Un-Kai

Un-Kai is a collaboration between Ruben van Rompaey (drums/percussion/synths) and Rutger Verberkmoes (synths/programming/sound enigneer).The two started working together when they met at the Rotterdam Conservatory (1996). In 2004/2005 Ruben recorded his two Eastern Expressions CD's in Rutger's Studio and his third album in 2007.The concept behind Un-Kai is to integrate percussion and electronic music as closely as possible. Not just two layers, an electronic beat with percussion played over it, for example, but the sounds had to blend together in a more organic way. We tried to do so by using all kinds off technical tricks like triggering a vocoder by a Bendir (percussion instrument) or using a convolution sample of a Tabla (instead of a reverb sample) over a drumcomputer loop. But now we're getting too technical :-) Maybe more important than the above, it had to be danceable and an adventure to listen to!