Rooftop, 5th Floor (f/ Sleepyeyes)

Notes

Produced by: Dutchyyy & Sleepyeyes

Album: Traversal

Track: 24

Released: December 30, 2015 (Bandcamp)

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal

Released: January 1st, 2016 (Streaming)

https://open.spotify.com/album/3dYlFQTK2ZHNEOxsWTv2AX

Released: December 2nd, 2016 (Cassette) via GrandGardenRecords

https://dutchmassive.bandcamp.com/album/traversal-grand-garden

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Backstory:

Picking up from where the backstory of "The Tame" Left off...

+ https://legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/the-tame

After suddenly losing my 2nd apartment in Los Angeles with very little notice, I ended up essentially homeless for a bit. Thankfully I had plenty of friends who blessed me with hospitality and allowed me to couch surf a bit. I'd like to take this moment to extend to love to AshTreJinkins, who let me crash a few days at his crib in Compton (where I created what would become the first track on "Traversal" titled "Sacred Goddess Cave" and Tre would Remix that track into the last track on "Traversal" titled "Sacred Moon Vagina"), I'd Also like to extend love to Josh Jetson (Sunjet) for letting me crash at his crib in Long beach where he was neighbors with Zackey Force Funk, and Lastly I want to extend love to Matt E.J for letting me spend the remainder of my 1st Los Angeles resident Arc at his parents crib in Palos Verdes before deciding to Traverse back to Tampa Bay. A lot of cherished and traumatic memories packed into such a short time span haha...

While I was blessed to have couches, floors and beds to sleep on most of that time, there were situations where I had to leave one place before the next place was available, and if there is one place you don't want to be homeless for a few days or more, it's a city where no gas stations, stores or restaurants allow access to the restroom. Not fun... Trying to tuck behind some foliage in a busy city to sleep or use the restroom is not the adventure I kept trying to optimistically rationalize the experience to be ... during one of these Lay over periods, My homie Sleepyeyes said I could come crash at his apartment in Korea Town... I loved Jake, and already made a classic with the homie AshTreJinkins and Sleepyeyes there before, So I was excited to get to spend a few days there.

The backstory to that legendary collab titled "Lamb's Bread" can be found below:

+https://legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/lamb-s-bread-f-ashtrejinkins-sleepyeyes-

So on April 26th 2014... After hopping buses and trains I finally arrived at Sleepyeyes 5th floor apartment in KTown with easy access to the rooftop just as the Sun was beginning to set. Jake said he was tired but we ended up smoking anyway, which led to working on music... The Original version "5th Floor, Rooftop" was created 1st, Sleepyeyes just helped with the drums and went to sleep, and I did everything else. Chops, more Drums, Bass, Synths etc....

The Original Version "5THFLOOR,ROOFTOP (f/ Sleepyeyes)" mentioned above can be heard on the A-side of the Unreleased demo version of "The Uproot" at the 12 mins and 44 second mark. You can listen to that below:

+ https://legacy.catalog.works/dutchyyy/-the-uproot-side-a-demo-version-

After I finished that version, I wasn't tired and I was still hella inspired so I ended up starting a new Ableton Live Project where I sampled one of my favorite house songs and made the infamous track "Japan4" .....A Personal and fan favorite.

+ https://open.spotify.com/track/7z0dB8vqNp7Pak3JAyO4M9?si=2409f582cd4245dd

I ended up not going to sleep and decided to go walking around the neighborhood in Korea town, Listening to my ipod Nano shuffle and taking photos. When I got back to the apartment, Sleepyeyes must have woken up and went back into the session I finished and made an alternate version using all the elements I added after he went to sleep and breathing new life into it, so it would feel more like a collab he contributed to instead of just contributing helping out with the drums. I let him focus and climbed out the window and spent my last moments there chilling on the roof and drinking in the view of the city I had been living in since 2012 and thought really hard on whether I wanted to remain in Los Angeles and risk being a burden on my friends any longer (since finding a new place was not going so well this time around) or just keeping my stuff in storage with the intension of returning and just flying back to Tampa Bay for a bit (to also couch surf at the place I lived at before I originally moved to L.A. in early 2012) Hugged my homie and said goodbye, and waited outside for my friend Eroda to scoop me up and drive me all the way back to Palos Verdes to stay the remainder of time with my good friend Matt E.J (Organic Beat Sessions)

and thus "Rooftop, 5th Floor" was born...

BONUS CONTEXT: all of these songs were originally meant for double disc version of "The Uproot" but after losing that hard drive, I moved Japan4, and the remix that Sleepyeyes put more work into "Rooftop, 5th Floor" over to Traversal, and kept the original unmastered version on The Uproot.