02-07-09 SHOOK LIVE @ WATT Rotterdam!
I will be performing Live together with Beast at the main stage in WATT Rotterdam! The act before me is the awesome Moonpilot. I will be ending the night. There will be a gigantic screen behind me. It will surely suck everybody into the world of Shook. So I am pretty psyched about this. Hope you all can make it.
You can send an email message with your name to info@shookmusic.com if you want to come in for free.
Yours,
-S
RIP MJ
27-06-09 Shook @ AMSTEREO, with The Walk & Roger72 and Beesmuntsoundsystem!
Yeah! We will be performing in the Flexbar again, together with the Amstereo Crew.
I also will be handing out some Red Tapes. Let us know if you want to receive one. They will go fast like pancakes. Send your message to: info@shookmusic.com
-S
Beast Grrr'd the Woofur
Thanks Koolkids, The Walk & Roger72 , Amstereo Crew, Baskerville , VJ JMKK and the whole ATAK crew for an incredible night!
For more pictures go here.
The first batch of tapes are gone! They were gone fast too. However, there are more in the making:
Whoever wants to receive their copy of an ultra ultra ultra limited Red Tape, send an email to shook@shookmusic.com and tell me why you should have one.
-S
The Red Tapes
Division Kent - L'Heure Blue (Shook Remix) release!
Yeah! The remix I did for Division Kent is released on a special edition 2xCD album: Gravity. I had the honor to remix the track: L'heure Blue.
Disc 2 also contains several remixes from artists like: Keenhouse, Love Motel and P E A C E Fire.
Get it!
-S
29-05-09 SHOOK LIVE @ A-TAK, Enschede + Shook Exclusive!
I sincerely excuse myself for not updating the site regularly. BUT, good news! I will perform a live set in the A-Tak in Enschede the 29th of May for the infamous event WOOFUR! Together with The Walk&Roger72, Baskerville and Data Noir it surely will be an awesome night. Be sure to come and hear the new stuff I have been working on the last couple of months/weeks. As you can see, Beast demonized the flyer.
Other fortunate news. 2 is nowhere to be seen. Last time we saw 2 was over at the Koolkids. But you can get 2 now for yourself. Be sure to get him now. He will be gone by the 29th of may. -S
Download: Shook - 2 (320kbit)
Shook tripped the Lego
Thanks Space Pirates, Roy, Gal, Rolf and the whole Legotrippers crew for the incredible night!
Shook trips on Lego
I love the 'the' on "The Shook". Kinda reminds me of bands like The Beatles, and The Hives and "The" Led zeppelin. Nevertheless, we love the lego!
-Shook
Koolkids Interview!
The Koolkids are a bunch of kool kids who make kool articles about what they consider kool. I am really psyched about the kool article about me, Beast and #2. Be sure to check out the kool video interview they did with us!
Koolkids are kool. They are kooler than you. They know what kool means with a capitol K.
-Shook
#2 Will hunt us down.
SHOOK and BREAKBOT on VIMEO!
Heres a heads up! The once of you who follow my blog on myspace already have seen it. Columnbine Film made a cool video of the previous Amstereo Event. You will see me performing live with The Walk and Roger72, Jack De La and one of my favourite artists at this moment: Breakbot.
I am really glad to say that Breakbot actually played the Jupiter - CHiP (Shook Remix). So I am really psyched about this video!
AMSTEREO DEC 08 from Columnbine Film on Vimeo.
Thanks Columnbine film for making this excellent video!
Something else, maybe you have noticed it already. But I made a small redesign in the website. I made a MYSPACE and YOUTUBE link in the menu above. I'm not so populair at youtube at the moment, but hopefully that will change soon.
So if you want, please go to my youtube channel and subscribe so you will be the first to know when the Shook universe will start to expand!
Shook Live Set - AMSTEREO @ 27-12-08
Been a while since the last update, but I have good news! I will be performing a live set for the next AMSTEREO event at the Flexbar in Amsterdam. The awesome Breakbot is performing the same night aswell! Isn't that great? I will be fine tuning the new tracks I have been working on the last couple of weeks/months. And hopefully I will be able to play most of them. For the ones who can make it, hope to see you the 27th of december.
