Written & Performed by: Dutchmassive (aka Dutchyyy) https://beta.catalog.works/dutchyyy Produced / Composed by: Sweatson Klank (fka Take) https://beta.catalog.works/sweatsonklank https://www.friendsoffriendsmusic.com/sweatson-klank From: "Earthtones & Concrete" - Take (aka Sweatson Klank) Debut Full length album, released August 2007 on CD & 2xLP via Inner Current Recordings. Backstory: The year was 2006, Myspace top 5 was a very relevant flex and easy identifier for like minded musicians to connect. 2 years had passed since I released my debut solo album as an emcee "Junk Planet". Released world wide July 13, 2004 on CD / 2xLP. For context, I began writing and recording for Junk Planet late 1997 while also recording an album with my group at the time "Equilibrium" (Celph Titled, Majik Most & Myself) and finished recording the the last song for Junk Planet in 2002. Time moved slower for music back then. There was no "keeping up with daily content". You had the freedom to live and experience life and use that experience for inspiration to craft well thought out albums. I was taking my time recording my sophomore album "Crush Your System" An album I began writing & recording for in 2003, which would later be released on Rawkus Records as part of worlds first digital only campaign "The Rawkus 50" but i'm getting sidetracked. Taking my time, building an arsenal up of production from my favorite producers at the time: Samiyam, 14KT, Take, Dakim, !llmind, Dela, SlopFunkDust, Mo0, etc... All friends I made through the power of Myspace. I had just released my first official instrumental project titled "The Drumlove EP" as well as the mixtape "Project: REACH" when Take (Sweaton Klank) sent me the perfect beat. He was able to match my voice and style so well, but instead of me using the beat on my upcoming album he wanted me to be the only emcee to feature on his debut full length. The pressure of knowing I would be the only person rapping on this album made me take writing this song very serious. I didn't want to just do some typical braggadocios battle rap since I knew the album was going to more like a movie score in a sense rather than just a collection of random beats. At the time, I was dating a girl who was very inspirational and had me exploring things outside of my normal wheelhouse. She had perfect recall when it came to dreaming and was able to lucid dream with ease. So the months leading up to writing "Dream Suite" I had been using a dream journal every morning and studying Astral Projection and Lucid dreaming in general. Something I've only ever been able to achieve a few times in my lifetime and once I realized I was in control, I would immediately wake up haha. So I decided to make Lucid dreaming the subject matter for the song I was going to write. Nearly everything I wrote about was true to form and directly inspired by the research I had been doing. I did take one creative liberty and changed "Greek Dream Temples" to the inaccurate "Egyptian Dream Temples" but that's because I was obsessed with the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt since I was a child and thought Egyptian sounded "cooler" than saying "Greek". Plus I needed a word with multiple syllables haha. I recorded, mixed and mastered my vocals and sent them off to Take (Sweatson Klank) - The beat I wrote to was just a rough sketch, so when he sent me the final version with all the change up's and the outro that transports you to a different world. I don't know what else to say. This became one of my favorite tracks of all time, and I couldn't believe I was lucky enough to be apart of it. Years later, long after "Crush Your System" was released on Rawkus, I released an updated version on bandcamp with added songs (since my 3rd solo album as Dutchmassive titled "Romanticizing" was lost on Xmas 2011 to corrupt hard drive resulting in the dreaded "Blue Screen of Death") After losing all of my beats from 2008-2011 and the album I spent years writing and recording. I just took a few extra songs I featured on, added them to Crush Your System and decided to hang up the mic and focus primarily on Production moving forward. I know, I know, what a sad ending haha, but truth is, I'm an emcee at heart, so I never stopped rhyming. I just stopped writing and recording albums. Instead, I began recording freestyles daily for fun. What started out on voice memos, graduated to a Tascam DR-05 in 2015. The creative fulfillment that came with recording freestyles for fun without the pressure of them ever being heard was the ultimate therapy and would get me thru the toughest of days while also having fun keeping the spirit of the emcee alive 2015-present and thus was born DailyRambles aka "The Reluctant Clap" This Catalog Record is a 50/50 split with @sweatsonklank I wanted my Genesis drop as "Dutchmassive" to feature another Catalog Artist and it just worked out that one of my favorite songs I've recorded to date was produced by a producer who also an artist on Catalog Works =) *****Winner of this auction will receive A copy of "Earthtones & Concrete" on CD (Digipack) & 2xLP (Vinyl) from our personal collections***** *****Anyone who bids on this auction will receive a link to my master cloud based vault "Dutchyyy vs the Algorithms" of nearly my full released and unreleased discography over 110gb ***** and *****Winner of the auction will get a 1TB Samsung SSD portable drive that not only holds everything on the cloud drive, but all the Portals unreleased in super long raw form directly from their master folders strait from the SP404SX and All the long videos and twitch streams that are too large to upload anywhere*****