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Opus 17 by Rank 1

Artist Biography For Rank 1

Introduction They’re One Of Europe’s Most Established Respected Dance Acts Having Been Catapulted To Stardom By Their Debut Release ‘Airwave’. In The 9 Years That Have Followed They’ve Continued To Pack Out The CD Wallets Of World’s A-List Spinners With Speaker-Spankers That Have Included ‘Such Is Life’ ‘Symfo’ And ‘Life Less Ordinary’… In 2009 They Unleashed ‘L.E.D. There Be Light’ - A Track That Was Quickly Snapped Up By ID&T As The Anthem For That Year’s Trance Energy Event. Their Live And DJ Sets Induce Floor-Quakes Before Thousands Of Fans At Clubs Arenas And Festivals Every Single Weekend. They Are Piet Bervoets & Benno De Goeij… And They’re Rank 1. Rank 1’s Year One - ‘Airwave’ After A Chance Introduction At A Party In The Spring Of 1997 Benno & Piet Recognised Much Common Musical Ground And Decided To Work Together. As The Dutch Trance Dawn Rose Up Over Europe The Pair Found Themselves Faultlessly Positioned At Its Epicentre To Reign. Championed By Fellow Fast-Risers Armin Van Buuren Tiësto And Ferry Corsten In 1999 The Stadium-Sized Sound Of ‘Airwave’ Sent Out An Audio Shockwave Across The Continent. It Proved To Be Such A Hit That Just 12 Months Later ‘Airwave’ Had Been Released Incredibly In Over 40 Countries – Jumping Into The Top 10 In The UK And Becoming The First Dutch Track To Top The European Dance Chart. The Rank 1 Singles Working At The Pace Of Roughly One Floor-Carnivore A Year Rank 1 Followed-Up With ‘Such Is Life’ 2001 ‘Awakening’ Taken From Their Debut Album ‘Symsonic’ - Both 2002 ‘It’s Up To You’ 2003 ‘Beats At Rank-1 Dotcom / After Me’ 2004 And ‘Opus 17 / Top Gear’ 2005 . After A Year’s Production Break They Returned To The Fray In '07 With Two Monster Collaborations ‘Life Less Ordinary’ In Tandem With Alex M.O.R.P.H. And The ‘This World Is Watching Me’ Co-Produced With Armin. The Year After That The Duo Took The Dancefloors By Storm Once Again Through Their Electro-Boosted Monster Collaboration 'And Then' With The Talented Jochen Miller. In 2009 Rank 1 Became The ‘go-To’ Men For Event Anthems Remarkably Producing Them For Not One But Two World-Class Festivals. In February ‘L.E.D. There Be Light’ Became The Wildly-Popular Beatport-Smash Anthem For Trance Energy While ‘Symfo’ Was Selected To Define Poland’s Colossal Sunrise Festival. In 2010 They Followed Up With 'The Great Escape' The Grand Theme Song To Poland's Entrance Festival And '100' A Harmonious Triple Collaboration Between Them Nic Chagall And Wippenberg To Celebrate High Contrast Recordings' 100th Milestone Release. Another Production Break Year Followed With The Guys Returning To Full Force In Early 2012 With The Releases Of The Bigroom Club Smasher 'Wild And Perfect Day' Their Third Collaboration With Jochen Miller With Vocals Provided By Sarah Bettens And The More Tender 'Witness' A Vocal Collaboration With Cerf Mitiska & Jaren For Their New Album . Before The End Of The Year The Gents Took A Detour Back To The Roots Of The Trance Genre By Unleashing '7 Instead Of 8' An Innovative Oldskool Trance Style Track Built On A Seven Times 4/4 Measure Rather Than Eight Times. It Received Much Support And Praise For Its Nostalgic Power By Fans And Colleagues Alike. In Fact This Very Track Led To A Fan's Request For Them To Collaborate With Belgian Trance Giant M.I.K.E. After The Latter Complimented Them On 7 Instead