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Born in 1978 and coming from Marchin (near Huy in Belgium), Vincent (aka Digital Network) was rapidly hooked by the electronic music with the arrival of the New Beat at the end of the 80's.

After several years, he started his career in 1994 while playing Techno vinyls such as : Missile, Primate, Purpose Maker,  Soleil Records, ... and his mind was influenced  by the Detroit style with the famous group : Underground Resistance and Dj's such as Jeff Mills, Derrick May, Juan Atkins, ...  Until 2001, Digital Network played in various evenings with Dj's such as Zzino, Pierre du Fuse, Xentrix, D-Jack, Psychogene.

But 2001 was also the year where Vincent was obliged to stop all his musical activities. During this musical pause (until March 2007), he launched his own society in the financial sector.

Things done, in March 2007, he decided to make his come back to the musical scene but after a long pause, the things were very difficult due to big changes who occured in the music between 2001 and 2007. It's during the same year that Digital Network discovered the Minimal Techno style and he immediatly fell in love about it. 2007 was also the year where Vincent began to learn production technics. Coming from a non-musical family, that was a hard work and today, it's still a hard work.

In 2008, his second EP, Nieuwpoort Beach, was supported by Fabrice Lig (Aka Soul Designer : Third Ear, F-Com, ...). At the end of 2008, he entered in the "Cyborgcrew Team" with the biggest Minimal Techno producers such as Ahmet Sendil, MinicoolBoyz, Arthech, Re:axis, Kriminal groove, ...

2009 is the year of Digital Network, his collaboration with Tom Dazing, on Digital Network's EP : Minimalistic, was a success and reached the TOP61 in the Minimal Techno releases charts on Junodownload. It's also in 2009 who he made his debut on the famous record label : Soleil Record (record label who already signed artists such as Damon Wild, Echoplex, Jeff Mills, ...) with his track "Out Of The Office" (supported by Trish Van Eynde) remixed by Microplex. Renaisssance, the last track of Digital Network was released on Attary Record and reached, after one day, the TOP1 of the best Attary sales on Beatport and after a few days, the TOP 76 on the best Beatport Minimal charts.

Digital Network is growing up with a groovy minimal techno spiced with a lot of percussions, groove and vocal. He's exploring the incredible world of sound design and a lot of his glitches are produced with samples recorded by himself in the real life. All the sounds (except for the drums) are produced with hardware synths such as Virus TI, Nord, Moog and DSI. His tracks begin to be played by the biggest DJ all over the world and he receives a lot of compliments by Dj's such as Richie Hawtin, Tom Dazing, Andrea Giuliani & Luca Rossetti, Ecco, Alex Young, Marco Dassi, ...