We caught up with Dutch DJ Brooks to chat about music, live performances, dream girls and fashion.<\/p>\n
When did you first realise you could make a career in music?<\/strong><\/p>\n I Think I always knew that I wanted a career in making music. In the beginning I was making music for commercials, tv shows and even video games. But I think it was the moment I had my first international gig together with Showtek that I realised that I wanted to focus more on my own Music and shows, which was about 5\/6 years ago.<\/p>\n Name three artists you had on your playlist when you were younger?<\/strong><\/p>\n Noisecontrollers. A lot of people don\u2019t know this but I started my career as Brooks making hard style. I was so amazed by the sound design those tracks had, and was super curious how those tracks were made. And one way to learn that is to listen to it day in day out!<\/p>\n Avicii. I Think everyone will agree with me when I say he was one of the best If you\u2019re looking at melodies or chord progression. He was the first one that actually made me realise that Its not all about how clean your mix is, or how your tracks are mastered. If you have super catchy melodies it will work no matter what and that’s something I completely missed; big eye opener for me!<\/p>\n Eminem. I think most people have had him in their playlist. And I\u2019m pretty Sure i still know all the lyrics of his older albums haha. I\u2019ve made a lot of beats for local rappers and Eminem’s tracks were pretty much the source of my inspiration for that.<\/p>\n Who\u2019s your biggest inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n That changes a lot! I always try to find new artists, or tracks that inspire me, and of course there are a lot of those. But for now I think that’s Gonna be Droeloe. Just love every single track they’re releasing at the moment. Its something completely different from What i release But i just get so inspired from the vibes and emotion they manage to capture in their tracks.<\/p>\n Where and when was your first ever live performance?<\/strong><\/p>\n I did a couple of shows together with Showtek. I think when i just signed with their agency the brought me along for some support shows. I think we Did a couple shows in Germany (one of Which was Bootshaus, still Think that’s one of the best places to play) and yeah one of those was a show in Ireland.<\/p>\n