DJ Neo

The producer and disc jockey known as DJ Neo is named Christopher Ast in real life. He is internationally recognized as a producer of harder electronic sounds, particularly in the hardstyle genre.

His hardstyle career began in 2003 while he was working for the label Blutonium Records and started exploring the genre. Over the years, he produced many hardstyle classics that influenced and represented the entire scene, such as the tracks Hardstyle Instructor, Make It Loud, Vampires, Acid Overdose, and Floorkilla.

Starting in 2002, he produced major artists in the Blutonium Records catalog, such as Blutonium Boy, DJ Virus, Thomas Trouble, Max B Grant, as well as Dutch artists like Pila, Luna, and Pavo, in addition to his own productions.

He is also the author of two sound sample collections, Blutonium Hardstyle Samples vol.1 and vol.2.

Shortly after starting his collaboration with Blutonium, he also began performing as a DJ at many events and clubs. He first became a resident in his hometown of Hamburg at the famous underground club “Tunnel”. Subsequently, many national dates in Germany followed, and then international bookings that took him, for example in 2008, to major hardstyle cities like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, Phoenix, Madrid, Cardiff, and Bristol.

In May 2009, he announced that he had ended all professional relationships with Blutonium Records due to differing views, marking the beginning of a new independent phase after producing over 130 tracks for the label.

Under the name Christopher Ast, he is also known by the alias Ninkid.