Biography
Valyom (Dj Valium) - Filip Vandendriessche - has been a name to watch out for on record labels and party flyers since the early 90’s, when he took his love of dance music and, with a group of friends, began throwing parties in the western provinces of Belgium. These early UFO parties were the start of a journey that has led him around the globe and
onto some of the World’s most recognised underground labels.
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His production career started after travelling to England, where he created his first tracks in a small studio in South London. Through the connections he made, his DJ career began to fly and bookings in the UK began to come in, most notably when he spun for the Eurobeat 2000 crew at London’s Turnmills.
Back in Belgium his small studio grew in size and the productions he created were picked up, first by UK based techno label ‘UFO London’ and then by the renowned US hard techno imprint ‘Drop Bass Network’. His early tracks such as ‘Duvels’ and ‘Don’t Open the Ark’ are still talked about today and are highly sought after. Releases with many other quality labels including ‘Teknotika Records Detroit’ and most famously ‘International DJ Gigolos’, who gave him the chance to perform his album live in front of his home crowd at the ‘I Love Techno’ festival in Belgium, has meant that he has well and truly established himself as one of the Europe’s most diverse producers.
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.