The DJs

DJ Coll’n

— ETTEN-LEUR, THE NETHERLANDS

At the age of 8 Collin started to play guitar, not really what you expect when you hear what he plays now! When he was 12 he started to play hardstyle and hardcore music. He worked on his computer and a cheap external mixer. One year later he bought 2 turntable’s and got serious.

Blood sweat and tears, working for new turntable’s and practicing on playing beats. On his 15th Collin bought 2 technics sl1200 turntables. One year later he wanted a better color for his turntables 3hrs a day looking to grey technics was boring. Nowadays Collin owns 2 unique red sl1200’s. After the paintjob he stept over to timecode spinning to save some money. It didn’t take long for him to know it’s not only a money quest, his mixes got more interesting and creative.

Today still spinning, working on mashups and trying to produce something himself.

DJ Daniel Sticious

— The Netherlands

Mitchell de Mol was at an early age, unlike many other DJ’s, not very interested in music. At the age of 13 the interest in music began and he desided to play guitar. After mastering the guitar he took the decision to start with a new instrument, the piano. He mastered the piano also in a very short time and people were already suggesting that he must be a self‐taughtman because it was almost impossible what he could do with a piano in such a short amount of time.

The turning point in his music career was Virtual DJ. When a friend of his shoved Virtual DJ in his hands he was convinced, he had to master such software.

Over the time he had many disappointments because the other DJ’s were a lot further with DJ’ing. But because of his incredible persistence, the investment in gear and the practicing till he dropped, he now can make the crowd going wild with the sickest tunes ever. This 17-year-old guy from the Netherlands with the nickname Daniel Sticious is now producing and spinning the wheels-of-steel like he never did something else.

At this stage he’s teaming up with DJ Jeezy which is an hip-hop producer. This combination is called “The Wickeds” and is already upcoming in the smaller areas. The flow between hip-hop and house is mind blowing and with two producers, two DJ’s and most important, two best friends, the party never ends with Daniel Sticious and DJ Jeezy which are “The Wickeds”.

DJ Darren Morfitt

— Poland

Darren Morfitt also known as Uncle Darren is new face on EDM world. This 22-year-old guy from Poland will take you into incredible journey trough trance, from proggy beauties to tech trance monsters with little add of house and other styles. The man who loves to play in front of the crowd – he is just born to trance. His first step in music production was beat for local hip-hop band made in some simple music program in 2005. After it he remixed allot of Hip-Hop and Rock tunes – including one of the best fan remixes of Linkin Park. In 2006 when he discovered beauty of electronic music he started remixing hits like “Lethal Industry” and “Advanced” and his first trance track, which is untitled. In 2007 he created own anthem for first Polish Edition of Sensation White (also he attended dj competition for warm up performance) and remixed many other tunes – still without success. In the end of 2008 he met US deejay and producer T.I.D.U.S and he created with him his first big tune “Headless Horseman” which received nice comments from big names on tech-trance scene. Then he started hammering his two own productions “Shioullete”, which his huge techy monster with huge riff and awesome breakdown and melodic proggy tune “Sara”.

In this moment he works a lot as internet radio deejay, hosting his mixes on biggest radio stations in the web. Also he releases his monthly promo mix on his official site and of course he is working on another tunes to blow your mind. On Kaos Radio he will host his monthly promo mix, monthly radio show “Uncle Darren’s Diary

DJ Ego

— United States

Ego started by playing the drums when he was 5 years old. His DJ career started when he was 13, when he received a Numark CD mix 2 for his birthday. He practiced and soon mastered the basics of mixing, and began to expand his setup. His style has been influenced by prominent DJ’s such as Arman Van Buuren, Laidback Luke and Tiesto. He hopes to soon become a resident DJ for a local club. Be sure to look for DJ Ego’s exclusive remixes and mashups, available here on Kaos Radio.

DJ Jermo Grift

— Sneek, The Netherlands

Boyd always had a passion for music, later on at the age of 12 he bought his first dj gear and started to play hardstyle. When he bought his first turntables, his love for electronic house music started to grow. Later on he stopped playing hardstyle, and nowadays a diversion of house music is his style. From funky electro, to soul and deephouse.

At the age of 15 he bought his first cdj’s because this equipment gives him good feelings and its less expensive then buying vinyls. Also his favorite recordstore has closed down, and nowdays vinyls are most of the time only sold over the internet.

Now at the age of 16 he started to play more and more, and in the feature he wants to play even more music.

DJ Kazzual

— BELGIUM

A Belgian drum and bass lover who managed to transform his love into an art called DJing. In August ‘09 he learned the basics of turntable mixing by a good friend and after a couple of tryouts, bought his own gear. He started practicing and experimenting with Digital equipment, and now owns his pair of turntables, a midi-controller and Traktor Scratch Duo!

Now, he’s trying to bring sweet drum and bass to the crowd by jamming the streets of Ghent!

DJ & Producer Lenimal

— Ghent, Belgium

Lennart Querter, also know as Lenimal, has been into music for a very long time… since he started playing drums in first grade. Playing drums till his 16 years he had enough, and then changed his passion into electronic music. Starting with only a windows computer and traktor, he began to mix. After a while he also started producing with Ableton Live. 2 years later he bought his Dj-set. Various Gigs & Club set have past and Lenimal has become a known dj roung Ghent, playing in places like the Culture Club, Koko Rico and Make Up club. Check out his myspace (Djlenimal) for updates, new productions & gigs. At the moment he is expanding his studio to make place for more production!

