DJ Paul Elstak (real name: Paul Roger Elstak; born The Hague 14 January 1966) is a Dutch hardcore and happy hardcore DJ and record producer. He used to use his full name to create happy hardcore and DJ Paul for hardcore gabber, but when he started Offensive Records in 2001, he started using both names for gabber. Biography Elstak's grandfather Nedley Elstak was a jazz musician on the ESP-Disk label and his father played in a Rock and Roll coverband. In 1987, his career was launched when he was accepted as a DJ in the popular Rotterdam record label Blue Sign. Here, for the first time he played with House music pioneer Peter Slaghuis. He founded his own label, Rotterdam Records, in 1992 to create hardcore and Rotterdam Tekno in 1997 to create hardcore-techno. Rotterdam Tekno started to make jumpstyle in 2005. When Elstak quit Mid-town Records (parent label of Rotterdam Records) in 2001, DJ Neophyte and Panic took over Rotterdam Rec

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