Artiest
Menno de Jong
Genre: Trance
Menno de Jong is primarily known as a Trance DJ and producer with an international following. Based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, de Jong was born on March 17, 1984 and was interested in music — classical as well as modern — at a young age.
Being classically trained on the piano and incredibly passionate about
music led to him taking up DJing and producing in his early teenage
years. he first established himself as a producer with the release of
‘Guanxi’ on the British label Anjunabeats in 2004. In the years that
followed he took the Trance scene by storm with singles such as
“Tundra”, ‘Last Light Tonight’, ‘Spirit’, ‘Turtle Paradise’, ‘Never Lose
The Magic’, ‘Place In The Sun’ featuring the vocals of Ellie Lawson and
many more. This resulted in him being championed by the genre’s leading
DJs including Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Paul van Dyk. Numerous
remixes for tracks such as ‘Mark Otten - So Serene’, ‘Karen Overton -
Your Loving Arms’, ‘John O’Callaghan ft. Ria - I’ll Follow’ and the
classic ‘Hydra - Affinity’ also proved popular within the Trance
community.
He went on to perform at major clubs and festivals
worldwide, including Tomorrowland, Electric Daisy Carnival, A State Of
Trance, Amnesia Ibiza and Amsterdam Dance Event and over the years
developed an unwitnessed agility in performing, equally talented in
delivering prime time sets as well as marathons lasting as long as 10
hours.
After working with a wide selection of leading labels
Menno eventually signed with Black Hole Recordings in 2013, where he
started releasing tracks on the legendary In Trance We Trust imprint.
Arguably some of his biggest releases to date followed amongst which
melodic masterpiece ‘Any Other Day’, the club anthem ‘Creatures Of The
Night’ featuring Canadian vocalist Noire Lee, ‘Solicitude’ together with
UK’s rising star Adam Ellis and more recently the Tech and Psy
influenced ‘Abhyasa’.
As a result of this strain of successful
releases Menno was asked to become A&R manager of In Trance We
Trust, becoming the face of a label with one of the richest histories in
the genre and providing a platform for future Trance stars alike.