Artist:   Mason

Mason was born as Iason Chronis in Amsterdam with two artists as parents. At the age of 6, he already played violin quite well and he kept taking lessons in classical and jazz ever since. With his grandmothers turntables and an old tape deck he was eager to start mixing in his early teens. Although he was way too young to legally enter a bar, he started to dj in local clubs around his hometown. But this wasn’t enough for him, so he also took lessons in other instruments, worked for a national dance-radio show, and started to gather gear to produce his own electronic music.

At the end of the 90’s Mason got more and more DJ gigs and integrated his electric violin and effects into his dj sets. Things became quite hectic, as he was often asked to play in countries abroad. He started to study ‘Music Composition and Performance’ at the Utrecht School of Art, and gained experience in composing all kinds of music, as well as in the technical aspects of sound synthesis.

Four years later he graduated -cum laude- and received an award from the Dutch Queen for the composition and performance work he’d done. As Mason’s music interests have always been varied, he composed music for several commercials, as well as jazzy down tempo songs, but also his first dance release in 2003, called ‘Helikopter EP". As he kept on dj-ing around the world, he got noticed by dj Tiesto in South America, who invited him to play violin during his Tiesto In Concert events for more than 75.000 people, and also included him as a support dj during parts of his world tour in 2005. When Mason released his club hit ‘The Screetch’, he got loads of positive feedback and licenses from DJ’s like Eric Prydz, Alter Ego, Dave Clarke, Roman Flugel, Dr. Lektroluv, and even got signed to Tiga’s latest mix cd.

Nowadays Mason is quite a busy guy. He’s a resident dj for the infamous Electronation parties, and is touring throughout the Netherlands to the nicest clubs, like the Paradiso, Tivoli, Paard, Las Palmas, Now & Wow, Panama and Melkweg, and festivals like Dance Valley, Mysteryland, Sensation, Parkpop, Extrema Outdoor and Impulz, where he played with the biggest dance artists of today. Also abroad his schedule doesn’t leave much space. From China to Miami, from South America to Russia, and Finland in between Germany and Singapore. His sound is a mixture of electro and funky breaks, with a tech-house and pop flavour, which he blends together in an energetic mix of own edits and productions. His latest record, ‘Exceeder’, released on several labels in winter 2006 got tipped as one of the coolest tunes of the winter by big names like Tiga, Jesper Daelback, Freeform Five and Eric Prydz. In January 2006 he also started to perform his own music live on stage with his studio partner Coen Berrier as ‘Mason & The Maker’.

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