Dancequest

It was pitch black, and I was on my hands and knees in a small passageway. Too small to stand up in, I could only crawl through it. I had just left the Eternal Lounge, a purgatory I had been lost in for... well, I'm not sure how long I had been trapped there. 

Hoping this would be a way out, I was following a faint electronic musical beat that sounded familiar to me. As the sound grew stronger, I could make out a blue light ahead. Almost there!

Although the passage was much longer than I had anticipated, I finally found myself in a large rectangular blue room that appeared to be a dance club with neon yellow lights and glowing turquoise lava lamps. 

The music was very familiar. After all... I had created it. It was an avant-garde style of electronic music. To be honest, it was rather repetitive and annoying. It brought back some nostalgia, however, to when I had been in my early twenties. 

For some reason, I had found myself in another manifestation of my memories and forgotten dreams. I was now in an empty dance club that was playing an experimental electronic dance music album that I created when I had been twenty years old, called "Dancequest". 

Dancequest had been the only music I had created in my life. In 2005, I had been experimenting with music-making software, primarily as an attempt to motivate myself into taking on a new skill and talent. I never did develop the skill after completing the project, partly because I hated my own creation, and partly because I had found working with audio software to be far too tedious for my liking at the time.

As I soaked in the electronic sound of my past, I wandered around the club. There were many similar rooms connected together, segmented and somewhat labyrinthine. My music could be heard in all of them, and I finally found the source. On a blue wall with neon blue lightning was a strange orange cloud with a speaker audio player mounted to it. 

On a wooden table below it were two CDs, just as I had remembered them. The first was the original "Dancequest" album I had createed in 2005, and the other was "Dancequest 2: Feelin' That Beat," which had been the second album I created that same year. On the backs of the CDs were the list of tracks and their durations for each album, as follows: 

Dancequest
1) Intro                            0:36
2) Dancequest                 3:48
3) Static                           2:29
4) Dance!                         3:50
5) Mystify                        3:15
6) SkattBa-Bow               3:13
7) Seekwinshul                2:14
8) You Are the Reason    4:45
9) The End                      1:11

Dancequest 2: Feelin' That Beat
1) Base Line                  4:18
2) FastBleep-X              5:11
3) Feelin' That Beat      8:05
4) Fish on the Line       4:44
5) Bubbles & Bleeps    3:12
6) Nervous Night         2:43
7) Old Skool                 1:47
8) Get Tropikal             2:48
9) Mini Bazz-Lines       1:10
10) Grand Finale          5:53

When the "Fish on the Line" track began to play, I involuntarily laid on the floor and began to flop around like a fish. For four minutes and 44 seconds, I flipped and I flapped and I flopped. I flopped so hard, and I was out here moving to the beat of my own music, feelin' it. 

Out of breath and exhausted, I was reminded of my current age. I was no longer the 20-year-old version of myself, who had energy. Now in my forties, I just didn't have the electric energy or motivation that I once did, and I easily became exhausted.

I continued wandering around the empty club, no one around to dance with. I was ready to find the exit and escape this Purgatory.

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BONUS:
Dancequest is available on SoundCloud. Both albums are available in a playlist.
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