Born in '86, Dough grew up with the right influences and ideals...
With his mother being half Caribbean, he got used to and especially got in love with the music that those islands produced.
For example, at the age of 4 he was already trying to sing along and skank on Ziggy Marley tunes...
Years went by and he kept on loving music, only the genre adapted. Collecting dozens of mixtapes, he was a true fan of so called "Underground Hiphop". Indulging himself with his musical knowledge he was gathering at that time, he decided to buy a turntable. Not yet to mix, just so he could enjoy the warm sound of a vinyl record. However, the urge to mix didn't come much later, so he started to save some money and bought his first (good) turntables and mixer right after his 16th birthday.
Using the name his partner in crime (M-Prah) gave him for a short version of his name (Dominique > Do > Dough), he was on his way to start his DJ'ing career.
Spinning "Underground Hiphop" at party's was nice, but he didn't get a kick out of it...
After some time he got more and more in touch with slightly more commercial and mainstream hiphop/r&b.
Spinning that at party's was more satisfying, people danced and were amusing themselves.
Age 17 he got back in touch with his roots by going to dancehall events and renewed his love with Caribbean music, especially reggae, dancehall, ragga and soca.
Adding this to his record-collection and spinning this at party's was the best thing he did in quite a while. He found what he was looking for, a musicstrain he loved dearly that he could also play at party's.
Mixing this with his urban knowledge,
A new deejay was born...
NOW...
He played at several party's in Ghent, De Panne, Antwerp, Blankenberge, Bruges, Prague (CZ), Den Haag (NL), Barcelona (ES), ...
At events and clubs as Bacardi B-Live, TMF Coolsweat, City Queens, BRUCKOUT!, The'Licious, Quartier, Circosia, XT3 (CZ), Sugar (ES), Vooruit (Ghent) and many more. He is resident at club Decadance (Ghent) back2back with Duuub and has a dancehall concept there called "DecaDanceHall" together with Raggamuffin Whiteman that comes around every 2 weeks.
He's also the starter and proud member of the Twenty Hertz Collective, which appeared on national television (TMF/Coolsweat).
(http://www.myspace.com/twentyhertzcollective)
Living by the motto "Growing Strong Roots..." he is making his name in the nightlife...
01/02/2009 Taraf De Haïdouks @ VK, schoolstraat 76 rue l'ecole, 1080 Brussels + DJ Gaetano Fabri
Doors 20h entrance 17€ / 20€
The Taraf de Haïdouks - the name literally translates as "band of honourable brigands" - are a bunch of extraordinary and colourful characters, who have managed to convince the audiences of the biggest World Music festivals. "Their wild energy is the essence of gypsy music ... their set seemed like the bubbling source of 20th century rhythm ... they spun out cadences that recalled bebop, salsa, and the polyrhythms of Zimbabwe and Nigeria" (The New York Times), "the band that's wowing London" (The Evening Standard, 7 June 2001) through their rhythmically complex songs with grace, easy camaraderie and sense of mischief wins over everybody in concerts.
Along with these ambitious compositions one will rediscover with great pleasure the fantastic atmosphere of a Taraf de Haïdouks live performance in a collection of previously-unrecorded pieces featuring the various singers and soloists in top form and particularly galvanized by the importance of the event. These were indeed the band's first ever concerts in the Romanian capital; after ten years of international success the Taraf were still not recognized in their own country (maybe because they were perceived as Gypsies rather than as musicians).
greetings, all my best wish for 2009. je vous souhaite le meilleur pour 2009 Make the peace all around you, see my new release with artist from quebec and france like Silvanus, Bobby dreadd , Rushy , Presto , Mc gully and many more purchase cd on http://gimeshop. 42stores. com worldwide shop Reggae shop Toulouse: 7 rue de la bourse Ariege: Espace culturel Leclercl ST jean du falga