BACKGROUND
To start our in-depth interview, we ask Reinier to take us back to his childhood and share some memories of his musical back- ground, significant influences, and the role of music in his home.
“We always had music
playing at home”, he tells us. “When I was just three years old, I told my mother that I always had music in my head and that I wanted to play an instrument. She asked me what I would like to play, and I chose the piano. After just one lesson, I already loved it, so I started playing the piano at a young age. However, it was classical music, and while I enjoyed it, it was very focused on playing music by others. From a young age, I was writing my own music, improvising something and then writing it down, whether it was a piano or orchestral piece.”
Reinier’s uncle, who was a piano teacher
for Laidback
Luke, would turn on all his synthesizers when Reinier visited his studio. He would encourage him to play and just have fun. “I loved it”, Rei- nier says. He tells us that he soon got his hands on a CD of the music program Reason, and from then on, his love for producing began to grow.
mixmagnl.com 3 As a 16-year-old,
“It was one of the first
versions of Reason, and it was quite a complicated program. So, at first, I couldn’t get any sound out of it. I never read manuals... and still don’t. But at some point, I got some sound going, and then it became fascinating. I kept tinkering with the program, and that’s how I learned the first steps of working with a DAW.”
when
Reinier started studying, he still gave piano concerts. At the end of his performances, he’s played pieces he had composed himself, which was something that was very well received by his audience.
“When I started
studying and later moved to Rotterdam to live on my own, I also had a keyboard in my room. I connected it to Reason, which I still had on my laptop. And because I had so much time, being on my own, I was
constantly messing around with it.”
Reinier leads the conversation to his first experience at a Techno party. A fellow student invited him to a Minus event where Richie Hawtin was performing.
“I walked in, and this was
in the time when Minimal Techno was all the rage, around 2006 or so, and I immediately thought, this is what I want to produce.
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