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Galbatron is an electronic music group based in Holland. The band, consisting of Eppo Schaap (a magazine editor, music teacher and translator) and Loek van Kooten (me, a translator), started making music in 1992, when we launched our first album called Sophistication. The original album...

High-res mp3 and wav versions should be available within several days or weeks on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Google Play and other venues.

We hope you like our newest baby, and if not, you'll have to wait for another few years (/dives and runs away)...

Get out of BED and get to work creating NEW Galbatron tunage!!!

your fans await you. :-)

ric 'light one candle' bonnell....

We want to use part of a track in a youtube video. I want to get in touch with Galbatron but I cannot figure out how. An email sent to the link at the bottom of the website bounces.

Kind regards,

Paul...

“Rebellion is English for the Hebrew word Nimrod, the 9th variation in the Enigma Variations by Edward Elgar. We bumped into this track right after we ca...

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I just kept thinking how much like Galbatron this sounds. ...

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Check the one under Trance Pro, it's a surprisingly good Moonlight Sonata remix. Are you guys doing synth demo tracks now?

Anyway, looking forward to more Galbatron tracks in the future....

Baroque is really Eppo’s pet pr...

This is an upgrade from any version of Sonar X1 to the same version X2 and as I said FOR FREE. Why pay more?

I have seen on www.amazon.co.uk Sonar X1 Essential for £40 and Producer for £80.

The offer lasts up to 31/12/2012 as far as I can remember and if I can find the link I will post it up here.

As always check the details and the small print but t...

I don't think I'm asking trade secrets but it would be nice to know so that accessable work from you could be emulated for fun and a bit of a challenge.

Jagd1...

Wicked Interactive Limited decided to score the new promo video of their upcoming map Tomb of the Dragon with (what else did you expect!) several excerpts from Dragon Dance 2: The...

So should you find any strange phrasings, untranslated texts or other bugs, please list them here.

Please do not request any new features (yet), unless they should be really easy to implement. We'd like to make music, not program (as you may have figured, this site is not based on Joomla or whatsoever - it's old-fashione...

As for now there is only a digital (downloadable) version of the album, no physical version. As you know, Sophistication was recorded about 20 years ago, during an era in which digital recording was still very expen...

I am 37 years old and live in Mexico. I play baroque organ since I was 13, always as a hobby (my profession is business administration). Since a little more than 15 years I play a pipe organ every Sunday on my home city. I really love Bach and baroque transcriptions for almost every instrument, specially for electronic instruments. You both have an impeccable taste in the music...

The difference with the mp3 versions at stores like iTunes and Spotify is striking. Especially in fuller mixes like Robotica: The Saga Continues, you can immediately hear the difference. Instruments become more pronounced, hi-hats sta...

I think I will keep on listening to your tracks until the end.

Your stuff is very intelligent !

He sends the result to me, asks for my opinion, and the files go to and fro a few times, until both of us are satisfied.

How do you work together as a band ? Who makes what when you build a song ? How do you agree together on what have to be made in your song when you build it ?
How do you agree on melodies ?
Theme ?
Technical issue ?
etc...
I'm very curious !!!!

(I hope you'll tell me some of the Galbatron's forge secrets ! )

Musicians like you could have made this track !

Many elements and technics similar to Galbatron's music !

I think it is, but at least we're having fun while doing it, as long as time permits.

The vocals that makes me think to "Deep Forest" (do you know that band ?) give this track an incredible and exciting feeling of satisfaction for my ears and my mind.

I also enjoy the change in the melody when the vocals come...This song makes me fly !

Thanks Eppo and Loek, I'm sorry your music didn't had the success it really deserves in my opinion.

Making good music isn't enough to be famous...

Most of famous artist are selling an image more than a real musical talent...Sometimes these factors both !

Yes a big problem with Reason was that it didn't supported VSTs...A big error of politic in my opinion...I didn't knew it works with VSTs now.

What are the VSTI you love at Galbatron base ?

The smallest vsti can be a bless even if free and small if you use it the right way for the right song.

I'm now enjoying "Another World" , I also bought "Synthetika" album...Very good, you guys are making refreshing music in my mind !

raphael caudron wrote: I saw the "Synthetika III (The Core)" project on youtube...What is the DAW you are using ???? I never saw it...Is it Cubase ?

Hi Raphael,
The daw you see in the Synthetika III video is Reaper (www.reaper.fm). It's not as well known as Cubase, Live or FLstudio but it is very powerful and a lot of technical proficient producers use it, because of it's versatility, also for midi data. For the video we enlarged the mixer view, so there would be some extra movement on screen :-). BTW: the project was started in Reason 8 and halfway we moved the files to Reaper to make use of extra functionality (VST plugins) that weren't available in Reason at the time. In the meantime Reason supports VST plugs too...

There's a long time ago music tracks delivered by Itunes haven't DRM anymore...I can play them in winamp 5.666 on windows...And even in my smartphone without Itunes system...They would have died if they didn't wiped out their shitty DRM cause for the same price on amazon you haven't DRM too....But Itunes still kept the DRM for movies and this ))= .

Problems on I-Tunes ? I never had troubles with it...

iTunes in itself is fantastic. It becomes a problem once you want to play the music on different systems that do not support it, often requiring you to convert the songs to other formats in less legal ways.

Like I said i bought "Synthetika 3" and "Another World" and I had my download at second after I submitted my order...

Thank you very much!

Have you thought about video animation for your tracks ?

Yes, actually we tried it with Synthetika, but timing the animations was too much work, so we gave up on that idea and decided to show the DAW itself instead (Eppo will get back to you about that later, by the way).

Your soundclick link on this site is dead !

Thank you for noticing! It was hardly used anyway, so I've killed the link.

I'm repeating myself but what a pity you don't make more money with your music cause then yo...

We're not releasing albums anynmore; it's already taking us years to produce singles, let alone whole albums. We don't want you wait that long!

As for Deezer... all our music is released by cdbaby, which then releases the music to many outlets, amongst which Deezer. Whether Deezer includes our music in their catalogue, is up to Deezer really and not something we can really influence.

If you want to find all our music, iTunes is your best bet (even though iTunes has all kinds of issues I'm very well aware of).