Falling in love with music at a very
young age laid a firm foundation for Menno's future in the
music business. He bought his first trance oriented albums
around the age of 8, and at the time was already well on his
way in playing musical instruments, as he often hammered away
on his father's synthesizer and guitar. A few years after,
at the age of 10, he began training in classical piano...
but changed to modern music with various influences not much
later.
Playing music to other people is something that ment a lot
to Menno in his younger days already. This eventuelly led
to him appearing behind the dj desk at his own, and other
people's parties. After spinning at a school party at club
Downunder in Eindhoven, where he lived at the time, he was
asked by the manager to become resident Dj on Thursdays and
Sundays, where he spun on and off the following 2 years.
In the meantime he discovered that making music was not limited
by what he could play on a keyboard. The legendary fasttracker
program opened up a whole new perspective to his musical ambitions,
his rather diverse taste in music (ranging from classical
to dance) was now proving essential in the sounds he was experimenting
with. After several years of on and off experimenting with
the sample based programme, he found a more challening medium
called Propellerheads Rebirth. After toying with that for
a while he discovered a production tool offered by the same
company called Reason. This programme took his creative inspiration
to the limit, and after about a year of practice, the track
Millionfold was produced, which received a tremendous amount
of positive feedback from all who heard it.
DJing also took more serious turns. After organizing some
underground trance parties in the area, Menno finally started
to play at some bigger events, captivating audiences with
his beautiful progressive, trance and tech'trance sounds...
leaving no one unimpressed by his awesome dj performances.
This resulted in bookings alongside some of the biggest names
(Don Diablo, Ton TB, Erick E, Six4Eight, Jav D and others),
in some of the most incredible venues all over the world (Dream
Nightclub, Washington DC (USA); Home Nightclub, Washington
DC (USA), Club O>> in Arnhem (NL), Club 1223, Washington
DC (USA), etc. etc.)
Producing wise he certainly did not sit still in the time
passing, intensively expanding his studio setup and learning
to master the new gear and tools acquired. Eventually he produced
the track called Guanxi, which was signed to Anjunabeats several
months later, to be remixed by top trance producer Super8.
Not long after the signing of that track, Millionfold was
signed to Gesture Music, with a remix in the making by Markus
Schulz.
