Kid Sublime

Born in 19-5 1981 in Naarden, Holland. Kid Sublime started playing drums and piano when he was just 5 years old. After hearing Duke Ellington’s album “Back to Back” he knew he wanted to do just one thing: play music. He practiced drums and piano every day and 10 years later started his first band with his schoolmates, a hardcore punk band. Through this band he got in touch with skateboarding.. and hip hop.

After seeing the video to Gangstarr’s “Step in the Arena” he found his new passion: Scratching. He started practicing, won a Dutch scratching contest and landed a job in the Fat Beats record store in Amsterdam. Only 17 at the time, he learned a lot through his store colleague and received local fame through his mix tapes. The next logical step was to get a MPC drum computer to enhance his mix tapes, which he did.. still being only 18. A year later Kid was asked to be tour DJ of Dutch-Brazil band Zuco103 and join them on their world tour. He quit Fat Beats and went along. Playing all the big festivals and well known clubs around the world for the next 2,5 years.

In between tours he recorded his first solo tracks, which were released on Steven de Peven’s Zephons Mom label, also from Amsterdam, entitled “Tea For Two”, which continues to sell to this date. Kid and Steven bonded well and they formed Rednose Distrikt together. They went on to record and release several tracks, which were later compiled on one album called “Iller Dan Je Ouders” (Iller Than Your Parents) released by Kindred Spirits.

After this intense period of touring with Zuco 103 and making beats with Rednose Distrikt, he decided to take a break from it all. It took him 6 months to recover and he decided to quit both Zuco 103 and Rednose Distrikt, so that he could focus on his solo career. In doing so, he started his own label (in conjunction with Rush Hour Records) called Jahwell, on which he releases his soulful house music with a b-boy attitude. Next to that he spent 2 years working on his first solo album “Basement Soul”, which featured guests vocals by Melodee, Lilian Vieira (Zuco 103), Nicky Guiland (Heavy), Alma Horton, U-Gene and Yinka a.o.

He’d release various records on Dopeness Galore (“The Passage” with Wouda, “F#ck it up”) contributing to the Timeless interpretations (his afrobeatballad “Praise”) and Frank N Dank (“Clap Hands”), his darkest album to date “Rappin’ Blak”: Kid and his vocal comrads from around the globe, ready to shine some light on dark times…. At this point in time Kid is fully focussing on releasing House music again: “Kid Sublime’s “The GOOD EP” is a 4 track release…a definite floor filler for all you House and Disco jocks.”