You Can Hear It Is Radius

50K MM: Radius have reached 50k on May 11th last year. Please tell us something about what has happened since then.
Johan: A lot of things happened, about planning the recording sessions. Working out the budget plan and make decisions about how to get our music at the right places. Yesterday I finished the vocal sessions for the album and we will start mixing the whole thing the upcoming weeks. Beside of that we just launched our single “Prisoner of your love”.

50K MM: You announced your single “Prisoner of Your Love” coming out this weekend (Noorderslag weekend in January). What do you plan to promote it?
Johan: 3000 copies have been spread (At the Noorderslag weekend) among professionals in the music industry, like radio DJ’s in Europe…..festival and venue bookers….record companies and all othe kind of music professionals in Europe. We also had a chat with some dutch radio DJ’s from one of the major radiostations in The Netherlands.

50K MM: Is the single release step one of album promotion?
Johan: Yes, it is. A single with only 2 tracks is easy listening stuff for DJ’s and other promotors and gives a good preview of our upcoming work. And it’s easy and less expensive to spread than a whole album.

50K MM: Studio Spitsbergen played an outstanding role on your way to 50k. Where they also involved in the album production?
Johan: Yes, they where. For the recording and mixing process. We are working together with Studio Spitsbergen for many years now and have a strong relationship. And the most importent thing….fantastic teamwork to get the best out of it! Mastering will be done by Darius van Helfteren at http://www.amsterdammastering.com/

50K MM: When will your album come out? What kind of album can we expect?
Johan: The album will come out somewhere in April or May. It will be an album with a typical sound…the Radius sound. I guess the 2 tracks at www.radiusrock.com will give a good preview of what to expect. In the first 10 seconds of every song you can hear it is Radius, even while the songs are very different they can be on an album together. That is one of our main goals, to create a so called “sound”. Our album will be filled with some ballads, some heavy rock songs and some poprock stuff. All kept together with the Radius sound.

50K MM: What are your plans after the album release (promotion, live gigs, …)?
Johan: We are still working out some plans, but it is very important to have live gigs after the release so that’s one of our priorities. And we will try to get some stuff on the radio, that is the most powerful machine to reach a lot of people with our music.

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