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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Tea - The Story Of A Leaf - Episode 2



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Good Afternoon Dear Teaheadz!

Time for a short intermezzo
between music & more music ..

… meaning, yes: time for Tea 🍵✨

Having a delicious green tea,
Monkey Picked from Mei Leaf,
with a Sunday Teatime Treat:

Tea - The Story of a Leaf - Episode 2

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.:  d[_] * cheers * [_]b  :.

Rockit Don't Stop It!



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drrop it don't stop it
pop-n-lock it i clock it
rrrockit don't shoock it


Attenuating all that Jazz, fading in to a newborn realm called Electro, navigating spacetime on a funkturistic spaceship baptized

Rockit

Apart from bridging the gap between the stars, this spaceship managed to (re)unite generations of black musicians, merging funk, jazz & hip hop. On top of that, before reaching the masses, it taught a whole new generation of white girls & boys - myself included - how to become b-boys & fly girls.

Once again: music connecting cultures.

With the video raising quite as many brows as the amount of ears zapped by the music, even MTV could not resist .. to get down

... and thus became written: history.

—'[~ Rockit ~]'

composed by Mr Fusion himself: Herbie Hancock
produced by Bill Laswell & Michael Beinhorn

—featuring
Grand Mixer D.ST on turntables
Daniel Ponce on batá drums
Oberheim DMX on drums

—additional turntables
Grandmaster Caz
Boo-Ski, Mr. C

—video by
Godley & Creme

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👽 🙏 🤖

.: ahhh - this stuff is really fresh :.

Blue Turning To Green



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Lifting the mood from blue to green, yet sticking with Miles, all jazz would turn to jive without mentioning Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter and last but never skipping the least of a single beat:
Tony Williams ..

... Miles Davis' legendary Second Great Quintet
 
Live in Europe, 1967.

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.: scat scat zippity pah :.

For JBK - Feeling Kind Of Blue

JBK by Sebastiaan Westerweel

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feeling kind of blue
chasing autumn leaves in spring
turning blue to green


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for JB, my father - an avid jazz cat
who would’ve turned 80 this week

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photo snapped by
sebastiaan westerweel



.: always here, in a silent way :.

Tea - The Story Of A Leaf - Episode 1



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Tea - The Story of a Leaf - Episode 1

Dear Frez, Luvz & Famz,
Honourable Teaheads,
 
Join me for an occidental cuppa,
a simple gongfu cha session
or a true ceremony
as we travel ..

around the World in a Tea Daze

... with a sumptuous slice of
 Sunday Pastime Entertainment:

Tea - The Story of a Leaf - Episode 1

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.:  d[_] * cheers * [_]b  :.

绿木龙 - Green Wood Dragon Tales

绿木龙 - Year of the Green Wood Dragon

GONG XI FA CAI! KUNG HEI FAT CHOY!

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绿木龙 - Green Wood Dragon

MMXXIV

Year of the Green Wood Dragon

HAPPY NEW YEAR! HONG BAO NA LAI?

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KoxBox - Doktor Mesmer
"Dragon Tales" (1997)
[ full album ]

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.. and speaking of mesmerising ...




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.: mu shin sen shi sou :.

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freakuently unanswered questions


? 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), Ballonnenfeest (NL), Burning Man (USA), Club A (Sao Paulo), Dance Valley (NL), Love & Magic (Oslo), Metsafestiwaal (Finland), Pan-O-Rama Festival (La Gomera), The Pi Club (Berlin), Q-Base (Germany), Senseblender Festival (Belgium), Universo Paralello (Bahia / Brazil), VooV Experience (Germany), and many more in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, USA & all over The Netherlands.*

* a detailed gigographic list might appear later



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