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Johan Gielen
real name Johan Willy Maria Gielen
Belgian trance DJ & producer
Mol, Belgium · b. 1968-02-23
Johan Gielen is credited on 694 releases across 261 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1991–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
694
Credits
261
Albums
4
Decades active
24
In collections
Biography
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Johan Gielen was born in Belgium (1968-02-23). At the age of 12 he left his native country for the Netherlands.
He started DJ'ing at the age of 17 for some parties close to where he lived in his homecountry Belgium, and has during the latest 15 years build up an international fame spinning as a DJ in Japan, Australia, Germany, Spain, Holland, Belgium, England, Northern Ireland and Israel.
In 1995 he started to produce with Sven Maes, one of his friends. Johan and Sven were behind European smash hits from Airscape, Balearic Bill and Abnea. Furthermore they are well known for their remixing skills which can be heard on productions on releases by Chicane, Delerium, Vengaboys, Tiesto, Scooter, Boy George a.o. They have also produced a few more commercial dance hits, like the single "The Lonely One" for Alice DeeJay for example.
In 2005, Johan and Sven parted ways.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
694 releases · 261 albums · active 1991–2025
- Performance · 854
- Production · 383
- Engineering · 59
- Other credits · 21
Studios: Svenson Studio · Music House (8) · Violent Studios · Sunny Day
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Airscape
- Transformer 2
- Svenson & Gielen
- Blue Bamboo
- Boccaccio Life
- Supertronic Co.
- Praga Khan
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