Dirk Maassen - An Island

Born in Winter 1970 I spent my early days in a smalltown near Aachen right at the Border to the Netherlands. My first contact with music was one of these legendary carnival processions which made me feel in so many different colors that I knew right away that music must be one of the most wonderful things in life.

As life plays while I grew up I was influenced by the upcoming 80s synth pop wave, bought my first synthesizer and started out playing in different synth pop bands including some life gigs in small clubs and later on also took part in some festivals and cd productions. Nothing too serious but at the age of 19 we thought we where close to breakthrough having our first CDs in the local record store and few hundred people joining our concerts ;-) Apparently there was no breakthrough so we all spread and turned into some more effective and serious.

After a long pause I found my way back to the piano in 2011 and started composing again in 2012. As I am an software engineer at daytime I am making music preferably early morning or late at night which is not only a matter of time but also a very inspiring daytime for making music.

In this sense I hope you enjoy my music, share it, like it and drop me a line.