Typical up-beat representative of the Acid house wave of the eightees and ninetees with the Rave parties. Acid house spread to the United Kingdom and continental Europe, where it was played by DJs in the acid house and later rave scenes.
Acid house is a sub-genre of house music that emphasizes a repetitive, hypnotic and trance-like style, often with samples or spoken lines instead of lyrics. Acid house's core electronic squelch sounds were developed around the mid-1980s, particularly by DJs from Chicago, Illinois, who experimented with the Roland TB-303 electronic synthesizer-sequencer.
Also do I enjoy these by James Zabiela of Transcendental music..It is very calming and excellent for nerves.
On occasion as time allows, to step out for a short walk and/or locate a very quite, cool place, sit on a cool rock, let the mind wind down to nothing and feel the tension drain into the rock.
Music is in self, a key of relationship in escaping the present to become immersed into a companion world that is of the present, but that also of another. It would so seem, the beat is the skeleton, whilst the melody is the shape and words make up the character.
The above perhaps is the make up of the opera. For often the words are in another language, whilst though, the music is the transport, it is to the body language of conveyance that brings to light, the story.
I can understand you, because me too can enjoy to go out and forget about work or the city for one moment and cycle, run (Jog) or walk in the woods for a moment, breathing deep, the fresh air of the woods. And once a while when I am in Zeeland I walk along the coast line, star at the sea and have my meditative moment, standing next to that billions year old water mass.
Here another deep sound that could be both relaxing and meditative or exciting to the readers ear.
Thank you most kindly for the new interesting {Infiniti-Subterrainea}. With this, a new knowledge, I was not aware until experimentation, for if to click upon the title, this will bring up the You Tube site. Now I may record off the audio out put with a patch cord to a cassette tape recorder to play on my head set walk man...
It would so appear, an out of date pelican must first relearn to stretch out the wet wings to dry before taking flight...
I have never been as far West to Zeeland. I have heard of it as a very wonderful relaxing area with nice beaches. Is it similar to Friesland?
Friesland is taller and has wider spaces and a differant coast line, due to the Frisian Isles, called Wadden eilanden in the Netherlands. A lot of the coast line of Friesland border with the large (for Dutch perspective huge) Ijssel lake (Ijsselmeer), and in the North bordering the Wadden Zee (Waadsee in Frisian, Vadehavet in Danish, Wattenmeer in German and the Wadden Sea in English and in Low German: Wattensee or Waddenzee). Where Zeeland consists of two larger Peninsula and one part of land, Zeelandic Flanders, which lays between the Middle Peninsula containing Walcheren, Zuid- and Noord-Beveland and Belgium. Zeelandic Flanders is connected by land to Flanders and by water to the Westerscheld river and the North Sea. Friesland is also the land of large lakes, a lot of green farmland and chilly weather. As the Most Northern Dutch province (together with the Low Saxon Groningen province) it is colder than the rest of the Netherlands. Zeeland is smaller, but has beautiful coastlines. It attracts a lot of Germans, Dutch people from other provinces and Belgian people. (both Flemish and Wallon) A lot of Germans have a second house in Zeeland, and they spend months or weeks a year over there. Friesland is a wonderful province, with a lot of space, chanals, lakes, and the larger Ijssel lake and Wadden sea. Friesland is different from the rest of the Netherlands, because it is clearly billingual, because the Frisian language is a different language than Dutch, it is a recognized Regional language. Sailing on the Frisian lakes or the Ijssel lake is wonderful, and the Frisian cities, towns and villages are beautiful. The landscape is known for it's long distance view and greenness due to the large grass lands (for cows, sheep and horses) and agricultural land. It is an agricultural province, like Zeeland.
Ostfriesland is wonderful too and actually looks like West-Friesland. Only some old buildings are different and probably typical OstFrisian. The water, the windmill, the land and the surfing looks the same. Probably the lands in whole the Frisian Island or Wadden sea area looks the same in the Netherladns, Germany and Denmark. I feel at home in Denmark very much. They speak a different language, have a mild hill like land (at the Island Sjælland of Copenhagen, I did not set foot on the soil of the large Peninsula of Denmark on top of Northern-Germany; Jutland, only visited Sjælland; Zealand in English)
The East Frisian Islands look like the West Frisian Islands and the tides of the Wadden sea and the fact that there are no cars there resembles the Dutch Frisian Islands.
Friesland is taller and has wider spaces and a differant coast line, due to the Frisian Isles, called Wadden eilanden in the Netherlands.
Pieter, the Wadden may mean the same as the Watte that I know from Germany, though I was only up there one time. What astounded me was that the Watte is a protected biological reserve!
