If a no-nonsense and diverse DIY approach to running an electronic label started anywhere in Holland, it may well have been in Amsterdam - at Knekelhuis. 

This label has a conviction as strong as any outsider, and refusing to accept the stigma of genre conformity, Owner Mark van de Maat echos the shunning of his rural religious past and indulges in an eclectic output. Live instrumental seems to be the spiders thread that spins its intricate excitement together, with efforts as far reaching as Ambient and Synth pop - not forgetting the all that lies wildly between. 

Striking differences amongst the stark angles and colours of the back catalogue point towards a becoming of the future, but also a clutch on the past and the buried - still to be resurrected. After all, The ‘Knekelhuis’ is where we might well store the bones of the deceased.