Rupert & Mennert
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- Rupert&Mennert are two producer/dj’s from the north-west of the Netherlands. A small city called Den Helder is where they live. In Den Helder you will find the royal navy and the harbour. This makes the city a melting pot of cultures. Due to the fact t..Rupert&Mennert are two producer/dj’s from the north-west of the Netherlands. A small city called Den Helder is where they live. In Den Helder you will find the royal navy and the harbour. This makes the city a melting pot of cultures. Due to the fact that the city is for ¾ surrounded by water, which makes it almost a peninsula, Den Helder is isolated from the other big cities. You can only go south. This makes Den Helder liable for isolated and eclectic culture. Music is bubbling everywhere. Rupert & Mennert, real names: Ruben Koster and Menno Jager, born 1976 and 1977, are friends since a long time, and were always interested in music. Their inspiration has a very wide range: early electronics like Kraftwerk; neue deutsche welle: like Der Plan and Andreas Dorau; minimal music: like Wim Mertens and Michael Nyman. And ofcourse the dance movement from the mid 90’s: from Roni Size and Basement Jaxx to the whole Compost Posse, Jazzanova, K&D and dZihan&Kamien. In dj-sets, R&M take the audience from drum’nbass to nu-jazz to hiphop to electro to jazz to funk and back to house. An eclectic listening experience. DJ-sets often last several hours. The dj-style is reflected in their own productions. Sometimes there’s a drum’nbass influence, sometimes hiphop or plain 4/4 house or electro. But always with a leftfield basis. Besides the music, R&M have ‘normal’ jobs. Because they have to eat too. Rupert has (together with his father) his own acountancy company. Mennert is an economics/business-economics teacher at the local high school.