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Ever since I successfully
mixed-in two records, I got
infected with the dj-virus.
That was 1,5 years ago, and
when I force myself to look
back on the time passed, I
guess I came a long way since
those two barely mixed-in
tekno-records I played in a
friend's living room.
So here we go...a short
biography of 1,5 years of
dj-ing:
Past:
It all started out with
tekno, when I got bored with
the music and that scene I
decided it wasn't the thing
for me, and I started to play
really sleazy electro (which I
still do today). After that it
was pretty much the same-old
hippie-story; being absolutely
out of my mind on acid in a
park with some friends, I
first heard Shpongle and
Younger Brother who made me
dig deeper and deeper in to
the obscure and lovely world
of electronic music, which
eventually led me to playing
what I love playing most: Goa,
Psy-trance and chilled-out
psychedelica.
My first gigs were at parties
organized by friends; nothing
fancy, just playing music,
barely mixing, having a great
time. After a couple I decided
I needed a lot of practice to
keep up with guys I used to
play with; so I did. Sometimes
standing in my living-room for
38-hours a week or so; being
nothing other than a real
mix-junkie.
This finally resulted in being
asked to perform at the
Skate-jam Festival, mixing my
first-ever Goa-trance set. In
order to do the gig I had to
have a good name, one that
would stick and fit, since it
was going to be on flyers and
posters around town, and so I
was given the name IdeFixe by
my good fried Phantom. And it
made immediate sense. 'Idee
fixe' is the Latin term for
being focused on a single
idea, it's simply an
obsession; and with me being
all frantic about mixing and
all, it fitted right away.
Idefix also happens to be the
name of the dog of comic-book
hero Asterix, who I have
admired ever-since I was a
little kid. On top of all of
that; one of my favorite
psy-trance records ever (Tel
Aviv) has been made by
psy-trance superstar Astrix.
So…it all made perfect sense.
After a while, the gigs came
in slowly but sure, making
2007 the busiest year I have
ever had; working two jobs to
maintain my
collection-expansion-frenzies,
often playing at legal and
illegal parties in the
weekend, and loving it!
The 12th of May 2007 was the
night I made my first
club-appearance at the
FORM-party organised by Dj's
Remedy and Meister, which was
an absolute blast, and a great
way to gather some more
experience. A couple of weeks
later I was asked to close-up
the chill-out at the annual
Blikopener Festival Party,
which was exactly one year
after I made my first actual
public appearance in the booth
(Also at the Blikopener
Festival). And this year
it became clear to me that I
had done a very good job the
past year, and so did the
Blikopener crew, because I had
never seen such a nicely
decorated area in my life.
Now:
All of this happened so fast,
leading to hilarious
discussions and unreal
situations such as the one I'm
going to describe now; exactly
three days after the lovely
Blikopener-weekend, I was
asked by CRX from Greece to
become a label-dj for his
Greece-based upcoming dark-psy
and psy-trance label called
Helicon Sound System ( H.S.S.
Records), and I did. That's
where I am at now, and like
Headroom put it: 'The Future
begins today ladies and
gentlemen…more sophisticated,
more intelligent and of
course…'
Love & Light. IdéFixe.
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