RYDEL

SEARCH

Biography
Events
Mixes
Discography
Photos
Vinyl
CDs/Albums
Charts
Links
News
Bookings

RANK	SCORE ?	GENRE	LOCATION
1015	255	Techno	Ljubljana, SI

Born and raised in Amsterdam Rydel started developing an interest in Electronic Dance Music in the early 90's. Until 1996 his main focus was Hardcore, but by the beginning of 1996 his musical taste shifted to the easier styles UK-Hardhouse, Trance and House. This change in music gave him the opportunity to play for a much broader audience and soon the bookings started coming in. By 1998 he became resident at Starlight, and soon other clubs in and around Amsterdam followed: Trance Buddha, TIME and the legendary afterparty-club ZOO.

In the year 2000 he launched his own club nights named Xplizit with the emphasis on Hardhouse and Trance. After the Dutch scene saw the rise of HardStyle the Xplizit-parties quickly became Hardstyle-orientated and as Rydel saw too many familiarities with the early Hardcore scene he slowly distanced himself from the events. By then his girlfriends love for Techno already sparked an interest for it and after joining her to various Techno-events, and listening to 3deck masters like Umek and Ben Sims he quickly becomes enthusiastic about Techno and its driving rhythms and banging beats. Rydel starts playing on 3 turntables and lands several bookings and residencies in Slovenia as well as in the rest of Europe.

Back in Holland Rydel teams up with his fellow-DJ and friend: Ronner. After playing several parties together as a team, they decide to expand their borders and practice playing their sets on a 5deck/2mixer set-up, with both playing at the same time. At the first party they performed on with this set-up, both crowd and organizers are pleased with the result and they are asked back to the same location various times. As the year progresses they find their agendas filling up with various gigs, both together as separate.

Moving to Slovenia at the end of 2003 gave him the opportunity to play all over the country and focus on production as well. After teaming up with Hard Wired for some studio sessions the HyperGen ProjeX are created with the first release in mid 2004. (Krach 003 -> DJRydel & HardWired - "X-retta / DT's Tour") At present Rydel still lives in Ljubljana (Capital of Slovenia) and is working on various Techno-projects with Hard Wired for the German label KRACH Records, and the new upcoming label: Fatallic Resignation Records.

Rydel is known to be a crowd-pleaser and his driving and flowing sets with well timed breakdowns and build-ups got him bookings all around Slovenia and the Netherlands, in Croatia, Belgium, Norway and to perform alongside various DJ's like Tiesto, Redhead, DarkRaver, Ed Real, Filterheadz, Dylan Drazen, BuzzFuzz, Jay Denham, Dana, Marco Bailey Pavo, Cave and Paul Langley to name a few.