Koen Groeneveld

After two #1’s and several Top 10 hits on the worlds most famous download portal Beatport and numerous groundbreaking gigs in and on the world’s greatest clubs and festivals, Koen Groeneveld has become a yet still rising and respected name in today’s Electronic music and DJ scene.

His unique and dynamic sound consists elements of Techno, Tech House, House and Minimal. When DJ-ing, Koen drops a refreshing and powerful crowd pleasing DJ set based on these genres..

Koen launched the label _aBZoluT. in Spring of 2008.
One of his first releases “Wake Turbulence” peaked at #1, both in the Beatport overall Top 100 and in their Techno Top 100 in July 2008. “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 operates, besides on his very own aBZoluT. imprint, on a wide range of leading labels like Toolroom Records, Size, 1605, Bosphorus Underground and BluFin.

The man’s biggest success till date though, came when Toolroom Records released
Fatboy Slim V Koen Groeneveld “Rockafeller Skank”. The track skyrocketed to the #1 spot on Beatport’s overall chart in March 2009.
 
Koen delivered a bunch of epic remixes for the likes of a.o. Umek, Spektre, Tocadisco,
Lutzenkirchen, Sander van Doorn Vs. Marco V, David Guetta, Blank & Jones, Age of Love, Ferry Corsten’s System F, Robbie Rivera, EDX & Daniel Portman, Noir and Yello.
And the ‘remix success story’ continiues… In Summer 2011 Spinnin Records released Koen’s remix of the all time house classic “Plastic Dreams” by Jaydee.
It became the best selling Techno genre track of Beatport in 2011 !
It dominated the Techno Top 10 for no less than 5 months (!) of which 3 months on #1 !

Under the Monikers KG, Bruce Alba and Neo-K Koen drops tracks a little bit more experimental compared to his usual stuff.

Collabs with Mark Knight (“Put Your Hands Up”), Ahmet Sendil (“Flaps 128”) and Tocadisco (“Techno Logical World”) pushed our Tech don higher on the ladder of the electronic dance music world in 2009.

Early 2010 Koen ended up at #7, voted out of hundreds of DJ’s, in the House Planet DJ Poll 2009.

“Air Breaks” , a disco influenced Tech House gem, released on Toolroom Records peaked @ #1 in Beatport’s Tech House Top 10 and @ #5 in the overall chart in June 2010.

Together with Addy van der Zwan (Koen’s musical partner since the stone age) he launched a series of Disco-ish Tech House 2 track E.P.’s entiled “Disko Tek” which are being released on his _aBZoluT. imprint “Gotta Move”, “Do It Do It”, “Wheep!” and ‘Retromatic” dominated the Beatport charts in 2010 and   2011!

Another strong Groeneveld weapon are his most sought after bootlegs. In 2011 he did his magic on the classics “Sky and Sand” by Paul & Fritz Kalkbrenner and Daft Punk’s “Around The world”.

Check out more booties by Koen on his SoundCloud page www.soundcloud.com/koengroeneveld

Mr. Beatport… ehhh… Mr. Groeneveld has been DJ-ing all around the world the past 3 years in a.o. Japan, USA, Brasil, Argentina, UK, Mexico, Poland, Finland, Germany, Turkey, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Canada and of course his home country Holland.
He did 6 memorable sets during WMC 2010 in Miami on a.o. Toolroom Knights @ Space and Juicy Beach @ Nikki Beach !  
His debut gig on the infamous Awakenings Weekender @ De Gashouder in Amsterdam on October 8 was one of his personal highlights of 2010.

2011: Gigs in Canada (Toronto and Montreal), a Mexico tour, Pacha (Buenos Aires), Pacha (Sao Paulo), several DJ sets in Ministry of Sound (London) during Toolroom Knights and The Gallery events, Toolroom Knights @ Space on the magc Ibiza island, 2 times a gig @ Toolroom Knights @ Cocoon in Frankfurt and performances at Dutch festivals Dance Valley and Emporium are just a few highlights from Koen’s global tour dates.

Koen’s monthly Turbulent DJ Mix is loved by thousands of his fans worldwide and is available as free download via his SoundCloud profile www.soundcloud.com/koengroeneveld

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