Anyone who listens to TriggerX music will surely find it different from Unitone HiFi and Joost agrees. "The TriggerX stuff is definitely quite a long way from Unitone HiFi. There's a lot less dub, and its sort of faster speed and bpm wise."
The compelling new music is mostly made up of instrumental electronic pieces, which Joost describes as future jazz. "Future jazz is sort of one thing that I like. When I was a child I was exposed to a lot of jazz and picked up bits and pieces later on."
So where do all these sounds come from then? "I use different synths, I use a sampler and quite a few effects. I process samples quite a lot so they're generally not recognisable from where they're from or whatever, but I've got a guitar and a bass and I plug those in. A lot of the basslines are ones I play and then I sample them up so they sound good. They sound synthesised but I play them from the guitar."
Though it would seem Joost would already have enough on his plate with his own music, he also found time to remix some tracks for old mates, the Strawpeople, for the last 100 Street Transistors album. In total there are three tracks which Joost had a hand in remixing: "Spoiler," which he remixed alone, "Sweet Disorder," with Strawperson Paul Casserly, and "Porcelain," with Unitone HiFi. "Over the years I've been quite involved with Strawpeople — I've played bass on a lot of their tracks and Paul's a very old friend of mine so it was very nice to be asked to do a mix. Paul asked me to do a track and then he asked if Unitone HiFi was interested and we did one. Then he was working on "Sweet Disorder" so we collaborated and did that one together."
Interestingly, Joost remixed "Spoiler" under the name of Trigger, rather than TriggerX as he uses now so just how he acquired that X makes a rather interesting story. "I saw a video once which was accredited to someone by the name of Trigger and I had started by calling myself that! I quite liked Trigger so I thought put an X behind it, so it differentiates me from whatever someone else is doing."
