Homework

When these two youngsters started messing around with turntables, back in 2007, they performed in immaculate white shirts and raven black ties. Despite being longtime Dutch partners in musical crime, Tom Waist and Zip Stolk have moved beyond this iconography, yet still emanate a sense of clear-headed playfulness. Behind the swagger lies a wide-raging love for contemporary dance music, that is always beneficial, in the ever changing spheres of house music.

Homework have spent years hunting for only the freshest and most innovative sounds. Much of their evolution as artists can be seen in their ever-changing production work. After long and hard work on a varied oeuvre of different material, the boys got catapulted into the International house scene through the release of their widely supported ‘Fissa Tune EP’ on Shir Khan’s label Exploited, and the accompanying hype surrounding the title track ‘Fissa Tune’, which, through consistent appraisal from the likes of Brodinski and Jesse Rose, found its way to many a chart and DJ set.

Homework pricked up the ears of ‘Made To Play’ boss Jesse Rose with their Trumpet Express demo whilst he was visiting Amsterdam earlier in the year; a hypnotic trumpet line combined with the duoʼs sampling style and underpinned by beautifully simple, yet pounding house beats.

Now with an ever-expanding catalogue of productions (the critically acclaimed ‘Hudson Square EP’ came out in 2011 on Exploited), touching on different sentiments and styles, and a snowballing effect on their side, the two are reaching for ever greater highs and traveling from Berlin’s Panoramabar to Paris’ Social Club and everything in between. Things are looking bright as a summer morning for the two youngsters and it seems their star can only rise to even greater heights. One thing is certain: wherever dance music goes, Homework will have found their way there, one step ahead of the hype.