wirwar vs crackbeats

circuitbenders night in den bosch

yes, finally we are bending again, it had been years ....
x11, typhique and myself (as the circuit bandit) will be performing as the circuit band on the 29th october .... entrance is free for all
come and see - hear what our noisy toys and drum machines will spit out !

hello you

finn ijzer bruin has been born

a new earthling has arrived .... Son of marco broeders and anja dekkers, born 260708 as a blue electric storm according to the mayan calendar... what you see here is the result of the most amazing babycard i've ever seen, let alone, have to put together ..... great fun to do, I now have a little finn, sitting on the speaker !

twiddly diddley

having fun with photoshop ..... way past my bedtime .....

accu records 002 the cailleach ep out now

the caileach ep - music created live by paul van der wees
mastered and cut by martin giles - alchemy uk
pressed on 160gr black vinyl by record industry nl and housed in its own colourfull sleeve ... free downloads - listening www.musicv2.com/artist/toysfornoise
contact me for a real copy !!!

back again

wow, almost three months since the last words were typed up ....
been very busy launching my recordlabels into the world, that takes time and loads of energy, but right now there are only 120 records left of each release at my little storageroom. more than 1700 records are either on their way to their final destinations, or awaiting the moment when they get send off from the distributors store rooms....

oud en nieuw was huge.... loads of people visited the hall of fame where we decided to do our thing, till the small hours of the new year we had fun...

ilovetekno was gruwelijk according to some... I had a blast doing my thing, glad I was not on the dancefloor as the speakers were really thumping out the music in a no-compromise way.... surely some folk damaged their ears that night...

wirwar's noizmassiv collaboration was nice too.... busy busy busy and what a musical treat we experienced, great djsets and livesets, great decoration skills by co2 great vj-ing by mr goatee " haariaari" arjan... and the way back was fun, driving 40 kilometers per hour behind four snowtrucks plowing away the snow that had fallen just prior to us departing.... thanx to fer and eli for having us !

time to pull the covers

and do some typing again... loads of things have happened in the past months, some of you might have noticed my new record labels that have seen the light of day, born on the 19th december 2007, my three little babies are now marching all over the world.
I am working hard on the follow up, accu 002 and 003 are on their way...
i'll try to update this thing a bit more.... lets pretend the darkest months have passed ....

the mac rules at london stansted

haha, my waiting time just got a lot more fun.....
let me explain a little more.... I am at london stansted right now... my flight to eindhoven is leaving at 06:55 which means waiting for 8 hours as I had already arrived at the airport around 23:00 cause there are no trains going to the airport in the middle of the night.... as you can not take your bottle of water nor your sandwich with cheese with you trough customs (there is this crazy 100ml rule for fluids and one can not take cheese along cause of fear of footh and mouth disease) I decided to stay at the initial waiting area just before customs, here I saw this BT (british telecom) hotspot, and decided to give it a try, took out the apple laptop, and found several networks with the airport wireless connection, at first only those that needed paying for, then I tried this one: wifi zone-the cloud- and guess what... it allowed me to connect and here I am... didnt know this was exceptional untill there was a girl that asked what and how with teh free networks here... little did I know that her pc would not let her connect for free, ha ha... the macintosh rules, dont know how, but right now I am sitting in a luxury sofa with a nice armrest for the laptop and powerconnection to charge the somewhat poor battery....
still 4 hours to go right now till check-in starts.. but hey.... 5 hours gone by pretty easy this way.....

playtime at revolutions

coming up soon...
I'll be playing dj-set from 22:00 - 23:00 at the zetemkaa area and more importantly, halping out decorating and transforming the place along with my friends !
looking forward to this one a lot, come and check it out, this will be huge....

dark factory

Ha, playtime again.. on the 24th november I will be playing in belgium, along with my friends from lille and rotterdamn, the 104e20 sound system has invited me to come and play, and how could I say no !!!
come by for some dancing if ya feelike

analog dialogue

on the 20th of oct i did a live set in 013 in tilburg, i was invited by the peeps from the zodiak commune to come and do my thingie, live this time, no records, but a full cockpit opf gear... wanna hear how it all went ? www.musicv2.com/artist/toysfornoise
mopre words later, time to go to bed now

