DJ mps PILOT

mps PILOT- Introduction. mps PILOT has traveled extensively through a.o. the Balkans, Turkey, Morocco, Mali and Burkina Faso and has immersed himself in the cutting-edge world music scene, a musical universe where exciting developments can be heard every day. In every possible direction and slippage between all different genres, mps PILOT maps the crosspollination and divergence of contemporary music. His interest in non-western music started during his time at university. Because of his interest in modern classical and experimental music he moved in 1990 to Amsterdam to enroll in the musicology department. Within the subject of ethnomusicology, however he continued to explore his fascination through sounds from all over the world. However, after seven years of studying it was time for the real thing. In Amsterdam mps PILOT began to organise world music concerts, varying from large Indonesian gamelan-ensembles to unison erhus out of China.







mps PILOT – Facts. mps PILOT’s refined yet hip mix of non-western music is nowadays appreciated way beyond Amsterdam. Besides the famous Amsterdam clubs like Paradiso and the Melkweg, mps PILOT is resident DJ at Spirit / Amsterdam and often guest at Mystic Grooves Utrecht/Amsterdam. For two years he was spinning disks for Que Pasa in the Melkweg and hosted Club Mundial in 013/Tilburg and the Global Nights in the artists’ enclave Ruigoord. He has also performed regularly at the Dutch/ Maghreb organisation Marmoucha, and in the Netherlands many times at festivals such as Music Meeting, Dunya, Festival Mundial, Amsterdam Roots, Oerol, Sfinks, Amsterdam Dance Event, Mysteryland, Dancevalley, 5 Days Off, and Lowlands. His overseas DJ trips in 2003 and 2004 brought him to Le Festival au Désert in Essakane, Mali. In November 2004 mps PILOT deejayed WOMEX, the largest world music congress on the globe. In 2005 he performed during the Jaipur Festival in Rajasthan and in Bombay, India. In 2005 he stirred up 10,000 people during the Rawafid Festival in Casablanca and in 2006 a crowd of 50,000 in Agadir, Marokko.



mps PILOT – Style. With an expressive and convincing execution, mps PILOT is able to let traditional and modern styles from Asia, Africa, the Middle East and South America flow through each other, forming a contagious sound. While many world music deejays have never heard of ‘beatmatching’, even perceiving it as deadly for the future of music, mps PILOT elevates ‘beatmatching’ to a high form of art. He weaves drum n’ bass rhythms, flamenco palmas, Indian bhangra-or Desi beats and Latin percussion solos into an organic whole. Using a rhythmic, intelligent mix technique, mps PILOT’s music functions as a mindopener.

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