DJ Hidden explained

DJ Hidden
Birth Name:Noël Wessels
Alias:DJ Hidden
Birth Date:1975 5, df=yes
Origin:Goes, Netherlands
Genre:Electronic music
Years Active:1996–present

DJ Hidden is an electronic music producer and DJ from Goes, Netherlands. His solo work consists of (Experimental) Drum & Bass, IDM and Crossbreed.[1] He is one-half of Industrial Hardcore/Crossbreed duo, The Outside Agency, alongside Eye-D.

History

Wessels has been an active drum & bass and hardcore DJ and producer since 1991.[2] His music career began in 1996, with the release of The Outside Agency EP on hardcore label Mokum Records.[3] His first drum & bass track was released on Kultbox Records in 1998.[4] Wessels has since released drum & bass music on record labels such as PRSPCT Recordings, Killing Sheep Records, Evol Intent Recordings, Outbreak Records, Ad Noiseam, Ruff-Teck Records, and many others.

He has released three full-length conceptual albums under this moniker entitled The Later After,[5] The Words Below[6] and Enclosed[7] on Ad Noiseam, as well as a joint album release with Eye-D entitled Peer To Peer Pressure[8] on PRSPCT Recordings. He also releases modern classical/IDM music under the moniker Semiomime.[9]

Collaborations

In addition to his solo releases, Wessels has collaborated with Cooh, Counterstrike, Evol Intent, Forbidden Society. He frequently collaborates with Eye-D, with whom he also forms the hardcore outfit The Outside Agency. Since the release of The Outside Agency's first EP on Black Monolith Records[10] in 2001, Wessels has used the "DJ Hidden" moniker solely for his drum & bass releases.[11] [12]

Discography

The following is a list of all of Wessels' drum & bass releases.[13] [14]

Albums

Singles and EPs

Remixes

DJ performances

In addition to a busy production schedule, DJ Hidden still finds the time to regularly perform at events across the world, both as DJ Hidden and as part of The Outside Agency.[15] In the Netherlands, DJ Hidden and Eye-D are frequent guests at prominent underground club nights "PRSPCT"[16] [17] and "Smackdown".[18] Wessels has performed in Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Czech Republic, England, Estonia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Latvia, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, Bulgaria and the United States.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Interview with a dnb / hardcore demigod DJ Hidden . 2010 . 2011-05-01 . killingsheep.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110819105806/http://killingsheep.com/media-int_hidden.html . 19 August 2011 . dmy .
  2. Web site: The Outside Agency interview at Scottish Hardcore . 2006 . 2011-05-01 . scottishhardcore.co.uk .
  3. Web site: The Outside Agency EP . 1996 . 2011-05-01 . discogs.com .
  4. Web site: The Beats op je Fiets Crew EP . 1998 . 2011-05-01 . discogs.com .
  5. Web site: DJ Hidden "The Later After" – adn73 . 2007 . 2011-05-01 . adnoiseam.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20110611043813/http://www.adnoiseam.net/adn73 . 11 June 2011 . dead .
  6. Web site: DJ Hidden "The Words Below" – adn118 . 2009 . 2011-05-01 . adnoiseam.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20110611054957/http://www.adnoiseam.net/adn118 . 11 June 2011 . dead .
  7. Web site: DJ Hidden "Enclosed" – adn173 . 2013 . 2013-10-28 . adnoiseam.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029203739/http://www.adnoiseam.net/adn173 . 29 October 2013 . dead .
  8. Web site: Eye-D & DJ Hidden "Peer To Peer Pressure" – PRSPCTLP002 . 2011 . 2013-10-28 . prspctrecordings.bandcamp.com .
  9. Web site: Semiomime – From Memory – adn139 . 2011 . 2011-05-01 . adnoiseam.net . https://web.archive.org/web/20110523011127/http://www.adnoiseam.net/adn139 . 23 May 2011 . dead .
  10. Web site: In Theory Everything Is Straight. 2001 . 2011-05-01 . discogs.com .
  11. Web site: The Outside Agency interview (1) at cardiac.nl. 2003 . 2011-05-01 . cardiac.nl .
  12. Web site: The Outside Agency at Last.FM. 2009 . 2011-05-01 . last.fm .
  13. Web site: DJ Hidden Discography at rolldabeats.com. 2011 . 2011-05-01 . rolldabeats.com .
  14. Web site: DJ Hidden Discography at Discogs. 2011 . 2011-05-01 . discogs.com .
  15. Web site: Agenda for DJ Hidden & The Outside Agency at djhidden.com. 2011 . 2011-05-01 . djhidden.com .
  16. Web site: List of PRSPCT events at partyflock.nl (in Dutch). 2009 . 2011-05-01 . partyflock.nl .
  17. Web site: Interview with PRSPCT owner Gareth de Wijk. (in Dutch) . 2009 . 2011-05-01 . vpro.nl . https://web.archive.org/web/20110928145142/http://3voor12.vpro.nl/artikelen/artikel//41186161 . 28 September 2011 . dead .
  18. Web site: List of Smackdown events at partyflock.nl (in Dutch). 2009 . 2009-08-10 . partyflock.nl .

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