Maurizzio
It's the well-known story: 'boy with a hobby' becomes 'man with a job'. DJ MAURIZZIO, aka Maurits Engelen, born on the fifth of December 1973, had his first release in 1990 when he was 16 (and probably the youngest producer in Belgium).
At the age of 17, his uncle, Maurice Engelen, aka Praga Khan (Lords of Acid) and known from lots of other famous dance projects, showed him the real world of dance-music at Antler-Subway Records. One year later he could stay as in-house producer and it didn't take long before the hit machine took off.
He started to work as DJ in different clubs and party's, in Belgium, Spain, France, Italy and lots of other countries. In no time he could work together with trendsetting DJ's as Frank Struyf, Marco Bailey, System D, DJ Storm, Phil Rodriguez, and many more. He did the engineering of many dance projects as K-Lab, which is now the succesful danceformation Milk Inc.
In less than 2 years he created a lot of smashing monsterhits, like Marco Bailey - Sniff or Zolex Carat Traxx 2 - The Message.
At the age of 21 Maurits wanted to discover other horizons and started to work, freelance based, for other labels as 21st Century, Byte, Paradiso. The real breakthrough as DJ Maurizzio came in 1998 at CNR Music (Arcade). The same year he started to play the records at ATMOZ (Turnhout).
In 1999 Maurizzio supervised the series mixcompilations called 'DJ Collection' and mixed the first one himself. Meanwhile he continuously attacked the dance- and even singlescharts with various projects as PRIDE (Turn It Up) and of course MAURIZZIO. This last project hit the top of the charts with New Emotion, Future Love, Feelings and Runaway. Logically his debutalbum had to be released in 2000.
In the mean time his clubproject LIBERTY (signed at No Name Records) was a real club smash. With Why, Seguro, Moonshine and Arco Iris he reached again the number one in the dance charts in Belgium and Spain. At the time the first album of MAURIZZIO was released, a new mixcompilation called My Name Is Trance found its way to the stores.
At the age of 17, his uncle, Maurice Engelen, aka Praga Khan (Lords of Acid) and known from lots of other famous dance projects, showed him the real world of dance-music at Antler-Subway Records. One year later he could stay as in-house producer and it didn't take long before the hit machine took off.
He started to work as DJ in different clubs and party's, in Belgium, Spain, France, Italy and lots of other countries. In no time he could work together with trendsetting DJ's as Frank Struyf, Marco Bailey, System D, DJ Storm, Phil Rodriguez, and many more. He did the engineering of many dance projects as K-Lab, which is now the succesful danceformation Milk Inc.
In less than 2 years he created a lot of smashing monsterhits, like Marco Bailey - Sniff or Zolex Carat Traxx 2 - The Message.
At the age of 21 Maurits wanted to discover other horizons and started to work, freelance based, for other labels as 21st Century, Byte, Paradiso. The real breakthrough as DJ Maurizzio came in 1998 at CNR Music (Arcade). The same year he started to play the records at ATMOZ (Turnhout).
In 1999 Maurizzio supervised the series mixcompilations called 'DJ Collection' and mixed the first one himself. Meanwhile he continuously attacked the dance- and even singlescharts with various projects as PRIDE (Turn It Up) and of course MAURIZZIO. This last project hit the top of the charts with New Emotion, Future Love, Feelings and Runaway. Logically his debutalbum had to be released in 2000.
In the mean time his clubproject LIBERTY (signed at No Name Records) was a real club smash. With Why, Seguro, Moonshine and Arco Iris he reached again the number one in the dance charts in Belgium and Spain. At the time the first album of MAURIZZIO was released, a new mixcompilation called My Name Is Trance found its way to the stores.
