Mystic Brew - Music & Sound Design

Mystic Brew - Music & Sound Design Music, Sound Design and Mixing for Film, Documentary, Commercials, Theatre, Art and other media It focuses on a large variety of styles and genres.

Mystic Brew is an Amsterdam based studio specialized in music, sound design, mixing, recording and the combination of those crafts. From music for commercial projects for clients like Nike and McDonald's, to abstract work for audiovisual installations and modern dance. Founder Jesse Koolhaas has degrees in Audio Engineering, a Master of Music in composition and a Bachelor of Music in Sonology. Mys

tic Brew works with different talents in the industry to create the best possible soundtrack for each project. In 2005 Jesse Koolhaas graduated at the Sonology department of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. Here he focused on different aspects of abstract electronic composition and acquired his Bachelor of Music by writing a thesis on relevant techniques for combining sound and image. In his final project he collaborated with a student of the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, Orpheu de Jong, in an attempt to create a composition of sound and image, where both medias are equally relevant. This project was awarded the Rietveld Award in 2005. In 2006 he won The European Film Music Award in the category 'Special Recognition' at The Soundtrack Festival Cologne together with sound designer Ronnie van der Veer and in 2008 he won 2nd prize at the Vinylized Dance Music Competition. In this year he also released the EP Salted Sessions under his artist name A la Shook, in collaboration with keyboard player Joost Swart and drummer Bjørn Waling. Jesse has worked on big ad campaigns for companies like Massive Music and Sizzer in the past and started Mystic Brew in 2013 to focus more on working directly with clients.

10/04/2023

2 nominations! It’s so great to be able to work on these amazing projects, where the music also gets an opportunity to shine.
So apart from the documentary We Don’t Talk (Wij Praten Niet), I also received a nomination in the category Best Original Composition in Experience for the music of Prologue of a Nation, which is an installation that’s part of the exhibition Our Colonial Inheritance in the . Thanks to director Bibi Fadlalla for bringing me on board.

Prologue of a Nation
Director: Bibi Fadlalla
Producer: Jeffrey de Roode

06/04/2023

Yes! It's so nice to be nominated for a Buma Award again. In the category Best Original Score for Documentary, for We Don't Talk (Wij Praten Niet) by Marjolein Busstra and Halal Film and Photography

Yesterday NikkieTutorials: Layers Of Me Episode 1 premiered on YouTube, for which I composed music (Eefje de Visser also...
29/12/2020

Yesterday NikkieTutorials: Layers Of Me Episode 1 premiered on YouTube, for which I composed music (Eefje de Visser also did parts).

The four-part docuseries was filmed over the last 2.5 years, following through the biggest moments of her off-camera career and opening up about the challenges of navigating fame. After meeting Dutch filmmaker on-set of a reality TV show, Hakeboom has objectively documented every aspect of Nikkie’s life off-camera, revealing to fans a personal side of Nikkie 12 years and over 13.7 million subscribers later.

Watch Episode 1 here https://youtu.be/Nx1Jp2U23PM

DIRECTED & FILMED BY
Linda Hakeboom

CO-DIRECTOR
Rolf Hartogensis

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
No Tail (Linda Hakeboom, Rolf Hartogensis, Maartje Buzing)

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
HALAL (Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen, Gijs Kerbosch, Roel Oude Nijhuis, Gijs Determeijer)

PRODUCER
Lotte Gerding

EDITOR
Annelien van Wijnbergen

ADDITIONAL EDITORS
Patrick Janssens, Julie Pagnier, Tim Roza, Rolf Hartogensis, Linda Hakeboom

MUSIC BY
Eefje de Visser, Jesse Koolhaas

ADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY
Bas Goossens, Rolf Hartogensis

FACILITY MANAGER
Steven Hakeboom

RESEARCH
Matthijs van Els

TITLE DESIGN
Sander Brouwer

MOTION DESIGN
Luuk Hendriks, Jim Zondervan

GRADE
Remi Lindenhovius

SOUND DESIGN
Lars Blakenburg

06/05/2020

Yes, these are the nominees for the Buma Award 2020 in the category Best Original Composition in a Commercial. Mystic Brew's Soundtrack for Fashion's Dirty Little Secret being one of them! Wooo!

Yeah! Mystic Brew is nominated for another Buma Award! The soundtrack for the Arch & Hook awareness campaign got nominat...
28/04/2020

Yeah! Mystic Brew is nominated for another Buma Award! The soundtrack for the Arch & Hook awareness campaign got nominated for best original composition in a commercial. Big shout out to Ridley Scott Creative Group Pavel Ananich John Filipe for letting me be part of this and thanks to Buma Music in Motion for the nomination! Good luck to all the nominees!

