Born in 1979 and living in Rotterdam ever since, it was simply impossible for Darkvizion to miss the rise of housemusic during the early 90’s. Tuning in to various local radio-stations and taping their programs, he got himself acquainted with this new music-style and quickly developed a liking for the harder, darker releases that were played on these shows. And, as most of these stories go, after buying his first vinyl he was hooked on housemusic in general, and hardcore in particular!
After abusing his parents’ turntable for some years and meeting people with the same musical interests, he finally had his first “gigs†with some friends at his school and at the local youth-centre. The next few years were all about learning how to mix properly, buying more and more records, saving up for his own decks and visiting parties at the infamous Energiehal to see his heroes spin.
In 1999, a decade since his first encounter with house-music, he got the chance to start working part-time at Mid-Town, the very importstore were he bought the records that got it all started. Also learning a lot about other forms of house music in this period, working here gave him the insight that this was what he really wanted to do with life: working in the music industry! This resulted in him taking a fulltime job at Mid-Town in 2001.
Finally feeling confident enough giving Paul Elstak a mixed cd one day, this action resulted in Darkvizion's first “official†booking: Hardcore4Life in February 2002. In the following years, things went in the right direction for Darkvizion and parties as Decibel Outdoor, Nightmare in Rotterdam, Slaves to the Rave, Darkness4Life, Hardcore Gladiators, The Neophyte Worldtour and many more followed, allowing him to improve his skills bit by bit and getting somewhat closer to achieving his ultimate goal: getting on the hardcore "A-list".
Darkvizion, nowadays working as the shopmanager of Mid-Town Rotterdam, is still in hot pursuit of his goal and is currently taking his love for hardcore the next step: besides rockin’ the decks as much as possible, he is working hard in the studio to get his first few pumpin' tracks finished for a release anytime soon on a label to be announced… And knowing the man, he won’t rest until he has succeeded, so you better be ready!!!! Expect audio previews on Myspace soon. In the meanwhile, feel free to contact.
Darkvizion:
Hardcore – Darkcore – Industrial
UPDATE - November 2007: Terror Traxx 58 - Darkvizion - Rize OUT NOW!!! 3 melodic tracks with a raw edge. Played by all usual suspects of the scene and found on big cd-compilations as Virus and Masters of Hardcore. Just added the audio to MySpace, so check out those tunes yourself!
UPDATE - February 2008: After good sales for Terror Traxx 58, great dj-support and even more compilations where my tracks can be found on ( such as the Hardcore 2007 Yearmix, mixed by Panic & The Viper ), I'm working on new tracks every single minute I can, so expect new dark musical vizions coming to you in the future!