I always loved the dutch dj's. And I feel that they still appreciate GOOD Electronic music such as Trance. Which even more surprises me that tiesto plays crap these days... :)
Excellent interview, Dancemania, when I started digging about ghost producers I discovered Vorwerk, he is a nice guy and has a production techniques group in facebook and released his book with cool tips. I wish he could start doing production tutorials in youtube, he is very talented.
Thank you! Maarten is a very nice down to earth guy. You can still buy his book (or eBook) with the production tips. And in the interview he said he has plans for new tutorials in the near future ;-)
Very very interesting indeed - didn't know about these tutorials. And it is very important to give a voice for the people behind the hits and images! A good choice of topic!
Thank you Timo! And yeah, some people feel more comfortable in the studio. I think it is really cool he doesn't want to go for the big money and just does what he loves doing the most :)
man i never knew he was behind Mr.Sosa & The Yayo - Cochabamba, that song was huge hit in my country in i think 2005/2006, i was just browsing some old songs and just found it :D
Oh really. It was him behind Jekyll & Hyde. I've read Morten Vorverk and think about "Ruthless & Vorverk" but after that, i thought " it's probably a coincidence, but it's not. I like this kind of surprise, that's why i don't check discogs before watching your interviews.
Thank you very much! I actually did contact another well known ghost producer last year, but he said "no" to my request :( But I know someone else who is interested, so hopefully that will happen later this year! And VDM is not gonna happen. Spoke to someone who kinda knows him the other day and he said Vincent wants to say out of the music industry, so also no interview :(
@@nlvooruittv8976 I met him once (at the release party of Armin's "76" album at Club Asta in The Hague) and he agreed to do an interview for Trance.nu, where I was working for at that time. But that never happened.... Later I tried again to get in touch with him, but his manager said he doesn't want to do ANY interviews. I recently spoke to someone who spoke to him (via email) and he made it very clear he wants to stay in the background, so even though I would absolutely love to talk to him, I think we should respect his choice.
"If the manager doesn't like it, then the Artist gets insecure as well"... Well, maybe the "Artist" should produce the tracks himself? Vorwerk is the only artist on the tracks he produces.
Great interview! I remember many years back, almost 10 years in fact, Mike from Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike contacted me to produce music for them. I had started moving away from music into software at that point, so didn't get much off the ground for them, but often wonder could I have made a decent living in that game had I put more effort into putting stuff together for them.
@@yungp8160 Yup! I didn't even know who they were. Overheard people in my class in college talking about them one day and When I showed them the emails, they showed me how big they were and that's when it dawned on me I missed a huge opportunity. I used to make and sell synthesizer patches and copyright free melodies that sold quite well, and they were very impressed by the demoes I'd made for them, so found me that way.
There are a lot of them who do everything themselves (and often work on music on the road - in planes / in hotels / at airports), but there a a lot of them as well who get help 😉
I discovered what ghost production from him few years ago. I started ghost producing and I'm doing this for living now! This is like dream job for me. I'm selling my tracks in www.theghostproduction.com at the moment and making atleast 2-3k € a month, in my country minimum vage is 350€, so it's crazy! Thank you Maarten for letting me know about this dream job❤️❤️ I hope someday I will have a studio like this 😍
muzikxpress thanks! Yes I really enjoyed this interview, it's the best interview with him so far although there is only a few I think, glad you made it, thank you!
Great Interview ! Would like to see get KSHMR interviewed. I know he doesnt ghost produce now but back then he was one of the most notorious ever , on same level as Vorwerk , i guess.
Thank you very much, glad you liked the interview! And this vlog is a hobby for me, I don't really make any money with it, so I don't have a travel budget... Which means an interview with KSHMR (who lives in L.A. as far as I know) is most likely not going to happen haha ;-)
Thumbs up for you and Maarten. I used to call him out in the 90s for using a sample from a track i liked, lol. Oh how stupid i was back in those days (Hey Maarten, it's DjKuco if you still remember our msn chats about it, lol).
@@muzikxpress Oh man, i do remember that i was convinced he took a sample from cosmic gate's Fire wire or something like that. But i can't remember the vorwerk track :p Back then i thought he just sampled it, but with his skill, i'm pretty sure he made a "soundalike" preset i guess. i was young and silly, lol. I try to look it up for you ^^
@@muzikxpress I think it actually was "Epic", but....i remember being only in my early 20's so that's around 2001 ish. Epic is from 2011. So either epic is formed from an old demo i once heard in the end of the 90's/begin 200's cause we used to send snippets to eachother back then or i'm just going crazy here, lol. Only one who really knows is Maarten i guess :)
@@muzikxpress Listening to both tracks, it's not the epic track. ^^ Oh man if only my brain could remember :p I was convinced back in the days the melody of one of the cosmic gates tracks was the same as his demo. Grrrr Oud worden eh :p
Geweldig interview. Maarten is echt heel open over dit onderwerp. Ik kan niet zeggen dat ik het er mee eens ben (sterker nog, ik was erg teleurgesteld toen ik voor het eerst over ghost producers hoorde), maar hij maakt goede muziek. Trouwens, je weet toch wel dat hij een co-producer is als hij vermeld staat op de credits van de track?
