Close To The Sun

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Thoughts about this track:

The track "Close To The Sun" wants to send out a thank you to the beauty of sunlight. Especially the golden sunlight gives a special kind of energy and magic to things and existences on planet earth. It attracts people and gives life a special glow, which is often forgotten or faded out in the everyday life of people.

The sunlight wraps the things of the world again and again in new garments. In the golden morning or evening light, one forgets the hustle and bustle and the associated restlessness that prevails in the cities of this world. In such special moments of mood, one would like to be able to stop what is happening. Even if we can't stop these precious moments, we can capture them in the form of special moments. As a picture, as a video, in the form of music or retrievable in our memories. The golden and warm sunlight shows us humans the negative as well as the positive sides, and often highlights them in unique moods. It awakens our emotions, makes us become more active or dance and share our joy. It stimulates us to dream, to hope or to do crazy things with other living beings. It drives the longing in us and gives us new strength.

No matter whether man is on earth or in the sphere - light and shadow is the game of opposites. Without light there is no life, without shadow there is no tension. In moments when we are close to the light and consciously enjoy this time, we can realize that this planet earth provides more than just a special feature for us. For this remaining time, which is available to us as humans, we should be grateful day by day.

Close to the Sun

Release – Close To The Sun (Toby O. Rink)

Timeline with detours

The track "Back To Start" wants to show a kind of global timeline. Some seem to have already found their vision for the future, others not. But is that so important? After all, we are all on a timeline whose time is limited. But we can also divide and label this timeline according to our wishes and ideas. If we do this for ourselves and go back from today's date to the beginning of our existence, we will find that this timeline has never been straight, but also has eruptions or waves upwards or downwards. I see these as positive detours, regardless of whether the wave goes down or up. Both detours are paths of experience that at some point always meet the straight line of a short-term balance. It is important that we can always be aware of the decisive reasons for these detours.


Natural Intelligence, Human Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence

If we draw a very rough timeline for the development of humanity, it consists of a point for the start, a point for now and a point for the future. I have called the starting point "Natural Intelligence". I have called the now-time "Human Intelligence" and the future "Artificial Intelligence". Whether the future will come about in this way can only be assumed today. The starting point symbolises the beginning of life on Earth, which researchers can only assume was in the deep sea about 3.5 billion years ago. Here, an intelligence seems to be at work that we can still find today in the finest structures of nature. A lot has happened in human history between the starting point of "Natural Intelligence" and "Human Intelligence". I have tried to depict here mainly the positive sides of life, mostly without a smartphone, in the context of the video - the freedom of the human being up to the present moment of the pandemic. Even in this first phase of the timeline, we have determined our own fate for the most part, apart from extreme natural disasters in the early days. The phase from "Human Intelligence" to "Artificial Intelligence" is already taking place and is increasingly characterised by technical development, seduction and visible rigidity. We live in virtual spaces instead of caring for our real environment. We rely on "machine logic" instead of our "human thinking". And in the future, will we also rely on a "machine thinking and acting" instead of our human thinking and acting? It is in our hands.   

Between all the central main points such as 1. natural intelligence, 2. human intelligence and 3. artificial intelligence, there are always points that I have called "life cycle". These points, which are actually permanently active between these cycles, symbolise our active life or experience. They should make you think, so that you always make the right decisions for yourself - in bad times as well as in good times. Don't just be impressed by the future, but above all by your present time. And be proud of the many detours that have always led you to a good point, even if they may not always have been pleasant - but instructive. Look back on your path to fill the coming with the right decisions. 

 
Toby O. Rink

Back to Start

Back to Start – Toby O Rink

Hi there,

here is my set that I played at the Good Earth Festival in July 2024. Have fun with it. I look forward to your feedback. 

Best regards
Toby

Good Earth Festival 2024 – Summer

In October 2024 we had the honour and great fun of playing with LEO Stussy at her birthday party at the tower in the middle of the vineyards in the beautiful Palatinate. Many great DJs were at the start, which once again shows that it's the community spirit that connects us. Have fun listening.

