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This is a song that I made, after quite a dark time, full of disbelieve and struggles.

I nearly lost all my joy in making music, so I thought about, what happiness is and how I could preserve that in a musical context.

It was an inspiring process, where I tried to find the balance, between the almost banal simplicity of pure joy, but at the same time wanted to address the pushing motivational character of happiness.

I hope that you can feel the ligthness that overcame me, when i started to find back my focus on the bright side of life, that truely can be unperfect and sometimes need´s to be.

What Is Happiness? (Original Version)

This song stands in contrast to my first single „What Is Happiness?“

It‘s a reflection of the feelings that tore me around, before and after I changed fundamentals of my life. 

A last glimbse to how bad I felt before and a raising trust in change and better times coming soon.

I tried to achieve this, through laying out a deep and sad foundation, but seasoning all of that with some hopefull melodies and a hornish & powerfull synth, that is visualizing the power of change. 

What are you hearing or wich emotions come up, when you listening to this song?

And I have to thank Egor who put his work into this wonderful artwork. 
You can check out his creations at:
https://www.instagram.com/voknelok/

Furthermore I need to thank Alex for taking pictures.
https://www.instagram.com/alex_reichel/

Leave Behind (Original Version)

Releasing a track is like releasing something from the past.

And this is what we do.

That means neither forgetting or displacing, 
but accepting and becoming one with it.

Decades ago we started making music together, so we share quite a long journey and luckily our paths never separated.

The initial vibes were already created 2 years ago and reports on the feelings of uncertainty and development in unpredictable times.

We have all this implemented, partly through a self-built apc, which became the main supportive element and reflects our drive

May you can hear our connection, which testifies our certainty of a better future in a playful way.

@seniorcitizen_wav

becoming

Senior Citizen & kunstlicht - Becoming

„Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.“ 
Psalm 103:1

 Jesus can be a source of change when we reach the limits of our strength, which I have personally experienced several times. 

All it takes is faith. Faith in the forgiveness of sins and we can realize that change is possible in places full of stagnation and pain. 

So I wanted to create a song that symbolizes this power of change and is dedicated to worship. 

Special thanks to Nils Heinrich for playing the one or other track with his trombone and to @gbmastering for the final touch.

I wish you all a wonderful last holiday and I’m happy that I could release the first 4 songs this year.

Next year I'll continue diligently and look forward to releasing some songs with @tseifert_  as well as various remixes, like the Eminem remix. 

Be well and stay tuned.

Praise The Lord

Praise The Lord (Original Version)

This time the background of the song is less melancholic. 

I had the feeling that I had made too many melody-driven songs and wanted to make a song where the focus is more on the groove. 

As you might have noticed, it's not easy for me to leave melodies out... but at least I tried not to get too involved in it ;) 

Sweep out the brain, so to speak, and set it on a new start. 
So clean up with me, clear your head and swing the mop to the beat.

Clean Up

Clean Up (Original Version)

Some songs are like lumps of clay that first need to be carefully mined, then shaped and finally fired so that a vase can be made out of them.

Other songs come out of nowhere and it's like waking up to find a vase in front of you.

This remix is one of the latter. After I was close to despair on the day of creation, because I was deep in a writer's block and already wanted to give up, I started a new project and within 30min I found all the sounds and had already roughly arranged the song.

After a short coffee break, it occurred to me that the song could use a vocal. Another 10min later the remix was already in the can.

If only it was always that easy. 

A short time later I sent the song to @dorianfecht to hear what he thinks of it. Because the song passed the Stiftung-Dorian-Test, he took the song to the 
Rotkehlchenfestival, which was an absolute premiere for me, because It was the first time, that I had the chance to listen to one of my songs on a quite big soundsystem with such a wonderful crowd in front.

A small step that meant the world to me at that moment.

Through social media, the song also found its way to @elizentheemperor, who played the song at Fusion 2021. 

https://soundcloud.com/elizentheemperor/elizen-the-emperor-at-planet-c-fusion-festival-2021

I couldn't have imagined it when I started producing.

And that's the beauty of it. You do what you love, don´t overthink shit for some minutes and that can lead to others having a good time, or being able to let their minds wander for a moment, like yours did.... wonderful.

Thanks to all who have already supported the song up to here and shook their legs on dancefloors, or patiently waited for the release.

Eminem - Without Me (Senior Citizen Remix)

We all believe in something.
Even if we believe, that we believe in nothing.
There is no life without it, cause we can‘t grab all the possibilties that make our world this complex and astonishing thing.

The song reflects one perspective, that I feel close to and I would appreciate if we all, spent some time, shamelessly reflecting and proving what we believe in, if there‘s something more to our beeing on earth and that we confront the feeling of us as humans, just beeing dust in this, so called chaos of life.

