Dimension Y

RE: the art of the mixtape part 2



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When I was 14 a friend in my street gave me my first mix tape. He mixed older trance with influences from the Detroit scene. Although in the past I had made tapes with selections of songs on them, this was the first time I had contact with the concept of putting together a tape that ran in a smooth fashion, with one track leading into the other, but more over it was the first time I felt the power of a mix tape. Over the next few years my concept of a mix tape changed as I experienced more and more styles. The most influential tapes were those that not only traveled in a smooth fashion from start to finish, but those that gave the listener a deeper experience. Be it a sensation created by the rise and fall of the music or in the cases that touched me the most, those that held a more subtle message.

Those of you who have listened to the Dboy DownUnder Dimension Z mix will know already that my style is not your standard mix. Using sampology and a range of music styles I attempt to give the listener an insight into what it is that I have found in music, what it is in the music that has moved me.

In the Dimension Y mix set you will find 3 major parts, all mixed to give the listener a insight into the style of music where I find so much inspiration for my life. The first part is an in-depth look at the emotion of the human disposition. It is easy to just listen to music, and one could easily listen to this mix and find no meaning, and so be it, but in selecting the final tracks I did in fact have ulterior motive. Between the lines, in the lyrics, in the influence of the artists behind the originals and in the emotion of the first 60 minutes of music, there is a feeling. The concept of being true to ones self, of those deviant acts which are often just behind closed doors, but so intertwined in our lives... I feel that the social aspect of the concept of truth, and what we hold true as a society, in our smaller social groups, to our lovers and to ourselves is a major part of our day to day lives.

Part 2 of the Dimension Y mix slides a little away from what it is in ourselves to find what it is in music which holds so much power. Where is it our musical influences come from? What is it about particular styles of music which strike such a cord with particular people. The first 1/2 hour delves into blues influenced electronica. The blue grass tones of these tunes pay respect to their influences while bringing modern digital elements into the mix. The call and response structure many of these tunes lay the way for the final 1/2 hour of funk, soul, blues and rhythm and soul tunes which pay homage to exactly where so many of the breaks that are used today came from.

This is DboyDownUnder Dimension Y... Enjoy.

Dimension Y Mix Part 1

Tracklisting
LoFidelity All Stars: How To Operate With a Blown Mind
Evil Nine: Snack Bar Lounge featuring JFB
Jake Sakvona Featuring Joelistics of TZU): Truth Is?
DJ Soup: Acid Rain
Square Pusher: Curve 1
Environmental Science: V.B.S. (What Does It Mean?)
Ditry Box: The Reason (scoop the loop mix)
LoFidelity All Stars: Kasparov's Revenge
Squarepusher: I'll Descent
Funky Perceni: The Deep
Klute: Phone Call (Hefner Remix)
Fortunato & Mantresor: Imagine
Nightmares On Wax: Flip Ya Lid
FDEL: Bring It On
Hairy Diamond: Giving Up
Rodney P: I Believe featuring Olivia Cheaney
BranVan 3000: Sinking in Hell-A (Dub)

Part Two: Dimension Y Mix Part 2:

Tracklisting
Funkstorung: I Want Some Fun featuring Jay Jay Johanson
Luke Solomon and Justin Harris present Freaks 'The Beat Dairies': Repetition is a Form Of Change
Luke Solomon and Justin Harris present Freaks 'The Beat Dairies': Methods in Madness
Nightmares on Wax: Deep Down
The Fire This Time: At Least the American Indian People Know Exactly How They Have Been Fucked Around (Mad Professor Original Mix)
Matthew Trapnell with Trapeziod: Ella's Uncle
A Guy Called Gerald: Humanity featuring Lovie Rhodes
Fink: Ever Since I Was a Kid it Seemed I Collected Something (Hefner Remix)
Pressure Drop: Call to Mind / Patti Smith Spooky Mix
Al Green: Here I Am (come and take me)
Aaron Neville: Herculeus
Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues (make me wanna holler)
Billy Cobram: Stratus
Bob Dylan: All The Tired Horses
John Legend: It Don't Have To Change featuring the Stephens Family
Fugees: Killing Me Softly


*disclaimer* If you wish to simply enjoy the music you can do that too!

Dboy Portrait

re: the self view



The things that we think about ourselves are often the things which make up our image. Our self reflection goes a long way to the way we are perceived in the social eye.

Dboy is a creation of my minds eye, a character who wanders the streets, collects the information, plays the role, talks the talk and walks the walk. He brings it all home to me and I use it at my own will, his use is my ends. Dboy is a player in a game, a vital part in his own perceived Movement. The streets are his playground and his reality knows no bounds. BourneCity is his home, but some of his greatest influences where found elsewhere, in the lanes of BarcaLoco, in the depths of the LondoZoo, in the murkiness of the Berlin's crazed culture, the Bohemian outlands, the starkness of Krakow and the rise of Stockholm.

