Corey Soljan (born 1987 in

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), better known by his artistic name Code Black, is an Australian

hardstyle Hardstyle is an electronic dance music, electronic dance genre that emerged in the late 1990s, with origins in the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy. Hardstyle mixes influences from techno, new beat and Hardcore (electronic dance music genre), har ...

- DJ and music producer. As a member of the act Bioweapon, along with Audiofreq, he travelled the world. Finding success in the Netherlands, he began a solo career stopping his duo act in 2011. He has played at various events including Mysteryland,

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, HardBass, Decibel, Euphoria and both of the Defqon.1 music festivals held in The Netherlands and Australia. He mainly produces and plays euphoric

tracks, but also produces and plays some rawstyle tracks. Code Black's solo career began when he was signed to the label

Fusion Records Fusion Records is a Dutch record label, sub-label of Freaky Music which, at first, released hard trance and hard house records, and kept growing by releasing hardstyle. After the end of Superplastik (another sub-label of Freaky Music), the artists ...

at the end of 2011. His first solo release, "Red Planet" in the same year, had great success within the

community. Arguably his most successful release, "Brighter Day" in 2013, reached number 28 on the Dutch Dance Chart. In 2012 Code Black performed a mix on the

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show for

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. In 2013, he was listed as the 15th best DJ on the Australian "National Top 50 DJs" list. In addition, he joined

Brennan Heart 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 concentrati ...

's label, WE R Music. In 2014, he was listed in ''DJ Mag'''s top DJ list for the first time as a new entry at number 92. His 2017 remix of the

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track "Concrete Angel", co-produced with

Coone Koen Bauweraerts (born 30 May 1983), better known by his stage name Coone, is a Belgian hardstyle producer and DJ. Career Coone first started producing in 1998 at age 15. He released his first EP in 2002, ''Protect the Innocent''. Under th ...

, was named as the ''

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'' "Tune of the Month" for September. In 2023 he debuted the "darker, rougher" "Blackout" project at

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, playing the wasteLAND stage. In 2015, Bioweapon got back together for a short tour after 4 years of silence. In 2025 Bioweapon announced the release of their 14-track album ''Time Capsule'', which revitalizes the "old familiar" hardstyle sound.

Discography

Albums

2018 * Journey

EPs

2012 * Activated / Your Moment (with Wasted Penguinz) 2018 * Chapter 1 * Chapter 2 * Chapter 3

Singles

2011 * Visions * Red Planet 2012 * F.E.A.R. * Can't Hold Me Back * About The Music 2013 * Brighter Day * R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. * I.N.C.O.N.T.R.O.L. * Feels Good 2014 * Pandora * Tonight Will Never Die (with

) * Accelerate (Official XXlerator Anthem 2014) (with

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) * Starting Over (with

) * Unleash The Beast (Defqon.1 Australia Anthem 2014) * Tonight Will Never Die (Audiotricz Remix) (with

) 2015 * Draw Me Closer * Accelerate (Darren Styles Edit) (with

) * New World (ft. Chris Madin) * End Like This (with Wasted Penguinz, ft. Insali) * Kick It Up Now (with Toneshifterz) * Triangle * Predator 2016 * See The Light (with Da Tweekaz and Paradise) * Dragonblood (Defqon.1 Australia Anthem 2016) (with Audiofreq and Toneshifterz) * Are You Ready 2017 * Wild Ones * Broken (with

and Jonathan Mendelsohn) 2018 * Sparks (with Darren Styles) 2019 * GTFO (with Hard Driver) * Lowr U Go 2020 * Shake Ya Shimmy (with Da Tweekaz) * F*CK YEAH!!! (with

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, and Toneshifterz) * All Or Nothing (whit

and Toneshifterz)

On Albums

2018 * Before You Go (with Toneshifterz, on Toneshifterz - ''Shifting To The Source'')

On Compilations

2012 * About The Music (with Toneshifterz, on ''Hard With Style'') 2013 * Running Late (Brennan Heart & Code Black MF Earthquake Rawmix) (with

, on ''Be Yourself Dance Vol. 2'') 2016 * Survive (with DV8 Rocks! and Zany, on ''Gary D. pres. 50 D.Techno Traxx'')

Remixes

2012 * Black & White - Get Ya Hands Up 2017 * Gareth Emery ft. Christina Novelli - Concrete Angel (with

) 2020 * Let There Be Light, Code Black remix (with

Audiotricz Audiotricz (pronounced "''audio tricks''") are a Dutch electronic music duo from Nunspeet, consisting of Kenneth Kroes and Leon Benschop who perform and produce music together within the hardstyle genre. History Leon and Kenneth have known eac ...

)

References

External links

* * {{Authority control Hardstyle musicians Australian electronic musicians 1987 births Living people