Bart Claessen - PLAYMO RADIO

    Bart Claessen – Playmo Radio

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    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 then-embryonic 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. Most recently ‘Madness’, his debut for the highly-respected Anjunabeats label tore up dancefloors in the second half of the year.

    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 5 further Bart Claessen remixes in their discography. In the final months of 2008, 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.

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    Past shows and track lists

    Bart Claessen – Playmo Radio #23 (live @ XFM Xnergy, Eindhoven) / January 20, 2010

    01. Di-Rect – Times Are Changing [Bart Claessen remix] :: EMI
    02. Bart Claessen – Elf :: Anjunabeats
    03. Tek Step – Crank Fise’aar :: white
    04. ID – ID :: white
    05. Oryon – V2 :: Liquid
    06. Phynn – C U Smile [DJ Preach remix] :: Black Hole
    07. Angelic – It’s My Turn [Corderoy instrumental remix] :: Mondo
    08. Meck – Windmills [Bart Claessen remix] :: Frenetic
    09. System F – Out Of The Blue [Giuseppe Ottaviani remix] :: Flashover
    10. Robbie Buri – Attack :: Reset

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    Bart Claessen – Playmo Radio #22 / January 6, 2010

    01. Beltek – Running Backwards :: Avanti
    02. Psycatron – Is What It Is [so it is remix] :: R&S
    03. EDX, Chris Reece, Jerome Isma-Ae – Ready To Go :: PinkStar
    04. JamX, Beam and Vace – Pressure [dub] :: Beam-Traxx
    05. Oryon – V2 :: Liquid
    06. First State feat. Sarah Howells – Brave [Mac & Mac remix] :: Magik
    07. Affective – Dive :: Tranceport
    08. Robert Burian – Sound Park :: Forza
    09. Edu pres. Time Traveler – Save The Planet :: Levare
    10. Kay D. Smith & Marc Tall – Hoipolloi [Mark Sherry's trance energy mix] :: High Contrast
    11. Lange pres. Firewall – Wanderlust :: Anjunabeats

    CLAESSEN’S CLASSIC
    12. Brian Cross – 4U [O.R.G.A.N. remix] :: A State Of Trance

    13. Gleave – Something [Joint Operations Centre remix] :: Freefall

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    Bart Claessen – Playmo Radio #20 / December 2, 2009

    01. Dada feat. The Other – Majestic 12 :: Destined
    02. Mistigris – Crush [tsjak vocal edit] :: Boom Tsjak
    03. Monolythe – Siberia [JELO remix] :: Big Alliance
    04. Alpha9 – Bliss :: Aleph
    05. Clearcut feat. Trix – Fireworks [Arno Cost remix] :: Typecast
    06. Ali Wilson – Boombox :: In Charge
    07. Eleven.Five – Assignment 16 :: Dangerbox
    08. Oliver Smith – Pacific :: Anjunabeats
    09. Jerome Isma-ae – Hold That Sucker Down :: Pilot 6
    10. T.O.M. & Melvin Spix – Incredible Connection :: In Trance We Trust
    11. Luca Antolini vs. Marzio Dance – We Belong :: Druck

    CLAESSEN’S CLASSIC
    12. Warrior – Warrior :: Incentive

    13. Whitecurve – Sonora [Victor Dinaires lost episode remix] :: Lange

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    Bart Claessen – Playmo Radio #19 / November 18, 2009

    01. Boom Jinx & Andrew Beyer – To The Six :: Anjunadeep

    TUNE OF THE MONTH
    02. Cicada – One Beat Away [Arno Cost remix] :: Concrete

    03. Mark Knight – Mannheim [Re-zone remix] :: Toolroom
    04. Wippenberg – Pong :: High Contrast
    05. The Course – Ain’t Nobody [Krzysztof Chochlow bootleg] :: white
    06. Andrea Saenz & Milton Channels – Llioanna [unplugged mix] :: Bonzai
    07. Kyau and Albert – I Love You :: Euphonic
    08. Above & Beyond – Anjunabeach [Jerome Isma-ae remix] :: Anjunadeep
    09. Sander van Doorn – Ninety :: Doorn
    10. Ferry Corsten feat. Novastar – Because The Remix :: Premier
    11. Mat Zo – Nuclear Fusion [Rex Mundi remix] :: Anjunabeats
    12. Pablo Reyes – Low Battery :: Musical Madness

    CLAESSEN’S CLASSIC
    13. Tony Walker – Fields Of Joy [Flutlicht remix] :: Tsunami

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    Bart Claessen – Playmo Radio #18 (The Bootleg Favourites Edition) / November 4, 2009

    01. Ray Parker Jr. – Ghost Busters Theme [Laidback Luke bootleg] :: white
    02. Snow Patrol – Open Your Eyes [Space Hustlers bootleg] :: white
    03. Eric Prydz – Pjanoo [Dada Life Guerilla Fart #7] :: white
    04. Madonna – Miles Away [Steve Brian bootleg] :: white
    05. Push – The Legacy [Mat Zo bootleg] :: white
    06. Coldplay – Technicolor [DJ Preach bootleg] :: white
    07. Junkie XL – Red Pill, Blue Pill :: white
    08. Radiohead – Street Spirit [Jason Cortez bootleg] :: white
    09. Arctic Monkeys – Sun Goes Down [Sander van Doorn bootleg] :: white
    10. Mojado vs. Spankox – El Toro In The Club [BCL 04 mashup] :: white
    11. Coldplay – Fix You [Ali Wilson bootleg] :: white
    12. Chris Rea – Josephine [Delirious vocal mix] :: white
    13. Reflekt – Need To Feel Loved [Bart Claessen playmore bootleg] :: white

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