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Like many talented DJs and producers who have been around for a while, Dutch Georgio Schultz is a school example of an incredibly nice man. Every single time we meet we have the best conversations. In 2015 he told me the story of his first gig. "I was more the nerdy type.”
“It must have been around ’92 when I had my first gig in front of an audience. I actually played with records that I had borrowed from a friend with whom I shared a studio in those days. My DJ debut was at an actual house party in a large town house at the Koudehorn in Haarlem.”
Didn't care for girls
“Because I was able to mix quite well already, I wasn’t nervous at all. The crowd were mainly visitors from Haarlem who usually partied at the legendary club RoXY in Amsterdam. I think I was about twenty years old at that point and most of the visitors were just a little older. Did I want to impress someone? No. In those days I really didn’t care for girls. I was more the nerdy type.” (laughs) “All I cared about was music, music, and more music.”
‘Playing booth’
“Two of my friends and I shared a studio in those days. That’s where I learned how to play. We had created a ‘playing booth’ behind the studio, that included a chill out couch where we often landed after attending a house party.”
Gaultier
“On one of those nights we had attended a Gaultier party. Once we were back in our playing booth I found out that the track I went hard on earlier that evening was actually part of our studio’s record collection! That was the moment when I realized that I wanted to learn how to mix. I was flabbergasted and happy we owned that track. That magical music that I had experienced in such a euphoric state of mind only hours ago, the music that me and thousands of others had made it feel like we were in a little piece of paradise on earth. Yes, I remember the name of that track. It was Jambo with Drumattack! On Wonka Records. Of course, I had to relive that moment in that small studio box behind my parent’s house.”
Club Stalker
“The first time I made some money with DJing, was in Club Stalker in Haarlem. As far as I know, this is the oldest club of The Netherlands. I became a resident for the Thursday evenings. Sure, I was a little disappointed that it was on a Thursday, because that meant that I couldn’t go to Club ROxY anymore. Fortunately, pretty soon I was able to feast the Stalker crowd with my music every Saturday night. That was from 1996 till 2000.”
This interview with Georgio Schultz is originally published on September 10th 2015 on DJMag.nl.
Who is Georgio Schultz?
Georgio Schultz is a Dutch producer who lives in Haarlem, which is also the home of other dutch producers like DJ Zki & Dobre, Gregor Salto, Olav Basoski. Georgio Schultz started his career in 1993. He’s an autodidact musician and influenced by music styles like funk, hiphop, jazz and rock. Georgio Schultz produces house tracks but also works as a free lance musician for commerce companies.
Since 1997 Georgio Schultz started to play records in a local club and began to develop his mixing skills. His first own production dates from 1992 and was recorded at the studio of the famous Dutch producer Olav Basoski. At that time Georgio Schultz didn’t have enough money for his own recording equiment. From the the money saved by his both grandmothers and his first release, he purchased his own gear.
The next step were 3 releases on the label First impression, owned by Robin ‘Jaydee’ Albers (Plastic Dreams) under the names ‘Manjaro’ & ‘Beathoven’. Later Georgio Schultz released on other labels such as ARS (Belgium), Spiritual records, Urban sound of Amsterdam, Timeless, 33/45, Flammable and many others. Most of his productions were released on the Spiritual label under the pseudonimes ‘Kasjmir’ and ‘Manjaro’. His records were played by DJ’s like Boy George, Pete Tong, Judge Jules, Billy Nasty, Nick Warren and John Digweed. Georgio Schultz worked with several famous people from the Dutch dance scene, such as DJ Dimitri, Eddy DeClercq, Sammy (Mallorca-Spain), Eric Nouhan and Marnix.
Succesfull tracks like ‘Equilibrium‘, ‘Polterguys’, ‘Subversal‘ and ‘The creator’ sold well and were compiled for compilations like ‘Ministry of Sound’ and ‘Global underground’. Georgio Schultz produced about approximately 60 releases containing remixes, corporations, but mostley solo projects. As a DJ Georgio Schultz played in a local club called Stalker, were he had residence for about 4 years and monthly in other clubs like Unit 3 (Hamburg -Germany) and Chateau (Zandvoord – Holland).
After a couple of years being out of the picture, Georgio Schultz discovered that music is his fuel, his big passion and started with DJ Marnix a new studio in the industrial area of Haarlem. In 2004 Georgio started to work more with vocals, and musicians and songwriters like the guitar player of a famous Dutch rock band called Silkstone did remixes for pop bands and learned a bit more about song structure and composing music for commercials. He also released 2 loungy/jazzy tracks wich went succesful all over the world on several international lounge/easy lisening compilations.
In the year 2006 he started releasing house tracks again under the name: Georgio Schultz ‘Comeback E.P’ with the tracks ‘Work it out/Cute & nice/Hajammaja’ on the Dutch G-Rex label. ‘Work It Out’ went nice, and was favourit tune from Dutch DJ’s like Roog, Gregor Salto, Mark van Dale and, Ricky Rivaro, and many others, this track appeared also on several Dutch compilations.
