Koen Groeneveld is, since 2008, one of the hottest ‘new’ names in today’s electronic music.
His unique dynamic sound consists elements of Techno, Tech House and Minimal.
When DJ-ing, Koen drops a refreshing and powerful crowd pleasing DJ set based on these styles.
Koen founded the label _aBZoluT. www.myspace.com/abzolutrecordings early 2008.
One of his first releases “Wake Turbulence” peaked at number 1, both in the Beatport Top Downloads Top 100 and in their Techno Top 100 in July 2008.
The follow up tracks to “Wake Turbulence”; “Pull Up” and “Go Around” and his collabs with (Peter) Gelderblom “Fokker 126”, Addy van der Zwan “MIA” and Ahmet Sendil “Rotate”
received massive support by the worlds DJ elite.
His in Spring 2009 launched 4-track E.P. “Schiphol E.P.” , a side project under the moniker KG
(Koen Groeneveld’s initials), gained also big time posiitve feedback amongst the global DJ’s.
After the huge success of “Wake Turbulence”, Koen delivered several dancefloor damaging remixes for a.o. Mark Trophy “Ripper”, Dataworx “Control”, Mario Ochoa “Twisted”,
Sander van Doorn Vs. Marco V “What Say?”, Tocadisco “2 Many Shots Of Jaegermeister”,
Spektre “Hydra”, Alex Young “Uno”, Noir “The Off World” and many more.
“Wake Turbulence” ended up being number 3 in the Beatport Techno Top 10 of 2008 and was nominated as “Best Techno Track 2008” at the Beatport Music Awards 2009!
Koen’s biggest success till date came when Toolroom released Fatboy Slim V
Koen Groeneveld “Rockafeller Skank”.
The track skyrocketed to the number 1 spot at Beatport’s overall chart in March 2009 in less then 5 days!
Fall 2009 saw the release of the "Microburst E.P." on Toolroom and again Koen reached the highest positions on Beatport's Techno chart.
On his imprint _aBZoluT. releases together with his studio partner for life Addy van der Zwan and their good friend R3hab as Dutch Basterds and a release with Ahmet Sendil: "Flaps 128", which was heavy hammered by the likes of a.o. Ritchie Hawtin.
New collabs with Tocadisco and Ahmet Sendil are scheduled for 2010 and his track "Put Your Hands Up" with Toolroom head honcho Mark Knight has destroyed global dance floors late 2009 and early 2010!
Remixes for big names like David Guetta ("Sexy Bitch"), Ferry Corsten's System F ("Out Of The Blue 2010") , Lutzenkirchen ("Phuture Disco Vibes") and Tocadisco ("2 Many Shots Of Jaegermeister") lifted Koen higher on the ladder of the electronic dance scene in 2009 and will continue doing that in 2010.
One thing's clear:
2010 will be a very exiting and interesting year for Koen, besides this new collabs, new releases, remixes, he can be found behind the CDJ's all around the world the forthcoming months in a.o. Tokyo, Russia, USA, UK, Mexico, Poland, Germany and of course his home country Holland!
Productions:
2008 Seduction _aBZoluT.
2008 Flight E.P. : Wake Turbulence/Pan Pan/Good Flight Gr8 Day _aBZoluT.
2008 Pull Up _aBZoluT.
2008 Go Around _aBZoluT.
2008 Fokker 126 (as Groeneveld & Gelderblom) _aBZoluT.
2009 MIA (as Koen Groeneveld & Addy van der Zwan) _aBZoluT.
2009 Wake Turbulence – The Remixes _aBZoluT.
2009 Rotate (as Ahmet Sendil & Koen Groeneveld) Bosphorus Underground
2009 Rockafeller Skank (as Fatboy Slim V Koen Groeneveld) Toolroom
2009 Fastevil (as van der Zwan, Rehab & Groeneveld) Spinnin’
2009 LAX (as Koen Groeneveld & Addy van der Zwan) _aBZoluT.
2009 Flaps 128 (as Koen Groeneveld & Ahmet Sendil) _aBZoluT.
2009 Cities E.P. (as koen Groeneveld & R3hab) _aBZoluT.
2009 Beats Is A Booming / Sauerkraut Sandwich (as Dutch Basterds) _aBZolut.
2009 Microburst E.P. : Microburst / Stalled Toolroom
2009 Put Your Hands Up (as Mark Knight V Koen Groeneveld) Toolroom
2010 Istandam (as Ahmet Sendil, Koen Groeneveld & R3hab) Bosphorus Underground
Remixes for:
2008 The Caramel Club - Jumbo Jumbo Fudge
2008 Quentin Rodriguez – MCMXC _aBZoluT.
2008 Chainside – I Would Die For You Liquid
2008 Ragdoll – Soundwave BluFin
2008 Jesse Voorn – Miki _aBZoluT.
2008 Mark Trophy – Ripper Toolroom
2008 Dataworx – Control Dataworx Digital
2009 Paul Nazca & Leslie K – Mistral B Confused
2009 Egostereo – Kepler Toca 45
2009 Mario Ochoa – Twisted _aBZoluT.
2009 Sander van Doorn & Marco V – What Say? Doorn
2009 Alex Young – Uno Strike
2009 Noir – The Off World Noir Music
2009 Spektre – Hydra WI:V
2009 van der Zwan, Silvestre & Young – Funkybeatz Nasty Tunes
2009 Rehab – Purple Lightsaber _aBZoluT.
2009 Tocadisco – 2 Many Shot Of Jaegermeister Superstar
2009 David Guetta Ft. Akon – Sexy Bitch EMI
2009 Nastitek – Tek Proof Dirty Dutch
2009 Marc De Pulse – El Lobo Loco BluFin
2009 Uppermost - Clipped Bazooka
2010 Ferry Corsten Pres. System F – Out Of the Blue 2010 Flashover
2010 Yello – Vicious Games Tiger
2010 Lutzenkirchen – Phuture Disco Vibes Great Stuff
2010 TDR – Squelch Doorn
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