Soporific Airs (DJ Bolivia)

This is the music-related blog for Jonathan (Scooter) Clark, also known in the electronica world as DJ Bolivia, a producer and DJ from Atlantic Canada. I listen to (and produce) a lot of folk, indie, rock, and hip hop music too! I also run a company (Replant.ca Environmental) through which you can sponsor the planting of trees to build forest reserves and community forests, which are protected from commercial logging. Please visit: www.replant.ca/environmental

Sunday, September 22, 2019

Sponsor Tree Planting

Although I'm posting this in my music blog, this is not music-related. This post is related to my other work doing reforestation in Canada. It's important because planting trees is significant for the planet. And coincidentally, my seasonal work planting trees is what has let me spend so much time over the years doing DJ'ing, music production, and creating training videos on YouTube.

Most of my tree planting career has been devoted to planting trees as part of a long-term cycle of harvesting wood for the pulp and lumber industries in Canada. Various organizations cut the trees, then myself and other planter go into those areas and plant new seedlings there. This type of work is very much like farming, although on a much longer time scale between crop rotations.

I've always wanted to set up a separate company which focuses on planting trees that will never be commercially harvested in the future. And recently, I finally made that happen. To capitalize on the very well-known website (Replant.ca) that I've been running for many years, I called the new company "Replant.ca Environmental." I'm building this company along with Laura Monk (one of my key planting friends) plus a couple other experienced associates from my west coast reforestation work.

Replant.ca Environmental focuses on planting trees for carbon capture and environmental reasons. We're building community forests and forest reserve areas in Atlantic Canada which will be protected from future commercial harvesting activities. The company is run on a donation/sponsorship model, and addresses the desire of many global citizens who want to make a small contribution to help fight climate change, but who might not be able to do things like tree planting near their own homes.

This year (2019) is the first year that we've been operating this business, but we expect to grow it well past 150,000 trees in 2020, and to more than double that number in 2021. Ultimately, we hope to enable a serious contribution toward the global goal of planting one trillion trees, to fight climate change.

If you're a music fan who has appreciated any of the music that I've shared, or if you found this post because of a link from one of my YouTube tutorials, thanks for reading this far. If you'd like to show some support for my music work, I'd really appreciate if you could check out our website for Replant.ca Environmental, share the website address with some of your friends, and consider making a small donation toward the planting of some trees. It is the many small donations that we get from readers like you that are making a very big difference in helping us plant as many trees as possible!

Here's a link to our site: replant.ca/environmental

Thanks so much for your support!
- Jonathan Clark (DJ Bolivia)

I'm Jonathan Clark, known online as DJ Bolivia. Do you want to learn more about DJ'ing and music production? If so, visit:

djbolivia.ca/training

If you happen to enjoy techno tracks, most of my tracks are available as free downloads from this link:

djbolivia.ca/tracks

Thanks so much for visit, and for your support! I really appreciate the fan base that I've been able to build up over the years.

Also, if you want to visit any of my other sites, here are a few links:

YouTube: youtube.com/djbolivia

SoundCloud: soundcloud.com/djbolivia

Blogger: djbolivia.blogspot.com

Main Site: www.djbolivia.ca

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

Live at Mount Funky Music Festival

A few weeks ago, I played a set at the Mount Funky Music Festival in Nova Scotia. This is the seventh year that the festival has been hosted, but the first time that I had been able to play or even attend.

It has been a while since I've accepted a request to play a set. I was hesitant to accept this gig too, especially since I only found out about it 72 hours before the show, and since I was in British Columbia at the time. For those of you who aren't familiar with Canadian geography, Nova Scotia and British Columbia are pretty far apart (about 5000 kilometers), as they're located on opposite coasts. However, I had a short three-day gap in my schedule, so I decided to put in an appearance. And I was really glad that I did!

Incidentally, the reason that I've been pretty low-key on the DJ scene and YouTube production scene for a few years is because I've gotten even more heavily involved in reforestation than I was even just a few years ago. For instance, last winter, I released three planting-related books on Amazon, which you can find if you want to visit my new author website:

www.jonathanclark.ca

Also, I've recently started another reforestation company, but instead of focusing on post-harvest industrial scale reforestation that is mandated by government policy, this one will rely on the generosity of global sponsors who donate money to have trees planted solely because it's good for our planet. Check out this website if you're interested:

www.replant.ca/environmental

Anyway, back to the music. Unfortunately, the stage wasn't recording all the DJ sets that night, and I forgot to bring a personal audio recorder. So I'm not able to share a recording of my set. However, for those of you who were interested, here's a set list:

01. Frank Kid - Happy Funker (Original Mix).
02. Enrico Sangiuliano - X Pollination (Original).
03. Adam Beyer & Mark Reeve - Nine Of You (Original).
04. Shake Inc. - Reaktor (Alex Senna).
05. Diego Lima - MadaFuckers (Original).
06. Phonista - Union Square (Original).
07. Christian Smith - Blast Off (Victor Ruiz).
08. Umek - Incinerator (Original).
09. Umek - Mechanical Blade (Original).
10. Hoxton Whores - Stand Myself (Kevin Andrews Remix).
11. Hoxton Whores - Welcome To The Whorehouse (Hoxton Whores Burlesque Club Mix).
12. Jay Lumen - Warehouse Trip (Original).
13. Jhony Rivers - Zerotonin (German Agger Remix).
14. Vic Ben - Return (Djahir Miranda Remix).
15. Alberto Ruiz - Room (Original).
16. Urban Francis & Bolivia - Hijack (Original).
17. DJ PP - Has To Be Done (Handzoff Remix).
18. Clark Fable - Midnight Marauder (Milo Zanneti Remix).
19. Olivier Giacomotto - Bipolar Star (Victor Ruiz Remix).
20. Rydel - Beat The Men (Original Mix).

Incidentally, here's a video for Hijack, a track that I did with Urban Francis, which I played in the middle of the set.

Anyway, the festival was a great time, and I was really glad to be back DJ'ing again.