Here Comes The Flood — Torre Florim has put up a sunny Sweatshop remix on ghostnotes.net: A pretty long time ago Marcel van As (Coparck / Spinvis) and I were talking, and he told me he wanted to try something with the Sweatshop tracks. I said “sure”. Do the thing yo... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Watch De Staat perform Rooster-Man @ Hedon, Zwolle, The Netherlands - 2012/05/12. » destaat.net HCTF review of Machinery. more info

Here Comes The Flood — Torre Florim has put up an example of on-the-fly songwriting on Ghostnotes: This was made on a summer night, somewhere in 2010. One of those songs that just ‘happened’. While I was trying out some new gear in the studio, Jaap, Lea and Jop dro... more info

Here Comes The Flood — photo: Tom Roelofs Torre Florim, main man of Dutch alternative rock band De Staat has created a website for his demos, covers, b-sides and other projects: Ghostnotes. Ghostnotes is a collection of things based around the doings of Torre Florim (me)... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Now picture this: three guys playing a heady mix of Wolfmother, Triggerfinger, De Staat and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. That's right. Loud as fuck. Belgian trio Wallace Vanborn are unleashing their new album Lions, Liars, Guns & God, a wealth... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Dutch alternative rock band De Staat have announced more dates for the European Summer festival season. Live dates: 05/05 Bevrijdingsfestival, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands # 06/02 Dongen Draait Door, Dongen, The Netherlands 07/08 Werfpop, Leid... more info

Guardian Music — Cristina Zavalloni (soprano), London Sinfonietta/Atherton(Signum)Louis Andriessen has never shirked the big subjects, and here are two of the biggest: politics and sex. De Staat (1972-76) is a hard-hitting classic referencing Plato and Brecht in the ... more info

Guardian Music — (Signum)This release signals the start of a new partnership between Signum and the London Sinfonietta. The recordings are taken from the orchestra's concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall last April, which included the British premiere of Anaïs Nin, L... more info

Guardian Music — Five leading composers choose their favourite peerMark-Anthony Turnage on Louis AndriessenI marvel at the extreme individualism of Louis Andriessen. Every time you hear a piece of his music, you know it's by him. I first heard De Staat in the mid-1... more info

Totally Fuzzy — This is a very nice promo sampler, mostly relatively unknown stuff, some of it not even released yet, but definitely worth exploring, some great stuff in here, trust me ;) I added some more of these samplers, the December and January playlists, i... more info