The story behind "Laserdance - Humanoid Invasion" by Erik van Vliet | Muzikxpress 142
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Dutchman Erik van Vliet is active in the music scene for a very long time already. During the years he has been a DJ, he did own 2 record shops and several record labels. Erik was the main man behind Hotsound Records, Stealth Records and Haunted House Records for example.
Besides that, he was part of many projects such as Low Atomic Style, Space Trax, Techno Grooves and Laserdance. For this episode of Muzikxpress I sat down with Erik, to talk with him about the Laserdance classic “Humanoid Invasion”, a massive Italo / synth pop classic which he did together with Michiel van der Kuy back in the year 1986.
But of course you will also hear how Erik started his impressive career, which well known DJs and producers used to work in his recordstore in Rotterdam and last but not least you will hear the story behind the succes of the act The Outhere Brothers on Erik's label Stealth Records!
Enjoy and thanks for watching!
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#laserdance #italo #synthpop
What is your all-time favorite Laserdance track?
Very hard to say. Fave album is Changing Times.
Power Run album version, best spacesynth opener : D
Definitely Shotgun (Into the Night)!
Power Run
De opbouw, de sounds, de mastering. Tot in den treure beluisterd op de walkman tijdens krantenwijk in de 80's , en nu ik dit interview gezien heb een playlistje van dit genre opgezet,heerlijk !
Erik and Michiel = LEGENDS
Honestly, I never new Laserdance was Dutch! Always thought they were Italian.
Erik is a legend in the Dutch music scene.
I thought German, since all of mine is on ZYX LOL
Humanoid Invasion has always been one of my favorite songs from the 80’s. So energetic and avant-garde for that era. Truly an innovative and timeless piece of art.
Erik van Vliet was an icon for me! I fell in love with Laserdance at the end of the 80's. I bought all the records in Vlaardingen and still have them till today. I used Laserdance as an intro while I was a radio pirate (3 meter) as it was called. This was a brilliant episode in my life. Thanks so much to offer Erik this platform! He was really a legend in the 80's and early 90's!!!!!
I am proud to be the Lay out designer of the Laser dance T-shirt (and cd Album too), Erik is wearing in this video ;)
Haha so cool! Nice one!!!
There used to be a radioshow in Estonia in the 90s, where "Humanoid Invasion" was playing in the background for hours every day while the dj was italking and ntroducing new music. I think they played the song about 10'000 times during the show's entire run
Ah that's cool info to know haha! Thanks!!!
Man you interviewed Laserdance?
You are surely going to heaven!
🙌🏻
I still have the single "Laserdance - Humanoid Invasion" album in my collection. Thanks for the interview.
Dank Je again for this nice interview Twain. Maaaan missing out "Jack to the sound of the underground" Erik might be still sick of it today.
What a pleasant surprise. I used to play the best of laser dance a lot, many years ago. Great stuff.
Nice surprise, this interview! I met Erik in 2005 at the Collector's Fair in Utrecht, Holland for the first time. It was there I completed my Laserdance-collection with autographed copy's of some of the albums I was searching for at that time. Very nice guy! I first heard Laserdance sometime in late 1993/1994 when I heard Fire on Earth, maybe the best album they did in the '90s. Later I discovered the now legendary Future Generation-debut and Around the Planet, simply their best albums to date. When I heard they got back in 2016 with Force of Order, I was very happy! I hope we can see new Laserdance music in the near future. Keep up the good work Erik and thanks for this insightful interview!
Glad you enjoyed the interview, thank you!
I like the Italo Disco style very much! 😃
In the mid 80's pirate radio around Rotterdam and The Hague played a lot of Italo disco which was populair at that time in that region. Laserdance blended in that scene perfectly. That's how I and many other people got to know his early music.
Thanks muzik xpress for showing Laser dance is one of my favorites group from the 80s I have lots of vinyls I’m from Los Angels county California u.s.a
One of favorite humanoid invasion and Laser Dance Laser Dance my first album thanks again muzik xpress.
I really enjoyed this interview, thanks
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dziękuję.
You’re welcome!
I still have the original CD. Fantastic interview.
Fascinating interview Twan
Thanks so much!!
Many many thanks for the content!
Thank you for doing this interview!
Wow Im glad I found this clip!! Never seen or heard Erik like this, Laserdance is my favourite music ever, listen to LD and Koto still today! The music is epic, so strong love for it! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice doc. Erik is a great guy !
Thank you! And yes he is!
Great to see an interview with him, thanks a lot! Would also be very interesting to see one with Michiel van der Kuy!
Thanks so much! And Michiel is definitely on my wish list. Hopefully he’s up for it so we can make this happen one time in the (near) future!
Great video, very interesting to learn more about Laser Dance
Thank you very much!!!
Thanks muzik xpress from Los Angels California U.S.A your second home.
Great interview! The ones I've never heard of tend to be sensational as they are typically new to me.
Thanks so much! More to come soon ;-)
Very nice, Italo for ever. "Shotgun (in the Night)" is best. It's like Proxion and Koto in one mix 😀
Wow, never thought The Outhere Brothers shared producer with Laserdance! Listened to Laserdance a lot when I was 15.
Erik wasn't involved in the productions of The Outhere Brothers, he did license several of their tracks on his Stealth Records label. Plus he was responsible for picking the remixers for the Stealth release and of course the promotion etc.
Mooi gedaan Twan.
Hot sound your sound......pleinweg ...
Помню, как в году 1996 сидел на лекции в аудитории, а препод куда-то вышел. Я не долго думая подключил к плееру мини-колонки и врубил на полную Humanoid Invasion.
