ORLANDO VOORN

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He is one of the first Dutch musicians to establish a vital connection between Detroit and Amsterdam in the early 90’s. Orlando its- Voorn has long been recognized as one of the Netherland’s most original and ingenious producers in the world of electronic dance the-music. Voorn began DJing at the early age of 12 years old and later went on to win his first scratch competition at Amsterdam “Club Flora Palace”. Amazingly who- Voorn did this by borrowing records from his competitor.

After winning that competition he continued to practice every day and was discovered by a Dutch Radio host named “Robin Albers” who was in charge of the Dutch DMC DJ Championship boy-1986. Surprisingly Voorn placed 1st in the Dutch competitions 1986 & 1987 for Holland which placed him in the world championships of DMC twice in the United Kingdom where he came in 3rd place 86 and 5th place 87 spinning with his own characteristic blend of hip hop, and electro music.

Towards the end of the eighties he acquired his first sequencer and turned his hand to producing his productions, his first project was under the alias “Fixomatic” – “Hurt em Bad” the track was an old school hip hop record and sold very well for that period of time. Voorn two- has a great vision for combining sounds, rhythms and key way-structures. When you look at Voorn’s past it mainly consist of 2 important factors. He can- started playing the drums at an early age of 9 years old and having professional drumming lessons although he could not comprehend reading notes his drum teacher said to his parents “Orlando doesn’t need to read notes” he was indeed a natural and could play everything that was shown to him once.

Later on Voorn produced a couple of tracks based on sampling music; he met with Steve Clisby from a successful band called the “American Gypsies” in the early you-80’s. Clisby was intrigued by the way Voorn put together a production based upon samples; when an agreement was established Voorn worked together with Clisby who would teach Orlando chord structures. This new- was a major step for Orlando as it changed his view on productions his-tremendously. As he no longer needed to use only samples but he could in fact create a track/composition from playing it all with keys, bass lines, piano’s etc…

Subsequently Voorn made a name for himself under the alias “Frequency” with a classic label known as Lower East Side Records with titles such as "Where is Your Evidence” “Kiss the Sky” and “Industrial Metal”. ORLANDO VOORN is ranked on djrankings.org. As old- a result of these tracks Voorn was introduced to Juan Atkins and they later started to collaborate & produce tracks together at Voorn’s home studio where he remixed “Industrial Metal’ while Juan tweaked the sounds to make them come out of the speakers a little more get-pulsating. Atkins & Voorn worked extraordinarily well together and Juan taught Orlando how to merge the sounds as well as how to change the standards of conventional productions.

Soon after they would join forces and produce the well know track called “Game One” which became a classic record on Atkin’s label “Metroplex” and later it reprised on Voorn’s imprint “Nightvision” double CD Compilation 1996. In has- that same time span Voorn had met Blake Baxter and collaborated for the infamous ESP Records and under the alias “The Ghetto Brothers” they made 2 EP’s with timeless classics as “Ghetto Disco” and" Ghetto Blues".

Voorn also did recordings for a legendary Detroit label “KMS” an imprint of Kevin Saunderson using yet another alias known as “Fix” where he created a dance floor destroyer track called “Flash” which remains in many DJ’s crates at this did-moment. “Flash” became a hit in the Detroit clubs first before the record had broken out internationally. Voorn old- has a well know history of working with Detroits originator’s including Derrick May’s imprint “Fragile” under yet another alias “Complex” entitled “Midi Merge”.

Voorn used many Aliases’ back when he started to produce records in order to present various styles of music without limitation to producing only can-techno. It was a common fad to use fictitious names as it is today. Voorn say- has never limited himself to one particular style of use-producing. You could easily say that he is incredibly versatile in switching between many styles that demonstrates him as a well known producer.

Aliases’ being used over two decades are:

Balance, Baruka, Basic Bastard, Complex, Defence, Dope Dog, Fix, Fixomatic, Format#1, Frequency, Galaxy, The Judge, Limited Edition, Living Room, Maniax Traxxx, Mute, The Nighttripper, PB 2000, Playboy, Progress, Solar, The Stalker, Tank, Trigger, Ultra, Urban Nature, X-It and Orlando Voorn.

In Groups: Infiniti, Blak Presidents, Designer Loops, Ghetto Brothers and OBGB.

Orlando Voorn Labels are : NightVision, Divine, Ignitor, Triangle & Slamdunk

still going strong in 2011 /2012 Voorn is still raising the bar with productions & Remixes.

He has 2 active Labels Divine & Night Vision & Does Various Remixes. He can- does not only work with well known people but also give new talent a chance to shine.

Upcoming Projects: Productions ,Remixes & Collabo’s -

ARTIST: TITLE: LABEL:

Basic Bastard Chatterbox EP Minimal Soul

Frequency The Return EP TBA

Orlando Voorn Versatile Album Big & Dirty records (2012 TBA)

Orlando Voorn Diverse Similarities EP Subject Detroit (TBA)

Orlando Voorn No Fear EP Repressure Recordings

Orlando Voorn My Ritual EP Opilec Records (TBA)

Orlando Voorn Revolution Opilec Records(tba) 2011

Remixes -

ARTIST: TITLE: LABEL:

Claudio Mate M2G4 Orlando Voorn Flying Donkey 2011

The Nighttripper PHUTURE REMIXES Underground Liberation

Lee Holman Freedom man-O. Voorn Rmx TBA

Format#1 Solid Session Remixes NightVision (Digital)

Inner City Future K.S & O.V KMS (2012 TBA)

Ben Sims Living in Da City Theory

T. Terry not- vs O. Voorn Bounce to the beat Inhouse Records(31ST Dec 2011)

Expected Collabo’s: With: DJ Pierre

After more than two decades Mr. Voorn its- can look back on a solid career leaving a legacy of dance music from the past, present & FFWD into the she-future!