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DJ Erik Bio
Erik was born June 1974 in Berne and grew up in Thun / Switzerland, already in his early Years he catched fire from the emerging Hip Hop Scene in Switzerland. At the age of 13 (1987)he started drawing graffittis and he really slipped into it. Inspired by local DJs and People like Kool Herc, Jam Master Jay (Run DMC), Tim Simenon (Bomb the Bass) or Terminator X (Public Enemy), he started Djing in the late eighties with Funk, Soul, Hip Hop and Reggae.
Started to play at Youthcenters, then moved to Café Bar Mokka Thun (http://www.mokka.ch) in 1990 to prove his skillz on a matured crowd. Talkin bout Mokka is like takin it way back, where Erik met lots of national and international artists thru the last 16 years.
During the nineties till now, he played in many clubs, on several concerts, at openairs and partys and he also played at different sport events such as snowboard worldcups all over Switzerland. He opened Gigs for several international Artists and also played with a lot of them. He still stays down to earth and he plays at different kinda venues from birthdays with fifty guests up to clubs, halls and events with an audience of many thousand people.
His mixture goes from blackmusic like r'n'b, soul, funk to hiphop and reggae and of course he plays all the classics from a to z, you will also find Portions of Breakbeats or Drum'n'Bass in his Music. During the last 16 years on stages and in clubs, he learned a lot about the musicscene and he used to manage to catch up with new trends without loosing his own originality. He is truly a DJ by Nature and crowd moving is a pure passion to him. In 2002 Erik started to play again more with open Borders and he often plays so called Mash Up! Sets, which contain all the styles he was into thru these years. He created the Label called "MashUp!" at Bierhübeli in Bern in 2003, which is now played by different DJs. At this time Erik have a huge collection of close to 10'000 Records. He's doin his DJing as an extra work in addition to his job, he is workin' as a head purchasing manager in the plastic industry.
In 1998 he founded the Soundsystem called "tropikkal massive sound" which is a reggae and dancehall soundsystem, were he is performing together with his friend MC Ricky aka Hammerkid, a jamaican singer from Montego Bay.
References
INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS I PLAYED WITH OR OPENED VENUE FOR:
DE LA SOUL, NENEH CHERRY, SEEED, MASSIVE TÖNE, KARIBIK FRANK (FRANKY KUBRICK), TURNTABLEROCKER (DJ HAUSMARKE + DJ THOMILLA), DJ FRICTION, GENTLEMAN, SILLY WALKS MOVEMENT, CULCHA CANDELA, PERVERTED MONKS, AFU-RA, DADDY FREDDY, PRINCESS SUPERSTAR, RONI SIZE, ASIAN DUB FOUNDATION, MC RENE, MAX HERRE, OFX aka Vicelow & Feniksi du SAIAN SUPA CREW, DJ SWING, BLIGG, GENERAL LEVI, DAVID RODIGAN, CULCHA CANDELA, FAMARA, DJ MOUSS...
AND MANY MANY MORE...
SWITZERLAND CLUBS
THUN: CAFÉ BAR MOKKA, MÜHLEBAR, KRAFTSTOFF, TIME CLUB, NACHTWERK, DAGOBA,
BIEL: CASTELLINO, TAKE5,
BERN:GUAYAS, TONIS, KORNHAUS, LE CLUB, DU THÉATRE, BABALOO, ECLIPSE, SPLENDID, AAREBAR, WASSERWERK, STUFENBAU, GASKESSEL
MOUNTAINS: RIDERS PALACE, CRAP BAR, CASA VEGLIA, FLEM MASSIV - LAAX, POPCORN SAAS FEE,
FESTIVALS: GURTENVESTIVAL BERN, HEITERE OPEN AIR ZOFINGEN, OPENAIR ST. GALLEN, SCHLOSSGUTFESTIVAL MÃœNSINGEN.
SPORT: NOKIA ISF SNOWBOARD WORLDCUP, FIS SNOWBOARD WORLDCUP, UBS-TAKE OFF LAAX, BOARDERCROSS WC, AMPED CHAMP, ROSSIGNOL SNOWBOARDS