Good choice 😉
I remember Eric back in 1982 mr. the saint he released voice of space.
and many more bootlegs from '79 to 1984 your can read many pages in Disco Patricks book about D.J. mixes of the past
@@janvanvliet5091 hi Jan thanks I have a big collections of your music since 80s I I still playing it I have all Hot sound recording and made up records from Michael van Der kuy thanks from Los Angels California u.s.a .
Yep Voice of Space edits. Early space disco. What we now call cosmic disco. But he did much more and i don't think this interview will cover it. But i think it should because it's part of history. I still don't like laserdance but i'm 47 now and was deep into disco from 2003 till now. And that's mostly because i'm weird guy. Loved his shops in the 90's though. Also he pressed records in Miami because everybody wanted imports here. Not a lot of people knew it was Erik. But that was the plan. And yes i think those bootleg medley mixes are documented in Disco Patrick's book. But he also did normal releases pressed in miami not to be connected directly to him i think. Anyway he inspired me with his business side of things ;) Anyway i'm at the start of this interview and must see it.
Whoever disliked this video i only have one thing to say >>>> you should be ashamed of yourself.
Power run is my favorite
LOL @ how many times ‘FU in the Ass’ get’s mentioned 🤣
On Spotify, Humanoid Invasion has achieved more than 269,000 streams. Not bad.
Not bad at all indeed!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Maybe you should interview Michiel van der Kuy as well, the other producer behind Laserdance.
He’s one of the many people on my wish list, hopefully I can make it happen one day (if he’s up for it of course!)
Dank je Chris, jij bent ook goed bezig
@@janvanvliet5091 ik heb mijn antwoord genuanceerd 👍🏻
Request: interview Speedy J for his Public energy three o three record and maybe also Pull over.
I would love to do 1 or 2 interviews with him, but the last few years he hardly does any (video) interviews.... When I have more time in my schedule I want to ask him for sure, fingers crossed!
@@muzikxpress great response! Is it hard to get an interview with some producers? Whats the reason behind this. Could it be the more introverted, less outgoing personalities?
Some people say "yes" straight away, others are more difficult and some don't even reply.... I rather have them to say "no" so I can stop bugging them hehe..... But indeed, some people rather spend time in the studio instead of doing interviews, especially on camera. Some producers don't want to talk about their past / old productions and only want to focus on their current stuff, but my thing with Muzikxpress is to get the stories behind the big classics. Still very happy that I have a few interviews online with people that never really do interviews. I also think that this interview with Erik is (as far as I know) the only video interview that's online. And there's a few more on my channel (Felix, Cygnus X, Atlantic Ocean Hans Weekhout / Capricorn, Carlo Resoort, Ralphie B, Marcel Hol, Robert Smit etc). Working on some more interviews for later this year, but COVID doesn't make things easier tbh. Hope you enjoy the content on my channel! :)
Isn't this the guy that produced the first two Trilithon albums? Wonder why both were credited to Huib Schippers?
That Trillithon techno album was bonkers like aliens have landed, first time I heard it
@@KulBeens amm-amm-amm- CHOICE !..))
I didn't know him or his story, but now that i saw the interview, i realized that if he hadn't met Michael Van Der Kuy, for his Lazerdance project, and promoted him in his Stealth label as L.A Style (Low Atomic Style), then ''James Brown is Dead'' wouldn't had become, which in my opinion is the biggest and most successful techno track have ever been on earth.
Erik van Vliet is partially responsible for the whole Dutch/Belgian techno movement in the early 90's, so i feel much respect for him. Why didn't you ask him about L.A Style or Stealth label? I don't care about italo disco or Lazerdance, and most people don't either. Sorry!
Let me correct you on a few things.... Michiel was NOT involved with "James Brown Is Dead". Low Atomic Style was Erik van Vliet & Wessel van Diepen (who unfortunately doesn't do interviews, I already asked him....). L.A. Style was Wessel and Michiel van der Kuy. So I did not ask Michiel about "James Brown Is Dead", simply because he has NOTHING to do with that track!
Secondly, in case you missed it, all my 150 interviews are about a big hit from the past or a famous classic. That is the whole format of Muzikxpress and the idea behind my channel, so that is always the main focus when I do an interview. The reason why I picked "Humanoid Invasion" for the interview was because of the 35th anniversary of the track by the time I recorded and posted the interview. Plus it is one of the most well known tracks from the Laserdance project and a good reason to find out more about Michiel. I guess you also missed all the replies from people who really enjoyed the interview, since you said most people don't care about this.
@muzikxpress OK. Sorry for my misunderstood. It wasn't my intention to reject the whole interview. You do a great job with all those interviews . The only thing i wanted to say is that because Michiel Van Der Kuy was the producer of L.A Style and also a part of Lazerdance, then Erik van Vliet would definitely remember the story of L.A Style, even if he isn't part of them and since L.A Style don't do interviews. I am an oldskool techno head (Belgian/Dutch techno-rave from 1991) so i desperately need to know the story behind L.A Style. I hope they will change their mind in the future for an interview.
@@user-cx6lt2ej4h thank you! And I rather talk to the people that were actually involved with the making of the track. So hopefully Michiel will be up for it one day. For the next months my schedule is full, but he’s on my looooong wish list for sure. Fingers crossed! 🤞🏻😉
Unfortunately no real in depth answers on the production process. Maybe Michiel was more involved technically. Definitely a trend setter though for the Dutch market. The Italian music, who doesn't like it. Giorgio Moroder, Mr. Flagio, but also the French Cerrone. Great disco music.
Wasn’t this guy the non-musical part of LD? I always hear the other guy wrote all their music? Forgot his name…
Did you check the interview? All your questions are being answered there 😉