Konstrukto & Duko for Eclectic prog

Konstrukto (Arjen den Boer) - story, composition, game design, artwork, guitars, keys and drums
Duko (Jeroen Kurpershoek) - lead guitars, bass and production

Hailing from Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Konstrukto & Duko is quite a unique project.
Both coming from a hiphop background they have worked together for nearly 15 years and have with their Funk/Rap group Platvloers released 3 albums so far.
Initially Konstrukto's brainchild and solo-project, Schrootoorlog is a concept album based on a cynical science-fiction story about two brothers and their role in the politics of their country.
Apart from providing his instrumental skills, Duko has also produced and mixed the whole.
Schrootoorlog is a music album but also comes with a boardgame that is however yet to be released.
The sound of the album can be best described as Eclectic prog with heavy Rap influences, in Dutch.
It switches between narrative, rap, sung vocals and even rapped death-grunts.
Musically it contains influences of hiphop, classical music, fusion, metal, carribean music and some other styles.


Edited by StrUktO - January 24 2017 at 15:18

Thank you for your kind words!
I could argue that we also combine elements of symphonic prog, j/r fusion, progressive metal and heavy prog

That said, I would be over the moon to be included on this site in any category (maybe not prog-related haha), as you said, we'll see

A public test version of the game is available through here by the way: http://www.mediafire.com/file/j985u3lrm9ns6on/scrap_wars.zip


Edited by StrUktO - January 13 2017 at 04:48

While the music does have experimental qualities, the eclectic team has chosen to reject it as it simply isn't prog. Fine rap/hip hop, but it isn't progressive rock. 

we have sent the following email to the band submissions address, requesting a second opinion:

Dear Sir/Madam,

We have recently posted our band information as a suggestion for eclectic prog.
Perhaps we would not fit that mold, maybe we still do, I like to think so.
The eclectic prog team has however declined us, stating that we made a fine rap/hiphop album but not prog.
I disagree and that is the reason for this email.
The music we make is based on hiphop templates, the album however builds up in proginess in the end even resulting in a 35+ minute epic consisting of four parts.
On that point in the album there is hardly any hiphop left except for rapped vocals.
In its place come classical influences, mellotron laden pastoral passages, changes in tempi and differently voiced characters.
Our album had not been there had it not been for the influences of music suggested by your website.
Therefore it means the world to me to possibly be included, the project would come full circle.
Rap never had a place in progressive rock before now, some might even say it isn't a possible combination or even a form of heresy.
That is simply a matter of taste, for the progress of music is not found in nostalgia or conservatism.
Clearly we combined the genres.

Would you please be so kind to honestly review our album again?
If you can not find the prog in it and tell me so, I will not bother you again, until the next album maybe...

Here is the information we provided in the forums: