Nosferatu

Born in The Hague on the 16th of September 1973, Erwin van Kan started his career back in his infant-years. Jumping on a piano, smashing it, and then falling on a table with his head, leaving a nasty mark on his eyebrow! Maybe his Hardcore-style was already born? :)

Around 1993, he began spinning music with a tape-recorder and some sort of turntable. Cutted, pasted, and recorded several mix-tapes during that time. After a couple of years he managed to build his own studio. He bought some equipment, like a small sampler, and he produced several tracks, not released on vinyl, but just for friends...

Then, when he spinned as a DJ in a coffeeshop, he managed to produce a demo-tape which he gave to a friend, who had some connections in the record-business. Then he had the opportunity to release his first record : 'All that she wants' on Bünkor Beats-records.

At that time he was booked at several small parties, and some of them were very underground. For some people in his country, they know wich underground-party we mean: The massive 'squat'-party, downtown The Hague! With lots of other DJ's like Virus, the english DJ Raw (not the mc), and many more... DJ Mystic (Nosferatu's first DJ-name) spinned for over 7 hours non-stop that night!

After several years of working (more as a DJ, than a producer) he bought some new equipment and made a new demo. One day DJ Ruffneck was performing at a party, and Nosferatu gave his demo to him. Then his career really started; he got an appointment with P.v.Kerckhoven (Ruffneck) and Andrea v.d. Rhee from Cardiac Music bv. and he became part of a great recordcompany! 'Inspiration vibes', 'Dangerous Battle', and many more were made by the hand of Nosferatu.

The name Nosferatu is a project name which Patrick van Kerckhoven came up with for an early release on Ruffneck Records together with Fred Henderson. The alias was later used as a project name by Van Kerckhoven and Erwin van Kan. The latter is now the solo user of the moniker. Because Van Kan has produced the bulk of the Nosferatu material.