Today is the birthday of Dutch TV presenter, radio DJ and producer Wessel van Diepen. Wessel started his career early with his own illegal radio station which he run from his parents house. Later he began his official career at VARA on Radio 3. After that he moved on to Radio Veronica. In 1989 he joined Lex Harding in a move to commercial TV station RTL Véronique. Not fot long cause after two years he moved back to Veronica where he presented legendary TV show Countdown.
In 1992 he was one of the DJ’s who was with Radio 538 from the start. Besides the regular programs he also got the chance to run a program dedicated to dance music. He presented 538 Dance Department for 14 years. At some point he was one of the most influential people in dance music in the Netherlands.
Besides presenting music on both radion and TV he also produced muisc himself. Most people know that Wessel was one of the guys behind the huge succes from the Vengaboys. But besides them he was involved in lots of other music. So today, my Top10 tracks where Wessel van Diepen was involved. Happy B’day Wessel!
1. Fire On High – Float In A Dream Of Ex-TC
2. Danski & DJ Delmundo – Deejay Survivalkit – You And Me
If I would give this some more listening time, there would be more Danski & Delmundo tracks in this list.