DJ Ramses Hoppa has been DJ-ing for over 20 years now. Starting out as a Reggae DJ in Amsterdam in the late 80's he embraced the early Goa Trance scene in the mid-90's and travelled all over Europe with his recordbag and headphone. Bigger parties in Holland, Germany, Portugal, Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia he played untill settling down in 2000 for some years again in his hometown Amsterdam, where he played and organised parties at clubs like Silo, Trance Buddha, Mazzo, Vrieshuis, Melkweg and Paradiso, to name a few.

During his trips to Eastern Europe he gathered a lot of the local music for his private collection, which he occasionally played on private parties, birthday parties and weddings. As this music always made the parties wild he decided to bring this style, that's now being called Balkan Beat, to the clubs.

Alongside not more than a handfull of DJ's in Holland he was one of the founders of this genre in the Netherlands. Under the names Hoppa!Collective, Hoppa!Selector and Ramses Hoppa he played at almost every stage and club in Holland, as well as parties and festivals abroad in cities as Berlin, Budapest, Antwerpen, Brussels, Vienna, Belfast, Skopje and Prague.

Over the years he played at festivals like Sziget (Hungary), World Bodypainting Festival (Austria), Landjuweel (Holland) and Glastonbury Festival (England) and many, many more.

Outside of DJ-ing Reggae and Balkan Beats he also plays Techno, Trance, Ambient, Ska, Dub, Indie and Electro Swing.

Ramses Hoppa also makes and produces own music, often in combination with others like 4Tuoze Matroze (Dutch Balkan Beat), KarmaHackeR (Experimental Dub Reggae) and Thomas Walst (Echoes Of Joy - Studio Dub band).