That is quite a shock to most all Americans, I expect, as we (I should speak only for myself!) simply think of mudflats (watten) as ... dead, useless land. The idea that it may be biologically alive and rich in life is shocking when we first hear that
Perhaps you and Karl can tell us if there is there is much talk in your countries about the importance of these mudflats.
We have them around Anchorage in Alaska as well, filling in what would otherwise be deep fjords around the city. Eons of time and erosion have filled in our local fjords to make them into mud flats. So for the environnental community seems little concerned with them.
First of all I think that the USA and Canada have a lot more of land mass, and that our Wadden Islands are an unique area in Northern-Europe due to the fact that we have this Wadden Sea, the flora and fauna it consists and due to the eco system you mentioned. We don't have mountains, the clifs of Dover, Norwegian or North-American Fjords, we have the Wadden Islands, the Biesbosch and we have the Veluwe and we have the Limburg hills.
Maybe it has to do with the fact that we have so much densly populated Urban agglomerations, infrastructure and agricultural flatlands that dominates our country, that we like to preserve the few natural environments we have. (Although some of these natural habitats or protected biological reserves are entirely human fabrications, becasue everything in the Netherlands is cultural landscape, nothing is pure authentic nature -maybe parts of the Veluwe, but not much-).
In the Netherlands like in the USA you have diversity amongst the people and thus different interests. You have Dutch people (and probably Germans and Danes too) who think like the Americans about the Wadden (Watten or mudflats), as ... dead, useless land. They want to drill in the Wadden Sea for gas and oil. These are corporate (commercial) interest groups, rightwing, capitalist, political parties and civilians who aren't interested in wildlife, but see an opportunity to earn money from that region. But the forces of preservation (conservation), the environmentalists, progressive political forces and local populations, who for various reasons want to keep the Wadden like it is, keep the Wadden free of commercial exploitation in the sense of natural-gas processing and the extraction of petroleum.
The inhabitants of the Islands, the horeca of the region (and thus Tourist Industry), local authorities, GreenPeace, Animal rights organisations, fishermen, historians and others object to the commercial exploitation of possible gas and or oilfields in the Wadden sea.
Cheers, Pieter
P.S.- I don't know a lot about the German and Danish parts of the Wadden Island, and only have been to one Waddenisland myself, Schiermonnikoog in 1992.
You have a continuation of the names of Dutch and German Wadden Islands; Schiermonnikoog (West-Friesland; Netherlands), Langeoog (East-Friesland; German Island with a Dutch sounding name; or close to Low Saxon, Frisian and Dutch; in Dutch we say; Lange Oog; long eye, it doesn't sound logical, but probably the Island is long and thin and looks like an eye), Spiekeroog (East-Frisian), and Wangerooge (East-Frisian). The East-Frisian Island Borkum sounds like the name of a Northern Dutch Frisian or Groningen (Low Saxon province) town. It is a pitty that the Frisian unity was broken by the Low Saxons, * the Groningen people who separated the West-Frisians and the East-Frisians. The Dutch and German Frisians are the same, they have the same language, the same culture and the same given names and family names. The Wadden Island culture probably gives the Dutch, German and Danish people who live there the same mentality; because all three have a mix of environmental protection, agriculture, fishing and tourist industry in their area's. All three experiance the same storms, tides and typical mudflats environment.
Most of the Frisian Islands are protected areas, and an international wildlife nature reserve is being coordinated between the countries of Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. Natural gas and oil drilling continue, however, and the presence of the Ems, Weser and Elbe estuaries; while ship traffic causes tension between wildlife protection and economic influences.
Mittelplate is Germany’s largest oil field which is located 7 km (4.3 mi) from the shore, in environmentally important Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Parks tidal flats. The development of the field was done by a consortium of RWE Dea AG and Wintershall AG. By the 20th anniversary of the start of production, 20 million tonnes of crude has been produced from the field. Mittelplate field holds nearly 65% of Germany's crude oil reserves.
So probably in Germany they think differently than in the Netherlands and the corporate interests are more powerful there, or Germans think differently about the Wadden Sea and Islands. Again I don't know, because I don't know much about the German and Danish parts, but I just found out this. The Oil and gas people did not manage this in the Netherlands, while we have a strong Gas tradition, lobby and Industry in the North of the Netherlands.
* In the Netherlands you have a regional rivalry between the Frisians and the Low Saxon Groningen people. Fact is that a lot of Frisians go studying in Groningen city, which is like a city state island in the green rural agricultural lands of the North-West of the Netherlands. Groningen in the North also borders the Dutch and German Frisian Islands and Wadden sea region.
