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Record Label:Rush Hour, Perlon, Ratio? and DekmantelSan Proper is a well respected DJ from the Amsterdam underground club scene. Over the last fifteen years, he has been spinning in all the major clubs, bars and lounges, in and around Holland. You’ll hear him play at most of the major Summer and Dance festivals (San has a residency at Europe's top Summer festival, Lowlands) as well as the more dodgy and underground locations. He's known and praised for his House & Disco sets, but also for blending a lot of different styles into an eclectic mix, which results in him playing at various spots. In Amsterdam, San proudly presents “The Black Disco Bust” - a club-night that, throughout the years, has won a cult status with some international DJs being featured (p.e. Daniel Wang, Alton Miller, Kalabrese, Trus'me). The Disco Bust is all about preserving the true sound of old school underground Disco music. He's also one of the four heads behind "Italo Elite", a club-night which contributes to the Italo-cult of Amsterdam, together with Tom Trago, Lupe & Martin Duvall. In 2007, San teamed up with a fresh organization entitled Dekmantel founded by Casper Tielrooij & Thomas Martojo, to celebrate, to preserve & to arouse innovating House music. This crew has been breaking records, in a figure of speech... In 1998, together with Alan Luna he founded “Choque” -a club night about the deeper and warmer sound of quality House music. He’s been organising these programs at top Amsterdam clubs like Mazzo, Bitterzoet, Club 11, Sugar Factory and more. After 2000, San got to play at a lot of special clubnights & parties by Rush Hour. At locations like Zuid-as/Rush Hour Select & Paradiso/Paradisco2000 they really set the tone for quality underground in the city of Amsterdam. Through Rush Hour's events San got to play sets with heroes like Larry Heard, Boo Williams, Octave One & Carl Craig.San Proper started out as a guitar player. He played with several bands in the live circuit where he gained a lot of experience in music. In ’95 he founded “The Mindmenders”, a Funk/Hip hop band, which eventually won ‘De Grote prijs van Nederland’ in ’99, an annual award-show for upcoming artists. He left the band straight after, to focus more on solo production work and his career as a DJ. Today he’s collaborating with Amsterdam’s finest producers like Melon, Tom Trago, O-Boogie, Yuro, Steven de Peven, the Bootleg Bitches, Meikbar, 'De Schepper' aka Overlast, Young Marco, M>O>S and others and is releasing on Amsterdam's very own top label Rush Hour. January 2007, he started releasing his "Proper A'dam Family Series" with artists like these. 'Part 4' with O-Boogie got picked up by Laurent Garnier who did an edit of 'Magnificent Speech Funk' for Rush Hour. Proper remixed Ricardo Villalobos on Perlon with a track entitled 'Electonic Water- It ate my quarter' which was released in May 2008. He's also been releasing on Soulrock records together with Steven de Peven: 'Hupsers & Kletsers for Life!', and doing Disco-edits as St. Propre on Raw Meat records in the spring of 2009. In that same period San did remixes for Zuco 103, Catwash, LeLe, Arjuna Shiks and Tom Trago. In august his first 12" on Perlon was released which includes the tracks 'December 10th' & 'Keep it raw'. This 12" reached the number 1 position in the Groove-charts for November & December 2009. In this period San put together a solo-live-show playing & integrating several live instruments with his digital live-set-up which he presented during Amsterdam Dance Event with impressive critics in the local papers and massive inspiration for a new show... Redevice followed with San Proper's 'Heroes & Horse EP', which is available through a free download at www.redevice.com At the end of February 2010 San did his first new live-show with Tom Trago as The Dirt Machine at the 'Source On Ice'-festival, together with Tom he's been working on the album since 2008. This project presents an LP with straight up songs with guitars, bass, synths & drums; all instruments & vocals done by Proper & Trago. In March Dekmantel records released San Proper's 'Sex Drive Rhythm EP' which got praised by various producers of great distinction through Delsin's promo-mailout. Rush Hour released the latest single by Awanto 3 & San Proper - "Conquer End Naw House". More is yet to come... Proper's currently working on various projects like 'The Dirt Machine', 'Afro Bode' and 'Stepmother' with different genres, next to proceeding to represent true House music as 'San Proper'.
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