The Groovelab
Dance / House / Techno
Hoofddorp, Netherlands
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About
Also see:
www.thegroovelab.info
http://thegroovelab.hyves.nl
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Thijs+Adrichem
The Groovelab consists out of Thijs Adrichem and invited writers and producers. Thijs is born in 1971 in a town called Haarlem( we dutch had some issue with Harlem NY), located 15 minutes near the former wasteland capitol of the world: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Influenced by the 70's disco, funk and early 80's rap and hip hop, an interests in making music was born. Thijs frequently accompanied his father during his work for Dutch radio stations.
Often he was found in a broadcast studio, sitting behind de large professional mixing desks, playing with faders and countless knobs.
It started with recording the Dutch famous radio show: The Soul Show and music played on Decibel radio. Using multiple tape decks and record players, dubbing and (re)mixing was a whole lot of fun.
In 1985 Thijs got introduced with a Roland TR 505 drum computer. From that moment on he knew his mission, making electronic music.
In 1986 Thijs met Roel Regelink. Roel was busy as a DJ and shared the interests in making music. They hooked up there ideas and songs were made. The first release was a 10inch recording on the Dutch dance label Mulatto, titled Groovacious by The Additive. A couple of releases followed on Mulatto. After those they signed a publishing and label deal with Dutch dance label Tremolo. There first release on Tremolo was Damiate by Loud and Clear.
After finishing the label deal, Roel focused on his DJ work and Thijs continued producing for labels such as Spinnin and Fresh Fruit.
Menno Kloeth aka Manolo Mendez joined Thijs in 1999. There mutual ideas of disco influences and filter techniques resulted in several releases on Fresh Fruit Records. Menno and Thijs even made Carl Cox go wild on there Fresh Fruit records-release Tribal Tunes by la Voix Du Monde. Carl Cox played this track at Dance Valley festival in 1999 en throughout his gigs.
After a fun and successful collaboration Menno continued his DJ career and is responsible for the successful Reborn party's. Thijs continued The Groovelab solo and released more vinyl's and cd singles under various names. He also remixed loads of tracks for many record labels like AM:PM, Azuli, Spinnin, Roadrunner, Muve, Work, Steady Beat, 3345, React and many others.
Currently Patrick Scholtens joined The Groovelab. Patrick is responsible for some of the the latest tracks mentioned in the media player and more to come. With his sound sculpting talents another successful collaboration has started. Patrick is employed as an Cutting Engineer at Record Industry, the Dutch vinyl pressing plant located in Haarlem. Many of today's dance vinyls have bin cut by him.
After a time out period The Groovelab is back on track.
Having fun in making music is what's it all about.
