Lo-fi

I've been working on music with a completely different process from the way I did in 2021 and this track from the archives really represents how I was working last year. I'm putting it out on the blockchain to remind myself I have different processes with music making, I keep shifting gears, taking breaks or going all out. It's kind of like swimming in an ocean of ideas and this is one of them!

Swim

Oceantied

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

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

Dutchyyy

Breather #4

Yung.Raj

every day, we get a chance to start again

its a new day

allem iversom

Teen Daze - Neon In The Rain

Teen Daze

'Orbit' is a collaborative track between myself and guitarist, Foster Pace.

Sweeps - Orbit

Sweeps

// Station A // Overview

Travel Poems is music for explorers. Step aboard here, to embark – together we'll roam city and sea and stars.

This is the complete LP for Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea in pure form, uniquely as one continuous journey.

As of this pressing, there are 3 chapters of Travel Poems, each a distinct story.

// Station B // Waypoints

The air is made of music.

Atoms play, particles dance, ripe notes fall from shaking trees. Wherever we go, melodies appear — soundtracks begin performing themselves.

This collection of Travel Poems was composed around the world, recorded on dozens of pianos, each song carrying, bottled, the essence of a place in a peculiar moment. Each song is a postcard.

Every postcard comes from somewhere. Just as important, the recipient of a postcard is, however faintly and briefly, transported to the location+mind coordinates of its authorship.

So it might seem.

// Station C // Track Notes

0:00 de Lune Mécanique
1:52 Loss
3:28 The Storm Heaves in the Distance
8:16 Oak Island
11:22 Teufelssee Tower
17:19 Fine Day to Risk It All
20:46 On Old Delancey
22:35 Noguchi Beach
28:22 Turtle on the Moon
31:34 Epilogue

01 – de Lune Mécanique

dear Claire, the day is unwound, like the springs of a clock, slowing to a stop. Your words pass through me when I see a sky filled with clouds, those really big ones, when they are the size of gods and it seems impossible that they might dissipate, but of course they do, the moment we stop noticing. I wish to cultivate that magic ... the ability to traverse into another realm, under the illusion of disappearance.

This song comes from memories of the first caretaker.

Solo Fender Rhodes by Eric Pan, recorded in Cemetery  Friedhof Lilienthalstraße, Berlin, Germany.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Eircom / Silencyo / Leandros.Ntounis / Rhapsodize / FractalStudios

02 – Loss

Claire, you once said that life is not complicated, but impossible to understand. I feel it now. I know this is mourning and yet I’ve no idea how to mourn. I don’t know if I even existed in the same universe as she did. You know, these libraries of shared memories, I can roam the hallways endlessly. They’re transcendent. So when I also die, this architecture still stands. Sunlight pools on the courtyard stones, and streams through the wood window frames. The garden sprouts with flowers anew even without witness.

This song comes from the universal constant.

Solo piano by Eric Pan, recorded in Greenwich Village, New York.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Lgarrett / Vampirella17 / Glaneur de sons / Leosalom / Northern87

03 – The Storm Heaves in the Distance

Claire, is there anything so exciting as an approaching conflagration? I invite you to join me: burrow NOW through this postcard, following the twists and spins of this very personalized, one-of-a-kind wormhole I have hand-crafted for you (just say “yes” to wending your way through time and space™), and let’s climb above the McKibben Lofts to watch the incoming fury together (popcorn included).

This song comes from the angel protectorate.

Recorded at TRIXX Studios, Berlin, with Eric Pan (Fender Rhodes), Nir Sabag (drums), and Hugo Reydet (bass).

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Juskiddink / Therabidfrog / FlatHill / YleArkisto / Yoyodaman234 / SpliceSound / InspectorJ

04 – Oak Island

Claire, this is going to drive you crazy, so be it (ha). I want you to tell me more about that kiss you shared with a stranger who rode up on her bike near the Williamsburg bridge. Aren’t there any extra details you have been keeping secret, or that you can remember in a flash when prompted spontaneously, oh for example, now?? It’s such a crucial parable for our times I think. The hero we need, etc. Hello from Ometepe where the water is divine.

