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Brennan Heart

Dutch DJ and hardstyle producer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ909017 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fabian Bohn (born 2 March 1982), known professionally as Brennan Heart, is a Dutch DJ and hardstyle producer.

Career

Brennan & Heart

In 2002, Fabian Bohn co-founded with Pieter Heijnen (known as DJ Thera) a duo named Brennan & Heart concentrating on making hardstyle music, after having experimented with various styles of music like techno, hard trance and tech trance. After more than three years of cooperation, the duo split and went their own ways, with Bohn taking the name Brennan Heart and Pieter Heijnen continuing as DJ Thera.

Solo

Bohn, now Brennan Heart, continued producing hardstyle music after the split. In 2006, Brennan Heart joined the Dutch label Scantraxx Records (created by The Prophet). Under that banner, Brennan Heart created his own sublabel M!D!FY in May 2006.

In 2009, he released his first album as a solo artist, Musical Impressions. In 2014, he released the second album, Evolution of Style, which featured Imaginary, featuring Jonathan Mendelsohn and Lose My Mind, featuring his good friend Wildstylez, that has become smash-hit overnight. In 2016, two years after the last album release, he dropped his third album where I AM HARDSTYLE was born. The year after, he released his fourth album, On Demand.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2002, 2006, 2009—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1982-03-02. For this dossier, Brennan, Heart and Dutch is the immediate research focus.
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