New Release on Bits & Pieces

The second part of the 16 Bit Lolitas Glowfield project comes to light with this cracking two piece. Support form Digweed, Sharam, Axwell, Sander Kleinenberg, Nick Warren, Hector Romero. It's been top ten in the Progressive Chart on Beatport for three weeks now, you can listen and buy at Beatport

InTheMix interview with 16 Bit Lolitas

The first thing that strikes me when speaking to Dutch underground house duo 16 Bit Lolitas is their passion and enthusiasm for their music. They answer my questions with the confidence and insight bestowed only to those at the top of their game, and that’s exactly where they are right now.

Since forming in 2003, the pair (made up of Ariaan Olieroock and Peter Kriek), have produced a string of successful releases on labels as diverse as Yoshitoshi, Alternative Route, Plastic Fantastic, Nu Republic, Armada, LMR and most recently Above & Beyond’s progressive house offshoot Anjunadeep. They’ve also launched their own successful imprint Bits and Pieces, on which late last year they delivered their superb Live At Warung album, inspired by one of Brazil’s most famous beach clubs. It comprised of a mix featuring underground sounds handpicked from across the globe, alongside an entire disk of their own unreleased material.

Peter says it was tricky making the album because the 16 Bit Lolita’s sound varies from continent to continent. “Some continents require a more commercial approach and some more minimal, more techy and others more trancy like in Brazil and South America,” he told ITM. “We wanted to make an album that would be appreciated all over the world, but that would represent the sound of Brazil. So it was hard for us to figure out how to that, but we did our best.”

The guys now spend much of their time in South America, where the 16 Bit Lolitas sound is a huge success and Peter says the party vibe is better than Europe. “Different cultures have different degrees of openness,” he says. “Europeans are much more closed, and this also translates into the parties. In South America it’s much more open and happy and friendly and that just creates good parties. They used to do parties over here like that in 2000 and 2001 during in the glory days of progressive, but it’s died out for some reason.”

Both artists have strong musical backgrounds dating back to their childhood, but it wasn’t until they formed 16 Bit Lolitas that they decided to quit their day jobs and devote themselves to music full-time. “We met five or six years ago through mutual friends, and we both had jobs and careers but we also had dreams to make music and step out of the blue collar world and do something we really wanted to do,” explains Peter. “So one day we decided to just drop what we were doing, start making music and see how long we can sustain it. And we’re still here so that’s good,” he laughs.

It seems the secret to their success is working well as a team and knowing their limits, with each artist taking on their respective role as DJ and producer. “The collaboration works really well because Ariaan DJs a lot, and I just sit in the studio making music. He can give feedback on the music we’re making here and when he’s here we work on stuff together. I think it’s impossible these days to be a producer and a DJ and be good at both. You can’t do that anymore. They’re both full time jobs. If you’re out on the road all the time you can’t come back and expect to be in studio mode again. It just doesn’t work like that,” says Peter.

With a constant string of new releases on Bits and Pieces, it’s no wonder he devotes so much attention to studio time. “This year we’ve really stepped it up with the label,” he explains. “We are only focusing on a few collaborations and the 16 Bit Lolita sound itself. We’re releasing one release every month, and the reception is better than it’s ever been. So we’re really trying to make some honest music and see where it goes.”

So where exactly is there sound heading? “The Warung album and was the end of an era for us for that specific music,” explains Ariaan. “We don’t think this is house, tech house or progressive, we just mix it up. A lot of DJs are looking for a more universal sound, where they can play tech, progressive and minimal all at once, and to make it wider, so that’s what were trying right now. We also want 16 Bit Lolitas to be a festival act more than a club act. That’s what we’d like to do but you never know where it’s going to end up in the end!”

Carl Cox does 16 bit Lolita special

Hi all, Carl Cox is doing a 1 hour special about us and our label Bits and Pieces this week, he'll be playing lots of unreleased material, here's the info for this week's show.: Happy listening. Pete.

1 Canada Ottawa and Toronto Club 246 FM 100.7 FM & 97.9FM (Ottawa) 3-5am Monday Morning
2 America International Digitally Imported Digital none Friday 7pm GMT (2pm US Eastern)
3 America Northern America Sirius (Channel = Area) Satellite www.siriusradio.com <http://www.siriusradio.com> Sat@1pm, replays Weds@12am & Fri@6pm
4 Mexico National Beat 100.9 & Los 40 Principales FM 100.9 FM Wednesday 22.00 - 00.00
5 Brazil São Paulo Energia 97 tbc 97 FM Fridays 22.00 - 00.00 w
6 UK London, The South East, west and Midlands Kiss FM FM 100 FM Saturday morning from 2am
7 France Paris, surrounding area, Melun/South Paris, Compiegne, Rennes, Aix en Provence, Reims, Epernay/Champagne, Amiens, Poitiers, Clermont Ferrand, Besançon Radio FG FM 98.20 FM + others Saturday morning from 3am
8 Holland National Radio 538 FM 538 FM Sunday morning from 1am
9 Belgium National Top Radio FM various Thursdays 22.00-00.00
10 Spain National (Barcelona 104.2, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 102.7, Madrid 104.3, Malaga 94.5, Pontevedra 97.8, Sevilla 97.8, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 91.1, Valencia 95.7, Vigo 104.7, Zaragoza 92) Maxima FM various Saturday 22.00 - 00.00
11 Ibiza National Sonica FM 95.2 FM Fridays 22.00 - 00.00  
12 Cyprus National Energy FM 107.6 FM Fridays 00.00 - 02.00 (Saturday morning)
13 Turkey National Dinamo FM 103.8 FM Friday 22.00 - 00.00
14 Macedonia National City Radio FM 94.7 FM Fridays 00.00 - 02.00 (Saturday morning)
15 Bulgaria National Nova FM 101.7 FM Saturday nights midnight - 2am
16 Ukraine National Kiss FM FM various Monday night 21.00 - 23.00
17 Lithuania National Zip FM FM Various Sundays 01.00 - 03.00
18 Hungary Budapest + Surrounding area Roxy FM FM 96.47 FM Wednesdays 21.00 - 23.00
19 Lebanon Beirut, Mount Lebanon, The North. Mix FM FM 104.4FM Saturday nights midnight - 2am  
20 Philippines National Magic 89.9FM FM 89.9FM Saturdays 00.00 - 02.00 (Sunday morning)
21 India Goa & Bangalore Radio Indigo FM 91.9FM Fridays 21.00 - 23.00
22 Australia Melbourne Kiss FM FM 87.6FM Monday 16.00 - 18.00  
23 Australia Darwin & Palmerston KiK FM FM 91.5 FM & 88.0 FM Fridays 5pm

 

Frisky radio

Hiya All, just to let you know our Frisky show is going out this afternoon, 3pm PST.

new release out today

Hi all, this month’s release is available on Beatport now….

A serious note from Peter

Many people in the music industry today are worried about piracy and illegal downloading. No one however seems overly concerned with the fact that, if life existed within say 30 lightyears from our planet, they could receive all our radio and tv programs without paying any cable fee! This seems highly unfair to me! It's discrimination! All the aliens get free TV and radio and we earthlings have to pay for it! So I think it's time for an Interplanetary Copyright Enforcement Agency. So we can fly to other planets that receive our copyrighted material and collect the money that they owe us! And if they refuse to pay we will sue them for everything they have! Those bastards!

New Release

“Syngems” is out now exclusively on Beatport, the first of our monthly releases there.

 

https://www.beatport.com/en-US/html/content/release/detail/153782/Equalise%20This