Basicly we stand for anything good that lifts the spirit ranging from IDM and experimental electronics, ambient, downtempo, breakcore, tekno, break/big-beats, trip hop, drum&bass, (good) goa-trance to the masters in world music, jazz, even classical music
This here below is what has been recently played on the main office notebook:
Movies
Wings Of Desire, Spirited Away, Baraka, Waking Life, Naked Lunch, Akira, Easy Rider, Avalon, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, Brazil, Naked, Disney's Aristocats/Robin Hood/Jungle Book/Fantasia/Alice In Wonderland, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, Knocking On Heaven's Door, Romeo+Julliet, Return to Oz, Fight Club, the Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Willow, most of David Lynch's, Monthy Python's and many more.
Television
we get inspiration from Twin Peaks, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, space ghost coast to coast, cow and chicken, dexter's lab, national geographic, the weather reports, all sorts of things really, if we turn the thing on that is.
Books
Inspiration comes from (german) philosophy (F. Nietzsche, W. Benjamin, M. Heidegger, W. Dilthey, Meister Eckhart, Heraclitus, Plato, Plotinus, Aristotle), Yasunari Kawabata, some poets, childrens books, writings on sound, science, etcetera
everybody connected to the world of 'underground electronic' music and culture.
(IDM, Tekno/Breakcore, electro,ambient, trip hop, downtempo, etc)
Also looking for live musicians (pop/world music)
Backspace's Companies
Backspace NL
it's the means to do party's, get creative people together, help positively catalyse human evolution, music and art.
About me: BACKSPACE is a foundation (=non-profit organisation) based in the Netherlands that organises events and provides and maintains a network of promoters, audio-/visual-artists, producers, event-organisation, dj's, vj's, sound systems, labels, decorists, distributors, performers and all other good and creative souls that are somehow connected to the world of intelligent underground electronic music.
With 'intelligent underground electronics' we mean the musical genres of the alternative and experimental modern electronics, sound-art and related (audio-/visual-) arts as opposed to the more commercial or uninspiring forms of electronic music.
We focus on the genres of the experimental and electro-acoustics, IDM, tekno, breakcore, breaks, breakbeats, dubstep, grime, psy-trance, Drum&Bass, electro, trip hop, more downtempo and ambient soundworks and (in fusion with) live-/world-/classical/jazz-musicians, bearing in mind the world's old and various ways of making music.
The purpose of our network is to share resources, to promote each others work and to bring together the best of people to work on even better projects. We do all this with an aim of realising a healthy and creative environment for the experience and development of electronic music, related arts and for (sound- and party-) culture in general.
Ideally speaking, BACKSPACE is a network of people who are in this world of music for the good of everyone and all around them. People that work together to help promote each others work and create those gatherings, parties and festivals that bring people in contact with the important form of truth that art holds for us and that might even help positively catalyse human and planetary evolution.
We are involved in various projects and we're always looking for more collaborators, performers/artists, etc. so if you are interested in what we do, if you want to enjoy the possibilities of our organisation and website, or if you want to collaborate on future events, please contact us or register to the forum at the BACKSPACE website website.
Who I'd like to meet: We're looking for all folks that are involved in the production and promotion of good (electronic) music and art.
If there's artists thinking about doing a show in the Netherlands, give us a shout (with dates, fee's, preferences, etc) and we'll see what we can do for you.
We hope to find good people here that like to collaborate on future projects, want to perform or make good music we want to promote, etc. So if yer in to all that write me a mail and please do register to the new forum!!!).
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if you're an artist and wish to be promoted/booked in the Netherlands, please send us url's for downloads of your work in an email, or send promo's/demo's to:
BACKSPACE,
Kooilaan 69,
2315EC,
Leiden,
Netherlands
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One last thing about the 'friends'-requests, If you are a band or make music or do whatever that really doesn't fit what we represent it's pretty obvious we will decline so please don't take that personally.
Also, we have a stack of friends-requests waiting right now (because we take time to listen to the music, write a message etc.). So don't be alarmed if you're not noticed for a month, please write us a mail if you'd like a faster response. (and you can ofcourse visit our webpage on www.backspace-event.com and register to the forum, would be lovely, the more people there the merryer)
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Voor de tweede maal organiseert het collectief annex label Lomechanik samen met Merleyn de Lomechanik Luisterclub. Dè avond voor avontuurlijke muziekliefhebbers met een voorliefde voor zowel breekbare fluisterliedjes als verknipt elektronisch experiment. In de zaal staan tafels en stoelen zodat je in een intieme sfeer releaxt kunt Luisteren. Op de vorige editie stonden ze nog onder de naam Bardt op het podium. Nu heten ze Bird en staan ze voor de tweede keer in de Luisterclub. Prachtige liedjes met gitaar, dwarsfluit, viool en bas. Vanwege de enthousiaste reacties wederom van de partij. Jan David Hogerheide maakt filmische muziek met gitaar, elektronica en meer instrumentarium. Spruit heeft een Avant-gardistische aanpak Hyper Cut Up muziek. Gastheer Jorg brengt ook zijn eigen sferische en groovende elektronica. Kom vroeg op de avond want dan mis je niets. En Lomechanik geeft kadootjes weg. Op 14 november, de dag van deze Luisterclub kun je op de Lomechanik website (www. lomechanik. com) gratis de laatste twee releases downloaden. Lomek 07 met het werk van Jorg en Lomek08, de verzamelaar Lomechanik Luisterclub met alle artiesten van deze en de voorgaande editie. Om dat te vieren zetten we na de optredens de stoelen en tafels aan de kant en dansen we op de platen van DJ Herrfer en Chaos Republic. Dus Downloaden, Aanschuiven en Dansen in die Club op 14e November. Aanvang 22.00. Entree 5 Euro. Adres: Merleyn Hertogstraat 13 te Nijmegen.
we are no big fans of automated comments, but we too have to sleep sometimes, so for the sake of our physical and mental health we just had to hire a robot this time... we hope you'll understand this.
The reason for us bothering you is that our album "Rise" is out and now ready for shipping! You can get your copy at our myspace page or Tympanik Audio
