User:Stanforebee/sandbox

Bastiaan van der Vlist, known professionally as Stan Forebee, is a Dutch music producer, multi-instrumentalist and electronic musician. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he creates beats by blending hip hop, classical music and jazz with an electronic touch, focusing on complex chord progressions and colourful melodies. He also releases music under Beatsofreen, Melting Rivers and Haines. His songs have been included on various compilation albums, most prominently the Chillhop Music seasonal “Essentials” series. He recently worked for Marvel Studios in commission for Disneyland Paris on the music project “The Art of Marvel”. In 2021, he founded his record label “Hawthorn Music”.

Early life
Bastiaan van der Vlist was born on 4 May 1992 in Dutch country town Bodegraven, the Netherlands. Music was always at the center of his life. He was first introduced to playing the piano at the age of 4, by his father Johan, who laid a strong foundation on which he later developed a passion for jazz piano & theory. At 6 years old, he started recording and manipulating radio songs on cassette tapes - he would remove, cut or reverse the tape wire, put it back into the cassette, leaving only the instrumental parts and revealing new sound textures as a side effect. His love for instrumental music was there from the start; lyrics weren’t particularly a part of his music vocabulary. The traditional presence of classical music & jazz and the rising popularity of hip hop on the radio in his teen years shaped his musical direction.

Education
After being rejected at the Utrecht School of the Arts, Bastiaan moved to Utrecht and graduated from the Utrecht University with a Bachelor in Sociology. He is currently studying a Bachelor in Sound Production at Box Hill Institute, Melbourne.

Beatsofreen
Bastiaan started his music career as a producer and pianist. He started out as a solo artist under his first stage name Beatsofreen early 2011, when his first beattape "Future Memories" was released, inspired by the likes of J Dilla & Flying Lotus. In 2015, as part of his album “Full Circle” under Beatsofreen, a music video for single “Slowly Rising” directed by Hideki Inaba, went viral and got featured on Cartoon Network's “Adult Swim” and world-renowned tech platform The Verge.

Stan Forebee
An important year in his career marks 2013, when the alter ego and alias “Stan Forebee” was born: an anagram of Beatsofreen. Under Stan Forebee, his self-released debut album “Jazz Sessions” gained substantial attention worldwide. His father Johan was a prominent feature on the cover of both Jazz Sessions and his follow-up EP “Reflections” (2014) as a tribute to the influence Johan had on his early life. In the years following, Stan Forebee became his main alias and after having released a number of EP's, a second full length “Orange” was released on Vinyl Digital in 2019.

Haines
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Personal life
Bastiaan van der Vlist resides in Melbourne, Australia and is married to Davita van der Velde. He has two older sisters in the Netherlands.

His music has aired on radio stations

worldwide like BBC Radio (UK) & NPR Radio (USA) as well as FBi

(Sydney) & PBS (Melbourne) on a local level.

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Links
Musicbed

https://www.musicbed.com/artists/stan-forebee/44226

Spotify Stan

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2cg9jlWp1QRc0Sk6kTp9Ez Slowly Rising

Slowly Rising

Music Video original

https://vimeo.com/142716939