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Rafadelic’s a deejay, mashup producer & collector spinning sounds since the mid-80s, stood at the cradle of many styles in music but always refused sticking to one. Raf is resident of HBR1 & montly host of Solta a Franga on dutch radiostation “Concertzender”. He stands for a diversity of independent music and plays truely unique sets on inspiring events.
Trance, Reggae, Funk, Indie, Chillout, Breakbeat, Jazz and Global Grooves… Rafadelic’s been trippin deeply trough all sorts of music since he was young. Allready in the mid 80’s deejaying, singing, writing lyrics and eventually bounced many directions: Jamming with the likes of Hans Dulver (Paradiso Amsterdam), performing as ‘Treetop Unit’ (supporting De La Soul in Utrecht based Tivoli), released albums & 12 inches with King “back by dope demand” Bee’ feat Rudeboy (Urban Dance Squad) and Kool Keith (Ultramagnetic MC’s) under the alter-ego ‘Ragoo’. In the early 90s Rave, Madchester & Breakbeat became a fresh new passion and influence. As he deejayed for seven years under the “Oogar” alias (Ragoo spelled backwards) with numorous other explorers (Dano, 100% Isis, Abraxas, Spider Willem) and became resident of underground Leerdam-based club “The Jungle”, so-called ‘gabber’ hit the spot in partyland a few years later. Within that shallow scene Rafadelic tried to keep the vibes deep and spiritual, with favourite labels like R&S, Harthouse, UR, Planet Dog, Eye-Q, Sm:)e and Rising High. Besides that he got more into the spirit of early seventies jammusic and eventually psychedelic trance and ambient. Markpoints were the many Mindseye Squadparties in the dutch Betuwe-region – “Planet Ben’s Forrest Parties” near the French border, Reggae-Sundance pre-parties in Eindhoven, The Artbag Tour with bands like Headmix and Celtica & shows including live-drums by Double-Dee (Now Motel Kingz) on cultural events. He was organiser and resident of the “Spiral Sessions” meetings with dutch progressive deejays from all over Belgium and The Netherlands.
Up till today Raf’s hosting “Funkafied” with DJ Ronny Hammond, breathing 70’s funk-jazz-disco combined with the Breakfunk sound of now. Raf Spinned a six hour ethnogroove set in a nonstop crowded tent at Folkfestival Dranouter and was a guest dj at some of the best dutch Trance-events (Nexus, Zirk, Cosmic Combination, Orkz, 4X4, Empathy, Namasté Arc of Goa). On this website you can find numerous compilations and mixes in different categories released on mixcloud (Voted #47 among the 100 best Cloudcasters of 2010)
