Last weekend of August I was invited to play at Atlas Electronic, a small scale electronic music festival that was happening in Villa Janna in Marrakesh for the second time. The location (approx. 10 km north from the city center)… Continue Reading
“In music people have always liked to travel.” That’s the last sentence of my bio and I try to grasp two meanings: literally, musicians tend to travel and go on tour and abroad they get inspired. What they hear will… Continue Reading
For this article on Thump (in Dutch) I was digging on the famous Record Fair in Utrecht last Sunday with 70 euros in my pocket and I thought it would be fun to record a mini mix with the fresh… Continue Reading
O Yes, I’m quite excited to present this mix, all credits for this one go to my good friend Nikolai van Zeeland for digging up these tracks online – from Youtube – he is the guy who also came back… Continue Reading
One of my favourite experimental electronic afro records is Noir et Blanc, I discovered it about 8 years ago, and in the meanwhile it has grown into an absolute classic amongst vinyl diggers. At that time it wasn’t so rare… Continue Reading
09-12-2015 UPDATE! VOLTA BREAK – IAN MARTIN REMIX PSYCHED is the best word to describe the remix version of The Volta Break Ian Martin sent me last week. I know Ian since the early days of the CBS forum, I-F‘s… Continue Reading
My first introduction to Funaná – but I had no clue at that time – was probably 8 years ago, when I bought a second hand record of Bend’Nobo 83 with the album title Funaná at a local recordshop for… Continue Reading
In order to create some insight in what Rumba is, as one of the oldest and main ingredients of Latin music, I decided to handle the text like I handle the records in this mix: I put 35 vinyls in… Continue Reading
Last summer Nikolai, a good friend of mine – we’re regularly dj-ing and partying together in Amsterdam – went on holiday to Japan, and of course he was going for some digging over there, so I asked him to bring… Continue Reading