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For all you Spotify lovers out there; I made a playlist featuring lot's of music that was recorded and/or mixed and/or produced by me. You can find it here
Worked on a lot of projects recently, here are a few highlights:
Recorded and mixed a "live at the studio" ep with PACESHIFTERS to celebrate their UK recorddeal:
And there is also a live album coming out in 2018 that we recorded at a sold out Hedon venue and that we mixed at GieSound.
Recorded, mixed and produced an album with German/Dutch band COLORWAVE. An indie pop/rock band influenced by groups like Paramore, Green Day and the Foo Fighters. In a heartbeat you will find yourself drawn into a rush of strong guitar riffs and pumping drums that will set the roof on fire.
Recorded, mixed and produced a single for ZIGGY SPLYNT (and as we speak we we start recording a couple more songs). If you like bands like Biffy Clyro, Muse and A Perfect Circle you should check out these talanted guys from Utrecht
Recorded, mixed and produced an album with VOLTAGE. It's the southernrock band featuring Voice of Holland finalist Dave Vermeulen. Here's a track from that album:
Recorded, mixed and produced an album for TRICKLEBOLT. Heavy retro-rock that kicks a$$
Recorded, mixed and produced an album for DRIVE BY WIRE. If you are into 70ties flavoured desert- and stonerrock and like QOTSA, Blue Pills, PJ Harvey etc etc, thanplease check em out.
Recorded, mixed and produced an album for LONE ROAD STATION. It's rock, sometimes it's pop, sometimes it's atmospheric.
Recorded, mixed, mastered and produced an album for THE GOOD HAND. If you’re into bands like Queens Of The Stone Age or latter-day Soundgarden and you don’t mind a fair bit of Radiohead-inspired experimentalism or a slight touch of King Crimson-like madness, then “Atman” by The Good Hand is your jam.
Recorded an album with HABITANTS. I will also be mixing the album in the upcomming weeks. Habitants is the living proof that atmosphere, talent and honest music can still prevail in an ailing music industry. With a mix of atmospheric and dynamic melodies and soft and heavy electronic and organic beats, the music of Habitants can be best described as film music noir. A slow rollercoaster ride from bright colorful lights to uncomfortable pit dark caves. Here's the first song from that album:
Recorded and mixed an acoustic live-ep with CC GRAND:
Mixed an album for BALL NOIR; a band that mixes the worlds of programming and electric devices with medieval and classical instruments. Inspired by their heroes from Anathema, My Dying Bride and Qntal they write medieval metal, with a greed for haunting melodies, dark fantasies and smashing heartbeats.
Mixed an ep for CROWJANE. A band that mixes influences from Hickey Underworld, Triggerfinger, Foo Fighters and Interpol into their own cocktail. Mixed a couple of songs for NEMESEA. Among those was their new single, featuring their amazing new singer Sanne Mieloo!
Mixed an album for reli-pop-band LEV.
Mixed an album for retro pop/rock band THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. A band where Queen, Herman Brood and Fleetwood Mac all seem to come together
Recorded, mixed and produced a single for Britrockers SEAFIRE that did really well in the Indie Charts:
Recorded, mixed and produced an ep for OUTSIDE REVELATION. These guys make heavyand thick rock. In rock-cirty they live in the same neighbourhood as bands like Audioslave etc.
Mixed almost all the songs for DENNIS KOLEN's new album. Stil have to do one or two, so you have to wait patience just like me😇
And than I probably forgot some stuff.... So if you REALLY want to know everything I do at the studio, please join me as a friend on Facebook 😎
Finished album production for The Road Home. Expect some great & catchy rock songs. If you like Gaslight Anthem, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Alkaline Trio you will surely love The Road Home. The first singles reached high into the Indie Charts
Also finished the album I made with CC Grand. Great americana (Calexico meets 16Horsepower meets John Mayer meets Ray LaMontagne). Another 2015 production that was released in 2016 was the brand new Nemesea album that I recorded, mixed and produced. We went for a new bandsound; less metal, more rock and even more catchy songs.
Mixed a thick & bold (blues)rock tracks for Stray Train These guys are from Ljubljana, Slovenia and are on top of their game.
Also worked with We Fall Slowly on a couple of great rock songs. Not all have been released yet, but here's already one of them:
Had a blast working with Belgium producer Arker again. I mixed a couple of singles and an EP for some of his productions. Here are a couple of examples of tracks that I mixed for him:
Also did some vocal production for the brand new Delain album.
