My Music Memories: Mossels - De Mosselman

Another example of my bad taste in Dutch music. When house was coming up in the early 90s, everybody tried to create a new house-genre to make some money. One of them was De Mosselman. His first single Mossels was an example of "you get a famous Dutch song, put a housebeat in it and sell it as GabberHouse music" .

 
For a while it worked and many Dutch children songs, like De Mosselman got a second life as a GabberHouse tune. Like always, the first songs in a new musicgenre are really good, before everybody was copying it. De Mosselman was one good example of this GabberHouse genre, I still think its funny and a great dance track. 

Warning: Not all Dutch people will dressed a dance like the people you see in the videoclip. Sorry! 

After the succes of Mossels he continues with another great cover Opzij Opzij Opzij of the Dutch composer Herman van Veen. He had his own website (demosselman.nl) with photo's,  gigs and even some short songs never relased like Kruimeldief. He even sang a duet with Vader Abraham, a Famous Dutch singer of "The little café by the harbour" and Sieneke with a Gabberhouse version of her Eurovision Song Contest. ( I agree with the comments of some people in the Netherlands it was much better than the original (brrr).

But after a couple of years GabberHouse was dead, the site was closed and 
De Mosselman  (alias of Sander Scheurwater) is working now in a kitchen shop.

If you want to sing along with De Mosselman,  I translated the lyrics in English.  
Give it a try and you be the star of any Karaoke evening.

"Say you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Say you know the Musselman, he comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Yes, you know the Musselman, he comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
 
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
Yes, do you know de Mosselman
 
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen

Mussels Mussels
Mussel mussel mussel
Mussel mussel
Mussel mussel mussel mussel mussel...

Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
 
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen
Yes, you know the Musselman, the Musselman, the Musselman
... He comes from Skeveningen"