Myrkur

Rik Kooyman, aka Myrkur, started his DJ carreer in January 2008, after receiving positive feedback from the Dutch dubstep community for his track ‘Entanglement’. In January he contributed to U-Dub’s Viral Radio show, and in February he had his first gig on the Deep Medi II night in the Melkweg - Amsterdam. Since March 2008, Myrkur has been the resident DJ of Dubstance in Nieuwe Nor, Heerlen. In April 2008 he started, together with Nika, the Radical crew, organising Radical nights every 3 months in the OT301 venue in Amsterdam and doing a radioshow, first monthly on the Patapoe Pirate Radio station and since late 2008 a weekly show on friday’s at Sub FM, dubstep’s biggest internet radio station. Myrkur has been heavily influenced by genres such as IDM, Post-Rock, Breakcore and Ambient and music from artists like Radiohead, Sigur Rós and Helios. The name Myrkur stands for ‘darkness’ in Icelandic, and has been taken from a songtitle by Sigur Rós.