John-Paul Pirrello (born 27 December 1984; in Sydney, Australia), known onstage as Outbreak, is an

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DJ and

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. Since 2002, he has been active in producing and performing

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music, specifically

hardstyle Hardstyle is an electronic dance music, electronic dance genre that emerged in the late 1990s, with origins in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Hardstyle mixes influences from techno, new beat and Hardcore (electronic dance music genre), har ...

since 2002.

Biography

In his initial years, JP Pirrello performed under the name NitrouZ and released tracks "City Bitch", "Crazy Music" with DJ Duro and "Lonely Dark" with Zany, which were picked up among many fans worldwide. During these years, he released his music on a number of labels including Dutch Master Works and

Fusion Records Fusion Records is a Dutch record label, sub-label of Freaky Music which, at first, released hard trance and hard house records, and kept growing by releasing hardstyle. After the end of Superplastik (another sub-label of Freaky Music), the artists ...

. As NitrouZ, Pirrello performed at many parties in Australia and The Netherlands such as Defqon.1 Festival,

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Q-Dance Q-dance is a Dutch company that organizes events and festivals that focuses on the harder styles of dance music – mainly hardstyle, Hardcore techno, hardcore, and hard trance. Popular events and festivals organized by Q-dance are Defqon.1 Fest ...

: The Next Level, X-Qlusive

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, Q-BASE, Euphoria and many more. In 2013, the alias NitrouZ was discontinued and Pirrello re-launched himself as Outbreak, signing to

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's record label, WE R Music and representing its sub-label WE R Raw. Outbreak quickly established himself in the Hardstyle scene by releasing popular tracks "A New Today," "Get The Mean" with DV8 Rocks!, his official remix of Adaro's "Hit You With That Bang Shit" and "#Bassface," which gained over 500,000 plays in total on YouTube. Outbreak has had many performances in some of the biggest venues in The Netherlands including the

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, Heineken Music Hall, Jaarbeurs (Utrecht), GelreDome and the Brabanthallen as well as many outdoor venues. Since beginning the Outbreak project, JP has performed at some of the biggest Hard dance events such as Hard Bass, Defqon.1 (Australia and The Netherlands), Qapital, Masters of Hardcore, Decibel Outdoor Festival, The Qontinent, Q-BASE and many other large-scale events run by leading companies

, Bass Events and b2s.

Discography

References

External links

* * http://www.wer-music.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Outbreak 1984 births Hardstyle musicians Living people Musicians from Sydney Australian electronic dance music DJs