A little story about me, I always hate this sort of thing.
My real name is Bastiaan Klene, I dj under the name of Sebastian Hawkes. I was born in Naarden, near my hometown Almere on a November morning in 1985. I grew up with my older brother and mother and father in a city named Almere which is located in the middle of the Netherlands just 20 miles east of Amsterdam.
During the last years of primary school I became obsessed with music, especially Trance and house music. For some reason I was always fascinated with the DJ life.
When I got to secondary school I listened to the big names in the business and back then the likes of Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, Cygnus X, Rank 1, Svenson & Gielen were dj’s who drew my attention. During my secondary school period for a few years I listened to all sorts of music which included a lot of indie-rock bands, but my hearth had always been with the house and trance scene.
As soon as I got to college I visited a lot of Trance festivals and a lot of house and trance nights across the Netherlands to see my heroes perform.
From that point I decided to save money to buy my own decks and that took a very long time. When I first started playing I played house, techno, and trance music. I did some small venues around Amsterdam and after a few years I did my first real gig in Almere with a lineup which was fantastic for me, Dj Jay van Bremen (aka Jake Westfield), Dj Tensity and Rank 1.
A few months later I felt my hearth was more with the Techno and House scene and from that day I began to work on my sets a lot more and a lot better, I started my monthly promo’s under the name Hypertensive and I still record my sets under that name, although I have a weekly podcast on http://sebastianhawkes.podomatic.com which is still called Hypertensive.
A month after I switched to house and techno I had my first real techno gig in a neighbour city Lelystad called Extase. That night convinced me to keep playing techno with a lineup with the likes of Shinagl, Vexar, and Ille Bitch a well respected dj nowadays.
A few months later I went to Dublin as I wanted to go to college there, after some very unpleasent months I was forced to go back to Holland, however I did meet very nice people in Dublin and very nearly got a gig there. When I got back to Holland it became very hard to find some gigs and in 2009 I did become resident for Dublin’s D-Underground organization run by Ireland’s well respected Paddy Sheridan.
2009 has become a very nice year in the end as I entered a Pioneer Pro DJ Contest which ironically was held in my own hometown. It was a house and techno contest where I ended up 4th out of 170 dj’s.
That’s my life so far.
Sebastian Hawkes.
You can listen to mixes by Sebastian and download them with the links below.
Files are hosted on filesonic.
New Comer download
Hypertensive (Short Mix) download
Hypertensive (Long Mix) download
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