Ansatz der Maschine is the indietronica project of soundtech Mathijs Bertel. He samples and distords acoustic sounds to create fascinating beats and fairly-like melodies. Live on stage with a brilliant four piece.
OCTOBER 2004: The band released their first EP, called “hide for the beast”(independent). The innovating tracks got them to win the CJP-contest "Het jong 2004", designed to give young artists some promotion (and a cash price of 5000 euro). The media attention this generated resulted in a bunch of live shows. Ansatz der Maschine also joined the belgian elctronica collective "Je m'en fish".
DECEMBER 2006, Vlas Vegas records (galatasaray, hitch,....) released the long awaited debut album "The postman is a girl". Following the release, "over exposed frozen stars"(the single) was featured in "Arriba!", a hitlist compiled by the music journalists of "Studio Brussels (Belgian national Radio)" for 7 weeks!
The good promotion of Ansatz der maschine's official debut-cd resulted in a lot of nice shows like playing the support of "Do make say think ",”The Album Leaf” ," Bonobo ", "Hanne Hukelbergh" ,"The go find”, “Mono” , “Eels”,…
In clubs like: AB (Brussels, Be), t’Paard (the hague, Nl), 013 (Tilburg, Nl), W2 (denbosch, Nl), Le grand mix (Lille, Fr), 4 AD (diksmuide, Be), CACTUSClub (Brugge, Be), STUK (Leuven, Be), Mochvarra (Zagreb, Hr),...
MARCH 2007: The band played a live radio session in Belgians most important alternative radio-program "Duyster" on Studio Brussels. One track of this session features on the Studio Brussel compilation record “Duyster 3” released by Pias (together with bands like, Low, Coco rosie, Joan as a policewoman,…)
FEBRUARY 2008: kick off, of the first eurotour who takes ansatz der maschine to the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Slovenia and Croatia.
Ansatz der Maschine's number has in the meantime grown to 4 during live sets. On stage: a small brass section, keys, drums, guitars, violin and a whole bunch of electronic stuff
Schitterend concert in de AB vorige week. The Orb was bijzonder zwak, maar jullie hebben dat ruimschoots goedgemaakt. Ik heb nog foto's van jullie die ik op de AB-site zal publiceren; ik probeer dat tegen maandagavond te doen.
Bedankt om het vriendschapsverzoek te aanvaarden.'Aanslag op geluidskwaliteit' is voornamelijk opgezet rond sfeerschepping, vragen oproepen en achtergrond voor bewolkte dagen. De duystere sfeerschepping van ansatz der maschine zullen we echter nooit bereiken :)
thanks soo much for your help and your kindness! it was great to see u again, thanks for the food and everything :) see u again soon and i insist in SLOVENIA! :) btw. the new Ansatz record is amazing!
Ik zag jullie gisteren in Brakke Grond
Moest de groetjes doen van Pieter (Brabant), maar was jullie niet meer tegengekomen, dus bij deze..
Echt geweldig, ik ben fan!
Jullie moeten snel terugkomen, want ik had gisteren geen geld voor een cd en ik wil er 1! 2!
De Myspace moet me maar even zoet houden.
