the first drift
A place to keep track of the things that stay.
I wanted a place to keep track of the things I like, the things I find, and the things that stay with me.
A lot of it starts late at night, often with a blonde Belgian strong beer that starts with a D, and with me falling again into the bottomless well of the internet.
Not the internet of shortcuts, fast content, and things made to be consumed in two seconds.
I mean the older kind of drift. The one where you click, search, listen, read, and suddenly two hours are gone. You end up finding a live version, an old interview, a strange performance, a forgotten blog, a clip, a comment, a playlist, a name you never heard before. Then another one. Then another one.
I like that world.
I like getting lost in music, in images, in words, in moods, in sounds, and in the strange emotions that all of this can create.
Sometimes it is beautiful. Sometimes it is sad. Sometimes it is rough, ugly, brilliant, overdone, very intelligent, or completely instinctive. Sometimes I love it immediately. Sometimes I reject it first and come back to it later.
That is also why I wanted to start this.
I do not always create. Sometimes I do nothing. Sometimes I do not try. Sometimes I do not have the energy or the right state of mind for it.
But even when I am not making something, I am still feeding myself with culture. And for me that matters a lot.
It is not a luxury. It is fuel.
Music, films, visuals, fragments, lyrics, tones, textures, atmospheres, internet rabbit holes, strange discoveries, obsessive listening, repeated listening, new references, old references. All of this feeds something deeper.
Creation is not only about producing something yourself.
It is also about absorbing, feeling, reacting, collecting, rejecting, trying, failing, and staying curious.
There is something very human and almost animal in that.
A rhythm, a tension, a need for stimulation, emotion, surprise, beauty, even discomfort.
That is why I like this space between intoxication and control.
The feeling of being carried by something without completely losing yourself in it.
Even if sometimes it takes over.
So this site is a place for that.
A place where I can share what I like, what I find, what I listen to, what I watch, what I read, what I dig into, and what keeps pulling me back.
It can be music, playlists, clips, live sessions, comments, images, articles, ideas, internet wanderings, personal projects, or just things that stay in my head for some reason.
I do not want to make this too formal.
I do not want to explain everything too much either.
I just want a place that feels honest.
Something simple.
Something open.
A place to keep traces of what moves me, what inspires me, what distracts me, what obsesses me, and what gives me a real feeling of escape from the routine of everyday life.
That is the beginning of DUWEI NIGHTS.