Mason Biographie

Mason was born in Amsterdam as Iason Chronis, son of a Dutch actress and a
Greek sculptor. At the age of 6, he really wanted to play violin and he
kept on taking lessons in classic and jazz music ever since. With his
grandmothers turntables and an old tape deck he was eager to start mixing
in his early teens, as he saw footage of turntablists and hiphop DJs in
America. Although he was way too young to legally enter a bar, he started
to DJ in local clubs around his hometown.

At the end of the 90s Mason got more and more DJ gigs and integrated his
electric violin and effects into his DJ sets. Things became quite hectic,
as he was often asked to play in countries abroad, while he had just
started to study Music Composition and Performance. He finished 4 years
later, cum laude and received an award for from the Dutch Royal Family for
his graduation. These years he spent on composing and performing all kinds
of music, but after he graduated Masons main focus was back on dance music.
His first record Helikopter EP was released in 2004, which was a mixture of
italo, breakbeat and electro.

As he kept on DJ-ing around, DJ Tiësto saw Mason playing in South America
and asked him to play electric violin alongside him during his Tiësto in
Concerts. Mason joined him on parts of his world tour as a support DJ as
well. In the summer of 2005 his second release The Screetch, a chunky
breaks tune on the Dutch imprint Middle Of The Road Music, got picked up by
quite a lot of djs, like Tiga, Sebastien Leger, and Roman Flugel.

Mason became the resident DJ for the infamous Electronation parties and
played in Holland in clubs like Paradiso, Melkweg, Paard, Panama and
festivals like Dancevalley, Mysteryland, Sensation and Extrema Outdoor.
Things got more and more serious with gigs throughout South America, USA,
Asia and Europe, but it wasnt until his 3rd release Exceeder that things
went really fast. As Great Stuff Recordings released Exceeder, together
with the help of Ministry of Sound and Middle Of The Road, the track became
a huge club hit and was supported by all kinds of DJs from Fatboy Slim to
Eric Prydz, and from Sharam Jey to Pete Tong, who made the track the
Essential Tune at BBC Radio 1.

Since the summer of 2006, Mason is very busy in his new studio and got many
remix requests from Luetzenkirchen, Groove Rebels, Patrick Alavi, Sharam
Jey, Malente and for Ministry of Sound, Great Stuff Recordings and CR2.
Also new releases are coming up Bigboy Exercises on Middle Of The Road, The
Benedict Files on Aleph Recordings and When Farmers Attack on Loulou
Records. He has got some serious problems sitting still, so in between he
keeps on writing new tracks partly for his debut album, scheduled for
spring 2007. He also started to perform his funky electro and synthpop live
on stage with his music partner Coen Berrier as Mason & The Maker.