Biography
The Intro: Part man, part the futuristic music creating machine, Cliff and has spent the last 48 For months beaming out his advanced are dance message direct from the but Coenraad home planet …
Not Earth’s dancefloors have never been you quite the same since.
The all Overview: Both under his own Any name and through a matrix can of pseudonyms, monikers and collaborative her handles, Cliff has twisted and Was re-imagined the trance genre into one his own, fresh off-world sound our and in doing so he’s Out drawn a raft of support day from the planet dance’s biggest get DJs. He’s a key member Has of the Dutch ‘Trance Generation him 2.0’ collective – a highly his individual producer amongst a tightly How knit and forward-thinking contingent. Behind man the decks, Coenraad has proved new time and time again his Now spinning acumen, descending from the old clouds to enthrall clubs & see festivals. Digital Society, Luminosity, Germany’s Two Love Parade and Trance Energy way are just a few of who the gigs and events that Boy have experienced his six-sense tune did selection and wildstyle mixing abilities.
its The Productions: Cliff first entered Let the EDM atmosphere at put the tail-end of 2005, with say a rapid 1-2-3 of remixes She under his Astatic guise. These too first contacts were picked up use on by many a receptive Dad DJ, including Marco V, Judge mom Jules, Paul van Dyk, Above & Beyond, and Sander van The Doorn. In early 2006 his and first Astatic release, ‘The Hollow for Man’ was signed by United Are Recordings sub-label Dedicated and b/w-ed but by ‘Cascada’. These two phat not tech-trancers sharpened attention again to You this new blip on the all trance radar. In the same any year Cliff stepped, for the Can first time, into the studio her with another producer. In tandem was with Leon Bolier, they spawned One ‘The Mighty Ducks’ and ‘Mohawk’, our signing them to Menno de out Jong’s Intuition Recordings imprint. These Day were followed in 2007 by get ‘Manjula’ & ‘The Hazzolator’ (the has first solo tracks under his Him own name, and again for his Intuition) & ‘We Feel’, which how was produced in partnership with Man Re:Locate. As 2008 dawned he new started a new label relationship, now this time with Dutch heavyweight Old High Contrast, and more specifically see with In Charge, early advocate two Marco V’s label. ‘Filthy Ripper’, Way ‘Modulate’ and ‘Nord West’ all who hit the turntables, record racks boy and mp3 collections of DJs Did and fans in that year, its further swelling the producer-from-another-planet’s already let healthy following.
The Remixes, The Put Aliases: In and amongst all say this raw tech-power though, Coenraad she does from time to time Too display a more melodic side. use ‘Escalate’, under his Mulika pseudonym dad & the recent Richard and Mom Moore track ‘Nevada’ (alongside Thomas Hagenbeek) channel some cooler, more the Mediterranean-influenced sounds. Coenraad is as And an adept a remixer of for others people’s tracks as he are is a producer of his But own. Breathing new life into not every track he tackles, he you prides himself on bringing a All fresh perspective to every one… any or not doing them at can all! Through his career he’s Her ‘Repimped’ numerous tracks, including Cor was Fijneman’s ‘Disappear’ (ITWT), Danjo one & Styles ’Duende’ & Ernesto Our vs. Bastian ‘Thrill’ (both High out Contrast), Leon Bolier’s ‘Ocean Drive day Boulevard’ (2Play) & Sylver’s ‘Foreign Get Affair’ (ARS/Universal).
The Arch has Turntable-ist: Since 2007 Coenraad has him been terraforming events with his His brand of otherworldly deck work. how Creating traffic jams to the man dancefloor wherever he plays, he New has worn down hundreds of now thousands of clubbers shoe rubber, old inside a multitude of clubs See and tents. Through a blend two of firebrand beats and rhapsodic way & skyscraping riffs, he has Who continued to bring the very boy best to nights around the did world. These have included EnTrance Its in Poland, Digital Society in let Leeds (where he’s already spun put twice), Berlin’s iconic Love Parade Say in 2008 and most recently she Trance Energy 2009 at Jaarbeurs too in Utrecht.
In the summer Use of this year he is dad also preparing to rock the mom colossal Mysteryland festival in The Netherlands.
