is not put back together yet. All my headphones I just dropped off at my house, I remembered I installed the beta of Ableton Live 12 on this janky laptop the day before I left Tampa Bay, So I loaded it up, and quickly mangled & chopped some samples, evolved some portals, using my laptop speakers with volume at like 15% haha…
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Technically this ultra fuzzy low res creation presented in the worst sound quality possible is my first time creating since I closed the chapter on the “Cursed 10x12” Tampa Bay Arc and moved so I documented the moment in real time.
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Will I ever revisit and finalized this? Stay tuned?!

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Video Documented Wednesday, February 21, 2024 at 6:19 PM (CMT)

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Captured moments after the movers helped my transport all my belongings that I loaded onto a 24 foot trailer in Tampa Bay, and moved them all from that trailer into a 26ft U-Haul truck I rented, Then unloaded it all finally at my new house.

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Moments after this video was captured, I locked the door, returned the U-Haul truck, had my best friend heat up his jucuzzi, took a indica gummy… quietly soaked my achy body in the dark. Dried off, ready for bed, the gummy kicks in….. To be continued…

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[🔗Context via 1/1🔗](foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd/life-3fc3/13)
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Future Creative Spot Secured.

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Photo Captured: Friday / Feb 16th 2024 / 4:16pm (MST)
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[🔗CONTEXT/BACKSTORY🔗](zora.co/collect/zora:0x4cc5fbe2ea14d8fb62af7bdcff1ac0f8211daab4/4)

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Video Captured: Tuesday / Feb 13th, 2024 / 6:45am (EST) at Tampa International Airport. ✈
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[🔗PASSTHEDUTCH.ORG🔗](linktr.ee/comptapefordutchyy)
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soundtrack--->🎵💽↓
[🔗The Love🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive/-the-love-produced-by-remot)
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Peace Peace Tampa Bay.

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The context / backstory lives inside of the [🔗1/1🔗](foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd/life-3fc3/12)
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PASSTHEDUTCH.ORG
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[🔗Fundraiser - Created by Friends & Love Ones🔗](www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser-for-dutchyyy)
[🔗PassTheDutchCompilationTape🔗](organicbeatsessions.bandcamp.com/album/pass-the-dutch-compilation-2)
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Pass the Dutch is a collaborative compilation tape featuring the creative work of 34 exceptional artists, this album serves as a tribute to Dutchyyy, a respected OG of the beat community currently facing health and housing challenges. Each track is a unique expression of solidarity and appreciation for Dutch. All proceeds generated directly contribute to supporting Dutchyyy during this critical time. Thank you to our talented contributors for making this labor of love possible. Join us in honoring Dutchyyy through this musical journey. If you want to further explore Dutch's massive catalog of music or provide further support please visit [🔗passthedutch.org🔗](linktr.ee/comptapefordutchyy)

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Happy Birthday Nana! Thanks for the reminder Mom <3

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📖Backstory:📖

I've always been self aware of my strengths and weaknesses. If my life were a JRPG/MMO, I began with a specific stat distribution that would probably look something like this...
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🎨 - Creativity / Imagination [+ 10]
💪 - Strength [+ 3]
🛡 - Resilience [+ 8]
🧠 - I.Q. [+5]
💜 - E.Q. [+9]
🔭 - Focus / Retention [+1]
🩸 - HP [+3]
🏃‍♂️ - Stamina [+3]
⚠ - Awareness [+8]

