Snippets from EMPTYGR001, releasing December 10th

EMPTYGR001 Apocalyptic Boogaloo

Apocalyptic Boogaloo EP (Snippets)

DJ SoliD has been in and around Toronto’s club scene for decades. With a deep connection to dance music in all its forms, SoliD’s sets incorporate soulful, deep and classic grooves that continue to entertain dance floors around the city. These occasions extend from appearances at contemporary venues like Boogie, Basement 254, and Joe Bird to Toronto’s legendary spots of the past—Roxy Blue, Tilt Lounge, Revival, and Gypsy Co-op. With an ability to blend various house styles, and with a penchant also for drum and bass, his reputation continues to grow amongst his peers in Toronto’s buzzing nightlife, and he continues to showcase his energy and tune selection in and around the city whenever he sees opportunity.

Recently, DJ SoliD has taken the exciting step into music production and over the past few years has started to craft a distinct sound. His multitude of Bandcamp releases showcase a deep, percussive, and melodic take on house music, layering rhythmic complexity in a way that delivers a forward-thinking approach to production and has helped him to begin to carve his lane within the boundaries of the genre.

Through both his DJ sets and his productions, DJ SoliD remains an meaningful part of Toronto’s house scene. His growing dedication to the craft ensures that he continues to evolve while staying true to the genre’s roots.

Played hardcore punk/crust
Trying to play tekno-live w hardware
Freestyle DJing whatever music feels right at the moment. 
Also:
Music is communicating the self and is to be offered not sold -support at will, not on demand

Genocide, June 2025:
Israel is only the executioner, every nation which has armed that country in the past year is an accessory to that genocide, an accomplice, a facilitator.  We cannot talk about war crimes because when you target unarmed civilians, mostly women and children, we are talking about a massacre, like terrorists do, not a war. The people who orchestrated that massacre, in the US, the most duplicitous, followed by those of the UK, Germany, France, and probably a few lesser ones should be tried for crimes against humanity just as well as Netanyahu and his cabinet, because it has been going on for two years, generously reported by media of all kinds, so the enablers knew exactly how the arms were to be used, as a tool for revenge, domination, and humiliation of the Palestinian people.  The conflict has ceased to be about the defense of anything for months.

The parties responsible have made a mockery of decency, morals, fairness, proportion, or justice, not to mention empathy.  Of what little there was, these concepts will be a lot longer to come back than they were to be struck down.  

Is it 1984 already?!?!
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I have not been able to recover access to my other account [https://soundcloud.com/ha-kekong] for a couple of years.  I have tried a few times to get back into it but SoundCloud doesn't trust me.  Same phone number, same email addresses, and they still claim that they can't verify my identity.  I created that account about three years ago as a substitute to my regular account which SoundCloud temporarily closed.  They closed it as part of some upgrade procedure in their system, the result of a bug that affected many accounts, about two years ago.  Since SC did not inform its users I didn't know if that was permanent or not, so I created that other account which I can't access.  Don't be mad if I have not replied to your message in the past two years, that's because I never got them ; ) ... You can always reach me here though.
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This one here (957729823) is for regular folks.

I love you, both.

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You can't see it because of the angle with which I took the shot, aiming down, but beyond those blocks is the sea.  To the left is the Mediterranean, to the right is the Atlantic Ocean.  No it's not Gibraltar, but a little bit further West. ... Actually I checked recently and it is further North more than West, I thought I was facing South when in fact I probably was facing the Atlantic ocean, which is why I suppose the waves were of a decent size where we were.
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My face and the bike are a courtesy of Joël Vaudreuil
[https://vimeo.com/user8897093]  ... Merci Joe!
I then went ahead and butchered his work with a borrowed helmet.
... Sorry Joe. =(
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I'm trying to promote what I think is good music, so if you want to help out a bit I'd rather you [like] or [repost] my *playlists* rather than my field recordings, if you don't mind, unless you are a die hard fan of those things. Thank you ; )

I speak French, so if you send me a private message, and that you are a francophone, please write in French, thank you.  ... I mean, you don't absolutely have to, but I would prefer it. 

All my field recordings (except for when I record a person) are public, freely downloadable by anyone who is able to click on the button.  I encourage anyone interested to use them in any way whatsoever, on purpose or accidentally. No need for permissions or credits or any other kind  of administrative maneuvers.
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Anarchists give me hope.

I'm a big fan of EFF.  Love ya EFF.  (no connection with the above line)
... and of course Richard Stallman and Linux and all the others.  Bless yous.

Now don't be lazy, go find out what it is this "EFF" that I'm talking about.  I'll give you a hint: it has to do with computers.

You have a nice day now.  Hugs & Kisses.

Techno label originating from the City of Silver, Athens, Greece.
Confined spaces / Muted anger

The most elementary level of symbolic exchange is a so-called “empty gesture,” an offer made or meant to be rejected. 
As our teachers explain to us, it is customary to ask the victim if he agrees with his fate, but it is also customary for the victim to say yes. Belonging to a society involves a paradoxical point at which each of us is ordered to embrace freely, as the result of our choice, what is anyway imposed on us (we all must love our country or our parents). This paradox of willing (choosing freely) what is in any case necessary, of pretending (maintaining the appearance) that there is a free choice although effectively there isn’t one, is strictly codependent with the notion of an empty symbolic gesture, a gesture – an offer – which is meant to be rejected.

Apocalyptic Boogaloo EP (Snippets)

Empty Gesture recordings