Dutch DJ, producer and record store owner, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Bought some records already but it wasn’t until 1986 he got fascinated by the hip hop/rap culture. After recording some tracks at home; cutting & pasting with his two tape decks, it was in the spring of 1989 he made his debut on stage. He became a member of hip hop groups like Mega Dope & Def Force. But soon enough MC Def Rhymes asked him to become a member of the Supersonic Cru, a group that was already making it to the top in the Netherlands. Especially when Git Hyper started to make the beats, things really got started for this group as they were both adored by dedicated b-boys and R&B followers at the time. Soon enough Git Hyper started to produce for many MCs that were around at that time: Hurricane (Sugacane), MC Sayquan (USA), Musical Messengers, Criminal Ced, Secret Recipe (earlier Postmen formation) and many more.
By 1993 he has asked to join the jazz formation S.F.E.Q. In that same year he recorded the CD “Low Impact” with this group and started to tour around Germany, Finland, Spain and Turkey with them. In 1994 he did four gigs at New York’s “Knitting Factory” and by the time they got back in their country the second CD “Nunks Pays” was released. During the next couple of years the group recorded three more CDs with him and toured intensely through Europe. In 1997 he recorded his debut solo album “Zimmerman 1”, a year later followed by “ Zimmerman 2”. Both CDs got fantastic reviews all over the Benelux. S.F.E.Q. started to tour as S.F.E.Q. Plays Zimmerman which was a huge success at the time.
When S.F.E.Q. drummer Stefan Kruger started his own group Zuco 103, he asked Git to join him. They recorded their debut album with the inclusion of “Git named” “Outro Lado” which was released worldwide. Git made the infamous Amazonia mix of “Brasilectro” (a term they invented!) which was released in the U.S. as CD single and was featured on their “Other Side of Outro Lado” CD. With Zuco 103 Git Hyper toured worldwide: Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, Macedonia, Switzerland, Belgium, Canada, the U.K., France, etc. Git Hyper also DJ'd all around the country in clubs and venues as “Paradiso”, “Nighttown”, “het Paard”, “Winkel van Sinkel”, “Club de Ville”, “Westergasfabriek”, “de Blauw Vis”, “Stalker”, “Rotown”, “Off_Corso”, “Dodorama”, “Las Palmas”, “Dance Valley”, “Beachbop” etc. He also went abroad playing in Scotland’s “Scratch” and France’s “Technoparade”. He also did lots of guest appearances with TDLC, New Cool Collective, Medicamento, Sub Sound System, Eric Vloeimans, and Hans Dulfer, and made two 12"s with gabber king Paul Elstak which appeared on a few compilation CDs.
He has done some incredible work throughout the years. Working with the Metropole Orchestra that did some tracks of him live on stage. Also the Residentie Orchestra played with him, doing a 30-minute tribute to the Ultimate Breaks & Beats series. He also played with Valery Gergiev who did a show with the Young Philharmonic Orchestra featuring Git Hyper. He’s been on numerous television shows in the Netherlands and became the house DJ in the “Comedy Factory” in 1999 in which he was featured some almost a decade. Many people might also know him as the DJ of the late-night show “Raymann is laat”. By 2000 he received the National Phonographic award together with Urban Dance Squad’s DJ DNA for his archievements in the turntable field. He had his own radio show, wrote reviews for magazines, makes music for commercials and tv-shows, plays funk and soul on the funk nights of “Loosefit”, is DJ reverie on the Dutch “Soundclash” editions, makes a dozen remixes each year, plays with and produces for dutch hip hop group Duvelduvel and was a part of Caro Emerald's band.
In 2020 he started his project “Zimmerwax”.
