Member Since: 12/29/2006
Band Members: From the industrial capital of Holland known as Eindhoven, comes one of the most promising names in contemporary Dutch Drum & Bass, Rogier Habraken a.k.a. Mindmapper.
Growing up on one of the main nerves of the Dutch Drum & Bass scene and being surrounded by some of the biggest names in the scene has given Rogier the best education you could wish for. Having worked in the bar where the legendary Red Zone nights started of since he was 16, Rogier got inspired to get seriously into producing the music he loves.
Coming from a background of working with bands, playing electric guitar for many years and building his own studio, Mindmapper has got all the musical skills a producer might want. What started out as recording and arranging songs played by his band, evolved in a serious affection for cutting, sampling and composing electronic music. Combined with his education as an Audio Designer, Mindmapper is a musical mastermind whose style expands way beyond just Drum & Bass.
Not surprisingly, Mindmappers tunes have been spotted by top-notch labels and DJ’s alike. Being part of the City Of Light concept album Verse (of Pendulum fame) put together on his label Crunch, Mindmapper has got a solid base for future releases. Recently, his tunes have been picked up by labels such as Loxy’s Cylon, Phil Source’s Vampire as well as promising new labels such as Break-Fast Audio and Broken Audio Recordings. DJ support comes from the likes of Bailey, D-Kay, Loxy, Gremlinz, Jubei, Nymfo, Mantra & Double O amongst many others.
Last but not least Mindmapper is one of the founding fathers of one of the most promising Drum & Bass collectives in his country, Connex. Along with fellow upcoming artists El Maria and June Miller, Rogier organizes the Connex nights and hosts the highly praised Connex radioshow.
words by Levi Smulders (a.k.a. El Maria)
CONNEX-crew info see: About Mindmapper
Second Edition: Friday 8th of May 2009, Club Poema, Utrecht (NL)
First Edition: Friday 13th of March 2009, Club Poema, Utrecht (NL)
Influences:
[ in alphabetic order:Alix Perez,
Amit,
Apollo 440,
Art of Noise,
Asian Dub Foundation,
Bentley Rhythm Ace,
Beta 2,
Boymerang,
Break,
Breakage,
Booker T and the MG's,
Calibre,
Commix,
Curtis Mayfield,
D-Bridge,
Deep Purple,
Deep Structure,
Dephazz,
Digital,
Double O,
DJ Food,
DJ Shadow,
Dreadzone,
Eat Static,
Ed Rush Optical & Nico,
Equinox,
Fierce,
Focus,
Fun Lovin Criminals,
Goldie,
Groove Armada,
Hive,
Hydro,
Incredible Bongo Band,
Jakatta,
Jazzanova,
Jimi Hendrix,
Jonny L,
King Tubby,
Klute,
Kula Shaker,
Kruder & Dorfmeister,
Leftfield,
Loxy,
LTJ Bukem,
Lucky People Center,
Many different classical pieces/composers (too many to mention),
Mantra,
Marcus Intalex,
Massive Attack,
Medeski Martin & Wood,
Miles Davis,
Moloko,
Mo-Horizons,
Morcheeba,
Ozric Tentacles,
Paradox,
Photek,
Pink Floyd,
Prodigy,
Propellerheads,
RedZone (Nymfo Jay Pressure Martyn),
Royksopp,
Santana,
Seba,
Sonic,
Spirit,
Starwars Episodes,
Steppenwolf,
Steve Miller Band,
St Germain,
Tactile,
TCAM,
The Chemical Brothers,
The Moonstorm,
The Meters,
Thievery Corporation,
Tosca,
Uptight People,
Verse,
William Orbit,
Yonderboi,
many more (for the updatez).... :)
[ other:
family&friends, housemates, climate&environment, food&drinks, smokes, HKU, AKN, de bakkerij, the news, eindhoven, hilversum,
Sounds Like:
mix(es):
Mindmapper Cultural Evolution Jungletrain 28Mrch2008 (click)
Tracklisting:
01 Mindmapper - A Crunched World - (crunch recordings)
02 Kryptic Minds & LS - Afterlife VIP - (defcom)
03 Mindmapper - Respirator - (unfinished/dub)
04 Break - Positive/Negative - (commercial suicide)
05 Prolific - Migration - (crunch recordings)
06 Mindmapper - Tricky Tripod - (cylon recordings)
07 Dusk Till Dawn - Night Shift - (ecore)
08 Mindmapper - The Green Gamble - (crunch recordings)
09 Tactile - The Mist (Klute rmx) - (timeless)
10 Mindmapper - Zone Defense - (crunch recordings)
11 Da Gremlinz - Diapor Dash - (architecture)
12 Jubei & Tyrone - Tremmor - (dub)
more mixes (some studiosessions) will be online soon...
some flyers (of past or upcoming gigs):
Send me your track
Record Label: Crunch, Cylon, Break-Fast
Type of Label: Indie