Tobin Bradstreet aka Tobias van der Avort was born in 1975 in Rotterdam, Th… Read Full Bio ↴Tobin Bradstreet aka Tobias van der Avort was born in 1975 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Growing up he developed a sweet spot for trance and electro based beats. Together with his best friend Maurice he enjoyed trance, techno and uptempo electronic music occasionally but with much shared emotion.

10 years passed before I spend time with another friend Nicolas D. working and listening many hours, entire days, week in week out from 1997 till 1999 making music in his home studio with early analog synthesis synthesizers like the Kawai K5000s and many Roland 19″ racked synth modules, MIDI interfacing using an early Cakewalk version. Those were the days…

Not an easy work flow back then but after many years I stumbled on my business iMac in 2011 and started playing with Garageband ’11. Because of the early experience of 1998 it felt so intuitive…beyond believe. I understand promptly how to use the interface and produce good and solid sounding stuff. The following weeks and months were obsessively consumed with an eager energy to make some pretty ‘pictures’.

Along the months I seriously upgraded into a huge collection of HQ 24-bit producer samples, Logic Pro X and bought myself a microKorg XL and after that an already legendary true analog synthesizer: the Arturia MiniBrute. Together with soft synths from Dutch TwinLab like Armin van Buuren uses I am able to generate full and engaging compositions. Can’t wait to release these newer songs. On Friday 16th of August 2013 I released my first song ‘Run Keeper (Reconfigured 2013, club edit)’ as a first approachable and easy understandable ‘carrier’ of my producing capabilities yet to be realized potential in a very competitive but exciting industry.