DJ Smurf

Bio:

The Greatest Entertainer On Earth has come to Madness Industry!

Once quoted as “being famous for playing funny music and drinking beer”, Smurfy Boy is still playing funny music, but drinking less beer.

Taking influences from hip hop, oldskool, early Dutch hardcore, pop music and WWE Wrestling, Smurf’s energetic DJ sets – accompanied with wild dancing behind the decks – have been moving (and often confusing) dancefloors around the world since 1992.

Smurf describes the music he plays as “a reflection of my personality. I feel like the music I am playing is coming from my brain, into the mixer, and out through the speakers”.

The self-confessed ‘Greatest Entertainer on Earth’ (WWE reference) doesn’t play or make music to impress his peers, colleagues or friends; “it’s party music for party people”.

If you like the music or not, a DJ Smurf show is always an unforgettable experience. He has even fallen off stage and broken his leg in the name of entertainment!

The Small Blue Machine’s love affair with ‘alternative’ music started back in the early 90s’, when he discovered electro music and breakdancing. This progressed into Hip Hop.

In 1987, House music exploded and this combined with Hip Hop to create Hip-House. This is where he discovered Acid House. High pitched squelchy sounds, dark synths and scary vocals had him hooked. Hip Hop started to take a back seat and all his money was spent on Acid House compilations and 12″ imports.

By 1990, Acid House had turned into rave & techno and at the age of 18, he attended his first party’s on his own, as none of his childhood friends liked dance music. Witnessing 1000’s of people inside warehouses, dancing away and hugging each other felt like a different world and the world he wanted to be apart of. New friendships were made and he attended more massive outdoor raves throughout the early 90’s.

Although initially coming from a Hip Hop background, Smurf never really liked the UK breakbeat sound and was drawn more to the 4/4 harder sounds coming out of Holland, Belgium & Germany.

In 1990 he bought his first turntables, Sound Lab belt drives and every spare moment was practicing mixing. While attending a rave on New Years Eve 1991 in a local club, the resident DJ asked if he could fill in for a bit, as the other resident DJ hadn’t showed up. He got a ride home and came back with a box of records and this was his first set inside a club.

Small gigs from 1992 to 1994 followed, mainly in backrooms of pubs and empty houses.

By 1993, rave music got faster and ‘hardcore’ was now a thing. The UK rave scene split into Happy Hardcore, Jungle & ‘Gabba’ or ‘Rotterdam’ music as it was called in the UK. Smurf was now only buying the hardest and fastest records coming out of Europe. He made many tapes and handed them out at raves and in record stores.

In 1994, he was booked to play his first gabba set in a club at a party called Judgment Day, alongside his hero, Lenny Dee. The set was recorded to cassette, with Lenny Dee on one side and Smurf on the other. The tape sold all over the UK and became popular. By 1996, Smurf was being booked all around the UK. Listen to the set here: https://soundcloud.com/smurfggm/dj-smurf-judgement-day-whitley-bay-england-24031994

In 1996 he purchased a battered old Amiga computer and started producing trax and had releases on Hard of Hearing, Strike, & Killout records from 1997 onwards.

In 2000, Smurf was invited to his first gig outside the UK at the legendary Nordcore party in Hamburg, Germany. More gigs followed in Germany, Switzerland, USA, Canada, Italy, Belgium and eventually to Holland.
While playing a small party in a bar in Haarlem, unbeknown to him, the organiser of Thunderdome was in the bar. Shortly after this, he received a phone. “I saw you DJ at a small party and I liked the way you played the music and entertained the visitors. I want you to play the last set at Thunderdome and send everyone away happy”.

Following that performance, bookings came in thick & fast for events such as Masters of Hardcore, Decibel, Hellbound, Ground Zero, BKJN, Nightmare Outdoor, Megarave, Hellraiser, Terrordrang, Q-Base and many other great party’s.

In 2007, he launched GGM Raw Records and 5 vinyl releases were produced over the coming years.

Since then, Smurf has been producing tracks on his own GGM & Deng Deng Hardcore digital labels, as well as having releases on This Is Terror, CSR, Industrial Strength, CSR, Speedcore Worldwide,p BKJN Music, Social Technology, Footworxx to name a few. He has kept to his unique style of playing and making records for the people on the dancefloor, with big hits such as ‘Exposure King’, ‘Lollypop’, ‘Girls’ and ‘You Are A C#nt’.

In 2011 & 2015 Smurf took the #DENG down-under to Australia, performing in Sydney & Perth on both occasions.

With his vast musical knowledge going back to the 80’s, Smurf has become on of the most versatile DJ’s out there. Although his main love is Early Terror and Frenchcore, he is also playingb regularly all the styles he grew up with, from Acid House to Oldskool, to Early Hardcore, Techno (as Viktor Van Stroomf) and of course,

In 2019, Smurf decided to only play Early Terror & Early Frenchcore at hardcore party’s.

In 2020, he started a new alias, ‘Ravebomber’, where he has been remixing some classic Early Rave trax from the 1990’s and making new trax with 90’s influences. These are all in a Frenchcore/Early Terror style. Watch out for the live Ravebmober show coming soon.

Fun sets based on gabber.