Originally born and bred in Haarlem in Holland, Hip hop was where Martijn made a name for himself early on in his career, tasting success as the DJ of Dutch hip hop collective “Da Mad Scientists”. They played all over Holland between 1987 – 1989 at venues such as the Paradiso, Mazzo, Rothanhuis, Akhnaton, and DMC Amsterdam 1998 and supported some of the great world renowned hip hop acts of the time like Kool Moe Dee, Stetsasonic, Cash Money and Marvelous. Martijn even found himself guest Djing with the Stereo Mc's!!
Mind you in the midst of all this mayhem, the pull of making house music was never far away and so during the same period, Martijn found himself working with Olav Basoski and DJ Zki (aka The Goodmen) honing down his production skills.

In 1990 the now well respected producer, writer, remixer, and all round studio talent, decided to move to London and bring his musical talent to the shores of the UK . He found himself well and truly immersed in the UK hip hop scene and in 1993 co-produced and co-wrote an album for Ignorants. The album was recorded in Sarm West Studios over a period of 3 months and the single Phat Girls reached no 56 in the UK national charts – no mean feat for an underground hip hop record at the time !