Busy Busy Busy
Story of my life. I must apologise for not posting anything since April, but as the title of this post states, I’ve been kinda very busy.
- Job hopping (working with oneDot only for, amongst others, on Gent Jazz, Jazz Middelheim, Charlatan.be and a still secret project for VRT).
Our ways parted and I’m now taking time to get some other work done. - Trying to figure out what to do with FreeJays.
I got kinda tired of the same old parties and the same old music. FreeJays was created to play specific genres, thus created expectations from our bookers, but I’m so tired of the same old electro trash garbage. There’s so much quality music out there. Do you, dear visitors, think I should use the name to build something new (especially Live, with own material), or is that a bad idea? Get a new name? - Dove in the studio with Jonas, our VJ, to combine my live audio with his VJ software using OSC. Very interesting. Tips are welcome!
- Working on KNNKT, which will launch pretty soon! Be sure to keep a look-out.
- Finally got round to get me some proper monitors, the popular Rokit KRK RP 8 G2 serie. What a difference!
- That got me very enthousiastic again, spending a lot of hours on Leesa’s first track, which we hope to testdrive at the upcoming CrammerocK festival where she’ll be playing (and I’ll be presenting again).
Very much going on, hopefully my next posts will be announcements of released tracks or other very exciting news.
I leave you with a picture of one wall of my studio (the synths are on my left and back) which I’m pretty proud of.
Toys toys toys!
KNNKT – launch of the twitter wall
Talking to people active as DJ, VJ or producer at Play & Produce and at various other occaions, it was became obvious that there’s a problem with effective news distribution concerning these subjects. Especially good, reliable Dutch sources are close to nonexistent. Beginners are desperate for easy to swallow information and basicly the whole scène is tired of trying to stay up to date using the vast jungle that is the Internets.
KNNKT was born! (actually officially on the 20th of October 2008 at 18h38)
Together with FreeJays’ VJ AV8R (formerly known as AVoid, offline referred to as Jonas Pottie) and daMusic godfather Audience, also known as Robin Tulkens, we gave birth to KNNKT (pronounced connect), a Dutch platform for DJ’s, VJ’s and producers, providing bitesize news, tutorials, how-to’s, and much more very cool stuff and tools in the future (but that’s still super secret, seriously, you guys).
This first, pre-launch phase is a Twitter mash-up sorting the updates from the KNNKT Twitter account. It’s a mix of news and things we think are awesome and you need to see.
So if you’re into deejaying, veejaying or producing your own tracks, bookmark the site, sign up for the newsletter (that informs you of KNNKT updates, not news, yet) and follow the KNNKT Twitter account. Hellasweet.
We’re also looking for contributors to share knowledge and funnel news. Do you breathe, eat and sleep hardware, think in MIDI or make crazy setups using twelve old VCR’s and a cow to project on – let us know!