Dank je! En ja, Maarten is super open, daarom was ik ook erg blij dat ik hem mocht spreken hierover. En je hebt gelijk, maar bij het grootste deel van de mensen staat hij bekend als “ghostproducer”, vandaar dat ik heb besloten om het op die manier te posten.
@@muzikxpress Oh, vandaar. Ik weet namelijk dat er nogal wat verwarring kan ontstaan tussen de twee termen. Daardoor worden artiesten die hun muziek wel zelf kunnen maken vaak beschuldigd van het gebruiken van een ghost. Armin van Buuren bijvoorbeeld heeft heel veel van zijn muziek zelf gemaakt, maar sinds 2007 (denk ik) heeft hij een co-producer die alles met hem samen doet (Benno de Goeij van Rank 1). Ook zij zijn daar altijd eerlijk over geweest. Maar Diplo, Timmy Trumpet en Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike doen helemaal niks en gebruiken gewoon echte ghosts, waaronder dus Maarten. Hoe het met Tiësto, David Guetta en Alan Walker zit weet ik niet, sinds ik vrij recent video's van hun heb gezien waarin ze zelf in de studio een track aan het maken zijn. Blijf ook vooral doorgaan met die interviews. Echt heel interessant en leerzaam.
@@wolterzz3267 Tijs doet niks zelf.... Ik heb zijn oude producer vorig jaar al gevraagd voor een interview, maar helaas.... Armin werkt inderdaad samen met Benno, maar Armin kan in ieder wel zelf produceren. Plus Benno staat altijd netjes in de credits, dus het is niet echt een geheim. P.S. hopelijk kan ik Benno (en wellicht Piet) volgend jaar interviewen. Heb hem er al over gesproken, dus.... fingers crossed ;-)
I have nothing against this guy but it’s such a weird industry. You can be a superstar Dj and release music under your name but it’s not produced by you but people reckon its music made by you.
Because its 138 BPM for sure. Put your 138 down for a while and start listening to some stuff below it. Also try some other genres. There is always something better that you would like, but haven't found yet.
nice interview. but i think it would nice to gather technical questions before the interview, for example, does his summing device (dangerbox) improve quality of his sound and etc? good work Twan!
I'm not a producer / musician myself, so I really don't know much about any of these things. Which is the reason why I'm staying away from these kind of technical questions in all my interviews ;-) Plus I want that my interviews are educational for a bigger audience, not just producers / musicians. There are other channels that focus more on the technical side and things like that, but that's not my intention of my vlogs :) Hope this helps!
@@muzikxpress I checked on discogs but when i write vorwerk or Maarten Vorwerk, i only find few tracks, mainly under Vorwerk for tracks and remix thats all.
@@johnspartan1464 you can check the “credits” section on Discogs too. Might not be complete, but I think it’s the best place to find what you need. Good luck!
There's a few tracks actually, I'm using "Epic" by Sandro Silva & Quintino, a bit of Jeckyll & Hyde's "Freefall", plus a small part of "Vorwerk - Cambodia" as well. So depends which part you're talking about ;-)
How do people who claim to be a Producer/DJ hire someone like Maarten and cool with his name being in the credits. No problem for Maarten its cool what he does but how do you live your life off pretending to be a producer but hire someone else to do it? Freakin Ridiculous.
As far as I know he didn't. Maarten's name is always in the credits as he explained in the interivew. I can't really recall seeing his name in the credits of a Tiësto track.
Armin can produce, so he doesn’t need a ghostproducer. Benno and Armin work together for many years already, which is not a secret at all. And if that is the case, Benno is being mentioned in the credits. So definitely not a ghostproducer.
@@muzikxpress Thank you very much for your reply. Can you please tell me more ghost producers who's working for popular DJ's? Any youtube links? I want to learn more of them as "Secret" :))
Anyone who uses a ghost producer to write an entire track is cringe and needs to stop being lazy and learn how to produce or get lost from the scene . I have no respect for those types of people. If you’re still new to producing and struggle with somethings I think it’s ok to have a “ghost producer” help you polish your track but that’s it. If you don’t make your own music you have no right calling it your own.
I like your vlogs, but you should really work on the pronunciation of your English... It sounds to Dutch... 😂 But for the rest keep up the good work, the content is great!
Well, I am Dutch ;-) This is just a hobby, I'm not a professional and I know I'm not fluent in English, but I think the content is way more important than the way I pronounce things. As long as people can understand it ;-) I can also do the interviews with Dutch people in Dutch, but than people will complain it is not in English. You can't satisfy everybody haha
@@muzikxpress true about that, it just sometimes gets on my nerves when people talk "steenkolen" English and it sort of distracts from the content, but like I mentioned before, the content in the end is what matters so looking forward to more episodes!
