Although not every Dutch music lover will instantly recognize the name Dion, the dedicated follower of Dutch hiphop will surely remember the name from classic beats on the albums of Jawat!, DuvelDuvel and A&C… and ofcourse some really, really obscure tracks on esc.rec.…
Dion seemingly appeared from out of nowhere with Jawat!’s well-known internetrelease “Heel Goed” in 2004 and kept coming back with hard-hitting productions for years on, all the while maintaining a low-profile for himself in the media.
Meanwhile, he and painter/musician 47 had already met in 2002, a short while after the latter had graduated from art school. They immediately teamed up, sharing a love for crafting electronic beats in dark attic rooms at ungodly hours. Although their collaboration initially was a side-project for the both of them and neither of them really intended it to become anything more than that, when they started joining forces on the creation of dubstep beats, magic occurred. Ever since then, they’ve been obsessively busy, producing track after track, but never putting anything out in the open.
In 2009 everything changed. DION47 decided it was time to become heard. They started performing their live DJ-sets at parties and festivals and put out their first release “Strokebooks/That’s What (ft. Gomes)” through the internet. In 2010 their first official releases will be on Oi! Recordings, so stay tuned!
In the mean time all you dubsteppers can listen to DION47’s smashing 140BPM mix:
Gitbas Jodel, the extraordinary guitar player of De Bronstgieters is putting a lot of archived material on his YouTube channel of that other obscure band he played in: Hanzasport. In those days I was officially proclaimed their biggest fan by Hanzasport themselves. I even used to wear hand painted Hanzasport fan shirts to their gigs… really. Glad to see Hanzasport has found it’s way to the internet now!
This Saturday we’ll be dubstepping at the second edition of Klub Dub in Het Burgerweeshuis, Deventer. With another grand line-up: Loefah (co-founder of the whole dubstep genre, back when it was still called grime), 2562 (one of my personal dubstep favorites since his debut album ‘Aerial’) and Cavemen (dubstep project of local heroes Dries Bijlsma and Rob Peters).
On October 1st 1984 the very first piece of music by Kapotte Muziek appeared on a compilation cassette. And now, 25 years later, Kapotte Muziek still exists, with a sheer endless list of releases on cassette, vinyl, CD and MP3. Untill 1993 Kapotte Muziek was mainly Frans de Waard, but after that it evolved in more of a live thing with Peter Duimelinks and Roel Meelkop. Since 2003 the Kapotte Muziek name is used by this trio only. Kapotte Muziek played everywhere in Europe, Russia, two long tours in the USA and one in Japan, playing as both Kapotte Muziek and as Goem, their techno music alter ego. They were remixed by Troum, Asmus Tietchens, Peter Rehberg, Illusion Of Safety and many others. A 25 years of existence well worth celebrating!
Poke 20 keeps spreading further and further over the internets, with well over 37.000 downloads and counting! Only the ones we can track that is, because it has also been picked up by a massive load of additional (torrent)sites. So actually it’s probably a bit more by now…
There are still some rad limited edition silkscreened POKE 20 packages/A1 posters with blank silkscreened cd-r available. For only 10(!) flipping euro’s. Get them while they last!
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