Tiesto, Oakenfold, Slipmatt, Styles & Breeze, Oasis, Seduction, Scott Brown, Paul Van Dyk, Dougal, Sy, Ferry Corsten, Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Goo Goo Dolls, Snow Patrol,. Basically anyone who has inspired me to make music from the age 0f 14. All of my friends and family who have stuck by me through some diffucult times and helped me get to the other side. Ledgends!
Sounds Like
Ritmens sound is a mix of euphoric trance and hardcore with some driving vocal trax that keep that traditional rave/hardcore style.
Jamie Ritmen (Ritmen the dutch word for rythm) began his musical journey in the mid to late 80's when he saw he's now very good friend David Atreed aka Tape Monkey perform a Jean Michelle Jarre track at a school assembly.Jamie had never heard music of this nature and it blew him away and pushed him into electronic music.He began listening to the great electronic artists of the time, arists such as The Pet Shop Boys, New Order, Vangellis to name but a few.Sitting in his bedroom at 13 years old Jamie would copy songs on his yamaha keyboard by ear teaching himself all about how to structure a song, chord progressions and melody making.Hours were spent in his bedroom as he learned to write his own songs, sometimes writing the lyrics first and laying the track down, sometimes putting a track together and writing the vocal afterwards getting his own style at a very early age.
Then came the early 90's, the birth of underground dance music.Jamie always considered himself a pop song writer as this was always his first love so was very bemused when he heard dance tracks with no vocals and very repetitive beats.It was 1992 before Jamie really came round to the hardcore scene as this was more musically driven, although not quite as much as todays scene as we know it.The prodigy came along writing tracks such as 'Everybody In The Place'and 'Your Love' which were exciting and original as well as their live performamces.When his good friend and school pal Darren Styles began to go to 'oscars' nightclub in Clacton on Sea and began bringing more hardcore round to play at lunch time Jamie began to make his own hardcore tune on his keyboard.From this point Jamie, Darren and Paul Hughes (another good school friend) began to record tracks at Colbayns High school and performed in the assembly halls on a regular basis.
A year passed and the group were really pushing on and had a good collection of hardcore tunes and needed to push to the next level.Darren went over to DJ Forces house to buy some tickets for a party called 'Raven' and dropped him a demo.Force loved this demo and wanted to work with the boys and DJ Force and The Evolution was born.Soon after being signed by 'Knite Force Records' becoming their very first artist and first release on the label tracks such as 'Fall Down On Me','Lost It, 'Perfect Dreams, and 'Show Me Heaven' made them a household name in hardcore.Also with their love for the Prodigy began to do PA's all over the UK aswell as Germany.
A couple of years later, Darren Styles and DJ Force set up UK Dance and Force and Styles was born.Jamie and Paul Hughes made a couple of tracks such as 'Looking For Love' and 'Break Release' , the first release on UK Dance.However family commitments and full time employment prevented the duo form breaking through on their own and the rest for Force and Styles is history.
It wasnt until 2005 when Jamie Ritmen, now living on his own after the traumatic split with his family and the loss of his father decided that it was time to make his dream come true and get back on the production circuit full time after the frustration of the past 7 years being starved of his passion for making music. He set up a studio in his 1 bedroom flat in Clacton On Sea and began to make Hardcore once again.He broke back into the scene with 'Amnesia 05' which was released by then UK Dance owner DJ Force coupled with a Sy & Unnkown remix.This track firmly installed Jamie as an established hardcore producer once again.More massive tunes came around such as 'Run To Heaven', and ' Kill The DJ also tracks with Force such as 'Gone Are The Days' and Break The Silence.
In 2006 Jamie attended a 6 month engineering course at Point Blank in London as he wanted to give himself the best chance to aquire the skills to comlplete with the best.He graduated through the 'Introduction To Production' level, then soon after completed the 'Art Of Mixing' module giving him essential technical knowledge to compliment his already established style.To this day Jamie thanks everyone at Point Blank college for their guidance and support especially Ian Mkenzie who hadnt heard hardcore since he engineered for the Ratpack and gave it the time of day.
Soon after DJ Force was looking to sell UK Dance records and Jamie Ritmen took this on with the knowledge that he can have complete control over his own music.More hardcore classics came out of the Ritmen household such as 'Never Say Die, 'Make Beleive' 'Touch The Sun , 'Drop The Beats', 'Lost In Your World','You Are The One, now being recorded at MGB Studios in his new home. Jamie's tracks are also now available on digital at www.serioussounds.net.
Tracks then began appearing on the infamous Clubland Extreme hardcore compilations such as 'Dont Go Away'(Breeze & Ritmen)' the remix of the Styles & Breeze track 'Do You Want Me Honey', 'Touch The Sun', 'Bassphaze' The Rob Mayth remix 'Heart To Heart'and Skydiving of which Jamie Ritmen wrote the song and Darren Styles provided the track.
Things really began to move on when Jamie Ritmen played his infamous set at HTID In The Sun in June 2008 with MC Speno and in May 2009 played at Kandiland V in Phoenix Arizona installing him as a player on the global hardcore stage.Projects are now underway with DJ Breeze and Darren Styles aswell as looking for new talent to collaborate with.Aswell as being booked to play Hardcore Heaven at the Bristol academy September this year its been a long road for the kid from Clacton On Sea in Essex.However Jamie believes that he has so much more to achieve and his feet are firmly on the ground looking forward to a long and prosperous career in the hardcore dance scene.
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Artist………..: Vincent de Jager (the Netherlands) Remixer…..: Tim Air (Russia) Titel…………: I saw the sine (EP) (DQM1011) Tracks……..: 04 Quality…….: 320kbps/44.1kHz/joint-stereo Included bonus track ‘’dreams about a drum’’ Release date…: 10-18-2009 Genre……..: Trance/Progressive Label……….: Digital Quest Music
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Aw still wish you were coming here though but youre right family is more important. I go to shows and college to make time go by when im not at raves. what do you do when youre not spinning
