Elcee the Alchemist (@elcee) • Hey
sowing seeds 🌱
Publications
- Guess who’s back
- made with Sound of Fractures' Building Blocks kit
- 60 second love affair
help my find my future wife x
- genious lyrics, defo
- working on the airdrop, just figuring out how to collect all the addresses....
- Collected 👀
- GM lens frens! if you have collected any of my NFTs, including the recent @beatsxyz and @decentxyz drops, you can join my collectors telegram group via my guild. Join here! 🧪 https://guild.xyz/elcee-the-alchemist-collectors
- Discovery and curation are key as we move forward with the Music NFTs movement. They highlight quality, drive sales and build artist-collector relationships.
Welcome to **FRESH MINTS** where we share our favorite Music NFTs every week.
This week we bring you FRESH MINTS VOL. 18:
https://mirror.xyz/ownthesound.eth/ElVs_lC_tvei1aOmYQ5kPgfhSW7HS9ly7IB7MAu17Lk
featuring music by @elcee.lens @harriscole.lens @divusp.lens @flavdotio.lens @fredriko.lens @tarotsings.lens @milesryanharris.lens @moonmant.lens @warrobit.lens @beatsapp.lens
- You have 1 day left to collect the songs from The Odyssey. Then I will tally up the collectors and airdrop you an unreleased song that never made it to the project 👀
- Ziggy Ziggy 048 - Elcee the Alchemist
Absolutely loving the music culture on @lensprotocol / @beatsapp.lens
Here's @elcee.lens bringing the 🔥🔥🔥 with this free NFT
Collect it here --> https://lenster.xyz/posts/0x019cc2-0x67
- When I'm my lowest, creating art like this helps me find purpose in my pain. By translating my feelings and setting them free, I feel that I've transmuted that energy for a higher purpose. Knowing that my music can instil solace in others reminds me that none of us are alone in our suffering. Keep going x
- Damn this one was good, you have some good rhymes, keep up the vibe
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I wanted to take time to introduce myself, but not from the very beginning. For those backstories you can head to @catalogworks.lens and search for the Artists "Dutchyyy" & "Dutchyyy"
I wanted to begin from the life changing Arc that explains more about present Dutch. It's a lengthy, but one of the advantages of having a save haven / Alternative to twitter is being able to move away from character limits that make everything sound like like a bold a statement and rather provide more context and humanity into on discourse =)
So if you have a few moments.
**Backstory of A Beat Hoarder.**
In August 2016 while living in Los Angles, My Mother passed away very unexpectedly and suddenly. My family downplayed it so I wouldn't know how serious it was because I just Started a Job Working Netflix and they knew how proud my mother was and didn't want me to lose focus. They down played it until it couldn't be downplayed any longer. I was at work when I received a call from Tampa number I didn't recognize. It was the Hospital asking my permission to take my mother off life support. As you can imagine, I wasn't able to properly process this information in the moment. Since my family told me she was fine. I couldn't speak. I couldn't give them an answer. I had just finished my 60 day unpaid probational period, and it was 2nd day working a paid job (100 per hr) I let my boss know what was happening and asked if I could take a lunch to call my family, who apologized for downplaying her situation and begged me to give they Hospital my consent. I refused. I asked if I could speak to her, and they told me I could speak to her, and she might be able to hear me, but wouldn't be able to respond as she wasn't conscious. Everyone was crying so I began crying. I didn't know what to say. [There is more context to this particular event in the description of the EP I released Dedicated to my mother https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/mother-nocturnalis-ep ] I couldn't give them blessing or think strait while at work so I let my boss know what was happening and took an uber back to the Motel I was living in in DTLA. The next morning I received an Email from work saying DO NOT COME INTO WORK BEFORE CALLING. So I called and they asked me if I Took a photo at work and posted it on twitter. I told them, yes... but I literally just took a picture of the TV with the NETFLIX LOGO and the tweet verbatim said "Thank You Universe For Second Chances, I am Eternally Grateful" (for context, I did the same type of work for Warner Brothers 2012-2014 until they laid off 70% of their work force) I didn't mention working for Netflix, or anything. They said, "we are so sorry Dutch, especially with what is happening with your mother and we are deeply saddened because you came to us at the highest recommendation and beyond proved your worth the past two months, but there is a ZERO tolerance policy for taking photo's inside the building and the decision to let you go came from very high up" [For context, Netflix has an algo that scrolls social media for their logo, and geolocated the image to my location] I hung up the phone dead inside, I didn't know how to tell my family. 