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Oscar Kerkman

Moving Your Mind And Your Ass

About Me

Oscar Kerkman (Bodegraven, Holland 1976) started producing electronic music at the age of seventeen. At that time the Dutch hardcore house scene, also named ‘Gabber’, was at it’s highest point. With just as much as a Commodore Amiga and some old records he started producing hardcore house, characterized through it’s very fast tempo and simple, almost child-like melodies. During that time he becomes familiar with sequencing electronic sounds and composing songs. In the years that follow, his style will bend to a totally different direction, towards the mellow sound of the Dutch Hightech Modern Soul Movement. At that time, the future looks very promising with good reviews from his songs, but after two years of making songs and doing performances he quits due to personal circumstances.
Ten years later he decides it's not too late and gets himself new gear and starts making music again. What his electronic dance music concerns, Oscar Kerkman is producing modern music with firm roots in the old-school house tradition. Influenced by great names from past and future, Dutch stars as DJ Dimitri, Eric Nouhan, Quazar and American producers like Armand van Helden, Todd Terry and Joey Beltram. This combined with a great love of jazz, particularly the music of Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Jobim, creates a blend of eclectic, electronic but also jazzy sound with a strong rythmic base.
Oscar likes to put a little story in every song he makes, or a feeling of a place he has been or a situation that occured in his life. The sound is continuously evolving, as his production skills and ideas about music progress.
The production of dance music is not the only aspect of music this artist is interested in. The past year he started to write and compose songs with a more serious character. The possibility of performing these songs with musicians is currently being looked at.
Making music in different styles in different genres is the now the big challenge for this producer, with one great common idea behind it, making people move(d).


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Member Since: 4/28/2006
Band Members: Moi...
Influences: Antonio Carlos Jobim, DJ Dimitri & Eric Nouhan, Morelenbaum/Sakamoto, Incognito, John Mayer, Armand van Helden, Daft Punk, Silicone Soul, 4hero, Joey Beltram, MAW, Louie Vega EOL, Blaze, Roger Sanchez, DJ Sneak, Love, Joy & Pain...
Sounds Like: Sunshine
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

6 WEIRD THINGS CHAIN BLOG

Well, Bubbliebubs tagged me for the 6 weird things chain blog so I've been thinking a lot lately to come up with those 6 weird things...I'm so damn perfect I wouldn't know anything ;) I asked my manag...
Posted by Oscar Kerkman on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:33:00 PST

Got Some?

Hey people, today I've plantd a new track here, I hope you like it. I've been doing a lot of Latin flavoured jazz stuff, but I wanted to try some funk for a time :) I hope u can hear some progress in ...
Posted by Oscar Kerkman on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 05:18:00 PST