Messenger of Dionysos · Mused by Apollo

In ancient times, Satyr was the horned and horny messenger of Eleusinian forest god Dionysos. He mesmerized the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute and made them dance till broad daylight. In our common present, the spirit of Satyr inhabits the body of a human boy.

Searching for a new way to spread the vibe of the forest, by Dionysian decree, Satyr switched to SL and CDJ instruments, which fit the job quite nicely. Apart from those, he employs the tools Apollo chose: a blank screen and virtual ink, to jot down all he likes to think - hence this his satellite here, orbiting Earth's blogosphere!


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Graveyard Of Colors, Business As Usual


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picture: Wijdesteeg, Amsterdam - until March 2015

Graveyard of Colors, Business as Usual

Amsterdam, Spuistraat - former Art Squat Avenue

Once an organic part of the creative center of the Dutch metropolitan village, now a colorful graveyard, awaiting the next stage of ongoing bulldozeration, commercialteration, hotelification and other forms of unimaginative reconstruction and gentrification.

Fallen walls, settled dust, alleys of the past. The echo of the last blow delivered by sledgehammer a year ago embraces the buildings downtown with its shadow. The demolition team went out for lunch and haven't returned since.

Crows, pigeons and birds of a lesser feather fight with neighboring rats and wandering cats over food gone astray, before future tenants move in and rob them all of their squatted livelihood. Carelessly, Amsterdam slumbers on.

Nothing special,
business as usual.


Thanks to Nefs "Melodious"
for sharing the nostalgia ( - _ ^ )

More, but still only a mere few views
of what it may have used to look like ...
yourlittleblackbook.me/spuistraat-street-art

More about the "Urban renewal of Tabakspanden":
citinerary.net/amsterdam/urban-renewal-of-tabakspanden


RIP Tabakspanden
RIP De Slang
RIP K3

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.: requiesquat in pace :.

all text ⓦ Satyr Barbarossa
(cc) 2016 - CCBYNCND4.0


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? what is Satyr

! in ancient times, Satyr roamed the Eleusinian forests as the horned and horny messenger of Dionysos - the god of ritual intoxication - who dispatched him to mesmerize the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute, and made them dance till broad daylight.

? where is Satyr

! in our recent past, Satyr reincarnated in the concrete jungle of Amsterdam as a DJ. At age ten, he recorded his first mix, displaying his love for early hip hop and electro, and soon his tapes were in high demand. After the Second Summer Of Love, he got turned on by new dimensions of synthetic sound and ventured into the realms of ambient, acid-house, techno and trance music, never looking back ever since.

? does he still play flute

! the Panflute has become an artefact in captivity, held safe and sound in the archeological archive of the Vatican. Yet, since them high-n-mighty early 1990s, Satyr became increasingly skilled as a player of the SL & CDJ instruments, spinning various styles of musica eclectronica, embracing a wide range of the bpm spectrum with remarkable sparkle.

Notoriously difficult to pigeonhole yet sharply focused on and specialized in ambient, chillout, psytrance & deep atmospheric techno; entertaining events for 5 to 50.000 people, by serving his spicy melange of clean cuts and dirty grooves, mixing it down and grinding it up from raw to smooth.

A few memorable events ecstasized by Satyr:
Amsterdam Dance Event (NL), Atmosphere (Berlin / D), Ballonnenfeest (NL), Burning Man (USA), Carnival (Varginha / Brazil), Club A (Sao Paulo / Brazil), Dance Valley (NL), Love & Magic (Oslo / Norway), Q-Base (D), Metsafestiwaal (Finland), Pi Club (Berlin / D), Senseblender Festival (B), Universo Paralello (Bahia / Brazil), VooV Experience (D), and many more in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, USA & all over The Netherlands.*

* a detailed gigographic list might appear later



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