 | OceanoGraphy (Release date : October 17th 2009)
This is my third album called 'OceanoGraphy'. My inspiration for this album came from the Earth's Oceans and the creatures living in them. While listening to this album you will be taken on a journey through the deep waters of our Oceans. You will travel together with whales, dolphins, sharks and sea turtles. Most of these animals are endangered or even threatened with extinction by the way! We should really care more about the life in our Oceans. I hope to get your attention for this mysterious world in this way. I would be a real shame to loose it for ever. This album is officially endorsed by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) for this reason. A part of the revenue of this album will also be donated to the WWF to help preserve these beautiful animals. I sampled a lot of sounds again myself as well above as under water. This album was released during the E-live festival on the 17th of October 2009. |
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 | AtmoSphere (Release date : October 11th 2008)
This is my second album and it is called 'AtmoSphere'. My inspiration for this album came from the atmosphere around our beloved planet Earth. The songs are inspired by the different layers of air around our world, the different cloud formations that are encountered in these layers and the sounds of different weather phenomena. While listening to this album you will travel through these layers of air starting on the surface of the Earth and ending up in space :) I sampled a lot of sounds myself actually from thunder storms, rain and wind. I used these sounds as an inspiration for many of the songs that you will hear. The album was released on the 11th of October 2008 by Groove Unlimited. |
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 | AeroDynamics (Release date : October 13th 2007)
This is my first album. I selected 'AeroDynamics' as the main theme and also the name for this album. During my involuntary military duty I served in the Dutch air force, where I was a mechanic on F-16 fighter planes. I got quite some education before I was able to perform this task. One of the classes I enjoyed a lot was aerodynamics and since then I have always been fascinated with the aerodynamic aspect of race cars and airplanes. So all tracks on this album are about cars, planes or aerodynamic phenomena related to the theme. The album was released by Groove Unlimited on the 13th of october 2007. |
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 | Apollo (Release date : Planned for December 2010)
This is a special project I'm working on in honor of the 40th birthday of the NASA Apollo missions to the moon. I planned to release this album in 2009, since then was the 40th birthday of the moon landing itself, but I didn't make it unfortunately. Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon on the 20th of July 1969. And to celebrate that I put the Apollo11 demo track online on this date 40 years later for you to enjoy. I always had a special connection to the Apollo mission since I was born in the same year of the moon landing. So this album is very personal for me. |
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 | Classical Project (Release date : Planned for 2011)
I started working on a new project as well called 'Classical'. It will be a project for 2011/2012 maybe. The objective is to make a CD with Synth.nl versions of famous classical tracks from the old composers like Vivaldi, van Beethoven, Bach and Pachelbel. |
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 | Refuge en Verre (Release date : Coming October 9th 2010!)
In 2007 is signed up with the record label Groove Unlimited. One of the owners of this label and also a very good musician is Ron Boots. Ron and I have become very good friends over time and we visit each other on regular bases. Also the wife, kids and even the dogs like each other. So in 2010 we decided to rent a house in the Belgian Ardennes together for a weekend. Ron and I both brought a synthesizer and a laptop and tried to make music together for the first time. Actually that went very well and we recorded quite some tracks there. I'm still surprised how quick this went. After the weekend we decided that we would release this music on CD. So we started to work on finishing the music together when we got back. The album will be called 'Refuge en Verre'. That was the name of the house we rented actually. The album will be released by Groove Unlimited at the E-live festival in Oirschot (NL) on the 9th of October 2010. |
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 | Dutch Masters (Release date : Coming December 1st 2010!)
The Dutch Masters was an idea I had a while ago to promote the Dutch Synthesizer Music scene. The idea was to make a sampler CD about paintings of a famous Dutch painters with only Dutch musicians. Every artist should take a painting in mind and compose music to it. I discussed this idea with Groove Unlimited (my record label) and they were enthusiastic right away. Groove Unlimited contacted the artists and got a lot of positive reactions as well. So this project is going to happen :) There will also be one track made by me on this sampler CD of course. The CD will be released on the 1st of December 2010. |
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 | Analogy 3 (Release date : October 13th 2007)
Analogy 3 is the third edition of an compilation album that is filled with analog synthesizer music from various artists. My track 'Synthology' was released on this album. All tracks are especially made for this album and so not released before. All tracks are mixed together as one piece. Analogy 3 was released the same date as my own AeroDynamics album. Analogy 3 is a project of Groove Unlimited. Look here for the other artists: http://www.groove.nl/cd/g/gr-142.html |
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 | Schallplatte XI (Release date : August 29th 2009)
This is a sampler CD published by the German Electronics Music Club called Schallwende EV. They made a CD this year with all the winners and nominies for the Electronic Music price called SchallWelle that they organized last year. I was nominated in two categories, best newcomer and best CD. Unfortunately I didn't win either, but I'm still proud to be on this CD :) |
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 | SchallPlatte X (Release date : August 17th 2008)
This is a sampler CD published by the German Electronics Music Club called Schallwende EV. They organized a contest were musicians could sent in their Electronic impression of a song from a classical composer. There were 5 composers to choose from and I did a piece by Albinoni. There were many competitors and the jury chose my track to be on the CD. Of course I'm very proud of this. The CD is not officially for sale. It was given to all the members of the club. This track will be also on my Classical Project to be released soon. |
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 | Beisbroek Project (Release date : July 3th 2009)
I was asked to produce some new music for a Planetarium Show that was made by the Beisbroek Observatory in Brugge (Belgium). The total show lasts 45 minutes but they needed my music for the first 13:30 minutes of the show. So I made this music especially for this project. My music had to be in the background and therefore I couldn't use much beats or leads. I tried to create more atmospherically and spacey music for this project that would fit nicely under the voice over and with the video. Unfortunately I didn't get the video so I had to work with the voice over track only. Well actually this is my first documentary and I liked doing it. I hope to do more projects like this in the future. I will release the music I made somewhere in the future by the way. And even though the voice over is in Dutch I'm sure you will get the picture by listening to the track in the player if you don't understand Dutch. I used a picture of the 'Whale Galaxy' with kind permission of NASA to stay in the theme of my current OceanoGraphy Project by the way. |
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 | BIT Project (Release date : October 2005)
The first project I did was the background music for a promotional video for a Dutch business ISP called BIT BV. The assignment was to make a high tech futuristic sounding atmosphere to underline the companies high tech character. The movie was done by a company called Lukkien. They made 5 short movies of about one minute and one compiled version of 5 minutes. For the short version I made two tracks of one minute. BIT selected the second track I made, because of the higher tempo. I made a long version of this one and a third track based on the same tempo to use in the long version. We ended up alternating the two tracks there. Here you can find the final video's and music tracks. Please mind that everything is in the Dutch language. Please note that BIT BV holds the copyright to all the video and audio material.
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