Yves Deruyter

Yves Deruyter is a Belgian DJ and artist famous for his work on Bonzai Records.

DJ-ing

Yves Deruyter started his DJ career in 1985 and has played in Belgian clubs such as Globe, Barocci, Cherrymoon, Extreme, Carat, BBC, and La Rocca. In 1991, like so many DJs, he also started an artist career. Since then he has been signed to Bonzai Records. His first single "Animals" became a big club hit in Belgium.Fact|date=September 2007 At this stage people started watching artists like Yves Deruyter for playing on big raves such as May Day, Energy, Love Parade, Street Parade, Nature One, Trance Energy, Mysteryland, Inner City, Sensation Black, Dance Valley, Groundzero, Frequence, Decibel Outdoor, Defcon, Gatecrasher, I love Techno, Antwerp is Burning, City Parade, and Tomorrowland.

With his second single he made a big jump into the German market. "Rave City" became a big success with more than 50.000 units sold.Fact|date=September 2007 The follow up "Calling Earth" was again a succes with 70.000 singles sold.Fact|date=September 2007 All this was the start of a successful story. "A Story About House" was to be the next Cherrymoon Traxhuh single, but due to problems with the clubhuh it was changed into a new Yves Deruyter single. Unfortunately this single didn't really break anything. Nevertheless, his follow-up single, "The Rebel," was immediately signed for the world. "The Rebel" was a top tune and the real international breakthrough for Yves Deruyter. This single was also the announcement for his first album, "D-Album", containing all the singles from past and future.huh During this period he also started the musical outlet of the Cherrymoon where he was playing. So far he made four Cherrymoon Trax singles of which the first, "The House of House," and the last single, "In My Electric House," were again successful in Germany.

All this in combination with the first 3D black and white video made by Frank Dewulf who became an important artist with his B-side releases. Yves Deruyter's vision in his music is: making music for the people. It is important to him that people have fun while they're listening/dancing to his music. In the past he used to work with Frederico Santini, but the last couple of years his counterpart was Dirk "M.I.K.E." Dierickx (Push, The Blackmaster, M.I.KE., Moon Project, etc.) who is currently one of the most important producers from Bonzai Records. The single "Rhythmic Bazz" was released in June 2001. This single was taken from the album "2001" as well as "Back to Earth". The follow-up single was "Music-Nonstop", which also got a remix-package with remixes from e.g. Ton TB (Three Drives).

His most recent release was "Spiritual Feeling/Y.D.O.T.", which did pretty good all over Europe.Fact|date=September 2007 His new single will be a re-release of "Spiritual Feeling", which will also include a "Dolphin remix". He made this remix together with L-Vee (Airwave).

"Infinity" and "Timeless Trance"

Since his cover of Underworld's classic "Born Slippy", Yves Deruyter has been working hard the last couple of months. His new track "Infinity" has just been released and is selected as record of the month by the German dance magazine Raveline.Fact|date=September 2007 Because of the all positive response, the record will also be released as a single in January 2008 , including vocals which were recorded in September 2007. Also Deruyter's mix cd "Timeless Trance" was recently released in Germany and is being exported to the rest of the world. This cd contains classic Bonzai trance tracks from the last two years.

Producing

He started his artist-career in 1992, when he signed a contract with Bonzai Records and released his first single, 'Animals'. His second single, 'Rave City', gave him a place in the house-classics (especially in Germany) and sold over 50,000 copies. His third single, 'Calling Earth', did even better with over 70,000 copies sold.

The single that did best, "The Rebel", also led to his first album titled "D-Album".

He also released music under the alias Cherrymoon, after the club he played in.

Album

The album was released in 1998 on Orbit Records.

Tracklisting

# - To The Rhythm (Signum Radio Cut) (3:39)
# - A Story About House (Original Mix) (7:58)
# - Calling Earth (DJ Errikk's '97 Total Reconstruction Mix) (4:02)
# - Sexy Animals (6:08)
# - The Rebel (Original Mix) (3:55)
# - Factor Y (6:47)
# - To The Rhythm (6:14)
# - The Limit (5:50)
# - Bass Mekaniks (5:46)
# - Me, Myself & Mike (5:54)
# - Outsiders (Original Mix) (5:25)
# - Rave City (Cherry Mix) (4:43)
# - Feel Free (8:06)

External links

* [http://www.ydr.be// Official site]
* [http://www.myspace.com/yvesderuyter// Offical Myspace Page]