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MAARTEN VORWERK

Search for Maarten Vorwerk online and you’ll be presented with hundreds of theories around his ghost-producing prowess – depending on which of these theories you choose to believe, there was probably a time where Maarten’s touch was peppered all over the DJ Top 100 and the pop charts, too.

He may have made his name in the industry helping with production for some of the world’s biggest names in EDM, but he’s also a successful artist in his own right, releasing under his now relaunched Jeckyll & Hyde alias among many others. Now, after a few years living in Aruba, he’s back in his home country of the Netherlands and has custom-built his dream Star Wars-inspired studio.

MusicTech Tell us about your journey into music production. Did you learn instruments first as a child, were you a DJ, or did you start out with programming and synths?

As a young kid in around ’90 to ’92, I got fascinated by the Dutch hardcore scene in Rotterdam where I grew up. I believe this was the biggest influence in my musical

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