Messenger of Dionysos · Mused by Apollo

In ancient times, Satyr was the horned and horny messenger of Eleusinian forest god Dionysos. He mesmerized the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute and made them dance till broad daylight. In our common present, the spirit of Satyr inhabits the body of a human boy.

Searching for a new way to spread the vibe of the forest, by Dionysian decree, Satyr switched to SL and CDJ instruments, which fit the job quite nicely. Apart from those, he employs the tools Apollo chose: a blank screen and virtual ink, to jot down all he likes to think - hence this his satellite here, orbiting Earth's blogosphere!


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Silence In The Air





closed eyes, open ears
heart of space paving the pulse
silence in the air


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The Definitive Ambient Collection
Volume 2 - by Pete Namlook
(1994, Rising High Records)

Happy Bicycle Day

Happy Bicycle Day
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.: Happy Bicycle Day :.



Hofmann's Potion (2002)

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🪄🏔 trring trrring 🚴✨

Pan-O-Ra-Magi-Ka - Satyr at the Magic Tree

[ sunset rainbow right after my set - click for full panoramic size ]

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Due to the non-stop stream of joy, love and kindness,
my return to the Amsteldamp went really smooth,
decompression completed this New Moonday,
and what better way to round things up
than with a Total Solar Eclipse
- even though far away,
it still feels as close
as Pan-O-Rama
does now
to me



reintegrating
crystals of all elements
merging into one




Vividly,
I remember ..
arriving at the Magic Tree,
on Friday, March 22, long after dark
the whole site, plants, people & particles
embracing me, whispering: Welcome Home 
a feeling of falling in love following me

everywhere

persisting
right here
and now

continuing
this ceremony

amazing
cosmic
eternal

in the very
footsteps of

Demeter & Dionysos:

Holy The Dance


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with Love
and Light

forever
grateful


Satyr


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🪄🌳 .: namaskaramba :. 🙏✨

.. When Day Becomes Night ...



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 when day becomes night
 father sky turns inside out
 twirls his crystal shroud


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—‘[~  Syzygy  ~]’—


the aligning of celestial bodies in a straight(-ish) line,
illustriously celebrated during an eclipse
as we line-dance along with
Sol, Luna and Gaia
all embraced
by Tengri
 
 —o—
 
Syzygy
I Am The Sky

(Rising High Records, 1994)


'Ear The Heart





blow out the candle
quiet the mind, 'ear the heart
dance the middle way


—o—

"Ambient Buddhism"
Takeo Suzuki

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freakuently unanswered questions


? what is Satyr

! in ancient times, Satyr roamed the Eleusinian forests as the horned and horny messenger of Dionysos - the god of ritual intoxication - who dispatched him to mesmerize the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute, and made them dance till broad daylight.

? where is Satyr

! in our recent past, Satyr reincarnated in the concrete jungle of Amsterdam as a DJ. At age ten, he recorded his first mix, displaying his love for early hip hop and electro, and soon his tapes were in high demand. After the Second Summer Of Love, he got turned on by new dimensions of synthetic sound and ventured into the realms of ambient, acid-house, techno and trance music, never looking back ever since.

? does he still play flute

! the Panflute has become an artefact in captivity, held safe and sound in the archeological archive of the Vatican. Yet, since them high-n-mighty early 1990s, Satyr became increasingly skilled as a player of the SL & CDJ instruments, spinning various styles of musica eclectronica, embracing a wide range of the bpm spectrum with remarkable sparkle.

Notoriously difficult to pigeonhole yet sharply focused on and specialized in ambient, chillout, psytrance & deep atmospheric techno; entertaining events for 5 to 50.000 people, by serving his spicy melange of clean cuts and dirty grooves, mixing it down and grinding it up from raw to smooth.

A few memorable events ecstasized by Satyr:
Amsterdam Dance Event (NL), Atmosphere (Berlin), Ballonnenfeest (NL), Burning Man (USA), Club A (Sao Paulo), Dance Valley (NL), Love & Magic (Oslo), Metsafestiwaal (Finland), Pan-O-Rama Festival (La Gomera), The Pi Club (Berlin), Q-Base (Germany), Senseblender Festival (Belgium), Universo Paralello (Bahia / Brazil), VooV Experience (Germany), and many more in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, USA & all over The Netherlands.*

* a detailed gigographic list might appear later



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