Shawnodese
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Author: Frank/Sonic
Date: Mar 16, 2002
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Hey Superfreaks who are you, where do you live? Ok, my real name is Gosse Beerda, living right now in Amsterdam since 1996, before living in the north of Holland. I am 34 now, will become 35 in May.
Right now I am not doing anything next to my musicactivities. I used to do many jobs next to it, from bartender to working in coffeeshops. I got really tired of all that and don't feel like working in places like that no more for shitmoney and working your ass off.Right now I try to live of what I make as a dj, which is not always easy, but at least satisfying. Further on I am busy with Mind Funk, a party and musicconcept I am slowly putting together with 2 amazing friends here in Amsterdam, it evolves slowly, but surely. We wanna give it time and do it properly, the idea is to make something different happen at parties and really make the roof go off and make people feel good and treated well. We also have the idea to start in international artist-database, in which people will be able to log into and check all sorts of artists, from firejugglers, to trapezeacts, to dj's and vj's, lightjockey's, steltwalkers and so on. Next to that Nikos/Arara, one of my partners and me try to get booked as much as possible to spread our message of partying hard by playing descent strong psy/progressive trancesets. And next to all this I just started producing my first track...and more are definitely coming I'm sure. how did you come to music, did you play other instruments/music before you came to psytrance?
what is your style, how and when did you come to trancemusic, to producing, Well, I would personally say that I play descent asskicking buttwigglin' psychedelic tunes, that would be my definition. The way I got into it all, well, this is thanks to this wheelchairdude and his brother...also in a wheelchair. The got me into the whole partything seriously. We used to do parties together as MBD System in the north of Holland. Just a bit later, about half a year I think, I walked into some other people, I was doing Kung Fu with one of 'em for a while and he told me one day they were doing parties as well and I should come by. That was the first time I really got introduced with what people called the "Goa-sound". Slowly from there I got totally triggered with all the mental frequencies and sounds used in this music. I really loved deep tribal and psy-techno at the time, also alot of Acidtrance, but this new thing...really got me by the balls. I started looking everywhere for these tunes, but to be honest....I could hardly find any. One of the firs at the time was Overlords-Sun Down, but it was very rare for this kind of music to come out on vinyl. Those new freinds of mine all played these funny dat-machines...and you couldn't find one track of what they played....it drove me insane...haha! So..decided to buy a DAT as well and started collecting "hard-to-get-stuff" as well, next to buying vinyl, that slowly started to come out around '92...'93, with the first Dragonfly tunes and some MWNN here and there. If you compare that with nowadays and how much music is being released now, than you can for sure say this whole thing turned into a big moneymaking businessmachine, but more about that later. So basically, thanks to these travelling maniacs, called the Cosmic Warriors, partly living in the north of Holland, I am where I am now and I say Bom Shankar to my brothers for that, they know who they are. Also thanks to all these guys I got my first gigs and the chance to show my love for this music to an audience. what is going on in your local scene? At the moment, I think the scene in Amsterdam is very healthy and alive, compared to the last 4 or 5 years, though there is still to much ego and competition and distrust going on. The typical thing in this city I see, is that people never really join eachother. There is always one group succesfull for a few years...mostly not open to collaborate truly with others, 'cause they are at the top allready, so why should they?(arrogance..I think.) and then the rest starting to backstab and complain about it, without showing the right example. Of course we all have that tendency now and then, we're all human after all, but this has been killing the scene for many years here, at least in my eyes. Right now, there is a lot more coorporation and I see a lot of fresh new people with good input. A lot of the old "elite" disappeared and I'm happy about it. There are quite a few groups doing parties, of which Empathy and 9 Lifes of Hofmann the most frequent, but not the best in my eyes. To be honest, I love the parties in Amsterdam for it's cozyness and the liberty you feel there, no paranoia about smoking a spliff or so, so it's all very shanti...but a bit to much for me now and then. I miss good dj's and live-acts. Mostly it's the same bunch of friends and a cliche live-act like Space Tribe or Sun Projekt...but of course that is all a matter of taste as well, so not for me to judge about, but still....I have the right to have my taste, and I simply don't get satisfied in this city to much. There are some good asskicking dj's here. My respect goes out to guys like Zen & Ocean from Psykick Prod., Danyel and Manuel from Uphonic Recs. and my partner Nikos, who for me is the most promising talent in Holland right now. He simply kicks ass...!!! And of course our local favourite psywarrior La Nebuleuse, who I simply love for his devotion and love for this music and it's message...and for the balls he has to still promote mental psytrance.