2016 was also the year that I met Dave Vermeulen (#2 in the Voice Of Holland). Did some recordings and also mixed his debut single:
And Dave is also in the band Voltage, so we also started working on their debut album. It will probably be released at the end of 2017, since we still have to do most of the recordings. But here's already one song to give you an idea of the new stuff. High powered 70ties rock:
Also did some audio for 2 documentaries. One about soccer-star Jaap Stam, and one about the band Color Reporters.
2016 is also the year that I got to work with Saint Charlie a very talented band from Nijmegen. First I mixed some of their demo's. And in the summer we started working on a full length album production. Resulting in an album full of Atmospheric Indie-Rock that will be released march 2017. Here's the first single taken of that album that reached the number ONE position in the Indie Charts:
Also the year of mixing madness for a band that is 3.457 kilometers away. Hell of a ride with the guys from JadaL. First time that I mixed an album for an Arabic rockband.
Producer Rob Buis dropped by and asked me to mix a beautiful album he produced for gospel singer Joke Buis.
As you can see it's not only rock music that I work on :)
So don't be surprised when you will also find reggae in my Discography. Producer/keyboardplayer Mathijs van Til worked on some great tracks with his band Roots Rising. And asked me to perform the mixing for their ep.
Let's continue our journey through 2016 with the boys from SeaFire. They sound British, but don't let that fool you :) Mixed a couple of demo tracks for them
And it was great to work with Magnavox Radio again. Mixed new songs for them, and since they have not been released yet, here's an old one I mixed for them:
Talking about returning costumers and talking about different music styles: the guys from The Monolith Deathcult are dropping another bombshell metal album in 2017. Which I had the unfortunate honor of mixing it...
Guitarist/Producer Bernard Gepken dropped by with singer Marlene Bakker to record vocals and some additional guitars for her new album.
Long time clients Bökkers came by for a complete single production (recorded, mixed & produced):
There are plans to record a full length album with desert-rock band Drive By Wire this summer. But in December 2016 we already worked on a first song for that album:
Another band that I recorded a single with in 2016, and will be coming back to my studio for a full length is Tricklebolt.
2016 is also the year that I started working on an awesome album with Lone Road Station. Will be finished and released in 2017.
Sooooo as you can read: I had a BLAST in 2016, and with all the cool stuff that's going to happen in 2017 we have nothing to complain about!
We released a second Lorrainville album. Remember that special project? We won an Edison award earlier.
Mixed an album for Dennis Kolen. In my eyes Dennis is one of the best songwriters of The Netherlands. Check out this instant classic:
Mixed an EP for Diff. Nice Americana, with a powerfull vocal.
Recorded + mixed a special demo for Anneke van Giersbergen together with Iceland band Árstíðir. They perform a broad selection of momentous classical and modern works,
re-conceived and re-imagined within the Árstíðir/Anneke sound-universe.
Mixed and mastered an EP for Magnavox Radio. With nice indie-rock-wave tunes.
Mixed a single for 3J's. They went to LA to shoot the video.
Mixed the new Bökkers album. This is the 3rd album I mix for these guys. They are very productive having 4 songwriters in the band. Again some great rock tracks!
Recorded drums for Fokko; these were the first recordings I made at the new GieSound studio.
Mixed a double-cd / triple-vinyl live box for The Gathering. Last year they celebrated their 25th anniversary with 2 special concerts where all members (past and present) participated. We recorded these shows and mixed them at GieSound for this very special release.
Mixed an EP for brand new band The Royal Engineers. Unique band with 4 leadsingers!
Mixed an album for Ulysses. If you are into progressive rock with some metal influences, you should really check out their album #eMotion
Mixed a Bökkerslive TV-concert at RTV Oost. Watch the whole show here: part1 / part2
Recorded, mixed and produced the brand new Nemesea album. We went for a new bandsound; less metal, more rock and more catchy songs.
Started the album production for The Road Home. We recorded 90% of the album right now, so the album will be mixed pretty soon. Expect some great & catchy rock songs. If you like Gaslight Anthem, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and Alkaline Trio you will surely love The Road Home.
Recorded, mixed and mastered a new demo for Paceshifters. High voltage rock & roll!!
Started the album production for CC Grand. More news about this great americana album soon. (Calexico meets 16Horsepower meets John Mayer meets Ray LaMontagne)
Mixed the 'theme song' for the 'Mannenharten 2' movie. It's a unique combination of 2 Dutch artists that you won't expect :)
And besides all of that I also moved GieSound studio from Soest to Zwolle, wrote columns for Music Maker magazine (every month), gave workshops and I was an examiner at the Herman Brood Academie for the sound guys over there.
