elba

If you get Mediterranean associations hearing the name elba, you are wrong... elba is an Amsterdam based dance, edm, deep house, chill lounge, beach house, electro-pop producers duo: Eelco Boonacker and Bart Engel.

With Eelco being an old punker and Bart a jazzfunker, their backgrounds could not be further apart. But Eelco and Bart share two things: passion for music and traveling. Both of them played in various bands during their teens and twenties and traveled the world independently.

In their thirties they met when they both worked at Polydor Records and Universal Records in the Netherlands, Bart as International Exploitation manager and Eelco as plugger/radio promotor. In those years countless different styles of music passed through their hands and after the two musical antipoles decided to agree upon the notion that there are only 2 kinds of music: "good music and bad music" their friendship was sealed.

In 2002 they started to make music together for sheer fun. No pretentions, no ambitions. Many people, Dj’s, producers, and decision makers urged Eelco and Bart to release the music they made in 2003 already. Giving in to the social pressure "Follow the Sun" became 5 years later finally their first album release in 2008. It’s a reflection of that time in sound and the music holds samples of sounds that Eelco and Bart recorded during their traveling.