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About Future Mode of Operations:

FMO is a term used widely in the outsourcing scene,
where a company goes from a Present Mode of Operation (PMO) to the outsourced situation (FMO).
The period between the PMO and FMO is called Transition Period.
This act will always be in the Transition Period, developing new styles of electronic music.
The name Future Mode of Operations stands for ongoing explorations, inevitable…

To create the right platform for launching FMO>> and other related artists,
somewhere in 2006 the SHEM record label was founded.
SHEM stands for South Holland Electronic Music.
It's a save haven for all experimental electronic artists,
not wanting to be caught in the web called mainstream.

Future Mode of Operations was founded when Coach Bertels (aka BA)
got inspired by the electronic sounds of artists like:
Scanner, Boards of Canada and Plastikman.
Living in Oegstgeest, the Coach got himself a drummachine
at the Lange voort shopping centre and went for it.
Since that day futuristic sounds are
heard frequently in the neighbourhood.
The music of Future Mode of Operations 
can be called: Minimal electronic.
On the edge of boring, that's interesting.

Coach Bertels

 News:

 

2011 willl become a great year for both Coach Bertels and his beloved FMO

The album "Oceans" will see light

and a very special colaboration is at hand!

So stay tuned to be informed!

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Geluidskaart Leiden (2007)
 FMO>>'s anwser to a City Map making contest...
The contest is simply: make a map of the city Leiden in a way you think is best.
Feel free to use whatever is needed but keep the actual size to 50 x 50 cm...
Right, since all the inspiration goodies point in 2D mapping directions, Coach Bertels thinks differently ;-)
He selected the ten places in the city he likes best and made tracks about them.
Lyrics were Spoken by Lies van der Meer and a keyboard was abused by Carbon 14...
What a team!!
Check out "Stationplein", "Rapenburg" and "Poorten" here

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One of the projects is called "Industrial Ruins"
and was recorded for a great part in Amsterdam
 where Catherine Cuellar, from Dallas Texas, added a magnificant vocal contribution.
 "Crowds" is a fine example, check here

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Pravda, introducing Jannov Werdevsky

Pravda is a true FMO>> album!
Created in association with Jannov Werdevsky, 
who came across Coach Bertels his path by a miracle. 
During a bad storm, 
Jannov drifted off and ended up near Coach Bertels his Cube.
He was desperate since he had no place to sleep, no food and vodka. 
Therefore he started singing old and sad Russian songs,
and that's where it al started.
He was offered a warm shelter for the night,
with Russian spinach-pizza and vodka.
Jannov was so happy that he sung,
danced and misbehaved all night.
This didn't matter to Coach Bertels,
because he had fantastic new material to work with
for a new Future Mode of Operations album: 
Pravda!

Projects:


Future Mode of Operations is always on the lookout for
more cool sounds and effects to turn in to catchy music.
Coach Bertels and his Valerie are all ears,
listening to youre evrey move, recording it.
Sounds you may take for granted,
like a bus driving by,
or a kid dragging his parents along.....
It's all there, on the streets.

Some work of this project has landed in "Geluidskaart Leiden"

Themetracks 2006
FMO did a great job, in cooperation with Carbon 14,
creating a Theme Track 2006 album together.
Known under the final name; Paradigm.

Check this out!

Machinefabriek
Wouter van Veldhoven
Socccer Committee
We vs Death
Sennen

Justin Bennett

Scanner

Chris Watson

Links

Fieldrecording
Live in your livingroom
Mister Motley
STEIM!
)toon)
DEAF07

CNR

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