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Andreas

all I seem to do these days is talk talk talk and run run run

About Me

A short story: the two last years of my high school I studied at the Rudolf Steinerschool in Leuven. This is were I learned to believe in my own talents and found a group of friends that is still very important to me today. I left Leuven to go study Illustration in Antwerp. It were four very interesting years. I found my passion in graphic design and illustration. In my third year I made a trip To Bristol to study at the Bristol School of Animation. In my final year I realised the short film "Une Amie Dessinée", which is a combination of video and animation. Right now I am studying for teacher and animator in Ghent. Next to this my second passion is MUSIC: after my trip to England and getting in touch with the UK dub soundsystems, I developed a serious addiction for vinyl collecting. I play as a DJ together with Goldorak (part of the legendary Antwerp BAMBU collective) under the name United Steppaz. We blend the basses of roots, dub, steppers, dubstep and raggajungle and are very willing to play at your parties.

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My Interests

Music, comics, painting, film, contemporary art, books and vinyl collecting to the extreme.

Music:

Jazz: anything from Coltrane to Jaga Jazzist Reggae: Roots, dub and Uk steppers Afrobeat: anything from Fela to Antibalas Hip hop, avant hop, electronics or just classical...there's quite some stuff in my shelves but to hell to name it all.

Movies:

Guess them all and win a fridge

Television:

...makes you braindead.

Books:

I have always liked Russian literature, Kafka's romans and Neruda's poetry. Last two books I read were "Hopeful Monsters" by Nicholas Mosley and "The Time of Our Singing" by Richard Powers, which I both strongly advice to anyone. More on the shelve for the moment is the last book of Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg, Houellebecq's "Elementaire deeltjes" en "Le bleu du ciel" by Bataille.

Heroes:

John Coltrane, Lorenzo Matotti, Francis Bacon,Spilliaert,Chris Marker and Roland Barthes.

My Blog

New mixtape: Monday Pubtalk

For all the music lovers:have a listen to a new mixtape from the United Steppaz: "Monday Pubtalk".The mix starts with a few smooth funk tracks and ends in a raw feast of dub and dubstep.Enjoy!Find it ...
Posted by Andreas on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 01:16:00 PST

schapenrock

One half of United Steppaz will be doing naughty, naughty stuff with jazz dj Feso from Brussels,8th of July @ SCHAPENROCK (very very cosy festival in the back yard of a student's house). we'll play i...
Posted by Andreas on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 03:51:00 PST

Illustrated book now available

The idea to compose a book with my drawings started as a gift for friend's birthdays.In the meanwhile lots of people told me they would be equally happy to buy one of these.So here's the deal:40 page ...
Posted by Andreas on Mon, 07 May 2007 06:25:00 PST

Untitled 27/04

Attention please for this fingerlickin' event:UNTITLED vs BAMBU (2nd edition, organized by the lovely Kastor)27/04ScheldA'pen, D'Herbourvillekaai, AntwerpUntitled meets BambuA night with the best dub,...
Posted by Andreas on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:32:00 PST

"De Wake"

I made an illustration for the poster of this young theatre company. This play called "De Wake" is their debut.Short content:A woman dies, and her lover and son can't get over the loss. They keep wand...
Posted by Andreas on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:20:00 PST

New Guest at Return of the Roots

Return of the Roots13/04/07 at SOJO, Kessel-Lo.DUB CREATORwith singers JAH MARNYA and new name LYRICAL BENJIESOUL REMEDY SOUNSYSTEMand the mighty mighty ONENESS&MR JONESSDubwise no compromise!&nbs...
Posted by Andreas on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 05:30:00 PST

Graphic tests

These are some frames from tests I did the last week for my new film. For the moment I'm animating directly under camera, using ink on glass.For now it's just doors and trees, but I'm getting away we...
Posted by Andreas on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:02:00 PST

Work in progress °1: "La retraite"

What you see here are the working storyboards for my Bach film at KASK Gent.The working title is "La Retraite". The main line of the story is a man being faced with is own limits and incompetence. As ...
Posted by Andreas on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:49:00 PST

New mixtape

A new mix CDHey all,the United Steppers are proud to present their new mix CD.Title and unbelievable artwork for the booklet are yet to come.The mix is about 80 minutes long and contains a b2b selecti...
Posted by Andreas on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:30:00 PST