Records from Mexico
Already back for more than a month from an amazing 3 week trip to Mexico, an intensive tour with Dany-E and De Dupe playing 8 gigs in 5 cities. Of course I needed to go record hunting, although I wasn’t… Continue Reading
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Digging (in) Istanbul – days before the referendum
Just a day back from a 5 day trip to Istanbul, got a gig in Minimüzikhol was meeting friends and digging for that Turkish black gold. Booked a Airbnb in Taksim, just a bit outside the area the promoter of… Continue Reading
EurAfrican Synth Sounds
“In music people have always liked to travel.” That’s the last sentence of my bio and I try to grasp two meanings: literally, musicians tend to travel and go on tour and abroad they get inspired. What they hear will… Continue Reading
Record Fair Mix
For this article on Thump (in Dutch) I was digging on the famous Record Fair in Utrecht last Sunday with 70 euros in my pocket and I thought it would be fun to record a mini mix with the fresh… Continue Reading
Sound of Somalia
O Yes, I’m quite excited to present this mix, all credits for this one go to my good friend Nikolai van Zeeland for digging up these tracks online – from Youtube – he is the guy who also came back… Continue Reading
Keep the Noise Down (My Baby is Sleeping)
First post of the year. Just before NYE was going through my new wave section picking records to mix with house and techno for my graveyard shift at BAR between 8 and 10AM the next morning (which was wild )…and… Continue Reading
What is Rumba
In order to create some insight in what Rumba is, as one of the oldest and main ingredients of Latin music, I decided to handle the text like I handle the records in this mix: I put 35 vinyls in… Continue Reading
Congolese sound from Japan
Last summer Nikolai, a good friend of mine – we’re regularly dj-ing and partying together in Amsterdam – went on holiday to Japan, and of course he was going for some digging over there, so I asked him to bring… Continue Reading
Diggin’ in India
Finally I recorded a Bollywood mix of the most interesting finds from India. It took me a year to sort out more than a hundred records, because that Bollywood sound can get so annoying with the screaming vocals on top.… Continue Reading
What is LoFi ?
Okay, this is my first post… and I kick off with a ‘mini lecture’ on LoFi. It’s a reconstruction of an improvised talk accompanied with a minimix, that I prepared for The Experiment. The Experiment was a get-together of 6 producers (well,… Continue Reading