Trying to take a very necessary tiny break from my office work, extending the weekend with an additional 'free' day, it's time for spreading some vibes. Did all the 'research' work yesterday but wasn't able to start writing this post. Somehow the energy wasn't there and the feeling (well, the feeling is more a fact than just a feeling) not too many hive users do appreciate blog posts coming from my hands.... oops... "stay positive edje! you are not in the 'rant' corner and this post should be about positivity!"
{starting again}
Last Saturday was THE day, the first club event I've been to in like 2 years. Not 100% true, since the last Amsterdam Dance Event back in October 2021, I've been to 3 club parties on 3 consecutive days. But let's not count those. Being mentally a little tired, these few hours did some good stuff to my mental state. For a few hours, I was able to truly live in the moment, re-connected with some old party friends, and enjoyed a good atmosphere, including the music itself. I even recorded some video's, so there is a slight chance that I dedicate a post to this evening.
{still not what this post should be about!}
A few decades ago when I was in full-on discovery mode, I made a habit of going to tiny club events when they had artists on their lineups, which I never heard about. Not being someone who has record players at home, not someone who discover artists through their own releases, it was the 'only' way for me to discover the crème-de-la-crème. Note that back in the days, no YouTube, no Soundcloud, no online shizzle.
not entirely true: WWW just started, Napster was established a little later, followed by Soulseek a few years after that. But my discovery started before WWW saw the light of day and continued for at least a decade or two in such ways. These days, the discovery of artists is made so easy with services like Soundcloud, Beatport, Bandcamp and even Spotify and TIDAL and the likes. No need for roaming the tiny underground events anymore. Actually, these days it's super hard to find those since Techno became mainstream in the electronic dance segment with plenty of events every single weekend... ok ok ok during covid times not so many events, but soon they will be around again :)
Many well known and less(er) well-known artists today, I learned about back in these days. Thinking about the artist of which I'm sharing some albums today (further down this post), I wonder how I got to him. Was it this 'traditional' tiny club event hunting that brought Heiko Laux to my attention? Or was it through a mutual friend I learned about him? Since yesterday I'm searching through my grey mass that resides somewhere in the upper side of my head, for the answer. Apparently, without much success. While writing, I still don't know. That said: Is it that important? No, not really, though I find it a little annoying. Heiko deserves the memory! Not only his music and his performances I truly like, but this guy also stayed close to the roots of what techno is all about.
in this post I'm not gonna explain what techno is, or was, about. have been writing about this in previous posts and comments. though when you like me to explain, just drop a comment below and I try my best to give you a glimpse into my world of techno and what this music suppose to be about.
Roaming around our blockchain, I realised I've introduced you to Heiko before (here). As well as I've introduced you to this album 'Fernweh' some years ago (here: the link to the album is broken though). Released back in 2014, it is still his latest album (nope, he didn't stop, he is still around, playing, creating and releasing under Kanzleramt). An album I really like, and one that I like to share with MiPiano in particular.
MiPiano: Our hyperactive piano playing HIVE user is super interested to learn about the electronic music genre. This album plus the two remix albums is therefore not to be disregarded.
Here we go...
A year after the release of the original, two additional 'Fernweh' albums got released containing remixes of several of the original tracks. The first one contains 5 tracks in its digital release. The vinyl release contains 3 tracks only. Sometimes so confusing how this is done, different media, different amount of tracks. I suppose it's all about maximising confusion {LOL} To add to the confusion, the playlist below counts 6 tracks.
The second remix album was released the same year (2015) and holds 6 tracks in its digital format. Again, the vinyl release has fewer tracks, 4 in total. The playlist below includes all the 6 tracks, so you know, you get them all 😉
to All of You: Did I spread some good and/or positive Vibes?
When NO, please complain below and try your best to spread some yourself.
When YES, please NJOY the vibes and consider spreading some of your own.
Spread the Vibes (also known as StV) is not itself when we won't bother others by sending messages into the 'mention' and/or 'notification' section of fellow HIVE users. With some deep onchain research, I distilled those HIVE users that made a mention of Heiko Laux in the past.
The results:
@maryanaro (post1 and post2) - wondering about this author - will likely not see this post at all, let alone we will see a response incoming
@iamevilradio (post) - a true underground techno enthusiast and DJ - not really active, invited before, still hoping for picking up one of them
@neutronenkind (post) - another true underground techno fan, though not active last years hence we may not see any StV from him
@greencross (comment) - another fan and artist himself - with his last post just a little less than a year ago, we may get him activated again through this invite
@atcha-walker (post) - someone who created and shared many techno mixes, but stopped posting about 2 years ago - can we wake you up and make you to spread some more of your techno works?
@uwelang (post) - someone many of us know, the founder of Music community - will you play ball Uwe?
and
- @mipiano - nope, she (you) didn't mention Heiko on our chain, but it is her (your) post I'm responding to (see below) and it is her (your) ever-increasing passion to learn more about techno that served as the inspiration for this post.
StV Reaction
The other day - more like the other month - an entry to StV came to us in a wonderful form. This time not the usual music, but in form of a 7+ minute clip from a show by two comedians from a place to the east of what we call 'Down Under'.
To make it easy for you, the clip shared in the aforementioned post...
but but but... please read the post as well... I believe it is just a funny one in itself. Plus you may get inspired in one or the other ways for a contribution to StV. The post: @mipiano/song-about-life-drawing-a-whole-circle-to-spread-the-vibes
The clip: What can I say. It was big-time LOL... more like LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL... But not only that, these guys are GOOD! They bring storytelling and music to a whole new level. Don't you think so as well?
