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Take me back to the moon...

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 12:31:00 +0000

Let's call this future garage? There's a piano, syncopated rhythms, beat-skipping kick drums and spaced out vocal samples.
Lunova Labs (USA) made this release purposefully for the Silenced netlabel. It was inspired by a philosophical movement, called transcendentalism, which developed in the 19th century. Among the transcendentalists' core beliefs was the inherent goodness of both man and nature. Transcendentalists believed that society and its institutions - particularly organized religion and political parties - ultimately corrupted the purity of the individual. They had faith that man is at his best when truly "self-reliant" and independent. Each song is titled off of a piece of work written by some of the leading figures of the movement.
The album breaths spirituality and mystery. I dare you to hit the repeat button. You'll find yourself back on the moon.

HAVE A LISTEN
DOWNLOAD ALBUM

[shhht_13] by lunova labs

Great start for Great skies

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:44:00 +0000

The new album got picked up right away on several international blog spots!
A few quotes:
"Wow! I’ll say that again. Wow! Very nice piece indeed!"
"Great Skies has had some strong releases this year" :)
"If you like downtempo spiced with some nice beats, you should definitely check this release out."
"A blissful world of lush soundscapes and graceful downtempo, which he pairs with just the right amount of UK post-everything sensibilities."
"The Ghosts Follow Us is my jam. I love it!"
"Thanks for the free download, I love all your stuff!"
"Nothing warms up my ego-based understanding of a song than a mood setting speech."

Many thanks to the following blogs: dingus, deepgoa, the sound they make, mapzzz, netlabelism

I'm so high

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 07:56:00 +0000

This London based producer made me high on melodies. Matthew Wells aka "Great Skies" is only 20 years old and already reinvented the wheel. We've all been there, lost in a landscape of down-tempo beverages. This time however, the ghosts follow us, while we drift through a repetitive environment fueled by spicy beats.
It's as easy and catchy as it is complex and subtle. I'd like it to be played in clubs, on the road and in my living room. Keep an eye on the horizon as we watch out for Great Skies.

HAVE A LISTEN
DOWNLOAD ALBUM

[shhht_12] by great skies

You want this

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:45:00 +0000

A jawdropping three-tracker from this Belgian artist. You'll be chilling out, while subtle synths and sneaky basslines close in on you. Once intoxicated, there is no way back. It's life on a road of mellow melodies and crispy claps. Walk with us.

A few words from our friends:
Paul Hazendonk "Good stuff. 'Guide' is my favorite"
Astor Bell "Lovely, as always"
Examine "Beautiful release, as expected from Silenced!"
Hermético "Awesome!!! I like it very much all tracks, clean sound!! Keep on good work!!!"
Stoika "Mooi album! heel proper geproduced, shone sound.. zeker Simulnation vind ik echt vet! Thumbs up!"

[shhht_11] by silenced

Free music for the world: round 10

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Thu, 12 May 2011 11:23:00 +0000

We celebrate our tenth release by sharing the best submissions of our recent remix contest . Six versatile tracks bridging musical territories ranging from stripped minimalistic reinterpretations towards more upfront roughness. Big up for Stoika, Donk Boys, Dadive, Dektro, Alectroid and Chateaubriand, now all immortalized in the Silenced netcatalog.

HAVE A LISTEN
DOWNLOAD ALBUM

CD for sale (very limited edition):
A combination of hand labor and lasercutting made this unique cover design possible. Have a listen online and get your hands on this collectors item. Order your physical copy through mail: info@silenced.be

Virus @ Silo

noreply@blogger.com (raphael klaps) — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 14:31:00 +0000

No Silence @ Silo this year...
But please support Virus @ Silo, also an event organised by Silenced but with a slightly different line-up.

Friday april 8th

VIRUS @ SILO

LINE-UP:

BUNZERO
TITLE dj set
STOIKA live
STAVROZ
NASA
RAPHAEL KLAPS
BAGHEERA
DABP
KILBI
RORSCHACH
BJEOR

Checkout the facebook eventpage!

Winners Remix Contest

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:58:00 +0000

Sorry for the delay boys!
Tough decisions had to be made, chewing through tracks and discussing styles and techniques. We finally managed to make up our minds after consulting the artists who made the original tracks. So, without further ado, here are our favorite remixers, to be featured on the up and coming shhht_10 netlabel release:

Andre Lanine (BE)
Chateaubriand (FR)
Dadive (CH)
Dektro (BE)
Donk Boys (SE)
Stoika (BE)

Congratulations! We'll be sending your tracks to the mastering service and prepare some kick-ass artwork!
So many thanks to all the participators. Hopefully nobody got discouraged and we hope you'll keep finding inspiration in the samples that were handed out.

Organic Music by Raphael Klaps

noreply@blogger.com (raphael klaps) — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 17:18:00 +0000

It's been a long time, but Silenced resident Raphael Klaps uploaded a new mix on his Mixcloud.

