Andre de Jong

Andre de Jong (real name Andre Bentrup) was born in Bielefeld in 1977. He developed his musical talent in childhood by attending the Bielefeld Music and Art School for many years and by learning to play the flute. As a child Andre was inspired by synth pop bands like Alphaville and Depeche Mode. Inspired by bands like Metallica and Nirvana, he began playing drums in his youth, later switching to electric guitar and becoming lead guitarist for the melodic metal band Precarious. In 1996, Andre bought a Roland MC-303 groovebox from his late grandma’s inheritance. He started playing live acts and was a DJ on Sundays at Café Europa in Bielefeld. As a live act Andre had gigs next to Steve Mason, Tom Novy, Mark Spoon, Timo Maas and Westbam, to name a few. Andre`s music was featured several times on Evosonic Radio in the „Unreleased Tracks“ and he got a place on the Evosonic Club Members CD with the track „Chicken Wings“. The track „2mille.de“ was released on 08/15 Record on the sampler „Brettbeatz Vol. 1“. Furthermore Andre produced the anthem of the 2000s „Future Parade“, a kind of offshoot of the Love Parade. The name of the track was „Always the Sun“ and Andre played a legendary live act on the aftershow. After a longer abstinence from the electronic music scene, he is back with new productions since 2020 and can be found as precarious_music on Instagram.