Here's my latest EP on Plak records.

This one means quite a lot to me, as i've been spending the better of the past year and a half honing my skills and acquiring gear to develop a "my" sound further, working more with tones and rythms, as well as playing the music rather than (over-)producing it. The outcome has been shared with few friends only until i felt somehow ready.
The EP features 2 tracks, one is such a jam, TH-13-13, the second one is a collaboration with Englishman Fundamental Interaction. Both are rough raw and aim at producing some kind of future techno funk.
It's slightly needless to say how stocked i am to have a release on Plak which is a staple here and internationally, with previous releases of artists such as Chaton, Ripperton, Quarion, Nhar, Agnès, Dachshund, cco among others. If you haven't heard of them, it's worth checking them out and their catalogue ;)

I hope you'll like what you hear.

And as per usual, the promo jumbo:
<i>Coming not so far from the Alps, Opuswerk is a new talented artist in love with hardware equipment and already got some strong producing skills.The charismatic tall guy is a main actor in the renewal of the techno scene in Geneva, throwing parties every week-end he's got a residency at Milk club and will also open up for Carl Craig at Electron Festival…yep Opuswerk knows how to move a crowd. 
The A-side features Futurewerk, the first of a collaboration with London Based techno outfit Fundamental Interaction, is a raw dubby influenced track where chords and rhythm clearly aim for the dance-floor at 3am, or later depending on your countries going out habits. On the B-Side, TH13-13 is a flashback to the mid-90’s, a squirting bassline with bleeps and blops, it plays subtly with a syncopated rhythm section and discrete chords…Pure Hardware jam ! 
Comes in 180 grams of black wax, carefully mastered at D&M,Berlin. Full printed sleeve designed by Frederic Laborde. </i>

This EP, is the first of hopefully others in 2012, with a rawer and groovier sound.

Cheers,

H.

[PLK 24]Opuswerk - Wired Connections Opuswerk | 12" | sneak preview

Here's my latest EP on Plak records.

This one means quite a lot to me, as i've been spending the better of the past year and a half honing my skills and acquiring gear to develop a "my" sound further. Working more with tones and rythms.
It's slightly needless to say how stocked i am to have a release on Plak which is a staple here and internationally, with previous releases of artists such as Chaton, Ripperton, Quarion, Nhar, Agnès, Dachshund, cco among others. If you haven't heard of them, it's worth checking them out and their catalogue ;)

as per usual, the promo jumbo:
Coming not so far from the Alps, Opuswerk is a new talented artist in love with hardware equipment and already got some strong producing skills.The charismatic tall guy is a main actor in the renewal of the techno scene in Geneva, throwing parties every week-end he's got a residency at Milk club and will also open up for Carl Craig at Electron Festival…yep Opuswerk knows how to move a crowd. 
The A-side features Futurewerk, the first of a collaboration with London Based techno outfit Fundamental Interaction, is a raw dubby influenced track where chords and rhythm clearly aim for the dance-floor at 3am, or later depending on your countries going out habits. On the B-Side, TH13-13 is a flashback to the mid-90’s, a squirting bassline with bleeps and blops, it plays subtly with a syncopated rhythm section and discrete chords…Pure Hardware jam ! 
Comes in 180 grams of black wax, carefully mastered at D&amp;M,Berlin. Full printed sleeve designed by Frederic Laborde. 
This EP, is the first of hopefully others in 2012.

[PLK24]Opuswerk - TH13-13

[PLK24]Opuswerk & Fundamental Interaction - Futurewerk

Formerly known as Opuswerk.
High-quality electronic dance music from the Swiss lakeside, 

Affiliated to labels like @dement3d, @artsltd, @semantica-records,, @krillmusic and @knotweed-records

1/2 of HISS:1292 with @francoisx

Curator of the #OPUS parties with guests such as:
Iori, Agonis, Cosmin TRG, Henning Baer, Sandrien, JP Enfant, Yotam Avni, Blawan, Svreca, Ulf Erikson, Nikita Zabelin, Barker
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Half Dutch, Half Egyptian, and based in Geneva, Hendrik van Boetzelaer has established himself as a key player of the Swiss scene. He is known for his passion for warm and forward thinking music for the body regardless of the genre. Following years of activism as Opuswerk, his first work under his real name, the “Mémoire Du Présent EP”, on François X’s Dement3dXXX, reveals an artist’s coming of age in continuity of his past work.
Trained as an architect, and passionate by the concept of “the club”, he thrives for what triggers raw emotions. Maturing from years of self-education, spawned with dub and drum and bass sound systems, he plays and makes music that is both adventurous and inventive with a defined futuristic aesthetic and firmly grounded in the experience of one’s body on the dancefloor. It’s as if he found his sound as much as it found him, delving inspirations from the wide spectrum of what dance music has to offer: House, Techno, EBM, Electro, IDM, Balearics, old and new.
His approach to producing, both visceral and highly technical have gotten him to team with artists like François X for the HISS:1292 project or Ripperton for the Aelectricitae Live project. As Hendrik van Boetzelear his work has reached a new plateau of explorations where he channels his many cultural origins into freeform experimentations. As a testimony to his never ending hunger for knowledge, and representative of his research process, his previous work using the Opuswerk pseudonym, came out on labels such as Bleed Music, Semantica, ARTS or Dement3d. As Hendrik van Boetzelaer, he has shed his skin and dropped the moniker.
His style is always forward thinking and finds adventurous ways of transporting the dancers beyond the boundaries of the club all the while challenging them. His musical consistency, brings him to play, in the best clubs and festivals from Concrete to Tresor or Mute, CTM Festival and Montreux Jazz or Paleo.
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