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I was Diagnosed w/ both Scoliosis and Severe ADHD in Elementary School, My Parents couldn't afford the corrective back brace, but tried their hardest to get me to take Ritalin for my ADHD. I Refused the medication. I did horrible in school because I couldn't listen and write to take notes at the same time fast enough so I couldn't digest or retain anything taught, So instead I would just draw in class. This continued from Elementary School and all through High school. Eventually pivoting from Drawing to Writing Lyrics in Class Jr. High & High school (which paid off since my first release on vinyl happened while still in High school.
🔗[Discography](www.discogs.com/artist/244687-DutchMassive?superFilter=Credits)🔗
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From very early on in life, I leaned into Strengths and tried my hardest to level up my weaker stats, but all efforts always failed and I was hard on myself because it felt like despite my desire and determination, increasing those weaker stats was just out of my control.😥
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I've always been good with near perfect recall for memories attached to experiences, but I've never been able to retain things like numbers, dates, names of people, songs, etc, appointments, deadlines and so on. and I felt really bad about it because sticky notes, bookmarks, lists, journals only work if you remember to look at them.
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At this point, if you've read this far you're probably thinking "What does this have to do with your Grandma or mother?" So let me explain. 🗣
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My Mother saw how hard I would take forgetting my loved ones birthdays year after year and in 2013 she created an email alert system through google. Scheduling reminder alerts for me and my brother that trigger 10 minutes before that special day begins. I was so grateful for this and it helped me so much from that point on to not miss the chance to let special people in my life know that I love them.
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My Mother Debbie passed away in August of 2016, My Nana just recently passed away on Nov 3rd, 2023... She would have been 95 Today <3
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I have no idea how these alerts are still firing off almost a decade after my mom passed away but i'm so grateful they still are active, even tho it wasn't the best feeling waking up to seeing it's my Grandma's Birthday while I'm still alone in the 10x12 room in the apartment she lived in for decades that I moved into during the pandemic to be her caretaker. Since she has passed I've been treated horrible by Leasing Office, not letting me finish out the lease so I can get transparency on my health before I lose my county health coverage, Not even Evicting me, but playing dirty and pretending like I haven't been a resident here for years and slapping me with an unlawful detainer which is insane because my Grandmother was the longest living Tenant in this apartment complex, I've been coming here for decades, while they bought out the apartment complex a few years ago. They want me to move out, but do petty and unlawful things like deactivating my key card to access my mailbox or get in and out of the gate, even after telling them I'm moving out across the country and will be out by the 15th. My Grandmother would be so heart broken if she knew what they have been putting me through the past few months. So even though I'll be flying across the country on the 13th of February to a new home, free of toxic mold. I feel like my Grandma's looking down heart broken on her birthday seeing me in this apartment with all my belongings packed super stressed out trying to navigate the insane logistics and costs of moving long distance while my physical health is beyond severe and the reality of this move means I'm losing healthcare and taking on new expenses. My Grandma was such a doomer haha. I don't know if she's looking down proud of how I've been handling all of this and thankful for the people that have gone above and beyond to make this move in general a reality, or if she's upset I'm not fighting back when I was so close to getting transparency on my health.
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High emotion filled Artifact, Documenting Proof of life on a high emotioned filled day in what's been a high emotioned filled year. Happy Birthday Nana and Thank you for reminding me Mom 🙏

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Not the most conventional use case of documenting on chain huh? 📝

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Reality is, Life... whether you're an artist, consumer, collector or just a human existing isn't a road pathed with curated wins. There's a fine line between brand risk behavior and wearing your heart on your sleeve at the risk and creating parasocial dynamics. Thankfully, I am not a brand and if I were to be boxed into that label, wearing my heart (even broken) on my sleeve, being transparent and without a filter would be very "on brand" for me.

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What's the context / Backstory behind this artifact? What purpose does it serve in the grand scheme of world building?
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Well, The context leading up to this and why it's a significant artifact to document already exists on chain. Scattered across multiple platforms and multiple artifacts. This time, I'm not making it easy and pointing you to it.

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I will add context in the future explaining how traumatic, unfair and unbearable this last year existing in the "10x12" has been. For now, I'll just say... I'm trying my hardest, i'm not giving up and I hope to be able to document some inspiration on the other side of all this madness.

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[🔗Passthedutch.org🔗](linktr.ee/comptapefordutchyy)

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"Send me an Angel..... Send me Angel........Right Now...... Right Noooow" 🚲

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If I walked from my current location to the Portal of Hope in this photograph 2,223 miles away it would take 33.5 days.

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I see this photo and I see a future. I see days and nights spent sitting on that bench with my laptop in headphones getting lost in my DAW, getting sidetracked and pacing around the trees, quietly freestyling into my Tascam DR-05 [🔗"The Reluctant Clap: (Daily Rambles)"🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-reluctant-clap-daily-rambles) and if all goes well, eventually sitting at that bench and writing a new album as "Dutchmassive".

