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Orphax

About Me

Orphax is the ambient drone and noise project by Sietse van Erve from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Here on myspace you can listen to some of the songs I have made. If you like to hear more I recommend checking out my website, which contains several streams of my releases and links to mp3 releases.
www.orphax.com

Digital Streams of full releases
(buy a cd at www.orphax.com or digital by following the mentioned links)

Turn Loose The Goose
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Drowning in a Pool of Trees
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Feel free to leave some comments or give me a message.

Sietse/orphax

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/1/2005
Band Website: orphax.com
Band Members: Sietse van Erve
Influences: The city, the nature, humans.
Some of the musical influences are Erstlaub, Thomas Köner, Christopher McFall, Moljebka Pvlse, Troum, Xela, The North Sea.
Sounds Like: A walk in the city, a walk in the forest.

Discography

CD Albums:
• Turn Loose The Goose (April, 2009) Self-Released.
• Drowning in a pool of trees (January, 2008) Self-Released.
• Proof Of Conspiracy (May, 2007) .. Hands (OOP).
• Sand in boxes (January, 2005) on Suggestion Records/Verato Project.
• In a long night (May, 2004) Self-Released (OOP).

MP3 Release
• [Possible Stimulus] radio show featuring Orphax Interview as broadcasted through Toxicant Radio (December, 2005)
• In your eyes I get lost EP (16 February, 2004)
• As the stone falls it won't come up again EP (December, 2003)
• Untitled EP (September, 2003)
• Oniscus Asellus (March, 2003)
• Sæti (November, 2002)
• Suppressing an unplesant feeling(or the day the world trembled down) (October, 2002)

Compilations and Mixes
• Erstlaub - Dark Archipelagos (Remix EP) (30 October, 2007) on Highpoint Lowlife.
• Marcia Blaine School For Girls - Halfway Into The Woods (Remix EP) (03 December, 2006) on Highpoint Lowlife.
• Analog for architecture dvd compilation (November, 2006) on Highpoint Lowlife. (OOP).
• Track 13 (October, 2006) on Gonzo Circus.
• Orphax Mixtape - Sunglights are fading (May, 2006) on Op3n.net.
• Megaheadphoneboy Mixtape - catch it by the gills (April, 2006) Op3n.net.
• Postunder Records - September 2005 Minimag Featured Tracks (September, 2005).
• Va - Corrupted Cause (April, 2005) on Soulseek Records.
• Running out of West a narrominded compilation (March, 2002) on Narrominded.
• Benthic realm (2000) Self-Released (OOP).

Record Label: Self-Released, Suggestion Records, Cut Hands

My Blog

OUT NOW: Turn Loose The Goose

Again it's a 3" cdr based on a live recordings, but this time only small parts from the live performance were used. Thesources for the release are the live set from December 6th in Tilburg,field recor...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 09:57:00 GMT

Newsletter: Orphax Live and more...

Hi friends, listeners, readers and others interested.Its been very quite from my side lately due to other businesses I hadto attend. I have changed my job, still in the same company, butanother depar...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Feb 2009 10:19:00 GMT

Orphax - Tragedie van een liedjesschrijver zonder woorden DEMO page. (Looking for a label).

Orphax De tragedie van een liedjesschrijver zonder woordenMy name is Sietse van Erve and I live in Amsterdam,The Netherlands. For about 8 years now I have been seriously working on music under the...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:57:00 GMT

Orphax & Zonderland Newsletter 6: Live & More

Hi, It has been a while since my last update. This has several reasons with as main reason me being busy with other things and as usual being lazy. But now I got so much good things to tell you that ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:39:00 GMT

New tracks in profile player and new remix released

Dear people,I have added 2 new tracks to the player. Feel free to leave a comment on them in the profile here. More new music at my website: www.orphax.comFurther, my dear friend Erstlaub has released...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 03:31:00 GMT

Proof of Conspiracy Released on Cut Hands

Finally after a long silence Cut Hands released my new EP called Proof Of Conspiracy.It's a 3" cd with haunting noise drones that make me think of Daniel Menche mixed with Thomas Köner. The label says...
Posted by on Fri, 25 May 2007 09:07:00 GMT

Updated my songs. Some new old tunes to listen to

So after a very long time of having the same songs up I decided to change some of the songs. I wanted to add two new ones but they were to long for the player (or something like that) So I decided to ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:10:00 GMT

Orphax - Sabbathical

I am going on a short break with my music, this because I am going to finish my study in geology this summer. I will need all my time for this. After the summer I hope to come back better and full ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

Sand in Boxes

In a few weeks my new album, Sand in Boxes, should be released on verato project When it is out you can buy it through their webshop. The limited edition comes in special artwork with a small bag of ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT