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Biography
EL-Jay’s name stands for L.J. (Lucas Josef). He was born in Velsen-Zuid on the coast near Amsterdam on March 10, 1956. EL-Jay has been DJ-ing for 41 years, not continuously, but he was always fighting to get gigs.

EL-Jay's initial style of music was found in Black-Music and Drive-in-discotheque in the early eighties with Soul, Disco, Funk and Groove. "A matter of fade in, fade out" with voice-overs. In present time, EL-Jay still is an all eater of Progressive & Trance Styles.

At the age of 12, he started organizing with friends school-parties, back in the days of 45 inch vinyl, The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones and the old radio’s like the Telefunke, Philips or the Blaupunkt . Luc’s DJ career was started and has never looked back. The smaller school parties grew into more substantial local events in the late 1970's so bought a old Ford Transit (without any driving license!) and was running his drive-in-disco. Near the disco he also started a underground-music concept covering genre’s like Pink Floyd, Lou Reed, Mike Oldfield, Rory Callagher, A further 10 years down the line, Luc music progressed further into Rock, Underground and Blues-Rock and is now loving EDM in the form Progressive, Trance, Hard-Trance and Techno.

EL-Jay found his heart in Progressive EDM after he met Jimmy van M on a party in Club Kremlin (Amsterdam). He loves Trance but plays Progressive. After visiting the Awakenings parties he started to love Techno. In late 2004, Luc was contracted on a German Fetish Scene and became resident on 6 club’s in Germany, every 6 weeks another club playing Progressive with Techno themes.

Another earlier passion of EL-Jay's, was his online presence: 'Brd-Rec'. Starting from 2000 recording radio Dance live-sets at Dutch FM Radio.. as at the time slam.fm were the only people in Holland that were picking up these broadcasts, later ID&T Radio also began to pick up these type of events along with 3Fm (JayDee & Robert Albers) with Radio 538, with van Diepens Dance Department. In the East of the Netherlands, he was a part of the German station 'Einslife' which boasts good Dance music on Saturday. Then came the time of the internet broadcasters such as di.fm. As Brd-Rec, EL-Jay joined moderating at http://www.URTranceZone till end of 2008. Who doesn't have a set recorded by Brd-Rec on his computer?

In 2002, Luc starts his non-profit dance event organization, with DJ GrandPa_JoaH, but after one year they split, Luc continuing it to a successful high covering 64 Dance parties until 2006 in the East of the Netherlands. 350 upcoming and new DJ’s where contracted by the TYP_DC covering Progressive, Tribal, Techno, Trance and Hardstyle.

Today Luc, still loves the scene at the age of 53, making mixes for streams with popular Trance & Progressive radio shows at di.fm, Trance.fm, TRANCESONIC.FM, Pure.fm, PureSound.fm, Electronic-Mixes and still loves to visit small club's to listen to the basic Blues or Rock-Blues.

EL-Jay - "As you may think from this bio, 'wow he did a lot.' I feel there is still more to give!!!"

Every Friday, you will find EL-Jay, trucking on Dutch & Belgium roads.

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