DJ Native

..Dj Native was born in 1982 in the south of the Netherlands near Eindhoven. He grew up in a town called Helmond and during his high-school period he quickly discovered that he wanted to learn more than what they taught him at school. During that period he first touched a turntable and a mixer. It was love at first sight and from that moment he knew exactly what to do. Influenced by friends and the musical mainstream he started playing housemusic and beatmixing. By that time he already was attracted by the many samples and soundeffects. Later on this turned out to be his great passion.After two years of mixing, his enthusiasm got tempered and his hobby wasnt priority nr.1 anymore. This took place around 1999. Then a few friends who wanted to start a band woke him up. They held weekly jams in the middle of nowhere and asked Native if he wanted to join them with his decks. Inspired by the succes of nu-metal bands at that time the guys started to make music together and Native started experimenting with samples and grooves of his house-records. His first baby-scratches were bornUnfortunately these jams didnt last very long, so Native messed around by himself, until the year of 2002. This turned out to be an important one for his musical aspirations. After a long time of experimenting with his decks and mixer, Native decided it was time to get serious. At the end of 2002 he bought his first set of professional turntables and a battle-mixer. From this moment on he was unstopable.Nowadays Native is exploring the Dutch musicscene as an hiphop-dj/turntablist. He operates solo and together with the dutch rapper Macro (www.macronizm.nl) from Eindhoven, with whom (together with Fuji) he performs on weekly bases on the Dutch and Belgian stages. Since 2006 Native is a definite member of the Macronizm liveband as a dj/turntablist. He also has a small battle-rep. In 2003 he particpated in the Area51 Open, but he didnt succeed and got eliminated in the first round. In 2005 he had more luck and ended fourth at the Dutch DMC. In 2006 he reached the final of the Dutch Wax and the City battle, but lost that one and came in second. The coming years he'll probably do some more battling, when he's not too busy with his other stuff.Native released his first mixtape The Big Bang two years ago and is now busy working on the second one. Native also features on tracks of regional mcs once in a while. Besides that he's the resident dj of Platform, a hiphopparty in Eindhoven. (www.popei.nl)