I am Harry Postma and living in The Netherlands. In my 'early days' (around 1993 - 1994) I DJ-ed in 2 clubs and in the period 1996 - 1999 I made mixes on tape for a bar-dancing.
At the moment I am mixing again, but now at home :-). These new mixes are available on this site and you are free to download them. Please, let me know your opinion on my mixes by signing my weblog or sending an e-mail.
Next to mixing music, I am also interested in a different kind of mixing: Cocktails. My favorite recipes are listed on this site. Check it out!
At Secondary School (1983) I began to appreciate music and about 1984 it became my 'number 1' hobby. Especially dance music took my attention and I was recording music mixes that were broadcasted on the radio, like the Bond Van Doorstarters, the Minimix and at the end of each year the Grandmix. I was able to buy a lot of records, because I did not use my 'milk money' for buying cookies and candy (at least not much) like other kids did :-) but saving it to buy records. The last years at Secondary School I was also interested in other kinds of music, like jazz, classic music and synthesizer music (especially Jean Michel Jarre and Vangelis).
I think my interest in dance music together with my interest in synthesizer music made me fond of house music genres like 'mellow', 'club', 'trance' and 'techno'. I was introduced to this type of music by dance programs on the radio, of which For Those Who Like To Groove was my favorite. Although I was always curious how mixers made their radio mixes and even more curious how DJs were mixing live (as they did in For Those Who Like To Groove), I was not able to do some mixing for my own because I did not have the right equipment for it.
When I went to the University in Enschede I talked by co-incidence to 'the right person at the right place at the right time', a DJ of the 'Dance music' discotheque Jet Set in Hengelo (Ov.), who was working in an audio store around 1992. He invited me to go to the manager of that club to ask if I was allowed to learn mixing music on their equipment during week-days, while they were cleaning. And so I did. :-)
By lots of practicing I learned mixing music in the Jet Set and by co-incidence I got a job as DJ in the 'Top 40 music' discotheque Chez André in Marknesse, a town near the town I was born (far away from the Jet Set). There I introduced mixing music, because they just played records one after the other. It was a great success and a lot of fun.
Later I was asked by the owner of the Jet Set to become the 'resident DJ' and of course I took that chance. Unfortunately I had to quit the job in the Chez André, because both jobs were on Saturdays. Also in the Jet Set it went great and I had a lot of fun. I was asked to go to Amsterdam together with a fellow DJ, to collect the greatest dance vinyl and this was also a lot of fun. :-)
In Amsterdam I became familiar with underground music and used this style more and more in the Jet Set. This is where I 'separated' from the Jet Set, but did not take another job as DJ, since there were no clubs in the neighborhood that used my style of music. I had a lot of fun mixing my style of music on my own equipment and once organized a club party together with a fellow DJ.
In 1996 I started to make mixes on tape for the bar-dancing The Vogue in Hengelo (Ov.) They played my style of music and they liked it to be mixed on tape. And so I did and this also was a lot of fun. :-) I made these mixes until the beginning of 1999. At that moment other hobbies began to take more and more time and it became harder to obtain the right music.
In 2002 I met a DJ who liked to use mixes of local DJs on his radio show Clubcardradio on Enschede FM and his internet radio station clubcardradio.com. He asked me if I would like to make a few mixes and at I was really interested to make such mixes again, because I have a lot of great music I have not heard for a long time: Harry's Mix, Volume 1, 2 and 3.
Best regards,
Harry Postma.