Born Iason Chronis on 17 January 1980 in Amsterdam, the Dutch electro-house DJ
and producer known as Mason started out down a purely classical route, picking
up the violin at six and joining the Dutch children's choir on TV show Kinderen
voor Kinderen, but later spied a gap in the dance music market. He began honing
his DJing abilities in the mid-1990s, skillfully incorporating some of his
violin playing into these early sets and bringing the instrument into a live
performance space while on tour with Tiësto in 2004. His first releases as Mason
saw the light around this time, int...