1 Hr later, I got a call from my brother crying saying my mother passed an HR ago, and I need to come to help with family. The next day I was on a flight back to Tampa, FL (The place i've tried to escape many times) While the loss of my Career was a blow, It didn't effect me too bad as my brother and I had been Consulting on and off since 2009, flying state to state working at hospitals teaching physicans and nurses how to chart electronically. December 2016, I released my last official full album on Cassette **"Traversal"** https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden which was created to help inspire my mother. but she never got to hear it. "Traversal" was meant to be the follow up to **"The Uproot"** https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/the-uproot but do to hard drive loss, I lost all the original sessions and only had a demo version left) A few months later, after a lifetime of living in apartments, I rented my first house... This is around the time Algorithms on social media were turned up to 100 and all the fans and supporters I was used to reaching by simply posting a link, felt impossible to reach. While working NYC at the Hospital, My friend and his girlfriend were let into my hotel room while i was at work, and they got into a fight his girlfriend spilled water and killed my laptop. After posting about this on facebook, one of friends and long time fans Anthony reached and said he buy me a new laptop. And sent me the one I still use to this today. I began Working on my next album titled "Maybury" (which was the street name my house was on) The Video I attached to this post was the first beat I made on it, I made it at 4am, at the beach, alone under a fool moon. I Then Began working on another album "Nature Boy Kick Snare" and another album titled "PvP" but the loss off a direct pipeline to my audience across all social media combined with the loss of my mother and never having proper closure made finalizing anything nearly impossible. The Thought of putting into months and years of love and energy into cohesively releasing albums that felt like they would no longer reach my audience didn't Discourage me from creating, Only from officially releasing albums. At the same time, I boycotting DSP's (something I regret in retrospect since everyone looks to streaming numbers as a gauge of success, and I purposely kept all my music exclusive to bandcamp and physical releases). I've been creating music since 1995 consistently and releasing officially since my first vinyl in 1997, but from 2017-present, I've made more music than I did all previous years combined, I just changed my approach to my creative process. Leaned heavily into capturing the entire process from start to finish, mistakes and all **#EvolvingPortals** , Live Streaming, Daily Freestyles (**DailyRambles/The Reluctant Clap**) & One take improv jazz piano sessions (**LongStoryShort**).... To this day, The song in this snippet was never officially released.
There's a lot of life that happens between songs and social so there is so much context, backstory and history I didn't provide. My health has been rapidly declining since 2017, and accelerated greatly mid 2021. Knowing this is why I pivoted to Music on Chain, The Ability to attach context and backstories with music that can't ever be separated. Most importantly. Since December 2021, I've been working on the master the vault of my Legacy. A USB being shipped to everyone who ordered the 3rd and final pressing of the 2 hr Cassette **"Chill Gawd, Chill"** ( https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/chill-gawd-chill ) Nearly everything I've ever done, released and unreleased in Chronological order. I've put all my energy into this the past few years while also honoring creating new music in moment. Thanks to @cxylee.lens who shipped me a proper Tape Deck since my walkman was eating up my tapes, I was able to digitize my first pieces of music, before any official Dutchmassive or Dutchyyy, My first beat tape from 1995 made on a Casio KeyBoard, my 2nd Beat Tape made in program called Mod-Edit that only worked in Ms-DOS in 1997/98 and 3rd Beat Tape made in December 1999 when my best friend rented me an MPC2000 for 30 for Xmas....
**In Closing....**
Why did I take time to write all of this out?
Because context is important and rare these days... People only see microfragments of communications on websites that incentivize reactionary statements, which without context or history are easy to misunderstand or internalize...
