Onder Invloed is a video project by journalist and filmmaker Matthijs van der Ven. The project title is Dutch for ‘under the influence’. Since June 16th 2008, Onder Invloed filmed numerous international musicians covering their favourite bands in sessions and at Onder Invloed live shows. The first Onder Invloed book has been published in January 2012 by publisher L.J. Veen.
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MY INFLUENCES, BY... ONDER INVLOED

MY INFLUENCES, BY… ONDER INVLOED

Here’s a new series at Onder Invloed. I’m going to ask musicians and some other interesting persons to make a playlist on Spotify containing their favourite songs, be it of all time or simply at this moment. I’m going to kick this one off myself, with a playlist I made for the wonderful Mixed-Tapes earlier...
RATHER BE A SINNER THAN A PRIEST

RATHER BE A SINNER THAN A PRIEST

Every now and then, I’ll have a look back in the ever growing archives of Onder Invloed. There are a lot of tapes and external harddrives that contain not only edited and published footage, because a lot of it is unseen and untouched. The main reason is that I haven’t had enough time to process...
THE WEIGHT

THE WEIGHT

Last week, The Band-drummer Levon Helm died. It made me think not only of all the great songs he’s responsible for, or ‘The Last Waltz’ which is one of my favourite music films, but also of all the various cover versions people have done of The Band’s amazing song ‘The Weight’ for Onder Invloed over...
RECORD STORE DAY SAMPLER

RECORD STORE DAY SAMPLER

Tomorrow it’s Record Store Day. For those of you who don’t know what that means and can’t make their minds up based on the name of the day; it’s a day to celebrate the independent record stores all over the world. A lot of musicians release special editions of records or singles on vinyl and...