This song comes from conspiratorial love and its hidden excitements.

Recorded at Douglass Studios, Brooklyn, with Eric Pan (piano), Sebastian Chiriboga (drums), and Dean Torrey (bass).

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: TheWorkingBamboo / CasaAsiaSons

05 – Teufelssee Tower

Claire my sweet, I have been blessed with extraordinary luck. One part of it is knowing you are somewhere, ear bent in kindness and infinite wisdom, my lifeline even amid the most absurd times. The other part is — guess who just played a pipe organ from 1435? I can’t even believe that is a possible year that once was like a “thing”. Just imagine walking down the street and getting cross at some young adult punks who grew up in the 1420s.

This song comes from the deep, infinite wellspring of irreverence.

Solo piano by Eric Pan, recorded in Valais, Switzerland.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Owl / Thatjeffcarter / Staikov / DisasterServices / Genghis attenborough / Freesoundjon01 / Pulswelle / Klankbeeld

06 – Fine Day to Risk It All

Claire, your letters came in a bundle all at once, for which I bear fault due to my confusing forwarding address situation. I’m nowhere near the University of Latvia anymore. I have been living underground as part of a “sleep experiment”, a community of people with alarmingly different histories. It’s as idyllic as life can be without any access to sunlight. Did I say the crowd is absolutely delightful? I need to get out of here.

This song comes from one’s personal fight for freedom.

Recorded at TRIXX Studios, Berlin, with Eric Pan (piano), Nir Sabag (drums), and Hugo Reydet (bass).

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Martypinso / Venaportae / MDRivet

07 – On Old Delancey

Claire, there is a pair of orange blossoms here in Seville, that are so vibrant, standing next to them transported me to one magical spring afternoon when you and I ate ginormous gelatos while biking dangerous speeds down through Manhattan to Red Hook. Of course you remember I abandoned you at the concert later that night (I’m still sorryyy, though isn’t it wild what drama we invented on the reg) BUT! do you also remember the music? Those were the most gorgeous out-of-tune folk songs I ever heard or will ever hear in my life.

This song comes from a love unbound by time.

Solo piano by Eric Pan, recorded in Valais, Switzerland.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Tams_kp / Ecfike

08 – Noguchi Beach

Claire, I am writing to you from a treehouse near a hydroelectric dam, on the edge of Montana lilting to the Canadian north. Have you found a cure for your restlessness? I have recently discovered that I am most capable of improvising when at peace, and somehow it works the other way too: noodling around on a musical instrument, or in a well-stocked kitchen, delivers me into calm like fine mists upon a rainforest. When the polyphony of life is hard to endure, let go? I’m so awkward in the role of advice-giver. But I’m sending you pine needles anyway and they can speak for me from here on out.

This song comes from constant rediscovery.

Solo Fender Rhodes by Eric Pan, recorded in Saint Malo, France.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Q.K. / Dobroide / LukeIRL / Benboncan / LG / InspectorJ / Soundskeep / Leady

09 – Turtle on the Moon

Claire, when you paint, do you ever feel you are being painted? Like any sense of channeling or interpreting or in some way working in the context of a greater force. When we first breached the clouds on this flight, I could see the setting sun and full moon on opposite sides of the plane, bringing me in visceral contact with the cosmic oneness. You might tell me it’s a trick of the brain, or just a component of the powerful stories we tell ourselves. (Your voice rings clearly in my head, I only saw you six hours ago.) But for a moment I was in the center of creation, and let me tell you: though we don’t realize it, we are actually always there.

This song comes from the sense of limitless possibility.

Solo piano by Eric Pan, recorded in Steinway Hall, 57th Street, New York.

