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"Steadily he became one of Belgium’s top house dj’s and producers with more than 15 years activity in the Belgian dance scene as labelmanager, dj, producer, journalist and promoter. He grew up out of a family who's passionate by music. While most of his closest family members are playing their favourite instrument on a high level he is attracted by the world of electronic music, synths, home-studio from the age of 13. A passion for dj'ing was bubbling while he followed hip-hop, jazz, lounge and later on electro, house, techno to ambient music. In the mean time he discovered the world of home studio's, audio recording, synths, drum computers and more while exploring all new sounds in the studio of his backyard neighbour in 1989, definitely all these influences were a small step towards dj'ing in 1995. He started the EL FUTURO concept, in 1998, a radio show to promote house music which became a party concept later on organising events in Club N9 - Club Patjelli (Eeklo), Fuse - Wax Club (Brussels), La Rocca (Lier), Culture Club - Club Decadance - Club Unit - Celtic in Ghent, releasing the El Futuro EP in 2005 and finally launching the imprint EL FUTURO RECORDINGS in 2007. The EL FUTURO radioshow is back on the radio since 2006 starting with a monthly Sunday mixsession on Rotationz, rescheduled from October 2007 to a weekly special spot on Saturdays and finally in 2009 a bi-monthly mixsession on Saturdays. The El Futuro radioshow is nowadays hosted on many radio's in Belgium as Worldwide. After 1 year the El Futuro Recordings label reached the honourable 10th place of the Nightcode Magazine Readers Poll 2008 (nr1 magazine Belgium) and the El Futuro events were voted on the 7th place. As a dj he started in Club N9 Eeklo in 1995, continuing in 1997 as one of the first resident dj’s in the popular Club Decadance where he introduced the tech house sound that became the basic music of the club. He was asked to become one of the House resident artists for Kozzmozz in 2002, with a first edition of MuZZic in 2003 and nowadays also holding residencies for El Futuro and Montuno's. Over the years he was invited in Fuse, Café d'Anvers, Silo, La Rocca, Culture Club, Wax Club, Laundry Day (5x), 10daysoff (4x, including the F Communications night and the closing of both Carl Craig and Laurent Garnier), Kozzmozz, Contact Europe Festival (Italy), Cityparade (2004/2009), Dour Festival (2003 YTC), Rock Ternat (2004 YTC), Rock Waregem (2009) Soundgathering Festival and many more as regularly abroad in France (Paris), Italy (Milan), UK (London), Germany, Mexico, Australia and The Netherlands. He started writing for Morph Magazine in 1998, as content manager he was an essential part for launching Dancecommunity.be to the nr 1 dance portal in 2003 and since 2004 writing for Nightcode Magazine ( ex Out Soon ), the leading electronic music magazine in Belgium. For several years Josh has been charted in the top 10 for Best National House dj on the EMA Partyguide awards with a highest notation in 2006 as the 3rd best Belgian House DJ. Also he has been voted several times in the top 10 for best National producer together with Synoptic and were crowned 6th best National Producers for the Partyguide.be awards in 2006. As a producer he released the El Futuro EP in 2005 followed by the Digital Playboy EP in 2007, but success came with his releases on the El Futuro Recordings label from 2007 on. Tracks like Lebanese Girl, Wavecatcher and Sensitive Touch came in the bags from world topdj's. In 2009 he scored a first hitsingle with the deep house track U & I followed by the song Closer We'll Become. Global Wave become the N°1 TRACK in the annual TOP 100 from the Progrezmania Radioshow in 2010. 2011 looks great with the remixes of the loungy track Love At Breakfast with the vocal from Mátyás Blanckaert, expectations are high for the first full album from Josh and the Music Moves EP. "