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Will I escape the swamp chapter and rebuild and heal during the desert chapter? Nothing is promised. Hope, Manifesting, Positive Affirmations. I spent a lifetime applying these practices. Life has a funny way of being very unpredictable and reality check you when you think hard work, preparation or consistency will guarantee the results you seek/expect. So this document is just a gesture of faith. Maybe soon in the future I will be able to follow up this artifact with an updated version where you can see Dutchyyy under those trees and on that bench doing what he does best. World Building via creative expression.

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[🔗passthedutch.org🔗](linktr.ee/comptapefordutchyy)

Dutchmassive - "S.O.S. Freestyle" (Daily Rambles) - Produced by thxk_u

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📖Backstory:

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The last documented freestyle (Daily Rambles) captured 7.25.2023 at 9:21pm EST. 🕘

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My long term friend and fellow emcee Will Widdoss sent me a voice message out of the blue in the form of a freestyle. He being on an android and me being on iPhone, I'm able to receive and listen to voice messages through text, but for some reason I can't record or send voice messages back to anyone using an android. So without pause, I loaded up this beat my man "thxk_u" sent me to write to and Immediately pressed record on video and began freestyling without thought as a reply haha. This would be the last recorded freestyle over a beat since.

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For more context around "The Reluctant Clap: Daily Rambles" Freestyle series which is separated into 5 different chapters (Spanning 2022-2015) with a total runtime of 283 minutes.

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Please visit:

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[🔗dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-reluctant-clap-daily-rambles🔗](https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-reluctant-clap-daily-rambles)

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Which Contains all 5 Chapters of the Freestyle series in reverse chronological order, with the track titles, production credits and links to where each separate album exists onchain w/ very detailed backstory into the series.

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Also, please show the producer behind this particular artifact some love:

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[🔗thxk-u.bandcamp.com🔗](https://thxk-u.bandcamp.com)

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I felt it was important to document the continued theme of real time documentation of the creative process (Flow State) across multiple creative disciplines in my starter pack before diving into the rest of 3 decade career that brought me to this point.

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🔗[The Context](foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd/life-3fc3/7)🔗

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"ah sh*t here we go again"

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History Repeats.

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[🔗"The Uproot" SIDE A 1/1 🎵 via Catalog Works💽](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-)

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[🔗"The Uproot" SIDE B 1/1 🎵 via Catalog Works💽](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-b-demo-version-)

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[🔗Further Context: Passthedutch.org🔗](linktr.ee/comptapefordutchyy)

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📌Pop that Buhloone Mindstate 🎈



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"With eyes on the prize, you're reaching the wrong side and a balloon (Buhloone) mind state can only fly so high / tie down that ego, make sure it doesn't escape / or i'll be behind you to make sure that it deflates / play date with destiny, solitude is my fate / till the day one's taste is no longer considered hate" - By Design.


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🔗[1/1 🎵 via Catalog Works💽](beta.catalog.works/dutchmassive/-by-design-)🔗


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🔗[1/1 📸 via Foundation](foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd/life-3fc3/11)🔗

