NAME: DJ OPTIMUS
COUNTRY: NL
FILE UNDER: HIPHOP, BEATS, FUNKJAZZ, AFROBEAT
Optimus (Neels Smeekens, Rotterdam) is active as a DJ/producer since halfway the nineties. Besides scratching and rockin’ parties, Optimus produces music and gives scratchworkshops for the HipHopHuis. He’s a DJ for different groups like iET and The Proov and formed Fremdtunes 2010 with DJ Mace. Optimus composed, performed and/or played with Grazzhoppa, Toots Thielemans, Prince Po, El da Sensei, MC Rise, Eric Vloeimans, Baba Sissoko and Aka Moon, VSOP, Mike Redman, Fremdkunst and many others.
BOOKINGS: live at fremdtunes.com
BOOKING WITH DJ MACE AND ERIC VLOEIMANS: conchitta at fremdtunes.com
DJ MIX
RELATED RELEASE: FR2011-02, FR2011-03, FR2011-04, FR2012-02
WEBSITE: www.djoptimusmusic.com
SELECTIVE DISCOGRAPHY
DJ Optimus – Double Helix DNA (CD/digital) – Fremdtunes 2011
OptiMace – Used Future (12″/digital) – Fremdtunes 2011 (production + scratches)
DVD/CD DJ Grazzhoppa’s DJ Big Band + Aka Moon – 2010
CD Ill Productionz – Basics – 2010 (production of 7 tracks + scratches)
Fremdkunst – b-beats & soundscapes (CD) – Fremdtunes 2010 (co-production + scratches)
Performance Conny Janssen – Ruis – 2009 (production)
CD/LP BoulaOne: Gigri – 2008 (scratches)
DVD Kas: Fatcap Express Film – 2008 (production + scratches)
12” 12inches 101.tv 12” with Skiggy Rapz – 2007 (production + scratches)
12” Ill Productionz – Longlife Unconditional Love – 2007 (production + scratches)
[...] Mace and Optimus will perform one last time for this project at Paradox (Tilburg, NL) on March 30 2012. They team [...]
[...] as seperate EP’s, it’s now re-mastered and all loose ends are tied up. With tracks by DJ Mace, Optimus & Vindictiv and guest-appearances by Erwin Vann, Mete Erker, Nicolas Kummert, Rene Everts, [...]