De Nacht Van… Giel

Giel Beelen krijgt zaterdag 12 mei in Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn een avondlang carte blanche voor zijn eigen ‘Beelen Festival’ in pocketformaat. De Nacht van… Giel geeft de 3FM-dj en presentator tot in de kleine uurtjes een podium om zijn favoriete bands en live-acts te presenteren. Tijdens dezelfde Nacht van… maakt Giel de winnaar bekend van een door hemzelf gelanceerde YouTube-contest.

Giel Beelen is na Carice van Houten en Jan Mulder de derde bekende Nederlander die haar of zijn favoriete muziekavond samenstelt. Het format is even simpel als sympathiek. Cornald Maas interviewt Giel Beelen over zijn muzikale voorkeuren, met tal van persoonlijke en anekdotische uitstapjes. De muziek en de bandjes die ter sprake komen, krijgen een live-performance op het podium.

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Some further investigation, I discovered the UK-based DJ Mr. Scruff (who’s performing April 27th in Melkweg, Amsterdam) dropped my remix of Dogdaze’s “One-Off” in a one of his sets, which can be found on his Soundcloud:

http://soundcloud.com/mr-scruff/mr-scruff-botw-feb-2012

Good on him, I’d really forgotten about this track, it’s been released five years ago.. guess good shit never fades away .

Keep it up!

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A true musical chameleon, highly appreciated by audiences all over the world, Leroy Rey is one of the most creative & versatile DJ’s you will ever encounter. Known for his deep musical knowledge & mixing skills, as well as energetic delivery, it’s hard to not enjoy a set from this man.

Born in 1974, Leroy was into music early-on and, supported by his family, got surrounded at a very young age with albums by Earth, Wind & Fire, Stevie Wonder, Third World, The Beatles, Sergio Mendes and many more, thus laying down the foundation for his versatility.

Starting out as a DJ in 1992, Leroy also was one of the founding members of hiphopband ‘The Proov’ and produced six tracks for their well received debut-album “Traditions” (2000). In support of the album, a full-fledged live band (with Leroy on percussion) was featured on highly regarded festivals such as North Sea Jazz and Lowlands amongst others.

Focusing more on DJ-ing, Leroy quitted ‘The Proov’ at the turn of 2002, in the process creating more time for other opportunities, such as Wicked Jazz Sounds as well as Risk Sound System.

The latter a collective devoted to Real House, which released “The Sound Is Yours” in 2008 which Kerri Chandler-helmed remix took the House Community by storm, resulting in a nr.1 spot on Traxsource, a top 10 hit in Belgium and a USA tour which brought the crew to legendary nights such as Louie Vega’s “Roots” party at Cielo, New York & Marques Wyatt’s “Deep” at Vanguard, L.A.

Wicked Jazz Sounds is a different beast altogether, a jazz-meets-dance platform, powered by DJ’s interacting with live musicians that started out in 2002, with a weekly Sunday night. And never missed one since. Calling Amsterdam-based club “The Sugar Factory” home since 2005, Wicked Jazz Sounds made Leroy one of their prominent residents and grew out to enormous proportions, with performances at again North Sea Jazz & Lowlands, as well as in Germany, Italy & USA.

Aside of all of this, Leroy also keeps residencies for the longest, given the fact he helms the Saturday night in Jimmy Woo (Amsterdam) since 2004 as well as a few others.

And if this isn’t enough, he became a band-member once again, being a DJ/percussion-player as well as producer for the revisited & revitalized version of what was once The Wicked Jazz Sounds Band (which at this time of writing doesn’t have a new name yet).

Never to fit in one bag -and all the better for it-, this certainly one of Leroy’s biggest strengths, so whenever you get a chance to check out a set by this man, don’t hesitate. You won’t regret it!

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