Monokreck describes his style as "open minded house, from glitchy microhouse to deep techno, and all in between". Melting many styles of electronic music together to create a warm atmosphere on the dancefloor.
Op vrijdag 26 december zal VOLTT dit jaar nog eenmaal goed uitpakken voor een knallende afsluiting van 2008. Op 2e kerstdag zal de Paradiso namelijk in het teken staan van VOLTT met een hoop vooruitstrevend talent en gerenommeerde artiesten.
In navolging van het overdonderende geweld op het tot nok toe gevulde CLiCK feest tijdens het Amsterdam Dance Event krap twee maanden geleden, maakt de organisatie zich op voor een nog meeslepender en vooral intiemer spektakel.
De jaarwisseling neemt altijd een beetje spanning met zich mee, meestal met de grote groep dierbaren die je hebt is het altijd een beetje onderling onderhandelen. Wel uit, niet uit, wel thuis, niet thuis, wel afteren, niet afteren, wel werken, niet werken...
Paul Sparkes has become a household name in the international dance scene of late.
Paul started at grass roots level and began a night called "Vinyl Frontier" in London 1995. For 4 years the night grew and grew, and Paul was able to bring in guest DJs from abroad, gaining him a solid reputation in dance circles. He then became a resident at a night called RE:Mission in London. This allowed him to play with some of the bigger DJs, whose influence was inspirational to him.
Paul found that there was more to the scene than simply DJing at night and therefore became involved in journalism, writing for Clublife magazine monthly and Klubfever.com weekly. Record and club reviews, and an editorial on the music industry in 1998, led to the development of Paul's journalistic reputation, and he was commissioned to write a paper on the phenomena of dance by Hull University which was recieved with great acclaim.
Paul held down a residency on Jam FM for four years. It gave him the chance to break new records and acts to an avid weekly audience, becoming the voice of the dance for the station in the North of England.
Paul decided to put his ears to good use in terms of A&R, accepting the position of A&R scout for Ministry of Sound for the Benelux region after picking out hits in the late 90s. He is responsible for finding DJ Sammy's No. 1 hit "Heaven" in 2001, a big hit for MOS offshoot Data, and also Ralphie B's "Massive", from Black Hole, NL.
In 2000, Paul decided to move to Holland, to further his DJing and promote his own nights. He now runs a regular Xpander night, bringing in the cream of real deep house to the city.
Paul also using his journalistic skills on a daily basis in 2004 for highly acclaimed progressive portal, Xpander.nl. He interviews DJs such as Sander Kleinenburg, Danny Howells, Pete Tong and acts like Prodigy He has also recently supplied their first ever streamed DJ mix for the site, which is going down a storm.
The international DJing is going from strength to strength. Last year, Paul visited destinations such as the US, Israel, Sweden, Germany, UK and Spain. Paul is much in demand on the DJing front. The US in particular is a point of popularity for Paul, visiting America 4 times this year, travelling coast to coast on each occasion. He also supplies a monthly mix to C89.5 in Seattle to support his shows in the North West and is now in negoitation with the new digital stations there. Watch him go even further in 2005.
