Maarten Vorwerk interview; one of the worlds most well known (ghost)producers! | Muzikxpress 055

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Maarten Vorwerk is one of the most well known (ghost)producers of today's dance scene; he's responsible for a massive amount of hits in all kinds of different genres. Maarten recently moved back to The Netherlands, where I sat down with him, in his beautiful new studio!
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[@PhysiqueHalo]

How to be good at producing electronic music: Step 1 - Be Dutch

[@muzikxpress]

Physique Halo 😂

[@philippebackprotips]

Belgium not too bad either.

[@djkidii]

shm - no one from dutch :)

[@YesSirPhil]

I always loved the dutch dj's. And I feel that they still appreciate GOOD Electronic music such as Trance. Which even more surprises me that tiesto plays crap these days... :)

[@millenovecento.]

Italy too...

[@DaRUde117]

Dude I swear this guy made every mainstream track there was back in 2013-2014 😂

[@viktorpanko9689]

great years for elec music

[@DeXorPL]

Yea of course

[@kekethetoad]

You could say that about any years in the last few decades to be fair

[@Whigu]

You should check videos of what Max Martin has done :-D Feels like one guy made most hits of my childhood :-D

[@adriancygan9391]

Total respect to Maarten! His book has lots of great production tips, I would to call it a "Producer Bible"

[@lusz-music]

How is this book called?

[@larrymarsher2918]

king of ghostproducer

[@muzikxpress]

Larry Marsher for sure!

[@maturso7879]

No, the King is KSHMR

[@Usernameavailable412]

Don't forget about Dennis

[@juhasahlstein227]

Very very interesting indeed - didn't know about these tutorials. And it is very important to give a voice for the people behind the hits and images! A good choice of topic!

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks Juha!

[@dkyx]

Hehe, gaaf om te horen, FastTracker II was my beginnings also, around the same time even.

[@muzikxpress]

Even I did some things in FastTracker II on the C64 back in the day, I think I should try to find the MiniDiscs with my own "productions" lol

[@dinfluence30]

Thanks for these precious video's

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you very much!

[@wannabeactuary01]

Another fantastic interview

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you!

[@michellew.3691]

Great interview! Nice studio as well! Subscriped! 👍🔔

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks a lot Michelle!!

[@BoiandonaPista]

Very cool interview! thanks for the content :D

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the interview with Maarten!

[@BoiandonaPista]

@@muzikxpress Thanks :D Keep up with the great job

[@projectm7963]

Legend!!! i luv his music

[@donkeydrop]

Another solid interview! Would be keen to see more interviews from ghost producers in the future and...VdM's interview ;)

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you very much! I actually did contact another well known ghost producer last year, but he said "no" to my request :( But I know someone else who is interested, so hopefully that will happen later this year! And VDM is not gonna happen. Spoke to someone who kinda knows him the other day and he said Vincent wants to say out of the music industry, so also no interview :(

[@nlvooruittv8976]

I agree. VDM is one of the greatest and really wants to know why he wants to stay in the background in the music industry

[@muzikxpress]

@@nlvooruittv8976 I met him once (at the release party of Armin's "76" album at Club Asta in The Hague) and he agreed to do an interview for Trance.nu, where I was working for at that time. But that never happened.... Later I tried again to get in touch with him, but his manager said he doesn't want to do ANY interviews. I recently spoke to someone who spoke to him (via email) and he made it very clear he wants to stay in the background, so even though I would absolutely love to talk to him, I think we should respect his choice.

[@miguelsierra875]

Incredible interview as always Twan! So sad that the interview with Dennis Waakop Reijers couldn't be made.

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! And yeah, maybe he does change his mind one day, but so far no luck.

[@SynthpoploverbyJohnOrie]

Great job again.

[@muzikxpress]

Thanks so much!

[@Dawwwg]

Great interview; always nice to hear how producers got started and what drives (and drove) them (originally) ...

[@bilgecc81]

I started to work with Fast Tracker 2 in 1998...i loved it

[@sofiamar]

Great interview! Keep up the great content 😀

[@muzikxpress]

Sofia thank you Sofia!

