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Rank 1

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:22:13 +0000

Piet Bervoets and Benno De Goeij are the two halves of the Dutch group Rank 1. They met in 1997 during a party, where they discovered a shared interest in music. They began to collaborate, and in 1999, they released their first track under the name Rank 1. This was the massively successful dance track “Airwave”. Within a year, it had been released in more than 40 different countries around the world and had become the first Dutch track to reach the top of the European Dance Chart. It reached number 25 in the U.S. Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart and number 10 in the U.K. Singles Chart. Rank 1 released a remixed version, “Breathing Airwave 2003)” in 2003 and a number of other versions have also appeared.

A number of successes followed “Airwave”, including “Such is Life” in 2001, “Life Less Ordinary” in 2007, and “Symfo” in 2009. Rank 1’s “L.E.D There Be Light” was selected as Trance Energy Festival’s anthem for 2009.

In recent years, the pair have divided their time and skills, with Benno concentrating on production and Piet traveling the world to DJ at festivals and joining international tours. Rank 1 still perform together, live, and were the first to play at Sensation. Their popularity drew such a large crowd to Trance Energy that the main arena had to be sealed off once its maximum capacity of 25000 people had been reached.

Rank 1 are one now of the most respected trance groups in Europe. Their formation coincided with an exciting moment for Dutch trance movement, and they found themselves at the center of its spread across the continent. They have played all the most important festivals and gathered a huge following of loyal fans, but they are not done yet. Piet and Benno still see themselves as a work in progress, looking for new ways of making music and of perfecting their act.

Dutch Trance Producer And DJ Armin Van Buuren

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:28:10 +0000

The dutch trance producer and DJ that is known as Armin van Buuren was born in 1976 and when he finished high school in the mid 90’s he was well on his way to study law. It was then that he discovered his love for music and it started to open doors for him that he had not accounted for. He started to DJ at a club by the name of Nexus and that is when his music career really started to climb to a higher status. For the time being, he had decided to put his studies on hold to make the most out of a music career, but he did end in completion of his degree.

Armin has up to a point always worked alone during his music career, but with the third release of an album in 2008, he began work in collaboration with Benno de Goeij, leader of Rank 1. In September of 2008, he won the title and award of “Best Trance DJ” and was up against other famous and well known trance music DJ’s, producers and musician such as Tiesto and others.

He has worked with many trance, progressive and techno music artists and have often worked in close relation with them. A vacation to the island of Crete led him to met his future wife Erika van Thiel and they married in September 2009. He has seen the world with global tours as well as local. Armin and his wife Erika is both from the Netherlands and it is quite common to see him performing in front of sold out crowds of up to 20,000 people in his home turf.

It is also quite common to see him performing at huge summer festivals located around the world and when in the UK he is a regular a club by the name of Passion. He has often been heard saying that fans and the public is what makes or breaks a DJ. The role of a DJ is to feel the crowd, work the crowd and keep the crowd happy and nobody should know that better than DJ Armin van Buuren.

Paul Van Dyk

admin — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:52:25 +0000

Since 1988 and the Start of his soon to be legendary days of mixing in Berlin, Paul Van Dyk has made both an economic impact as well as a multinational cultural impact on the music scene both in Berlin as well as world wide

Paul first heard music being played as a child, on a turntable in his small hometown outside of Frankfurt. Deciding he wanted to hear the noises being made but also wanted to change them, he rigged up his own set of turntables and began doing exactly that. By 1991 he had debuted at multiple clubs of extensive notoriety and began as well as finished his own facility to work from. At this point he had also paired up with the renowned producer/DJ Cosmic Baby.

He remixed for Famous groups such as New Order and others, And then signed to do his first solo album by a noted German label for 1994’s 45. By the middle of the 1990s, Paul had cemented himself as a world wide recognized producer and entertainer, playing venues world wide. His 2nd album, Seven Ways, got him chart topping singles for 3 separate songs on the record. The 90s saw both of his initial spree of album releases, but that was just the start for him

Throughout the coming new millennium he would go on to release more of his own solo work as well as collaborations. It is not uncommon to see him either guest on many electronica artists albums, or to have appearances but highly known artists on his own releases. Paul van Dyk is also known not only for his recording success, but his highly vocal anti war political leanings. Often expressing his opinion both through his music and speeches at various events, he continues to be both a voice of a generation needing to be brought together and an artist speaking to millions through his craft that hes spent a good portion of his life to promote and thrive upon.