This is the voyage of Apollon Allen through the Second Life Universe, seeking out new music, new ideas. And deliver thoughts on why music takes life to a higher ground.
I natt (2-3 okt) så rev vi ned Grenouille och hade en underbar Gravölsfest.
Jag känner dock att jag inte kan ta på mig äran över huvudtaget för detta fantastiska ställe. Men i och med att jag mött denna underbara drivkraft, Iendi Laville, så vet jag att vi kommer att göra stårdåd tillsammans i framtiden.
Jag vill egentligen bara böja mitt hjärta och säga TACK!!! till er alla som kom och gjorde kvällen/natten till en så lyckad tillställning. Nu vet jag (återigen) hur underbart det är att skapa evenemang för er alla, för ni ger sådan underbar varm känsla tillbaka genom er närvaro och glada tillrop :).
Iendi försökte i bästa stil att förse alla med färska öl :) även om det kan bli svårt att hinna med när så MÅNGA underbara personer dyker upp!
Bilder har jag förstås inga (men Blanche med flera kommer säkert att lägga ut ett och annat kollage (kram för det), eftersom jag befann mig i skivhögarna för att servera gamla godingar från den ljuva 80-talet.
Som ni förstår så är det stora saker i görningen, Iendi och jag håller på att skapa en genomtänkt (hoppas vi) plats för en massa kommande events i Second Life för våra underbara härliga vänner. Men mer om det inom snar framtid :)
Tanken var ju att jag skulle underhålla denna blogg, för det vet ju alla att skriver man inte i den finns man inte :)
Nå skämt åsido, jag fick ischias och så var den sommaren förstörd. Men nu är jag nästan frisk och känner mig på nytt född.
Dessutom tar jag mig friheten att gå över till att skriva på hederlig svenska igen.
Sommaren till trots, har jag ändå varit i SL en del och sett en hel del spännande artister (återkommer till dem i senare inlägg).
Det jag egentligen ville säga är att jag tänker öppna en klubb i Second Life som ligger på Haven Paradise och heter Good God Club (jag har smygkört några gånger redan). Tanken med den klubben är att den ska fungera som ett komplement till alla andra kanonklubbar och evenemang som finns med svensk anknytning.
Däremot saknar jag lite skaka rumpa musik i det svenska sammanhanget och det tänkte jag ändra på!!! Som bekant gör jag en hel del musik i RL som jag säljer vidare till bl. a . Ministry of Sound, så en hel del eget material kan drabba er :)
Good God Club kommer inte att ha några fasta dagar i veckan. Tanken är att den främst ska ha följande två inriktningar:
1. GOOD GOD CLUB - HOUSE
- Klubb inriktad på"House", musikstilen somuppfinner en ny subgenre i kvartalet. Helt enkelt mycket dansant musik att skaka rumpa till. DJ Apollon står i normalfallet för mixar och låtar. Dessa tillfällen kommeratt förannonseras i alla vanliga chattar!
2. GOOD GOD CLUB - Spontanfest
- När inget att står till buds och behovet uppstår, tänkte jagkalla till spontanfest i alla våra normala chattar. Då blandar vi musiken hej vilt efter tycke, smak, dagsform ochönskningar!!!
I båda fallen gäller det att ha kul och umgås, så där som vi är sååå bra på mina vänner :), bladdra chatten full med roligheter och DJ Apollon kommer att orerera efter bästa förmåga (d.v.s. undertecknad) i micken. "Best in show", Sploders, och annat kul kör vi givetvis med.
- Därtill kommer vi efter hand att även ta in både gästspelande DJ's och artister (har några coolcats i RL som gärna vill göra några gig i SL och uppleva vad jag håller på med på nätterna... hahaha om de bara visste).
Så jag säger välkommen tillbaka till mig själv och till er alla som läser detta. Ser fram emot en spännande höst med mycket upptåg och intressanta möten i allas vårt Second Life
I did my first Real Life DJ-set back in 1980. And what a bliss for me to start spinning “vinyls” at that point. I had the hole 80’s in head of me, with so much music to play and mix hard with steady beats. And even though I have played so many records from the 80’s, I still find pieces that I’ve missed. With 2 turntables and a 3 channel mixer I started to enjoy my closest friends and their friends. Then I got professional and started touring around Europe (too much Ibiza hahaha) and even Russia and met so many fantastic people to enjoy. After nearly 10 fun years I got tired of it, combed myself and got a normal day job (instead of sleeping all day) and threw the mixers in the drawer.
But 2007 I discovered Second Life and YAY for that. A whole new world to enjoy!!!. Instead of travelling around the globe, now I could do that from my studio at home. Lives were good again. For 3 years I have played on and off in Second life at crazy places like Dance Island (still the laggiest place in SL), to small obscure clubs with only a handful of people. Both arenas are so much fun doing, even though the set differs a lot. At a huge club you‘re on your own doing your “DJ-Set” and the huge kick is the perfect mix. At the smaller ones, request is the leading light, which is a whole other ball part. But my main goal is to enjoy and make people come together.
During my time as a DJ in SL I have come across so many good people and of course some bastards as well. But I must say that the latter are fewer than I thought. And there are thousands of DJ wannabes out there too, but as long as they enjoy people and listen to the “floor” they will live through the night.
