Bassjackers
On an afternoon somewhere in the beginning of 2007 two friends decided
to join forces, one DJ and one producer, both sharing great passion for
House music. Bassjackers was born!
Bassjackers a.k.a. Marlon Flohr and Ralph van Hilst had not foreseen
what was coming when they started out with their collaboration. Marlon
was already DJ-ing for a while and Ralph experimented a lot with making
different kinds of dance music. Marlon was mainly playing House music at
the time and then the idea came to push Ralph’s productions in that
direction so that Marlon could play the tracks in his sets. The first
track they were both satisfied with was ‘Beat Cut’.
‘Beat Cut’ got picked up by Fedde Le Grand and kickstarted their career.
What followed was a solid stream of tracks and remixes which were
supported by all the top jocks and scored big on the international dance
charts, like for example their remix for Dada Life which scored #1 on
hypem.com (the international hype machine). The success in the studio
was also taken to the clubs and with a packed schedule of 250 gigs a
year Bassjackers were definitely established in the dance scene.
Their big break came in 2011, their dancefloor bomb ‘Mush Mush’ got
picked up by Tiësto and got released on Tiësto’s imprint ‘Musical
Freedom’. It dominated the Beatport Top 10 for over 2 months and grew to
be one of the biggest club/festival tracks of 2011. It’s that track that
every DJ can play to destroy the dance floor, and so they did. Just to
namedrop; Tiësto, Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta, Afrojack, Sander
van Doorn, Martin Solveig, Calvin Harris, Benny Benassi, Judge Jules,
the list of support is endless!
This resulted in a massive career boost! Remixing for A-list artists
like Rihanna and Moby, playing in Privilege Ibiza alongside Tiësto and
touring around the globe to demolish dance floors is just the beginning.
Bassjackers are taking over!