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Loopbasedmusic / _﻿_O

10 – Epilogue

Scored with found sounds credited to these curators: Manuel Calurano / Rmutt / Andy_Gardner

// Station D // Collector Perks

This is a 1/1 Catalog NFT album (minted uniquely as one continuous track) composed, performed, and pressed by Eric Pan (pandelic.eth).

Every owner of a pandelic.eth Catalog NFT also receives unlimited, “golden ticket” download access to Eric's entire published music catalog, in resolutions up to MP3 V0 and lossless WAV. As of this pressing, this includes the following:

+ Travel Poems . Chapter 1 . Secret towns (LP)
+ Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea (LP)
+ Travel Poems . Chapter 3 . There is no path back (LP)
+ Lullabies of the Pleiades (EP)
+ goodnight margaret wise brown (single)
+ the year the shipwreck became beautiful (single)
+ Extras: full-resolution cover art, liner notes, music videos

Every collector with golden-ticket status also has access to Eric Pan’s future music+extras as they become published. Collectors ready to redeem downloads can email gm@ericpan.org at any time for access, as well as in case of any questions.

More expansive and exclusive perks will be unveiled over time.

// Station E // Co-conspirators and Credits

Trilogy album recorded in countries across four continents by Eric Pan and Brian Trahan
Mixed by Brian Trahan in New York and Berlin
Mastered by Ruairi O’Flaherty in Los Angeles
Restated and categorized credits for found-sound collaborators at https://travelpoems.com
Album artwork by Krys Unverzagt
Released under Falling Sea

Eric Pan - Travel Poems . Chapter 2 . The night sea

Eric Pan

this is what my mac mini sounds like
this is am interlude from a project
there is a hurricane coming
and i have severe weather anxiety
and this helps me 
so i hope it helps you

remcycles - MAC MINI.mp3

remcycles

Devin Morrison - Rosemont Villas

Devin Morrison

REVOLUCIÓN

#0111 // CHICANO FOREVER  
#0211 // RIDE WITH ME  
#0311 // FLY AWAY BIRDIE  
#0411 // THE LONELY BIRD  
#0511 // SEARCHING FOR SHELTER  
#0611 // TRIBE OF THE PEOPLE  
#0711 // EL REY  
#0811 // MAMASITA  
#0911 // CHICKENHEAD  
#1011 // GOBIERNO  
#1111 // KIDS IN CAGES

FLY AWAY BIRDIE

SAGRADO

LUCID

#0107 // RIGHT ON TIME  
#0207 // MELANCOLÍA  
#0307 // FREE FROM MIND  
#0407 // ALEGRÍA  
#0507 // ALIVE  
#0607 // SANGRÍA  
#0707 // PANORAMIC

ALEGRÍA

happy holidays y'all <3 

thank you everyone for supporting and listening to my lofi series i've been dropping over the last month. it means so much to me and is so cool seeing everyones reaction to it. here is the final installment of the series, its the full tape mixed together and includes two songs that are not going to be released independently of this tape - so they will be exclusive and only available on the tape.

free mint presale for everyones who's minted any of the lofi tracks so far :)

hope everyone has a good end of the year and get ready for some new and different vibes in the new year! got a lot of fun stuff planned.

mark

lofi tape #13

Mark Evans

I love the unique timbre of a felted piano. Placing felt between the hammers and strings of a piano changes the instrument's tone, accentuating its percussive quality and bringing out subtle resonances.

I wanted to highlight that ethereal sound in Drift. The song is composed of changing patterns that create a rhythmic flow. The meditative ostinato moves into a more percussive section before receding into its daydream. I wanted the two contrasting ideas to blend together, with one drifting into the other.

My music features repeating melodic ideas that gradually layer and develop creating a hypnotic energy and a contemplative ambiance. 

I recorded Drift on a Kohler & Cambell at Christopher Lippincott's studio in East Nashville. 

