E.F.O.

1995- first keyboard producing acid house1996- expanded with a roland mc303 1997- first gigs at squad raves2000- the band A-hive became a fact Joris de rooij(lozt dogg) and Bastian Brinkcate played til 2004 in the dutch underground scene, joris took care of scratching with dubs Bastian took care of the beats triggered through drumcomputers.2004- A-hive splitted up against there wil, Bastian continued his work solo and linkted up with a old friend Ronald Geerdink who workted in a studio near Bastian called studio metro in Hengelo.2005- Bastian's artist name became "the electric funk orchestra" and his first demo cd called "shotcut" became a fact with the help of his friend ronald.2006- a canadian based label fizx recordings, discovered EFO's music and ofered him a contract.2007- the demo cd gets released through fizx-recordings as a mp3 on various internet sites.also in that periode Bastian got hit up by cool music revolution magazine who showed great interest in his productions and wanted to plug Bastian in his various radio shows.Bastian got askted to do a radio tour for cool music revolution magazine's radio shows. After getting that offer he hookted up after years with his old friend Joris, it was like they never left each other and live it blended straight away.Now they were ready and went to england to do these radio shows it turned out succesfuly. the name EFO which is short for "the electric funk orchestra" gained popularity. So Fizx recordings askted them to do a Ontario tour in canada for a week long. which they did in september 2007."it was a honour and a privelege to be part of the Canadian underground scene, a dream came treu". soon a other digital label askted Bastian if he was interested, butterflymusic.2008- three 2 track singles were offered to fizx and released, various dutch radio stations and "club the zoo" contacted Bastian for interviews reviews and bookings,there 1st night in club the zoo turned out to be a succes and Bastian got askted 2 organise more nights for this club, as in pre shows and aftershows with bastian and Joris headlining. a english friend (dj Insom) from Bastian decided to move to the Netherlands and the formation EFO expanded with him, There first live performance al together was at a outdoorfestival called "hobnob" in the netherlands, which turned out great! C.M.R. magazine was stil playing out EFO's tunes and they got noticed.from 2007 til 2008- bastian released a total of one album 7 two track singles and one 3 track single on fizx recordings.