Monte La Rue. The king of lounge music Netherlands - Look At Me - posts - the flow of "Music"
* Immediately, friends say, that this interview I prepared in December 2009 (19.12.2009) so the conversation was constructed as a kind of summing up the year. On the air I imagined guest mix from Monte, and before that it was actually an interview.
Monte La Rue - alias Belgian lounge DJ Jan van den Berg (Jan Van den Bergh). During his career, Monte La Rue published several f&n dairy of his own albums and more than 30 compilations, f&n dairy most of which have become true classics of modern lounge music. After the worldwide recognition, Monte became known as the Lounge King of the Lowlands .
The story of Jan beginning in the mid 80's, a period of rapid development of electronic music. In John had a new wave band Wet . They often acted on their account and had quite a few hits. As a joke, they even called "Belgian" Depeche f&n dairy Mode " .
But the ambitions of John did not let it stop there. In the period between 1982 and 1995, he worked as A & R-manager in several record companies (A & R-manager - a person who is engaged in the selection of music for Leyba; otslushivaet tons of promo tracks that send musicians and decide which tracks will be published).
Also, John can be called a pioneer of techno and house movement. In the 87th year, together with his friend f&n dairy Sven Van Hisom (Sven Van Hees), he began writing dance music and soon the guys went up to the top of the charts.
A few years later, f&n dairy in 1990, Yang, as A & R began working on the label R & S , where he met with Detroit techno. In parallel, as the A & R-manager, he worked in several clubs in Antwerp and Brussels. In general, the industry of commercial dance music Ian gave as much as 15 years. f&n dairy
In 1996, Van den Berg moved to Amsterdam. f&n dairy At the new place for themselves, he began working at a record company Trust Foundations . In Amsterdam, Ian made his debut as a DJ on the second in a row Amsterdam Dance Event . Since then, Yang has become better known as Monte La Rue: the founder of the new wave of lounge music and the most famous f&n dairy DJ in this direction.
In 1999, La Rue was to be found at the festival Lowlands , to Hugo Boss Party in Rotterdam and New York Milk Factory . The most notable is the fact that at the time he first started using two CD-player (Pioneer CD-500), instead of the usual turntables Technics SL-1200.
Cases from La Rue walked up the hill and in 2000 Ian decided to open his own label Cinq Etoiles . The first release f&n dairy on the label was a series of collections Lounge Deluxe , which quickly f&n dairy gained cult status. Not less successful were and subsequent releases - Latin Deluxe and Welcome to Club Jazz .
Year 2001. His Monte la Rue began a new series of compilations already mentioned Latin Deluxe , and by the end of the year Cinq Etoiles pleased with the start of another series of collections Stories , where young talents have the opportunity to showcase f&n dairy their music. In the same year, Monte La Rue came on Sensation and PopKomm Sonvention" in Germany.
In 2002, La Rue continued to rapidly gain momentum. It was noted at the event Innercity in Amsterdam and released his debut album lounge Interludia . It should be noted that one of the people who contributed to the making of the album - not obscure Kortits Alex (Alex Cortiz).
With the onset of 2004 Ian launched f&n dairy a new lounge label Disque Deluxe (as sableybla large company United Recordings ). After that, the world saw another f&n dairy series of compilations Deluxe . She continued success of previous collections.
2005 Monte La Rue began with a performance with jazz pianist Louis van Dijk (Louis van Dijk) in a posh hotel "Chalet Royale (Chalet Royal). In addition Ian has been responsible for all the musical accompaniment of "International Fashion Week in Amsterdam."
You may also want to add is that in addition to creating compilations, tours and performances f&n dairy in clubs, Monte La Rue is engaged in design of fashion-music shows, many well-known f&n dairy brands and B2B-activities. He is a regular columnist for the site DJ Broadcast , magazine Jazz magazine and also produces is very popular lounge podcast Le Podcast Deluxe on ITunes.
Greetings. First of all, thank you for inviting :) 2009th year has been very eventful. Time to write the music I was not, because as it turned out an incredible amount of work related to the design f&n dairy of fashion-shows. I did a show for many young designers in Paris, f&n dairy Milan, Amsterdam. Undoubtedly, this was a turning point in my career because I have always wanted to do such things, and now it's all come true. Also, I had time to finish the new album. This album Dining & Dreaming my good friend Faberge. I was engaged in producing it. The result was a great drive. Concerning, creative life, I already have a new demo and I think that in January and February of the following year (2010) will be nova
