Leviathan (NL)
Artist
Michel Klaassen, Born and raised in Amsterdam in 1970 a.k.a. Leviathan started producing in 1985 in a hip-hop crew called D-P "Digital-Power". Through hip-house Michel became obsessed with what later became hardcore played at illegal parties in warehouses. He released his first record in 1992 in the formation "the TOF band". After that he established his own company, MK Studio. Michel saved money, invested in new equipment and spend the nights pasionatly creating his own music. From the money he earned with his productions he bought more and better equipment, finally resulting in a professional recording studio that makes the hearts of many producers beat faster.
"I can produce almost any kind of music in my studio my interest for music is also very versatile
he has develloped a wide variety of styles and worked on many project's with other artists and record label's like ; Dellirium, Omar Santana, Predator, Arjuna, Guitar-Rob, Chosenfew, Techno-Head, Dano, Micado, Crypt, Archatos, Beyonder and Brainiac.
in 1993 he started producing tracks under the name "Tellurian" for the Amsterdam label "Mokum Records" and gained international recognition as a music producer. In 1995 he did several project's for ID&T label's Thunderdome ,"Bad Vibes Records" Brainiac & "Pengo Records" Micado.
In 1996 he started a independent label: Cenobite Records.
Cenobite is an open platform for mostly dark hard innovating experimental melodic electronic music. Some call it Trancecore or Cenobite style we like to call it Psycore ( psychadelic hardcore) Cenobite produced the first hybrid hardcore audio/multimedia cd+ and produced 2 music video clips for the dutch music channel "TMF" Since 1992 he played all over the world as a DJ & Live-act. His songs got licensed to many international compilation cd's , dvd's.
In Holland he played at legendery events like : Hellraiser, Mysteryland,Digital Overdose,Thunderdome,Imortallity,Hardcore Ressurection,Ground Zero. sporthallen zuid amsterdam 96
Michel is known for live act's with diverse exeptional support act's from extreme horror ti'll Futureistic robot show and is curently developing new event & stage concept's
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