About Me
It all started in 1990, with the Drum'n'Bass of M-Beat and Remarc, Goldie, Prodigy, SL2 and Roni Size.
After having visited a couple of parties, Silvahfonk decided, in 1996, to buy secondhand turntables and he started experimenting at home. After some time he got his first booking by Urban Unit at Blaak, Rotterdam (Queensday). In this time he was known as 'Energy' because of his energetic personality.Due to circumstances he moved to the north in 1997.
Silvahfonk (means Silver Funk/Spark) was in that time also interested in Hiphop and he decided to leave the DJ'ing be for the time beeing. After having joined in the, now still underground, Hiphop-group M.I.C. (Mo Ill Communication) for a while, Silvahfonk was discovered as an MC by members of the Zombi Squad. In 1998 he participated in the 'Grote prijs van Nederland' in the category 'Hiphop/Freestyle' and he became second in the intial rounds.In 1999, after the failed Hiphop-thing, Silvahfonk started spinning again after getting in touch with an other DJ from Groningen. After an unexpected successful performance in Vera, Groningen, he decided to set up a DJ-Team called 'Chainreaction'. Members of this team were Chris Combo and Silvahfonk and together they spinned a combination of Breakz, Darkstep and 2-Step and Drum'n'Bass and Jungle in clubs as Hemkade and The Palace (Groningen).Not much later DJ Josje (Yorobi) contacted him and since then he's like 'the eternal guest' at Josje's internetradioshow, Intermezzo Music, at www.nauticradio.net He's been asked to come and perform regularly and he's very thankful for that.After a great performance at the first edition of Subsonik, almost 9 years ago now, (Subsonik was a monthly Drum'n'Bass party in Simplon, Groningen) he got himself a spot there as resident DJ. Besides that, he was recruited by the Complex Beatz crew, from the well known recordlabel. This resulted in getting to a lot of different spots all across the country.Silvahfonk anno 2004 is now busy as co-producer of still unknown but very talented producers, to be able to spin their own productions at parties.
He works close with rinsin new commer Amplicon.Also, he has set up a new Drum'n'Bass night called DNB@Kult. With this chilling Drum'n'Bass and Breakz-night in cafe Kult in Groningen he want to give new talent the chance to give a showcase of their talent and works to a small audience in Groningen. After 2 years silvahfonk stops organize and focus on school and networking and afcourse spining the wheels.Since 2005 Silvahfonk got also involved by a new organisation that called "Underground Music" in Apeldoorn (NL)
Underground-Music supports the present dance music scene and will provide future activities. This is non-commercial related and is mainly to promote dance music and DJ's and live acts. For more information check www.underground-resistance.nl (still underconstuction)In 2005 he won 2 awards at the dutch drum n bass awards as best breaktrough and BEST DJ for the further results watch www.dnbawards.nl (results 2005) and he won Mtv's Pimp my room Ultimate Dj room competition for being a crazy dude on tv for more details watch www.pimpmyroom.nl.After that year he got himself a spot at 2 agency's.
www.thenightguide.nl a fresh allround agency with al kinds of dance dj's and performers alround the world. Also Silvahfonk got a spot at www.Bassground.com the number one agency in Holland with only the best drum n bass dj's photographers vj's and mc's around Holland and aboard.
Beside's that Silvahfonk host his own show alongside Dj Fre4knc at www.jungletrain.net.The program called ROYAL AND RAW and we invite and unkown and general fresh artist to do there thing in a weekly showcase from 22:30 till 00:30.on tuesday night.
Last we got some special editions with guest like Codex - (dnaaudio Servie) and recently SERUM (Dread recordings UK). But also dj's around Holland and aboard like Voja - Lenzman - Trap - Noble - dj Maxey (from Germany)
Defanitly worth to check it out every tuesday @ www.jungletrain.net
After this year silvahfonk stopt the co operation with the radio show and Royal & Raw is now only a DJ team.In 2007 Silvahfonk and his agency TheNightguide work together with the fresh new crew Pitch Control.
In this crew we represent the drum n bass al over the country and we help eachother with doing party's
for more info about that check www.pitchcontrol.net.
Silvahfonk also organize the new drum n bass concept MACHTIG in co operation with Noisia @ Simplon in our hometown Groningen NL.
check that out www.Simplon.nl
Silvahfonk has a lot of passion for the sound that is Drum'n'Bass but maybe his heart can be found mostly with the jungle-sound. He loves the '94 records of producers like Remarc and Congo Natty but also the productions of the present in whick this sound can be found more and more.
His style is dark, uplifting, summer-like, jungle-oriented and funky and he tries to bring this to the public in his own energetic and creative way. He also tries to be exclusive by picking 'that other tune'. DJ'ing to him is not a job but more the pure representing of the thing he's completely into. He wants people to get to know a genre with no equal. Or, to cite himself, "Drum'n'Bass is my life-style, I am a true junglist!".
