Human Beings
2,640 plays (871 listeners)
Utrecht, Netherlands (1991 – 2005)
Human Beings started in 1991, the early days of Techno in The Netherlands when Bert van de Grift met Allert Aalders at Utrecht, NL’s club Ekko.
Working in the studio and doing ad-hoc live techno shows with Peter Knijnenburg they slowly started to gain a reputation for their live sets. After some intense encouragement by local DJ’s Marcel Mertens and Luc Bakker records were released, first on See Saw and later on Deviate records.
Peter Knijnenburg had to leave to become a computational science specialist so Mark Ripmeester (ex Sunshower, It’s Thinking) was asked to join.
At the end of 1994 this resulted in higher profile gigs and some more records.
At the start of 1995 Human Beings are just Allert and Bert and the Noorderslag festival kicks of a busy year with two albums, a couple of 12”es, a tour with Speedy J and Sensurreal and a gig in Prague.
More (ao interactive) gigs in 1996 and in 1997 a VJ-Live techno Visual experience called “God Less America” with video by Oscar Luyer and Boris Evers shocks the dutch stages.
1998 this idea is carried further in “Club Voyeur” which premieres at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
After this, Allert starts a job as an sound engineer in Utrecht’s Tivoli and for various national and international acts while Bert starts a career as Java programmer.
Just when the two start planning making music again Bert van de Grift dies in 2005.
He will be very sorely missed by many. To make things even sadder, old compadre Peter Knijnenburg also passes away, in 2007.
Working in the studio and doing ad-hoc live techno shows with Peter Knijnenburg they slowly started to gain a reputation for their live sets. After some intense encouragement by local DJ’s Marcel Mertens and Luc Bakker records were released, first on See Saw and later on Deviate records.
Peter Knijnenburg had to leave to become a computational science specialist so Mark Ripmeester (ex Sunshower, It’s Thinking) was asked to join.
At the end of 1994 this resulted in higher profile gigs and some more records.
At the start of 1995 Human Beings are just Allert and Bert and the Noorderslag festival kicks of a busy year with two albums, a couple of 12”es, a tour with Speedy J and Sensurreal and a gig in Prague.
More (ao interactive) gigs in 1996 and in 1997 a VJ-Live techno Visual experience called “God Less America” with video by Oscar Luyer and Boris Evers shocks the dutch stages.
1998 this idea is carried further in “Club Voyeur” which premieres at the Rotterdam Film Festival.
After this, Allert starts a job as an sound engineer in Utrecht’s Tivoli and for various national and international acts while Bert starts a career as Java programmer.
Just when the two start planning making music again Bert van de Grift dies in 2005.
He will be very sorely missed by many. To make things even sadder, old compadre Peter Knijnenburg also passes away, in 2007.
Top Albums
Shoutbox
-
Stalker37 wrote:
Excellent!! Seaquence Is AWESOME!!!
-
Passetti wrote:
Ook suf, van die 128 kb. Maar evengoed leuk om ze weer te horen!
-
allert wrote:
Turns out downloads on last.fm are mp3 128 Kb only. Too bad. Then again, I just added some more tracks and changed some titles to distinguish between different verions of tracks. Enjoy !
-
allert wrote:
I'm trying to upgrade all the available tracks to .WAV but there seems to be a snag somewhere. Please be patient while I sort this out with last.fm. More tracks will follow, as well as some unreleased stuff ! Cheers, Allert - Human Beings
-
acidpolka wrote:
1995 Lowlands staat nog in mijn geheugen... eerste kennismaking met dance en meteen goed raak
Featured Tracks
 |
Free MP3 Everblast | 8:13 |
|
|
Free MP3 The Matrix | 6:30 |
|
|
Free MP3 The Pattern | 14:16 |
Listeners
-
gsdali
Top Listener
-
CosMcMillin
Top Listener
-
aline_putnoki
Top Listener
-
Wouse
Top Listener
-
MakotoTheKnight
Top Listener
-
cinchel
Top Listener
Recent Activity
-
rklcarter, wandaberger, eendenregen and 2 other people added Human Beings to their libraries. September 2009
-
onno added Human Beings to the lineup of Metropolis at Zuiderpark. June 2009
-
benbakai, dj1mlander, bananeman and 1 other person added Human Beings to their libraries. February 2009
Related Journals
-
The Matrix
by allert |
23 Mar 2008 | 1 comment
-
More Human Beings
by allert |
21 Mar 2008 | 1 comment
-
Human Beings tracks online
by allert |
21 Jan 2008 | 2 comments
More Information
- Links
- Band Members