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So at least for the past decade, my best friend I've known since the mid eighties is usually the only one who sends me gifts. 🎁 He is very intentional, thoughtful and puts a lot of carefully tailored curated love behind this process. He also knows me better than anyone else, so i'm always blown away by the relics he sends me each year, like he is trying to level up and outdo himself each year that passes. Me usually being alone during the holidays, while also being a lifelong collector of tangible artifacts. I can't properly articulate the level of gratitude and appreciation I have for this ritual he's created and has continued for so long. An assortment of refined intel into my love of music, video games and nerd culture in general. 👵 In July of 2020, I was asked to move in with my 90+ year old grandmother who wasn't adjusting well to living alone during the Pandemic after losing both her daughter on 8.19.16 (My Mom) & her husband on 8.1.19 (My Grandpa) since they all lived in this apartment together for over a decade. ⬇ She was always the saddest during the holidays and refused to celebrate them after I moved in. Which I wasn't expecting, but didn't phase me since I was already used to not treating holidays like every other day. ⬇ If you're familiar with me, my artistic career and what was ultimately the catalyst to hard pivoting to documenting my legacy via blockchain, you likely know my own personal health has been rapidly declining, which seemed to expedite shortly after moving into this 10x12 room in this tiny apartment. Why is this important context? because as someone who has spent 3 decades documenting and collecting creative expression through art and music naturally and consistently, there's no better catalyst than the fear of realistically sooner than most would expect approaching mortality during a turbulently evolving / ever changing technological time & the fear of your life's work and legacy being erased after you're gone to greatly enhance that already inherit love and desire to document moments, memory, music, proof of life. ⬇ So with both of our health being really bad, we would often joke about who would pass away first, 90+ year old Nana or 40+ year old Dutch... Light hearted humor in the face of very difficult times is tried and true effective coping mechanism =) ⬇ Last December (2022) my grandmother was very low on hope, cheer, happiness and my patience for respecting her desire to pretend the holidays don't exist was greatly over powered by my desire to make sure she and I didn't leave this earth without creating at least one last "happy holidays" memory. So, I grabbed all mothers xmas decorations from my storage, set everything up while she was out and made sure I saved a few presents my best friend sent me early December to open on xmas morning, while she sat and watched me in hopes it would lift her spirits. (Foreshadowing Reference in the video context: My best friend always sends me unique snacks, hard to find ramen, spices along with these packages. I did not have the patience to hold off until xmas to open those and eat them. I did get myself sick because of this (my body doesn't react normally or well to food these days) so when I opened the card labeled [🚫NFT] It was like he saw into the future haha, Like I said, my dear friend Eric knows me too well. ⬇ Filming this process was not something I would usually do, I only did so to send the video to my friend since he never gets to see how excited I am opening his gifts. This isn't something I would usually document on chain, being so niche & personal, but my efforts were not in vain, since that experience seemed to really life my Nana's spirits up and brought us a lot closer. My instinct to document that moment in time for the reason I did was sadly also on point because  that was the last time my grandmother would have a chance to celebrate the holidays.. 🤶 💔 She passed away recently, on November 3rd, 2023. [94 years old] ⬇ I was very reluctant and hesitant as a 40+ year old man, who's passion and favorite pastime is creating music, exploring nature and sharing memories with friends to self isolate myself to a tiny apartment in a city I keep trying to leave behind me for many reasons, and while it's true this choice came with a lot of serious downsides that added to my health declining worse. Through these past few years, I was able to break through my grandma's very thick emotional walls and connect and bond. She never understood or respected why after 3 decades of releasing music and it not providing the monetary value for the time I dedicated to it. That always stung, if I'm being honest but after living with her and her getting the chance to see first hand how much time, effort, hard work and love into creative expression and then seeing letters, emails, messages from the people that creative expression has deeply impacted. She was super proud of me, was amazed and interested in seeing how I edit and sequence visuals w/ music the most. She, along with most of my friends, have zero understanding of blockchain technology, but thanks to the amazing humans I've met through collecting my work. They absolutely appreciated and cheered me on seeing it having a tangible impact on improving my quality of life during a time when I was isolated in this 10x12 room I am writing this backstory from. ⬇ I will forever be grateful for the positive and impactful moments I got to share with my grandmother in her last days and I'm eternally grateful to everyone who helped play a part in showing her that time spent on documenting creative expression is valuable and the farthest thing on earth from a waste of time. ⬇ Heavy Backstory I know, but intentional transparent world building is something this carefully curated and crafted virtual landscape we all are collectively immersed in feels important. It may feel heavy at times but this life we are blessed with is "Still Wonderful" ⬇ Happy Holidays... Sincerely, Dutch - 12.25.2023