Something else now.. We love Beast Tees teasers:
Stay tuned!
-Shook
Amstereo Galaxy Shook interview!
I am thrilled to say that we did a cool little interview for our favourite Dutch Blog Amstereo Galaxy! Not so much fun for those of you who are non dutch. Luckily we have a translation in English for you here, and no crappy-babelfish-translation-generated-confusing-text either.
Amstereo Galaxy Interview
You’re a new artist. Introduce yourself: what’s your real name, and how old are you?
My name is Jasper, and I was born in 1986.
How did you come up with the name ‘Shook’?
The name Shook was actually meant as an alias. A few years back I produced a lot under a different name(s), and the name Shook was actually a name for the more personal stuff I made. It basically was a step back from the usual stuff I made.
To be honest, I don’t know where the name itself comes from. Maybe Shook Ones from Mobb Deep has something to do with it?
Are there other things you do in life besides producing?
I’m still studying! But I try to work on my music whenever I can.
How long have you been involved with music?
I followed piano lessons when I was younger. Later, when I was 12 or 13 I heard Jericho from The Prodigy. It really inspired me. And as a reaction I started to make music behind my little computer. Just for the fun, nothing serious, but eventually it started to become more serious. I also played in numerous bands but making electronic music was still the thing I enjoyed doing the most.
What/who influence you and what is your main inspiration in making your tracks?
There are a lot of things! Recently I started listening a lot to early Prince and Michael Jackson albums again. The Off The Wall Album does a lot to me. Just like the album Thriller and Bad. I am a big Michael Jackson fan.
But, it doesn’t necessarily need to be music. I can be influenced by art or animation. I grew up with G.I Joe, The Thunder Cats, Transformers, He-man, Marvel Comics and Anime. I try to bring all that back in the music I make. I am always trying to take myself back to that place when I was younger and I hope I can bring that same enthusiasm to the sounds of Shook.
By the look of your pictures, I saw you use a live-set when you perform. What can the audience expect?
I think approximately 90% is all Shook material. Basically I have a lot of loose samples and live-edits that I remix freely when I go live. I also use samples from other artists. Everything is possible!
What’s in store for you next year? Where do you see yourself in the future?
Currently I am busy on lots of new material. I think a lot of it will be done in the course of next year. Hopefully I can bring it out as an EP or Album. Furthermore I am busy working on a good live show. I work closely with two illustrators/artists who will be doing the visual aspect of the show, and with this we plan to give the Shook live element a new dimension. At the moment Beast is feeling pretty left out at the live performances.
There are also merchandise plans (Shook Tees!). There is a lot to do!
The Beast?! Who/What is that?
Beast isn’t from this planet. He was sent by someone to hunt me down. When I faced beast for the first time, I didn’t know what was going on. But Beast is now my beast. Without Beast I would have been dead by now.
Who do you think are the coolest artist at this moment?
Hmmm... I can’t name one in particular. But, Planisphere from Justice and the album I Created Disco from Calvin Harris are really good.-
Thanks Amstereo!
-Shook
Shook likes synthesizers
and we love Flickr. Don't have too much to update at the moment of writing. But I have been playing on my new synth called the Beast EX-70. It's pretty awesome. Special thanks goes out to iedman for providing me with such an awesome synth! You can check out more of his weapons and other secret projects in the making here. Does this mean the Shook Universe will expand? Most likely it will.
-Shook
Jupiter - CHiP (Shook Remix)
As some of you already know, we love to remix. We love to remix music that we like and love. Recently we remixed the awesome: Jupiter. I want to share the remix with all of you now in 320kbit glory. The wait it over, so stop listening to it already in my myspace player and start loading it up in your ipod.
Download: Jupiter - CHiP (Shook Remix)
-Shook
Shook Live Report! Major Updat0r!
Yeah! The first Shook gig in Utrecht was a succes! I want to thank everybody who came to see me and my Beast last Tuesday including the friendly and helpfull personal at the Ekko.