[@otpornik]

man i never knew he was behind Mr.Sosa & The Yayo - Cochabamba, that song was huge hit in my country in i think 2005/2006, i was just browsing some old songs and just found it :D

[@TimovanVliet]

Interesting interview, Twan! Funny to know that he really only wants to produce.

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you Timo! And yeah, some people feel more comfortable in the studio. I think it is really cool he doesn't want to go for the big money and just does what he loves doing the most :)

[@TimovanVliet]

@@muzikxpress Agreed! An honest choice and a good thing to share that message to his fellow producers.

[@meltekmusic]

great mindset!!!

[@Deepakufo]

Woah..wakanda really? Thank u Muzikxpress for letting us know about legends😄👍🙌😁I did like wakanda thank you😁🙌

[@muzikxpress]

Yes sir ;-)

[@DJMKN93]

Awesome video

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you very much!

[@cosmos8970]

He has a fanrastic attitude. Huge Fan Here.

[@muzikxpress]

Maarten is great, very friendly and down to earth guy!

[@rodybothe3329]

SUCH A BOSS!!

[@eigojiyouzu]

This guy has the best energy.

[@dicasdoanthony]

Excellent interview, Dancemania, when I started digging about ghost producers I discovered Vorwerk, he is a nice guy and has a production techniques group in facebook and released his book with cool tips. I wish he could start doing production tutorials in youtube, he is very talented.

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! Maarten is a very nice down to earth guy. You can still buy his book (or eBook) with the production tips. And in the interview he said he has plans for new tutorials in the near future ;-)

[@rakib.rahman]

Do you know who did the magikal remake for Tiesto. Curious to know who was the guy behind them.

[@muzikxpress]

About which track / remix are we talking right now? Dennis Waakop-Reijers and Hans-Willem Mallon used to do a lot of his earlier trance releases.

[@rakib.rahman]

Lets say Airscape - L'Esperanza (DJ Tiësto Remix), or his sparkles magikal remake.

[@muzikxpress]

That was Dennis (and Hans-Willem), check Dennis' website: denniswr.com/remixes/

Epic and wakanda wow

[@apostrophefivefivethree6063]

Maarten Vorwerk's literally a wizard

[@099rayyanmir7]

Great Interview ! Would like to see get KSHMR interviewed. I know he doesnt ghost produce now but back then he was one of the most notorious ever , on same level as Vorwerk , i guess.

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you very much, glad you liked the interview! And this vlog is a hobby for me, I don't really make any money with it, so I don't have a travel budget... Which means an interview with KSHMR (who lives in L.A. as far as I know) is most likely not going to happen haha ;-)

[@099rayyanmir7]

@@muzikxpress Maybe a skype interview would work... haha jk ;)

[@muzikxpress]

Naaah, I only want to do face to face interviews, way more personal and the outcome is usually a lot better too in my opinion.

[@r.s.9861]

Legend!

[@djkuco]

Thumbs up for you and Maarten. I used to call him out in the 90s for using a sample from a track i liked, lol. Oh how stupid i was back in those days (Hey Maarten, it's DjKuco if you still remember our msn chats about it, lol).

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! Now I'm curious what track you're talking about hehe ;-)

[@djkuco]

@@muzikxpress Oh man, i do remember that i was convinced he took a sample from cosmic gate's Fire wire or something like that. But i can't remember the vorwerk track :p Back then i thought he just sampled it, but with his skill, i'm pretty sure he made a "soundalike" preset i guess. i was young and silly, lol. I try to look it up for you ^^

[@djkuco]

@@muzikxpress I think it actually was "Epic", but....i remember being only in my early 20's so that's around 2001 ish. Epic is from 2011. So either epic is formed from an old demo i once heard in the end of the 90's/begin 200's cause we used to send snippets to eachother back then or i'm just going crazy here, lol. Only one who really knows is Maarten i guess :)

[@djkuco]

@@muzikxpress Listening to both tracks, it's not the epic track. ^^ Oh man if only my brain could remember :p I was convinced back in the days the melody of one of the cosmic gates tracks was the same as his demo. Grrrr Oud worden eh :p

[@prestigious5s23]

Great interview! I remember many years back, almost 10 years in fact, Mike from Dimitri Vegas and Like Mike contacted me to produce music for them. I had started moving away from music into software at that point, so didn't get much off the ground for them, but often wonder could I have made a decent living in that game had I put more effort into putting stuff together for them.

