Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.
Oh man, the Vengaboys are my guilty pleasure.
To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch.
Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.
At school, I wrote in the style of the Dutch composers. After I graduated, a new style set in.
I listen to all of my Dutch happy-hardcore songs from my raving techno days when I was about 14. It's the most horrible music ever. I think it's some kind of muscle memory that brings me back to when I was 14. It makes me bounce around the gym quite happily.
When I was 16, I really discovered good stuff like Detroit techno or gabba from Holland.
In Holland, there's a song that goes, 'Redheads - they know how to kiss.' But that's obviously not a song I made. I don't know who made that song.