First official recordings at the new location worked out great! Lot's of great projects coming up. Thanks everyone for your support during the construction of our new facilities. Appreciated a lot!!
Here's the new Control Room:
And this is the big recording room:
& the relax room:
Click on a picture for a bigger version. More pics soon!!
I found out that ever since I'm on FaceBook, I completely forget to share my work here on my website. Sorry guys! If you want to follow everything I do closer, I suggest you add me on Facebook since I post there more regular than on this site.
That being said; here's a list of what I've been upto the last 13 months!
Album for Van Dik Hout (recording / production / mixing). We recorded a lot in Berlin! [pics here]
Wowiezowie... it has been way 2long since my last news update on this site. And so much has happened!!
Maybe I should start of with the Award we won with Lorrainville: an Edison (which is like the Dutch equivalent of a Grammy). Man that came as a big surprise! We received the "Special Jury Award", probably because we did not fit into the normal categories. And all the cliches are true; it IS a TRU HONOR to receive such a prestigious award.
If you have never heard of the Lorrainville project, please visit THIS website :) And check out all releases on Spotify
I finished the Firetrip album. We did the last recordings and after that I mixed the album and now it's ready to be mastered. The band is looking into options for the release, and they should be able to find a nice label because this is a great album: britpop meets americana with a touch of the 70ties :) If you like Wilco, Nada Surf, Johan and Paul Weller than you will surely like Firetrip.
Mixed a energetic EP for a new band called The Red 17 and when the sent it to radio3fm the were bombarded "Serious Talent" instantly. If I have to label their music I would say american college pop/rock. These guys knows how to make a catchy track with lot's of energy.
Please check out:
The Lorrainville album has finally been released (last week of November 2011).
And we were invited to play live at the most populair TV show in The Netherlands: DWDD. And also by the most popular radio dj (Giel) to play a couple of songs in his morning show on 3fm. You can find video's of these RTV promo's here
The album managed to reach the #1 spot on the iTunes charts! And the first single is getting a lot of airplay, especially on Radio2 (where it has been on the playlist for weeks now).
Here's a video for the first single "Lost":
And there will be more nice Lorrainville news in the future :)
I mixed a special "new years track" by Fay Lovsky and Ocobar. The tracks was also used at new years morning by dutch television for their "wishes".
I've also been mixing the brand new Swelter album. It's very different from their debut: the new album is going to be very dense and more layered.
I've been way 2 busy lately. Besides my normal work I also spend a lot of "free time" on the Lorrainville project (scroll down to read more about that).
But I've also been involved in some other projects:
Recorded, mixed & produced a special X-mas track for The Medics
Finished recording & mixing the Tarball album. I am so happy with the results; this a very ass-kickin' loud & in your face record. It pumps like a MF and the band has a unique style that makes it hard to compare them 1on1 with another band. If you put Deftones, Alice in Chains, Metallica, Chevelle and A Perfect Circle in a blender you get Tarball :)
I'm also halfway recording the debut album for Firetrip. We recorded the first few songs last year and since then there were some changes in the band. With the new lineup we recorded all the other songs. All drums, bass and guitars are recorded and we will continue with the vocals real soon. Everyone that likes bands like Nada Surf, Wilco etc should keep an eye on these guys.
Have been working with Laura Estévez on a cool single. It will stay on the shelf for now, since Laura is working her way in the "voice of holland"
I mixed two more songs for brand new & upcomming star; Stefany June. She is a young German singer-songwriter with fresh electro pop. Her characteristic voice, self-penned songs and the eclectic sound choices give it a very unique and original sound! These two songs will be on her EP together with two songs that I mixed a couple of months ago.
Not famous yet, but I see a nice future ahead!
Also helped indie-rockband Swelter with some recordings for their 2nd album. Once all the recordings are done I will also perform mixing-duties :)
People keep asking me about the Lorrainville story (english version). So here it is:
Early this year, Facebook was flooded with people who played the online-game ‘Make your own album cover’ - also known as: ‘Wikipedia names your band’, where people clicked on a random quote, photo, and Wikipedia page - to create their own album cover, and posted them on their wall. And my cover for a non-existent band and the non-existent album ‘You May Never Know What Happiness Is’, got a lot of reactions.
In a couple of hours dozens of befriended musicians and other creative minds signed up to actually make the album a reality. After reaction number fifty, I decided to take the plunge, and ‘Lorrainville’ was born.
