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  • Petervan’s Ride – October 2025

    Petervan’s Musical Ride October 2025 – 40+ songs. As usual, we have a lot of recent releases, including The Charlatans, Monza, and Brandi Carlile. Oldies from Rhythm & Sound, Patti Smith, and Norman Greenbaum. Play in shuffle mode to increase the surprise factor. Enjoy! Read more

  • Inspiration: Adrian Sherwood

    As already mentioned in my September 2025 Delicacies, I got a crush on the latest album by “Mister Dub” Adrian Sherwood, and went down the Dub Techno rabbit hole. From the review in De Standaard newspaper (Google Translate and highlights by myself): “With his label On-U Sound, Adrian Sherwood has created a unique musical universe over… Read more

  • Inspiration: Stefan Vanfleteren

    Sometimes, the silence of the sacred and the touch of chance awaken something deep within. This is what happened to me when I once again found myself confused by beauty, when visiting the Stefan Vanfleteren exhibition “Transcripts of a Sea” in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. “In 2020, photographer Stephan Vanfleteren embarked on… Read more

  • Petervan’s Delicacies – September 2025

    “Delicacies” is my incoherent, irregular, unpredictable collection of interesting sparks I came across online. Handpicked by a human, no robots, no AI. A form of tripping, wandering, dérivé, with some loosely undefined theme holding them together. Delicacies have no fixed frequency: I hit the publish button when there is enough material. That can be after a… Read more

  • Petervan’s Ride – September 2025

    Petervan’s Musical Ride September 2025– 55 songs. For this episode, I got caught up in a Dub Techno rabbit hole. This includes discovering the new album by “Mister Dub” Adrian Sherwood, and the book “Dub Techno: The Orphic Experience of Sound“. But as usual, we have a lot of recent releases, including Mark William Lewis,… Read more

  • The Forbidden Question – Talk at UnitedXR Dec 2025

    Excited to announce that I’ll be speaking together with Andreea Ion Cojocaru at the 2025 UnitedXR Conference in Brussels, happening December 8–10, 2025. This is my first public appearance in a long time, finally fully disconnected from corporate life and enjoying new artistic endeavours. The Forbidden Question is a branch of our New New Babylon… Read more