Perquisite (real name: Pieter Perquin) started to create hip-hop-beats in 1996 at age 14, using Fasttracker on his mum’s PC. However, playing the cello since he was eight years old, he had always been involved with all kinds of music and later on he started to merge elements of his classical background into his creation of beats.



His musical journey led him from travelling through the U.S. on his own as a youngster, to starting up his label Unexpected Records, and collaborating with everyone from accomplished Jazz-musicians like Benjamin Herman (New Cool Collective) to producing tracks for The Proov, one of Hollands' best-known hip-hop crews.