"64" (f/ Simon Sverdlov) Produced by: Dutchyyy Album: Traversal Track: 14 Released: December 30, 2015 (Bandcamp) https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal Released: January 1st, 2016 (Streaming) https://open.spotify.com/album/3dYlFQTK2ZHNEOxsWTv2AX Released: December 2nd, 2016 (Cassette) via GrandGardenRecords https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden --------------------------------------------------- Backstory: Created winter of 2012 in Los Angeles. My homie Simon, who's a pianist came over to my apartment to learn Ableton Live,  I asked him to bring over his keyboard / piano and told him I'd teach him if he just lets me record him playing improv into Ableton for 30 minutes. So he did... and then I taught him all the basics from start to finish.  He wasn't the happiest about how the end result of the track no longer resembled anything he originally played but I told him that we would have finished too quickly if I just showed him how to loop an unaltered sample while producing.  I wanted to show him how to turn any sample into its own instrument.  I compromised by quickly executing a 2nd track where his original playing isn't heavily altered and he was happy enough.        I sat on the track for years and it wasn't until 2014 when he flew out to visit me the mountain in upstate  New York I was finally able to have a heart to heart and have him agree to this being released with his name attached. This convo happened on a hike up the mountain shortly after he captured this photo of me. https://zora.co/collect/base:0xbe96be7547a203ebff86c815a1feb27d47407cbd/15 Bonus Context: If it wasn't common knowledge already,  while most of my music is rooted in hip hop production, the place I've always drawn inspiration from the most has been Video Game OST's.       So when creating "64" I was consciously attempting to capture the spirit of one of my favorite songs of all time - "Dire Dire Docks" from the Mario64 Soundtrack. and thus, "64" was born.