Hidden Alias Unlocked! 🔓 ⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🎹Undisciplined Chord Fumbler, Sonofziggy. 🎹 ⬛⬛⬛⬛ This is 1:35 minute snippet from the 17:15 song "Long Story Short" (Day 10)[Part I] which was the second to last song created in the series in 2020, before revisiting this series and this session one last time in early 2021 and adding a touch of "Evolving Portals" to the final track in the series "Long Story Short" (Day 10) [Hiatus - Part II] ⬛◼◾▪ This one take, long form documented series was birthed in 2014 in Upstate New York, After reuniting w/ my pops "Ziggy" on a secluded mountain "Sam's Point Nature Preserve" ⬛ Long Story Short, We had not spoken in over a decade prior to that visit that turned into a year living together, healing wounds, and bonding... ⬛⬛⬛⬛ We both talk a lot....  Long Winded..      I must get it from my pops because the most common phrase that comes out of his mouth is "Long Story Short" ⬛⬛⬛⬛ This series was born after taking turns playing each other music that we loved..  He was putting me on to his abstract Jazz Fusion and Folk, Prog Rock Collection, and I was putting him onto hip-hop, and I obviously made a lot of music while there.   ⬛⬛⬛⬛ One day he said, 💬 "Dutch, I really dig your music, but I don't understand what your doing, you're not playing an instrument, your just sampling other peoples music" ⬛I did my best to show him I turned Samples into instruments, but he kept taunting me.... ⬛So I said ⬛⬛💬"Bet!. I don't know music theory and don't play instruments (other than the drums) but let's turn this into a fun challenge you can witness as it happens"  ⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ So on October 1st, 2014...    "Long Story Short" (Day One) was created in front of him, in real time, one take, fumbling through the unknown and recording the entire process. ⬛⬛⬛ A Few Days Later,  I Began uploading the series on a secret soundcloud account. ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🔴soundcloud.com/son-of-ziggy🔴 ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ I would dabble with the series over the next few years, all using the same process...   One Take, Long Form, Improv Sessions Documented. ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛ This unlocked my affinity for creating live, in the moment in completely unknown territory.  I had already been freestyling since the mid 90's, but something about recording these long form sessions lit my neurons on fire in a way, intentionally creating and finalizing a track no longer did. ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛ The Daily Rambles (Reluctant Clap) Series was born a year later. ⬛⬛⬛⬛ 2015-2022 Tascam DR-05 Freestyles: ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🔴dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-reluctant-clap-daily-rambles🔴 ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ...and around mid 2018, "Evolving Portals" began, A Series with the same principle and methods applied, only I do this with creating instrumentals in the DAW...   ⬛ I still make "normal/digestible" music, but honestly, I'd rather just enter the flow state and have fun experimenting in the great unknown and documenting the entire process. ⬛ I can't create a starter pack on blockchain without paying tribute to the first piece of art/music I minted... ⬛ On 2.5.21 I minted "Long Story Short" (Day 8) on Rarible... ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🔴 rarible.com/token/0x60f80121c31a0d46b5279700f9df786054aa5ee5:185748 🔴 ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ and I haven't stopped adding art/music to the forever library since... ⬛ If you would like to own the 1/1 of the photo taken moments before my rapid little fingers began this series. ⬛ You can view/collect it below, where I do more world building around my albums and chapters in life in general. ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🔴foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd/uproot/13🔴 ⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛ Unlock the alias officially?!?!? ⚪ Maybe I'll return to recording this series and release some sessions that never left my hard drive <3

A 10 minute video snippet of the 5 hour live stream on twitch.tv/peacepeacegawd where I flipped my own submission samples live on stream directly after the listening / playback stream in the Catalog Works Discord.

The full 31:13 minute audio version will available as a 1/1 to listen to and/ or collect via Catalog Works (w/ a much more in depth back story)

beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy

For Reference, Catalog Works has been hosting sample challenges in their discord since 2022 where they reach out to an artist to submit samples and let anyone join the discord server to participate in submitting their flips. At the end of the allotted time frame given. We all join in on the playback stream in discords and play everyone's submissions. Super fun and super wholesome. I encourage you to join in on future Catalog Cook Off Sample Challenges, whether as someone who joins in to participate or as someone who just wants to join in as a spectator to experience the magical playback streams.

discord.gg/anQaySmwH5

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Context:

"Cook Off 008 kicks off today, with samples provided by the one and only @Dutchyyy" - Athena [02/03/2023 12:15 PM]

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]

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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 =)

Closing words:

It was important for me to include a visual representation of me #EvolvingPortals in my starter pack. I've been creating and releasing music for 3 decades, that's so many chapters to cover. A lot of finished and released albums, a lot of unreleased music, multiple aliases etc but the past few years I've leaned into documenting the full imperfect long form creative process and it's the most fun i've ever had with music.

