Remco Hendriks - Remco's Groove Lab

Two Posts in one month! I'm on a roll. When I published my last post, noting it was YouTube month I remembered Dutch bassist Remco Hendriks and my desire to put together and album's worth of tracks from his YouTube channel. There is a lot there so I focused on one playlist that features a live drummer, his videos are either solo or have a drum backing track, (some live and some canned?). I've mentioned before my preference for songs with vocals over instrumentals but sometimes exceptions must be made and Remco is worthy of that exception. Besides YouTube you can find Remco on iTunes, Spotify and elsewhere (links below) so go show him some love.

Remco describes his channel thusly "On this channel you can find one-take performances recorded on video. No edits, no talk, just good ol' funky music. All bass and all original compositions, hope you'll enjoy!". Watching him play is just as much fun as listening to him, maybe more. As a bassist myself, he and I share some things in common in style and technique but like Micheal Hedges for acoustic guitar, Remco takes things to a whole other level (I still can't slap with conviction). I should be so lucky to be able to do half the things he does. Enjoy.

 

Tracklist

01 Funk with Chords

02 Experimental Fretless Funk Rock 

03 Fingerstyle Funk

04 Fretless Funk

05 Funk Rock Fingerpicking

06 Freaky Funk Rock

07 OC-2 Octaver Dirty Bass

08 Thumb & Fingerstyle Funk Rock

09 Chill Funk

10 Funk Rock in 7/8

11 Shuffle Feel Funk

12 Fretless with Harmonics

13 6/8 Funk Slap

14 Dirty Fretless Rock Bass

15 Dirty Fretless Rock Bass #2

16 Experimental Funk Rock Slap Bass

17 Heavy Groove

18 Fretless Funk Jam

Reality Notes

 

I have been a subscriber of Remco's channel for some time now and I still haven't watched every video there. There are so many! Cutting the playlist down to a CD's worth wasn't easy. I started with the longest tracks and worked my way down from there. I kept them in the order they appear in the playlist.

The cover is a screenshot from one of the videos, cropped and slightly altered with added text and an image from one of his albums. Track titles were derived from the video titles which are more descriptions of style and technique with some redundant wording edited out.

 

Links

YouTube: youtube.com/@RemcosGrooveLab

Facebook; facebook.com/Gr00veLab

Spotify: open.spotify.com/artist/4Rej4Q5WWdG3vQHwfNSfwB

Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/artist/remco-hendriks/1240178630

Bandcamp:  remcohendriks.bandcamp.com/