Dr. Peacock
Biography
Dr. Peacock, real name Stefan Dekker, born in 1988, is a Frenchcore producer and DJ from the Netherlands. He is recognized as one of the greats of in the frenchcore genre and helped pioner it to the masses. During his active years he has participated in festivals like Vive la Frenchcore, Syndicate, Decibel Outdoor, Defqon.1, Masters of Hardcore, Pandemonium and more than 300 parties and events since start in 2010.
Quickly after starting to produce, he gained the attention of BKJN, a Dutch event production company, which asked him to perform at one of their events. The success of his performance event led to BKJN co-hosting the event "Vive la Frenchcore" with him in 2013.
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Frenchcore's popularity grew quickly in The Netherlands, with Dr. Peacock performing at Defqon.1 in 2014. Dr. Peacock founded his label Peacock Records, and started to focus on developing new talent and growing the frenchcore scene. The upbeat and melodic releases on Peacock Records were different from older frenchcore.
During an interview with Alive at Night in 2016, Dekker explains that he was introduced to hardcore techno by listening to old Thunderdome compilations at the age of nine. He then began to produce mainstream hardcore, while the genre still developing in the mid 2000. He began dabbling in the Frenchcore genre by buying vinyls from The Speed Freak, The Sickest Squad, Psiko, and DJ Radium 4, the latter having attracted him thanks to reversed bass-kicks which reminded him of the early hardstyle genre. He then started mixing at the age of 12 and organized a few evenings in Limmen and at the Innercore club in Castricum.
Dekker has several aliases, including St. Benhard (psy ambient/dub/psytrance), Toontje Vager (melodic techno), Steve-D (early hardcore, early terror, next-gen), Doctor Vague (trip hop, ambient, lo-fi), The HouseFreakerz (House & minimal), and Vaagrid. He is also part of Frenchcore Familia with Billx and The Sickest Squad.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.