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Music has been following me all my life. It started when I was a little boy, when my parents gave me a cassette recorder. I started recording songs on the radio. Later I would do this more and more refined, after all I wanted the records ‘completely’ without presentations in the intro and outro. I discovered the ‘Nationale hitparade’ on Sunday evening on the then Hilversum 3. Here the records were played completely without ‘interference’, my collection had started.

My radio adventure began in 1968 with a small illegal transmitter on FM in Amsterdam. It was a way to impress my neighbor by disrupting the signal of the station she was listening to. She lived diagonally below us, and because it was a warm summer evening with open windows, I could hear that it had worked: my music, played from a cassette recorder, resounded through the street. Nothing else came of it then, by the way.