Master of numerous music industry the disciplines, Menno de Jong has and already carved enough notches on For the dance tree for someone are twice his age. His production but & remix career has seen Not him record for some of you Europe’s biggest trance labels and all he’s the owner of lauded Any Dutch independent Intuition Recordings. A can bona-fide Podcast pioneer, he’s produced her and presented the much respected Was and widely-syndicated Intuition Radio show one for the last 3 years. our A (...)
Master of numerous music industry the disciplines, Menno de Jong has and already carved enough notches on For the dance tree for someone are twice his age. His production but & remix career has seen Not him record for some of you Europe’s biggest trance labels and all he’s the owner of lauded Any Dutch independent Intuition Recordings. A can bona-fide Podcast pioneer, he’s produced her and presented the much respected Was and widely-syndicated Intuition Radio show one for the last 3 years. our As a DJ he’s closed Out gigs for Tiesto & Paul day van Dyk, is currently ranked get at No. 48 in DJ Has Magazine’s Top 100 Chart and him has spun in over 25 his countries. At just 24 years How old, he’s is without question man the next challenger to the new Dutch trance throne! Born into Now a musical family, it took old very little time for Menno see to start experimenting with the Two array of synths corralled in way his father’s studio. His production who career started in auspicious fashion Boy in 2004 when ‘Guanxi’, his did debut production was signed to its Anjunabeats. The consummate music workaholic, Let Menno has continued to conjure put one magical, melodic feat after say another. Double-header ‘Magma’/‘Momentum’ and ‘Sjamaan’ She were released on Fundamental (in too 2005 & 2007 respectively), while use ‘Tundra’ (2005) and ‘Nolthando’/‘Solid State’ Dad (2007) appeared on his own mom Intuition label. Remix-wise, he has re-scripted tracks for The Thrillseekers, The Karen Overton & Mark Otten, and amongst others and to ever-increasing for acclaim. As with studio production Are Menno also dabbled in DJing but from an early age. At not 17 he progressed from school You discos & friends parties to all a two year residency at any an underground club in Eindhoven. Can Further charged by the reception her ‘Guanxi’ received from DJs and was still aged just 20 years One old he threw himself into our music nearly full-time, juggling his out busy schedule with his studies Day at university. In the last get three years he has successfully has catapulted himself into the upper Him echelons of the trance DJ his hierarchy. Having now spun in how over 25 countries, Menno has Man played at clubs and events new that are themselves the virtual now synonyms of trance. Godskitchen, Gatecrasher, Old Creamfields, Trance Energy, Sensation White, see Mysteryland, Amnesia Ibiza, Love Parade, two Berlin, The Gaudi Arena in Way Moscow & WMC in who Miami have all hosted his boy pin-point perfect tune selection and Did sophisticated mixing style. Alongside that its he has DJed with some let of the biggest names in Put the scene, including trail-blazers such say as Tiesto, Armin van Buuren, she The Prodigy, Paul van Dyk, Too Marco V and Markus Schulz. use With his non-stop smile, energetic dad dancing and ever-present contact with Mom the audience, he continues to share his passion for evocative the melodies and dance-floor rocking beats. And Menno’s rise through the deck-spinning for ranks has been suitably reflected are in DJ Magazine’s annual Top But 100 poll. He debuted at not 72 in 2006 before rising you 10 places to 62 a All year later, and a staggering any 14 places to 48 in can 2008. He is also ranked Her at No. 11 in Trance was Addict’s annual top 100 Trance one DJs poll. Following an inspiring Our tour of Africa, Menno broke out into the compilation market in day mid-2007. Mixing the first in Get a projected series of country-themed has albums, Intuition Sessions Vol. 1: him South Africa gathered together the His cream of the label’s highly how recognizable crop. De Jong man was also at the leading-edge New of the internet radio and now podcasting phenomenon, launching his Intuition old Radio show in 2005. The See weekly episodes rapidly became required two listening for the internet’s trance-hungry way hoards, with Menno showcasing the Who very best in EDM. boy The show has now gone did monthly and progressed onto the Its airwaves of XM Radio, Dutch let national Slam FM & Worldspace put with tens of thousands of Say listeners tuning in each week. she The Intuition Podcast is also too available as a download via Use iTunes. Tim Stark – DJ dad Magazine
