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Hi, I'm Kasper "Kazzual" Vancoppenolle, 20 years and I'm a DJ. I live in Ghent, and I study communications. But that's not what you came here for!

So, I'm a DJ, and I think I've been spinning the tables for about 4 years now. I started of by learning the skills of turntables and vinyl at a friends house, with awesome pounding techno music. Later on I was very interested in drum and bass records, and I liked the dnb tracks more and more. Later that month I bought my own equipment: 2 cheap turntables and a cheap mixer, and started off with about 10 records. I used to mix them over and over, to learn the skills of beatmatching, EQing and more.

After a while I got tired of the 10 records (obviously!), and bought NI Traktor Scratch, because I liked the combination of using the music from your computer, and still have the vinyl feeling.

I also experimented with midi-controllers in combination with the vinyl or standalone, but that wasn't really interesting enough for me. But one day, ready to play at a gig, my laptop wasn't starting up anymore. That night, I smashed my laptop in a thousand pieces, so frustrated that I couldn't play on that gig. That's about the time, after two years, that I realized that I needed new and good equipment. So I bought 2 CDJ850's and mixed with both CD and USB functions.

My style of drum and bass has varied a lot over the 3 years, from liquid to commercial to neurophunk to oldskool to jump up... I don't really like to be limited to only one genre, because I like all styles of drum and bass.

At the moment I have 2 projects:

Together with Rafael 'Artoo' Derolez we've been DJ'ing at a lot of drum and bass parties at Ghent (Steam, Square, Guantanamo Bass...).

Since 2014 I started a solo-project. As Kazzual alone, I DJ a broad style of music. Right now I would call my style an eclectic mix of electro-swing-house-garage-funky...

Lately I've become a resident at Bar des Amis, so nowadays you'll be able often see me there!

Enjoy my music!