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Jos van Aken

Like many out of my generation (1971), Synthy Pop was my most favorite music style in the 80's with bands like Depeche Mode, Camouflage, Kraftwerk and so on.. Once, I furtunedly got a Jean- Michel Jarre vinyl "Oxigene": I plugged it, I listened to it and, what else, I loved it. So I started my first DJ- experiences on parties, proms or disco events at school. Around 2000 I got a Armin van Buuren CD "Communications" from a friend of mine, and I never really concentrated on this kind of music, and kindness shouldn’t be luxury, I listened to it, and I stucked on Trance. The idea of me trying the seriously DJing (not like back in school...) I had in 2002. First of all, for making me an idea about mixing, techniques, and getting a flow for the music pp., I worked with Tractor DJ Studio 1.0 on my laptop, and mixed up my first CDs. So, like you know or can imagine mixing on a laptop with this kind of software, the second step never's far: ordering two turntables, a DJ-mixer and the most needful things: vinyl’s (as much as possible). Next step: training, training and most important: training. The first segues really drove me nuts. I was so sick of it, that my fav' imagination was throwing the stuff out of the window and a lost Australian road train is rolling over it. But with a lot of discipline, and much more feedback, I finally got it.. Once, I was surfing through the net, looking for some trance communities, I landed on puredj.com, and a Dustin Crush set was playing, and I just wrote an E- Mail to him, with the request of listening to a set of mine. A few days later I had an answer from Dustin, with a positive feedback, with an invitation being a guest- DJ in his radio show “TranceSpotting”. After the set with Dustin, he kept everything rolling on PureDJ.com, for getting me in there. Now I'm a resident on puredj.com, performing regularly my own radio show. Now I'm also making sets for my radio show on TotaalFM.com and ODU.FM I met a lot of amazing people, all dealing with Trance. Not just talking about new releases, remixes or things like that, I'm also interested in producing. Once I met a really talented and awesome guy, named KaltFlut. Soon we realized that we perfectly fit together, in terms of producing trance tunes, and all surrounding it.