DboyDownUnder is at your disposal.

Please feel free to contact me with any comments on anything written or posted here, your feedback can give direction. Friends of the Movement stay tuned.

Distorted Media

Communication is essential. All social pre-texts are dependant on a basic communication structure. Evidence that the desire to prolong our ideas, and leave our mark, allowing future generations to learn from our style is indeed ancient. But what of the post modern era. What of this ever increasing multi-media format of lifestyle. What is all is left are the drawings on the wall...? Is it not more likely that they will last the test of time over a canvas? Over a digital medium. The writing is indeed on the wall and the messages there are bound to exists despite outside influence. Many may leave the mark of a generation.

The Movement uses this medium, the physical medium, the stencil, the spray can, the wall... it is a real form of communication, a tangible one, a trust worthy one. Attempted infiltration by organisations with ulterior motives, corporations with $$$ aspirations have not succeeded. The Movement is too switched on, to attuned to the outside, too aware, to savvy, to forward. Nothing stays still, the Movement is fluid, it passes by and weaves it's path. Those involved may even be passed, only for a new group of youth to be swept up in it's growing momentum. This is why it can not be stopped. The rate of change is becoming critical. Critical. The distorted media will continue. The faces of change are under hoods, behind masks, on the streets... The message is clear, the medium distorted, the fact? undeniable. Stay tuned.

The Old Land and the Pilgrimage

Up hill is often the only direction to go for reward. The Movement faces a uphill battle, a long and treacherous journey. But at the end of the day, the struggle will reward those with a view of epic proportions. Up Top DboyDownUdner climber all day, he walked past 20 000 year old graffiti.



He struggled with the heat and the feeling of relative obscurity in a land of such proportions. The beauty around me merged into blinding sunlight reflections, the concrete that is a road to no where passes into red dust, which passes in rocky outcrops, which passes into green, deep fields on the flood plains. Deadly creatures will always attempt to halt us, as they did that day. But the journey can not be taken lightly, for the reward is intangible, except for those that stay true.

Distant View

Dboy Down Under returns to BourneTown to bring you news from UpTop. Dem up der, dem be on a wavelength only understood by mixing yourself within it. Same as anywhere else, but with the North of this Southern Land, it is as true as anywhere. The language changes, the lifestyle slows, the land is tough, it makes the people tough. What is accepted is onyl that which can survive. You can not slip in and out of the shadows in a land where the sun belts down so hard, where the rain covers everything and the wind blows away the memories of yesterday's mistakes. Tough men, and tough women sit in a sweat, watching the world go slowly by.

THe land outside the townships breaths it's own life. Evolution has been cruel here, no large animals have managed to survive the natural selection process, only those which can slither, those which are nimble, those which can bare the tough nature of it all. But those that can, those that have and those that do, they are rewarded with an amazing, a breath taking reality. The land here is like no other, the breath of ancient worlds seem to come to life before you eyes, the beauty fo the end of the big wet allows you to take in the contrast that is around us everywhere, the contrast which in fact is inside us all.

The reality I found in the North showed me not something of what is outisde my day to day reality, but something which is inside us all. After all, in new expereince is this not the lesson we seek? Is it not a lesson in each and every experience that we seek, is it not that which we relate to, what we see, but in relation to ourselves. A refered reflection of our own reality, carved into the stone of a million years of reflections?

I breath my own dawn, each and every day...

Dimension Z

RE: The art of the mix tape.

Dimension Z mix



So much time in the current eletronic music scene is now spent on the dance element of the culture. In this struggle to create mixes and produce music that is suited to a constantly pumped, or vibed floor, there has been a loose of an art. It still exisists, don't doubt that, but there is a general oversight by many of those so enthralled in the scene, an oversight of the beauty of a mix tape. A mix that is not designed for the dance floor, a mix that is not designed to always give the same old sensual pleasure, but mixes which are designed to create moods, to take the listener out of the standard zone of comfort. Mixtapes have the ability to give so more meaning to music that already holds such a powerful sway on the consumer. Junxtopsed in various ways amoungst other sounds and aural pleasures, particular music can take on new forms. This re-difinition is a post modern out take, a side effect of the combination of mediums, artists and comsumers. It is a art unto itself.

Dimension Z is just that. A subliminal mix of ultra-chill soundscapes, downbeat vocal tunage, sampled subliminal messages and a touch of the funk that can not be ignored. There is more to this mix than just meets the ear. Expect the unexpected and enjoy the ride... This is ear phone music from the best of times, for the worst of times, from the underlands of BourneCity, Dboy Down Under gives you Dimension Z.

