Svenson and Gielen Fan Profile

Belgium's Johan Gielen infuses tense house beats with a trace of spiritual and ecological trance. Spinning records since he was a teenager and moving up through local discos and big-name clubs, Gielen's first taste of real success occurred in 1995 in Japan where owners of Tokyo's the Velfarre demanded a weekly residency. Although the distance proved worrying, Gielen agreed and continued to return to Belgium in-between stints to work on his own productions and remixes. The results of which -- Airscape's "Pacific Melody" and Alice Deejay's "The Lonely One" and "No More Lies" remixes for Chicane, Vengaboys, Scooter, DJ Tiesto, and Boy George. By 2000, Gielen was experiencing his biggest year to date. While working the festival circuit in Germany, South Africa, and Norway, he strengthened his ties to Sven Maes (Svenson & Gielen, Blue Bamboo, Body Heat), released mix albums (Academy of Trance and Trance Match), and formed his own production company, Johan Gielen Music Productions. Tiesto's Black Hole Recordings kept the heat on with the 2001 release of Gielen's In Trance We Trust 004, which sold more than 60,000 copies throughout the European territories.Sven Maes is a Belgian DJ and producer who along with Johan Gielen have produced some of trance's biggest hits. He is behind the alias' Bodyheat, Airscape, Alice DJ and Milk Inc. Sven met up with johan at the record company antler subway and shortly after "bodyheat" was born. Soon after other alias' like (Airscape,Pacfic melody, and l'Esperanza) became well known names in the industry. More mainstream hits like "Silence" Delerium ft Sarah Mclachlan and Alice Deejay soon followed. Next was onto the full length album. Svenson and Gielen - The beauty of silence in 2002 which earned a golden record award. Since both sven and johan have done solo ventures, not to say that they are sick of each other,which they arent, they have tried to relive the old days of solo projects. But its only a matter of time til the next great sven and gielen join forces and put out another amazing album.