DJ Paul Elstak

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Paul Elstak
Birth name	Paul Roger Elstak
Also known as	DJ Paul Elstak
Born	January 14, 1966(1966-01-14)
Origin	The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands
Genre(s)	Happy Hardcore Techno Hardcore
Occupation(s)	Producer, DJ
Website	http://www.djpaulelstak.nl

DJ Paul Elstak (real name: Paul Roger Elstak; born The Hague 14 January 1966) is a Dutch hardcore and happy hardcore DJ and record producer. He used to use his full name to create happy hardcore and DJ Paul for hardcore gabber, but when he started Offensive Records in 2001, he started using both names for gabber.

[edit] Biography

Elstak's grandfather Nedley Elstak was a jazz musician on the ESP-Disk label and his father played in a Rock and Roll coverband.^{[citation needed]} In 1987, his career was launched when he was accepted as a DJ at Rotterdam record label Blue Sign. Here, for the first time he played with House music pioneer Peter Slaghuis. He founded his own label, Rotterdam Records, in 1992 to release hardcore and Rotterdam Tekno in 1997 to release hardcore-techno. Rotterdam Tekno started to make jumpstyle in 2005. When Elstak quit Mid-town Records (parent label of Rotterdam Records) in 2001, DJ Neophyte and Panic took over Rotterdam Records, Forze Records, Neophyte Records and Terror Traxx along with its respective sub-labels. When they took control, the sound of Rotterdam Records changed due to the new talent producers that the new owners let in.

In 1995 and 1996, he had his biggest successes.^{[citation needed]}