Bart Claessen

Playmo Radio with Bart Claessen



"PLAYMO RADIO is a bi-weekly radio show that airs every first and third Wednesday of the month at 9PM GMT / 10PM CET, hosted by Bart Claessen himself!



In every show, Bart will pick out the hottest tunes of the moment in tech and trance. But also expect to hear classics that have remained unheard for so many years, or one of those mind throbbing Bart Claessen DJ sets recorded live on-stage of the biggest events and clubs across the globe."



For more info, audio, playlists, and streams - check out bartclaessen.com/radio.



 



latest release.



BART CLAESSEN - 90 NIGHTS OF SUMMER (release: out NOW! / Anjunabeats)



Original mix, Robert Burian remix + the new Fine Taste remix and NES Returning Mix (Bart-Man theme) of 'Elf'.



As supported by Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Ferry Corsten, Gareth Emery, Marcus Schössow, Bobina, and more.



Buy at Beatport, TrackItDown, Dance-Tunes



"Already responsible for two of the most popular EPs on Anjunabeats year in his euphoric 'Elf' and the

recent Who.Is EP with Raz Nitzan, Dutch trance legend Bart Claessen continues his rich vein of form with

'90 Nights Of Summer' - a warm melodic trancer of the highest order.



On the remix, Slovakian star Robert Burian delivers a busy, groove-fuelled remix with plenty of rhythm and interesting electro-edged twists on the melody.



Completing the package, we revisit the aforementioned 'Elf' thanks to Bart's previously unreleased Radio Edit and a uplifting proggy rework by Fine Taste for the earlier hours or less frenetic floors.

And, included as a cheeky bonus game beat, is Bart’s own NES Returning remix of the same track – best known as the soundtrack to the recent Bart-man computer game."



 



biography.



Intro: Over the last eight years he’s been responsible for huge club hits, international chart

smashes and sub-genre defining releases. His exacting studio standards combined with a

unique blend of electronic music styles has won him a formidable production reputation. As a

spinner, his warping, club-smashing DJ sets have caught the imaginations of clubbers

worldwide, pulling in universal plaudits along the way. He’s also pulled off the uniquely tough trick

of musical reinvention.

He’s none other than Bart Claessen.



Pre-Production History: Born in the Eindhoven region, smack-bang in the middle of

Netherlands’ Trance-central, Bart was perfectly positioned to embrace and capitalize on the thenembryonic

Dutch sound. Caught by the bug, Bart hard-grafted whilst at high school to raise the

money to buy his first studio equipment - going on to outfit his parent’s attic into his first studio.

On graduating high school he went on to study Music Technology at the Utrecht School of Arts

and simultaneously started work on his debut production.



The Barthezz Years: Through a raft of licenses to a network of the world’s most famous dance

labels (Positiva, Ultra, Avex and Superstar among them), ‘On The Move’ became one of the

biggest crossover dance hits of 2001. It notched-up Top 10 national positions in over 10

countries, was nominated for two of Holland’s prestigious TMF awards (for Best National Dance

Act & Best Video) and, in Germany alone, sold a whopping 150,000 copies.



Spurred on by its success and that of the follow up, ‘Infected’, Bart stepped behind the decks.

Getting to grips with the mixing in lightning-quick time, he launched a DJing career that saw him

tour the world, rocking floors in countries as far apart as Japan, Spain, Russia, Lebanon,

Poland and Canada, as well as playing major festivals including Trance Energy & Innercity.



The ‘Bart Claessen’ Era: In 2004 he effected a reinvention-cum-revolution; a 2.0 for Bart. Using

his own name as his revised production handle, he re-emerged with a new tougher, wider-scope

sound. Club-hit followed club hit as ‘Persona Non Grata’, ‘Playmo’, ‘When Morning Comes’ &

‘First Light’ all set fire to dancefloors between 2004 & 2008. ‘Playmo’s idiosyncratic tech-tone,

mixed with a blisteringly bouncy production became and evergreen club-favourite for DJs like

Tiësto, Armin and Ferry Corsten. It was also blended with Motorcycle’s ‘As The Rush Comes’

to form ‘As Playmo Comes’, and in doing so became one of the hottest dance bootlegs of 2006.

‘First Light’ was a bolt-from-the-blue smash in the Netherlands’ national singles chart,

reaching number 18 in the Top 40. ‘Catch Me’, the vocal reworking of ‘Playmo’, quickly repeated

the same trick in 2008.

2010 has proven to be the most productive Bart Claessen year so far, bringing highly successful

releases ‘Elf’ (Anjunabeats), ‘Hartseer’ (Ferry Corsten ‘Once Upon A Night’ / Record Of The

Year 2010), 90 Nights Of Summer (‘Anjunabeats Volume 8’), and ‘If I Could’ (Armada). His new

project with Raz Nitzan, named Who.Is leads to a huge hype all over the net, and a double Aside

release on Anjunabeats, featuring the track ‘We.Are’, selected for both In Search Of

Sunrise 8 and Anjunabeats Volume 8, named ‘summer 2010’s trance definer’ by DJ Mag and

awarded with two 10/10 reviews in the same magazine.



Bart Claessen The DJ: Bart similarly started to re-angle his spinning career in 2004. With DJ

Magazine naming him as one of the artists/DJs expected to explode, he was signed to Ferry

Corsten’s Dance Therapy agency. Off the back of the sustained club-hit profile he has

subsequently gone on to spin at some of the biggest events and clubs, including Coloursfest,

Cream @ Amnesia, the Sunrise Festival in Poland, Peppermint in Dubai, Melbourne’s

Ultraworld, Godskitchen Kiev and many more.



Bart Claessen The Remixer: Aside from DJing and original productions, remixing has played a

big part in Bart’s career. Picking only the tunes that particularly interested him, he’s reworked

such artists such as Chocolate Puma & Ferry Corsten, for Positiva, with the latter also being

released on Ultra in the United States. He also began a flourishing partnership with the

Anjunabeats label. The imprint chose his reconfiguration of Above & Beyond’s ‘Razorfish’ as

the A1 side of their expansive 100th release package, with the label now having 7 further Bart

Claessen remixes in their discography. In 2009, off the back of a huge raft of DJ support, Bart’s

remix of the classic ‘Stringer’ moved from bootleg status to official release as Riva vs. Bart

Claessen in the Benelux.

2010 turns out to be a big year for Bart Claessen remix lovers, with mixes for Tiësto feat. BT,

Meck feat. Dino on Toolroom, Dutch award-winning rock band Di-Rect, Super8 & Tab,

Aruna, and Paul Keeley.



 



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