Maarten Sikke born on April 4, 1990 in Oradea discovered his love for music at the age of 8. At the age of 13 he begins his music activity as a MC and he is also a member in different Romanian Hip Hop organizations. At the age of 16 he meets his friend Dj Adi Filip with whom he starts to collaborate and also influences him to electronic music. In the spring of 2008 he meets Dj Bob Fontana who upholds him to go in the world of electronic music. In the summer of 2008 he meets Dj Florin Hanga from Oradea who also upholds him. In August 2008, at Dj’s Bob Fontana and Dj’s Adi Filip assertiveness, Maarten Sikke makes his first mix entitled Electro Summer. After this promo set he wanted to progress from Electro/Dance to Trance/Progressive, and towards the end of 2009, has progressed to the Tech-Trance genre. In December 2008 he begins his challenge, the first episode of Trance Update and he does not want to stop here.
Maarten works hard developing new, exclusive and innovative trance music, that has already earned her acclaim amongst her peers.
Maarten was inspired by celebrated musicians such as ATB, Paul Van Dyk, Markus Schultz, Sander Van Doorn, Marco V, Marcus Schossow and Estiva amongst others.
Maarten is also an avid Promoter. Combine such ambition with an ongoing desire to continue to produce outstanding, interesting and often uniquely brilliant trance music and only matched by a bright, enthusiastic, friendly and outgoing approach to all she meets, as well as a taste for entertaining the masses.
On Trance Update Episodes, Maarten always tried to bring something extravagant and spectacular collaboration and bring the last appearances in the field of electronic music.
Also, Maarten has been able to overcome the own limits, and fought to have the largest guest mixe’’s in Romania on his show Trance Update, all along he had collaborations with various artists, like Marcel Woods, Ferry Corsten, Jonas Stenberg, Snatt&Vix and many more.
In Fall 2009, Maarten Sikke launches an album only with mash-up remixes with the name Mashup Of My Soul, also he produce many mashup remixes and very beautiful, like: Estiva vs. Aston Martinez – Seduction Privilege [2010], The Viceroy Feat. Steve Anderson – Closer Game [2009], DJ Spoke Vs. Chainside – I Would Die For Milion Miles [2009], and in the year 2010 was made a own production under the name “Maarten Sikke – Depressed Mood”, and this production is part of the tech-house genre.
Now, he continued working on his own productions …
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