9.6.2007 DUTCH IMPORT! A Touch of Dutch Contemporary Eclect, Arcadium, Graz Einstellungen

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Zeck is unfortunately not comming so we have arranged Fnord for you listening pleasure! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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Todays Highlight is about DJ/Producer Druid

Hailing from the center of the Netherlands, Druid's musical roots can be traced back to old school hip hop and jungle, acid, techno, trance, big beat, and the menacing industrial sounds of hardcore/gabber.

Druid started spinning in the summer of '99 and has performed in venues all over the country, such as Nighttown, Tivoli, Goudvishal, Atak, Ekko and Club Mezz. Together with partner-in-crime DJ Flavour he organized the Dungeons & DJs events, and is very involved in the successful Utrecht based "Utreg Massive" crew. Besides a bimonthly party in Tivoli de Helling, the Utreg Massive crew has had 2 CD releases, 2 release party's in Theater Kikker and 3 very successful 'birthday bash' party's in Tivoli, Utrecht.

Druid is heavily influenced by the likes of Generation Dub, Hazard, Clips, Audio, Raiden, Nightwalker and Nero, so expect a lot of energy, good vibes, heavy rollers and technoid slammers sandwiched in between party tunes!

Druids latest mix for your listening pleasure:
http://druid.takeover.nl/sets/druid-supersugarpops.mp3

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"The tales of ROBIN and his LOVE for FUNKY MUSIC"
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I want to realize the ultimate ideal: everything the best for everyone, everywhere and always.

Robin (31) is born in a wrong decade.... With him his audience will dive deep into the psychedelic and rare grooves of past times spiced up with contemporary music. Mix and mingle the love, peace and happyness to a more universal understanding for you chilling pleasure at Dutch Import!

Apart for dj-ing he organizes jam sessions, free for all picknicks in the park and takes part in meditation and yoga exercizes.... Now its time to unwind your mind and let the mellow music be in sync with your good vibrations.

Majestic and Mc XL3

Majestic
Myself:
I alway's had a love for music since my childhood.
When I was 13 I discovered an amazing piece of software for that time called Screamtracker, a sampling sequencer with a total of 32/64 tracks! I made hundres of songs with this little app en progressively became better at making music.
When I was 17, I came into contact with some rap groups that seriously wanted to create some albums, with them I produced 3 cd's, fully produced by me.

At that age (in '98) I came to know DJ Scream (Richard Terborg) through school, he had a mixer and a Denon xxxxxx-series and when our class had an introduction weekend on Sea-aquarium beach (on Curaçao) he brought along his denon and mixer, we decided to find some electricity and go home pickup my Amp and speakers and just starting playing on the beach, we had a GREAT time playing back2back all day and we got a lot of compliments that day.
So began our Drive-in spree on the island, we played at almost every rock party and provided the bands some relax time between sessions with our Hardcore and Jungle tunez!

When I came back to Holland in 2001, I played resident at various dancecafe's and nightclubs.
And even got a resident spot at a nightclub in Themse, Belgium where I playing mostly Hardcore and Hardstyle for about a year.
And also started making remixes for use in my sets and opening a website for people to download them, working together with DJ Savtug we had +-12GB of downloads a month with our mixes allone!

Missing playing Jungle, I gave up spinnin',producing for other genres and a girlfriend of mine got me in touch with Robby van der Zande, who started to organise his own parties (www.x-tase.net) and ways looking for a drum&bass DJ, a style he very much loved too and still organises parties to this day!

Various parties later a old time schoolfriend of mine XL3 joined me as MC XL3 with his very own style that's constantly improving and getting faster with his blazin'speed raps!

The future:
I hope to get to know allot more fantastic people in the DnB/Junglescene, to keep improving my mixing capabilities, adding more "extra" stuff, like live performance and live sampling elements to my sets......and sorry to say for some DJ's getting rid of those damned CD's and Vinyl's, haha!
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MC XL3
XL3 = X-tra Large Leonard Leerdam

Who I am

I'm the lyrical connection of our drum and bass tandem
I am the Mic-carrier
I provide live vocal hosting and entertainment,
the voice of our music, if you will.
With that said, it should be obvious that our non-vocal, local majesty 'n me
See eye to eye on what it is music should bring to listeners.
Music is love, Music has goals
Music's where I go to put the world on hold
Where I go for the words I mold
To share my love
And goals at shows
To gloat my flows
And make the world my own

Summary:

Leonard, a University alumnus, who intends to break into the music industry
by skill or by force, won't let the world get him down.
In these times that rappers and other musicians keep popping onto the scene
succesfully, this (hip-hop) genre has become more crowded and the elite get
defined by a wider criteria day by day, yet XL insists he is not another amber in the
flames,but the heat itself.
At an ambitious 23, he spends most of his free time writing music;
Doing so for the past four years on a daily basis resulted in a unique
flow, that is quite new to the drum and bass scene.
Now it must be said that he never started writing with the intent to MC or
even rap for that matter, he just figured he had better things to tell the world
than whatever was already out there, e.g. as much as he loved Cam'ron and the
dipset, he would listen to the music with improvement in mind of it's messages
content.

Until Majestic introduced him to the drum and bass scene, quite a new scene,
where we'd mix up the old jungle with the new messages for classic drum and
bass tunes that have rocked parties through out the Netherlands.
And even though drum and bass is not a heavy lyrical musical genre,
Majestic's new audio weapon says the message just has to get delivered more
impactful, with less words and more feeling.
And now many feel him.

XL's inspirational road:

He started somewhere at the end of the 80's,
through the early 90's, not that abba is still
inspirational, but the fact that Michael Jackson,
along with eighties disco and some of that early madonna,
and just that musical era of simple "computer"
sounds with melodic singing have always turned on the XL.
Along with singing in church, watching jazz performances
with his parents and guitar classes that resulted in a
talent with a bass guitar, the tone for his love for music was set.
He would play many rock ballads on the bass guitar, until he discovered
his lyrical passion, larger than the 4 strings could ever produce, words
really talk to people, tunes just carry them.
So with that in mind, he has been listening to words from talented
musical speakers such as Styles P, Notorious B.i.G. and the diplomats.
That was still his musical preference, until he bumped into Majestic
and the DnB scene;

XL was astounded; it sounded more like the vision of music in his head
than he had never heard before and this is where XL is right now:
Exploring the genre along the way to a new music,
is in his head and, he insists, will soon be in yours.
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