07/04/2021
A world of wonders with Frequencies 15 by Dj. B.O.B.
Music can make you so happy. Since I received the new Frequencies 15 mix from Nectar resident B.O.B. just before Easter, my world became a world of wonders.
The weather is extremely weird outside, especially for April. There are short, sunny periods, which are alternated with equally short periods of wet snow, which is blown horizontally by a strong wind. But inside, in my apartment on the dunes, it is cozy and comfortable. Since I received the new Frequencies 15 mix from B.O.B. just before Easter my world became a world of wonders.
Due to the great choice of music and the incredibly tight mixes of Bob van der Linden, as B.O.B is known when not performing or mixing music, everything comes in louder and more pleasant today. When I receive an email from Loveland that a room can be booked in the 4-star Loveland Hotel during the two-day festival on 7 and 8 August, I can already see myself lying there. Preferably with my love, after bouncing off all the beauty I have seen and heard.
While the mix of B.O.B. Is halfway I hear a great vocal track in which a male voice says: this should be played in high volume, preferably in a residential area.
I do what the good man tells me and turn the volume up. I am lucky that I live in a residential area where many people live who are even older than me and where I rarely get complaints about my Frequencies. I check that regularly. Yesterday, after I listened to B.O.B.'s music all morning, I asked an elderly neighbor if my noise wasn't bothering him. He responded with: "Could you repeat that? I'm a little deaf."
When I first heard Frequencies 15, I was reminded of the animated Disney movie Ratatouille. I thought of the apotheosis of the story when the razor-sharp restaurant critic tastes the ratatouille prepared by Remy the mouse and goes crazy. This is because the taste of the dish takes the critic back to his youth, when his mother made his beloved ratatouille for him.
With his astonishing, sixty-minute long mix, B.O.B takes me back to a period when going out was a total experience, which you eagerly looked forward to. Not that the music is old school. On the contrary. The deep house sound for the underbelly is completely contemporary, but the feeling I get with it, evokes memories of unforgettable evenings, nights and mornings.
You would think that there was a certain melancholy involved. Wrong. What happened happened. And this mix also lets me look ahead to what might be possible again when it is summer and the festival season starts. In the worst case scenario, I just make a party of it myself. With my love and the mixes of Dj B.O.B.
For me, the energy of a mix is nectar for the soul. A compilation that gets better when you listen to it regularly because there is more and more to discover. Travel with me on Frequencies 15.