“END OF AN ERA” 💽 1/1

Please visit the main collection page here: Proof of life (continued...) to experience proper world building as it is meant to exist.

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On August 23rd 2024 around Noon (PST) the ability to press / mint new 1/1 music via Main-net ETH on Catalog Works was officially Sunset.

Before this happened I was blessed to press a total of 145 1/1 music artifacts between both of my artist profiles

120 - Dutchyyy (Production)
25 - Dutchmassive (Vocalist / Emcee)

The last official 1/1 pressed on Catalog works was by the goated Catalog engineer @computerdata

The 2nd to last was “Sun Will Set” my symbolic hug & thank you to the platform that gave me hope & actually changed my life in such an impactful way that with zero exaggeration I can say with full transparency that If it wasn’t for Catalog Works & the amazing souls that entered my life because they found me through my music on Catalog, I 100% would not have survived through all the series of unfortunate events that life threw at me all at once post p_ndemic.

When I first pivoted to documenting my music / art via blockchain / smart contracts in February of 2021 I was tunnel vision on a mission of urgency to combat legacy internet & find a more permanent storage to allow my lifetime of creative output the best chance possible to survive long after I’m gone. The ability to attached Linear notes / backstory / credits / context to media in what seemed like a format that would exist forever made me approach how I used this tech very intentionally. Set it, and forget it.

Instead of highlighting newer work or even focusing on being present and creating new work, my plan was to document my entire expansive back catalog of music as 1/1’s. While many people were focused on scarcity of supply I was focused on the scarcity of human existence so I documented as much of my back catalog as possible. I wasn’t just minting a song, I was documenting music with context attached which takes time. There is also the factor of cost to mint on main-net, while that cost seems more reasonable at the time of writing this, many of those records cost $70-$300 to get up, especially the earlier ones. Unfortunately, this news of sunsetting the ability to press new music came as a surprise with not enough notice to allow me to complete my vision of having every song from every album I planned to all exist together in one place but I’m thankful I was able to document as much I did.

I’ll expand on all of this in greater detail in the future. I want to properly thank and acknowledge people and I also have a lot of thoughts and feelings around what’s been happening recently and what’s happened since I stumbled into this brave new world.

“SUN WILL SET”

To be continued?….