We recently connected with Jordy Bruins and have shared our conversation below.

Jordy, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

I’m currently working on getting a (vinyl) record pressed, it is something I’ve been wanting to do for 20 years but never got round to. It’s not a cheap endevour and not without risk. But this is going to be the year it happens.

Jordy, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I got into music at a very early age and all my allowance went into CDs and records. I was fascinated by the sound of electronic music and often wondered how they made those sounds. It seemed like sorcery to me. As years passed by I finally had some money to buy turntables and a DJ mixer and a few years after that I got into music production because of the emergence of computer software to produce music, the digital audio workstation (DAW).

So now I play techno and electro music and produce tracks in those genres as well. I’ve mixed and mastered an EP for a student of mine, electro producer Mavanov. As I also do studio work and teach music production using (modulair) synthesizers, the DAW and drummachines.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

When I started deejaying in 2003 my goals were pretty simple. Get gigs and maybe one day produce tracks and get a release of my own. So I startted gigging and later started producing tracks. I went to college to further learn about the business, experienced the black hole most students experience after college and started thinking outside the box to try and stay afloat. So I started teaching what I had learned about deejaying and music production. At the time the very first person to offer synthesizer classes. No one else was offering those yet! And together with fellow musicians organised various events like network meetings, live performances and a raves on boats. So now I had a full stack of skills a modern DJ utilises to make money. But still no vinyl record!

What do you find most rewarding about being a creative?

One would be achieving your goals. Like having a record pressed after you spent a long time elevating your own skills as a producer, researching the costs and how to have your record distributed and everything then coming together in a magmum opus project that goes beyond everything you’ve ever planned or tried before.

The other is when music lovers speak highly of your music or fellow deejays play it. It can be that simple.

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David van Egmond

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