hardstyle

Headhunterz (Willem Rebergen, 12 september 1985) is a hardstyle DJ from The Netherlands, Veenendaal. He was discovered by fellow DJ The Prophet (Dov Elkabas). He made his definitive breakthrough in 2007, when he performed at major dance events such as DefQon.1, Q-Base and Qlimax. Today he has his own sublabel (Scantraxx Reloaded) at The Prophet's hardstyle label 'Scantraxx'. Popular releases by Headhunterz are 'Rock Civilization', 'Forever Az One' and 'End of my Existence'. His latest 2009 release is "Megasound / The Muzikal Revolution".

Roel "DJ Isaac" Schutrups was born in Winschoten in the northern part of Holland on June 8th 1974. He started his music career as a remixer for Dutch radio stations with an oldschool tape recorder and a small Casio sampler. Through the years he bought new and better equipment and started to develop his own unique style of production which resulted in his first record called "Bad Dreams" which was released in 1995 and became a huge Dutch hardcore techno hit. DJ Isaac started deejaying as well and became one of the pioneers of Dutch hardcore techno.

Read more about DJ Isaac on Last.fm.

If we go way back, it all began with a simple mixer and a set of cd-decks (pretty obvious huh?). Marcus Nordli and Kenth Kvien got their interest in electronical music way back as youngsters, looking up at the major djs. As time flew by, the both started djing and met up at a local party here in Oslo, Norway (2004). They were both djing at this party, and became friends. Marcus had been producing some cheesy dancemusic for a couple years, and Kenth got the same interest not long after they met. They started producing together, Kenth learning what Marcus knew and vice versa.

Hardstyle within the UK is certainly growing at a rapid rate and this could be linked to the emergence of leading UK hardstyle duo Brian M vs McBunn. Within the last year they have played almost all of the leading hardstyle events within the UK pushing their hard and uplifting sound to their ever growing fan base. Seen by many as a breath of fresh air to the scene and the next big new act to come from the UK their rise has been rapid with them being the first UK artists to produce for leading hardstyle label Blutonium Records.