Broadtube July Music Contestant
Enpierre – Buckle Up Sailor
ARTIST NAME: EnPierre
SONG TITLE: Buckle Up Sailor
ALBUM TITLE: Buckle Up Sailor
RELEASE DATE: February 2018
GENRE: Deep House
Enpierre – Buckle Up Sailor
I am a creator, composer, producer and arranger in movie, ambient and deep house. And I play some Saxophone…
Enpierre (Peter Heuvelman), the Dutch-bred solo artist born in Gouda, became interested in computers and composing music with FastTracker in the late 90’s. Influenced by bands like Boards of Canada, Underworld, Orbital, Massive Attack, Röyksopp, and later Bob Moses and Moderat, his creations fall mostly within the realm of ambient and deep house.
Tell us your favourite instruments.
My favorites are the Saxophone, Guitar and Piano. But my MacBook is my biggest companion in the making of music.
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List the names of those supporting you.
My girl Angela and my best friends who are always prepared to listen to my creation.
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Tell us your preferred musical styles.
Ambient and Deep House.
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List the name of five artists that have influenced you.
Boards of Canada, Underworld, Moderat, Massive Attack, Röyksopp and Bob Moses.
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Tell us if you smoke and drink alcohol.
I smoke WHEN I drink alcohol. 🙂
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Tell us your musical experience.
Self-learned; I did have a good saxophone teacher!
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Discuss live instruments for recording in the studio.
I use a Yamaha Saxophone with instrument, microphone and an electric guitar plugged in to Guitar Rig.
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Discuss your songwriting.
I just start creating and see what works and what not.
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Tell us your plans in terms of your music career.
I want to do live performances within two years and plan to release a song at least every month.
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Discuss your song and album.
I like long dark synth’s like these and love to go to Digital events on NDSM in Amsterdam the Netherlands. In my creation I always try and create this raw industrial sound.
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Tell us what fans are saying on your music.
They like it.
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Elaborate on your music project.
“Buckle Up Sailor” is made when I visited ADE in Amsterdam. This was an event in ‘de scheepsbouw’ on the NDSM. This is an old Shipwarf. When I came back home I wanted to create something similar to what I heard and experienced there.
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Discuss multi-genre and switching from one genre to another.
I switch predominantly between Deep House and Ambient. I also like the Nu Disco genre a lot. I always start making a song and then see in which genre it fits. I am not bound to genre.
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Explain the title of the song.
Buckle Up Sailor @…. is something that a friend of mine uses as an email address. It always stuck with me, so I decided to use it as a title.
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State the reason you are into music.
I BREATHE music. Whenever and wherever I am; I always want to play tunes or decide what’s on (to the annoyance of others sometimes), I recently decided that music will be something I will be doing full time.