Dimension Z mix
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TRACKLIST
Purr / Sun Comes Up Inside a Big Strawberry
Earth To Infinity / Soylent Green
T Power / Interlude
DJ Spooky / Pandemonium
Beber & Tamra / Oh Well
DJ Krush / Ha-Doh
Wunder / Noitz's Kakao
Kid Loco / Flyin' On (kicksmix)
Oval vs Yoshihro Hanno/ James Joice
Oval vs Yoshihro Hanno + Oval vs Main + David Shea / Marcel Duchamp
Scola Hungarcia
William De Vaughn / Be Thankful For What You've Got
Lamb / Trans Fatty Acid (Kruder and Dorfeister Remix)
Luke Slater / Weave Your Web
Beber & Tamra / Breakdown
Klute / Torrential Pain
Unkle / Glow

Reflections from Distance

Preparations to depart are underway. A land far North awaits me, a land with a history much older than any Western conception. The big wet may have just ended in time, the rivers will flow with the juice of the world and the sky will bustle with chants from those with wings. The Twin Falls will flow freely, not something that can always be expected.

My departure from rituals reminds me how closely these things, these people, these items connect me to what I perceive as my identity. Those close to my heart, who lay gently on my chest, are already missed, already envied, already despised in the many moods that connect to me lack of presence. Unwanted feeling, but unavoidable. It is in emotions, in connections, in desire that these feeling are born, and those things alone make any suffering worth it.

A reflection beams back at you, distorted through a mirrored view. A land of concrete, of blue summer skies, of fenced in areas. BourneCity is there, in this disco view, three times over, the ground, the structures and the sky. I will fly away, to a land of no fences, no concrete, no structures, but just that which was there before us. Marked only by ancient ones, marked only by a need to communicate the feeling the land offered, a feeling that those close offered. It is in the markings, in the needs, in the closeness that we find out what we truly miss, what we truly need...

View from the Underlands

During reconnaissance in London during 2005 I visited sites of appeal to the Movement. The Crackhouse Zoo brought forward images of the urban environment that so many of us find appealing. The desolate, yet reconstructed vitalage of the area manipulated the emotional control of the consumer. Many great have graced the walls around Bricklane, and many have followed in their path. The End led me their, led me through the darkness to the sites that drew such a vision to me that I was compelled to continue the journey as far out as it could be. Levels of twisted space, land of use to no one but those with only the pleasures of the Movement in mind. This place may have been a haven for the filth of the dirty side of the Movement, but for me, it drew close to what I know is at the heart of what is to come.

Recovery Options

Keep it underland. The image is not essential, but if you are on the this tip, then you will have this in your nature anyway.

Under the Cover

Resistance is not the only form we have at our disposal. Illusion is closer to hand. Disception, doubt, the creative of wonder leads to more recruitments to the Movement. They move under the cover, under the guise of not knowing. However in the darkness sounds represent only what our imagination allows. What is that sound? It moves towards you, creates wonder, then your insecurity leads to doubt.

Listen to the words that are allocated to your space, and also look for that which is not. For most of what is directed at you, is intended with meaning. Most of what is hidden, holds more truth than the obvious. Stretch to capture this, elude the doubt, create for yourself a certainty and it will lead you away from failure. The vision you create will become the reality you encounter. The movement will back you, will stand with you, will encounter your reality. The Movement is your reality. You must dream up the world you want to live in... Then dream out loud.

Doubt is a powerful and all encompassing tool. Wonder may have postive conotations, but to doubt, to leave to chance, to not hold faith in, this will only lead to weakness. Doubt is not a sensation to be taken lightly. Not a feeling that can be shrugged off ones consciouness easily. The Creation of doubt in the minds of others is a powerful and tremendous tool. To leave doubt un-checked, the reciever would have to realise ones self as but a fool...

Welcome to BourneTown

The last of the summer sun bares down in drunken souls. Lost in the days after the nights. Gathered in packs, emerged in conversations that elude to the movement. Deprived minds seek to create an exit, escapism is rife. The youth can not be stopped, it will never stop. The BourneTown style is unmistakable. I have traveled to foreign lands, as far from this city as I could get. Nothing has ever compared to me the allure of the BourneTown. This kids, cats and players know only to well the subtleties that bring this place to its current point. It is a golden age, the feeling is inescapable. Scenes on top of scenes share a common bond only in their own pride? Unity is not a given, but underneath the movement can be seen. You only need to scratch the surface to discover a emerging underland. Seek and you shall find the feeling you quest.

The night tears away the light. It brings out the other side of the city. Crews emerge with new found confidence, renewed excitement, keen faces and altered motives. This is BourneTown, don?t sleep.