It started with a snare… Music has always been in Craig Jones’ blood. From owning his first snare drum at the tender age of 3, through to drumming in a band in his late teens, with a stint in a touring marching band playing pit percussion in-between, the rhythm found Craig early on and hasn’t let go. Growing up through the heady days of ‘90s-dance’, Craig developed an affinity with dance music, falling in love with trance and house. Learning to mix when he was just a teenager Craig scored his first club gig at just 15 years old. As his musical tastes evolved and clubbing beckoned, Craig could often be found at events like Mind Over Matter, Frantic and Heat UK cementing his passion for uplifting hard trance and hard house. From then on it was only a matter of time before Craig would find himself on the other side of the decks once again playing for brands across the UK such as Frantic, Storm, ATT, We Love Hard House to name a few, plus internationally for X-Static Ibiza, as well as being a part of DJ line ups further afield in New Zealand and Los Angeles. 

With Craig’s musical background it was inevitable he would want to make his own tracks for the dancefloor, so a focus on production developed in tandem with DJing giving him the opportunity to test and refine his tunes through his sets. Fast forward to 2022 and Craig has releases spanning multiple genres on various labels including Impact and HQ, Frantic, Vicious Circle and We Love Hard House/Trance. Furthermore, Craig owns and runs the We Love Hard Trance imprint and co-runs Digital Creation with Phil Reynolds. Craig’s sound continues to evolve, but whatever he’s making it’s usually driving and uplifting and a firm favourite with the dancefloor.

And that snare drum… can still be found in Craig’s drum kit setup today.

Contact: craig@craigjonesmusic.uk

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