Karim Zarouala

웃 Silky Bastard / Karim Zarouala SILKY BASTARD (Karim Zarouala, 1993) is a dj and producer who knows exactly what he wants. He started producing music at the age of fifteen. Not that surprising, because he is born with a feeling for melody and rhythm. Karim saw the light when years ago he was checking out a performance of Vato Gonzalez in a big club. The lights, the music, the people, the stage and especially the feeling that he got from this moment was literally not to describe. Since then, he became SILKY BASTARD and he started making his own music. HOW HE STARTED – THE MUSIC JOURNEY SILKY BASTARD has a great variety in music. It started back in the days with mainstream house music from dj’s such as Afrojack, Vato Gonzalez, Nicky Romero and Bingo Players. When he played at Starbeach back in 2010, he discovered Techhouse. This gave SILKY BASTARD new possibilities. While searching for new Techhouse records, he also discovered Techno. From there on SILKY BASTARD saw the real light and began to, for his feeling, really understand music. Nowadays, he is being inspired by music of dj’s and producers such as Egbert, Secret Cinema, Florian Meindl, Adam Beyer, Ben Sims, Torsten Kanzler, Planetary Assault Systems, Sven Vath, Richie Hawtin, Robert Hood, Industrialyzer, The Advent and a lot of different underground artists. For SILKY BASTARD things have changed if you look back to the point were he started. His music journey is developing every day. Today he understands his passion, he knows what he wants and he knows he will get there. It’s just a matter of time. HIS OWN STYLE – THE MUSIC GENRE SILKY BASTARD’s music genre is a combination of Techno, Minimal, Techhouse and House. Important to mention that Techno and Minimal are the main ingredients of his sound. SILKY BASTARD uses as many time as possible to work at his studio. He is driven by his infinite passion and love for music. This perfectionist is determined to spread his sound into the entire world. Want to taste some? His website is http://www.silkybastard.nl www.s,oundcloud.com/silkybastard his soundcloud and http://www.twitter.com/silkybastard his twitter. WHAT HE DOES – THE MUSIC SCENE SILKY BASTARD is well-aware of his capability. Since his first show in Doornroosje/Merleyn (Nijmegen, april 2009), he is responsible for all of his work: bookings, marketing, photography, video, promotion, social media, design, and of course the production of his music. Still you can’t do it all by yourself. SILKY BASTARD knows this, which means he’s always interested in meeting new and positive people. SILKY BASTARD thinks it is important to work hard for a big and useful network of people and organizations. Hard work does pay off. SILKY BASTARD proves it with his social media: over 29.000 fans on Hyves, more than 3.100 friends on Facebook, more than 750 likes on his Facebook fanpage, and over 4.000 followers on Twitter and of course, Google is also familiar with SILKY BASTARD. He is going in the right direction, but he isn’t there yet. Therefore, there is plenty of ambition for the next couple of years. WHAT HE HAS DONE – THE UNIVERSE SPEAKS This ambition makes SILKY BASTARD eager to achieve more. But he already achieved some beautiful things. In the summer of 2010, he gave his first live performance in a foreign land. It was at Starbeach, in the well-known place called Chersonissos (Crete, Greece). At Starbeach, SILKY BASTARD performed on several festivals, such as Lovestar, Beachflirt and TMF Totally Summer party. Because of this great success, SILKY BASTARD was asked to perform again in 2011. SILKY BASTARD of course didn’t refuse. In 2011, he again gave act of presence at Beachflirt, Lovestar and the SlamFM Totally Summer party. At this moment, SILKY BASTARD still is the youngest dj ever who performed live at Starbeach. WHAT HE HAS DONE – THE UNIVERSE KEEPS TALKING In the summer of 2012, SILKY BASTARD was part of the first ‘Extrema Live DJ Roulette’. Back then, he gave a techno live act at XO Live/Extrema, from his bedroom. Later on, he participated in the PepsiKickInTheMix Remix contest, a contest in which everyone could send in a remix of the song Let’s Go (Calvin Harris ft. Ne-Yo). A professional jury with members of Sony Music, SlamFM, Pepsi, Red Urban and the SAE Institute in Amsterdam thought SILKY BASTARD was the best of the more than 20.000 remixes. With this victory, SILKY BASTARD was allowed to go on a partytrip to IBIZA where he meets Calvin Harris and AKON, goes to a DJ Academy and is VIP on the guest list from David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, Avicii, Luciano and Wolfgang Gartner. Every night he thought that it can’t be better but it kept going beyond better. The last night he visited Club SPACE. There he was standing in touch with his goal and dream. Right in front of Richie Hawtin and Sven Vath who were giving an extraordinary performance in front of 4999 people and SILKY BASTARD. The dreams of SILKY BASTARD are becoming reality, but there are plenty of dreams to follow. He keeps chasing them, with only one goal: making them come true. ♡ ‘Dream your life, live your dream’ - Silky Bastard Contact & Connect: FACEBOOKPAGE: http://facebook.com/silkybastard TWITTER: http://twitter.com/silkybastard SOUNDCLOUD: http://soundcloud.com/silkybastard WEBSITE: http://silkybastard.nl YOUTUBE: http://youtube.com/hgkcm BIOGRAPHY:  http://www.djguide.nl/djinfo.p?djid=6887 MAIL(bookings etc): .(JavaScript moet ingeschakeld zijn om dit e-mail adres te bekijken)/*= 0){out += unescape(l[i].replace(/^\s\s*/, '&#'));}while (--j >= 0){/**/if (el[j].getAttribute('data-eeEncEmail_wIwuxrtsNC')){el[j].innerHTML = out;}}/*]]>*/