AKH Records

AKH is an Egyptian Hieroglyph and could more or less be translated as "effective," "enlightened," "glorious," "beneficial" and so "useful". These meanings only seem to be different because English has no equivalent. The first forms of AKH Records started to take place around 1997, with the coming of the first plans and ideas of releasing an music-album of Remy. Founders Ewout Koek and Remy Stroomer met each other at high school in 1992, and it came clear that they more or less had the same musical interests. A lot of variation, but preferences for electronic music. Ewout Koek studies Egyptian Archaeology in Leiden, Netherlands (he came up with the name AKH) and besides that he has a lot of musical interest. He is responsible for mainly everything except making music: actually everything around the music and the record-label (listening, criticising, co-producing and conceiving, composing artwork). Remy Stroomer studied sonology in The Hague, Netherlands for 2 years, and started to work after that period. In his spare time he produces a lot of music. Thanks to work, Remy was, and still is, able to extend his studio. He is mainly responsible for feeding the listener with music. 1999 Was the year for the first AKH-release, a private pressing on double cd-r. Remy's album "Exhibition Of Dreams" was distributed in small quantities, and it didn't take too long before all copies were sold out. Before having the chance of a re-pressing, a copy got in hands of Dutch electronic music mail-order company Groove Unlimited, and it was decided that an official cd would be released. Ideas were to make a one-cd compilation of the best tracks of "Exhibition Of Dreams", but because it was meant to be a double-cd, Remy wanted to release a totally new album, with new and yet unreleased music, called "The Art Of Imagination". Remy's album "The Art Of Imagination" from 2000, became the first official release on AKH Records. In Co-operation with Groove Unlimited. After the 3rd and 4th AKH Releases in 2003 (again 2 new Remy albums) agreements were made for releasing other music on AKH Records. And from here on Ewout and Remy keep on making new plans to bring you more great music, and trying to extend AKH Records.