A BackStory

Music has always been an important part of my life. Starting with an electric organ at my parents home by playing melodies that I heard on the radio. I started to create my own music when I got my first synthesizer in 1985. In time when more devices entered my room I started to make music with my friends.

• The first opportunity to compose music for others came from a company in Almere back in 1991. They were making a presentation (with 9 slide projectors) for the province Flevoland and they needed original music. It was the first time for me to compose music on this scale and on location, and for the company the first time to work with a musician.
  
• In 1992 a new era of music started for me. I worked together for and with other musicians on several dance and pop projects.
  Also started to work together with Jean Paul van Engelen on several projects with other musicians.
• In 1993 I recorded my first album: "the Force of Music" released by Audio Works.
  
• Moved my studio into de Olieslager studio that we build to intensify our teamwork for other artists but also our own work.
• My second album "Waves in the Sky" (1994) was released by Cue Records.
  
• Late 1994 I joined the symphonic rockband Salisbury as a keyboardplayer. This way I could develop myself more into a live performer. The band broke up shortly after we recorded our demo tape "the Next".
  
• When I played this 3D game Marathon (Bungie) I came up with the idea to record a concept album, an album with a story behind it. All the tracks on the album are a part of the story. This "the Blue Team" album was released in 1996 by Groove Unlimited, with help from Jean Paul van Engelen for arranging, mixing and mastering. Shortly after the release they organised a concert at "de Landing" (Eindhoven) where Jean Paul and I gave our one and only live perfomance.
  
• 1998 the second album to continue the story of the Blue team was almost ready but unfortunately some of the numbers did not fit the music style Groove Unlimited wanted to release on its label.
  So this album got shelved...
• 2002 was the year to get back after a break into the music. I worked on a score for a movie called "Iskariot".
  
• 2005 Experimenting with meditation music....
• 2017-18 Found my way back to music, starting to stretch my imagination and my fingers...
  
• 2019 The 4th album is at a final stage. Some tuning and tweaking need to be done, but it is almost ready. Searching for a title...
• 2020 The album "TearDrops" is ready and released, again by Groove Unlimited (thanks Ron for this oppertunity).
• 2021 "5". The fifth album. This is an album with ambient influences, with tracks that might help you to relax the mind.
• 2021 Started to create some darkwave/synthwave tracks for a new project
• 2022 You can find some of my music on my Youtube Channel
• 2022 Found old material to be released to my BandCamp.
  This material will be put on albums called Lost Tapes Compilations. More will follow...
• 2022 Found material from Brigit Degener and I and published it to my BandCamp.
• 2022 The Blue Team has it's own Bandcamp page! Check over here: Blue Team BandCamp. Tracks and info are being gathered and remastered
• 2022 We (the Blue Team) have written the track Bound to the Brain for the Dutch Electronic Masters III compilation where 34 Dutch EM musicians and bands have provided tracks.
  You can listen to our track right there or go to the Clip on Youtube.

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