"I've recorded this mix for a local radio show on Radio Scorpio called Club 106. It's easy listening music, or how I loke to call it, Organic Music" - Raphael Klaps

Enjoy !

Organic Music (Club 106 24/02) by Raphael Klaps on Mixcloud

Silent Society 04/03/2011

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:01:00 +0000

Your local basement house & techno party.
///EKLEKTIKER (Feiern, Technoir)
///PREACHERMAN (Thursday's at apero)
///PILSNER (Silenced)
///BJEOR

FACEBOOK
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D-Day

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:28:00 +0000

We are closing the remix contest.
Thank you so much for your submissions. What a great experience to hear so many interesting interpretations of our loops. I guess there's truly no limit on creativity and unicity when it comes to music. The tracks we like best will be featured on the upcoming netlabel release shhht_10. It's gonna be... w o w

More news to come
Thank you!

24 minutes before d-day

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:14:00 +0000

or was it 24 hours? Not sure...

News from the remixing front!
The first brave soldiers have joined the army ranks. Reporting for duty:
donk boys
malice
john ming
dadive
djunasaurus
mike dereyen
sergio gusto
seth b
mystified

They already built their shelter, added some reverb and delays, escorted travelers, rearranged some strings, wobbled a bunch of massive basslines and gave police assistance to the weak civil authorities on the frontier. Nice work!
Now we need you. Pick up your fighting instruments and finish your remix before...the deadline...the 15th of february... in 24 days!

www.silenced.be/remix.html

Bug Fix

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:28:00 +0000

Some of you might have noticed two sample-packs were missing in the remix competition. The loops for "pp final" and "follow me" were temporarily unavailable. They are back up again, so head back to silenced.be/remix.html and get your remix on!

Good things come in twos!

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:17:00 +0000

That's why we are launching 2 contests at once. So tell us, what do you want?
Do you want to release your music on the Silenced netlabel? > remix contest

Or do you want to play on our virus party at Silo? > virus contest
Both competitions close on the 15th of February. Get busy!

Mitelec invites Silenced

noreply@blogger.com (raphael klaps) — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:40:00 +0000

Saturday the 27th of november, Mitelec invites Silenced. Join us to this party, I'm sure it will give firework!

Veebo ( live ) ( usa import )
Raphael Klaps ( silenced )
Sebastian Häld ( silenced )
+ come early to enjoy a special surprise act

more info :
www.mitelec.be
www.silenced.be
or take a visit at the fb eventpage!

Silenced Dropbox

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:50:00 +0000

Hellow boys and girls,
We are about to open the gates for your demo's. The proper means to do so nowadays seems to be the Souncloud Dropbox. So we're going to run a test now.
This is a direct link and that is a button:

Send me your sounds
More info on why you'll want to send us your demo?
I bet you can't wait to find out... :-)

Free music from Leuven

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 07:29:00 +0000

Stoika [shhht_09]

Leuven-locals Stoika contribute to our Silenced net-catalogue with four rather short takes of pure love bubbles, indulging us with reminiscence of the Berlin electro wave from a couple of years ago with breakthrough music from the bPitch-label. But it's clearly not yesterday's dish served today as guttering basslines, lush synths and dub-influenced textures work their way through the tracks, keeping things crispy and fresh. Stoika is a keeper, and we're glad to have them around.

Listen or Download it here
Direct link to .zip file

SILENT SOCIETY @ KELDERKE ABDIJ VLIERBEEK

noreply@blogger.com (raphael klaps) — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:33:00 +0000

Voor dit zomers Silenced feest palmen we de Abdij van Vlierbeek in. Voor de rest blijft het Silenced recept ongewijzigd: een vette soundsystem, strakke visuals en rollende beats!
Naast enkele resident zijn er ook nog twee guest dj's die we hebben uitgendigd, meer hierover binnenkort...

+++LINE-UP+++

Silenced resident dj's

///PILSNER
soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/pilsner

///DAN DROFF
soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/dandroff

///RAPHAEL KLAPS
soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/raphaelklaps

///SEBASTIAN HÄLD
soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/sebastianhald

+ guests tba...

hoe er te geraken
-------------------------
met de auto:
Als je via de Diestsesteenweg komt (richting Diest) dien je enkel rechts af te slagen aan de Molenstraat (naast de Delhaize) en de straat helemaal te volgen tot het einde, daar bevindt zich de parking.

Als je via de autosnelweg komt is het het gemakkelijkst als je Leuven binnenrijdt via afrit 20 van de E40. Daarna Eénmeilaan -> Gemeentestraat -> Holsebeeksesteenweg -> Thomas Wilsonlaan -> Vlierbeeklaan -> Molenstraat.

met de trein/bus:
Leuven station ligt op 20 minuten wandelen van de abdij van Vlierbeek. Je kan ook de bus 2 "Kessel-Lo Hulsberg" nemen, zeg dan best even tegen de chauffeur dat je eraf moet aan de halte "Gemeenteplein". Van daar is het 5 minuten stappen naar de abdij.

