Brand!

Boris Acket

Amersfoort

bookings / remix enquiries: chantal - chantal@razzmatazz.nl / tel +31 20 223 65 67 “WHAT is Brand!?” This question seems to arise more and more often as the urgency for deeper bass-sounds is soaring through even the quietest backwaters. While the most sensible thing to ask would actually be: “WHO is Brand!?”. Though this question is, yet again, unanswerable since Brand! is partly machine. Still, as with all roots and routes, nothing comes from nowhere. Growing up as a kid in a designer family, Brand! realised at an early stage that he didn’t need to adapt to his environment. Instead, his environment could adapt to him; resulting in rather awkward home videos from age 4 through 10. Luckily, at an age of 11, Brand! received a bonus gift with his first empty bank-account: E-jay music software. This resulted in a slightly darker period of self-expression and if Facebook were to exist back in the 90s; some serious loss of friend-requests. All it took then was for Brand! to understand that there could be more people but himself that might enjoy computer music. And by god did they do! So straight from his living room right up the legs dancing in the most derelict clubs he went. To arrive, severely damaged, at the sheer bliss he enjoys today. Finally, skipping through the confusing paradigms, one soon realises that to capture Brand!’s sound in words would only bring us further from the truth. Your most viable option to consider is therefore probably to go and listen to his music. Enjoy. _ GIGS 2012 past 20-01 REBEL RADIO 04-03 AWAKE AFTERHOURS / RDAM 31-03 SCHMECK AFTERHOURS / ADAM 05-04 STUDIO 80 / AMSTERDAM 06-04 VOORWAARTS / RUIGOORD 12-04 NICKS DOCK 154 / UTRECHT 29-04 BARRE TIJDEN QNIGHT / AFOORT 30-04 BARRE TIJDEN QDAY / ADAM 06-05 KATER HOLZIG / BERLIN 19-05 ST JOSEPH / AMERSFOORT 26-05 CHICAGO SOCIAL / AMSTERDAM 28-05 TROPIQUE / SECRET 02-06 OBSESSION OUTDOOR 02-06 KELDER AMERSFOORT 08-06 BARRE TIJDEN @ STADSGELUID 22-06 ODEON / AMSTERDAM 23-06 RUIGOORD / AMSTERDAM 30-06 HOME / AMSTERDAM 06-07 MR LOESOE / UTRECHT 14-07 STUDIO 80 / AMSTERDAM 20-07 MATRIXX / NIJMEGEN 25-08 (LIVE) RECYCLE / LEUSDEN 25-08 (DJ) MAGNEET AMSTERDAM 01-09 (LIVE) PONY PARK / AMSTERDAM 06-09 (DJ) STUDIO 80 / AMSTERDAM 14-09 (LIVE) MAGNEET / AMSTERDAM 15-09 (DJ) DEEPNDISCO / AMERSFOORT 19-10 (DJ) BLOEMENBAR / AMSTERDAM 02-11 (DJ) REBEL RADIO) STUDIO 80 15-11 (LIVE) PAND 48 / GRONINGEN 24-11 (LIVE) SISYPHOS / BERLIN 30-11 (LIVE) BOOT VOOR PAMPUS 02-12 (LIVE) PUBLIK / MALTA 26-12 (LIVE) WINKEL VAN SIN. / UTRECHT 27-12 (DJ) STUDIO 80 / AMSTERDAM _ GIGS 2013 past 11-01 TRIPSTREAM / ROTTERDAM 01-02 REBEL RADIO / AMSTERDAM 08-02 ALFABET / NOORDWIJK 09-02 PARADISO / AMSTERDAM future 24-02 MIXTAPE MONDAY 01-03 AVANTGARDE / UTRECHT 15-03 STUDIO 80 / AMSTERDAM 18-03 ONDERSTROOM / HAARLEM 23-03 HAL 16 / UTRECHT 13-04 HENK / AMSTERDAM 29-04 OPT / AMERSFOORT 30-04 BARRE TIJDEN / AMSTERDAM 05-05 TBA / AMSTERDAM 15-06 TBA / AMSTERDAM 22-06 OPT / UTRECHT 03-08 TBA / SOEST _ DISCOGRAPHY Milan Dubois - Vals Plat (Brand Remix) Melomane, may 2012 Sjon is Down EP (more info tba soon!!)