Very happy to have worked with the Ridley Scott Creative Group on this campaign for Arch & Hook to reduce the amount of ...
23/09/2019

Very happy to have worked with the Ridley Scott Creative Group on this campaign for Arch & Hook to reduce the amount of plastic waste in the fashion industry.

Music, Sound Design and Mix for Arch & Hook & Ridley Scott Creative Group Executive Producer/Managing Director: Ross Plummer Written by Anne Bas, John Filipe Director:…

Very happy to announce that I've been nominated for the international Music and Sound Awards! After my Buma Award nomina...
05/07/2019

Very happy to announce that I've been nominated for the international Music and Sound Awards! After my Buma Award nomination for the score of Sanatorium by Masha Osipova, now I received another nomination for this beautiful documentary.

19/12/2018

Music for this short by Circus Family for Sony about photographer Albert Dros Photography

Music, Sound Design & Mix for this documentary by Masha OsipovaEditor: Menno OttenCamera: Sergey Amirdjanov Research: Yu...
13/06/2018

Music, Sound Design & Mix for this documentary by Masha Osipova
Editor: Menno Otten
Camera: Sergey Amirdjanov
Research: Yula Altchouler
Fixer: Tatyana Soboleva
Translation: Ulyana Kasheeva
Grading: Barry Clarke
Directing Coach: Aliona van der Horst
Production: VPRO

Music, Sound Design & Mix for this documentary by Masha Osipova Editor: Menno Otten Camera: Sergey Amirdjanov Research: Yula Altchouler Fixer: Tatyana Soboleva Translation:…

Music, Sound Design and Mix by Mystic Brew, For KesselsKramer
13/06/2018

Music, Sound Design and Mix by Mystic Brew, For KesselsKramer

Music, Sound Design and Mix for this NTR documentaryDirected by Sanne RoversIdea: Lara AertsScript: Lara Aerts & Sanne R...
13/06/2018

Music, Sound Design and Mix for this NTR documentary
Directed by Sanne Rovers
Idea: Lara Aerts
Script: Lara Aerts & Sanne Rovers
Camera: Diderik Evers
Edit: Albert Markus
Production: Prospektor

Music, Sound Design and Mix for this NTR documentary Directed by Sanne Rovers Idea: Lara Aerts Script: Lara Aerts & Sanne Rovers Camera: Diderik Evers Edit:…

New work for KesselsKramer and Jantje Beton
06/01/2018

New work for KesselsKramer and Jantje Beton

Music together with Erik van Woudenberg and Mix for KesselsKramer and Jantje Beton Concept TVC & photography in collaboration with Foundation Eddie the Eagle…

New work for Kessels Kramer and ONVZ. Music and Mix (Dutch spoken)
22/12/2017

New work for Kessels Kramer and ONVZ. Music and Mix (Dutch spoken)

Music, Sound Design and Mix, for Kessels Kramer and ONVZ

New work for Kessels Kramer and ONVZ. Music and Mix
22/12/2017

New work for Kessels Kramer and ONVZ. Music and Mix

Music, Sound Design and Mix, for Kessels Kramer and ONVZ

04/10/2017

New work for KesselsKramer. Music, sound design and mix.

Crew:
Rob Hodselmans
Rens de Jonge
Dennis Vlot
Andre Plug
Tim de Heer
Daphne Weers
Carlotta di Leonardo
Marine Adiasse
Lea Noordhoek

Post:
Gerhard van der Beek - grading
Peter Alderliesten - edit
Michiel & Manon - SoundCircus
Bas Mooy - titels

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Amsterdam Centrum

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+31626544255

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Mystic Brew is an Amsterdam based studio specialized in music, sound design, mixing, recording and the combination of these crafts.

The studio's portfolio contains a wide variety of styles and genres, from commercial music projects for clients like Nike and McDonald's to abstract work for audiovisual installations and modern dance. No matter the type of project, the key focus always lies on concept. Mystic Brew prefers to be part of your project at an early stage, because a soundtrack that connects on several levels makes the difference between a good end result and something that will be remembered.

Founder Jesse Koolhaas (1979) has a Master of Music in composition and a Bachelor of Music in Sonology, as well as a degree in Audio Engineering. He has worked on big ad campaigns for companies like Massive Music and Sizzer in the past and started Mystic Brew in 2013 to focus more on working directly with clients.

Mystic Brew aims to work together with various talents and specialists in the music industry to create the best soundtrack for each type of project. Contact Jesse Koolhaas to see what Mystic Brew can do for you.