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Denovali Records · den245
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Samuel van Dijk is an electronic music producer, sound designer and media artist from the Netherlands, having released electronic music under a variety of projects, namely, Mohlao and VC-118A. With his current project Multicast Dynamics he creates ever-evolving sound textures culminating in intriguing soundscapes while preserving a tranquil cinematic atmosphere. Drawing inspiration from nature, technology, film and fiction, his music productions, live sets and audiovisual work presents a carefully arranged, recorded and processed body of work, using a vast amount of layered sound textures, field recordings and live improvisation. In May 2015, Denovali Records released the first two albums of a four part series by Multicast Dynamics, conceptually linked by our undeniable connection with nature and its wide range of landscapes, colors and movement. Now the third album called SCANDINAVIA follows in October 2015??.  The album series moves from an evolutionary to a cosmological scale: Starting from dry land filled with light and streams, to the constantly changing surfaces of the oceans, into a frozen and murky underwater world, finally up to the arrival in an interstellar space and the cosmos. With this concept Multicast Dynamics explores organic and aqueous worlds in a dreamlike and spiritual appearance.

SCANDINAVIA is the third installment in the four part series. Assembled during the coldest season, it’s an album full of contemplative electronic recordings, created by the use of granular synthesis, obscure delay units and rudimentary looping techniques on magnetic tape. Recorded with a longsighted outlook, SCANDINAVIA features washes of subdued tones and textures as well as melancholic and warm sounding pulses of noise - all characterized by distinctive aquatic features. Steadily flowing, but slowly awakening the album draws frozen remote landscapes ranging from dark, cold and desolated to melting, warm and hope.
SCANDINAVIA opens with a bleak arctic environment in deep hibernation, where echoes of glacial bursts cut the silence. An undulating mass of viscous ambience sends out blurred out signals through the storm. In this inhospitable surrounding of frost and ice slow changes appear. The form of the landscapes alters and the cold air no longer hinders the breathing. Slowly meltwater seeps out underneath thick layers of ice, slowly building up in momentum and space. Layers of hypnotic atmospheres with barely perceptible undercurrents, brooding pulses of bass and tonal patterns lead to the core of the sonic landscape. Gently radiant layers of light and soil emerge and aquatic echoes expose new paths. The water is harnessed. Preparations for a long journey have begun.

Scandinavia

Multicast Dynamics - Massa

Aspiring DJ/Producer? My monthly musical exploration creating continually evolving playlists monthly when once completed hopefully to mix. Idea is playlist constantly evolving till month end. Hopefully something creative for you to follow. Primarily Deep & Progressive House, Ambient & Downtempo right up to the most Uplifting Psy-Trance. All rigid EDM genres have convoluted into so many sub-genres that calling it a "Scene" is very much an understatement. Even song structure is no longer rigid or even core to one genre. Genre blending is even expected. My motto: "EDM That Ascends Any Peaks or Descends To The Most Distant Deep"
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I just want to share the joy of it all. I mean music! I have loved music my whole life and it has remained the one constant throughout my life. I bought my first record, a 45 RPM by The Beatles called "Twist & Shout" when I was 7 years old. My father use to be a drummer whose claim to fame was to play for The Everly Brothers when they played in Canada. The 90's brought a revival in electronic dance music and developed into the 'rave culture' that was keeping me young. I really enjoyed sharing a younger generation's enthusiasm for life. Thank God it propelled the music and is so exciting & infectious. Today my tastes in music is no longer simply defined as age of this or that. A person's age, let alone allowing ones ego to pin a music on them from any decade really is silly. We seem to recognize that all music can create excitement regardless of the BPM. You either are kind of in the groove or your not. Period. 

I got involved with this EDM scene and the new sound right from the very, very early beginnings. It's a long story what brought me to this music and the scene that followed. Discovering the music was the real driver. Once I discovered the music and started going regularly to a club a friend owned I was amazed at how DJ/Producers had progressed over the decades since I was last involved decades before. I recognized right from the start that the new EDM music scene was different. The Artists/DJs/Producers were from all over the world. It brought all of the world together which is something that religion, business and politics had certainly failed to do! I could see the potential to overcome our cultural differences. Electronic music wasn't about lyrics back then. Language didn't interfere with understanding or appreciating it. The rave scene back then started in Europe and spread like a wild fire.

 Now it is truly worldwide and certainly not underground. Young people have created a diverse boundary-less musical appreciation. All these cultural influences and the associated music are constantly influencing/evolving change which each shift creating new excitement. 

Link:http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html 

If it doesn't take itself too seriously it should continue to shimmer & shine. If you just don't quite get it......keep coming back...something will eventaully click for sure. 
What started as music in clubs with dirty sticky floors and little raves in old abandoned warehouses is now playing in massive festivals with 8 stages performing all at once. 80,000 fans in attendance from all corners of the earth in more than one place at the same time it seems.

But for me now as always it's about the music. I really mean the music. ENJOY!

All celebrate the artists contributing to this collage of music. Not sure if all the fans are aware of it but we're making this world into one where cultural diversity is truly appreciated and adapted. We have succeeded where all others have failed. The Beatles and their fans changed the world back when I was very young. This time it's not just the artists and fans but a world wide culturally diverse phenomena of different people together changing it up once again. I am very fortunate to just be able enjoy the music and be a part of it. So get out there and get some! YUP!


I made a music pack for Need for Speed: Most Wanted!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e14nbK8ZdK0&t=41s