Rude 66 - History

History

Rude 66 started as a musician in the 80's, playing keyboards in Noise band Kamika6 who gained some notoirity in the Dutch underground scene but only produced a demo cassette. In school, he met Eric van Spelde with who he formed Voice of the Mute, an Electronic body music band who released a track on a compilation on Body Records in 1990. They then formed the duo Modulate, who released a techno EP in 1993 on Belgian label SSR, an offshoot of Crammed Discs.
Meeting up again with highschool friend Guy Tevares who just started Bunker Records, Rude gave Tevares a tape of acid tracks that was released on Bunker in 1993. Like many of Rude's earlier tracks, this was produced by Arno Peeters. The double LP received favorable reviews and tracks were played on National radio. It was followed by a string of albums that established Rude 66 as one of the main names of the label and of the lo-fi acid scene. These albums all have the typical Bunker look: there is no sleeve and there are no track titles: the only info is the artist name and the catalogue number on the black label. Rude started his own label Speedster Records in 1995, but due to distribution problems only one EP was released in a limited edition of 300 copies. Most were sold through the Hotmix Mailorder of I-f.
Rude moved to Djax-Up-Beats in 1996 and released 2 ep's there, before Bunker restarted and Rude was among the first artists to release electro ep's like the classic Machine EP.
from 1996-2005 Rude 66 was connected to the CEM studio in Amsterdam, starting the Vynalogica label in 2000 where artists could work with the studio's vintage modular synthesizers and the results released as ep's. Records were released by Legowelt, Orgue Electronique, Dntel, Bong-Ra, Solvent, Lowfish, and others. Recently Rude 66 releases his main output on the Creme Organisation label, including Black Sabbath (2005), the 1000 Year Storm (2007), As (2008) and the Sadistic Tendencies (2008) album.

As a live artist, Rude 66 has played all over the world in the last 15 years, including the US and most European countries. from 2007, Rude 66 has been invlolved in the running of the Cybernetic Broadcasting System with long time musical friend I-f. Rude also has his own Cosmic Space show on the station.