2016 summed up

Alright, lets see if I can sum up my 2016:

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!

Edison!

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

What else happened?

• album with Colossa! (recording/production/mixing)
• ep with Landmark 105 (recording/production/mixing)
• ep with Stirwater (recording/mixing)
• album with Bökkers (mixing)
• album with Bertolf & Kasper van Kooten (mixing)
• ep with TwoWay Society (recording/production/mixing)
• ep Cider (mixing)
• album The Monolith Deathcult (recording/production/mixing)
• single Chielio Reedijk (mix)
• single Burçak Sikar (mix)
• ep The Doots (recording/production/mixing)
• single Lukka (mix)
• HardtMetDt (recording / mixing)
• album Nice Neighbours (mixing)
• 2 singles Martin van der Starre (mixing)
• album Lukas Batteau (mixing)
• single De Euros (mixing)
• dvd Bertolf & Kasper van Kooten (recording)
• few albumtracks Tim van Doorn (mixing)
• and some live radio & TV sessions with several bands
  

If you want to have a listen to some of these productions/mixes you can use this Spotify playlist and take it from there.


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Some video's:

Some nice reviews!!

Here's the Jeremy's track I recorded/mixed/produced recently for a movie score;



Great reviews are comming in all the time, but I want to share the nice words these reviewer wrote: FileUnder Review (Dutch only!)

Here's a translation:
"It strikes me that the name of mixer / masterer Guido Aalbers can be found a lot lately. I understand that talented, but also experienced, bands ask him to mix their CD, because he always deliveres a rocksolid sound. Recently we found two cd's in the mail on wich Aalbers put the icing on the cake. And both are blowing me away."

Also check out this Monolith Deathcult review
quote: "all this has made an impressive presence in the Wagnerian death metal with Slayeresque guitar terror of TMDC. Not in the last place by the devastating sharp and clear mix of one Guido Aalbers (a big name in pop/rock music, a complete nobody in the metal scene). "
hehe. That just puts a smile on my face :-)


BTW: I just finished mixing an album for a band called Pimpersticker. It's waiting for mastering now. More on that album later...

Loads of news!!

yeah, yeah, I know... it has been a long time ;-)
Finally a news update, and I don't know where to begin since I worked on so many projects. So I won't mention everything.

First of all: Jeremy's (aka THE Jeremy's). After scoring a hit with 'Saturday' and being nominated for a TMF Award the band had been talking to different record company's. Finally they teamed up with PIAS for the album release. It's out now, and called 'O Yeah Aha Oh' featuring 16 high energy punkpop songs that kick your butt.
They also just finished shooting a video for the second single 'I want a Girl' wich will be released soon.
The first album reviews are all great (even in OOR magazine!).
It seems that a lot of people catch the adrenaline vibe.
(in case you did not know ;-) I mixed & mastered the album, and I also co-produced it and recorded a lot).

Shooting stars Dolorous Daze are signing a record deal with APR/CNR any minute now. A year ago I mixed a lot of songs they had been recording at home. Last month we went into the studio to record an additional 4 songs. All super catchy!
The band produces richly arranged, meloncollic pop/rock. Their music is enriched with additional vocals, strings, hammond, rhodes, piano and mellotron. They will use everything that helps to make their songs more colourful.
Bas (vocals/guitar) has a very unique voice and he is very good in controlling it. He's an amazing singer and reached all those high notes without autotune or everything. The three other members (Dani and the bros. Thierry & Caesar) are also very talented and multi-instrumentalists.
I completed mixing the new songs so we are all set for mastering the album this weekend at Wisseloord.
I will keep you posted on the release date of the first single and the album.

Talking about young talented bands with catchy tunes: For Goomah Music I mixed a 5-track EP of I Kissed Charles. (not released yet)


Charlotte, the singer is only 16! This young band sounds like the are from the UK, and that's meant as a compliment.
On their MySpace-page you can check out 2 songs.
And remember where you first heard of this band!
;-)


The Veldman Brothers scored 3 (!) number one positions in 3 different "Blues Album of the Year "-charts!!

You might remember that I was going to mix a metal record? Well... I did! The band is called The Monolith Deatcult and they used to make speedy and brutal death metal, but for their 3rd album they choose a different approach. I would say: 'bombastic Death Metal with a lot of orchestral and industrial elements as well as fast sections making it a genuinely colossal album'. The mixes were very complex since some songs contained around 100 tracks!
The album is comming out worldwide(!) real soon, but a lot of reviews are already in. All outstanding so far; I mean 6 out of 6 stars and 95 out of 100 points. Stuff like that. I think the worst review gave them 8 out of 10 ;-) All reviews are praising their new epic sound.
These guys don't mind a little self glorification BTW, so be aware when you visit their site ;-)


Talking about great reviews: the debut cd on Goomah Music from Cool Genius (wich I mixed, and did some recordings on) is also getting good reviews. And again; also from OOR.

More news from our 'young-talents-department' ;-) Pioneers of Love had to play at the prestigious Eurosonic festival and wanted to have a new demo to present to all the bizz-people out there. So we hit the studio (guerilla-style) to quickly record & mix a couple of songs. All of wich can be heard on their MySpace-page of course.
They received a lot of good reactions on the demo, and it got them more gigs. This four-piece band puts a distinctive dancable and pumping synthesizer-sound at the centre, suffused with melancholical guitar-riffs the band creates a surprisingly typical atmosphere. Its own musical identity gets strengthened by the intense hitsensitive songs.


I told you earlier about an album I made with Jeremy's guitarist Fokko. It is a side-project with Dutch songs. (Well... he sings in Dutch... allright).
The band is called WantWant and there is a lot of interest from different labels and record-company's to sign this band. Fokko teamed up with publisher Wim Kwakman (PFH) to talk to all the enthousiastic hotshots.
WantWant also has a MySpace page wich features some of the songs we did.


That's all 4 now. As always; I'll keep you posted!