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
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.
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
*****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...
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.
beautiful backstory my friend..if i lived on that side of the world i'd have paid you a visit during that time in a heartbeat 🖤 love the snare on the track and them keys hitting the spot ✨
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...
📷 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...
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:
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.
⬇️
From 1995 to present, I've done what feels like an endless amount of Collaboration.
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.
Photo Captured 📷 Thursday, November 12, 2015 in Tampa Bay, FL by Dutch ⬇️
Funfacts: 📖🎉
1️⃣
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 ;)
2️⃣
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. ⬇️ 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. ⬇️ 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)...
Photo Captured 📷 3.21.14 in Palos Verdes, CA by Dutch ⬇ 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... ⬇ 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. ⬇ 🎧[🔗Slow Dagger Stagger (Evolving Portals) - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/egyptian-daggers-evolving-portals-blast-radio-2-16-22) ⬇ Beyond the BPM, the Music above is unrelated to the documented photos backstory but, Organic Discovery and all that Jazz...
0x26ef
Fence Sitting
🎧[🔗ALLMOST - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/allmost) 1/1
#organicdiscovery #traversal #chillgawdchill #dutchyyy
Remain Anonymous
🎧[🔗Ras Kass - "Remain Anonymous" 1994🔗](www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcNIZGMJnvA)
#Traversal #Dutchyyy
wrong side of the tracks
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
grateful of all time
🎧[🔗"BY DESIGN." - Dutchmassive🔗](samthesleezbag.bandcamp.com/album/sleezbagmekalektape) 💽
Yetiville
🎧[🔗?🔗](samthesleezbag.bandcamp.com/album/sleezbagmekalektape)
all cats go to heaven
Rest in peace Sandy Duncan (Socket) <3
🎧[🔗Anticipation Suite - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/anticipation-suite-f-aji-dastan-)💽 1/1
greatest of all climbs ⇡
🎧 [🔗Lua Cheia (f/ Kaelin Ellis) - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/lua-cheia-f-kaelin-ellis-) 💽1/1
Sun (WILL) Set
🎧[🔗Sun Will Set - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/sun-will-set)
up against a wall
🎧[🔗NATUREBOYKICKSNARE EP - DUTCHYYY🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/natureboykicksnare-ep)
🍃[🔗VIEW ENTIRE ORGANIC DISCOVERY COLLECTION🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xbe96be7547a203ebff86c815a1feb27d47407cbd)
A Divine Proportion
🎧[🔗NATUREBOYKICKSNARE EP - DUTCHYYY🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/natureboykicksnare-ep)
🍃[🔗VIEW ENTIRE ORGANIC DISCOVERY COLLECTION🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xbe96be7547a203ebff86c815a1feb27d47407cbd)
light at the end
🎧[🔗NATUREBOYKICKSNARE EP - DUTCHYYY🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/natureboykicksnare-ep)
🍃[🔗VIEW ENTIRE ORGANIC DISCOVERY COLLECTION🔗](zora.co/collect/base:0xbe96be7547a203ebff86c815a1feb27d47407cbd)
The Release...
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
Archeologist (The Freshest Mint)
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
Two Planets Away
🎧[🔗HEAVY - Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/heavy)💽
Once Upon A Time... (in memory of touching grass)
"Use it"
🎧[🔗Listen Here🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/fortruss-radio-edit)
SAVE POINT
↓
Listen Below:
🎧[🔗 Walk In Your Shoes - Prod by: Dutchyyy 🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/walk-in-your-shoes)
#Traversal #TheUproot
PASSING ME BY (my deer x 3)
🎧[🔗 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
🎵🦌🌳
111111 $enjoy
Lost in Translation
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
shoutout Mecca83 for the lore
inspiring as always Dutchyyy much love and big ups
111111 $enjoy
MANNA (Evolution of a Shrug)
↓
Listen Below:
🎧💽[🔗"Evolution of a Shrug"🔗](beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy/evolution-of-a-shrug)
📖[🔗"THE UPROOT" / CONTEXT CONTINUED🔗](foundation.app/collection/uproot?tab=description)
Solo In (E)Motion
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)
Extinction Level Event
📖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)
Habit_at
⬇️
Moments before creating [🔗"Extra Introverted Extroverts"🔗](open.spotify.com/track/0MaaOjoXA854SvU6WizPBY?si=a74e095fb474423a) from ["TRAVERSAL"](beta.catalog.works/playlists/b13d34d2-caff-4245-8d7e-859295a2a737)
1777 $enjoy
love it 12000 $ENJOYProtect the lifestream
⬇️
Cloud Strife & J Dilla: protecting gaia and my studio from Shinra.
⬇️
🎧🎶[🔗Fanfare Jawn -Produced by Dutchyyy🔗](dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/track/materia-a-fanfare-jawn-ff7-challenge-portals) <-Listen
COLLABORATE AND LISTEN
⬇️
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.
⬇️
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.
NO AMPLIFIED SOUND
⬇️
[🔗📖Backstory/context/listen/watch🎧🔗](foundation.app/mint/eth/0xC35407130cE86eCab7d670E4D6405E9bD9391E8e/8)
WhoSampled?... What Sample?
⬇️
Funfacts: 📖🎉
1️⃣
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 ;)
2️⃣
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.
⬇️
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.
⬇️
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)...
⬇️
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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Can you hear what I see?
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🎧[🔗Listen🔗](soundcloud.com/dutchmassive/reset)
never trust cheap turntables
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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) 🔺🔴🟥
20 to 38.5 beats per minute = Snail BPM
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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...
Pool (Type Beat)
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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.
IMAGINE, INSPIRE, CREATE