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I make music and DJ. Over the years I’ve made until 2024 I’ve made 37 albums. Some are still online free to download or buy: Bandcamp.com. I have added all my music to Free Music Archive. Bandcamp and FMA are FREE download but you can pay if you so desire. Until 2024 I’d not made any new music since 2012 but I made 6 albums in 2024.
There is a Last.fm profile with the Justin Tuijl catalogue listed. I also had some pseudonyms: Bad Mandi, Well Protected Nutter, Magic Tortoise, Polar Bear Express, Disco Valley (artist not label!), Mountain Ghost and Starship Anjuna.
The last album before the break was Dark Vortex (2012) made in my hotel room in Indonesia. I tinker with Ableton Live and Traktor now. When I was young I struggled for years to get a good music setup, or anything at all to make music with. The only point I really started to get an “instrument” was realising my Amiga computer could sequence. Therefore I mostly went down the computer generated direction after that. One of my favourite music softwares was Arturia Storm, it was like an instrument rack on the computer. I made many tracks with it but unfortunately they didn’t develop it for compatibility beyond Windows XP. It became increasingly unstable on newer Windows but I did for a long time keep an old laptop with XP just for Storm.
I also used the PlayStation 1 and 2. Music 2000 and Fluid.
One of my projects was Starship Anjuna, psytrance, it’s still online though I have lost access to it: Soundcloud also at Bandcamp
I did play a few gigs. All of my music is recorded live and can be played live. This has always been important to me with computer music, I don’t sequence anything.
DJ:
I did DJ all that time too which started with mix tapes and became doing gigs. However, after some bad experiences in Goa in 2012 and some bad gigs in London in 2015/6 I decided to knock live gigs on the head. The highlight of DJing was playing a 7 hour set in 2012 in Anjuna, Goa at the Bamboo Forest “venue”.
So what was a hobby and interest could have become a lot more than that but in the end I decided it was a mugs game, especially after being messed about in Goa and London. While in London I was doing a degree as a mature student and it just wasn’t worth it to have dreadful gigs and try to study at the same time.
A shame as I was getting a few contacts and a few who liked my stuff. The online connections spread out into the real world. Some DJ sets still exist at Mixcloud
Listen/download for free – follow
The following list is being added to of places to listen to my music or download it for free and follow on social media
Justin Tuijl at Bandcamp
Justin Tuijl at Soundcloud
Justin Tuijl at Free Music Archive
My musician page at FB
Justin Tuijl musician on YouTube
Justin Tuijl DJ mixes at Mixcloud, I lost most of my DJ mixes
Justin Tuijl musician at Twitter
Justin Tuijl Last.fm profile, the other projects are on there too
Starship Anjuna at Free Music Archive
Starship Anjuna at Soundcloud
Starship Anjuna on YouTube
Polar Bear Express at Free Music Archive
Polar Bear Express at Soundcloud
Current Setup
My current setup is mainly:
Ableton Live
Traktor
For tinkering:
FL Studio
Cakewalk
Waveform
Discography
Free download at Bandcamp or Free Music Archive
2024 – after a very long break I made six albums in 2024:
37. I DON’T EXIST
36. conspirator
35. DystopiaUtopia
34. We’re Not In The Club
33. 2030.H.A.P.P.Y.
32. I’m awake, now what?
31 Albums by me upto 2012
Early stuff was made on computers, a keyboard, playstation and saved on 90min cassettes. They kind of got lost. Albums 6 and 7 were the first on a decent PC and didn’t get lost due to the internet as backup! One and Half are sister albums with the tracks pretty much all made in the same time period.
Under Justin Tuijl
Selected Amiga Classics (lost) 90 mins (approx 1990)
Make you change you mind (lost) 90mins
Eat my Fluid (lost) 90mins
Inquisition (lost) 90mins
Up the Revolution (lost) 90mins
Half 40 mins
One (approx 2008)
Environmental Army 40 mins 06-07-2009
Spirilina Goa Beach 15 mins 07-06-2010
env 120 mins 03-01-2011
rainforest 76 mins 10-02-2011
NO STATION 76mins 07-04-2011
Audio Explorer 60 mins 16-05-2011
livefromnorwich 105 mins 08-07-2011
Magic Batplan 100 mins 22-01-2012
Magic Tortoise 50 mins (originally recorded under the artist name Magic Tortoise)
Connection (lost) 25 mins
Evil Mind 70 mins 12-03-2012
Dark Vortex 170 mins 06-07-2012
Best of: the collection 80 mins
Orangutan 86 mins 01-08-2012 (this album was split up and put under the Bad Mandi and Starship Anjuna projects)
Metal 12 mins 07-07-2013
Orbit (lost) 50 mins
Well Protected Nutter (Drum and Bass)
Foot to the Floor 23 mins
Bad Mandi (Techno/Ambient)
Electrocuteshun 50 mins
Naughty Mandi 35 mins
Starship Anjuna (Psytrance. Psyship was a released album, download free at: Bandcamp)
Psyship 65 mins
Psyspace 112 mins
Polar Bear Express
Polar Bear Express 30 mins
Disco Valley (artist not label!)
Goa Curry 11 mins
Mountain Ghost
Snow Leopard 4 mins(!)
Magic Tortoise (Ambient/Experimental/Noise)
Magic Tortoise 50 mins (yes this was also put under Justin Tuijl)
Album art: