Well who am I? If you want to know, here's some details:

My name is Peter van Cooten. I live in Utrecht, Holland.

Have been playing all sorts of music for the bigger part of my life (which is over 50 years now).

Have DJ-ed for some time, worked in a record store, collected music, collected music, collected other music, kept on collecting when quitting the record store...etcetera, etcetera…

A lot of the music collected may now be found on my own webshop, since I ran into space problems at home. It turned out there's so much new music that I rarely replay older records. Seems there’s not even enough time to listen to new music more than once..

Although my musical taste varies by the moment, I've had a definite passion for 'Ambient Music' through all these years - starting in the early seventies with the 'Cosmic Rock' of Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream...and with increasing interest in the ambient music as defined by Brian Eno.
In ambient, I have become hardcore drone man (in my opinion 'ambient music' should definitely never have a dance beat, although 'Dance Music' can be sort of ambient....gettit?).

Apart from electronic music I was a dedicated funk addict (George Clinton & family, any funk uncut) since late 70’s). And I've been playing Reggae since the early 80's and never got bored...
So maybe I'm a bit hard to profile.

I'm especially interested in all music with a twist, defying genres and crossing borders. My musical heroes always seem to be people that cross genres and synergize different things. People like Bill Laswell (who created beautiful ambient, as well as beautiful funk, as well as beautiful world music, as wel as (not so beautiful) jazz-core), Nils Petter Molvaer (combining jazz with dance and ambient), Brian Eno, Adrian Sherwood, just to name a few.

A few years ago (starting in 2000) I was invited to create a long-form ambient-electronic mix for Dutch National Radio NPS.
These collages became a  yearly tradition and I am very proud of some of them (all of these mixes are features on this weblog now, read on!).
I continued to create them for various dutch NPS radio programs, until in 2006 I got involved in compiling a radio show for dutch national broadcasting organisation NPS, called Folio. 

Late 2009, Folio was cancelled, together with some other experimental radio shows - thus eliminating all experimental music from dutch national radio. 

This was the moment I decided the Internet was a better platform for 'niche' music like ambient electronics.

I decided to 'upgrade' this weblog and give it more attention to create an alternative for the radio shows.
I will be publishing all previous ambient mixes. They will be downloadable from this website, bit also as a podcast: so from now on it's possible to stream/download or even to subscribe to them via iTunes or Winamp. After publishing all mixes from 2001-2009, this weblog will also feature new mixes and collages, as well as the usual reviews.

The Internet has caused quite a few revolutions: it is hard to imagine all things that have changed in the last 10 years and how quickly they changed.
I'm really looking forward to all things that the near future will bring to us.

"Nothing is good unless you play with it"
(George Clinton)