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Jaimie started his carreer as a kid producing hip hop beats and rapping alongside the leaders of dutch hip hop like Extince, Skate the Great and Deams. At the age of 12 taking endless busrides to a small local studio paid with his small allowence, sampling beats and spitting lyrics like he had done nothing else and performing his act on stages throughout holland. It was already obvious at this young age that music was more than an addiction, it has become his life.
His eager character and hunger for adventure made him change routes to other scenes like hardcore house music, where he started out MCing for DJs like Darrien Kelly. After a period of rellentless partying, he picked up professional dancing in clubs throughout Germany, Belgium and Holland. Entertaining the crowds of the biggest clubs in Europe. And that’s when it all came to place..
How would he be able to combine his entertainer skills with his love for music? First of all to start producing house music: Techno! Under his pseudo “Sir Jamez” he placed his first footsteps in the professional house industry of today. Starting as the resident DJ of EFT (Techno boat parties behind the CS of Amsterdam) he played alongside DJs like Dave Clarke, Darren Price, Johannes Heil, Billy Nasty and more. Releasing his first EP “Sir Jamez – Wanna Dance” on ID-T’s techno label “Shockers”. Combining his hip hop roots with techno by using samles from Grand Master Flash and Melle Mell: We wanna hear you dance, we wanna hear you shout.. This EP was picked up by Ken Ishii and pointed out by him as the second best release for him in the year 2001. This EP was produced using nothing more than a Yamaha SU700 sampler and a Yamaha RM1x groovebox, NO sequencer! All sequences were made by hand!
A friendship with the legendary DJ Misjah had brought him across the world through DJ Misjah’s bookings agency “RERUN”. Spinning in New York, Malaysia, Hungary, Malta, Belgium and more developing his own unique style of Djing to be recoqnized by his swiftness in mixing and DJ tricks. Always using 3 decks and techno music that had at least something sounding like hip hop. DJ’s alongside Jaimie playing mainact were: Frankie Knuckles, Dave Angel, Dave Clarke, Richie Hawtin and many more. Together with DJ Misjah he also released a little techno hit called “ The Amateur, The Professional and the Professor”, released again on ID-T’s techno label Shockers.
After a few years of travelling the world as a techno DJ, the love for hip hop music started demanding more of his attention. So he decided to change his name to Jaimie Fanatic and to start producing and spinning house music that was more in line with hip hop and pop music. This change also gave him the ability to show more of his DJ skills. Switching from vinyl to CDs using the Pioneer CDJ1000s players, Jaimie soon became one of the most skilled DJs of holland, leading him to become the demonstration DJ for Pioneer. As a producer he pushed his sound through his own, new, label “Groove Fanatics” with released tracks and remixes by best producers of holland: Laidback Luke, Dobre (Jark Prongo, Chocolate Puma), DJ Misjah, Jeroenski and more.
The swith to “Bad Boy” house music paid of as he soon started playing abroad again like Ibiza, Russia, Finland a.o. Joining Crunc Agency in the year 2004 led him to get his own club night in Club Players, a name that really kinda suits Jaimie’s Bad Boy image! Nowadays Jaimie Fanatic is a DJ of it’s own, spinning house music with balls, entertaining his crowd like a true bad boy that just wants to rock! Doing remixes for top producers across the world and releasing his own bad boy tracks. Jaimie is an allround artist that can spin from deephouse through tribal to banging techouse sets. Any crowd at any club will be captured by the experienced and skilled DJ sets of Jaimie Fanatic.
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