Full name
Guido Pernet
Jasper Drexhage
Johan van Beek
Robert Mahu
Larenzo Nash
Best known for
Human Resource – Dominator
Discogs release page
http://www.discogs.com/Human-Resource-Dominator/master/71903
Discogs artist page
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Human+Resource
Artist website
http://www.myspace.com/humanresourcehr
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Since then:
Initially ‘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..
‘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 scene becoming more ‘hardcore’ ; he was replaced by Sander Scheurwater (De Mosselman) . From the period in which Marvin left HR this left just 3 people remaining, founder Guido Pernet, Robert Mahu & Sander. The 3 soon hooked up with an American Rapper, Kirk Patrick. With him on board they opted 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 under the Human Resource guise joined forces with Maurice Steenbergen of RTS (Rotterdam Termination Source) & Zeno Zevenberg of T99 to form RTS-HR. This venture proved very sucessful and re-releases, and remixes of Dominator surfaced influenced by the Dutch festival named after the HR classic ‘Dominator’.
Now Gudio has teamed up with ‘Pitch’ (Leroy Van Drie) to record several releases and perform Live once again under the Human Resource banner, doing several Live DJ sets and performances all over the globe to this day.
I recall a version of dominator called “dominator is dead” which was featured on a move the house compilation in the 90s. As a musician I’ve always wondered the motives and idea of that release. A 3 minute long solo sustained Juno Hoover followed by solo kickdrums, a dominator vocal sample appended with a heavily processed “is dead”. For approximately 2 minutes. When I first heard it I wad dazed and confused. Later on I was more, like, fascinated by it. Very interested in your documentary. Definately gonna see and/or own it.
I remember those days like it was last week.
During that time I went out practically every weekend because the music and the scene had a particular vibe to it that attract a lot of cool people.
Maybe because I’m a music producer / DJ myself I feel more involved and I know some of these guys or at least got to talk to a few of them.
Beside this project being a document of an era that makes a whole generation look back at a joyful part of their life, I sometimes wonder what most of the artists from back then are doing today.
This is something to look forward to people !
The story goes that the producer behind Human Resource got sick of the hoover sound (a roland alpha juno II patch entitled ‘what the?’) being sampled and re-used in other hardcore anthems. This track was created to ‘kill’ the sound…