Freshblood Winner - December 09

balErik is one of the leading djs in the Oslo underground house scene. He started djing in 2001 and has been doing regular nights around Oslo since then. One of balEriks nights, Dirty Grooves, got nominated best clubnight of the year 2 years in a row in an online clubbingmagazine aswell as being nominated dj of the year 3 times in same magazine, and he is on his 5th year recidency at club sikamikanico, the longest running house club in Oslo into its 11th year in 2009. He has played with some of the best djs in the world, Desyn Masiello, Omid16B, Demi, Danny Howells, Rowan Blades, Seamus Haji, Luke Fair, Nic Fanciulli, Audiofly, Yousef etc. and his blend of deep house to driving techno music has taken him to gigs in some special cities around the world, such as Turnmills in London, Murmansk in Russia, Warsaw & Schezin in Poland, Pula & Rijeka in Croatia, San Francisco & Miami in Usa, Sofia in Bulgaria, Helsinki in Finland, Stockholm & Gothenburg in Sweden, Riga, Daugapils and Balvi in Latvia. 

balErik has also been running Kikki boat parties in Oslo. Inspired by the annual Tiki boat parties during.WMC in Miami which SOS always headline, balErik is recreating these memorable boat parties which cruise along the beautiful Oslo fjord. Last year Rowan Blades and balErik teamed up for a five hour back to back season and this year his Discoteca mate Tom Morgan took over the decks on the Ms. Bjorvika  along with balErik and the boat of full of eager party goers.

On his spare time he is making music, hunting for tunes, doing edits and special remixes which has gained support from from Digweed, Deep Dish to Behrouz and Nic Fanciulli ++, and recently signed an EP with his partner Vadim Yershov to the Timewriters Plastic City label from Germany. 4 more tunes with Vadim will come out in 2010 on his own label Discoteca Music aswell as there will be a cdcompilation coming out on another label, more details soon...

As well balErik does work as A+R scout for the infamous Alternative route record label from the UK (Desyn Masiellos Label), where its his job to find the unsigned diamonds for the future. In 2007 he set up a new digital label, Discoteca Music, with his mates Dana Bergquist, Tom Morgan, Luke Fair and Somnus corp. The label just reached its 19th release and is getting stronger and stronger, with releases being featured on renaissance and global underground compilations.