Meaning Of Life (Dub Version)

We all believe in something. 
Even if we believe, that we believe in nothing.
There is no life without it, cause we can‘t grab all the possibilties that make our world this complex and astonishing thing.

The song reflects one perspective, that I feel close to and I would appreciate if we all, spent some time, shamelessly reflecting and proving what we believe in, if there‘s something more to our beeing on earth and that we confront the feeling of us as humans, just beeing dust in this, so called chaos of life.

Meaning Of Life (Vocal Version)

Blind Spot  (Dub Version)

In the time when I created this tune, I stumbled upon an interview with 2Pac and found it quite interesting, how he has been ahead of his time, in the way, that he spoke about problems that surrounded him. 

Nowadays it seems more normal to be, or to try to be aware of disbalances. 

Cause I like his music as well, I thought to use some of his spoken word, to let it be an updated motivation, to think  about everydays and personal blind spots.

Blind Spot  (Vocal Version)

Acid took me down. 

In this case, it was my overconsumption of coffee, wich made me a sour being. 

To get on my feet again I thought about producing a new song, that contains something alkaline to counteract. 

The Invention of "Natron House" was born and lifted me up, faster than I ever thought. 

Therefor I wanna highly recommend to spent some minutes, to let your mind wander and reflect on the status of your acidation. 

Maybe it´s time to enlighten your system with a fresh and cheeky spoon of "Natron House".

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This time I did the master by myself. So if you have any feedback I would love to hear from you.

Natron House

Natron House (Original Version)

Contrast (No Diggity Version)

Contrast

In 1973 Marvin Gaye released his song „Let‘s Get It On“ which is one out of many, that shaped modern music in this time. 

Few years later we (young timetraveller @marholz & seniorcitizen.wav, formerly known as seniorcitizen.tape) did a remix of this song, to give this hit a new twist and to show our respect for Marvin Gayes work. 

Finally we want to share this little gem and celebrate the first release of @marholz with all of you!

Marvin Gaye - Let´s Get It On (Marholz & Senior Citizen Edit)

This song is a reflection on relationships with good friends, people you love and passers-by.

What do passers-by and strangers have in common? 

Strangers come and strangers go. 

Friends and loved ones stay. 

Maybe not forever. But that little (or bigger) piece in the heart always remains reserved. 

So maybe the song is a love song. But the other way around.

Strangers (Original Version)

When the summer is over the sea otter usually comes ashore to ring in the first colder days of autumn. But no worries - he has warm memories of a groovie summer night in his luggage. 

For one last time this year: let the summer in your heart with this beatiful single by DJ Fehlt which comes with a great remix by Senior Citizen. 

Mastered by Metatext.

buy link <3

DJ Fehlt - Sea Otter on Land (Senior Citizen Remix)

One-T - The Magic Key (Senior Citizen Remix)_Dub Version

One-T - The Magic Key (Senior Citizen Remix)

For me, forgiveness is a tool for healing. 
A special aspect of it for me has been the realisation that you cannot apologise, you can only ask for forgiveness. 
On the other hand, you can forgive another person, even though they may not be at the point where they see the need to ask for forgiveness. 
In any case, this topic has been very much on my mind over the last few years, as I have felt an intrinsic urge to process experiences and clear up ambiguities and hurts. 
It was absolutely fascinating to experience first-hand how dead ends have turned into open roads and peace has come in where chaos and negativity were predominant before. 
I dedicated the song to this and enriched it with a mixture of melancholy and hope, which accompanied me in moments of dealing with the topic. 
I think it fits well into the current season, with the days getting shorter and shorter, the year coming to an end, which is also the beginning of a new one. 
As I can only encourage you to listen to the song ^^, I can also recommend the topic of forgiveness to you. 
Maybe there is someone who would be happy about a reconciliation or apology. 
If I can contribute even 1%, that would be more than wonderful. 

With love, your Senior Citizen

Forgiveness (Original Version)

What a nice story that came out after one of these inspiring weekends that we spent together since we are friends. 
I guess the song is a little influenced by Karl Ennio Mayrricone ;)
During the process we had so much fun to bring the steam-train and horse sounds in time and fill the story piece by piece. 

We hope that you enjoy ;)


@seniorcitizen_wav @Christian-Buchmann-Music

Lucky Loop

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Lucky Loop - Captain Future goes Electric & Senior Citizen

My first job wish was to become a pensioner. 

After playing a few instruments, I stumbled upon producing music and immediately fell in love with it.

Grateful to have finally overcome the producer's disease of never finishing projects, I started to release my music in autumn 2021.  

I usually feel home in slower spheres, but tend to evolve in faster genres. as well.
 
My DJ sets are mostly faster and above 100bpm, mainly in the genres of Funk, Disco, Indie Dance and my love since day one.... Techhouse.

Enjoy listening to the music and thanks for stopping by. 



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