[@yungp8160]

Really?!

[@prestigious5s23]

@@yungp8160 Yup! I didn't even know who they were. Overheard people in my class in college talking about them one day and When I showed them the emails, they showed me how big they were and that's when it dawned on me I missed a huge opportunity. I used to make and sell synthesizer patches and copyright free melodies that sold quite well, and they were very impressed by the demoes I'd made for them, so found me that way.

[@ignite137]

Maarten is een grote held! Can't wait to visit his masterclass with Luca at Dancefair!

[@muzikxpress]

He is for sure! Enjoy Dancefair!!

[@gokhantaylan8219]

We adore hım since 2011

[@wolterzz3267]

Geweldig interview. Maarten is echt heel open over dit onderwerp. Ik kan niet zeggen dat ik het er mee eens ben (sterker nog, ik was erg teleurgesteld toen ik voor het eerst over ghost producers hoorde), maar hij maakt goede muziek. Trouwens, je weet toch wel dat hij een co-producer is als hij vermeld staat op de credits van de track?

[@muzikxpress]

Dank je! En ja, Maarten is super open, daarom was ik ook erg blij dat ik hem mocht spreken hierover. En je hebt gelijk, maar bij het grootste deel van de mensen staat hij bekend als “ghostproducer”, vandaar dat ik heb besloten om het op die manier te posten.

[@wolterzz3267]

@@muzikxpress Oh, vandaar. Ik weet namelijk dat er nogal wat verwarring kan ontstaan tussen de twee termen. Daardoor worden artiesten die hun muziek wel zelf kunnen maken vaak beschuldigd van het gebruiken van een ghost. Armin van Buuren bijvoorbeeld heeft heel veel van zijn muziek zelf gemaakt, maar sinds 2007 (denk ik) heeft hij een co-producer die alles met hem samen doet (Benno de Goeij van Rank 1). Ook zij zijn daar altijd eerlijk over geweest. Maar Diplo, Timmy Trumpet en Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike doen helemaal niks en gebruiken gewoon echte ghosts, waaronder dus Maarten. Hoe het met Tiësto, David Guetta en Alan Walker zit weet ik niet, sinds ik vrij recent video's van hun heb gezien waarin ze zelf in de studio een track aan het maken zijn. Blijf ook vooral doorgaan met die interviews. Echt heel interessant en leerzaam.

[@muzikxpress]

@@wolterzz3267 Tijs doet niks zelf.... Ik heb zijn oude producer vorig jaar al gevraagd voor een interview, maar helaas.... Armin werkt inderdaad samen met Benno, maar Armin kan in ieder wel zelf produceren. Plus Benno staat altijd netjes in de credits, dus het is niet echt een geheim. P.S. hopelijk kan ik Benno (en wellicht Piet) volgend jaar interviewen. Heb hem er al over gesproken, dus.... fingers crossed ;-)

[@wolterzz3267]

@@muzikxpress Te gek. Zou erg mooi zijn.

[@CinoPORakaDjCino]

I think this answer why so many know djs have time for gigs!

[@muzikxpress]

There are a lot of them who do everything themselves (and often work on music on the road - in planes / in hotels / at airports), but there a a lot of them as well who get help 😉

[@sanderketelaars]

"If the manager doesn't like it, then the Artist gets insecure as well"... Well, maybe the "Artist" should produce the tracks himself? Vorwerk is the only artist on the tracks he produces.

[@thestopmotionvj9474]

🔥🔥🔥

[@darbomusic]

Absolute legend 💖

13:30 Wow I didn't know that

[@danielgamernl2293]

echt grappig ze komen allebei uit nederland

[@muzikxpress]

Wat bedoel je? Maarten en ikzelf?

[@user-dt6pf2sf3j]

nice interview. but i think it would nice to gather technical questions before the interview, for example, does his summing device (dangerbox) improve quality of his sound and etc? good work Twan!

