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Michael de Kooker / M.W.T / Mr. Monsieur

About Me

Michael de Kooker: Also known as M.W.T and Mr. Monsieur was born on the 8th of June in the beautiful year of 1985. At an early age Michael already discovered music was his passion. He began listening to all kinds of music, but mostly dance music on commercial cd’s and radio stations. He soon felt this was not enough; he wanted to create his own music. At the age of 12 Michael started playing the keyboard. He kept playing the keyboard for a couple of years until he discovered he could also produce his own tracks with the personal computer. He started of with a software program called Magix Music Maker, but Michael quickly discovered this was way too limited. With Fasttracker 2 he was capable of really producing his own songs, expressing his creativity.In 2004 Michael came across a ‘new’ sequencer called Fruityloops (now known as FLStudio). He immediately knew this was the next logical step in music software. Michael still uses FLStudio (with vst plugins) to this date!.He kept working on his producing skills in the following years. Already in 2005 and 2006 his tracks were played by various DJ’s, and appeared in several DJ Mixes on the internet. But 2007 started out to be a really great year for Michael. A trance track, in co-production with DJ Jerom, called ‘Body Combat’ was hist first official release and was signed to Cloud 9 Music. The track first appeared on the ‘This is Trance’ CD-album, which was released in the Netherland and available worldwide on internet shops. His first solo release on the famous combined forces label ‘The Twist ‘, which included an awesome remix by Ruben de Ronde, was picked up by DJ’s like Tiesto and Paul van Dyk. Michael started off 2008 with the release of a remix of an old Vincent de Moor Classic ‘Sunflower’ so 2008 promises to be a great year!. In the summer of 2008 Michael had his breakthrough with his remix of Veracocha’s Carte Blanche that reached the National Top 40 and was chosen as Dance Smash single of the week at the biggest station in the Netherlands: Radio 538.Michael’s musical vision reaches far beyond trance music only. He likes to produce all kinds of music in very different genres. From (commercial) house to techno, from electro to latin, from lounge to trance and everything in between. His goal is to create completely different sounding productions every time.

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Member Since: 08/09/2006
Band Website: http://www.dekooker.nl
Band Members: Michael de Kooker
Influences: Ferry Corsten, Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, BT, Vangelis, Enya, Vincent de Moor, Hans Zimmer & many more.
Sounds Like: A combination of trance, house, techno and electro.
Record Label: Cloud9Music, BitterSweet, Combined Forces, Deal
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Armin supports Love Always Fades remix

On the last episode of A State Of Trance (ASOT 385) , Armin van Buuren played my remix of Dave Graham ft. Cat Martin - Love Always Fades. The track is available on audiojelly exclusive for now, but wi...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Jan 2009 11:27:00 GMT

Michael de Kooker - Oasis / Hot Senorita out now!

My tracks Oasis and Hot Senorita have now officially been released. The tracks are already supported by Tiesto, Dj Shah, Mr Sam and more, so go check them out! A preview of the tracks can be found he...
Posted by on Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:34:00 GMT

My latest monthly mix is online now.

My latest monthly mix is online now. This time a mix with some minimal and tech-house influences. Starting up slowly with some groovy and funky tracks and building up to some more trancy stuff. Go c...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:29:00 GMT

Veracocha - Carte Blanche 2008 has been released!

Some time back Cloud 9 Dance asked me to do a remix of the trance classic 'Veracocha - Carte Blanche'. Of course it's hard t remix a classic like this and to make it better, but I just wanted to give ...
Posted by on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:38:00 GMT

Release news!

My tracks Glow and Flavoured are signed to the Combined Forces label of Cloud 9 Dance. Release date is scheduled for february 2008.Snippets can be found in the music player.I've also signed a more hou...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:16:00 GMT

’The Twist’ out now!

The Twist is now available in digital format at Beatport and Trackitdown!!The release includes the Original mix, Ruben de Ronde remix and another track by me called 'Roll Over'. Both Beatport and Trac...
Posted by on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:24:00 GMT

Gloomy has been released!!

DJ Jerom & Michael de Kooker - Gloomy (Original Mix + Michael's Out Loud Mix) A. Original Mix (click to listen for a preview) B. Michael's Out Loud Mix (click to listen for a preview) Label: Bitte...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:27:00 GMT

Tiesto spins 'The Twist' in his radioshow!

Tiesto picked up my track 'The Twist' and played it in his radio show 'Club Life' which is broadcasted on the Dutch national radio station: radio 538.You can check out a small snippet from the radiosh...
Posted by on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 04:05:00 GMT

'Body Combat' on This is Trance compilation!

Body Combat appears on the This is Trance compilation, which will hit the stores end of March...Click here to check out the tracklist
Posted by on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:11:00 GMT

DJ Jerom & Michael de Kooker - Body Combat signed to Cloud 9 Music

The second track by DJ Jerom and me is signed to Cloud 9 Music! (http://www.cloud9music.nl). Cloud 9 Music is an entertainment company which works closely with Armada music.The track will also feature...
Posted by on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 01:52:00 GMT