instrumental hip-hop

Manchester-based promoter and digital mercenary, ad3k has been taking his unique brand of electronic dance music to audiences around Europe since 2009. By seamlessly fusing together the finest hard electronic music from a range of genres, Mr 3k creates electronic soundscapes that refuse to be fit into any one scene or box. He has successfully played to a range of crowds in the UK, France and Germany; each time winning over audiences with a relentless assault of infectious, pounding and uplifting electronic sounds.

(For the Korean boy band, see 테이크.) There is more than one artist under this name: 1. Based in Los Angeles, Take (Sweatson Klank) is a composer who continues to push the boundaries of instrumental hip-hop music into new directions. After multiple successful EP's under his belt, Take finally unleashed his debut full length player in 2007, Earthtones and Concrete. This music is nothing short of an epic journey with continuously evolving collages that lead the listener down a dust covered road of bit-crushed melodies and molested jazz samples.

Read more about Take on Last.fm.

Stefan Bruinsma (17-08-1982), a.k.a. Number 9, was born and raised in the north of the Netherlands in a city called Groningen. At the age of 9 he discovered music was his passion, and he took his first piano lessons shortly followed by his first guitar lessons. After developing as a musician he encountered people that shared his vision on making music and performing on stage. At the age of 18 he chose the Rockacademy in Tilburg to develop as an artist and entrepreneur in the music industry. Up till now his life resulted in the following music projects: