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Flamman (1963 - )
Flamman, full name Jeroen Flamman is a Dutch dance party DJ, who with musical
collaborator and life partner Abraxas
(real name Jeff Porter) leads the house music group Fierce
Ruling Diva. A native of Amsterdam, Jeroen was working
as Best Boy for a television commercial production company when he first
met Jeff Porter in a bar while Jeff was touring Europe following his graduation
from Boston University. The two later settled in New York, where
Jeroen found work doing lighting for fashion shows and as an electrician
for local film productions. The couple became fans of the fledgling
house music scene in the New York clubs, and it was during a visit to Amsterdam
that Jeroen noticed the opportunity to introduce house music to the club
scene there. In 1988 Jeroen and Jeff returned to Amsterdam, where
Jeff began appearing as DJ Abraxas at DOK, becoming a huge hit.
To address the near absence of new and good house music albums in
the Amsterdam shops, Abraxas and Jeroen began recording their own tracks
in a small rented studio. Pressing 500 copies, they distributed
under their own label, Lower East Side Records, in tribute to the New York
neighborhood where they had once lived. After hours parties at their
apartment also became a part of their repetroire. Soon they began
throwing illegal rave parties at an abandoned warehouse, where Jeroen
first began DJing as Flamman. The warehouse became known as Planet
E, Amsterdam's first exclusive house music club. Soon Abraxas and
Jeroen began performing their own music on stage at the club, and thus
their group Fierce Ruling Diva was born. Eventually they were touring
Europe, and began to DJ their first large-scale rave parties in the UK.
That same year they released three more albums. The following year, Planet
E closed down and was replaced by Subtopia, located on an abandoned barge.
In 1990, Flamman was also appearing at "Manic Monday" nights at the Mazzo,
a gig which would continue until the Mazzo was destroyed by fire in 1996.
Shortly after that, Flamman and Abraxas produced the music score for the
rave film, "Naar De Klote!" ("Waisted"), and for an advertising campaign
for the Mobil Oil Corporation. In 1999, Flamman and Abraxas transformed
the FRD website into "a full blown internet portal to the Dutch techno-
and party scene," and also set up the Rent-a-DJ site, giving greater exposure
to the various talents in the dance party scene. At this writing
Abraxas has returned from a year's sabbatical to puruse a business degree
at Edinburgh, and Flamman is working with him on a return of FRD to the
dance party scene.
Fierce Ruling Diva Official Site Flamman's Profile at Renta-a-DJ
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