About me
Break Rules Enjoy
Most DJ bios start the same way. Radio show. School parties. Community centre disco. Resident at the local club. You know the drill.
Break Rules Enjoy's story starts exactly like that. Barry Heimerikx picked up a radio slot in 1985 almost by accident, and just never left. From there it was school parties, the Friday night community centre disco, and by eighteen, resident DJ at the local club. Standard origin story.
And then it gets interesting.
Somewhere along the way, the crates made room for code. Former vinyl archaeologist, recovering CD collector, fully converted digital obsessive. Break Rules Enjoy didn't abandon the old formats, he outgrew them.
Going all-digital wasn't a compromise. It was the unlock. A level of creative control that lets him play music the way other people wish they'd thought of first.
Decades in, he's a fixture on the festival and club circuit: surgical, surprising, and stubbornly his own. A techno sound he's loved since before most of his audience was born, delivered with the kind of quiet confidence that only comes from having absolutely nothing left to prove.
Vision
Music was never the point. It was always the excuse.
Since 1985, from a local radio slot to school parties, from a community centre disco to decades behind club and festival decks, the format has changed more times than most people can count. Vinyl, CDs, fully digital. None of it was ever the real story.
The real story is what happens in the room while the music plays. Strangers ending up on the same dancefloor. A shy kid finding rhythm. A group of friends who came for different reasons, leaving with the same memory.
That's the job. Not to be the star of the room, but to be the reason the room becomes one thing instead of a hundred separate ones.
Format is a tool, not an identity. Every shift, from crates to code, happened because it made the connection better, faster, sharper. Not because the technology itself mattered. It never did.
Decades in, there's nothing left to prove. That's not arrogance, it's clarity. Forty years of reading rooms means the guesswork is gone. What's left is instinct, timing, and the quiet confidence to just build the moment people came for.
So the vision is simple: use whatever works to bring people together, and never mistake the tool for the point.
Break Rules Enjoy isn't in the business of playing music. He's in the business of connection. The music just happens to be how it gets delivered.
Mission
To bring people together on the dancefloor, using whatever tools and formats serve the connection best, turning strangers into a shared moment, one set at a time.