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DJ Naaldekoker seeks solo career
Naaldekoker, the man behind the decks at Jack Parow’s performances, has decided to pursue a solo career. He aims to establish himself as one of South Africa's top DJs and producers.
"After five years of touring with Jack Parow, I have decided to take the leap and focus solely on my own career. The experiences of the past five years were undoubtedly some of the highlights of my life. I graduated from varsity at 23 and directly thereafter started traveling around the world with Parow. I could not have asked for anything better at the time,” says Naaldekoker.
Naaldekoker has had a few of his own radio hits including; 'The Meltdown' featuring GoodLuck, 'Ek Smaak Jou' featuring JR and 'Lost in Here' featuring Richard Brokensha.
Naaldekoker, Rufio Vegas, Jade Neebe, Jack Parow, Loki Rothman (Image by Paul Ward)
Time to move on
“It has been a great journey with Naaldekoker," said Parow. "When you travel together for so long you become family. He will be missed, but it is also time to move on. My live show over the past two years has changed into a lot more of a live band show than the original DJ set. I have a great drummer, guitarist and bassist.”
With the release of his new album, Nag van die Lang Pette, Parow and his band have been playing acoustic shows with no DJ and even in the live set they have removed more of the electronic elements to be filled in by the band members.
"We are focusing on bringing the best and most original live set possible. This does not mean that there will be no more DJ set. I am planning something interesting for this in the future," said Parow.
Naaldekoker will be teaming up with Jack Parow for the very last time from 9-11 December 2014 for The Party Cruise to Mozambique. He will also play his own DJ set on The Party Cruise.