Google Maps: http://bit.ly/bdwYb6

Free Music round 8

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:03:00 +0000

Astor Remix [shhht_08]

Our eighth output features remixes made for the Stockholm-based Astor Bell netlabel. Three completely different sounding tracks but they all reach common ground in the land of warm melodies. Varying from slow paced, grinding minimalism from Dan Droff, a time-liquifying approach from Examine to the more dancefloor oriented Damohl33 remix. Grab your free intangible goods right here, in return for just a click they're all yours once again.

Download it here
Direct link to .zip file

Silent Society at Apéro

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 16:35:00 +0000

Booooo Exams, Jeeej for Beer.
This saturday Silenced takes over Café Apéro. Let's hang out!

ARTISTS
Dan Droff - cello
Pilsner - classical M2 piano
Donnie - the flute

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Listen to our favorite set from 2010: Pilsner's February mix

Pilsner (februari '10) by Pilsner

Silent Society at Apéro

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:19:00 +0000

First of all, thank you everybody for a great silence at silo on the first of may. It felt like the crowd, the crew, the visual artists and the deejays were one big re-united family. Don't you just love families based on friendship, minimal music and excessive amounts of alcohol ?! We surely do!

Next up is another Silent Society at Apéro.
To us it'll be a perfect spot to recover from a solid Saturday night out. Maybe you've enjoyed James Holden at Silo or suffocated yourself at the fifth edition of the legendary Black Nostrils parties. Either way we should meet up on Sunday, kick back and relax to the sound of some easy listening minimal wobbles.
It's on a Sunday, because Monday is a holiday.

ARTISTS
Dan Droff- representing the st-maartens ghetto
Bjeor - a great talent we spotted first
Mike_E - dark and rrreally slow

LINKS
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Listen to some comfortable minimal wobbles by Dan Droff

Free Silo tickets for you and your 10 best friends!

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:25:00 +0000

Go to Silo Big-Pimpin'-Stylez with you and 10 of your friends on the guestlist!
Sounds pretty sweet right?
Now what the hell do you need to do to win?
It's easy. Let me break it down for you:

Go to the event page on facebook: Silence @ Silo
Click on "Invite people to come" or "Anderen uitnodigen".
Invite your 10 friends and take a screenshot.
Mail the screenshot to contest@silenced.be or post it on our wall.

You don't know how to make a screenshot?

PC windows: youtube explains
Apple mac: hold command and shift, press "3"

You don't have 10 friends?

HAHAAAA
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Here's an example screenshot:

shhht_07: The Brussels sprouts return

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:07:00 +0000

Eavesdrop [shhht_07]

The Brussels sprouts Eavesdrop caught some nice attention on the web with their shhht03, so they're back with more slices of their tribal infused tech-house. Two sweaty groovers for the spring! Everything free to grab, April fools not this time.

Download it here
Direct link to .zip file

Photo competition

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:21:00 +0000

Show some creativity and help us spread the "S".
Take the best picture, win and thou shall be rewarded:
Triumph, Eternal Glory, Silenced merchandise and Free tickets for our next party.

How do I get some?

Print the shape: link
Make the "S"
Use it to take an original wtf picture
Post the picture on our facebook wall.

The "S" is Back

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:40:00 +0000

Event on Resident Advisor
Event on Facebook
Event on Google Maps
Event on BIG ASS Message

Eavesdrop - Saana EP

noreply@blogger.com (Dan Droff) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:39:00 +0000

Last year Silenced was pleasantly surprised to discover a fresh belgian producers duo, called Eavesdrop. Meanwhile they released a free EP on Schwarzweissmusik, which is a wicked german netlabel .

Download the full release for free.
If you wanna see them "in the flesh", come check em out at our next event: Silent Society.

silenced

Take me back to the moon...

Great start for Great skies

I'm so high

You want this

Free music for the world: round 10

Virus @ Silo

BUNZERO TITLE dj set STOIKA live STAVROZ NASA RAPHAEL KLAPS BAGHEERA DABP KILBI RORSCHACH BJEOR

Winners Remix Contest

Organic Music by Raphael Klaps

Silent Society 04/03/2011

D-Day

24 minutes before d-day

Bug Fix

Good things come in twos!

Mitelec invites Silenced

Silenced Dropbox

Free music from Leuven

SILENT SOCIETY @ KELDERKE ABDIJ VLIERBEEK

Free Music round 8

Silent Society at Apéro

Silent Society at Apéro

Free Silo tickets for you and your 10 best friends!

shhht_07: The Brussels sprouts return

Photo competition

The "S" is Back

Eavesdrop - Saana EP

BUNZERO
TITLE dj set
STOIKA live
STAVROZ
NASA
RAPHAEL KLAPS
BAGHEERA
DABP
KILBI
RORSCHACH
BJEOR