It must have been around 1982 when i figured out how to mix,
using two of those 60's portable turntables with built in speakers
and no pitch control, by calculating the BPM's and then only mix
records wich are roughly the same BPM. On top of that my record
collection then consisted primarily of 60's 7" singles wich are rarely
metronome tight, so i really had to stay focused to keep things in sync.

This was also when i found out music is the only thing i can keep
my mind to for everlasting periods of time...

There are not many music genres that really turn me off and i can
allways apreciate a good piece of music, even if i don't like the
genre or the people behind it. Plus there are things to learn from
every kind of music.

Growing up in the 80's in The Hague made me like italo disco because
that's what was playing on the radio. Always !! It is probably rammed
in my subconciousness forever.
 
Around 1985 i started playing bass guitar in a school band because
there was already someone playing drums. After a few years of playing
in bands i liked the fact i was playing music myself, but didn't
like it the songs were mostly covers. In 1991 in a band called
Kuntebe wich also included Turntable Wizzard dj OVERDOSE, my
homeboy for some 25 years by now, we were playing self written
material sounding like a mix of the Doors, the Peppers and
24-7 Spyz, but it never really worked out.

It was after OVERDOSE bought his first SP-12  it really emerged to me
you don't necessarily need other people to produce music.
( learn more about Prince )

Not much later i scored an Akai S-900 and an Atari 1024st,
and never left my room again. Amazing what you can 
cramp out 1 MB of sampling space if that's all you have!

Encouraged by the very fast producing and releasing of 12"s by
ROLAND KLINKENBERG (whom i shared a house with at that time)
and because i finally managed to actually finish some songs, 
not just fiddle along for days and months with beats and a
Roland JUNO 106 that by that time i had added to my set up, 
in 1996 i released my first 12".

After three follow ups, i started working with OVERDOSE again, 
in 1998 crowned ourselves NOVAMEN, and in 1999 debuted on
MURDERCAPITAL records.  Released our fifth EP in 2006 and are still
rocking the planet!

In 1999 i also met this funky dude called Geoffrey T, who
seemed to share my love for 80's drummachine-funk from the likes
of  ZAPP, PRINCE, CAMEO etc. We formed a project called
BUMPER and bumpy-bassline-vocodered ourselves through life ever since.
We debuted on Marc Deon's california /new york based label  MDEX in 2004,
and are still dropping jams !

Around 2002  original Miami Bass Bending dj TECHNICIAN, also a homie
for close to 20 years, and me decided to share our passion for italo
with the world, suddenly became MATZO&PAULI, and debuted
in 2004 on VIEWLEXX. The follow up was released in 2008 on CyberDance.

Since, also as occasional dj back in the days, i never adapted an artist
alias, in 2005 i decided to just keep my real name as a name:
Mr PAULI
... made sense already being half of MATZO&PAULI ...

So september 2006 the first Mr PAULI  EP was released on VIEWLEXX,
thanks to ALDEN TYRELL who applied some amazing mastering  
black magic techniques, to convert the tracks to these day standards.
Mastering ( and mixing for that matter ) will never be a quality of mine...
It is also mr TYRELL who rearranged and updated my track 'little'
that early 2006 got released on Clone records under both our names.