Van Rijen (Ruud)   (Netherlands)

EuroDance producer
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Latest Ruud Van Rijen news

25/02/2016 : Twenty 4 Seven producer Ruud van Rijen published a bootleg remix of Haddaway's classic What Is Love.

04/06/2014 : Ruud Van Rijen did a special 2k14 remix for Red 5's classic I love you stop!. It will be out on July.

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Ruud Van Rijen singles

Dropp It (with Squin)

2012

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Featurings and collaborations

Twenty 4 Seven - Slave To The Music

13th Aug 1993

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Productions, co-production, executive production

	Twenty 4 Seven - I Can't Stand It	Sep 1989	BUY X
	MC Fixx it - Let's Move	1990	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Are You Dreaming	24th Nov 1990	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - It Could Have Been You	11th Sep 1992	BUY X
	RVR - Play The Game	1993	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Slave To The Music	13th Aug 1993	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Is It Love	14th Nov 1993	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Take Me Away	28th Feb 1994	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Leave Them Alone	30th Jun 1994	BUY X
	2nd Nature - Crazy World	20th Jul 1994	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Oh Baby !	15th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Keep On Tryin'	8th May 1995	BUY X
	Zayn - Take Me High	1996	BUY X
	Fixx-it - Set Me On Fire	1996	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - We Are The World	30th Aug 1996	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - If You Want My Love	27th Mar 1997	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Friday Night	Aug 1997	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Ne Ne	Sep 1999	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Like Flames	Sep 2007	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Do You Want Me	18th Jan 2021	BUY X

Arrangement, recording, engineer

Twenty 4 Seven - Do You Want Me

18th Jan 2021

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Compositions

	Twenty 4 Seven - I Can't Stand It	Sep 1989	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Oh Baby !	15th Oct 1994	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Keep On Tryin'	8th May 1995	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Friday Night	Aug 1997	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Do You Want Me	18th Jan 2021	BUY X

Songwriting

	Twenty 4 Seven - I Can't Stand It	Sep 1989	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Are You Dreaming	24th Nov 1990	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - It Could Have Been You	11th Sep 1992	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Slave To The Music	13th Aug 1993	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Is It Love	14th Nov 1993	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Take Me Away	28th Feb 1994	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Leave Them Alone	30th Jun 1994	BUY X
	2nd Nature - Crazy World	20th Jul 1994	BUY X
	Zayn - Take Me High	1996	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - We Are The World	30th Aug 1996	BUY X
	Twenty 4 Seven - Friday Night	Aug 1997	BUY X

Aliases - Records released under other names

	RVR - Play The Game	1993	BUY X
	Ru-D - Everybody Jump	Aug 2004	BUY X

Ruud Van Rijen biography

Producer of Twenty 4 Seven

Ruud was born in Baarle Hertog (Belgium) in January 1964, but only lived there for just one month. His parents decided to move and take the whole family back to Holland where he spent his whole schooltime. As a young kid he used to play with hammers and nails all day, trying to create all sorts of things and funny figures. At the age of 14 years, he decided to become a carpenter. After he took his degree, he started working for several companies as a carpenter and wood-manufacturer. But that job did not give him the fulfilment he had planned in his life.

It was during work when he heard a 2 hour non-stop mix of dancemusic on the radio, by Ben Liebrand, the most popular D.J./mixer at that time. The next day, he bought buying 2 turntables and started spending all his sparetime on mixing. He recorded his mixes on cassette-tapes and offered them to the local clubs, which loved his mixes. He kept on developping his mixing-skills and by delivering newspapers, he was able to make small investments in equipement. Not long after this he participated in a mix-contest, for the first time, and amazed himself by winning. After this victory many important mix- and DJ-contests and victories followed (local and national championships). At one of the contests he won, his big idol, Ben Liebrand, was member of the jury. Right after the contest Ben Liebrand walked up to Ruud and told him that he was astonished by Ruud's skills and talent. "A memorable moment..."

From here on he started working in a more professional way and started DJ-ing in several clubs, making mixes for the most popular radioprogrammes of nationally broadcasting stations. Because of all this work, he got wellknown in the scene and he earned enough money to start a small recording studio. He was always working with records from other people, so he got very curious if he could produce one of his own. So he produced an instrumental track and added a few vocal pieces from other records (samples) to it and his first record was born : Rock This World under the name of Drivin Force. He amazed himself and his friends and family again by pumping this dance-track into the top 10 of the National Dance-charts !

He was convinced that with originally recorded vocals (singing and rapping) his records would be perfect to cross-over to radio and finally to the national play- and salescharts. He created an act called Twenty 4 Seven, produced their first single I Can't Stand It, and before he realized it, all his records even crossed all borders of the world. Ruud decided to start up his own record company. In his first studio in Dommelen (The Netherlands) he made the first Twenty 4 Seven singles and the albums Streetmoves and I Wanna Show You. Then in 1995 he moved to Lommel (Belgium).

He kept on remixing tracks for other artists, such as 2 Brothers on the 4th Floor (the Twenty 4 Seven Trance Mix and Dub Mix for the single Dreams), MC Fixx-It (Let's Move), the Klubbheadz, BBE or Gigi d'Agostino. He eventually created his own records company. He also produced and composed an excellent eurodance song for American actor Jeremy Jackson - You Really Got It Going On.

Ruud van Rijen productions

2nd Nature - Crazy World (1994)
911 - The 4 Commitments (2000), I Am Better (2000)
Basic Blue - Falling Rain (1998)
Electro 2 - Feel The Drive (2000)
Drivin' Force - Rock This World (1988), Who's The One For Me (1988)
Fantasy 2 - Take Me Far Away (1995)
Jeremy Jackson - You Really Got It Going On (1997)
Loop - Spread Your Wings (2000)
MC Fixx-It - Let's Move (1990), Set Me On Fire (1995)
Pinball - Runaway (1997), This Is My House (1998), Confusion (1998), The Final Countdown (1999)
R&J - Il Veliero (1992)
Ru-D - Everybody Jump (2004)
Ruudman - La Nina (2000), Evalha (2001), Heaven Is A Place On Earth (2002)
RVR - Play The Game (1994)
The Castle - Elvis Has Left The Building (1992)
Twenty 4 Seven
Venice - Another Kiss (1998)
Zayn - Take Me High (1996)

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Ruud Van Rijen biography was last updated Sun, August 13th 2023

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