I have only one KTS (Key to success), LISTEN TO THE FLOOR!!!
No matter WERE you’re playing, HOW you play, always listen to the “Voice” of the people on the floor. SOOOO many DJ’s do their shit and forget this, cause they're just haunting for the perfect mix. And they will will fail (at least that night). Then of course it will help if you know your basics.
Hugs from Apollon
Tune for you this time is a classic blend between Visage and Kent made by myself. This is actually the first one ever made with them both in the same set. Enjoy!!!
I really never knew why I’ve been drawn to this music. Maybe it’s because of the darkness that lays as a floor under every song in this genre. I remember when I was 13 years old and met up with, at that time the most wonderful human being I’ve come across, and got so totally fascinated by her choice of music. She was part of the first generation Goth, and the clothes she was wearing to accent her love for the dark mystic tunes was beyond my known world.
Me, I came from a music palette of Sex Pistols (uk), Gyllene Tider (swe), Noice (swe), Ebba Grön (swe) and Peter Gabriel (uk). An extreme variation, I know, but hey, I was 13 and my life had just started to show itself to me. And do remember that this was back in -79, long before internet was mans every right. But I knew there was something, a piece I was missing. And this girl represented it with her black and white outfit and the hard painted face. She showed me a whole new world of music with band like Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Sisters of Mercy, The Virgin Prunes, The Sex Gang Children, Christian Death and of course The Cure.
The was music that emerged from Punk Rock and lived side by side forming its own life and culture. The poetic sensibilities of gothic rock lyrics exhibits literary romanticism, morbidity, religious symbolism, and/or supernatural mysticism.
I had found my first piece of my musical soul!!!
And this was the key: mysticism and the dark undertones. Even though I’ve been wandering through many genres I will always nurture my soul with a good Goth tune every now and then, to the memories of that girl that opened my mind for music way of the mainstream.
In Second Life I’ve been wondering around for a long time, trying to find some interesting Goth music, but there has been very little. There are of course clubs like Club Zero, but not so many bands performing this kind of music.
My choice of tune this time will not be an old classic Goth song but a “new” Goth and roll song, they like to call their genre. The 69 eyes, a fantastic band from Finland with the front man Jyrki 69 with his dark melodically doom voice. The song I’ve chosen is Brendon Lee, a song which is often played at Ormdricka by DJ Lucien or PirateJenny. Woooooot for them!!!
Do we need music? Would we be better off without it? If you ask me, of course NOT!!!
There are some scientists that have, seriously, come to a conclusion that music is not needed for the Homo sapiens well being. What a load of bollocks!!! I say if we had more understanding about what music really does for your mind and body, there would be less trouble in the world.
On a theoretical level you could say that something is really happening to your body when you surround it with music. I think it may be related to the physiological - the brainwave patterns we experience when performing different activities. The easy examples would be Alpha, Beta and Theta waves during different stages of relaxation and sleep and dreaming. I think it’s likely that at least to some extent, music "strikes a chord" so to speak, with some of these, it’s almost like musical hypnosis.
Music is the “language of the Soul”. It's an emotion, only you're “hearing” it. Do you know what I mean?
Music is a fantastic consistent of resonance, vibration and carrier waves. Music, at least temporarily, increases our emotional Intelligence, no question about that!
So, why do we listen to different types of music during various moods? Why does music uplift us, or depress us?
The questions are many and I will haunt them all down, that is my quest. And I love you to join me.
I will from now on add a tune every time I write here. Then I want you to “really” listen to that particularly tune without a preset opinion or thought. I will pick songs from all kinds of genres. My hope is that, regardless your own taste of music, there’s always something good in a song, as long as it’s well performed. And I want you to find it for your own amusement.
So the first tune out is – a classical one – W.A. Mozart : concerto pour piano no. 21 KV467 (II) in the hands of Geza Anda on piano. Close your eyes and enjoy.
See ya’ll next time with some hard core music and the quest continues…
So, it has finally happened, I'm blogging. I know, I said that it would never happen, mainly cause I have so little time left in my life to squeeze in this kind of things.
But then I began to realize that this is what it's all about. I have so much in my mind that I want to share, so this is my quest, Apollon's Quest. Music has always been a huge part of my life and will be to my last breath. In the cradle I started too form melodies instead of words.
I've been a prodessional DJ, on and off, for over 25 years, worked as a studio musician and I have my share of years on stage as well. My main focus has yet been to write and compose music and lyrics, for me and for others. I have never been able to stay in one genre, were the brain takes me, I'll follow :)
Firstly, this blogg will take you across the universe, mainly a journey within Second Life, where I have been nuturing my soul and spririt for over 3 years now. I will seek out the essence of good music, no matter what genre. I've come across many artists and I'm still extraordinary overwhealmed over the high quality there is behind the avatars.
Secondly, this will also be a journey inside of me, to find the very essence of music that moves me. But I also hope that it gonna move you.
Thirdly, I hope this is gonna be as much fun for me writing it as it's for you reading (and commenting) it. I'm hoping that you will find my thoughts intriging as well as indulging. You know, Curiosity didn't kill that cat :)
Hugs
Apollon Allen, your owl in SL
ps ...and bare with be, I'm just a swedish guy that always have a song in my mind, but sometimes lacking the proper word at hand, so some error here and there will occur. *S*
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