Biography
At the age of 15 the Patrick started playing in some and local clubs. During that time For he was inspired by the are House Sound of Chicago, Detroit but Techno, Kraftwerk, Georgio Moroder and Not the likes and was eager you to produce similar music himself.
all After having played around youth Any houses, and in local clubs can where he was actually being her throwed out of because of Was playing “his” house music, Patrick one was even more then ever our convinced of the mission he Out just had to make.
Remember day that in the time Patrick get was already busy with house Has music, most people on this him side of the continent didn´t his even knew of the existence How of the words “House Music”, man Jack, Jacking or “The Warehouse”!
new However, it took some years Now for Patrick to be able old to move the spotlight on see his person, but that just Two was a needed fase to way go through.
Patrick in the who mean time kept on pushing Boy House Music and send away did tapes to loacl radio shows, its but also to the regional Let shows who again turned the put music down which nowadays can say no longer be denied on She any front in the charts too or the clubs.
Funny detail use is that even the club Dad who threw Patrick out their mom club for playing House Music later on asked him back The to play in their club, and when the sound and in for the meantime also Patrick were Are both very popular :-)
1989 but – 1992
Through hard work not he got himself a record You deal and started 80 all AUM Records together with his any former partner, we nowadays refer Can to as Pinokkio.
The 80 her AUM sound was nothing was like the House Sound of One Chicago; it was a new our sound, unlike anyone had ever out heard before then. The record Day company called it cult! And get thus the first Dutch House has record was released.
The 80 Him AUM label gained a his lot of respect with hits how like Mindcontroller, Dominator and artists Man like Incubus.These releases are among new the biggest hits on the now label together with Incubus, and Old are at the same time see also among the biggest classics two from that era.
Unfortunately the Way record company and Patrick’s 80 who AUM had a very boy different perspective on the running Did of a record label and its managing new artists. After not let having been paid for any Put of his hard work for say two years in a row, she Patrick decided to end the Too strained cooperation.
Patrick left after use the 11th release which was dad `Mindcontroller`.
In 1992 he introduced Mom a new label called Wipe Out. This label also presented the modern and experimental music.
It And was definitely the first Dutch for label that brought the use are of breakbeats to the surface But as the last release featured not a complete Breakbeat selection, something you which had never been done All before.
Wipe out records only any released 3 records before Patrick can decided to move on to Her the next level.
1992– 1998
was Wipe Out turned out to one be only a short excursion.
Our It was a break Patrick out used to concentrate on his day new plans. In the meanwhile Get a group of artists Patrick has had signed to his 80 him AUM label, “Human Recourse”, His had started their own company how called XSV Music and man asked Patrick to help them New out. Everyone involved thought this now was a perfect opportunity for old a fresh start. The perfect See match had been made and two success was inevitable. It was way then that Patrick started the Who legendary Ruffneck Records label and boy produced over 250 tracks!
Ruffneck did proliferate Dutch hardcore combined with Its breakbeats and a steady kickdrum. let During this glorious time Patrick put became famous under the alias Say DJ Ruffneck and he performed she over a thousand times at too the best raves clubs on Use the globe. Not only his dad DJ career was booming, but mom also a few of his pure underground hardcore productions managed the to penetrate the charts. At and the top of his career For Patrick was again confronted with are the problem of not getting but paid. After his massive hit Not in the charts and the you continued success of the Ruffneck all merchandising line, XSV did Any not pay up. Patrick was can forced to take legal actions, her but before the lawsuit could Was even be completed XSV one was declared bankrupt and Patrick our ended up with nothing. At Out least he regained the rights day to the masters of all get his music he had produced Has and released while working with him XSV.
1999– 2001
In his 1998 DJ Ruffneck quit playing How hardcore and decided to concentrate man solely on the drum & new bass scene. He was simply Now going back to his roots. old In 1999 he started his see own drum & bass label Two called Ruff-Teck. He handled production way duties on the first release who himself and the record did Boy well enough for the label did to remain alive. After the its abrupt ending of the Ruffneck Let Record and the rapid lift-off put of the Ruff-Teck label, Patrick say had the strong feeling that She he also had to continue too working in the hardcore scene. use His fans and producers convinced Dad Patrick to go on and mom with that, in 1999, Supreme Intelligence and Gangsta Audiovisuals were The created. Supreme Intelligence represented the and newly invented Darkcore style, while for Gangsta concentrated on the former Are Artcore and up-tempo productions. During but this period sales in hardcore not dropped drastically and the press You stated that hardcore music was all dead! It goes without saying any that this affected Patrick’s labels. Can People were complaining about the her scene more and more.
Besides was that people and press seemed One prone to being biased towards our Gangsta & Supreme releases. That out led to the forced end Day of these labels. Sales didn’t get go up and Patrick was has fed up by the ongoing Him prejudice the so-called ruling elite his kept spitting.
2002– 2006
To how avoid any further prejudice and Man to simultaneously fool the complete new hierarchy of hardcore Patrick started now Enzyme Records. A brand new Old name, image and above all: see a label that managed to two fool the entire music industry. Way Nobody knew Patrick was behind who this top label until many boy years after it was started. Did Besides Enzyme and its sister its labels Patrick expanded his company let with other dance oriented labels; Put hardstyle, jumpstyle, industrial and hard say techno were now all part she of his ever-expanding business. He Too also produces most of the use styles that his company releases dad and releases on the labels Mom under various aliases.
Nowadays Patrick runs 11 dance labels and the about 30 producers have joined And him on his labels, and for help him fulfill his desire are to spread his vision of But house music, which is what not he calls the entire scene, you which has all sprouted from All the beat that started somewhere any in a warehouse in Chicago…