On 2 October 2011 the song “A Heart That Is Lost Can Not Mend” was recorded live in the studio, and within 24 hours the song was released on YouTube with a wonderful video. The album has not become a compilation album. The cover is the source of inspiration. ‘You May Never Know What Happiness Is’ is a melancholy singer/songwriter album. Americana with, as references, the quieter work of Ryan Adams, Elliott Smith and maybe even Ray LaMontagne. The project has always been open for ideas and suggestions. Everyone could send in songs and nearly 90 songs were submitted.We wanted to use the creativity of everyone who signed up. Lorrainville belongs to everyone who cooperates, but I guard the unity, the vision and make the decisions.
Oh, and just so we’re clear; it’s not a commercial project, there’s no budget. Everyone who participates does so for the love of music.
The album will be released on the 28th of november on [pias], and we already received lot's of media invitations for that week.
Album will be available in most Dutch record stores, & digital on iTunes & Spotify. International fans who prefer a real CD over a digital download can order a copy of the album at VelvetMusic or PlatoMania
[Click here to view a KRO TV item on how Lorrainville came about]
It's been a while since my last news-update, and I've done some nice jobs since. Besides that I also enjoyed a great vacation :)
I mixed an album for The Medics. This very energetic new band has a lot of catchy tunes wich are all featured on their debut album called "Dance into the Dark". It was a blast mixing these songs and the boys even alowed me to add some percussion on some tracks.
If you like bands such as: Franz Ferdinand, Editors, The Wombats, Vampire Weekend than you will for sure also like The Medics. You can check out the entire album at 3voor12 luisterpaal .
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After my vacation I helped indie-rockband Swelter with the recordings of their 2nd album. Once all the recordings are done I will also perform mixing-duties :)
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Right now I am in the middle of the album production for Tarball. This ass-kickin' rockband has finally made the step to record their first album. We already recorded all drums, bass, guitars and leadvocals. Only the backing vocals and percussion is still on the to-do-list, and once these are recorded I will start mixing this heavy rock album.
I find it very difficult to compare this band to any other loud act. But if I have to give a description I would say: "a mixture of Deftones, Alice in Chains, Metallica, Chevelle and A Perfect Circle"
Here's a funny video shot just outside the studio when frontman Daan volunteered to get rid of all the beercans:
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Also continued working for the Lorrainville project. Had some great recording sessions lately and some more to come! Please follow us www.lorrainville.nl or on Facebook & Twitter.
I feel ashamed since it took me so long to update this news-section. Here's what I have been busy with for the last months:
Bløf
I mixed special live tracks for the band Bløf! 6 tracks were released as an exclusive iTunes EP and the 7th track will be released soon ;)
The Gathering
Mixed a brand new & stunning track! "Heroes for Ghosts" lasts almost 11 minutes, and is a slight preview to their upcomming album. You can download the track for FREE here.
Daniël Versteegh
For this talented singer/songwriter I mixed an EP called "Two wrongs don't make a Right". Daniël writes beautifull songs, so this is just the beginning. Check out his EP on Bandcamp. Specially (my favorite song:) "Waiting"
The Medics
After the succesfull first single "City", I also mixed the 2nd energetic Medics single called "Explode". It will blast on your radio's real soon! (I will also be mixing their debut album)
Rupert Blackman
This singer/songwriter was born & raised in the UK, but lives in The Nethelands at the moment. I recorded, mixed & produced 3 great songs for Rupert & his band. With these of preview-tracks we hope to score him a record deal so we can make an album. These new tracks can not be found online yet, but I will keep you posted :)
3J's
Just like the dutch version, the english version ("Never Alone") also went to #1 in the charts. So they scored two #1 hits with the same song!! (recorded, mixed & produced by yours truly).
Lorrainville
Well there's so much that can be said about this project :) It costs all my free time, but I don't mind since it's going to be great. Please check the Lorrainville website for all info (sorry, Dutch only.) or check the YouTube channel. Click here for a cool video of guitarist Angelo de Rijke improvising.
Laura Estévez
I have been working on a kickin' single with Laura & her band but we had stop because Laura's voice needed some surgery. So we put things on hold for now, but as soon as Laura is capable of singing again, we will finish this fine track.
btw: Laura is supported by an 'allstar' band:
bass: Diets Dijkstra, guitars: Dave Rensmaag, keys: Patrick van Herrikhuyzen, drums: Dave Menkehorst & guitars: Angelo de Rijke.
Talking about Allstars This band was doing only covers until recently; but now they won a song-contest by radiostation 538. So we went into the studio to work on a poppie debut single. "Lost without you Love" will be released soon.
"Je vecht nooit alleen", the single that I produced and mixed for famous dutch band 3J's went to #1 in the Dutch Charts!
It's my first number 1 hit (although we were very close with 2 of Bertolf's singles before).
