DJ Maestro
jazz to soul
http://www.musicadimaestro.com
One of the hottest deejays of this time, is currently collaborating with vg-music on the production of new music. The first assignment Maestro and Sven Figee did, was a remix for Floris of the song “you and i”. Soon to be released by United Recordings.
biography
Higher Fidelity
Searching for inspiration to write a deejays biography I finally watched High Fidelity, the movie starring John Cusack as a vinyl junky. Cusack thirtyish, intelligent, hot in a non Brad Pitt of way owns a record shop and basically has a too great passion for music. TOO great because his addiction to vinyl doesn’t only result in an amazing record collection and hot chicks flashing their shirts in front of the turntables, but more so in a neglected apartment, disappointed parents and a girlfriend who’s leaving him. It took me only a minute to realize Maestro (Groningen, 1970) must have felt a painful amount of recognition watching this flick. Because he is not only the greatest music lover I have ever met, he also pays his prices.
Cusack, like Maestro, clearly knows the meaning of great sounds. But where Cusack has taste; Maestro has TASTES. For you will never hear a deejay spin that embraces such an enormous variety of styles: one quick look into his massive music collection and you’ll find a John Coltrane record next to a Cerrone one; a Nina Simone next to a Fela Kuti. Or even better: a Masters at Work next to a Chet Baker. Hear him spin and you’ll understand why some peolple call Maestro a musical roller coaster.
An explanation for this could be his broad musical background: raised in a musically family, Maestro started playing the violin at an early age. After succesfully having worked with different orchestras during his youth, his parents encouraged him to keep playing. But while studying musical science at the University of Utrecht, Maestro developed a new passion: jazz. It made him trade his violin for a job at Jazz Radio/JFK, Holland’s only jazz radio station.
Meanwhile he discovered the party scene and fell in love once again; in love with the beats, in love with the life style, in love with the late nights and early mornings. Through never ending support of one of Holland’s biggest deejays, Eddy de Clercq, Maestro soon stood in front of major crowds in clubs such as Roxy, Escape and Paradiso.
I can’t help but sometimes wonder if he isn’t just a little too much in love with his music. It’s what he wakes up for, what makes him breathe, what sometimes even pisses him off. It’s what turns his life upside down more then every once in a while. Because if John Cusack in High Fidelity is a vinyl junky, Maestro should have died of an overdose by now.
His love for classical, jazz and club music results in this crazy yet amazing musical phenomenon: deejay Maestro.
Mara Grimm