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Jürgen Driessen
12+ albums
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Born in the Düsseldorf (Germany) in 1967, it wasn’t long before Jürgen developed a deep interest in music. At the tender age of five he made his first recording on his father’s reel-to-reel and acquired his first drum kit at the age of seven. When he was twelve he received his first synthesizer; the Roland Jupiter 6, which he later connected, MIDI style, to a drum machine and C64. At fourteen he received his first booking for the graduation party at his school, after which he began earning more and more bookings and by the time he'd turned eighteen he was DJing professionally. As fate would have it, 1993 was the year he met up with Marc et Claude and DJ Bossi, with whom he worked on his first professional recording. One of their subsequent productions was to become the very first release on the label Le Petit Prince/Alphabet City (Germany). Jürgen's eventual breakthrough came in 1994 with the release of his most successful club track to date, 'Epidemic', under the alias of Exit EEE. Nine years on and having been re-released numerous times, this track is still named as an inspiration and measuring pole for many producers. A short while later Jürgen acquired his interest in 'acid' music and together with Plank made their debut release on Important Records with 'Acid War'. 1994 was also the year he became the A&R of Important Records, Germany´s leading acid-imprint at that time. Consequently, he formed Acrid Abeyance alongside Plank. Meanwhile, as Exit EEE as well as and Acrid A