what do you think about our scene and where do you think are we going to? To be honest, I wouldn't have a clue, but I have good hope for this music. I don't know where it will head in directions of it getting really big and being the ultimate sort of music for people on earth, to be honest....I don't think so. There is still to much thinking amongs us humans like "us & them". There are still to many people in our scene pretending to be something special, more than others, just 'cause they know a little secret. I am happy to see how psytrance and the progressive side of things melted together and also a lot of breakbeat/jungle and techno-influences fused with psytrance lately, that more barriers are being broken down and people meet again with different musical backgrounds. It has been to long all devided in "Goa", "Techno", "Breakbeat" and all that. I do believe we need it now and then to know what we are talking about, but I don't like people being stuck and only liking "their thing" and to hate what others do. To many people in our scene have been behaving like they are some sort of Gods...knowing what it is all about, just 'cause your silly ass has been down in Goa, they saw the "real thing" and had some mindexpanding experiences on some sort of drug. We are all humans or at least something like it and all have the same value. Some people might be unknowing, but isn't it the task of the ones who do know....to help and show the right way? Instead of sitting high on the mountain and smoking chillums all day....pretending to know all, but not share knowledge with love? And oh my God...if you dared to pass the chillum with your left hand....you were about to get chopped in bits and pieces....haha! To much for me and I'm glad to see it changed, though I don't like the new trend either...and this is to call everybody liking psy/goatrance a "fucking-got-stuck-hippy". Like I said...we are all of the same value. Musicwise....this scene will only develope more and more I think. The quality of production will only increase, 'cause technically things advance so intensely quick right now. Anything impossible a few years ago, you can do with the slightest bit of effort nowadays. All the programs being invented for making music, all the dj-gear and equipment for musicians....it's unstoppable I think and I see great future developments in it. what are your releases/events until now? Well, to be honest, I have been freaking a bit here and there in studios of friends, I got invited by quite a lot of people, also really good artists to come and work with them....but so far never really finished anything. I always knew I wanted to focus on my playing and to get known for doing that with alot of positive input and playing killersets. Besides that, only lately I feel it is possible for me to do both, since they both cost a lot of money, but now with all the possibilities to make music, without having to buy a million dollar studion straight away...it's all a lot more in reach. I am slowly planning to build up a studio with my partner Nikos. We got the first gear for it and when he's moving in with me, things will probably take off soon. Apart from this, I have finally managed to get a first track done, though some minor adjustments might still be done afterwards. It's a projekt with a dear friend in Berlin, named HighKo(Heiko) and we just simply decided to make a track. It worked out pretty well for a first one. I don't know what else will come, but also him and me plan to do some more for the future....it's seriously itching now. About some gigs/events I played, I did a 2-year residency in Trance Buddha in Amsterdam, played for Adodisc and 3rd Mind Records, played for Mushroom, Empathy, D.O.P., Earthdance,Mind Funk..all of these in Amsterdam, Antaris Projekt '99, '00, '01, NYE in Mexico this year and in Bali 2 years ago. Many parties in clubs or small underground places from Natraj Temple in Munich, to Atisha & Juiceclub in Hamburg , Que Club and Subway City in Birmingham for Spacehopper. Trancemission in Leicester. Space Family in Nurnberg, Goat Ranch, Psybration and Senseblender in Belgium, Athom in Copenhagen, Friends, lovers and family in Israel, Pfefferberg and Insel der Jugend in Berlin, RTTS' 5th Anniversairy in Germany-Open Air and many others...
Right now I might go to Israel to play this weekend, but it's all a bit risky right now and the organizer, a good friend, wants to make sure it's all safe and right now he's not sure, so I don't know right now. Further I got some nice gigs in Hamburg and Berlin coming up and and lotsof interest from the UK, though nothing is sure yet,there are some things hanging in the air direction London, Birmingham, Leicester and Liverpool, but it's all taking time. Patience is a nessecairy good in this business....and friends !!! Also there is a plan to make a big party in co-production with a new Swedish label called Psyforce and their friends here in Amsterdam, known as Psychedelic Sceneries....and some other smaller Mind Funk thingies happening. what was the best, funniest, strangest or ugliest experience in your carreer?
Love and light, Gosse/Shawnodese Interview by Frank Frehse |
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