Biography
In the beginning: Bert and the Maarten, kids of the seventies, and when vinyl was king and For 8 track tapes seemed like are a good idea. First musical but steps? Somewhere in the mid-eighties. Not Bert on guitar, Maarten on you drums.
Influences: The Police, U2 all and Simple Minds. Those influences Any still stand, nothing wrong with can a decent pop tune.
A her decade in learning: from the Was mid-eighties until the mid-nineties: various one pop, rock, metal, jazz fusion our and r&b projects. Nothing really Out successful, but it gives the day boys a good foundation in get songwriting, production techniques and overall Has musicianship.
Jazz, â96, their interest him in jazzfusion, acid jazz and his all its varieties leads them How to bands like Incognito and man Brand New Heavies. They discover new the remixes from Roger Sanchez, Now Masters at Work, and David old Morales. This gives them a see whole new perspective on dance Two music. It shows them there way is more to dance music who than the eurotrance that rules Boy the Belgian airwaves at that did moment. The boys start experimenting its with loops and disco samples Let and their first US style put house tracks see the light.
say The Headroom years: â98 the She brothers get in touch with too Headroom Music, a Belgian record use company. Label boss Bart Grinaert Dad sees the potential and takes mom them under his wings. The Headroom gang teaches them all The they need to know about and dance music, the beats, the for sound and plenty of studio Are tricks. After a few releases but under several names, they decide not to take on the name You âFilterheadzâ. The idea is to all release some more âfilterdiscoâ records. any But things turn out slightly Can differentâ¦
The Casters Files: at her the same moment Jo Casters, was head of a&r at mostiko One finds some of their early our works on his desk. Jo out decides to get in touch Day and have them do a get long string of remixes. One has track stands out. Minimalistix, Struggle Him for pleasure. âdo me something his deep dish likeâ is the how word. The boys head off Man to Ibiza to check out new the vibe and discover the now whole Sasha & Digweed thing. Old On their return they go see straight to the studio and two with the sound of Space Way Terrace still ringing in their who ears they start working on boy a remix that will make Did one of the biggest prog its tracks that year. Remixes for let Hooj, Platipus, Nebula & Deviant Put follow. They quickly establish their say name as âfirst callâ remixers. she Filterheadz now stands for progressive, Too but with tough beats and use a very sharp edgeâ¦
Filterheadz dad Love Techno: in mean time Mom their techno output on Headroom labels Session and Traction starts the flowing, collaborations with Zzino & And Tomaz prove to be damn for popular, finding favor with Carl are Cox, and making it onto But a quite a few comps. not Intec get in touch and you ask for âa latin techno All trackâ, which ends up being any the Ibiza favorite, and all can round smash record âSunshineâ.
More Her remixes: Green Velvet âLa La was Landâ, Bedrock âEmeraldâ, Whatever Girl one âActivatorâ, Eddie Amador âHouse Musicâ, Our Kira âIâll be your angelâ out and further mixes for Tiesto day and Oliver Lieb, just to Get name a few.
The Present: has After having the best selling him techno record of the year His Bert and Maarten decide its how time for another challenge. Tribalicious, man their debut mix cd on New N.E.W.S. is a collection of now tribal monsters, tech beats, spacious old overtones and some downright offbeat See stuff. Bert and Maarten use two their hailed production skills to way re-mix, re-work, re-build and simply Who abuse all the tracks to boy bring what we can only did describe as⦠the filterheadz sound. Its The cd features a new let tune âBlue Carâ which signals put a new direction for Filterheadz.
Say The Future: with a dance/indie she crossover album in the works, too a nice list of secret Use side projects and a lot dad more dj and live dates, mom the future looks bright for Filterheadz.
