SENSEI - Pops your Party with his eclectic mixing style. 23 years old and born in Ostend you can seek him, aka Niek Calcoen, underground in Ostend’s eXtraZone shop, where he’s shop manager since 2005. Through this job he discovered new genres of music.
If he isn’t in his ‘cd-cellar’ he’s at work in the nightlife scene : Organiser, DJ, Technician with sound & light rental and Party-Animal !
Although his own heart is lost to House music, as a member of the Amuse Dj-team, he has to play an extreme wide range of styles, from Dance, House, Electro –over Latin, R’nB, Hip Hop- to Disco & the better Hits from the 70’-80’-90ies…
He started mixing as a room-dj on his first own-bought equipment in the summer of 2000. At school he was always prepared to take care of the technical assistance during theatre, shows, … or to make the dancefloor rock on small parties.
First year after highschool he established “Sensei Sound Sessionsâ€, which became a popular discobar for all kind of fests. Together with his three friends/colleagues they organise their own Summer Kick Off! Parties, a successful concept for students who wanted to celebrate the start of the summer. Their firm became more professional and was asked for several services in different entertainment branches. So beginning 2007 they changed name: AMUSE, the Allround Multimedia Service & Event Business, was born. Nowadays they’re specialised in sound & light rental, multimedia solutions, graphic design, party decoration, discobars & Dj-Team.
During almost 3 years residency at American Bar Potbelly’s near the Ostend beach, where he got the chance to develop his mixing skills on professional equipment, such as Technics SL1200, Pioneer CDJ1000, Rodec, …, Sensei was asked on several occasions and venues in Flanders and beyond. His allround mixing was very popular on school proms, TD’s, beach-party’s… In April 2007 he became main resident-Dj in the brand-new TAO bar, a big club, lounge and resto in the heart of Ostend. There he gets the opportunity to reveal his own musical identity, which is inspired by labels and events such as Defected, Hed Kandi and Dj’s as Dennis Ferrer, Bob Sinclar, Martin Solveig, Mr. V, 2 Many Dj’s, Discobar Galaxie, …
Except of TAO, Sensei performs every week at very different locations & events : Ghent, De Cinema, Petrol (Antwerp), … where he shares the decks with big (inter)national Dj’s as Fedde le Grand, Dj Delicious, Culture Club residents, Buscemi ft. Squadra Bossa, Ya’Mo, …
And if you thought this wasn’t enough, he even finds time and inspiration to create his own exclusive party-nights with his concept La Fábrica, set up with the nightlife experience of Kim and hosted by his own firm and colleagues of AMUSE-events.be this is always a must have in your going out calendar !
In the future Sensei will try to maintain and extend his place in the nightlife scene as dj, club-resident, even producer as well as event organiser, both for Amuse-events as for his own concept-parties by La Fábrica.
You can book Sensei as an Allround Party Dj or House Dj for a single Set, for a whole night or as part of the wacky Dj Duo “Mashin’ the House†in which he’s accompanied by partner in crime Jimmy P. . In his house/electro sets he loves to use influences without any limits : Salsa, Oldskool HipHop, New Wave, … As long as his crowd keeps movin’ !
Prepare your feet and meet his beats. Just enjoy it ! -Vida Loca-
Contact, info & bookings : [email protected] – 0496/04.15.95
