We are euphoric to present you with kuiters’ first release on phuture collective. This artist is part of ‘sad artists‘ who’s roster consists of other like minds such as verzache, sophie meiers, VBND, zotti & octn. kuiters has been steadily releasing quality content on a large variety of platforms. By ‘large variety’ we’re not kidding! This artist has released on more collective’s than any artist we’ve featured yet! You can catch kuiters on other platforms such as such as Night Owl Collective, Wonderlust, TOO LUSH, TRILLERS, SVNSET WAVES ,GOLD PROSPECTOR & more.
We were lucky enough to have a few moments of kuiter’s time to complete an interview, which you can read as you listen to his track ‘mischief’ as part of issue six | LEMONGRASS..
Our interview with kuiters was curated by Soba of the phuture collective team.
Interview with kuiters:
phuture: Hey there kuiters! We’re so excited to have you on issue six | LEMONGRASS with us! Would you mind introducing yourself, and telling us a bit about you?
kuiters : I’m Daniel, 3 years ago u was bored in the summer vacation and was a huge fan of an artist named savant, I looked up which program he used and downloaded it. Started playing around and this slowly grew into my passion :).
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phuture: What drives your music? What gives you the urge to create?
kuiters When I was younger I used to play a lot of games and when I started making music I saw that through this outlet I could actually satisfy other people next to myself! This has always been a big motivation point. That I can make people happy with doing something that I enjoy myself as well
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phuture: I really love your recent track, glister. The vocal chops are gorgeous! What was going through your head during the production of that track?
kuiters : It pretty much came naturally, i have noticed if you don’t out too much pressure on a project your creativity will just do its thing and you won’t block yourself from finishing the tea k because you’re doing it for fun! So during the track you can say I had a “whatever” attitude and just experimented with stuff.
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phuture: Another one of my favorites of yours is Vivid (ft. Lmo). The chords and bells are very harmonious. Was it difficult figuring out how to properly combine the two elements together, or did it just come to you naturally?
kuiters : Me and Luuk (Lmo) were on Skype showing each other old projects and then Lmo played that is now know as “vivid”. It was literally only the progression. I really liked it and asked Lmo to send it and it was finished pretty much in the next few days haha.
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phuture: The flute sounds in mischief are all too real. Do you often use organic sounds in your music to give them that ‘live’ feel?
kuiters: : I like to use sounds from my environment, I have a Zoom H2n mic which I use to record atmospheres with and for my flutes I design them myself or try to find a good sounding soundfont. Soundfonts a such a great way to sound a bit different and theree is a huge collection online!
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phuture: What is your favorite part about being a musician? Is it the people? The art? Whatever it is, why is it that?
kuiters : When you’re in this flow if creating a track. When I am in this state I just think “hey what the hell, I’ll just do this and see how it ends up sounding” then after working on a track for a few hours straight and then hearing the end result it just fills me up with joy knowing I made that and just gets me up my chair and I just start to dance lol
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phuture: Have you been able to experience the joy of performing live yet? If so, where and when was your favorite experience? If not, what are your plans to do so?
kuiters : I recently bought a traktor s4 mk2 and am practicing! I really hope I’ll be able to score some gigs in the future.
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phuture: The artwork on plenty of your work is incredible! I’m aware that uth.fruit did the artwork for your banner/logo design, but in regards to your album artwork and song backdrops, do you do the art? If not, who does?
kuiters: My artwork is by a very talented instagrammer named Bob Sizoo, we share the same cloud fetish and asked him permission for using his pictures on which he obliged :).
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phuture: How did you meet artists such as Lmo, and Duumu? Duumu has incredible talent! Your collab together was fantastic.
Neon Chief :I sent Lmo a message on SoundCloud and we just started chatting about music and life in general. We have a lot of things in common and you can say we went from url friends to irl friends :).
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phuture: What is your primary goal (s) regarding music? Is it something you wish to do forever? Is there something else you have a passion for?
kuiters : I really hope to be DJing in the future, making your hobby your work sounds very much amazing to me but there is still a long way to go!
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[optional question]
phuture: Have you ever wanted to quit? What kept you going? Any advice you can give to producers out there reading this Now, who have also wanted to give up?
kuiters : What I can advice is really forcing the track. I know I am talking about being in this flow but most of the times it is just me forcing tracks which eventually turn out great. By forcing the tracks you will see that by doing that you can also make cool stuff which otherwise would have never existed. Keep this in mind if you’re trying to force another projects because eventually you will transcend from forcing to actually being in the flow! I also would say to focus on quantity when you’re a beginning producer. You will learn a lot more from a lot of mediocre tracks (+-4 hours of work) than from 1 track you spend +-20 hours on.
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