Timo Niksen

Timo Niksen was born in a small town in Holland, called Blaricum. When he was around 8 years old, he started creating rhytms and sounds on every possible object with his hands. So at the age 11 it seemed like a good idea to start taking drum lessons. Short after he started drumming, he immediatly felt that he became more and more fond of playing funky, hip hop and groovy rhythms, instead of rock and metal.
A good friend of his was (and still is) a dj and he introduced Timo to a new kind of music; Minimal. Timo was immediatly hooked, and wanted to learn how to mix music. They became a duo short afterwards, playing mostly on school parties and such. After a while Timo started to put more energy into his drums than into dj-ing. Then it came to him. "What if i could play this awesome electronic music on drums?". Soon after that, he bought a Roland Drumkit, and traded in his acoustic drumset. From that moment, he's been drumming mostly electronic music (house, techno, drum n bass) and it became his passion.

Timo is now 20, and upcoming as electronic drummer in various clubs in and around Amsterdam. He became part of Kreativ Productions recently, a booking agency located in Amsterdam. A part from drumming, he's also dj-ing again, and making his own productions, which is still seperate from his drumming. In a few years time, Timo hopes to achieve his main goal: travelling around the world, and make music.

Artists who inspired Timo:
Audio werner, Kabale und Liebe, Lauhaus, Piemont, Kanio, Rick Wade, Richie Hawtin, Marco Carola, Loco Dice, Carl Cox, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Jason Hodges, Gaiser, André Galuzzi, Ron Costa, Magda, Luciano, Alex Under, Julien Chaptal, Boris Werner, Souris, Lexed.