LEOs  BDay Turm Stream  Toby And Ragh

Hi,
Once again it was great at the Winter Session of the Good Earth Festival. 

This time the motto was House, Groovy, Funky. Mixed audience from 18 to over 70 years. It was great fun.

Have fun listening to my set. Have a good time dear ones.

Toby

Good Earth Festival 2024 – Winter Session

My Happy House set from 22.2.2025 at the After Art in Karlsruhe. Mixed with oldschool breakbeats and hiphop.

The session was a lot of fun. The After Art Karlsruhe lineup included Shahrokh Dini (Compost Black Label), ATA (Robert Johnson / Playhouse), SIRS (Lovebirds), Rainer Trüby (Compost Records) and Paulita (Belgium/Berlin)

The light show was controlled by Dominik Rinnhofer, who enriches our collective “Good Earth Vibes” immensely with his light art.

Thanks to all the many people who took part. 

Have fun with the set and have a happy day.

Toby

After_Art_2025__Toby

What a wonderful time we had again here at the Good Earth Festival 2025. Together with Gorge, DJ Hildegard, Maxie König, RaGH, Elees, Luke Tavy, Second Reality, and our Mr. Visual and Light Dominik Rinnhofer. :)

For us, it's the best independent festival in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Karlsruhe, and Baden-Baden area, close to Basel and France's Alsace region. With a huge audience ranging from 18 to over 80 years old. Incidentally, our oldest dancers this year were 85 years old. So keep fit. ;-)

It's always great to see young and old enjoying an absolutely brilliant break together to the sound of electronic music. Without prejudice, without stress, without envy. Wonderful.

We are already looking forward to the winter festival with you.
Snuggle up into the Christmas season, dancing outdoors in the warm surroundings of the wood-burning stove. 

Pure drifting away and switching off. 
Have a good time and enjoy my set, and see you then.

Toby

Good Earth Festival – Summer 2025

I named my first track, which I produced a few years ago, “Close To The Sun.”

Since I really liked the substance of the track, I thought I'd make a remake that retains the basic idea and content but adds more dynamics.

In “Close To The Sun,” you can find several ideas and trains of thought. For me, “standing close to the sun” colloquially expresses the happiness that you are given in your life—especially when you can be grateful for the little things. “Close To The Sun” expresses a longing for warmth, freedom, and happiness.

Close to the Sun - The Battle (Remake 2024)

I recorded my set that i played on the DJ stage of the festival "Das Fest 2019". It was a great evening on an absolutely magnificent Wood Stock stage. Thanks to everyone who was there, both live and with their hearts. And now have fun listening to the set.

Das Fest 2019 Set Toby O. Rink

I was very active in break dancing in the 80s. Similar to the picture here with the two to three millimeter PVC roll on the floor and the ghetto blaster in the corner. I still like listening to these beats, which are often very funky. Towards the end of the stream, I deliberately moved a slightly different and more progressive direction for the last three tracks. Some would call it techno, others classify it in the corner of the breakbeats.

Have fun.

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Ich habe in den 80er Jahren selbst sehr aktiv Breakdance gemacht. Ähnlich wie hier auf dem Bild mit der zwei bis drei Millimeter PVC-Rolle auf dem Boden und dem Ghettoblaster in der Ecke. Ich höre diese Beats, die oft auch sehr Funky sind, immer noch sehr gerne. Gegen Ende des Streams habe ich mich bei den letzten drei Tracks bewusst auch mal etwas ein eine andere etwas progressivere Richtung hinbewegt. Manche würde es Techno nennen, andere wiederum in die Ecke der Breakbeats einstufen. 

Habt viel Spaß beim Hören.

Crazy Legs Session 01

Hi guys,

i love these spherical and subtle driving tracks. I definitely listened to this set 15 times during my design work without getting bored.

Listen to it, enjoy it, let the Sunday end or start the Monday with it. :-)

Have fun
Toby

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