A special thanks goes out to the guys who took pictures of me while I was performing.Couldn't have made this update without them!
You can check out their full set of Shook pictures on their Flickr accounts: Set 1, Set 2.
I also want to note that the live set wasn't recorded.
But there has been a secret for a while now that isn't really a secret anymore because it's already been posted by a-few-blogs so I might as well give the secret away at this moment of writing:
Shook - Secret Mixtape
Tracklist
Darlings Of The Splitscreen - Hiroshima (Shook remix)
***Beast snip
MSTRKRFT - Paris
***Jungle Brothers - Brother (acapella) Snip
Rayflash - Flash Dancer
Revolte - Guess What
***Guess Who
Dead Prezz - Hell Yeah
Calvin Harris - Colours
Shook - 1986 (Edit)
Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
***on a spaceship to
Jupiter - Starlighter
***!?!?!
Shook - Flash
***DatArp
DatA - Morphosis
Boys Noize - Eat It
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Hope you all enjoy.
The next couple of weeks I will be busy remixing and working on my own material. There are also merchandise plans! In the meantime, you can find me and my Beast on my Myspace, Hyves or Facebook.
-Shook
25-09-08 Live! Ekko - Utrecht
Yeah I know. It's been way too long for a descent update. I apologise for that. I have been too busy remixing and celebrating my holiday. But, I have good news, cause I have my first gig in Utrecht! The 25th of september. So if you are in the neighberhood, come and behold! It's also FREE!
I will be preparing my live gig the next few weeks. Pretty cool flyer too btw eh? I don't think this is the official one cause they had some sort of Design Competition, but I like this one the best, cause there is a man with shades and he is holding a synthesizer. He kinda looks like some sort of superhero too..
-Shook
Bloggers rule the Universe
Bloggers rule the Universe. Kind words:
Discodust: shook's music feels like a breath of fresh air to me and while he names danger as an influence, he puts a lot of own style into his tunes and is definitely going towards a yet unexplored direction. shook was kind enough to hook me up with three of his tracks that go surprisingly well with the twisted story above as they are named '1986', 'beast' and 'the glow'. you'd better enjoy them as much as i do!
Electro Rash: The newest one, The Glow, makes me melt only the way a lovechild of Justice and Danger could. Imagine Danger’s looping synth line punctuated with Justice’s signature slap bass effect and you’re getting pretty close to the Glow experience.
Thanks everybody for the support! Also to Nerdy-Frames, Etelectro Pour Tous , Get Hyped On This .
Drop a message if you too want to receive a promo package!
Shook Universe
Yeah! Did you see it? It's amazing. Special thanks goes out to Giuse, who is responsible for mostly all the Artwork for Shook. He is sure to be the next big Illustrator in the whole galaxy. You can find him on his website on www.giuse.nl or visit his flickr and show the love.
Blog Attack
The track: THE GLOW has been picked up and blogged by the friendly guys at Neonized Magazine. Thanks guys! Also, the mysterious caption of Shook with his Beast taken by photography sidekick T. Van Paassen has been blogged too by The World Through My Eyes. From this day on they should call their website: The World Through Shook's Beast Eyes. It would fit so much better now don't you think?
Anyway, if there are more bloggers out there who want to share the music, please don't hesitate to send a message to info@shookmusic.com for a special promo package with goodies and secret stuff! Or don't send a message and blog Shook anyway. We will still love you. -
The Story Continues
It's all about THE GLOW. It's already posted on MySpace. Added it to the music player here so you can listen to it with much better quality. So let the story continue and start dancing. -
Have You Seen Beast?
Seriously though, have you seen Beast? Because if you do, then you might be in trouble and it may already be too late... I can tell. Like Shook. He is in trouble, because of Beast. But Beast is cool though. Yeah. He is cool. But Dangerous. -
SHOOKMUSIC.com Launched!
Finally, We are online (again)! Welcome to shookmusic.com v0.81231. Beast killed the previous webdesigner, so everything is build from scratch. If you came here to find out more about Shook then you are on the right place. You can find everything related to Shook on this site. So what are you waiting for? Let the story begin or go straight to it's core.-