Straight
outta tha fonky underground comes the booty-shakin' carpenter of sound,
the one and only handieMan maurice! Maurice has hella experience in the
realms of beats and bass, being a bass/guitar master first and producer/remixer
second, each coalescing in a swirl of funky psychedelic rhythms and dark
electronic atmospheres. After playing in the dance-live circuit for 15
years with his funkband Burning,
handieMan maurice started to produce instrumental hiphop beats in 1990.
Through years of experience with funk & industrial music, handieMan's
music has evolved into a sound that is a groundbreaking variation of rhythm,
speed and sphere. Da handieMan works with dutch finest musicians as it
is Hans Dulfer [sax], E.Motion vocalist Robenzo and rapper
Brainpower, a lot of musician and co-producers come and go to his
modest studio in the center of the lowlands.
After the Trippatrazz release of handieMan mauriceÃs special triphop project
Trip to Agewood (featuring rapper Brainpower
and trumpetplayer Gerald van Dijk), 200 copies were send to Brittain
and the United States. in England the 12" was charged as "Continental
Single of the Week" in the cool music magazine NME, "Excelent
busted out trip and hiphop from those krazee Dutch guys that take as much
from The Chemical Brothers as it does from KRS-One". From the states
we recieved a fax from a well known respected Frisco DJ and producer Gavin
Hardkiss, who catched the record somewhere between Satalite, Atlanta
and New York, this is what he wrote: "Trippatrazz/Trip to Agewood is
the shit . . . .. it's the first thing i got from y'all . . sick sticky
solidbeats with the words that make me go . . . . ahhhh . . . is there
more? . . . how do i get some? . . . who is this TT???. . . ." Gavin.
My labeler, Hans Koppenol, wrote down on the copy of the fax; "How
unknown can the messenger be, while still loved by so many??" We put
all the handieMan tracks on cassettes and send them over to Sunburn
Recordings in California and guess what
. . . , they loved it :) The e-mail relationship came to fruition after
a flurried exchange of music.
... leaf to enter - Sunburn Recordings
released in july 1999 the USA debut album from handieMan "... leaf
to enter". the cd is distributed worldwide by Lightyear [WEA] and
reached the UK and the Europian Continent as well in a extravagant cover
layout made by Sunburn - Artist Paul Riley. The Track-list on "...
leaf to enter" was choosen by Gavin Hardkiss, while handieMan
mixed them to a wild mysterious story. Lot of positive reviews came from
all over the world.
Scissors- JJTracks
Recently handieMan signed a recorddeal with JJTracks a funky sublabel
of Challenge Records for the forthcoming handieMan album featuring Saxplayer
Hans Dulfer. The album 'Scissors' will be released in january of
2003. We've already build a webpage about the project www.handieman.nl/scissors.
You can listen to parts of the tracks on this space too.
Remix - Lot of bands ask for the help of handieMan mixing or producing their albums. His remix of a special concert of p-funk master Bootsy Collins became famous amongst world funkateers. he remixed lots of tracks of dutch funkband Seven Eleven and his style was also discovered by Seven Eleven bass-player Dodge. Dodge decided to put himself on the map. Dodge already earned a reputation for performance and durability. Together with his brother in Funk, producer handieMan maurice, they started recording as a tribute to Bootsy and his starbass universe: Mutronic Injection Mutron is the guitar effect responsible for Bootsy's unique Starbass sound. bootsy's vocalist Gary Mudbone Cooper, dropped his funky vocals on some of the tracks...