van Diepen (Wessel)   (Netherlands)

AKA : Delmundo, Maxx Mondino, Wilbert van Diepenbroek
EuroDance producer
Added : 11/08/2012
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1994

Featurings and collaborations

Lick - Got To Move Your Body

15th Aug 1994

BUY X

Productions, co-production, executive production

	LA Style - I'm Raving	1992	BUY X
	Lick - Got To Move Your Body	15th Aug 1994	BUY X
	Lick - I'm The Girl of Your Dreams	28th Mar 1995	BUY X
	E-Motion - So In Love With You	30th Aug 1995	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Parada De Tettas	1997	BUY X
	Vengaboys - To Brazil	1997	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Up And Down	Mar 1997	BUY X
	Vengaboys - We Like To Party (The Vengabus)	Apr 1998	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom	14th Jun 1999	BUY X
	Vengaboys - We're Going To Ibiza	30th Aug 1999	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine)	24th Nov 1999	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Shala Lala	27th Feb 2000	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Uncle John From Jamaica	14th May 2000	BUY X
	Alice Deejay - Will I Ever	29th May 2000	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Cheekah Bow Bow (That Computer Song)	18th Sep 2000	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Forever As One	12th Feb 2001	BUY X

Arrangement, recording, engineer

	LA Style - I'm Raving	1992	BUY X
	Vengaboys - We're Going To Ibiza	30th Aug 1999	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Shala Lala	27th Feb 2000	BUY X

Compositions

	Lick - Got To Move Your Body	15th Aug 1994	BUY X
	Lick - I'm The Girl of Your Dreams	28th Mar 1995	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Parada De Tettas	1997	BUY X

Songwriting

	Lick - I'm The Girl of Your Dreams	28th Mar 1995	BUY X
	E-Motion - So In Love With You	30th Aug 1995	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom	14th Jun 1999	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Kiss (When The Sun Don't Shine)	24th Nov 1999	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Uncle John From Jamaica	14th May 2000	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Cheekah Bow Bow (That Computer Song)	18th Sep 2000	BUY X
	Vengaboys - Forever As One	12th Feb 2001	BUY X

Wessel van Diepen biography

Producer and composer Wessel van Diepen was born on 12th November 1966 in Delft (Netherlands). He was the youngest in a family of 4 children. His parents had a little store in Delft.

At 15 he started his own illegal radiostation called "Radio Stad Delft". When he was was 17, during a holiday in Wichita (Kansas, United States), he made a radio roadtrip, visiting several stations in that area. In KKRD he met a DJ who gave him the unique opportunity to fill in for him on air for a period of 3 months. Back in The Netherlands, in 1986, he got noticed by 3FM DJ Rob Stenders and through him he got his demo to several Dutch radio-stations in broadcasting capital Hilversum. After numerous offerings Wessel decided to accept a job as a DJ at the VARA Broadcasting Association.

His unique style was quickly noticed by popular broadcasting organisation Veronica. They wanted to recruit him for some radio and TV programms which included the Europe-wide broadcast popmusic TV show Countdonw, which shot Wessel to international fame.

In the early 90s Veronica moguls Erik de Zwart and Lex Harding deserted Veronica and started Radio 538 (nowadays #1 radiostation in The Netherlands), and Wessel ended up going with them. Besides hitting big ratings with a daily drive-time show, he took the opportunity to exploit his dance minded side and created the internationally awarded radioshow "Van Diepen's Dance Department", where every notable DJ spinned vinyl, ranging from Oakenfold to Digweed and from Paul van Dyk to Tiësto. When Dutch musicvideo channel TMF (The Music Factory) was launched in 1995 and Wessel got on board, he once again gained tv fame as a VJ with a popular show called "Wessels Woelige Wereld" (something like: "Wessels Wild World"), which he hosted until 1999.

During the 90's he also started producing hitmusic, together with Denzil Slemming, Peran van Dijk and later Dennis van Den Driesschen (Danski), leading to successful acts such as L.A. Style James Brown Is Dead (he did the trademark megaphone catchphrase himself), Nakatomi (Free, Children Of The Night), and eventually worldwide phenomenons Vengaboys. He also co-produced some Alice Deejay singles. He also contributed to Partners In Crime, Fun Da Mental, E-Motion, Lick, Fire On High... Over the last 13 years, the Vengaboys alone sold over 15 million singles, 4.5 million albums, went platinum in 73 countries and they performed in more than 130 different countries.

Wessel also owns a recordcompany called Violent Records. Nowadays, Wessel is considered as the most succesful pop dance producer in Dutch music history.

Wessel van Diepen biography was last updated Wed, January 6th 2021

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