Sasha Renkas ‘Safe Place’
(ambient pop album)


Betonkust ‘Concrete Coast’
(electronic goth pop album)


Palmbomen II ‘Make A Film’ 
(new age film compositions)


Cindy ’I’m Cindy’
(shoegaze italo album)

 

Antenna ‘Quiet fx’
(ukranian soft house album)

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Solo album by Betonkust (Dutch for Concrete Coast). The vinyl comes with a booklet containing drum patterns used on the album, together with a download link of the original samples that you can use for your own music. This record includes a Bandcamp download code for the digital files.

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Betonkust ‘Concrete Coast’ is distributed worldwide by Clone and available digitally through our Bandcamp page.






I was born in Utrecht (1988). I grew up in a very small town somewhere between Amsterdam, Utrecht, and Hilversum. The so-called 'green heart' of the Netherlands. That means there's lots of nature. It was very boring and/or normal. A typical Dutch 1990s upbringing.

I've been listening to house music for as long as I can remember. On cassette tapes, on the radio, it was everywhere. Now I live in Rotterdam and there's a lot going on, mainly in the area of electronic music. There is Operator Radio, Clone, Pinkman, etc. Most of my friends are involved in music in some way.

The older I get the less I care about gear. I didn't use any expensive or exotic stuff. Korg Electribes (both the sampler and the synth), Korg M1, some Boss effects pedals, a cheap mixer, a Shure SM57 mic, a cheap guitar. For this album everything was recorded in FL Studio.

Some tracks on the album started like five years ago with a melody and slowly developed into a full song. Other songs were made one month before mastering. It really depends. But most of the work was done in 2020 and 2021.

I think most of this album is about transience, giving up, the infinite sadness of humanity.

photos by Kai Hugo & Robert Chapman
Mark

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