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Cool Genius
12+ albums
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All it takes is three young, talented, healthy, heterosexual guys, a computer, a bunch of instruments and a cheap-ass microphone. Add some beer and some other addictive stuff, and those three guys will very soon find each other the coolest and most ingenious persons they know. There you have it. That’s how a band like Cool Genius is born. Cool Genius was formed in the summer of 2005 in Zwolle, The Netherlands, when multi-instrumentalists Erik Neimeijer, Bauke Bakker and Sebastiaan van Olst decided no other combination of musicians could ever match their mutual broad minds, humor, creativity and skills. Cool Genius consists of three talented continuously delivering composers, both individually as well as together. A song is written, recorded, mixed and played in their favorite bar all on the same night. That’s the way it went for more than 60 times now, and counting. The first demo guerilla-spam actions soon leaded to radio airplay on Dutch music radio stations such as Radio 2, 3FM, Kink FM and numerous internet radio stations. The talent-status was also ratified by elections like 3FM’s Serious Talent, OngekendTalent.nl’s Talent Of The Week and Fret (magazine of the Dutch Pop Institute) calling their demo “Demo Of The Year”. On July 17 2007 Cool Genius signed up with the small indie-label “Goomah Music” which resulted in the release of their debut album “Maybe You Should Do That Too”, in November that year. Cool Genius finished producing the album, which consists of only h
