Our latest offering from the good people at the world renowned Fabric comes courtesy of Martijn Deijkers, AKA Martyn. To accompany the release of Fabric 50 here’s his exclusive 60 min radio mix for your enjoyment.
“I’ve been buying music for as long as I can remember really, as soon as I got a weekly allowance I spent it on 7” singles and albums. When I was studying I went clubbing a lot and I just got drawn to the music, really. In the early 90s, I heard Chicago house and Detroit techno for the first time in a club; from then onwards that was kind of my thing, but I kept following bands as well, so for me not all music was electronic. I never thought I would play a role in music myself.
When it came to house and techno I loved it. All the DJs that I saw playing were older, so I could appreciate the music as a follower but it wasn’t my generation. When I encountered drum & bass around 94/95, it made a huge impression on me, and I just felt at home in that style; I was like, ‘This is my generation, so maybe I can play some sort of part in this.’ So I started buying more and more music and that’s when it started to kick off. I started DJing, and because no-one wants to book you when you’re just starting out, I started throwing my own events.
Straight after the official Fabric 50 mix CD I’m starting my second album. That’s going to be my main thing for next year and obviously there’s going to be smaller projects here and there and remixes and who knows what – I’ll just take it as it comes.
I’ve been doing some things for a movie director in Holland, wrote music for him. We’re doing a short movie in January and who knows what comes after that – i’m excited about it, but let’s talk when there is actually something to talk about!”
Martyn 2009
Tracklist
- Om Unit – “Lightgrids” (Fat City)
- Martyn – “Bridge” (3024)
- Gil Scott-Heron – “Where did the night go” (XL Recordings)
- Levon Vincent – “These Games” (Novel Sound)
- Wulf N Bear – “Raptures of the Deep” (2020 Vision)
- DJ Killer – “Pound” (4 Sure Productions)
- Pattern Repeat – “Ofetriade Ben Klock remix” (Echocord)
- Renaissance Man – “Aloha” (Sound Pellegrino)
- Jeva Du – “I Zebra” (Platzhirsch Schallplatten)
- Dudu – “African Woman Instrumental” (Choc’s Pro Sound)
- Mosca – “Nike (club edit)” (Night Slugs)
- Roska – “I Need Love” (Tempa)
- Redshape – “Dirt One” (Delsin)
- Art of Tones “Call the Shots Motor City Drum Ensemble mix” (2020 Vision)
- Doc Daneeka – “Drums in the Deep” (Fabric)
- Deadboy – “Ifuwantme” (Numbers)
- Martyn – “Miniluv” (Ostgut Ton)
- Gucci Vump – “Sha! Shtil! (L-Vis1990 mix) (Sound Pellegrino)
- Martyn – “Seventy Four Redshape mix” (3024)
- Martyn – “Brilliant Orange” (3024)
- Martyn – “Brilliant Orange Illum Sphere’s no 14 mix” (3024)
