High Soundsystem's real name is
Rutger Heij, he grew up in Dodrecht a small town near Rotterdam in the Netherlands at his family home with kid brother, kid sister and mom and dad. Always surrounded by world music like Latin, Rock, Jazz but also Hip Hop and electronic music like Trance. Rutger began his musical journey by playing a game called 'Music 2000' on the Playstation where he got to create music, sounded like African music with bongos and congas. Later on he found love for House music because of his uncle DJ
DARIK (Erik Damwijk) who showed him the example. Unfortunately his uncle died at a very young age which left Rutger and his family with a whole they couldn't fill. Rutger decided ti reach in his unlce's footsteps and started practicing the art of DJ'ing and so his cousin Dennis helped him take his baby steps. It didn't take long before Rutger started playing in clubs amoung good friend
JMP,
Renco & DJ
Slick...
High Soundsystem's real name is
Rutger Heij, he grew up in Dodrecht a small town near Rotterdam in the Netherlands at his family home with kid brother, kid sister and mom and dad. Always surrounded by world music like Latin, Rock, Jazz but also Hip Hop and electronic music like Trance. Rutger began his musical journey by playing a game called 'Music 2000' on the Playstation where he got to create music, sounded like African music with bongos and congas. Later on he found love for House music because of his uncle DJ
DARIK (Erik Damwijk) who showed him the example. Unfortunately his uncle died at a very young age which left Rutger and his family with a whole they couldn't fill. Rutger decided ti reach in his unlce's footsteps and started practicing the art of DJ'ing and so his cousin Dennis helped him take his baby steps. It didn't take long before Rutger started playing in clubs amoung good friend
JMP,
Renco & DJ
Slick. Nowadays Rutger is part of the
Give Soul collective in Rotterdam and runs his own record label 'Obvious Records'. With releases on Blac, Moan, Ovrdose Deep, Swerve Digital, Tamango, Whoyostro and more his set's are energetic and house influenced.
Sasha Avrosa (8 okt 2010)