Von Lauwerszee bis hin zum Dollart, von Drenthe bis hinan zum Watt, gedeiht und blüht ein herrlich' Land rund um die wunderschöne Stadt. Ein Prachtjuwel mit gold'nem Rand, ist Groningen, Stadt und Ommeland; Ein Prachtjuwel mit gold'nem Rand, ist Groningen, Stadt und Ommeland! Dort tost die See, dort heult der Wind, dort braust's an Deich und Watt, doch ruhig wirkt und schafft das Volk, das Volk in Dorf und Stadt. Ein Prachtjuwel mit gold'nem Rand, ist Groningen, Stadt und Ommeland; Ein Prachtjuwel mit gold'nem Rand ist Groningen, Stadt und Ommeland Dort lebt solide Gediegenheit, der Wille, hart wie Stahl, dort fühlt das Herz, was die Zunge spricht, mit direktem, schlichtem Wort. Ein Prachtjuwel mit gold'nem Rand, ist Groningen, Stadt und Ommeland; Ein Prachtjuwel mit gold'nem Rand ist Groningen, Stadt und Ommeland!
A Frisian saying is: Fryslân boppe grins in the groppe! (Friesland above, Groningen in the gutter!) This describes the old rivalry well. Groningers by the way are not oppressed by the Frsians, they our proud of their own Low Saxon culture, dialect and etc. But in the same time the Frisians and Groningen people feel very much part of the Nertherlands, they are just differant than the Southerners and the West-Dutch Holland people. The Holland people have always been the dominant people (Holland is the North-Holland and South-Holland region, which is part of the huge Urban agglomeration the Randstad. (In Dutch perspective huge).
The Danish Wadden Sea Islands are a group of islands on the western coast of Jutland, Denmark. They belong to the new region of Southern Denmark since January 1, 2007. Previously they belonged to the counties of South Jutland and Ribe. The Danish islands differ from the German North Frisian Islands because no Frisians live on the Danish islands.
The islands
Fanø is located just off Esbjerg to which it is connected by a ferry. The main towns on Fanø are Nordby and Sønderho. Other towns include Fanø Vesterhavsbad and Rindby. The island is 16 km long and 5 km wide, and has an area of 56 km². As of 2005, about 3,169 people live there. A variety of environments is to be found on Fanø. Not surprisingly, a very common one is sand. The island's whole western shore is made up of beaches, and the sea off the island's northwest end is also home to the "Søren-Jessens-Sand", a vast sandbank. Fanø also has heath and a small pine wood. Mandø is a smaller island farther south, a bit farther from the mainland. It is Denmark's only Hallig, being much like the islands bearing that description among the German islands. A dike on Mandø keeps the sea at bay. Much of the islanders' history involve efforts to reclaim parts of their island from the sea. (Comment Pieter: That is very recognisable for Dutch people and Northern Germans like Karl) Rømø is currently the southernmost of Denmark's Wadden Sea Islands (a small uninhabited one called Jordsand was farther south, but sank in 1999, leaving behind only a sandbank). Rømø is linked to the Danish mainland by a road running across a causeway, and the island also lies only about 3 km from its German neighbourSylt, to which it is connected by ferry. It is home to a number of small communities such as Kongsmark, Østerby, Lakolk, and Sønderstrand. There is also a small island among Denmark's share of the archipelago called Langli, which is to be found in the Ho Bugt north of Esbjerg. It is the northernmost island in the whole group. It was once part of a peninsula whose landward stretch was washed away in a storm tide centuries ago. Since then, another spit has formed to the west and now shields Langli from some of the sea's more destructive tendencies. Langli is nowadays home to a natural science station, housed in a villa built in the 20th century. Langli has an area of about 8 km² and can be reached from the mainland over an ebbevej (watershed) that is 3 km long. Jordsand and Koresand are two sandbanks in the Danish Wadden Sea. Jordsand is a former hallig.
That is the answer I was hoping for, giving us a quick but informative summary of this unusual (for most of us) coastal region. It was Wangerooge that I visited once; the only other time I have along the Baltic Sea (Nordee ?) was on the coasts of Lithuania, Kalinningrad and Latvia., which I must suggest as a destination if you ever have the opportunity.
I was born on the shoreline (literally, the hospital is on the water's edge) of the Great Lakes, and grew up within 3km of Lake Erie, so large bodies of water hold a special place in my heart.
I just did a quick and rough search for bio information about out mudflats an only found warnings about getting stuck in them. We have the second highest tides in North America, so walking out on the mud can be very deadly, and with Anchorage right on the shores, there is plenty of opportunity for the careless to get stuck.
One of our fjords filled with wadde / mud at low tide:
a view of Anchorage city between arms of the sea and the mountains, with mud flats at low tide:
We are between the sea and the mountains.
What it looks like from the air:
and life in the higher reaches of the tidal flats, where inundation times are less, and water and ice scour are less:
