22tracks & Friends

Two weeks ago 22tracks HQ was in shock. Our office got robbed and the burglars stole all our computers, screens, beamer, turntables and more. Damage: €20.000+. The most painful part: it appeared that we weren’t insured for theft. Oops.

Gladly our music and website are hosted outside of the office, so the 22tracks service itself is perfectly safe. Afterwards, we’ve received hundreds (if not thousands) of support tweets, comments, emails, phone calls and visits. Artists, record labels, friends and of course our backbone: the listeners!

We decided to turn this all into something positive: a unique 22tracks & Friends night at the Bitterzoet (Amsterdam) on Thursday, May 9th. To celebrate the fact that we’re still here (stronger than ever) to provide you new music, the easy way! The entrance that night is €5,- (or more, up to you). We will also sell tshirts with the entrance fee included.

If you’re living too far away or won’t be able to make it: we’re building a small donation platform where your possible support can help us back on our feet even faster.

Thank you all so much!
The 22tracks Crew

Lineup: To be announced
Door: €5,- (or more, up to you)

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger…

English:
Two nights ago, in the night of Wednesday the 17th of April, one of the most shocking events in the history of 22tracks took place. Our office got robbed and the burglars stole approximately 25.000 euros worth of hardware; computers and such. Of course this is quite a shock to all of us, the listeners and the team, and we have temporarily stopped updating for security reasons. Now, after a good night sleep, we’re back on track and our service is running as normal again: genres are being updated again and for you, the listener, nothing has changed.

Besides the financial impact these events have had, we won’t let them bring us down. On the contrary. We will change the situation into something positive. We’re now working on the best way to do this and we’re sure it’s going to be as you’d expect from us: all about the love for music. We want to explicitly thank everyone for the support we’ve had in the past twenty four hours and we hope to be able to unite all the supporters soon in a way that fits us all. To be continued…

French:
Durant la nuit du 17 Avril dernier, notre siège à Amsterdam a subi un cambriolage. Ce fût l’un des événements les plus choquants de l’histoire de 22tracks. Les cambrioleurs ont dérobé ordinateurs et biens matériels d’une valeur d’environ 25000 euros. Naturellement ce fût un choc pour nous tous, les auditeurs et l’équipe, et nous avions temporairement suspendu les mises à jour pour des raisons de sécurité. Après une bonne nuit de sommeil, nous sommes désormais à nouveau sur pied, notre service a repris son fonctionnement normal : les genres sont mis à jour et pour vous les auditeurs, rien n’a changé.

Malgré l’impact financier que cet événement implique, nous ne nous laisserons pas abattre. Au contraire, nous allons transformer cette situation en quelque chose de positif. Pour ce faire, nous travaillons actuellement à rechercher la meilleure façon, et nous sommes certains que cela va se faire autour de la musique, comme vous pourriez attendre de nous. Nous tenons à faire part de notre profonde gratitude, à tous ceux qui nous ont soutenu durant ces 24 heures passées, et espérons pouvoir vous réunir tous de la façon qui nous convient le mieux. A suivre …

22tracks presents: 22sessions 2

On April the 3rd we presented our second 22sessions at the World Minimal Music Festival, Amsterdam. The idea behind 22sessions is to give five talented producers the opportunity to remix a famous composition, this time we chose to remix Simeon Ter Holt’s Canto Ostinato by Arts The Beatdoctor, Boeboe, Bootycall, Oby Nine & Vincent-Paolo. For those who couldn’t be there we made a 1.5 minute video impression. All the remixes will be soon available on our Bandcamp page.

22tracks 3 Year Anniversary!

On Sunday October 21st we’ll celebrate our 3rd Anniversary during the Amsterdam Dance Event in the North Sea Jazz Club… and of course you’re invited! Bring us some birthday love and our top-shelf DJ crew from Amsterdam will take care of the rest. Our official birthday is at midnight, so RSVP, be there before 00.00 and the entrance is free! No free entrance, but €5, without RSVP (you will receive an e-ticket) or after 00:00. ADE delegates have free entrance all night.

Wanna come?
1. Like us http://facebook.com/22tracks
2. Join / attend the event http://22tr.co/3yrsevent
3. RSVP through this link http://22tr.co/3yrsvp

See you there!