Introducing: Bart B More

Bart van der Meer aka Bart B More, who hails from the Netherlands, is fast proving to be one not to ignore. Having grown up on house music, it makes sense that he’s now rapidly becoming one of the front-runners within the scene. His face-pounding remix of Drop The Lime’s ‘Sex Sax’ saw him reach number 15 in the Beatport chart and his latest dancefloor-destroyer ‘Brap’ is hot on its tail, having been released on the highly prestigious Boysnoize Records. What makes him so special is his capacity for diversity, blending together a plethora of different styles and genres into his main-room sound. His flair for originality with each new production has landed him releases on Sound Pellegrino as well as Toolroom Records, and unsurprisingly made him one of the most hotly sought after remixers.

Bart’s own record label, Secure Recordings, goes from strength to strength with each release, wielding massive support from Laidback Luke, Diplo, Erick Morillo, Armin van Buren and many more almighty dance DJs. This seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of noise touches down in Room One on August 13th but not before delivering us an exclusive mix and answering a few questions we posed to the man himself…

Are you looking forward to playing Room One next month?
Yes definitely. fabric is a legendary club, I've heard all the stories, and now I'm going to experience it myself for the first time.

What does playing at Fabric mean to you?
For me it's a recognition of what I've been doing. I know fabric is very selective in who they book, so I think I must have been doing something right. Haha!

Do you enjoy playing to English crowds?
For sure, I think Dutch people are more reserved when they go out, but the English just let it all go and party HARD, it's usually pretty crazy!

'Brap!' and 'Romane' are two of your recent original productions but are very different in style. Is it important to you that you don’t repeat yourself?
I don't think it's even that. A lot of producers stick to one style although they like different music too, and that's cool. However, I think that I should make what I feel like making and that happens to be a very wide range of music.

Where does the name, Bart 'B More' come from? It suggests a strong reference to Baltimore house?
Although I really like Baltimore house, it's not where my name comes from. My last name is van der Meer, and 'meer' means 'more' in dutch. B more stands for the drive I have to bring that bit ‘more’ with my music.

As one of the leading names in house music, where do you see the genre in 5 years time?
I honestly don't know, it has always surprised me the way house music seemed to be going, but I guess because it has become so mainstream lately I'm sure it will go underground at some point again...

How did you get into house music, what was the first record you bought?
My brothers were really into house music so I grew up listening to it. The first record I bought was Armand van Helden’s ‘Ghetto House Groove’.

Do you have any tunes that you just can't get enough of and make it into your sets every time without fail?
I like to keep my DJ sets fresh, but sometimes I bring back a classic. Lately I've been playing 'white knight' by Surkin again, I love that track!

What are you mostly listening to on your mp3 player at the moment?
The Miike Snow, Kings of convenience, Phoenix and Bibio albums have been on heavy rotation lately.

What's in the pipeline with regards to your label, Secure Recordings?
There's an EP coming up I did with Nom de Strip & Little Bastard, another collaboration with Tommie Sunshine, and we’re also bringing back one of the first rave anthems to come out of Holland: 'Rubb it in' by Fierce Ruling Diva.

Having been on tour for most of the year, what has been your highlight of 2010 so far?
Playing for 40,000 ravers at EDC in Los Angeles was amazing! Definitely a highlight!

Download: Bart B More – FABRICLIVE Promo Mix



Tracklist:

1 Two Door Cinema Club - Come Back Home (Keith & Supabeatz Remix)
2 Nom de Strip & Tom Piper – Spacid
3 Bart B More - Don't Stop The Music
4 Wafa - Ewid Disco (Drop The Lime Remix)
5 Fatboy Slim & Herve - Machines Can Do The Work (Ado 'Done Most The Work' Remix)
6 Don Diablo - Who's Your Daddy (TAI Remix)
7 Drop The Lime - Sex Sax (Bart B More Remix)
8 Drop The Lime - Sex Sax (MJ Cole Lubricated Relick)
9 Zombies For Money - Me Toca So
10 DjEdjotronic - Computer Jerk
11 Afrojack & Gregor Salto - I'll Be There
12 Canblaster - Chicken Run
13 Sandro Silva - Hands High
14 Say Wut - Go (Foamo Refix)
15 Nom De Strip – Skweekee
16 Disco Villains - Crickets (Peace Treaty Remix)
17 Afrojack - Polkadots (Oliver Twizt Remix)
18 Beataucue - Folder
19 Green Velvet - Harmageddon (Felix Cartal Remix)
20 Bart B More – Brap
21 Mr. Oizo & Gaspard Auge – Rubber
22 Carte Blanche - Gare Du Nord