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📽️Video Documented: March 23, 2024 at 5:55pm CMT ⬇️ 🔗thxk_u link in bio🔗 Backstory:📖
"thxk_u" previously known as "lo_tek" came into my virtual life and hopped on my dope AF radar a few years ago. This mysterious producer who popped up out of nowhere dropping heater after heater. I'm from school of showering with flowers when art makes an impact on me, so I was quick to publicly and privately give him high praise, to my surprise he told me he only recently started making music and even more to surprise that all the dope stuff I was hearing was created using the Koala APP, hence the nickname "Prince Koala" - This wasn't too surprising because a lot of homies were pivoting to making music on Koala and making dope stuff ish, but thxk_u was the first Koala main i know of that wasn't also using other machines or software at the time. ⬇️ Beyond the prolific and consistent output, thxk_u moved with immense humility, gratitude and love, genuinely one of the most genuine kind hearted human beings I've had the honor of crossing paths with on my 4 decades on this earth. A few years later & thxk_u has over 100 releases on bandcamp (and I don't mean singles) so in my humble opinion you should absolutely subscribe to his bandcamp 🫂 ⬇️ 🔗thxk_u Discography via Bandcamp🔗 ⬇️
💽In late 2022, I was chosen to be curator for #CatalogWorks and onboard 5 Artists to the platform. This was more difficult than I anticipated at the time because so many artists were afraid to be associated with anything blockchain related. I was still able to onboard 5 artists that were on my collector/fan wishlist: 💽🔗Ahmed Sirour🔗 💽🔗Javier Santiago🔗 💽🔗thxk_u 🔗 💽🔗Vienna 🔗 💽🔗RND1 🔗 ⬇️ Fast Forward to 2024...This entire collection gives the context and backstory as to how and why we got here so I'll let you dive in to previous artifacts in the collection to catch up 😉 ⬇️ As fate would have it, I ended up moving from Tampa, FL to [Redacted], AZ... which is crazy, because I love foliage... Plants, Grass, Trees, forests and have always detested the idea of living in a desert haha. I had my reasons tho to make this drastic choice and with the help of respected music comrades and friends 🔗PASSTHEDUTCH.ORG🔗 and a very special Music Nerd, I landed safely in a strange land, 2 miles away from my childhood best friend / brother who's been in my life since the early 80's but does not make music nor really seek it out these days.... but for once RNG blessed me, because this kind hearted, super talented musician/human "thxk_u" happened to live close to the random location I ended up in. ⬇️ For Context sake in case you aren't familiar with me or my backstory, I've been creating, releasing and collecting music since the early/mid 90's... I've got the most insane vault of treasures in the form of tangible relics and hard drives upon hard drives a unreleased gems, but i've spent the past nearly decade in extreme isolation and solitude, even prior to the pandemic... but 2020-to present was rough and honestly thought I would never get a chance to socialize IRL and connect and share with loved ones again... ⬇️ The first time, thxk_u came over with mel, I'm bombarded him with unreleased music and backstory.... time flew by so fast hahah...
The 2nd time (Which this artifact that's documented is from) We had a mission, for me to show thxk_u my start to finish creative process in
Ableton Live......
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welp... haha, I got distracted quickly and played more unreleased music, and music that inspired me not realizing he had limited time to chill and never got to create something in front of him.....
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So after he left.......(To be continued...)