ARTICLES
VPRO GIDS - WESTCOAST SOUND OF HOLLAND SPECIAL
An interview with I-F, DJ TLR, Guy Tavares, Legowelt & Godspill. By Job de Wit, for VPRO Gids, Oktober 2009.
THE I-F MEGA INTERVIEW
As published in Dj Broadcast Magazine #39, 2009
RUDE 66 - DJ BROADCAST GEAR SPECIAL
Rude 66 Gear Special by Aron Friedman, DJ Broadcast #28, 2008
I-F - DJ BROADCAST INTERVIEW
I-F, de Held van de as Den Haag - Rotterdam. "Berlijn, wat een kutstad". DJ Broadcast Magazine 2008.
CREME ORGANIZATION - DJ BROADCAST SPECIAL
Here's a scan of the Creme Organizaion "Blueprint Label" Special that appeared in DJ Broadcast #29 in 2008.
BLOWING UP YOUR SPOT - CREME ORGANIZATION'S TLR
Interview by Lina Goldberg, photo by Paul Langlade TLR’s mountain-man beard and baggy hoodies hint at his past life as a squatter, but they don’t give away quite how ambitious this Dutch DJ-cum-record-promoter-cum-radio-personality really is. TLR, known to his schoolteachers as Jeroen van der Star, now 38, went from organizing grimy squat parties in the ’90s called Global Darkness, to creating a web portal and community for the Dutch [Read more …]
WEST COAST KNOWS HOW TO PARTY
Like music geeks from all over Europe and the United States, I've been going on regular pilgrimages to Holland to visit the epicenter of the italo disco revival and the Dutch electronic music scene. Last month, it was to celebrate the birth of Intergalactic FM, an Internet radio station born out of the ashes of the Cybernetic Broadcasting System. The CBS, as it was known to its fans, was an Internet radio station and online community based in [Read more …]
THE WEST COAST SOUND OF HOLLAND 'WE STILL KILL THE OLD WAY'
Here's a cool article by Joep Vermaat from the early 2000's. So you've heard I-F's Space Invaders are Smoking Grass? This has become one of the songs responsible for the whole return of electro and disco to modern dance floors. But there is much more great music where that came from. The whole west Coast of Holland is a breeding ground for multi talented electronica artists who are about to take over the world. Sure, you know artists like I-F [Read more …]
ARTEFACTS #1
Ok, so something's gotta be the first post. Here are some artefacts from the West Coast archives, the first in what's gonna be a long series. Pimped out rude 66 demo for Black Sabbath, ca. 2003 "Porn Darsteller - Pardon des Offences Demo", a second chance for the Creme Org, after a peace offfering in a Barcelona dive bar, ca. 2002. The demo for "Rare Robotnicks part 2" ca. 2005 Space invaders, we kick your ass, the unreleased theme tr [Read more …]