Clubheads

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The Klubbheads are a two-person Dutch production team in the field of electronic dance music, which was particularly successful in Europe in the late 1990s. The best-known productions include the singles Klubbhopping , Kickin 'Hard and Turn Up The Bass . The sound of the Klubbheads can best be classified as Hard House , whereby the so-called Klubbheads Style is often spoken of. The most famous trademark of many of their songs is a distinctive bassline, which is referred to as a bamboo bass.

history

The Klubbheads team originally consisted of the three members Koen Groeneveld (DJ BoozyWoozy), Addy van der Zwan (Itty Bitty) and Jan Voermans (Greatski). However, Voermans left the team in 2005. While Groeneveld and van der Zwan worked together in the early 1990s, Voermans only joined the formation in 1995. Then the three started their first own label 'Blue Records' in the same year, which they founded for the record company 'Mid-Town Records', and were henceforth active under the name “Klubbheads”. Their third release, Klubbhopping , which became a club hit across Europe, marked the breakthrough for the trio. In addition to other singles, which have proven to be commercially successful, especially in the Netherlands, Germany and England, the Klubbheads became increasingly popular remixers and received remix orders for the Vengaboys , DJ Supreme , Sash , Scooter and Salt'N'Pepa , among others . The consequence of these sometimes very popular works was that the Klubbheads' first album, entitled Kick you Hard , which was released in 1998, contained a selection of their most famous remixes in addition to their own productions. In 1999 the Klubbheads left Blue Records and founded their own record company called 'Digidance' in Vlaardingen near Rotterdam , which also included various other sub-labels such as 'DNA Records', 'Digi White', 'MoBizz' and 'Danceplanet Recordings' . Here they published their own tracks as well as productions by other artists. In March 2009 the record company Digidance BV filed for bankruptcy.

Pseudonyms

Groeneveld, van der Zwan and Voermans continue to appear in an almost unmanageable number of pseudonyms, under which they sometimes also produced very successfully. The release E under the pseudonym Drunkenmunky is even the greatest commercial success of the trio, which reached the top ten of the German single charts in 2002. Other pseudonyms of the club heads include: 2 Hi , The Caramel Club , Chainside , Club Scene Investigators , Code Blue , Cut The Cake , Da Klubb Kings , Delano & Crockett , DJ Disco , Dutch Maffia , Frantic Explosion , Greenfield , Hardliners , Hi_Tack , Infectious! , Itty Bitty Boozy Woozy , K&A , KA-22 , Koen Groeneveld & Addy van der Zwan , LCD-J , Los Pampas Feat. The Dixieband , Mellow Tracks , Rollercoaster , The Rotterdam Gang , Sleezy G , The Sound Of Now , Speakerz! , The Sync Inc. , Tek Team , The Ultimate Seduction and Untouchable 3 .

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NL NL
Clubheads
2001 Front To The Back 1991-2001 NL18 (6 weeks)
NL

More albums

  • 1998: Kick You Hard

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
DE DE AT AT CH CH UK UK NL NL
Clubheads
1996 Club hopping - - - UK10 (6 weeks)
UK 		-
1997 Disco hopping - - - UK35 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
1998 Kickin 'hard DE86 (1 week)
DE 		- - UK36 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
2000 Turn up the bass DE88 (2 weeks)
DE 		- - UK36 (2 weeks)
UK 		-
2001 Hip hopping - - - - NL13 (7 weeks)
NL
Here We Go - - - - NL19 (5 weeks)
NL
Drunkenmunky
2002 E (As In Eveline) DE8 (11 weeks)
DE 		- - - NL18 (5 weeks)
NL
Hi_Tack
2006 Say Say Say (Waiting 4U) DE39 (9 weeks)
DE 		AT65 (2 weeks)
AT 		CH59 (18 weeks)
CH 		UK4 (17 weeks)
UK 		NL12 (14 weeks)
NL
2007 Let's dance - - - UK38 (3 weeks)
UK 		-

More singles

  • 1995 Cha Cha
  • 1995 Tempo Fiesta
  • 1995 Work This Pussy
  • 1996 The Magnet
  • 1998 Raise Your Hands (with Mark van Dale )
  • 1999 Release the Pressure
  • 2000 Big Bass Bomb
  • 2001 Kickin 'Hard (Remixes 2001)
  • 2002 Let the Party Begin
  • 2003 Somebody Skreem!
  • 2003 Bounce to the Beat
  • 2004 Dutch Klubb Dubbs
  • 2004 club slang
  • 2005 Turn up the Bass (2005 Remixes)
  • 2005 Dutch Klubb Sessions # 1

swell

  1. ↑ Digidance Label on Discogs
  2. ↑ Klubbheads Aliases on Discogs
  3. ↑ a b chart sources:

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