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My name is Budy Mokoginta. I'm a guitar player, songwriter and I work with other artists as a producer, mix engineer or master engineer. I never really planned to do so, it just happened. I begun my project studio as an extension to my own musical ambitions, but soon I started to (co) produce and mix for other artists. They came to me for what they call the 'Moko' sound; I love organic sound and don't like to restrict music by some kind of law on how it should sound. The first artist who's album I mixed therefore revered to my studio as the Mokosound studio and ever since that has been the name. Since then I've worked on a lot of different projects with different styles; Pop, Jazz, Soul, HipHop, D&B, Jungle, World music and specially all kinds of crossover between styles. I had a producer contract with Sony Benelux.

These days I concentrate on independent music, which often means trying to get an organic sound of music made or recorded with computers. My main project is with iET and Russ Elevado, my sonic hero. My work with iET involves production, co-writing, concept development and playing a lot of instruments.

About songwriting and producing
Songdesign and producing is the subscript of my logo. What I mean with that is: helping artists to get the best out of their music. Songdesign and producing is all about making the most out of a song. It concentrates on the question how to get the most intense musical experience of a song using it's full potential. The answer is often simple: though it's been a fashion to try to impress the audience with heavy production techniques and intensive mixing tricks, doing less often benefits the song more.

A good song has all the right ingredients in itself. It needs an understanding performance of an artist who is being the song instead of acting it. The production should enhance it's beauty and energy without taking over, like good make up. And like with make up, sometimes not using it is the most perfect solution.

About mixing and mastering
In simple words: mixing is making the music sound great in the mixing studio, mastering is making sure people don't start to jump at their level control fiddling about with their equalizers every new song or on every other sound system they play the songs.
To me the difference between mixing and mastering is in short: mixing is enhancing the energy of the music so that the sound and energy flow is as good as possible, within the given time and budget, in the place you are mixing. Mastering is translating that mix to translate and sound as good as possible on all different sound systems, from i-pod to P.A. while keeping a constant and similar coherence of level and sound between different the different tracks presented on an album.

Some things I learned the hard way: you don't want to fix a song with the production, you don't want to fix the production in the mix and you don't want to fix the mix in the mastering. Give each part of the process your full devotion and when you're stuck; get a second opinion, get advice, get help. Collaborate. No great music is created alone.

MISSTRI is a scintillating soul sensation with a delectable dose of that delicious 60’s soulful sound. Yes, MISSTRI is a hot-blooded eight-piece Soul band with the three soul sisters, Miss Marion, Miss Debora and Miss Debby upfront.
MISSTRI kicks off 2016 with the launch of its brand new dazzling single and video clip, “Whoop Whoop” (referring to texting these words on the band-Whatsapp), which is a flavorful foretaste of the band’s upcoming debut album. MISSTRI sweeps one into a scintillating soul sensation, ‘MISSTRIFYING’ audiences with the glitter, glamour and sounds of Motown, Stax, artists like Aretha Franklin, Ike and Tina Turner and legendary female vocal groups such as The Supremes. Backed by the sweltering, steamy sounds of the funkadelic Funkbrothers, the MISSTRI experience is a celebration of Hitsville USA.

Drawn together from both sides of the North Sea, Laura Vane & The Vipertones are an eight-piece bandassembled from various Dutch & UK projects, pooling their respective skills together for a remarkable funk & soul mission. Since their debut release early 2009 the group has continued to electrify fans, deejays, radio stations, critics, record collectors and bloggers all over the world with their authentic yet modern and raw sound.

Since their successful first 7" release ‘Steam' and first single ‘Am I Dreaming?' sent ripples through the European funk & soul community in early 2009, Laura Vane & The Vipertones debut album exploded with a big bang on the scene! Add to that the success of the ‘Roof Off Remixes EP' and the 'Remixes & B-sides EP', they are treading the same path as many have done before them: playing in both intimate half-lit hot-spots in the hearts of many cities and entertaining crowds of thousands at festivals.

Support for Laura Vane & The Vipertones has come hard and fast from all angles. From online bloggers and music forums worldwide,DutchRadio 6 and well respected 3FM deejays like Giel Beelen and Gerard Ekdom, to BBC Radio deejays such as Jonathan Ross, Mark Lamarr and Craig Charles in the UK. Also the band have appeared on hugely successful and well loved television shows like De Wereld Draait Door and have been covered in a whole range of publications from personal blogposts all the way to feature stories in Algemeen Dagblad, Fret, OOR and many others.

With continued support across the globe on radio and television, and with their incredible live show, Laura and the band are gathering an unstoppable momentum playing events such as iJazz, Moods, The Unique Soul Weekender, WOMAD festival Las Palmas, Blue Balls Festival, Tour The France, North Sea Round Town, Big Rivers, Athens Half Note Jazzclub, Tempo Club and many more.

Without a break in last year's busy touring schedule, somehow Laura Vane & The Vipertones have managed to produce the perfect follow up album to their highly acclaimed self-titled debut! On April 15th 2011, they will hit the streets with their second album 'Sugar Fix' produced by Phil Martin, Ton van der Kolk & Laura Vane. This record is a feast for the listener, laying down a rich variety of styles and inspirations, and is a clear vibrant progression from the first album. Laura's voice and song writing has never been stronger, and with excellent soul and funk foundations, they are set to conquer the pop soul world with honest and sincere songs of love and life. Such personal lyrics combined with The Vipertones' instrumental elegance results in a record over-spilling with strong and catchy songs. Laura Vane & The Vipertones are quickly becoming a seriously infectious sound and one of the absolute ‘Must See's' for 2011. Laura is the chocolate, the Vipertones are the cream, this is the sugar fix you can't afford to miss!

The Soul Snatchers are coming to getcha! 

Real Soul Music never dies. That’s what the insatiable musicians of the Dutch band The Soul Snatchers prove every time they treat a swinging crowd to their timeless, down to earth funk and soul tunes, that find their roots in the sexy Sixties and Seventies of the 20th century. Taking pure Soul Music right across the bridge into the new century, The Soul Snatchers combine unknown classics and original compositions into a show that not only appeals to connoisseurs, but just as well to bigger, more mainstream-oriented audiences. The Soul Snatchers don’t claim to have invented Soul Music. Neither do they pretend to re-invent it. They… just HAVE it! And they LOVE to share it with Rhythm & Blues-lovers in every corner of the globe. Founded rock solid on the well oiled rhythm section of clean drums and thumping bass, the dangerously growling Hammond organ and the reverbing guitar sounds find their way to your soul blindly. Add to that the threeheaded copper section The Dynamite Horns, the charismatic performances of singer Curtis T. and special guest vocalist Jimi Bell Martin… and all ingredients for a real Soul Party are present.


Superfly.fm is "Your Soul Radio" on a mission to spread love, beauty and ease through the gift of music. The station is named after one of the greatest songs of soul legend Curtis Mayfield and delivers a new and unique musical concept: soulful tunes from the past, present and future. Enjoy Superfly's amazing sound on 98.3 fm in Vienna or anywhere else at www.superfly.fm.

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