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‘Human Resource’ had 4 members: Guido Pernet (Producer- MC) Johan Van Beek
(=& Jasper Drexhage (Keyboards) & Robert Mahu (Stage Mixer). They were
joined too my 80 AUM Rapper & former pro basketball player Larenzo Nash.
Chicago US born Nash was the infamous voice used on “Dominator” in 1991. He
did not last with HR as Pernet wasn’t pleased with his live performances so
Nash returned to 80 AUM & took on the role of vocals himself for the time
being.
‘Dominator’ was a huge success, one of the first records ever to use the
“Hoover” effect, which was created using a Roland Alpha Juno 2 synthesiser.
HR released their first EP / Album entitled “Dominating the World”. This was
very early house in style & extremely different from “Dominator”.
As 92 began & Human Resource prepared to embark upon new ventures &
succeed with more releases. At This time Johan Van Beek quit the group.
Pernet didn’t want another Keyboard player so instead hired a Rapper, the
former MC of Quadrophonia Marvin D. He stayed with the group until 1995
before leaving to start his own label with his childhood friend Ray
Slijngaard from 2 Unlimited, in which time HR had released such tracks as
“Rave-O-Lution” & “Fuck Them” as well as another Album “Kicking Noise of
Rotterdam”. At this time (end of 94 / start of 95) the Rave scene has
evolved onto unique styles, now known as Gabber / Rotterdam Hardcore.
Drexhage left the group at this point, as he disagreed with the scenes
seeming sway towards racism; he was replaced by someone called Sander. From
the period in which Marvin left HR this left just 3 people remaining,
founder Guido Pernet, Robert Mahu & Sander. The 3 then hooked up with an
American Rapper called Kirk Patrick. With him on board they saw it fit to
re-record & release ‘Dominator’ in 1996. This version was harder but lacked
the enthusiasm in vocals that Larenzo Nash gave the Original. Kirk stayed
with the group for about a year & performed one other release with HR
entitled “In the Hall of the Mountain King”. A few months following his
departure Mahu also quit leaving just the founder of the group Guido Pernet
remaining. Since this time Guido has managed his own record labels, most
notably KNOR Records working along side his nephew Peter Pernet a lot of the
time. They recorded under many guises releasing Hardcore Old Skool until the
end of 1998 when Pernet joined major Dutch label “Dubfoundation”.
Since this time Guido has gone it alone with ‘Human Resource’, & just
recently joined Maurice Steenbergen of ‘RTS’ (‘Rotterdam Termination Source’
– famous for the 92 hit release “Poing!”) & Zeno Zevenbergen of ‘T99’
(Famous for ‘Anasthasia’) to form ‘RTS-HR’ (see www.rtshr.com)
Shane Trundley |
