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Artist
Enno Velthuys
12+ albums
ambientexperimentalnew ageelectronicminimal synth
about
Enno Velthuys is a somewhat obscure character in the world of Dutch electronic music, who released a whole bunch of tapes in the 80s, mainly on the Exart label from IJmuiden. Highly ambient synthesizer music. He is also the son of the well-known children book author Max Velthuys. In general, it's hard to find much information about Enno Velthuys. Part of that is that he died in 2009 and was quite a recluse. Hessel Veldman however knew him personally, and shares his memories about Velthuys with us: "In that period, Enno was living with his mum in his own bedroom in a department flat in The Hague. Visiting Enno was something special. Strange in communication, weird focusing on music in general and solitary-minded. During one visit I remember, we tried to make some music together, because we both played the guitar and were into strange ambient music. It didn't work out. Enno was specific in encountering music. He couldn't deal with strange and dissonant sounds. His mind could only handle harmonic, soft 'kitsch-like' music. After learning Enno better, we noticed he had very heavy mental problems, caused by drug use during the roaring sixties in the Hague music scene. "We did several cassette issues (of his work) with Exart. But Enno also noticed that (with) being part of this 'free-cassette & mail network,' his work also was used by publishers, who didn't care about sound-quality. Some sound sketches he send around were suddenly issued, without communication about sele
