Song and Lyrics by Antoine van Kampen. Strings composed by Antoine van Kampen. Mixed and mastered by Antoine van Kampen, Skippy Studio.

Featuring: Teda (vocals, background vocals), Romina Barba (backing vocals), Bart Dietvorst (Guitar), Joylin (violin 1 and 2, viola), Antoine van Kampen (piano, synthesizer)

See also skippystudio.nl/2025/04/brighter-days/

Brighter Days

Brighter Days (Final Master)

Antoine van Kampen is a semi-professional Dutch music producer, (live) musician, and mixing/master engineer. His music spans different genres. You can find Antoine on YouTube, SoundCloud, and Spotify.

Antoine was trained at young age on the electronic organ mostly playing classical and popular sheet music. After six years he moved to piano and synthesizer (the Crumar Bit 99) and he started playing in his first band (Bad Weather). At the same time he got introduced to Cubase on a Atari computer in the studio of the local school of music.

The last 30 years, Antoine performed live in multiple bands varying from rock, pop, and funk to musical, jazz, and big band. This experience he uses to compose his own music (e.g. Time to Start). During these years he got fluent  with the Cubase digital audio workstation (DAW) and a large range of other music software for composing (Dorico), mixing (Cubase), mastering (Wavelab), and high-quality virtual instruments from, for example, Steinberg, Native Instruments, East West, and MusicLab. He also organized a beginners course in mixing using Reaper. Antoine got increasingly interested in mixing his own compositions as well as music produced by other bands.

To facilitate his musical endeveours he has set up a well-equiped home studio (Skippy Studio) which harbours a large range of keyboards and other studio equipement and software. Recently, Antoine became more experienced in home studio acoustics including measuring studio sound characteristics, and treated his mixing room to improve the mixing process. He also has a general interest in the mathematics and physics of sound in relation to the mixing process.

Recently, he stopped with playing in live bands to fully focus on music production (composing, playing, mixing, and mastering). His skills and experience allows him to cover this complete trajectory in a unique and iterative fashion. Currently, he engaged with Sound Education Nederland to become a music producer professional.

Antoine is always looking forward to interesting collaborations. Thus, drop me a message when you need help with your home studio, Cubase, mixing, etc.