ERIK DE KONING - BIOGRAPHY
Erik de Koning, alias Enrico has been producing music for 12 years now and is famous for his Mark van Dale with Enrico’s – “WaterVerve” (in some countries also called WaterWave).
His production “Higher and higher” (together with DJ Jurgen) reached a number 5 position in the Dutch Top 40 and was released worldwide.
But one is probably most impressed by his work under the name of Three Drives (co-productions with Ton TB).”Greece 2000”, “Sunset on Ibiza”, “Carrera 2” and “Air Traffic” are just a few titels that did (especially in the UK) very well.
Erik has produced an enormous amount of tracks but how did it all started? His musical career started in 1990. He used to work, together with his buddy Mark van Dale, at Mid-town records. Through this job, they both discovered “house-music” that flew over from Belgium. They thought: “We can make this music as well” and decided to buy their own studio. This resulted in a great first production: “Michael Jackson is in heaven now” under the name of OBSCURE FM. A good selling record released in 8 countries and even charted in the Belgium Top 30. They really got the taste of it and continued releasing good records like “ Utter Utter” and “Fuckface “ both under the name of King Dale. Erik really enjoyed producing and decided to continue on a professional basis. Together with Mark, he started a production company. Lots of productions followed and their experience and love for music grew. As the “scene” changed and people were looking for something different, Erik developed a totally new club-sound. Also due to the fact that after a few years had passed, he ran into Mark van Dale again. In collaboration with Mark van Dale and Ton TB, he settled a new sound that’s recognisable until this day. Two successful releases followed on Dj Jean’s label, IT Records. First of all “Emotions” - Dub foundation was a huge club-hit and has been released in Spain and Germany. The second one “Loosing sleep” - Club Royale took control of position 1 for many weeks. Other successful releases by Enrico are : “The Hardclubber” & “The Disclubber”, Wicked’s “Discodamnation”, Partision’s “No May Gustah”, “Together” by Department One and “Something goin on” produced with Mark van Dale.
Erik’s remixes are really wanted as well. Well-known remixes of “Kay merry go round”- Tales from the crib and “Seed ,scattered” by Rainbox bombed the Dutch Charts and were released world-wide. Another well-known remixes were made for Vengaboys’ Boom, boom, boom and DJ Jurgen ‘s Better off Alone.
Succesfull Three Drives remixes were made for Blank and Jones, Yves de Ruyter, Cor Fijneman, Scott Mac and more.
Throughout these years, Erik has been a radio dj as well.In the 90’s, Erik and Mark hosted the famous radioshow “Turbulentie” on Stadsradio Rotterdam.
Together with Mark, Erik is co-founder of the internet radio station Dancenetfm.com.
As a dj, Erik’s speciality is warming up the dancefloors and ofcourse spinning his “trancy” own sounds.
He was resident dj at “A20” Rotterdam for 3 years, spinned his records at several clubs in The Netherlands as the The Haque and the Escape Amsterdam, but played his tunes in Canada, Italy, Spain, Finland and the UK as well.
Currently, Erik produces on a full-time, daily basis in a huge production studio building, counting 3 floors, 6 studio’s and is called Dub Foundation.
His latest work , together with Ton T.B , released under Three Drives , DJ Ton TB (and other pseudonyms as Tangled Universe) is receiving huge support from well known dj’s as Oakenfold, Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren to name a few.
Most of this tracks has been signed to major labels as Blackhole, Virgin (Nebula, UK) , and Vandit.
Three Drives’ “Airtraffic” took control of position nr.1 in all Dutch dance charts.
Three Drives’ latest work is their 2nd album “Melodies from the Universe”. A double cd including 12 new songs and remixes of their most succesfull tracks.
Erik solo releases are Secretley (Black Hole) , Clear Skies and Lost in my self released
on Massive Drive Recordings.
Expected : A brand new solo track : “Dream Flight” will be released on the label
A State Of Trance (Armada Music) Jan / Feb 2008.
ERIK DE KONING - RELEASES ON BEATPORT.COM.
Here u find a selection of tracks i have released.
THREE DRIVES - RELEASES ON BEATPORT.COM.
Here is a list of all the Three Drives releasex and remixes.
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Vertikal Records presents the new artist album 'No Compromise' of Mr. John Deere...
...aka Nemanja Mirkovic. After his releases in the past on various labels around the globe including Tribal Vision, Vertikal Records, Swordtail Records, Flash Records, Deep East, Balkan Connection, Millenium Records and Yellow Sunshine Explosion. Vertikal is happy to bring you this beautiful debut album.
His music has all a good dance track needs. Pumping Base with killer drums and very nice emotional strings on it.
A must have for all clubs and floors in the morning sun!
Good evening Erik ! I forgot to thank you for your gift... sometimes I am listening to it... Wish you a great oncoming'09 with plenty of nice things to come :) X
hi friend, We have some fresh new melodic trance tunes in our player, so stop by now and then to have a listen there. also released and available at all major downloadportals: DK Project - Sorrow DK Project - Turbulence EP
Scheduled for release in January:
HodgeE - Electronic Response Spaceport - Deep space Digital Quest - Stay with me
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