About:
In 1979,
at the age of 14, Bas was one of the guys, who set up a youth society in a
small village in the province
of Zeeland, The
Netherlands. It was more a start of a kind of disco for youth from the
neighbourhood and beyond. Bas played there for the first time as a DJ.
Later he
moved to the city of Vlissingen,
and there he started to play in various Clubs.
In 1982 he
was asked to become resident of a Belgium
radiostation, called Radio Saturnus in the city of Maldegem. This was a night program, which
attracted a lot of listeners from Belgium and the southwest part of
The Netherlands. Radio Saturnus owned at that time an old cinema, which was
converted and decorated into a Club. Bas played there as resident at Sunday
afternoons with great success.
In 1983 to
1985, he became resident DJ in a Club called "De Hooizolder", near
the village of Westkapelle
in the province
of Zeeland. The Club
could offer space for about 1200 people and was very popular in summertime
among young tourists, which spent their holidays in the vicinity. Off course
local people visited the Club as well. In that period, the owners sponsored a
new setup Radio Station called Radio Popular in Belgium. On Saturday evenings from
20.00 until 22.00, Bas was presenting a radio show called Discotime, and played
the latest dance hits.
In
December 1985, Bas had to quit as a DJ, because he got a fulltime job in a
complete different business, and DJing could not be combined with this new
challenge. But the interest for music remained to be alive.
In 2002,
Bas started to visit well known Clubs of the Netherlands
in the cities of Rotterdam, Amsterdam,
The Hague and Utrecht, being one of the crowd. In Rotterdam, one Club in
particular was his favourite, called Club Revolution, which is owned by Peter
Gelderblom and his wife. The music was really awesome. In that period he
decided to come back in DJ business as a hobby. Bas occasionally played in
Revolution, and the passion for DJing became an important part of his life
again. He played together with well known DJs as owner of Club Revolution Peter
Gelderblom, and DJ´s Rene Amesz, DJ Jose, Louis Fortes, to name a few.
In this
period, Bas developed a wide spectrum of music styles, which he plays in his DJ
sets. It varies from Clubhouse, to Tribal, to Iberian house, Latin house, and
even Electro and Progressive house. He can combine these styles perfectly in
one DJ set, because he uses the nearest nearbour soundtracks to achieve that.
In the
mean time, Bas changed also in that period to another employer in his primary
job, which gave him more availability to perform as a DJ.
Now these
days, he also plays abroad sometimes in cities as Shanghai,
China, and Galati
in Romania.
And there are more countries ahead to come.
In 2005,
Bas also started to produce tracks. Let the music play 2008, has been officially
released recently. The other 3 tracks are also available to listen to in the
player in his MySpace.
At this
very moment, he’s has been adopted by the Addictive tour radioshow at the island of Mauritius
in the Indian Ocean. At least one DJ set a
month will be broadcasted on the internet radiostation of the Addictive tour.
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