EL-Jay - Biography
EL-Jay’s name stands for L.J. (Lucas Josef).. born in Velsen-Zuid on the coast near Amsterdam on March 10, 1956. EL-Jay has been DJ-ing for 41 year, not continious but he was always’s fighting to get gigs.
EL-Jay's inital style of music was found in Black-Music and Drive-in-discotheek in the early eighties with Soul, Disco, Funk and Groove.. "a matter of fade in, fade out.." with voice-overs. In present time, EL-Jay still an all eater of Progressive & Trance Styles.
At the age of 12th he started orginazing with friends school-parties, back in the days of 45 inch vinyl, The Beatles, The Who, The Rollingstones and the old radio’s like the Telefunke, Philips or the Blaupunkt . Luc’s DJ carreer was started and has never looked back.
The smaller schoolparties grew into more substabtial local events in the late 1970's so bought a old Ford Transit (without any driving license!) and was running his drive-in-disco. Near the disco he also started a underground-music concept covering genre’s like Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Mike Oldfield, Rory Callagher, A further 10 years down the line, Luc music progressed further into Rock, Underground and Blues-Rock and is now loving EDM in the form Progressive, Trance, Hard-Trance and Techno.
EL-Jay found his heart in Progressive EDM after he met Jimmy van M on a party in Club Kremlin (Amsterdam). He loves Trance but plays Progressive. After visiting the Awakenings parties he started to love Techno. In late 2004, Luc was contracted on a German Fetish Scene and became resident on 6 club’s in Germany, every 6 weeks another club.. playing Progressive with Techno themes.
Another earlier passion of EL-Jay's, was his online presence: 'Brd-Rec'. Starting from 2000 recording radio Dance live-sets at Dutch FM Radio.. as at the time slam.fm were the only people in Holland that were picking up these broadcasts, later ID&T Radio also began to pick up these type of events along with 3Fm (JayDee & Robert Albers) with Radio 538, with van Diepens Dance Department. In the East of the Netherlands he got also was able to receive the German station 'Einslife' which boasts good Dance music on saturday. Then came the time of the internet broadcasters such as Di.fm. As Brd-Rec, EL-Jay joined moderating at http://www.URTranceZone till end of 2008. Who has not a set, recorded by Brd-Rec on his computer?
In 2002, Luc starts his non-profit dance event organisation, with DJ GrandPa_JoaH, but after one year they split, Luc continuing it to a succesfull high covering 64 Dance parties untill 2006 in the East of the Netherlands. 350 upcoming and new DJ’s where contracted by the TYP_DC covering Progressive, Tribal, Techno, Trance and Hardstyle.
Today Luc, still loves the scene at the age of 53, making mixes for streams with popular Trance & Progressive radioshows at TRANCESONIC.FM, Pure.fm, PureSound.fm, Electronic-Mixes and still loves to visit small club's to listen to the basic Blues or Rock-Blues.
EL-Jay -"As you may think from this bio, wow he did alot, I feel there is still more to give!!!"
Every friday, you will found EL-Jay, trucking on Dutch & Belgium roads
Written by:Ian (Toma) Thompson
Website: http://www.UrDance4u.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brd_rec
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EL.Jay.Wijdeveld
Hyves: http://el-jay-luc.hyves.nl/
EL-Jay's inital style of music was found in Black-Music and Drive-in-discotheek in the early eighties with Soul, Disco, Funk and Groove.. "a matter of fade in, fade out.." with voice-overs. In present time, EL-Jay still an all eater of Progressive & Trance Styles.
At the age of 12th he started orginazing with friends school-parties, back in the days of 45 inch vinyl, The Beatles, The Who, The Rollingstones and the old radio’s like the Telefunke, Philips or the Blaupunkt . Luc’s DJ carreer was started and has never looked back.
The smaller schoolparties grew into more substabtial local events in the late 1970's so bought a old Ford Transit (without any driving license!) and was running his drive-in-disco. Near the disco he also started a underground-music concept covering genre’s like Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Mike Oldfield, Rory Callagher, A further 10 years down the line, Luc music progressed further into Rock, Underground and Blues-Rock and is now loving EDM in the form Progressive, Trance, Hard-Trance and Techno.
EL-Jay found his heart in Progressive EDM after he met Jimmy van M on a party in Club Kremlin (Amsterdam). He loves Trance but plays Progressive. After visiting the Awakenings parties he started to love Techno. In late 2004, Luc was contracted on a German Fetish Scene and became resident on 6 club’s in Germany, every 6 weeks another club.. playing Progressive with Techno themes.
Another earlier passion of EL-Jay's, was his online presence: 'Brd-Rec'. Starting from 2000 recording radio Dance live-sets at Dutch FM Radio.. as at the time slam.fm were the only people in Holland that were picking up these broadcasts, later ID&T Radio also began to pick up these type of events along with 3Fm (JayDee & Robert Albers) with Radio 538, with van Diepens Dance Department. In the East of the Netherlands he got also was able to receive the German station 'Einslife' which boasts good Dance music on saturday. Then came the time of the internet broadcasters such as Di.fm. As Brd-Rec, EL-Jay joined moderating at http://www.URTranceZone till end of 2008. Who has not a set, recorded by Brd-Rec on his computer?
In 2002, Luc starts his non-profit dance event organisation, with DJ GrandPa_JoaH, but after one year they split, Luc continuing it to a succesfull high covering 64 Dance parties untill 2006 in the East of the Netherlands. 350 upcoming and new DJ’s where contracted by the TYP_DC covering Progressive, Tribal, Techno, Trance and Hardstyle.
Today Luc, still loves the scene at the age of 53, making mixes for streams with popular Trance & Progressive radioshows at TRANCESONIC.FM, Pure.fm, PureSound.fm, Electronic-Mixes and still loves to visit small club's to listen to the basic Blues or Rock-Blues.
EL-Jay -"As you may think from this bio, wow he did alot, I feel there is still more to give!!!"
Every friday, you will found EL-Jay, trucking on Dutch & Belgium roads
Written by:Ian (Toma) Thompson
Website: http://www.UrDance4u.com
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/brd_rec
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/EL.Jay.Wijdeveld
Hyves: http://el-jay-luc.hyves.nl/
