Don Diablo

Don Diablo
Background information
Origin	Coevorden, The Netherlands
Genres	Electro, Disco, Dubstep
Years active	2004–present
Labels	Sony Music
Website	www.dondiablo.com

Don Diablo (born February 27, 1980 as Don Pepijn Schipper) is a Dutch record producer, songwriter, artist, DJ. His parents named him after Don van Vliet (Captain Beefheart).

Biography

Don Diablo is an Amsterdam-based dj/producer, who produces his own music, does remixes and production work for other artists, (co)directs his own musicvideos and travels around the globe to do DJ-gigs. After signing his first record deal at age fifteen, Don Diablo has had the opportunity to grow as a producer as well as an artist. His music is a blend of musical styles varying from electro to dubstep and from downtempo electronica to drum & bass. At the end of 2005, Don Diablo founded his own record label and event brand, Sellout Sessions, and started fine-tuning his own sound and raising his profile in his native country, the Netherlands. Success followed soon after with (underground) hits like "Blow," "Who's Your Daddy", "Pain Is Temporary, Pride Is Forever", "Hooligans" and "Animale". "Blow" was the first single to be rolled out internationally and got licensed to over ten territories after creating quite a buzz in the club scene.

Don Diablo's hectic tour schedule has taken him from London to Tokyo and from Miami to Sydney, playing at clubs and festivals like Glastonbury, Creamfields, Tomorrowland, Future Music Festival, Ministry of Sound, Razzmatazz and Space (Ibiza) to name a few. While travelling the world, Don Diablo also managed to complete his studies and scoop up a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism. Besides his own career as an artist, Don Diablo has also produced for other people. You can hear one of his co-productions “Make You Pop” in the brand new (worldwide) Diplo Blackberry campaign. Don recently worked with artists like Rox, Example, Dragonette, Sidney Samson, Diplo and Ou est le Swimming pool and remixed for the Tinie Tempah, Mika, Chemical Brothers, Cassius, Gorillaz, Public Enemy, Iggy Pop, Plump DJ's and many others (see below for a full list). Don Diablo proved his ability in A & R by discovering, signing and then licensing the UK top 3 chart hit Exceeder by Mason. The record was originally signed to Middle of the Road; a record label set up by Don Diablo and infamous Amsterdam based club promoter Roy Avni (Electro Nation) who passed away in 2010.

Don Diablo has also been very active in the blogscene. According to North American music blog aggregator The Hype Machine he was named “Most Blogged Artist' in the world several times. Which did not just give lots of kudos from the internet community and the alternative press, but also brought him in contact with artists like Diplo, Example and the singer of the Canadian electropop group Dragonette: Martina Sorbara. A collaboration between the two resulted in the single: “Animale”. The musicvideo that accompanied the single became a big online hit and was nominated for a TMF award in the category "best video of the year" (2011).

Discography

Compilations

Title	Release date	Label
Don Diablo - Sellout Sessions 01	27 November 2005	Sellout Sessions
Don Diablo - Sellout Sessions 02	2 May 2008	Sellout Sessions
Don Diablo - Sellout Sessions 03	November 2010	Sony Music

Remixes

Year	Artist	Title
2005	Voidd	"Better Girl"
2006	MV	"Mr. Roboto"
2006	2Faced	"Rock Music"
2006	Coburn	"We Interrupt this Program"
2006	Kraak & Smaak	"Money in the Bag"
2007	Mason	"You Make Me Wanna Dance"
2007	Imaginary Friends	"Cheap Rocks"
2007	The Young Punx	"Your Music is Killing Me"
2007	Laidback Luke	"Rocking with the Best"
2007	Newton Faulkner	"Dream Catch Me"
2007	Ron Carroll	"Walking Down the Street"
2007	Public Enemy vs Don Diablo	"Give It Up"
2008	Kaseo	"Kill the Radio"
2008	Tami Chynn ft. Akon	"Frozen"
2009	Rudenko	"Everybody"
2009	J-Cast	"It's Just Begun Again"
2009	Kaz James ft. Macy Gray	"Can't Hold Back"
2009	Tila Tequila	"I Love U"
2009	Walter Meego	"Girls"
2009	The BPA ft. Iggy Pop	"He's Frank"
2009	Plump DJs	"Beat Myself Up"
2009	Cagedbaby	"Forced"
2009	Stereo MC's	"Show Your Light"
2009	Dragonette	"Fixin to Thrill"
2009	Little Man Tate	"I Am Alive"
2009	Scanners	"Salvation"
2009	Linus Loves	"Prom Night"
2009	One eskimO	"Givin' Up"
2009	Heads We Dance	"When the sirens sound"
2009	Plushgun	"Crush to pass the time"
2009	Example	"Girl Can't Dance"
2009	Frankmusik	"Confusion Girl"
2009	Master Shortie	"Dead End"
2009	Mika	"We Are Golden"
2009	Viva City vs Don Diablo	"Audio Endlessly"
2010	Cassius	"Youth, Speed, Trouble, Cigarettes"
2010	The Chemical Brothers	"Swoon"
2010	Gorillaz	"Superfast Jellyfish"
2010	Rox	"I don't believe"
2010	Don Diablo and Diplo	"Make You Pop"
2010	Pete Lawrie	"All that we keep"
2010	Don Diablo and Example	"Hooligans"
2011	Don Diablo ft. Dragonette	"Animale"
2011	Tinie Tempah ft. Wiz Khalifa	"Till I'm Gone"

Awards and nominations

Nominations

TMF Awards 2007

• Best Music Video - "Pain is Temporary, Pride is Forever"^[1]

TMF Awards 2011

• Best Music Video - "Don Diablo ft. Dragonette - Animale"

3FM Awards 2011

• Best Artist Dance | alongside Tiesto, Armin van Buuren and Sander Kleinenberg"

Won

Esquire Best Dressed Man Awards 2007

• Holland's Best Dressed Man of the Year^[2]

GKA Awards 2007

• Most Popular Dutch DJ^[3]

Trivia

• Don Diablo always works alone in the studio, because he has a very strange way of making music and he likes to work naked.^[4]

• Don Diablo likes to drink milk during his DJ-sets, sings on all of his own records, has never done drugs and eats desserts three times a day.^[5]

• Don Diablo was the first ambassador for Dance4Life; an international UN-supported action campaign to fight back against HIV and AIDS. Don travelled to South Africa to visit several Dance4Life affiliated projects in Johannesburg and Cape Town. MTV Networks shot an intense documentary of Don’s visit to these projects.^[6]

References

1. ^ http://www.futuremusiccharts.nl/nlpop/2007/09/nominaties_tmf_.html
2. ^ http://www.esquire.nl/magazine/?mid=40
3. ^ http://www.tmf.nl/artiesten/nieuws/93334/don_diablo_favoriete_dj.html?vStatus=aWQ9OTMzMzQmdHlwZT10aXBzJmxpc3RfbGltaXQ9MTAmc2Vzc19wcm9maWxlX2lkPTAmbT1jb21tb24vdmlkZW9fdHJhY2tzX2xpc3Q=
4. ^ http://www.dondiablo.com
5. ^ http://www.myspace.com/dondiablo
6. ^ http://www.dance4life.com

External links

• Official Website