On the 14th of july 1984 a new music freak, Nicolas, was born in 's-Hertogenbosch the Netherlands.After he was born and met his parents the nurse took care of him, and after some severe cleaning he was ready to go home and ready for the big world. At a very young age Nicolas was interested in music. He started by making his own drumset out of pans and cartboard boxes while he was listening too old tapes from his parents. A few years later he got keyboard lessons and learned how to play keyboard but already after a couple of lessons Nicolas stopped because he wanted to make his own tunes. Playing kids.. tunes every lesson was not quite his thing.At the age of 12 he visited a concert of Michael Jackson, and the way people responded to the music inspired him. Months flew by and nothing much happend but then!.. on the radio he heard an unknown DJ who played some funky tunes, housemusic. While spinning, the DJ exactly explained what he was doing. The next day Nicolas grapped the old tape-player with pick-up and some vinyl from his parents and pretended he was a DJ. After playing, and scratching for a few years internet emerged and when his dad bought a computer a new world opened for Nicolas. The downloading of tracks, samples, vocals etc gave him enough material to play for many hours. His parents obviously noticed that Nicolas was really interesed in music and they decided to give him the first edition of Music Maker for Christmas. After producing his firt track on the age of 13 he wanted more which happened! With his savings Nicolas bought his own DJ-gear and after 2 years of practicing he tried to get some bookings in some local clubs.In 2006 Nicolas got a call from Benny Rodrigues, asking him whether he wanted to play at Benny & Guests in de Rechter in Eindhoven. After this event, the number of bookings growed and he got the possibility to play with bigger names. Today, Nicolas is booked for quite a lot of parties and played with Copyright (Defected) Syke & Sugarstar (Defected), Claude Monnet, Benny Rodrigues, Sebastian Leger (France),D.O.N.S., Roog, Don Diablo, Erick E, Funkerman, Gregor Salto, Victor Coral, Baggi Begovic, Sidney Samson, D-Rachid, MC Gee, Yamani, Sonar Kollektiv (Germany), Outlines (France) and more.Nicolas also got the producing-virus and released a remix for No Assembly Firm on Uniform recordings. With MC Boogshe he produced the Wasteland anthem, PENTHOUSE "Probably the wildest party on earth" , and SEXCETERA "The super bowl of fetish". This track will be released very soon with some cool extra's. Other tracks like 'Be A Legend' which will be released soon are already slammed by Marcella (Top 10 of Marcella), Lucien Foort, Sebastian Sleebos and others. Also a number of remixes will be released soon in the USA and NetherlandsAs you can see, Nicolas (Funkfactor 8) is working hard on getting bigger and is doing more and more in todays dance-scene… Wanna know what? Just visit his website.Funkfactor 8
[email protected] http://www.funkfactor8.com (soon on-line) http://funkfactor8.hyves.nl
