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DJ story
This tall guy from Holland is a DJ for a lot of years. He started DJing in 1994 playing Mellow, and after two years Martino’s style became Club and at the moment he found his deejay-roots in Techno and Electro.
His interest in electronic music became when he listened to Equinox by Jean Michel Jarre. He started to listen to the radio and deejays playing. He started practicing with belt drive turntables he got as a gift from his parents when he graduated, but after a while he was one of the first in his town with the original Technics SL 1200’s. By comparing his tape mixes with other mixes recorded on the radio, he improved his own mixing skills, and became well known for his technique. By sending this tapes to the local DJ-hero’s he was asked to be the guest DJ in the local clubs and radio shows. After a while he became a resident DJ, and is happily spinning ever since in clubs and on the radio.

Important DJ-things Martino did so far, a selection:
Guest DJ on national radio station 3FM, at ‘Razende Roeland’ for his DJ contest ‘Mixx Nerderland’.
Residence DJ at de Lendte in Breda, two times a week. Guest DJ in about all the local clubs.
Two gigs at de Mezz at the big Techno night ‘Spektrum’.
A gig at ‘Breda Beats 2004’, after winning a DJ contest.
‘Inmotion’ 2001 and 2002. A party with 2000+ visitors and great DJ’s.
Member of the judge on three different DJ contests.
Organization of his own “low prizes” rave ‘Destination Unknown’, which was a success.
Had his own weekly online DJ show at Deckstruction.net, ‘Martino Music’.

Producer story
Even as early as 1985 he started making his own minimixes the old style using a tape recorder and the Jazz tapes of his dad. A while later he started using the computer with existing samples in the old sequencer-software Voyetra on the PC of his brother. But he wanted to become a more professional producer, so as from 1993 he started using Cubase and he bought his own gear and produced tracks like crazy. Nowadays Martino aims more on producing then being a DJ. He entered a lot of Remix contests and listened to other work to improve his own skills. And this paid off. He got his first remix deal which was released on Bas Kunnen’s remix-album Lucid Dreams the remixes, and his music was signed for New York label System Recordings. And the future becomes brighter for DJ Martino at Dutch Grooves.