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joris voorn and edwin oosterwal first met back in 1996 in the dutch city enschede where they both came out no.1 at a dj competition organised by club atak. since that memorable moment they both became resident at atak's weekly basic grooves dance parties. at the end of the 90's their ways split. edwin first travelled to sydney and later on to new york city.

in the meantime joris developed his musical skills in his dutch home country and released his first record in 2002. many records followed on different national and international labels, which lead to his first album in 2004 on sino records. his first mix CD was recorded in 2005 for the belgian fuse club.

edwin has been spinning records since the early nineties. he mixes detroit techno and minimal techno with chicago house which has brought him to places all over the world. after living in new york city for five years he's now back in rotterdam, where he and joris work together under the rejected monicker. their debut ep has just been released on sound architecture records and features two driving techno tracks flirting with early 90's minimal techno.

paul swagerman has been involved with the basic grooves parties as graphic designer, and is now responsable for all rejected graphics. he also works together with joris on the design for his green label.

as a dj team joris and edwin are now joining forces spinning their best records and unreleased new tracks. they share the same taste of quality house and techno music, but due their own unique record collections they compliment each other and their dj sets are varied and colourful.

2010 / 01 / 12

rejected all night long at trouw!

saturday january 16 joris voorn and edwin oosterwal will play all night long at one of amsterdam’s hottest venues trouw. it will be something very special as they do not often get a chance to play all night long. joris and edwin are both really looking forward and they hope to see you there!

2009 / 12 / 24

nic fanciulli hosts dusty house room 3!

Undoubtedly one of the successes of 2009, Rejected’s ‘Dusty House’ series rolls into town with its latest installment, and this time the Dutch label has invited a new artist on board: Nic Fanciulli. With the incredible success of tracks like ‘Sweep The Floor’ and ‘Chase The Mouse’, the series has found world wide DJ, Radio and Chart support, for its exciting brand of powerfully charged house. Sometimes filtered, sometimes disco, but always fueled by funk, it is a brave man who takes on the challenge of hosting a room at the ‘Dusty House’. Take it on he has. Fanciulli has fitted the function one, built the lighting rig, hooked up the smoke machine, and he’s even gone and supplied a free bar. All to create the perfect setting for these two prime cuts of filtered goodness. ‘Feed The Freezer’ has been hugging the disco ball, where as ‘Work The Week’ has been getting friendly with the Latin chick who’s been samba-ing over the in the corner all night. Both are perfect additions to a Dusty House that with each room is becoming one hell of a party venue!!

2009 / 12 / 15

rejected label night at atak

on friday december 18 joris voorn and edwin oosterwal are going back to their roots, back to where it all started: atak, enschede. after both coming in first place at a local dj contest they shared a residency at atak for several years. now they return to host a rejected label night. atak has since then moved to a different venue but that shouldn’t stop them from having fun. they are joined by pitto and reach visuals. hope to see you there!

2009 / 11 / 13

rejected label night at cafe d’anvers!

friday the 13th of november joris voorn and edwin oosterwal will host a rejected label night at the legendary club cafe d’anvers in belgium. cafe d’anvers has been around for 20 years and joris and edwin are very excited to play at the club. hope to see you there!

2009 / 10 / 20

ade 2009

this year joris voorn and edwin oosterwal will attend the ade 2009. on thursday joris will be part of a panel about the art of how to sustain success, to keep your fans and how to make money with attitude. friday joris and edwin will play at the official buma cultuur coctail hour. and on saturday edwin will be checking your demos as part of the demopitch at ade next. see you at the ade!

2009 / 10 / 12

pitto finalist “grote prijs”

just want to let you know that pitto made it to the finals of “de grote prijs van nederland”, the biggest and longest running music competition of the netherlands. you can vote for pitto here. pitto will perform live at the finals on december 12 at the melkweg.

2009 / 10 / 05

about sending demos

we are always open for new and fresh music for our labels, but since we receive so many demo-tracks we kindly request you to send a personal message to demo@rejected.nl with a direct link where we can listen to the tracks (e.g. soundcloud). please do not send us any download links. and it would be great if you could let us know why we should release your music. unfortunately we don’t have enough time to reply to every mail. we will contact you if the tracks fit one of our labels. thank you for your understanding!

2009 / 09 / 17

dusty house room 2!

rejected’s dusty house series got off to the finest of starts with room 1. featuring the tracks ‘empty trash’ and the stunning ’sweep the floor’ by joris voorn, it instantly became a dj favourite, finding support from the world’s leading lights. how do you follow up such a big release? with another of course! check out room 2. another two choice cuts of voorn at his best. taking oldskool samples and sensibilities, and matching them with new school muscle, he presents the incredible ‘chase the mouse’ and ‘we’re all clean’. which works best? well thats for you to decide. But we know from joris’s road tests that these are set to follow on from the success of room 1, and we’ll be hearing them for many many months to come! supported by dj hell, brothers vibe, 2000 and one, shinedoe, michel de hey and many, many, many more.

2009 / 08 / 12

new rejected track out on figure!

it’s been a while but joris voorn and edwin oosterwal teamed up again and they have just released another bomb. this time not on one of their own labels but on len faki’s figure label. it’s a split platter with slam. slam’s contribution is an absolute monster, a huge peak-time, dark-as-you-like floor smasher. rejected’s slyly named “peanuts” sounds like the best remix that never came out of a certain similarily nut-based anthem from a couple of years ago … no gimmick though, this is a perfectly constructed piece of dancefloor business, just those drums on their own would have been a must buy tune!

2009 / 08 / 05

this sunday at the whoosah

just want to let you people know that edwin oosterwal is playing a special back to back set with dutch wunderkind pitto this sunday, august 9 at the whoosah in scheveningen. be there or be …

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