With emceeing that's #DailyRambles
With Instruments that's my #LongStoryShort series
& with music production in general that's #EvolvingPortals

"Music Nerd" (Evolving Portals) f/ cxy
Produced by: Dutchyyy

10 Min snippet of the 130 minute long “Music Nerd” (Evolving Portals)

Backstory:

I originally asked cxy what his favorite songs were last year so I could flip them.. but instead of just making easily digestible normal beats I went further and further down the rabbit hole and rode the flow state express into the most obscure, break sh*t on purpose, experimental Jazz spirit and Evolved Portals every time I opened up the session…. I later asked C.Y. If he had any recordings of him having convos because the way he thinks and speaks about music resonates so hard with my “The Process itself is way cooler than the shiny finish product” and he sent me a podcast. What a gold mine of cherished words. I almost feel bad attaching them to me just nerding out and getting weird with music and recording the entire process live. It’s such a frustrating reality knowing we let technology re-program us so systematically to have the smallest attention spans and be self aware that only 2% (if that) will actually digest a 10 minute video fully…. 130 minutes hahah. I’m so bored with creating and consuming conventional, short form music & videos. Even if it’s objectively dope…. I’ve consumed so much dope music in my lifetime…. And made so much conventional music. That I need to hear and make stuff that draws outside of lines and catches me off guard to fire off those neurons or I get bored quickly…. Taking the concept of music nerd so far, kids will be on a space station in the future geeking out and sampling my madness. There’s quite literally no one else that does what I do at the level I do or in the excess I do…. There’s no market for it, no trophies, and no attention spans. I've done conventional for years. Art is boundless, Theory is human made. Music is an expression that's so subjective. Why did we allow so much time to pass all following these conventional rules? Intro, verse, chorus, verse, bridge outro. Mixing, Mastering, Track Length, Genre, Single, EP, Album. Sound is cosmic... There are no rules. Just express, transmute and document.

Trying to create a starter pack for a 3 decade career seems challenging. Overwhelming amount of history, context and a vast discography. Evolution.

So let's start closer to the present. The consistent artist bored w/ boxes, rebelling against the meta & nerding out having fun creating in the flow state and documenting that real time process, mistakes and all.

Love to cxy.eth for entering my life when he did and showing me I wasn't alone in valuing the process more than the final shiney, polished result.

If there is only one thing I can leave behind to define who Dutch is it's this.

"Peace Peace, My name is Dutch and I am a lifelong living example of a Music Nerd. Music is the healer. Tiny Ripples"

#EvolvingPortals

"1981 I Simply slid in the place, Dutchyyy Dutchyyy Dutchyyy all up in your face"

💾 BEATS 🎹

🔊 Dutchyyy fka Dutchy [1995 - Future?]

📓 RHYMES 🎤

🔊 Dutchmassive [1995 - Future?]

📖 LIFE 🌱

🎧 Dutch [1981 - Future?]

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⏳ How does one condense decades of creating, collecting & cultivating cultural artifacts into a starter pack? The multi-disciplined undisciplined day dreamer. treating ADHD as a superpower, Transmuting experience, imagination & emotion into tangible & intangible expressive reality since the moment I was conceived until the moment I no longer breathe ⌛

Then I'll do it again in the next life. 🌠

#PeacePeaceGawd

✌✌🙏

RIP Organic Discover. The Algorithms killed the internet star.

Let Nature Reclaim The Planet.

soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/reset

Backstory:

A Photo I took in my friends backyard who barely earned a living collecting scrap metal. I was always perplexed by his choice to do this, because beyond driving all around town burning gas searching for items people discarded, He would spend an insane amount of time breaking down and sorting things to turn into the scrap yard. Not the ideal ROI if time, but he enjoyed it.

This image of Nature growing through Circuitry really resonated w/ me. It perfectly fit the theme of the series of albums I was working on at the time.

"The Uproot"

Side A:
beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-

Side B:
beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-b-demo-version-

&

"Traversal"

Side A:
beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-traversal-side-a-grand-garden-cassette-masters-

Side B:
beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-traversal-side-b-grand-garden-cassette-masters-

Further World Building / Context:
foundation.app/@PeacePeaceGawd?tab=collections