Welcome!
Hi there and welcome to my website, the official site for all things Paul Sparkes (spelled with an 'e', not Paul Sparks!). Here you can find out where I will playing the best dance music in the Netherlands and all around the world. As resident in some of Amsterdam's leading clubs, you can find a great night out by hitting the schedule page, as well as samples of my newest releases in the audio player. Check back for regular Chart updates, some rather amusing DJ Reports, some press info in the Media section and some action pictures in the Gallery.
See you on the dancefloor!
This Month: 15 YEARS OF DJ PAUL SPARKES
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LATEST GIGS
11-11-2010 tbc US Tour begins stateside stateside USA
30-10-2010 1-3am Floorplay Club NL Amsterdam Holland
24-10-2010 tbc Sparkes, Sander K & Sasha ADE party Melkweg Amsterdam Holland
23-10-2010 1-2am Floorplay ADE special with Muzikjunki Club NL Amsterdam Holland
03-10-2010 tbc Intimate presents Danny Howells Studio 80 Amsterdam Holland
25-09-2010 2-4am Floorplay goes Stateside Club NL Amsterdam Holland
04-09-2010 10-2am Saturdays Supperclub Amsterdam Holland
03-09-2010 tbc Late Night Sessions Club NL Amsterdam Holland
28-08-2010 2-4am Floorplay - 5 hr set!!! Club NL Amsterdam Holland
14-08-2010 11-2pm Saturdays Discotek Moscow Russia
07-08-2010 2-3am Dance Valley Afterparty VOC Castle, near CS Amsterdam Holland
06-08-2010 tbc Gig in the Park Halesworth Suffolk UK
31-07-2010 2-4am Floorplay Summer Ball Club NL Amsterdam Holland
16-07-2010 9-3am Fridays Supperclub Amsterdam Holland
15-07-2010 9-11pm Global Dance Selection djbroadcast.nl streaming worldwide
09-07-2010 12-2am AquaPark Blagaj Sarajevo Bosnia
01-07-2010 tbc Thursdays Cat and Dog Tel Aviv Israel
26-06-2010 2-4am Floorplay 2nd Birthday!! Club NL Amsterdam Holland
18-06-2010 tbc Sonar festival Elephant club Barcelona Spain
10-06-2010 9-11pm Global Dance Selection djbroadcast.nl streaming worldwide
04-06-2010 1-2:30am Remote Escape Amsterdam Holland
LATEST NEWS
August 2010
First trip of August is back home - well Amsterdam has become my home - however I'm British and Suffolk is where I was raised. It's a sleepy place, but once a year the countryside resonates to pumping beats in the dance tent and rock on the mainstage. Yes, its Gig In The Park time again. This is the second time I have performed at this festival after having my homecoming gig here last year. It's always a blast - feels like you can really mix it up here, lots of big, edgy records, for example LCD Soundsystem tracks and Daft Punk classics hit the spot. The drizzle does little to dampen the spirits of the attendees, in fact, a covered arena is just what you need when the rain comes and the majority of the site is open air.
It's an early start the next day to fly back to Dam to make the afterparty for Dance Valley and the Pride Parade - low cost carriers are NOT recommended on this type of scenario, ESPECIALLY when its the last flight out of the day. We make it in late, it's raining, Sven is no-where to be seen and the soundsystem is not set up.
Finally we are off and running just on time and its like a party in a box - at 9pm sharp the place is flooded with people from the boat parade, the DJ eases in the first track and it stays pumping until 3am. Interestingly, I notice that as I make my way across the dancefloor it not only vibrates up and down like some floors do, but the whole castle (an old 17 Century construction) is actually rocking from side to side. I'm picturing the whole main floor collapsing onto poor Gustin who is rocking the tech house room below.
Floorplay forms the afterparty for Mysteryland on Aug 28th and yes yes, finally I'm doing it again - a six hour set at Club NL...standby
Summer Bomb Track!! CHRISTIAN SMITH 'FLYERTALK' (WEHBBA REMIX)
AUGUST 2010
Dirt Crew 'Deep Cover' (Roberto Rodriguez mix)
Audiofly X 'Mar Del Plata' (Nick Curley mix)
Thodoris Triantrifallu Suspicious Behaviour (Nick Curley mix)
Dibby Dougherty 'Lost In Harlem' (Tom Budden mix)
Doppelt Gemoppelt 'Chill Peak' (Kellerkind Remix)