Bingo Players (Maarten Hoogstraten) is a Dutch dance and electro house DJ and record producer. Bingo Players was born in 2006.
Maarten's first piece of action began back in 2006, when Bingo Players was born by Dutch DJs Maarten Hoogstraten and Paul Bäumer. They signed to their own record label Hysteria records and got to work on what would be a break through in electronic fused dance music. Their career has been short but sweet, little but effective. They haven't seen much chart action but their dance music originates from Disclosure and later sounding Swedish House Mafia.
Tragically the band had a major defining moment in 2013 when the other half of Bingo Players, Paul announced via Facebook that he was a victim of cancer. Only months after been diagnosed Paul died of his horrible illness leaving Maarten to take to the stage alone.
Maarten has carried the torch high and played thousands of shows now for the last year completely solo, with Paul in his heart and spiritually there on the decks. I's remarkable and heart lifting to hear their music and watch the live sets knowing that Maarten plays with twice as much passion now.
With everything bad comes something good and that would be the case as around the same time as Pauls passing, Bingo players snatched up their first number one single 'Knock You Out,' in the US dance chart.
Ana Popovic
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