Part of the upswell of highly skilled and uniquely voiced DJs in The Netherlands, Jasmin Hoek aka Jasmín, has solidified herself as a DJ for new generations. Not bogged down in DJ purism or genre-elitism but an avid musical explorer with a devout love for Missy Elliot. And then came the pandemic, bringing her rise […]
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What we talk about when we talk about ambient music is the feelings we lose because they’ve been filled by the sound. Like Artistotle posited, “nature abhors a vacuum”. There’s no room for empty space in the world, something always fills it in. At least that’s our idea of ambient music, the feeling of losing
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Torgue is our second longest running collaborator. We met at the RBMA workshop in Amsterdam that we did with Lakker back in 2016 and from there, it’s been a flourishing partnership steeped in big room techno. If you’ve been to a RE:VIVE workshop online or in-person over the past 5 years, you’ve met Torgue and
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Over the past decade, modern ambient music has risen astoundingly in popularity. Amsterdam’s role in this rise is undeniable. Label, Music From Memory resurfaced Italian ambient pianist Gigi Masin and released contemporaries like Terekke. Then there was the trio of Gaussian Curve featuring Masin, Young Marco and Jonny Nash. Nash, who released a full LP
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For the past 5 years, RE:VIVE has been curating sample packs. Full disclosure, when we started, we didn’t really know what we were doing. We just picked sounds based on themes, not always considering their musical or sonic qualities. But as we’ve worked with more and more artists, we’ve learned what makes sounds interesting and
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Spring is here and with it comes rain and storms (and a global pandemic). Some moody sounds for these moody times, we’ve put together a small sample pack of archival field recordings of rain and thunder. Lay them low in the mix for ambience and fluttery highs, isolate a thunder clap and…turn it into a
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On November 31, RE:VIVE and Rewire presented Resonance, a day and night investigating contemporary church music at the Stevenskerk in Nijmegen. We wrote about the event, “For almost two millennia, astounding and technically innovative musical performances have been staged in churches using one of the most complex instruments in the world, the organ, and one
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Yes, churches reverberate. The projection of sounds from quiet footsteps to a blaring organ never cease to amaze patrons who cross the threshold into these massive spaces of marble, stone, glass and wood. In your favorite DAW or VST there’s probably some cathedral or church emulation reverb that turns a whisper into a holy wash
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RE:VIVE has a history of liking it heavy. From Lakker’s Struggle & Emerge to the blistering techno appearing on our V/A – 010 compilation, sometimes the archival field recordings just lend themselves to blowing up a mix with blaring horns and sirens. For our Gabber Gabber Hey! Workshop at WORM in May 2019, we wanted
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For this sample pack we dig into the Allan Hancock Foundation Collection housed at the University of Southern California. George Allan Hancock was an oil baron in California which gave him plenty of wealth to donate to the University of Southern California where the Allan Hancock Foundation was formed in 1931. Keen on the cello,
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