Producer Bart Knol and DJ Stephan van den Bos founded Longplayers in 1999. With a mix of breaks, electro, progressive and drum'n'bass they won the Grote Prijs van Nederland in the Dance category that year. A year later vocalist Martin Hilkhuysen joined the duo. On Intercom, the follow-up to their debut Bad Thought On A Sunny Day (2001), the gentlemen limit themselves to 'nu skool breakz', an almost
… dead genre. However, the Longplayers know how to provide enough revival thanks to their energetic approach. Intercom can be listened to like a DJ mix, the songs flow seamlessly into each other. Besides Hilkhuysen you can also hear the vocals of Ro Krom and Vanessa Piergolam, which provides the necessary variation between the hard beats and the deafening vacuum cleaner basses. With the music from Intercom, the Longplayers can easily bring back the 'nu skool breakz' in clubs and on festival grounds. Let's hope that this initiative will be followed up more to restore the genre definitively. (AD)more
