Gomes has been one of the top players when it comes to UK Garage within the Netherlands. Ever since he became a resident at Joost van Bellen’s “Speedfreax” (Now&Wow, Rotterdam), he got booked a lot for other parties like: “2stepsAhead” (Hemkade, Zaandam), Splendid (Powerzone, Amsterdam), Ministry of Sound (NL), Crossover (Melkweg, Amsterdam) etc. Back in those days he also ran his own night at Sinners in Heaven (Amsterdam), a night that went by the name “ Ice Cream”. Nowadays Gomes still does some (oldskool) garage bookings on request by organizations and parties like “Nope is Dope” (Powerzone & Off Corso), B.O.S.S. (Paradiso, Amsterdam), The Garage (Jimmy Woo) & Molotov (Club Arena)

Between 2000 – 2002, newer and darker sounds derived from the garage scene. Subgenres like ‘Dubstep’ and ‘Grime’ were created and even though the majority of garageheadz kept going to the same sounds, parties and everything, Gomes was more attracted to these darker sounds.

Nowadays Gomes has a focus on producing tracks under the name “G-man”. He has made quite few tracks that are circulating within the Dubstep scene, mostly happening in the UK. His tracks are played by legends like Dj Chef (Rinse.FM), Plastician (BBC Radio1) & Dj Cameo (BBC1Xtra). He has released one track together with Mc Vin-e helped by an initiative of the Dutch Pop Institution (NPI), where they released a compilation CD with unknown artists, called “Push the Buttons”.

Gomes is a man with a mission, and that’s converting as many people as possible to the new Dubstep/Grime sounds. One of his tools (next to producing) is a bimonthly night over at Paradiso, called “Oi!”. With this night he wants to showcase both Dutch & English artists. Another tool is his radioshow “Oi Pirate radio” which used to be on VPRO’s 3voor12.nl, but has been moved to Lijn5.com, there you can hear him every 2 weeks, educating the masses.

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