"I think it was somewhere in October of the year 1993 that I had become the idea of
making a CD with my own synthesizer music and that I had to call myself 'VOID'.
Influenced by the mid seventies albums of Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarre,
I started to make compositions and almost one year later 4 of them were finished.
After making some improvements I decided that I had to record these compositions
on an album. Because producing your own CD in that time still was pretty expensive
the music had to wait until july 1997 to be released on my debut album 'VOID'.
For some reason I only made 200 copies (while 500 copies was not so much more
expensive) and sold copies on the KLEM-day in 1997 and the next year on the
Alpha Centauri festival. Most copies I sold to mail order distribution companies
like Synth Music Direct, Manikin Records and Groove (which still has some copies left).
In 1998 I started to write new music, I made 2 new pieces of music for the second album that
is going to be titled 'Avoidance'. Due to all activities with the band 'Nangyala',
where I was a keyboard player, and making Psychedelic (GOA) Trance, my VOID project had less
priority to me and there was a big delay making music for the second Void album. In 2001
I stopped as keyboard player in 'Nangyala' and later the band split up completely.
After that making music was not a very high priority for me anymore for a while,
I paid attention to other hobbies, I travelled a lot, however last 2 years I made
some new pieces which are suitable for the next Void album.
In 2003 I started a course for 1 year on the 'Koorenhuis' (music school), which is called
"Sound Laboratory" and there I learn something new about making synthesizer sounds,
mainly with a modular synthesizer system called 'Nord Modular' (from Clavia).
It's now March 2008 and I finally have finished my last composition for 'Avoidance'!
10 years ago I started with the first track, amazing that it took me 10 years to
finish the the whole album,
but it's obvious that it was not my highest priority in life
for quite some time ;-).
Today, 30 November 2008 I recorded the last songs, the album is now finally completely recorded.
Danyo Romijn, 30 November 2008.