FLORiS

You may know Floris Klinkert as one of the founders and coders of FabFilter Software Instruments, but he's also a successful artist and producer. Floris started making music around 1992, together with two of his best friends. This was the start of a short carreer in undergournd house music, with vinyl releases for Amsterdam based record labels as Outland, Spiritual, Work and Timeless Records. In 1996, one of his records (Groove Solution - "Magic Melody") hit the charts in Germany.

As his musical taste had always been very diverse, Floris started making more and more triphop/jazz/pop based songs. After signing with the Dutch indie record company United Recordings ( www.unitedrecordings.com ), he released his debut album under the name 'FLORiS'. Cheering reviews, an Essent Award, various shows on notorious festivals (Lowlands, Roskilde) and support by Gilles Peterson (in his 'All Winners chart for 2002' FLORiS was positioned at #28) were the result. Two years after his debut album, the followup 'Drunk on life' was released. While his first album was built on samples, Drunk On Life had a more spontaneous, deeper, songlike approach.

In 2004, FLORiS teamed up with Janne Schra and Arriën Molema. At that time, Janne and Arriën had just started to write beautiful jazz- and pop songs together. As the record industry changed, FLORiS and Room Eleven decided to just try and record a debut album without any budget. After a few years of hard work and fun recording sessions at FLORiS' small home studio and lots of strange locations, the album was finally finished. 'Six White Russians and a Pink Pussycat', produced by FLORiS and Room Eleven, recorded/engineered and mixed by FLORiS, has been released by Universal Music in June 2006 and went platinum within the first year!

FLORiS and FabFilter

Well, this one's easy. Of course, Floris has used his own FabFilter creations in his music productions from day one! "It's really surprising how my music and our FabFilter plug-ins influence each other. On the one hand, because I make music using a lot of software as well as hardware, I get lots of ideas for new plug-ins and improvements. On the other hand, the plug-ins we've made with FabFilter have really influenced my own music quite a lot!"

"Furthermore, I strongly believe that you HAVE to be an enthousiastic user of your own software to make really usable and good sounding plug-ins."

Links

www.myspace.com/florismusic

www.floris.tv

www.roomeleven.nl

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