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Some sounds for Ableton's Analog synth

I made some sounds for Ableton's Analog synth, you need Live 7 and of course Analog to use them. Get them here. Let me know what you think of them....

Pit stop

8 metal bands at tivoli de helling.

HIT ME TV Live Paard cafe

HIT ME TV Live Paard cafe
Originally uploaded by allert

The shows with HIT ME TV are going really well. The guys are selling CD's like hotcakes afterwards and the crowds go wild. We just finished a week of shows as support act for the Infadels who were really really nice a great band of course ! Thanks guys...
Next week it's a show in Oss during a dance night and supporting Voicst at Vondelpark, Amsterdam.
In other excellent news: HIT ME TV have been confirmed for the Lowlands festival this august, which is pretty much every dutch bands' wet dream :)

I get to play the Outhouse festival !

DSC_8733
Originally uploaded by R. J. Bokje

Freek Fabricius from 030303 called today to ask me if I would do a set on the second stage of the Outhouse festival this year. Of course !
I played this venue in the late 90's with Human Beings, one of our last gigs and it was great. It will be a pleasure to return. The festival has a nice program which I am sure will soon show on http://www.outhouse.nl. I assume you will all show up for this event :) And: Two of my Berlin mates are playing as well: Redshape & DJ T.raumschmiere !

So, back to work in the studio soon to make sure this one will turn out to be all I want it to be !

Thanks to R.J. Bokje for the pic on Flickr !


Outhouse Festival, Open air theatre Cabrio, Soest, NL. August 30, 2008

A Good Start ?

My little performance last saturday at Tivoli de Helling didn't go entirely as planned but I learned a lot. Like I'm better at improvising arrangements than following predetermined arrangements and I need a different midicontroller because I hit the stop button on this one to easily :)

Anyway, I hope I can get another chance soon, the music works, the sound was fine as well....

Gear in use:
Mac Book Pro running Ableton Live (duh)
Waldorf Pulse
Waldorf Q
Nord Rack II
Motu 828 Mk 2
Presonus Digimax FS (these last two providing 16 audio outs)
Kaoss Pad 2 inserted on the drum bus for stutters etc.
mini KP for woosh woosh sounds
Remote Zero SL controller (stop button to close to next scene button.... use my own config next time)

I used Tivoli de Helling's Soundcraft MH3 mixer & effects...

Thanks to Jacob Bours for taking pics and Marie-José for making videorecordings

Playing Live June 7th

Saturday June 7th I play a live set for the first time in years. I expect ALL of you to show up at Tivoli de Helling, Helling 7 in Utrecht, NL. Doors open at 23.00, I play around 2.00 am I think. It'll be fun, some of the tracks I play can be heard at myspace.

Nothing to see on stage so if you expect a rock show you are out of luck :)

HIT ME TV

Currently I'm doing a lot of shows with new dutch band HIT ME TV.

I am using my SPL Channel One premium with a BSS DPR901 inserted on Jaap's vocal, dbx 166 compressors on backing vocals
Jaap uses his own Shure Beta 58 which works fine and I've advised Frank (Guitar) and Thijs (Bass) to get a Shure Beta 57a to minimise spill from the drums. Already, Frank's vocal is cut-off by an Optogate PB05 when he's not in front of the mic and I'll get one for Thijs soon. Great invention these optogates! Especially in clubs.

Other mics: Audix D6 for Bass drum, Beyer m201's for snare top and bottom, sennheiser me64 for hihat, e 904's for toms and Audio Technica AT 4040's for "under"heads.
Frank's Matchless amp is picked up by an Audio Technica AT4033 and a Sennheiser MD409 on a stereo bar. A good old 421 does duty on bass amp.

Hope to get some nice di's soon, like a radial stereo di for the keys/sampler and maybe an avalon u5 for bass di. Need to do some more shows first though....

Next one is May 22, 2008 in Speakers, Delft and Saturdat 24th of May it's Utrecht's Festival aan de Werf, right in the city centre.

Cheers, Allert

Goodbye Mimi

With love to Mimi
Originally uploaded by allert

Today Mimi, our lovely pussycat died. We are very sad at the moment. There was nothing that could be done, it's a crying shame.....

Sleep well Mimi....

An Excellent Idea

Batschkapp
Originally uploaded by allert

Ethan sent me a FlickrMail saying he is setting up a Wiki for clubs/venues. Something I've been thinking about for years but never got around to. Great ! Framework in place, just add venues ! Join in and let's expand this thing !

Czech it out at ClubWiki

Plein79

Plein79
Originally uploaded by allert

Yesterday I was back at Plein 79 in Den Bosch again. First time since a couple of years. Sneakerfreak played a very nice set with music from their upcoming album and older stuff. Plein 79 is a small stage but with a great atmosphere and although there are ar couple of weird things about the soundsystem I was able to get a very nice sounding mix.

Playlab April 15th Ekko Utrecht, NL

Hi,

April 15th I'm playing at Playlab in Ekko, Utrecht NL. 5 musicians rehearse for one afternoon and have show in the evening. More info at Playlab

Just so you know

Having a good time here in Berlin, walked around the Kiez for a bit, met with Peter Bijl who is up to his usual good ideas !

And saw this shocking news....

Guess where I am....

En de groeten !!!!

Making tracks

Studio
Originally uploaded by allert

At work in my studio. Hope I can let you hear the results soon at myspace.

At the moment I'm working on a shameless basic channel style copy. I know, there's a hundred thousand of them out there but it's so much fun doing tracks like that !

Top Boost

Top Boost
Originally uploaded by allert

Detail of a VOX AC30 Top Boost. This one is owned by Racoon guitarist Dennis Huige. Blog Test.

New Big Time Concepts web online

Hi all,

My new website has just gone online . Overhere I will post some news and stories etc...

Also, you can download almost all Human Beings music for free at last.fm