DJ Lead is listening to the name Jeroen Groenendijk and is born in Gouda/Holland. At the time when he was still wearing his dippers, he already moved his fingers as if he was holding a pitchfader. And in his youth he molested the turntable of his father. The vinyl-fever was already beginning....

On his 19th Lead started 'for real' when he bought his first set of turntables. It was from a brand called JB Systems (Disco 2000). These where belt-driven turntables. For starters this is an OK-turntable: They don't cost much but will give you the opportunity to exercise around. And when you're good at these turntables you've sure going to like SL's. Finally it's a bigger art to play a good set with this kind of turntables than to play a good set on SL's. As a mixer I found the JB-Systems Pro16x a good choise. Nothing much on it accept for 4 line faders, but that's all you need to learn the basics. When these budget-turntables didn't hold back any secrets anymore Lead was given the opportunity to play for real audience.

The first gig was a small party together with W.i.M for friends held in a local club in Gouda (The Groove). From January of 1994 was the beginning of the 4 years that Lead was a resident DJ of Locomotion on the famous 'HARDCORE FRIDAY's'. Every last Friday of the month this was the home base of a big gang of gabbers that went totally freaked out! 2 Years later, in 1996, Lead decided to buy 2 Technics SL-1200 and a Dateq mixer after DJing payed off.

In 2001 meant switching to Pioneer CDJ-1000's, and was always using the most current MK. When in 2006 the Pioneer DJM-800 was launched the Dateq had to move out. And in 1999 something changed. Lead was approached by Pioneer because they had a function free as the Dutch sales representative and Product Specialist for the Pioneer DJ products. After accepting the DJing went slow for a while because the job took to much of my free time.

But after 2 or 3 years doing it slow things are alive and kicking again. Because of the variety of records I've purchased throughout the years I have a wide collction and can play numourus styles. Some of them even changed of name over the years Early Hardcore, Oldschool, Classics, Trance and offcourse the modern styles like Hardstyle and Electro... Electro That might sound weird but next to the pounding beats of the Hardstyle I also like Electro very much and have a wide range of tracks to play with. Read more in these site topics :

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