I always have been curious listening to your works: should I con sider you as a multi-instrumentalist, a composer or a skilled experimentalist?

All of that, I hope :-) First you have to learn to play your instrument (one or more) to know how to produce any sound at all. For a composition you have to begin to understand formal structures and musical theories, and finally you are able to start with your own experiments.

Do you represent a link between New Age music and the modern Dance music scene?

I don't think in terms like this. I began to develop my music years before these terms were existing. To create my own style I used elements of classical music, blues, rock, soul, funk, latin, and of course minimal music. And because I was always interested in new technologies I used a lot of electronic equipment to make it all happen. Therefore I might be well named as one of the representatives for the development of music in the last 30 years. But my album "New Age Of Earth" (1976) has nothing to do with New Age music, this musical term was invented years later, and E2-E4 was never intended to be a piece of Dance music. "New Age Of Earth" contains elements of minimal music, blues and pieces for classical string orchestras performed and combined with a variety of more and less abstract electronic sounds. On the other hand "E2-E4" represents my great interest in the development of sequenced/pattern like music at the time, which is definitely the basis for many music that people play today with their computers programs.[...]

What has changed in “Koop Islands” compared to your previous work “Waltz for Koop”. It seems that we can find some kind of “warmer” metricals, partly leaving the electronic sounds?

It's not less electronic regarding how the album is made. It's still sample based . The big difference in my opinion is that it's more percussive. Not only meaning the use of percussion....all the instruments and samples are more percussive. Not so many long notes. And "Koop Islands" is even more than "Waltz for Koop" focusing on vocals, melodies and songwriting. And it swings! [...]

How much did 80s music influenced your works?

I’ve started making records in the seventies, and I’ve been listening to records from the sixties. And I was a fan of the records in the seventies as a young person. So I think in my own production the influence of the sixties is musch more appropriate than the eighties. I was listening to a lot of the greate messages from the early reggae records, which have messages of revolution, of hope for the manking, of self improvements and I was a big fan of reggae from ’72, ’73, ’74 right through the 1980. And it’s only recently that I’ve got really much more into waht was going on with the digital revolution, the electrical thing in the eighties. I’m more a fan of the seventies and the spirit of that music than I am of the eighties.