MAARTEN DE JONG (Netherlands)

Born in Holland in 1982 Maarten developed his passion for dance music at the tender age of 10. Listening to (and highly motivated by) the ‘Turn up the Bass’ compilations, it gave him the inspiration to start producing music on his Amiga 500.

Aged just 15 Maarten took to the decks, spinning music on his then belt drive turntables. Becoming one of the youngest resident DJs in Holland he played in local clubs and began networking with other DJs and producers. From there he embarked on his production career at the age of 17, releasing his first track in the same year.

‘Massive’ brought with it a quick-fire raft of support from DJs including Tiësto, Armin and Paul van Dyk. ‘Mono’, which was released in 2008 on Sander van Doorn’s Doorn Records scored a No.1 slamdunk on Beatport’s chart. And his track ‘ID’ became a fully-fledged roof raiser - which gained support from Dave Dresden, Ferry Corsten and Marco V amongst others. Maarten’s studio sound is difficult to fit into one neat electronic music style. I guess tech trance but very much his own unique creation within that very open genre and one that in a short space of time has delivered a big statement to the international music scene.

Maarten’s studio skill got him an exclusive singles deal with Spinnin Records and also resulted in several highly-lauded remixes for artists like Ronski Speed, Talla 2XLC, The Act, Cor Fijneman, David Forbes , Rapid Eye, Akira Kayosa, Virtual Vault, Yahel, Ron van den Beuken, Walsh & McAuley and The Shrink for labels like Spinnin, Black Hole, Goodgreef Digital, Full Tiltin, Slinky Digital, Freefall etc. His rewiring of Perpetuous Dreamer’s ‘The Sound of Goodbye’ was seized upon by its original producer, Armin van Buuren and given full support during his ‘Imagine 2008 world tour’.

In 2009 Maarten again hit the studio hard and smashed the world appearing in every big DJ tracklist all year with Life is too Short and his remix of Tigran Oganezov – Neanderthal tearing up dance floors worldwide. Continued top releases on his home at Spinnin records has cemented Maartens place as a new rising force in the big league of tech trance artists.He also remixed the trance classic The Act – Something about U which got huge plays by Tiesto who has taken quite a shine to Maarten and been pushing every track from his fellow countryman.Maarten also reworked the huge commercial hit Coldplay - The Scietist that got huge plays from USA to Australia by Ferry Corsten and also a play on his 2010 BBC Radio One Essential Mix.

With his ‘Solid Sessions’ radio show Maarten combines his sound into a highly energetic and eclectic mix, which finds its own diverse style every month. It also gives him the opportunity to experiment with his own forthcoming tracks, while reaching a broad span of electronic music fans right around the world. Maarten de Jong ‘FULLY LOADED’ is coming in the 2nd half of 2010 so keep an eye and ear out it, a new brand that will cover all things MDJ including radio, productions and a live club concept!

Maarten is now also an accomplished deck-wrecking DJ. With debuts coming in thick and fast all over the world, 2010 has catapulted Maarten de Jong into the realm of a true International artist. As he always says: “Every day is a different day!” Electro, techno, minimal and trance’’ He plays them all, weaving them into his own mind blowing mix. Whichever way they go, each set always has ‘Maarten de Jong’ stamped all over it and with the backing of Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Sander van Doorn, Eddie Halliwell and many more of the words elite, Maarten de Jong is set to be the next superstar DJ/producer to come off the never ending conveyer belt of Dutch world beaters!