Dr Donk

The Yellow was too small

Dr Donk's debut at Defqon.1 ended with a fence on the ground: at the Yellow, the crowd pushed their way in so as not to miss his Doctor Treatment. From Cologne, he has turned the white coat, stethoscope, and signed sick notes into a universe of his own, The Clinic, where he prescribes phat bass between 110 and 240 BPM and switches genres mid-sentence.

Bootshaus, waiting room and operating theater

Before becoming the doctor of the dancefloor, he went to Blacklist parties at Bootshaus, soaking up dubstep and drum and bass. There he played his first set as Dr Donk, on an Inurfase night, and later sold out his own All Night Long. In 2025, he jumped to Tomorrowland, Rampage, Intents, REBiRTH, and Decibel Outdoor, with dates at Fabrik (Madrid) and Mayday. Each session is built on the spot: he reads the crowd and changes lanes if the plan falls short.

Kick laboratory and Clinic Recordings

The shift to hard dance came around 2019, when a friend played him GPF and he decided to try a sound that seemed ridiculous and addictive to him. The hobby ate up his dubstep project. Since then, he has been mixing uptempo, hardcore, zaag, and dirty bass. He has collaborated with Lil Texas (Datenschutz, on Defqon.1 Records), GPF, and Yosuf, and signed the official remix of CRUSH for Yellow Claw (Barong Family). In 2024, he opened the label Clinic Recordings with Kontor, with an Advent calendar of 21 tracks. He has also released on Q-dance Records, Basscon Records (Phat Summer Vibes), and Masters of Hardcore.

ZAAGSTEP, therapy without boxes

With ZAAGSTEP LIVE —premiered at the BLACKLIST Festival and the Amsterdam Dance Event, and taken to Rampage Open Air and Parookaville— he unites Dutch zaag, dubstep, and drum and bass in a live act without borders. The self-titled album arrives in November 2026 via Disciple, with a sold-out showcase at Bootshaus on September 11, 2026, and a US debut at Wasteland. He continues to hand out sick notes and exclusive mashups: the diagnosis changes every night.