A night creature who dislikes most people around him.
indie vs. hipster-indie
friendly guy vs. sarcastic fuck
dj arnold vs. kill all hipsters dj(-team )
low profile vs. high profile
content vs. style
me vs. me
Kill All Hipsters
The best new music is pretty uncategorisable these days. Strictly speaking it ain’t dance music, but it’s not guitar music either. It’s a hyper-eclectic, hard to pin down hybrid of electro-vibes, indie-mentality, messy beats, edgy guitars and an uncompromising diy-punk-spirit. Arnold Scheepmaker ( a Dutch dj/journalist who dj’s frequently at clubs like Paradiso, Melkweg, Rotown, Tivoli and 013 and who writes for Live XS and Vice magazine ) thinks that’s pretty exciting and feels that it reflects the way most of us are living right now.
As Kill All Hipsters ( he loves scenesters, but sometimes hates their attitude in equal amounts ) he searches the ideal mash-up of styles and plays tunes by:
Lcd Soundsystem, Digitalism, The View, The Rifles, MIA, Maximo Park, Justice, Yeah Yeah Yeahs,Klaxons, Uffie, Foals, The Rapture, Interpol, The Strokes, CSS, Arctic Monkeys, Simian Mobile Disco, Alter Ego, Boys Noize, Babyshambles, The Wombats,To My Boy, Does it Offend you yeah?, Hadouken, The Gossip, Dead 60s, The Cribs, New Young Pony Club, The Kooks, Editors, Datarock, Shitdisco, Punks Jump Up, Guns n Bombs, Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip, Bloc Party, Queens of the Stoneage, Chromeo, 5 O’ Clock Heroes, Shy Child, Belle & Sebastian, Reverend & The Makers, The Bravery, Robyn,Peter Bjorn & John, The Presets, Just Jack, Goose, Calvin Harris,Franz Ferdinand, Mstrkrft, The Rakes, 1990s, BRMC, Hot Chip, Dirty Pretty Things, The Postal Service, The Streets, Pigeon Detectives, Jamie T, Bromheads Jacket, The Horrors, The Killers, Crystal Castles, Kasabian, Tokyo Police Club, Santogold, Battles,The Fratellis, We are Scientists, The Faint, The Coral,Sunshine Underground, Bonde do Role, Infadels, Mando Diao, Wolfmother
Arnold can be found dj'ing at the strangest places. Basically, the music he plays out overlaps with what indie kids, electro types or ' eclectic ' people like, but the range of records he spins is much wider than that. Sometimes he'll let huge audiences dance to obscure records, at other times he'll try to convince industry insiders that a commercially succesfull song is actually really good. At all times he believes you should never be distracted by any way of media hype whatsoever. A good record is a good record, whether it sells 2 or 2 million copies.
Arnold has a love/hate-relationship with a lot of hipster-indie-types. They're a part of his audience but they tend to find style and profile more important than content. Sure, style can be an essential part of what a band/dj does, but content should always outweigh style. Therefore: Kill All Hipsters.
In the daytime Arnold also does loads of interviews and writes reviews/columns for monthly Dutch music magazine Live XS, Vice and Havana. In the past, amongst others, He's worked for: Blvd, OOR, Het Parool, Samsonic and Music Minded.
When he's not working he hangs out with his girlfriend Tessa or gets drunk with his best friend Terence.
Produced By Pharrell - Santogold, Julian Casablancas, N.E.R.D.
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