Biography
Intro: Over the last eight the years he’s been responsible for and huge club hits, international chart For smashes and sub-genre defining releases. are His exacting studio standards combined but with a unique blend of Not electronic music styles has won you him a formidable production reputation. all As a spinner, his warping, Any club-smashing DJ sets have caught can the imaginations of clubbers worldwide, her pulling in universal plaudits along Was the way. He’s also pulled one off the uniquely tough trick our of musical reinvention…
He’s none Out other than Bart Claessen.
Pre-Production day History: Born in the Eindhoven get region, smack-bang in the middle Has of Netherlands’ Trance-central, Bart was him perfectly positioned to embrace and his capitalize on the then-embryonic Dutch How sound. Caught by the bug, man Bart hard-grafted whilst at high new school to raise the money Now to buy his first studio old equipment – going on to see outfit his parent’s attic into Two his first studio. On graduating way high school he went on who to study Music Technology at Boy the Utrecht School of Arts did and simultaneously started work on its his debut production.
The Barthezz Let Years: Through a raft of put licenses to a network of say the world’s most famous dance She labels (Positiva, Ultra, Avex and too Superstar among them), “On The use Move” became one of the Dad biggest crossover dance hits of mom 2001. It notched-up Top 10 national positions in over 10 The countries, was nominated for two and of Holland’s prestigious TMF for awards (for Best National Dance Are Act & Best Video) and, but in Germany alone, sold a not whopping 150,000 copies.
Spurred on You by its success and that all of the follow up, “Infected”, any Bart stepped behind the decks. Can Getting to grips with the her mixing in lightning-quick time, he was launched a DJing career that One saw him tour the world, our rocking floors in countries as out far apart as Japan, Spain, Day Russia, Lebanon, Poland and Canada, get as well as playing major has festivals including Trance Energy & Him Innercity.
The “Bart Claessen” Era: his In 2004 he effected a how reinvention-cum-revolution; a 2.0 for Bart. Man Using his own name as new his revised production handle, he now re-emerged with a new tougher, Old wider-scope sound. Club-hit followed club see hit as “Persona Non Grata”, two “Playmo”, “When Morning Comes” & Way “First Light” all set fire who to dancefloors between 2004 & boy 2008. Playmo’s idiosyncratic tech-tone, mixed Did with a blisteringly bouncy production its became and evergreen club-favourite for let DJs like Tisto, Armin and Put Ferry Corsten. It was also say blended with Motorcycle’s “As The she Rush Comes” to form “As Too Playmo Comes”, and in doing use so became one of the dad hottest dance bootlegs of 2006. Mom “First Light” was a bolt-from-the-blue smash in the Netherlands’ national the singles chart, reaching number 18 And in the Top 40. “Catch for Me”, the vocal reworking of are “Playmo”, quickly repeated the same But trick in 2008. Most recently not “Madness”, his debut for the you highly-respected Anjunabeats label tore up All dancefloors in the second half any of the year.
Bart Claessen can The DJ: Bart similarly started Her to re-angle his spinning career was in 2004. With DJ Magazine one naming him as one of Our the artists/DJs expected to explode, out he was signed to Ferry day Corsten’s Dance Therapy agency. Off Get the back of the sustained has club-hit profile he has subsequently him gone on to spin at His some of the biggest events how and clubs, including Coloursfest, Cream man @ Amnesia, the Sunrise Festival New in Poland, Peppermint in Dubai, now Melbourne’s Ultraworld, Godskitchen Kiev and old many more.
Bart Claessen The See Remixer: Aside from DJing and two original productions, remixing has played way a big part in Bart’s Who career. Picking only the tunes boy that particularly interested him, he’s did reworked such artists such as Its Chocolate Puma & Ferry Corsten, let for Positiva, with the latter put also being released on Ultra Say in the United States. He she also began a flourishing partnership too with the Anjunabeats label. The Use imprint chose his reconfiguration of dad Above & Beyond’s “Razorfish” as mom the A1 side of their expansive 100th release package, with the the label now having 5 and further Bart Claessen remixes in For their discography. In the final are months of 2008, off the but back of a huge raft Not of DJ support, Bart’s remix you of the classic “Stringer” moved all from bootleg status to official Any release as Riva vs. Bart can Claessen in the Benelux.
