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{{Short description|Dutch producer and DJ}} {{Infobox musical artist  | name = I-F | image = I-F Ferenc van der Sluijs 2011.jpg | caption = Ferenc van der Sluijs (2011) | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | alias = Interr-Ference | origin = The Hague, Netherlands | genre = Electronic, electro, electroclash, pop, Italo disco, chiptune | years_active = 1996-present | label = Disko B<br/>EFA<br/>Viewlexx | website = }}

'''I-f''' (also Interr-Ference) is the stage name of '''Ferenc E. van der Sluijs''', a Dutch producer and DJ based in The Hague.

==Overview== {{Listen | filename = I-F - Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass.ogg | title = "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" (1997) | description = I-F's "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass" (1997), described as "burbling electro in a vocodered homage to Atari-era hi-jinks," is "widely credited with catalysing" the electroclash movement.<ref name=Lynskey2002/> | pos = left }} In 1997 he produced the track "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/I-f-Fucking-Consumer/release/1255412|title=I-f – Fucking Consumer (Promo) |work=Discogs |publisher=Zinc Media, Inc|access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> which became a huge underground dance hit and is often cited as an early example of electroclash.<ref name=Lynskey2002>{{Citation |last=D. Lynskey |title=Out with the old, in with the older |journal=Guardian.co.uk |date=22 March 2002 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/mar/22/shopping.artsfeatures2?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015225802/http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2002/mar/22/shopping.artsfeatures2 |archive-date=15 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> It introduced "old-fashioned verse-chorus dynamics to burbling electro in a vocodered homage to Atari-era hi-jinks" and is the "record widely credited with catalysing" the electroclash movement.<ref name=Lynskey2002/>

The album ''Fucking Consumer'' was released in 1998 on the Disko B label, followed by ''The Man From Pack'' the next year. In 1999 he also made the mixed album ''Mixed Up In the Hague Vol. 1'',<ref name="pitchfork1">{{cite web|title = Let Me Be Your Radio: The Bizarro Universe of Italo Disco|url = https://pitchfork.com/features/electric-fling/9603-let-me-be-your-radio-the-bizarro-universe-of-italo-disco/|publisher = Pitchfork|access-date = Feb 10, 2021}}</ref><ref name="3voor121">{{cite web|title = Dit zijn de 50 meest invloedrijke Nederlandse dj's|url = https://3voor12.vpro.nl/artikelen/overzicht/2021/maand-van-de-dj/Top-50-invloedrijke-djs.html|publisher = 3voor12|access-date = Mar 2, 2021}}</ref> which has been cited by many, including Morgan Geist, as being the catalyst that brought renewed interest in Italo disco.<ref>Juzwiak, Richard (November 22, 2004). [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1360 Unclassics: An Interview With Morgan Geist] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323143803/http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=1360 |date=2007-03-23 }} ''Stylus Magazine''</ref>

I-f was featured on the seminal 2002 Ghostly International compilation ''Disco Nouveau''. He has also recorded as The Parallax Corporation with Intergalactic Gary. I-f currently runs a record label called Viewlexx.<ref name="sicko">Sicko, Dan (1999). ''Techno rebels: the renegades of electronic funk.'' Billboard Books, {{ISBN|978-0-8230-8428-9}}</ref> He also ran the internet radio station Cybernetic Broadcasting System (CBS).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?951 |title=Portrait of a live man: I-f |author=Resident Adviser |date=14 August 2008}}</ref> It was closed down in 2008 but is now one of four channels on Intergalactic FM, which is also operated by I-f.

==Discography== * 1995 – ''Portrait Of A Dead Girl 1: The Cause'' * 1997 – ''The Brown Elbow Conspiracy'' * 1997 – "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass"<ref>{{cite web|title=I-f – Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass|url=http://www.discogs.com/I-f-Space-Invaders-Are-Smoking-Grass/master/10987|publisher=Discogs|access-date=25 July 2012}}</ref> * 1997 – ''Playstation #2'' * 1998 – ''Fucking Consumer'' * 1999 – ''The Man From Pack''

==See also== *Intergalactic FM

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons category|Ferenc van der Sluijs|I-F}} *[http://www.discogs.com/artist/I-F I-f @ Discogs.com] *[http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/i-f I-f @ Resident Advisor] *[http://www.robotdj.net RobotDJ.net] *[http://www.hotmix.nl The Hotmix Foundation] *{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20150125053937/https://intergalacticfm.com/ Intergalactic FM]}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20110107080836/http://viewlexx.net/ Viewlexx]

{{DEFAULTSORT:I-F}} Category:Musicians from The Hague Category:Dutch electronic musicians Category:Electro musicians Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Dutch electronic dance music DJs