Of 8. In 2013 This Energetic Clash-Of-The-Trance-Titans Collaboration 'Elements Of Nature' Was Unleashed Giving The Fans An Even Stronger Millennial Trance Feel Than Its Predecessor! The Bigroom Inspired Speaker-Spanker 'Floorlifter' Was Released Only Three Months Later And Caused Some Expected Damage On The International Dancefloors Throughout Summer '13. Then Right Before The End Of The Year Their Trance Epic '13.11.11' Saw The Light Of Day Cleverly Combining Its 13 Minute Duration With Its Illusive Title Specific Tempo And Winter Release Date. In 2014 The Year Of Rank 1's 15th Anniversary Saw Them Unleash An Archetypical High Contrast Styleblender Called 'Freudenrausch' With Label Mate Dennis Sheperd As Well As A Modern Electric Interpretation Of Their '99 Mega Classic 'Airwave 21st Century Mix ' Was Released On August 8th And Sought To Take Dancefloors In Modern Fashion Much Like The Original Had Done Some One And A Half Decade Before It. The Rank 1 Remixes Rank 1 Also Has An Estimable Remix-O-Graphy To Their Name. Freddie Mercury Ferry Corsten Push Cygnus X Delirium Giuseppe Ottaviani Marcel Woods Cosmic Gate Mr Sam Ronald Van Gelderen Angelic Ayumi Hamasaki Nu NRG Conjure One And More Have All Been Given Rank 1’s Studio Re-Touch. Piet The DJ Benno The Producer Rank 1 Now Has Two Distinct Branches To Its Operation. Benno Is In Charge Of All The Rank 1’s Production Elements. He Co-Produced Many Of The Tracks On Armin Van Buuren’s Long-Players ‘Imagine’ 2008 And Mirage 2010 And Has Been Working On The Third For A While Now. Piet Meanwhile Takes The Role Of The Globetrotting DJ Spinning At Tent-Pole Events Like Dance Valley In His Native Holland And Numerous International Tours Including The US And Asia For The Likes Of Gatecrasher & Godskitchen. In 2009 Rank 1 Found Themselves Re-Entering The DJ Magazine Top 100 At No.77. Rank 1 LIVE Over Recent Years Rank 1 Has Increasingly Come Together On Stage For Their Live Performances. They Became The First Live Act To Perform At Sensation And Famously Forced The Closure Of Doors Of Trance Energy’s Main Arena When 25 000 Clubbers Packed It Out To Hear Them Play . Their Kinship With The Biggest Event In Trance Music Is Widely-Known And They Are The Only Live Act To Have Rocked Trance Energy 4 Times! Outside Of That Rank 1 Has Continued To Thrill Crowds Live At Some Europe’s Best-Known Festivals Including Mystery Land Sunrise & Nature One. In 2012 They Blew Up The Stages At The EDC Festival In Las Vegas The Sunrise Festival In Poland And Nature One In Germany Respectively. Rank 1 - The Mindset When It Comes To Interviews Benno & Piet Are In Essence The ‘Daft Punk’ Of Trance! Now Famously Reclusive They Don’t Like The Term ‘success’ As It Implies They Have Already Arrived. Instead On The Few Occasions They Do Speak They Prefer To Speak In Terms Of ‘progression’ & ‘perfection’. Ultimately Though They Are Far Happier To Let Their Music Do All The Talking. Biography Taken From Their High Contrast Recordings.Com Page And Edited/updated By R4Z0RM4N3 Discography Coming Soon • Rank 1 - 13.11.11 > Https //twitter.Com/rank1official/status/389662015742279680 Singles • 2014 Rank 1 - Airwave 21st Century Mix High Contrast • 2014 Rank 1 & Dennis Sheperd - Freudenrausch High Contrast • 2013 Rank 1 - 13.11.11 High Contrast • 2013 Rank 1 - Floorlifter High Contrast • 2013 Rank 1 Vs. M.I.K.E. - Elements Of Nature High Contrast • 2012 Rank 1 - 7 Instead Of 8 High Contrast • 2012 Cerf Mitiska & Jaren With Rank 1 - Witness Armind • 2012 Rank 1 & Jochen Miller Feat. Sarah Bettens - Wild And Perfect Day High Contrast • 2010 Nic Chagall Rank 1 & Wippenberg - 100 High Contrast • 2010 Rank 1 Vs. Jochen Miller - The Great Escape High Contrast • 2009 Rank 1 - Symfo High Contrast • 2009 Rank 1 - L.E.D. There Be Light High Contrast • 2008 Rank 1 Vs. Jochen Miller - And Then… High Contrast • 2007 Alex M.O.R.P.H. Vs. Rank 1 - Life Less Ordinary High Contrast • 2007 Armin Van Buuren Vs. Rank 1 Feat. Kush - This World Is Watching Me Armind • 2005 Rank 1 - Opus 17 / Top Gear High Contrast • 2004 Rank 1 - Beats At Rank-1 Dotcom / After Me ID&T • 2004 Rank 1 - Conspiracy / Cosmomatic / Down From The Deep ID&T • 2003 Rank 1 - It’s Up To You Symsonic ID&T • 2003 Sensation - The Anthem 2003 ID&T • 2003 Rank 1 - Breathing Airwave 2003 ID&T • 2002 Rank 1 - Awakening ID&T • 2001 Rank 1 Feat. Shanokee - Such Is Life ID&T • 1999 Rank 1 - Airwave Free For All • 1999 Rank 1 - Black Snow / The Citrus Juicer ID&T Remixes • 2013 Giuseppe Ottaviani Feat. Eric Lumiere - Love Will Bring It All Around • 2013 Conjure One Feat. Leigh Nash - Under The Gun 2 Versions • 2011 Super8 & Tab Feat. Julie Thompson - My Enemy
• 2011 Cosmic Gate - Fire Wire
• 2010 Mat Zo - 24 Hours
• 2010 Velvetine - Safe Wherever You Are • 2008 Leon Bolier Vs. Jonas Steur - Lost Luggage
• 2008 Ronald Van Gelderen - Embrace Me
• 2008 Marcel Woods Feat. MC Da Silva - On Fire
• 2008 Anton Sonin & AMX Feat. Sari - Undone
• 2007 Alex Bartlett & Guess Feat. Anthya - Touch The Sun
• 2007 JOOP - The Future
• 2007 Cosmic Gate - Analog Feel
• 2006 Freddy Mercury - Love Kills 3 Versions • 2006 Ronald Van Gelderen - This Way
• 2005 ATB - Humanity
• 2005 Mr Sam - Lyteo
• 2004 Angel City - Touch Me
• 2003 Push - Journey Of Life
• 2002 Jam X & De Leon - Mind Made Up
• 2002 Marc Aurel - Sound Of Love 3 Versions • 2002 Ayumi Hamasaki - Dearest
• 2002 NU NRG - Dreamland
• 2001 Delerium - Underwater 2 Versions • 2001 Ayumi Hamasaki - Far Away
• 2000 Angelic - It’s My Turn
• 2000 Baby D - Let Me Be Your Fantasy
• 2000 Cygnus X - Superstring 3 Versions • 2000 System F - Cry
• 2000 Mary Griffin - Perfect Moment
• 2000 York - Reachers Of Civilization
• 2000 Tunnel Allstars - Blue Lagoon 3 Versions Unreleased • 2009 Rank 1 Vs. Lucid - I Can't Help There Be Light Rank 1 Mash-Up • 2006 Rank 1 - Brairwave Rank 1 Mash-Up • 2004 Rank 1 - Untitled Track Experimental Hardstyle Track • 2002 Gouryella - Ligaya Rank 1 Remix Rejected • 2000 Chakra - Home Rank 1 Remix Rejected • 2000 Rank 1 Vs. Marco V & Benjamin Bates - Untitled Track Albums • 2002 Symsonic DVD -Live At Trance Energy 2002 Mix Compilations • 2011 Trance Nation Rank 1 • 2010 EnTrance Presents High Contrast Mixed By Rank 1 & Jochen Miller • 2009 Trance Energy 2009 Mixed By John O’Callaghan & Rank 1 • 2008 Techno Club Vol. 28 Mixed By Talla 2XLC And Rank 1 • 2008 High Contrast Presents Rank 1
• 2004 A Trip In Trance 4
• 2004 ID&T Presents Rank 1 For A Complete Discography And Sound Samples Of All Their Songs Take A Look At Either Http //www.Bervoetsdegoeij.Nl/ Much Respect And Credit To Gert Egscholten For Having Kept Record Of All Rank 1 Releases Throughout The Years Http //ur1ft.Blogspot.Nl/ Or Http //www.Discogs.Com/artist/Rank 1.

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: Opus 17

Written Composed & Arranged By Benno De Goeij.

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