[@muzikxpress]

I'm not a producer / musician myself, so I really don't know much about any of these things. Which is the reason why I'm staying away from these kind of technical questions in all my interviews ;-) Plus I want that my interviews are educational for a bigger audience, not just producers / musicians. There are other channels that focus more on the technical side and things like that, but that's not my intention of my vlogs :) Hope this helps!

[@austro3852]

Thats so funny!!! 😂

[@DJBassBoomBottom]

Vorwerk ghost producing explains the bouncy drum trend in Big room.

[@ruslanr.6171]

you sound like a robot during this video, other than that great interview, thanks

[@muzikxpress]

bleep bleep - thank you - bleep bleep ;-)

[@dragonfireshield1976]

@@muzikxpress hahaha

[@GytonOfficial]

I discovered what ghost production from him few years ago. I started ghost producing and I'm doing this for living now! This is like dream job for me. I'm selling my tracks in www.theghostproduction.com at the moment and making atleast 2-3k € a month, in my country minimum vage is 350€, so it's crazy! Thank you Maarten for letting me know about this dream job❤️❤️ I hope someday I will have a studio like this 😍

[@muzikxpress]

Ah nice one! Always great when you can make a living from what you love doing most, congrats! Hope you enjoyed the interview!

[@GytonOfficial]

muzikxpress thanks! Yes I really enjoyed this interview, it's the best interview with him so far although there is only a few I think, glad you made it, thank you!

[@muzikxpress]

@@GytonOfficial Thank you! I'm lucky Maarten moved back to The Netherlands, so I was able to do this interview with him in his brand new studio ;-)

[@krishnachillation733]

I use to do that dance step when i got surrounded by giants ants..😂😂😂

[@muzikxpress]

Haha! :D

[@SomeroOfficial]

Im curious whats his prize ranges for a ghost produced track to his clients.

[@marcogiordano1207]

10.000

[@otpornik]

what is the name of the song in the background

[@muzikxpress]

There's a few tracks actually, I'm using "Epic" by Sandro Silva & Quintino, a bit of Jeckyll & Hyde's "Freefall", plus a small part of "Vorwerk - Cambodia" as well. So depends which part you're talking about ;-)

[@otpornik]

thank you, the song that i was looking was Vorwerk - Cambodia

[@muzikxpress]

Cheers! That's the cover of the Kim Wilde track :)

[@vinylspell7179]

Who was ghost producing for tiesto, need an interview.. 😎

[@muzikxpress]

Already tried to get an interview with Dennis, but unfortunately he said no….

[@emiel333]

Maarten Vorwerk is a legend to me!

[@scality4309]

ITB, and using a summing mixer. So people say that it is nonsense, and some do not. Curious.

[@ownstyle5878]

The godfather of Big-Room

[@user-rc9pi2nw2o]

13:11 best song of Maarten vorwek

[@wolterzz3267]

Because its 138 BPM for sure. Put your 138 down for a while and start listening to some stuff below it. Also try some other genres. There is always something better that you would like, but haven't found yet.

[@tellyourstorymusicbyikson]

Playstation 3, come on dude

[@JohnPaulBuce]

whats the intro music

[@muzikxpress]

Sandro Silva & Quintino - Epic

[@JohnPaulBuce]

@@muzikxpress thanks, i complete forgot the title 😆

[@muzikxpress]

@@JohnPaulBuce haha all good! What a track that was right? 🔥

[@BishaMusic]

Whats the song name at 9:00?

[@muzikxpress]

Vorwerk - Cambodia (from 2006)

[@BishaMusic]

@@muzikxpress thank you

[@cmullenmusic]

👍

[@HzMusic-te9rp]

A god among men.

[@ALYECTRO23]

Maten is creator of big room

[@ThehcQ]

Insane how many people are frauds , vorwerk on the other hand is a genius

[@jtaul3435]

lo stile con la maglia del Trentino😃

[@BobSayG]

I have nothing against this guy but it’s such a weird industry. You can be a superstar Dj and release music under your name but it’s not produced by you but people reckon its music made by you.

[@mickharrison90]

Anyone notice the bottle of Vodka in his studio haha

[@muzikxpress]

Haha in the old studio you mean?

[@mickharrison90]

@@muzikxpress Yeah, just noticed its on 2 of his photos haha

[@epigon1]

Wanna kiss my self

[@Justfun-fb1rc]

he was producing something for Tiesto?

