Axxonlab (live)

Axxonlab is a live act from Eindhoven, the Netherlands. It was born as

collaboration between two friends; Fen Weijtens and Ricky van

Broekhoven. Both being (electronical) music fanatics and having a

background in playing musical instruments.



Fen Weijtens is also known as Drs Fntn mixing minimalistic Dub-techno.

He was taught playing the drums at an early age. Also listening a lot

to hip hop, reggae and funk is what made him being creative with

producing beats and being able to create rhythms with a clear

complexity.



Ricky was affected with the house virus in the early nineties. He

played the piano since he was six years old. At that time thinking the

classical music his teacher got him to play wasn’t interesting, he

tried to recreate the house music he liked. Making his little brother

play repetitive beats on his toy drum and accompany him with the

chords on the piano. Those sequences were all neatly recorded on his

My First Sony.



After different solo projects Fen and Ricky decided to merge their

skills in creating their own electronical music. They joined forces as

Axxonlab at the end of 2007.



Their first gig was in a sold out Club Rechter in Eindhoven. After

having played at several clubs and festivals in their hometown the

amount of requests for performing their live- act at cities across the

country is ever growing.



Techno heroes like Richie Hawtin, Carl Cox, and Dave Clarke initially

inspired their music. But now they have found their own distinctive

style in a mix of minimal / (dub)-techno and electro.



On stage their ‘set-up’ is constantly evolving and changing with

different synthesizers and controllers. However, the two laptops

containing their sequences are always the heart of the set.