Zwaan

Pieter (Zwaan) was born the 24th of July 1991, and was raised in a suburban village just outside of Amsterdam. At age fourteen he fell in love with the psychedelic tunes from the likes of Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin), Frank Zappa and Pink Floyd. Happy as only a small child can be he got his first guitar soon after. After a period of extensive jamming and practicing his guitar skills on their classic tunes a musical friend introduced him to a new kind of music. Still not techno though… It was jazz! This led to many happy discoveries from this interesting musical realm and even almost turned out in a life dedicated to become a jazz guitarist. As you can see, electronic music just wasn’t much on his mind during his early teens; except maybe maybe for the epic remix ‘Sky Was Pink’ by James Holden (known for also attracting rockers), which he just couldn’t resist because of his firm love for psychedelics. Despite that sweet record, he was disappointed at first when he looked up more electronic music. This was because of the seemingly (!) simple and repetitive character so characteristic for electronic music. Off course, this repetitiveness is also electronic music’s power, but sitting behind his computer with poor speakers and without a nice clubby environment the music just wasn’t able to find its way through yet (besides who knows, he may just have stumbled upon some corny trance crap). How a surprise this all changed during his study in Amsterdam where he could witness the true power of electronic music in action. Electronic music after all is a body thing, and to see electronic music without people dancing would be like a fire without wood to make it burn. Discovering artists like Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Trentemøller, Max Cooper and Arjuna Schiks made him realise that good electronic music has massive feel to it, and sort of is the rock ‘n roll of our present. And he’d better be part of this and fast! An unstoppable urge to produce music surfaced and within days an interest evolved into an addiction. With quite a bit of the musical spectrum discovered (although never enough!) Zwaan now seeks to produce music that has feeling, will make you dance, but most important, will take his listeners to a world where only his mind will define any boundaries!