[@muzikxpress]

As far as I know he didn't. Maarten's name is always in the credits as he explained in the interivew. I can't really recall seeing his name in the credits of a Tiësto track.

[@vrwrk]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ3QhIVpZtJjfZo

[@Ainobolic]

*The myth* *The Man* *The Legend* (David Guetta's musical father)

[@muzikxpress]

I don't think Maarten produced for Guetta ;-)

[@Ainobolic]

@@muzikxpress he did - WeRaveYou mag and edm. com said'

[@Ainobolic]

@@muzikxpress its Giorgio tuinfort guetta's ghost producer checkit

[@muzikxpress]

@@Ainobolic I know Giorgio is one of the people who did (or still does) produce for Guetta, but not Maarten ;-)

[@Ainobolic]

@@muzikxpress ye right

[@Milan_Stojanovic]

Epic? Really? Respect...

[@UrbanLikwid]

How do people who claim to be a Producer/DJ hire someone like Maarten and cool with his name being in the credits. No problem for Maarten its cool what he does but how do you live your life off pretending to be a producer but hire someone else to do it? Freakin Ridiculous.

[@thetest4514]

Who is the ghost producer of Armin Van Buuren? Benno de Goeij?

[@muzikxpress]

Armin can produce, so he doesn’t need a ghostproducer. Benno and Armin work together for many years already, which is not a secret at all. And if that is the case, Benno is being mentioned in the credits. So definitely not a ghostproducer.

[@thetest4514]

@@muzikxpress Thank you very much for your reply. Can you please tell me more ghost producers who's working for popular DJ's? Any youtube links? I want to learn more of them as "Secret" :))

[@muzikxpress]

@@thetest4514 you’re welcome! And there’s a lot more, but I’m not the one who’s gonna expose them, sorry 😉

[@thetest4514]

@@muzikxpress Oh, i understand! :)) Thanks again. You have a very nice channel. I subscribed it. 🖐 Have a good night!

[@muzikxpress]

@@thetest4514 thank you so much! More interviews to come soon! ☺️

[@skeretatta6935]

Worst met appelmoes! :)

[@muzikxpress]

Lekker ;-)

He has almost no accent

[@sasamihalik]

Champagne & Cake - WTF ? - You mean Coke , right ?

[@muzikxpress]

I really have no idea what you are talking about here lol

[@bunnface9511]

Well and do you know who is KSHMR?😂😂😂

[@muzikxpress]

Bunn Face yes I do, why?

[@bunnface9511]

@@muzikxpress hes been a big ghost producer as well.

[@muzikxpress]

Bunn Face yes, I know that as well of course. But why your question? I’m confused?

[@DuartJansen]

I like your vlogs, but you should really work on the pronunciation of your English... It sounds to Dutch... 😂 But for the rest keep up the good work, the content is great!

[@muzikxpress]

Well, I am Dutch ;-) This is just a hobby, I'm not a professional and I know I'm not fluent in English, but I think the content is way more important than the way I pronounce things. As long as people can understand it ;-) I can also do the interviews with Dutch people in Dutch, but than people will complain it is not in English. You can't satisfy everybody haha

[@dinfluence30]

@@muzikxpress I totally agree with

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you! :)

[@DuartJansen]

@@muzikxpress true about that, it just sometimes gets on my nerves when people talk "steenkolen" English and it sort of distracts from the content, but like I mentioned before, the content in the end is what matters so looking forward to more episodes!

[@muzikxpress]

Thank you!

[@pubgaug7310]

Your voice is very robotic

[@naughtyducky6325]

Anyone who uses a ghost producer to write an entire track is cringe and needs to stop being lazy and learn how to produce or get lost from the scene . I have no respect for those types of people. If you’re still new to producing and struggle with somethings I think it’s ok to have a “ghost producer” help you polish your track but that’s it. If you don’t make your own music you have no right calling it your own.

[@jamescrow1203]

I don't like his music. Nowadays 15year old kids make better tracks.

[@muzikxpress]

James Crow can you please name like 3 of those 15 year old kids and the tracks they made then? I’m very curious 😉