Pila
It figured that the 34 year old Rodney Pilapil would become a DJ and/or producer, being born into an entertainers-household where both his parents made a living out of ballet dancing and singing. After having wondered through Europe, the Pilapils settled in the Dutch village of Landsmeer, where Rodney was born. At the age of 15 his artistic blood drove him to the turntables to eventually become one of the most important artists in the hardstyle scene.
As a former fan of hip hop, R&B and swingbeat, it was Rodney’s brother who infected him with the dance virus. In 1992 the eldest of the two Stutterheim brothers gave Rodney an opportunity to spin at a massive Thunderdome event in the northern part of The Netherlands. Ever since then, DJ Pila became one of the regulars to perform at events organised by ID&T, being almost a resident for Thunderdome.
During the mid-nineties Pila founded his own record label, RNO Records, on which he released the classic track ‘Mindcontroller’, among many others. Together with his fellow DJ’s The Scientist and Chosen Few, he produced tunes for Mokum records, one of which even reached the Top 40 of a popular Dutch radiostation. Pila kept on producing tunes, until he lost his inspiration somewhere at the end of 1997 and decided to take it slow for a while. However, a dutch rave organizer who was based in Indonesia somehow managed to relight his fire and invited him to come to West Java, Bali, Malaysia and Thailand. After having spent two years up and down in the Far East, Pila set foot again on dutch soil in early 2000. At that time, the hardstyle scene was just emerging and he liked this style so much that he got right back into the whole scene. ‘I was really into it, because hardstyle was a kind of music that was solid and something you could dance to. When I play, I have to say that I prefer a combination of different styles, such as the German hardtrance, techno and just the hard banging stuff’, Pila explains.
Pila then took a next step in his career and came in touch with Q-dance, which organised the Houseqlassics events back then. At Qlimax, Pila performed live with his brother The Scientist and DMC mix Champion DJ Rockid. The year 2003 was a non stop succession of unforgettable moments, such as X-qlusive Holland, Qlimax, Shockers, Defqon.1, MysteryLand and many other top raves.
A year later Pila played major events In Qontrol, DefQon.1, Q-Base, Qlimax and Qrime Time, plus a numerous rememberable gigs in foreign countries like Poland, Estonia and Switzerland, where he hosted a StraightOn Recordings-truck at the Streetparade in Zürich. StraightOn Recordings is a label for the harder styles owned by DJ Luna, The Scientist and Pila. ‘Making music is very important to me, but I also want to grow as a DJ. I work with three turntables which has become my trademark . Besides this, I would also like to broaden my spinning style’, Pila explains.
In 2007 Pila started off a world tour Downunder in April then followed on to countries like Germany, Estonia, Finland, France, Switzerland and Italy to name a few. On the Production side he has been so busy with The Scientist, A*S*Y*S* and Hellraiser and is heading back to Australia this summer.
In 2008 Pila played at ‘Global Gathering’ in Poland, the world’s biggest electronic music weekender, showing that he is one of the most sought after DJ’s of this time!
Dj Pila in a nutshell, easy going guy with a massive drive for music. He now is being recognised as the mixmaster of Hardstyle due to his trickery behind the decks and just being one of the very few to use more then two decks in Hardstyle.