DJ Luda

— Tilburg, The Netherlands

Music has always been a big thing in the life of Chris van Diemen. No specific style dominates his interest. From pop songs to classic and from latin house to hardcore. Chris is a real music enthousiast.

Ever since his parents got him a my-first-sony-style mixer at the age of 10, there’s been an untamable urge to be creative with music: mixing and mashing up his favorite songs. In the year 2005 he finally decided to take the dj’ing a step further when he was first introduced to digital dj’ing. It started with BPM studio, the keyboard and the computer mouse. Not the ideal setup for energy packed live sets. So, not much later, an external mixer was purchased. It wasn’t untill the digital dj’ing revolution really started that he decided to buy some MIDI controllers.

As with many dj’s, the gear list was updated frequently untill he found the ideal combination of mixer, controllers and software. Nowadays Chris still dj’s digitally.

Although he has a very broad taste in music, the main focus with dj’ing is on electro, electro house, fidget and jack. These are the styles that make him dance and party himself. He hopes to achieve the same with his listeners, dancing people that enjoy the music…because that’s what music is all about for him!

DJ Mølle

— Copenhagen, Denmark

Mølle started out DJ’ing as a software DJ at the age of 15. He started out producing mixes just for his own pleasure, to get all the tracks he liked in one long mix. Soon he would get hooked on putting out mixes on the internet, and bought a cheap controller. The controller solution with sitting in front of the computer, quickly got him bored though. As a solution to that he saved up for a couple of Pioneer CDJ’s and a cheap mixer. This opened his eyes a lot more regarding the art of mixing, and soon he would regularly be putting out mixes. Ultimately, he got hold of two technics turntables, and a more professional grade mixer, which allowed him to play older music and vinyl-only releases.

Mølle’s interest in electronic music really started out in 8th grade when he was a week as an apprentice in Rune RK’s studio (also going by the name Enur). In the start he was a lot into the more commercial and electro-ish house music. This just didn’t feel right, soon he would find a lot of releases to have the same sound. This woke his interest in the deeper and darker shades of house and techno, but still digging the more danceable tech-house. At the moment his sets consist of deep, loungey house, over some classic detroit house, ending up in energy-filled tech house.

DJ Samurai Hippos

— Hilversum, The Netherlands

Finally: it’s time to dance on cool beats and wicked basslines. And that’s someting you do with Samurai Hippos! The guys of Samurai Hippos bring you hard music for the ladies and the gents alike, they won’t stop till everyone is raving their asses off! Their mission? Making parties rock and people dance. Their weapons? Dandy indie dance, dirty fidget, bangin’ electro and pounding dubstep. Their first mixtape ‘From Hippotamia With Love’ shows what these boys can do, and was listened hundreds of times in just days. Samurai Hippos are currently working on their first productions, which will hit in 2010, watch out for that shit! So prepare yourself and show your Hippolove, before Samurai Hippos roll you over!

DJ & Producer Scen

— United States

Scen got his start in music at the age of 8 with piano.

Moving forward a few years to high school, he began producing general electronic tracks using Ableton Live and Reason. With a huge passion for EDM, he decided that DJing was the next logical step. Scen bought his first DJ setup at the age of 18 and began experimenting with different genres of EDM, trying to find his niche.

Currently, Scen produces tracks that are progressive house, influenced by great artists such as Adam K. and Soha. However, his DJing style is a bit different. When it comes to DJing, Scen likes to blend bits of dirty electro house, fidget house, and breakbeat into something that is bound to get the crowd going.

DJ Snakeman

— Maastricht, The Netherlands

Thuur Slangen also known as Dj-Snakeman lives in the south of the Netherlands in Maastricht the capital city of Limburg. His passion for music started to develop at the age of 16 when he borrowed Magix Music Maker from his brother. From then on he made his first attempts at creating house tracks. After goofing around for a while with several programs he made the choice to learn spinning Vinyl, after buying his set-up he soon learned that dj-ing with vinyl has a special feeling to it, that can’t be matched by CD’s. Nowadays he uses timecode vinyl for making (Dirty) House and Electro mixes.

DJ Tjaden

— Canada

DJ Tjaden decided to turn his love for music into an obsession when he threw his first party at the age of 17 using only iTunes and his desktop computer. He than took music composition courses in highschool alongside piano lessons where he learned how to create the music he had grown up listening to. Shortly later he bought his first set of Numark turntables where he learned the basics of mixing and then moved onto experimenting with effects, EQ and more. He is primarily a DJ but also creates mashups and remixes. DJ Tjaden currently plays at house parties and college parties while working towards his first residency at a local nightclub.

DJ Zach Downie

— Edmonton, Canada

Downie has always had a love for all forms electronic music, therefore he has made it his goal to bring this love to his musical style. What this means, is that he refuses to stay faithful to any specific music genre and promises to think outside the box to bring you the best from all corners of the music spectrum. Anything from mellow tech house to up beat funky house to wobbly electro house an dirty grimy dubstep can be heard in his sets.