There was a time when Marco Sterk aka Young Marco’s talents as a DJ and producer were among Amsterdam’s best-kept secrets For well over a decade, he plied his trade, largely unheralded, on the city’s undergrounddance music sceneIt was here, via several now infamous residencies, that he learnt his craft, gaining a reputation for ballsy, genre-defying eclecticism, playing sets that joined the dots between everything from tropical rhythms, afro gems and quirky Middle Eastern disco, to lost proto-house, throbbing techno and industrial-strength jack-tracksThese days, the Dutchman’s talents are widely known around the World His position as a crate digger, record collector and infamous party-starter now guarantees a packed schedule of gigs in Europe, North America and beyond His passion for working a dancefloor with “strange music” and “unclassics” is renowned, and it’s this that makes his sets so specialThis humid, off-kilter obsession with the inspired and unusual has become a hallmark of Marco’s music, too
DGTL Festival Amsterdam 2024, March 29-31
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