1)Joop was born in 1975 in the city of Leeuwarden in The Netherlands. His first contact with the world of vinyl, headphones and turntables was at the tender age of thirteen. Three years later he started spinning the decks at a local club in his hometown on Friday's and Saturday's. Playing in this club Joop fell in love with deejaying, getting to know how to read the crowd and giving them what they want, without losing his own specific sound. This is still his big trademark as a deejay and producer today, which people all over the world acknowledge on the dancefloor. His big breakthrough as a deejay was playing at Trance Energy Mainstage in The Netherlands.

As a deejay Joop perfectly knows how get a party started. Playing a sound that holds it between real trance, techhouse/progressive and techtrance, he gives a very energetic, uplifting and powerful drive to the evening. Joop has a great build up in his sets, using moments of stillness to really get the crowd going. Joop of course regularly performs in his home country The Netherlands and he also often does gigs in Germany, Belgium, Ierland, Switzerland, China and Turkey. Some venues and events Joop has performed are L.E.F. alongside Ferry Corsten, Dance Tour, Jama Club in Poland, Asta, Samdundet in Norway and Faces in Turkey. Also he performed at the biggest Dutch parties: twice at Mystery Land, three times during Trance Energy and also twice during Sensation Black and Innercity. Together with Marco V, Johan Gielen, Dana, Yves de Ruyter and Armin van Buuren he also joined the ID&T Radio Tour. On the Dutch ranking list of international deejays DJ Joop is listed as number 48 in 2005.

Having established a solid reputation in the club- and techtrance scene, as well in The Netherlands as abroad, Joop went on as a producer, launching the 12' Act of God in 2002 on the ID&T-label. Act of God made out to be a huge hit all over the world and was played by many well known deejays like Cosmic Gate, Cor Fijneman, Marcel Woods and Armin van Buuren. Joop's second release is 'Sonsuz', a powerful trance production, which contains Turkish vocals. The flip side contains a huge remix by upcoming Black Hole Recordings-artist Mark Norman. Sonsuz had a huge rotation by dj's like Armin van Buuren, Cor Fijnenman, Johan Gielen, Simon Patterson and Judge Jules. His new track is The World/Another Wolrd, a floorfiller which was already hammered by Tiesto during Tiesto in Concert.

2)There's also a Dutch band that was formed by 3 youngsters. They have lasted for a year or tree and broke up mid 2008. Their music variated from hip-hop until rock, with a lot of cabaret influence.

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