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Classically trained DJ/Producer, Dave Gluskin has been playing forward thinking melodic breakbeat and house music since the 1990's. Now a full-time producer and music teacher, Dave has available and forthcoming tracks (both solo and collabs) on Kaleidoscope Records, Dissident Recordings, 20KFreaks, GMF Music. His music is full of emotion and energy and always takes listeners on a musical journey.

Socials: https://linktr.ee/davegluskin

Old dirty Rastaman from early Commodore demoscene days. Now with a brand new handle outside da scene.

Once upon a time a child was born. He was a kind, loving child always wearing a smile. All over people were amazed at how relaxed and positive someone can be. But when he was on the steps of growing up he found an apple, which everyone said he shouldn’t bite. He was also inquisitive and curious, so he had to taste it. The apple was so sweet, that it made him do foul things for a long time. After years of adventures, wondering and rebelling he found himself stuck suffering at the flames of hell (sink). Most of his friends were ruined or dead. The apple wasn’t so good anymore and he was lost like a snowman in Jamaica.

But then one day he got pieces of paper which he ate. It was no normal paper, for it was magical mind altering paper. He had tasted it before, but only had small glimpses of the universe and how it worked. This time it was different, for he had learnt enough during his travels to step further forward. An ancient wise spirit of an indian appeared from the sun. It put a hand on the child’s head and said: “Rise dear child. For you have a destiny to fulfill.” The child was amazed and couldn’t say anything. 

The indian continued: “I will resurrect you from here to a new dawn, but you must promise me something.” The child nodded his head on agreement. 
“First you will move where you humans belong, in the middle of nature.” it said.
“Second, you will plant shaman seeds for all mankind with love, kindness, knowledge and rhythms.” 
The child answered: “I will do what you say, please get me out of this misery.” 
The indian had a sad look: “No, Helaku. You will find your own way out of it, I’m here only to give you a new chance, a new beginning.” 
The child tried to talk “but how can I…”, but the indian interrupted. 
“You will find the answers if you just follow what the king, the sun tells you. Follow your instincts, love the world and the universe. It will show you the way. Be true to yourself and others.”
“I will do that, I promise.” the boy muttered.
“Then there is the third part of trinity which you must fulfill to succeed. It’s probably the most important thing. You must find your soul mate. Together you will rise to new heights of being, which will give you the biggest cosmic energy there is. And with the power of that energy you will be able to do amazing things and help the whole planet. It needs your help.”
“True love?” the boy asked.
The indian smiled: “Yes my son, you have knowledge of it already. Now you just have to dare.”
“But how can I trust anyone after all these heartbreaks and sneaky women I’ve met?” The boy said.
“Get a grip of yourself, you will know when the time is right. It will come if you just follow the sun.”
The boy nodded.
“I will give you new life and you will be reborn. And you will grow beautiful new life all over the universe. Now rise, Helaku my son.”

There was a bright flash of the clearest white light there is and it bathed on the boy and the indian disappeared. And so the boy was reborn as Helaku, which is an indian name meaning full of sun.

The rest is future or his-tory, possibly her-story, which you will learn some day. Be kind, be love. Be metta. Love life and it will love you back.

Since summer 2013 I use SoundCloud to disseminate and exchange small pieces of music which I usually play on bass. Beside my current band in the area of rock and old school punk-rock this is an important activity to keep a proper balance between my day-time profession in academia/research and my private life.

In particular, when I started recording, my idea was to compose music for elevators and phone waiting-loops. The first recordings I did with my BOSS RC-30 looper, which I still use today for practicing quite often. The tracks are mostly created in an ad-hoc approach and the ideas remain as raw as they were during first shot. Due to time, the effort for post-processing is always kept very low ;-)

In addition, I write reviews on basses. A first try, you find on the Web-Site of the German manufacturer Bassart – the review is about my Amazing Standard (see the links below). A further review addresses my 6-string Groover from Ralf Börjes build in 1995. This is the by far coolest bass on the planet. The article was published in the German magazine Bassquarterly (Nov./Dec. Issue in 2017 – see the links below).

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