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Pat Baker (NL): “As ready as I could be!”
Pat Baker has been professionally around for many years but Dancefair 2016 is where we met. Of course he told me the story of his first gig. “A huge stage on Liberation Day.”
Tom Hades (BE): “I’m a child of new wave”
An inspiring conversation with Tom Hades about dreams, experimenting, passionate people, ‘the shit-solver’, the game computer, his ‘sugar sound’ and and his biggest icon Frank de Wulff.
Orlando Voorn (NL): “I received a standing ovation”
Orlando Voorn is one of those rough diamonds with a big heart. In 2015 this legendary house pioneer told me the story of his first gig: “Johnny was literally crying.”
Neuv (NL): “I was literally carried around”
In 1990 Marcel Neuvel aka DJ Neuv had a strong opinion about the dance scene. “I was known as a criticaster.” In 2014 he told me the story of his first gig.
Ninna V (PRT): “Once I started, I got into the flow”
Portugese Ines Ninna Ramada aka techno DJ/producer Ninna V remembers her first gig very well: “Honestly, I was a train wreck.”
Gino Lightner (USA): “I won them over in the end”
In 2014 American DJ/producer Gino Lightner told me the story of his DJ debut. “I convinced them that a DJ was more cost-effective.”