Hoarding Music for me came with purpose and intention. I just wanted to give a little insight into that before I release any music on @lensprotocol which will be happening soon via @beatsapp.lens
There isn't a day that passes where I don't want to deactivate twitter, I'm force fed a billion fragmented thoughts a day, gain followers non-stop but feel like I'm posting into a void.
My hopes is that Lens is a place where sharing and reading the timeline will once again be an inspiring experience.
If you've read this far, Thank you. I know time is a limited, precious resource and we have all been conditioned with adhd haha.
For those who aren't familiar with me. My Birth name is Dutch, my Producer name is Dutchyyy, My Recording Artist name is Dutchmassive, and most of my social media is under PeacePeaceGawd https://linktr.ee/peacepeacegawd
It's nice to me you.
PeacePeace
- Day 5. I created this song from an AI image prompted "hell god consciousness divine". I then made what it sounded like to me. Super conceptual, there's a lot of nuance if you listen closely....
- welcome new friends! I appreciate all the love I've received on the recent tracks and just wanna say thank you, **I appreciate you**. I'm fairly new here too 🤲 taking today to reflect. next song drops tomorrow 🦋
- This young buck has good tracks, follow to get some nice rap pop up in your Lens fee @elcee.lens drops tunes frequently on @beatsapp.lens
- @elcee.lens is the 🐐
- Day 4. Titan.
I love these lyrics, they remind me of the fire thats within me even when I feel low. A personal favourite from the project.
Make sure you collect all tracks to get the unreleased song.
- Day 3. Brain Farts.
This song is pure chaos. My art isn't always serious because neither am I, but it still slaps harder than Will Smith.
P.S If you collect all songs from this project, I will airdrop you an unreleased one!
Make sure you check out the full project The Odyssey Vol. II on all platforms. luvvv
- Brain Farts
Day 3. Brain Farts.
This song is pure chaos. My art isn't always serious because neither am I, but it still slaps harder than Will Smith.
P.S If you collect all songs from this projeect, I will airdrop you an unreleased one!
Make sure you check out the full project The Odyssey Vol. II on all platforms
- Brain Farts
Day 3. Brain Farts.
This song is pure chaos. Sometimes we all gotta let our hair down and this is all fun and games, but still slaps harder than Will Smith. #bytes
- You can collect both songs for free directly through the project playlist on @oohlala_xyz you have 6 days!! https://t.co/6GwcEQo8DI
- FREE MINT! Showing love to the beats/lens fam for blowing up my snippets, I appreciate you <3
Track 2 from the project, a fan favourite.
shoutout my homie Jason Statham
- For the next 7 days, I’m minting each track from my project “The Odyssey Vol. II”, beginning with a FREE OE on @decentxyz. Collectors will be airdropped additional (and unreleased) tracks depending on how many songs you collect. Here’s what you need to know! ⬇️ https://t.co/rxT9B1wz5j
- Day 1: Violence. With this song I wanted to show that Drill can still slap without the need for glorification of guns and violence, in fact, its quite the opposite. The full track is available to mint for FREE on @decentxyz . grab yours while you can 🙏
- i should be able to add a bunch of NFTs to a cart and pay 1 transaction fee smh
- I wrote this song on May 24th 2022, the day of the Uvalde tragedy. I never planned to release it, I just needed somewhere to try and make sense of my emotions.
You can find it on Decent for 0.005eth here: https://hq.decent.xyz/1/Editions/0x584bda56844C6733A04df847C02cD23df1c56b67
- ✨ CREATOR GRANT SPOTLIGHT ✨
hope change gonna come - @elcee.lens
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- hey friends, I submitted this song to the @r3vl_xyz.lens x @decentxyz.lens creator grant programme. I'm really glad that it found its way into the world as I was never going to release it otherwise, it's truly just the outcome of me trying to make sense of my emotions at that time. I hope you enjoy it 🖤🦋 https://hq.decent.xyz/1/Editions/0x584bda56844C6733A04df847C02cD23df1c56b67
- I told you it would happen