Thyme Flies
Producer, mix engineer and DJ based in Rotterdam. I make music with soul and a bit of jazz in its bones, or anything that simply feels honest.
About
Hi, I'm Thijmen.
I'm a musician with a passion for making music, and an equally big one for finding it. I usually start from something rough (a loose beat, a piano recording) and colour it in later with proper recordings, production and mixing. And when the studio closes, I take my taste in music to the dance floor.
Background
I grew up in Groningen and now live in Rotterdam. After graduating from the Herman Brood Academie, I'm now in my fourth year of Creative Production at Codarts.
Besides production, Codarts taught me a lot about harmony, piano, vocals and percussion. I liked percussion so much that I did two minors in it: a broad percussion minor with Martin Verdonk, and one entirely devoted to the cajón.
What I play
Piano, classically trained, with lots of jazz and pop at the conservatory. Synth bass. Percussion: shakers, tambourine, congas, cajón and claves. And drums: enough to get by, not enough to get booked.
Piano, synth bass and percussion end up on almost everything I produce. They're where most of my ideas start.
Why Thyme Flies?
My name is Thijmen, so Thijm or Tijm has been my nickname for as long as I can remember. Tijm is Dutch for thyme, which also happens to be my favourite herb: it smells amazing and ends up in half the things I cook.
And because time flies, and I try to live in the moment as much as I can, the pun more or less wrote itself.