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electronic music gathers here
16-20 October 2024
www.amsterdam-dance-event.nl

My new Album 'SEROTONIN' is out now: https://armada.lnk.to/Serotonin

DJ + Radio Presenter
Founder @weareunitedidentities
Bookings: ornella@soundsfamiliar.it
MGMT: mgmt@caristamusic.com

GIDEÖN
HOMO-CENTRIC RECORDS / NYC DOWNLOW / ADONIS / R3 SOUNDSYSTEM / BLOCK9

GIDEÖN has a background in music spanning 33 years. In addition to his studio practice as a recording artist, his work as a creative director, stage designer and curator, he is also a touring DJ and an avid collector of vinyl. Since his first set of turntables in 1990, GIDEÖN has devoted his life to collecting vinyl from the US, Jamaica, Latin America, Africa, and the UK. He specialises in Northern Soul, Latin, Reggae, Gospel, and Disco rarities. House Music, above all else, is his first and greatest love. 

He is currently Creative Director of a new opera being developed in partnership with English National Opera. He has a degree in Music with Visual Practice (BA Hons) and was guest Creative Director of Music for London Borough of Culture 2022. Recent projects have seen Gideon head up Creative Direction for Dua Lipa’s record breaking Studio 2054, winning the MVA’s Music Video of The Year award. He was production designer for lead artists at Live at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury’s virtual festival livestream. 

As a curator, he programmed two events for Chaka Khan’s Meltdown Festival in summer 2024 and is currently Head of Music at The Roof Gardens in London. Other projects include work with Anohni, Banksy, Imperial War Museum, Finnish Opera House, Hercules & Love Affair, Lana Del Ray, Skrillex, Brian Eno, Roisin Murphey, The Blessed Madonna, Honey Dijon, and Jorja Smith.

GIDEÖN co-founded, co-directs and curates Block9’s festival nightlife institutions The NYC Downlow, Genosys, Maceo’s and IICON at Glastonbury Festival. He is also resident and co-booker at London’s hottest queer club night Adonis. As a radio DJ, GIDEÖN has been actively involved in broadcasting for over three decades. Since cutting his teeth on London’s pirate stations in the late nineties, he hosted a weekly show on London’s Soho Radio for 3 years. Recent guest appearances include New York’s Beats In Space, London’s Rinse FM, NTS Radio and BBC 6 Music. He recently held a residency at BBC Radio 1.

GIDEÖN has been involved in political activism his entire life and is now increasingly focussed on organising hybrid cultural-political events partnering music and protest, often under the banner of R3 Soundsystem. Together with charities Love Music Hate Racism & Stand Up To Racism, GIDEÖN has organised major sound system interventions on many of the Stop Brexit and Stop Trump and Anti-Fascism protests. He is actively involved with fundraising for several LGBTQ+, human rights and social justice organisations including AllOut, Medical Aid For Palestinians, Prepster, Human Dignity Trust and Refugee Community Kitchen. GIDEÖN sits on the advisory committee for The Right to Dance, part of War Child’s NGO Network.

R3 Soundsystem is a consortium of DJs, musicians, producers, record labels, festivals, nightclubs, sound systems, activists, and cultural organisations, all united by love of music and the rejection of right-wing nationalist values. R3’s three Rs stand for RESIST/REJECT/REVOLT.

GIDEÖN’s House Music label HOMO-CENTRIC RECORDS launched to showcase both his solo productions and collaborations with close queer comrades. The label focusses on the LGBTQ+ heritage of House and attempts to pay homage to its lost heroes. Its manifesto states the intent to re-establish the lines of queer musical tradition at the heart of House, lost to AIDS and the capitalist desecration of dance music itself.

we always dance together

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worldwide: fh@t-s-agency.com
italy: aa@3d-agency.it
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MUSIC GENRE: R&B / HIP HOP / ECLECTIC / URBAN / DISCO / POP / LATIN HOUSE / MOOMBATHON / ZOUK / TRAP

Marvin Arthur Braafheid a.k.a. DJ Superior was born in Rotterdam the Netherlands on April 30th of 1977. Together with his older sister and parents he moved to Surinam at the age of 5 and spent most of his childhood there. He got in touch with music because of his father. Every Sunday afternoon while his father listened to music he would put a headphone on his head and make him listen to music. His mother says she noticed his affection for music as early as a baby boy because he would use pens or sticks and hit with them on the heater creating drumming sounds. While he was drumming, his sister would stand on the table singing with a hairbrush in her hand using it as a microphone.

 

In 1987 he returned to Rotterdam which has become his hometown ever since. He started taking drumming classes every Wednesday afternoon and continued doing so for five years. At the age of 12 he became a volunteer at a Community Center called 'De Boeg' for their weekly teen disco nights. They had two separate nights, one for children between the age of 12 and 14 and the other one between 15 and 18. This is where he first got introduced to turntablilism. Little did he know then, that that would be the beginning of his career as a successful DJ. He fell in love with the turntables and entertaining people through music. It didn’t take people very long to notice his affection and musical talents and while other boys his age would be out playing soccer, he would spend most of his free time practicing turntabilism with the Technics SL 1200.

Shortly after his kick off as DJ, he ran into another young man that seemed to share the same passion as he did. They joined together as a DJ team and named themselves “The Coversquad”. Individually they were known by the name DJ Deepcover (his partner) and DJ Undercover (himself). His first official gig in a club was at the age of 14. At that time he was the youngest DJ to have ever performed in a club. He began experimenting how to make music with the Amiga 500, which was actually a computer. The results of that experiment were his first bubbling based beat sample. It was at that time that the ‘Bubbling’ era began. Bubbling back then was known as today’s dancehall from Jamaica played up-tempo. It became extremely popular in the Netherlands and the Coversquad released 8 mixtapes that became a major hype throughout the country. The Coversquad grew to become the most popular and wanted DJ team, ruling the R&B scene of the Netherlands between 1993 and 2003.

 

After many successful years as the Coversquad they decided to go separate ways in 2003. He changed his name from DJ Undercover to DJ Superior. From there on new doors opened up allowing him to grow into a multi-talented music artist. He is booked for his outstanding performances behind the turntables, playing a wide range of various types of music such as R&B, Hip Hop, Latin House, Dub Step, Zouk, Funana, Reggaeton, Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Soul, Pop & Disco Classics. During his sets he has a strong infinity with the crowd and is therefore able to play exactly what the crowd wants to hear at that moment. Unlike most DJ’s in the Netherlands he MC’s during his own gigs. People recognize him through his great talent and technical skills behind the turntables, capability of playing a wide range of different types of music, and his professional and impressive performance. 

Bookings: 
simon@primarytalent.com
laetitia@primarytalent.com

MGMT: 
james@purplewall.com
abi@hannahwants.com

29 year old House scientist 👨‍🔬
Owner of @darksideofthesunams
Bookings: nick@meanwhile.nl

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