Underground Gallery & Motech Present - DJ 3000 - Galactic Caravan

In an attempt to expand Rensoul's coverage of Detroit music, I give you DJ 3000's Galactic Caravan bought to you by Underground Gallery and Motech Records. The album is slated for a Spring 2009, but I was given the go to let my people have it early. Its a great project coming from the electronic/experimental side of Detroit's soundscape. Below is the link, tracklisting, and project description. Enjoy and hit me at kfresh[at]rensoul.com with your feedback. For more information on DJ 3000, visit MoTechRecords.com.

DOWNLOAD: Underground Gallery & Motech Present - DJ 3000 - Galactic Caravan (direct link)

Tracklisting:
1. Flamuri i Popullit
2. Meridian
3. Heritage *featuring Esteban Adame
4. Coat Of Arms
5. Darjeeling Sun
6. Yrwehear
7. Emotional Sequence
8. Meloudic Landscapes
9. Seven Tribes of Hoti
10. Penny for your thoughts
11. Midnight Express *featuring Esteban Adame
12. Her Smile
13. Memory Almost Full
14. Day Dreaming (Live in Hamtramck)
A group of travelers journeying together.

Each traveler is inherently different. As a group each individual part (take out part)comes together as a unique whole, moving towards one destination. On this journey, times may not always be good. There may be times when it is difficult to eat, difficult to form a cohesive thought, and times where it may even be difficult to think that you will make it to see the light of the morning sunrise. But, it is the support of those traveling with you that gives you hope. The promise of arriving in one place, together, provides you with the necessary inspiration to keep going.

In today's world, the members of a caravan can exist spatially. One member can be situated at their computer, eating breakfast in a European stronghold, while the next may be laying their head down after a hard day's battle on the west coast of the United States. They walk the same path, headed towards the same destination, yet they are separated by thousands of miles. They may not even recognize each other if they pass each other on a crowded city street. Their anonymity protected by thousands of passing people and the intense flutter of the urban heart beat. However, in their head lives the same beat. They may not occupy the same economic bracket, social class, cultural or racial background, or even speak the same language. But, when the thought of that sacred destination enters their respective minds, their thoughts align. Go forth and someday arrive in this place that is summoning you.

Like any journey, there will be times of tranquility and instances of chaos. Days where you will fight against other tribes, and nights where you will fight amongst your own. Through each of these battles comes a stronger group. The result is a band that will be more prepared for battle the next time it emerges and one that will test any force that stands in the caravan's path. From the smoke of each past battle, the group gathers up its goods and continues it's pace to its ultimate destination.

The destination may be Detroit, Paris, Amsterdam or Rome. Its actual position is irrelevant. The adventure lies more within the journey than in the arrival of your final destination. Once you are there, the place where you have travelled far to reach, more often than not, you won't appreciate where you are. Rather, you think about the events that occurred on the recently completed trip. It is the allure of a journey that keeps us going from day to day. A great poet once said that "I am always happy in the place that I am not." This wanderlust has fueled generations of people to pursue their dreams, both attainable and wild. It is in this pull that artists find their inspiration. Whether it's behind the wheel of a car, in the coach of a cross-continental rail car, on the deck in the middle of the ocean, or by foot on a darkened path in the middle of nowhere.

We will walk many paths over the course of our lives. Some of them good, some of them bad, and others will be paths of great indifference. It is the promise that something good lies at the end of each path that keeps us moving forward, That same promise makes standing still or moving backwards our enemy. We must never stop. We must walk constantly in the direction of something greater, no matter if its real or imagined.

No matter which art form you find yourself immersed in tonight, take a brief moment to pause and determine for yourself if you are still moving forward. If you have grown stagnant or have lost the motivation to progress, then look to those who came before you and excavate a new source of progression. It won't come easy, because nothing ever does. However, if there is one thing that music has taught us during this journey, it is that you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and never lose the hustle. As they say, hustle isn't made, it isn't raised, it isn't ever given, it is born.

Pack your belongings, gather your inspiration, call out to your ancestors who have walked this path before you. Our galactic caravan leaves tonight. We will not pause, and our speed will not waver, because on this journey, music is our language and we all understand and speak in the same tongue.

Our forward progress continues, care to join us?