From October 22 to 25 our capitol is the stage for its annual Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) again. Beatfreax has created the ultimate online guide to keep you up to speed with the coolest parties and venues during the event.
Op 12 september wordt in de Utrechtse club Poema het startschot gegeven voor een nieuwe reeks techno feesten waarbij de warme klanken van de Detroit techno steeds een prominente plaats in zullen nemen.
Herr Zimmerman, de tanzende buitenaardse clubkater, stevent af op zijn 2 jarig verblijf op Aarde! De ultieme electro-techno kater koos 2 jaar geleden Rotterdam uit, om zijn diervriendelijke tanzclub te starten in een voormalige vleesfabriek te Design Dock Rotterdam!
DJ/producer Ericke has spent the last decennium at the pinnacle of Dutch house music. Whether he spun at his Saturday-residency at RoXY Amsterdam, at numerous parties all over the world, or at the Dutch Dance Award-winning Loveboat; Ericke rocked the house.
Apart from his energetic and danceable mix of (tribal) grooves, the main reasons for his popularity are his enthusiasm and charisma behind the decks. Ericke truly interacts with his audience.
Ericke’s DJ-career kicked off in ’86, when he started making a name for himself in Amsterdam as hip-hop DJ. In ’89 he won the Dutch DMC Championship, and 1 year later he represented Holland in the World Finals. In the following years his music changed, but his star kept rising. In ’95 he landed the Saturday-residency in Amsterdam’s house temple; the legendary RoXY. His weekly ‘SWET’ nights were a huge success, until ’98, when a slightly over-exuberant celebration of the death of one of RoXY’s founders ended in the fiery demise of Holland’s most famous club ever.
Being out of his steady job, didn’t exactly leave Ericke out of work. His reputation as a groovy party-starter got him booked in every corner of Holland, at any size parties, from mainstream to underground. He turned the tables at the main stage at Dance Valley, at Sensation in the Amsterdam Arena for a crowd of 40,000, but also at small clubs like Stalker in Haarlem. Ericke doesn’t exactly limit himself to Holland though, and has spun across the globe, at clubs like Haoman 17 in Jerusalem, Amnesia in Ibiza, Crobar in Miami Beach and Turnmills in London. As if that wasn’t enough, he also started his own night, EVE, for which he hosted the likes of David Morales, Deep Dish, Junior Sanchez, Yousef, Phats and Smalls and Felix da Housecat.
On top of all this, Ericke is also a successful producer and owner of a record label. For his label OneStar he discovered Matthew Dekay, who released his first productions on OneStar. As a producer Ericke has had successful solo projects, as well as successful co-productions with Olav Basoski and Matthew Dekay. With the latter he released ‘This Category’, which is featured on Sander Kleinenberg’s Essential Mix CD. With Olav Basoski he has released several successful productions on the Work label. And his solo-project ‘Make You Smile’ was recently signed on Sander Kleinenberg’s Everybody Loves Music-label.
Given Ericke’s increased focus on the production-side of his trade, the future should only bring more for this “promising talent”.
