antia spotlight

Gill Bollegraf, aka DJ GILL, has been hooked on dance since the age of 12, when she first saw a DJ and knew: that’s what I want to do.

A former resident DJ at ’t Bölke, she helped bring house music to the East of the Netherlands. She has organised club and outdoor events and played in houseclubs in Germany and the UK. A member of TheFemDem from the very beginning. GILL’s sound moves through soul, funk, disco and house. She loves creating new connections beyond the club, collaborating with choirs, theatre productions, museums and other artists. For GILL, the synergy with the audience is where her soulful heart comes alive.

DJ SIM1 from Enschede makes you laugh and dance with funky, groovy tunes straight from the heart. What started as a devoted local DJ fangirl naturally evolved into stepping behind the decks herself, shaped by endless nights, sweaty dance floors, and the Enschede underground as her training ground.

Growing up in that underground scene, surrounded by a wide spectrum of styles and subcultures, SIM1 learned one essential truth: genre is secondary, feeling is everything. From Japanese city pop to disco, from warm soulful grooves to high-energy club tracks, her sets are a rollercoaster that reflects exactly who she is.

She plays what makes her happy. Sometimes soft and sultry, sometimes harder and rawer. The foundation always stays the same: if she can dance to it, so can you.

Inspired by international sounds, from Italian flair to Japanese funk, with the occasional unexpected Dutch gem, DJ SIM1 creates sets that let go of boundaries and revolve purely around connection, freedom, and joy.

Expect warmth, playfulness, and a dance floor that doesn’t take itself too seriously, but definitely keeps moving.

Based in Enschede, JAPPA is an upcoming artist with a focus on delivering high-energy, raw club music, mixing the new sounds of bounce and booty trance, with old (and new) school hard-house, trance and bubbling gems. Coming from a background as a party DJ, JAPPA learned to read crowds like a book, developing an instinct for what works and what doesn’t on a dancefloor. Today, he channels that crowd-moving experience into his sets, combining his love for rhythm with pure energy to create a party every single time he plays.

Shake Minstrel is a DJ from Enschede who has been behind the decks since 2016. His sets move through house, techno and dance, held together by a love for percussion, groove and bass you can feel.

He never arrives with the night mapped out in full. Instead, he pays attention to the room and lets the crowd help shape where the music goes next. That approach has taken him from clubs and festivals to private events across the Netherlands. For Shake Minstrel, a good set is less about sticking to a genre and more about finding what works, right there and then.