wirwar rocks the city's concert hall

as part of the zxzw festival there were classical artists playing in squats and on friday we were asked to shake the foundations of the concert hall, and we did !
I have never seen the discoball soooo effective !!! the lights were amazing, the sound was "grown-up" although it was a real pain for the live sets, as the speakers were tooo far away, causing a delay, making you wonder why the effects were all of a sudden effected with unwanted delays etc ... ok, there were monitor speakers, but if you wanted to block the main systems sound, you needed to turn up the volume of the monitors in such a way thAt you knew you were damaging your ears, dilemma....
ah well, it was nice to play, and the atmosphere was great, true wirwar vibe !
accompanied by great sounds in the voyager and cans of jupiler beer for the alcoholics under us, I was deeply moved by the slides that were projected in the main hall, they were by my brother finsent who, without a doubt, was flying trough the hall all night, sometimes the colours were a bit hard to see, but on the pictures, they come out real nice ! Also the big light, designed by wido and modified by finsent lateron was hanging in a great spot, thanx dave for that one !
The sets have been recorded on videocamera and mine was recorded as pure audio too, lets see if I should be ashamed of myself..... ha.....

playing live in worm on 28th september

"standing in" for mr sensory overload who can't make it tonight, I'll be playing from 00:30 onwards .. see you there
for more info on a great saturday night in worm www.wormweb.nl

having fun on a cross-bike

this summer it was the first time in my life I actually got on a motor bike, I never had the urge to ride these things, apart from the occasional scooter, but this was the real deal, switching gears with your left foot, and going trough muddy pools and dirt lanes..... I ended up soaking wet and covered in mud when I wanted to cross the final pool of water that was lying in front of me.... as I choose the wrong pool of muddy water (there was one on the left and one on the right) the one I had chosen was a little tiny bit tooo deep for me... should have stayed on the left side, now I was mudman with even mud in my ears ..... we had fun though ..... ah, be warned: the exhaust can get hot :)

waalwijk feessie

sometime ago, the weekend before we left for poland, we had a blast in waalwijk along with some other systems, even though some of them had some problems with the power, generators are not your best friends..... we went on till early in the morning, played my testpressings for the first time.... wow, a dream come true.

accu 000 & 001 and wide awake 000

working hard on the sleeves and the design of the labels right now, but the first 150 testpressings have been thrown into this world, and they are being received with open arms, what a joy !
it is a dream come true, my own recordlabel, or actually, labels ......
soon you'll be able to download the tracks, they need to be out "officially" first..

summer 2007

hye there, back in town so to say.... it's been quite a while, loads of things have happened, too much to mention, but I'll give it a try ....

polskitekk 2007 was great, we had brought a small part of the soundsystem so we would not be victims of other peoples records.... it allowed us to create our own little our-space where we could play records, blow up balloons, dive over couches, decorate the space with chips in upside down umbrella's and make some music, we had the pleasure of having a special recording studio right next to us, barry really made a nice piece of art with his double - car, his trip back to holland was quite a special one if I am correct, but I believe he was just in time for his work ...

after teknival we went to the tatra mountains, where we drove around, found our nice spots to relax, had great walks, changed a waterpump of my 508, saw pico fly his parapent, made great campfires, cooked great dinners with pancakes and whipped cream as a finale..... we truelly grew tighter as a group, and had a blast on a crossmotor driving trough mud pools ha ha

right before we went home we visited some sort of swim paradise close to berlin, actually tropicana is 10 times smaller but it blows this thing away, we luckily discovered the sauna area, where we truelly relaxed and we all lost kilo's and kilo's of fluids.... we slept underneath the stars once more, only to see the sun come up with the most intriguing purple palette shortly followed by the rain, making us run and dive into the van for some more close-your-eyes time...

then back to holland, and for me it wasn't yet over, I decided to go to zeeland, to the sea, as it was impossible to go back home straight away, I needed to process some things, before I would be swallowed up by the big monster that is called home...... I went to burgh-haamstede for some nice walk on the beach, did some crabfishing with some kiddies, slept in the harbour of the hague, went to nsdm and adm terrain in amsterdam where I encountered a great waterland festival, with nice campfire and music and great energy, a true gift it was ! and then it was time to go home, so I did and here I am, three weeks later, trying to recapture all things, impossible, but some have been documented now .....

U2

U2 have been making music and having fun in marocco with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois who also worked on the The Joshua Tree album and many more...
Curious what will be soming out of this ! Look at this one.... I see 4 guys playing a guitar and 2 guys close to recording devices .... I like this picture..... it triggers my brain...... mmmm what, how, who, when... where ....