Enno Velthuys

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 Selecting And Making Agreements. The Network And Its 'free Way Of Handling Music' Was Disappointing For Enno. Plus His Mental Condition Became Worse. "We Lost Contact As I Was Doing More And More Extreme Industrial & Experimental Music. I Stopped Exart And Networking During The '90s. "Only A Few Years Ago People Started Contacting Me Again About The Music Of Enno Just Because They Could Hear His Music Online And They Wanted To Have More Information. But I Didn't Know What Happened With Enno. One Guy Douglas McGowan Started A Search And Finally Found Out Enno Had Died In 2009 Because Of Cancer. I Phoned Enno's Mother Who Was Still Alive And Living In The Same Department Flat In The Hague. She Told About The Last Years Of Enno Being Held In A Closed Mentally Health Institution. About Enno's Music She Was Skeptical But Also Proud." More Information Here read less