German-born, New York residing Bissen is so much more than “just” a DJ. A music professional in the truest sense, Bissen’s career spans over two decades and has touched every part of the music industry. A versatile music producer first and foremost, Bissen has worked on close to 2000 projects throughout his career, ranging from creating custom music for close to 200 commercials, scoring 6 TV shows and a Netflix documentary, to having over 100 original and remix releases, scoring 12 #1 Billboard Club Chart records, touring the world as a DJ, and ghost producing dozens of hits for many well known DJs.
Storming the club scene in the late oughts with the now classics "Exhale" and "Quicksand," Bissen has, as a dance music artist and producer, had over a hundred original and remix releases since. These records have been released on some of the biggest, most desired and well-respected labels in the industry, including all of the major label imprints. Always in pursuit of a fist-pumping, "all systems go" attitude, Bissen's sound has exhibits an effective blend of tough, energetic beats and grooves, coupled with extremely memorable, big melodic riffs and hooks: Proper huge tunes for dancefloors, not armchairs, that have lasting impacts on clubgoers and DJs alike. Life is too short to create generic and unmemorable music.
For over 2 decades, Bissen has run his own music licensing, production and publishing business, writing music for adverts for some of the world's biggest brands, doing sound design and composing for major TV networks and creating sound presets for Ableton Live, Sample Logic and others. Bissen has scored close to 200 commercials, for brands such as VISA, McDonald’s, Discover Card, AT&T, Burger King and Miller Lite; as well as 6 TV shows, including “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.”
Bissen has created one club banger after another, from his remix of the Black Eyed Peas #1 song "I Gotta Feeling", which was one of Ibiza's summer anthems of 2009 and received extensive UK BBC Radio1 play, to 2011's "2nite U R Perfect", which was one of the year's most memorable club songs, being featured on German and US FM and SiriusXM BPM radio, as well as on DMX, reaching millions of shoppers every day; to 2016's remix of The Chainsmoker's "Don't Let Me Down", which got extensive club and US terrestrial radio play, especially on New York's 103.5 WKTU. The 2019 remix of P!NK’s “Walk Me Home” has garnered millions of streams on Spotify.
2011 saw Bissen team up with singer Jeza to form the project "Exostate" for Enhanced Recordings, 2 out of 3 singles reaching the Beatport Top 10.
A prolific 15-year collaboration with Victor Dinaire has yielded dozens of original and major label remix releases, and has garnered the project millions of streams and hundreds of thousands of compilations sold. The duo has officially remixed dozens of major artists including U2, M83, P!NK, Madonna, Major Lazer, Shaggy, Nile Rodgers and Snoop Dogg, for labels such as Columbia, Sony, Island, Mute and RCA. Their original and remix production work helped propel over a dozen records to hit #1 on the Billboard Club Charts. Dinaire and Bissen’s remix of Ruth B’s “Lost Boy” received national US mainstream rhythmic radio support, helping propel the single to #24 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Dinaire and Bissen scored the music to the documentary “Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig.” The soundtrack is an authentic representation of the classic New York club sound of the mid 1990s. The movie saw a North American release in 2016 and can currently be viewed on all major streaming portals, after an exclusive run on Netflix.
Their track "Disconnect" was licensed in 2025 to "Terminal List: Dark Wolf" on Amazon Prime, starring Chris Pratt and Luke Hemsworth.
The logical culmination of Dinaire+Bissen’s long-time collaboration is the formation of their own label, imprint, and subculture brand HalfwayHaus. The name stems from the fact that their music cannot always be easily placed neatly into one of the myriads of EDM’s subgenres. HalfwayHaus is a vehicle to release Dinaire+Bissen’s material on their own terms.
With years of successful radio broadcasts on SiriusXM, MusicChoice, and iHeart Media, the duo has embarked on a monthly 2-hour radio show called “This Is HalfwayHaus” which features cutting-edge melodic, progressive and tech house.
In 2016 Bissen started working closely with renowned DJ Tony Moran. Their collaborative effort has spawned over 2 dozen works, including many original records for Moran, as well as joining together for a few remixes. Bissen eventually produced and co-produced over half of Moran's double-sided album "Mood Swings." The two updated a cover version of the 90’s Lighthouse Family “High” as a charity song for the 2016 Orlando club shooting massacre victim’s families.
Lately Bissen has focused much of his time and effort on Las Vegas electronic performance art band Soul in the Machine, which he officially partnered with in 2018. Bissen co-produces all the music for the project, and handles all aspects of the show that are related to proper audio and signal flow processing. The project has had a 17-month residency at AREA15 in Las Vegas and has performed at music festivals such as Ultra Music Festival and Burning Man.
As a DJ, Bissen delivers his no-nonsense approach with exciting and uplifting sets. He boasts decades of spinning experience, beginning in college, and continuing in New York, where, for years he djayed at loft parties, which he helped organize. From 2011-2015, Bissen saw his international DJ touring take off, playing in the UK, Germany and Canada, as well as filling clubs all over the US, including Los Angeles (Circus), San Diego (Hard Rock), Philadelphia (Rumor), Orange County (Sutra) and of course New York, from big rooms such as Pacha and Webster Hall, to more intimate venues. After starting a family and settling down, Bissen has hung up his headphones for the most part, but can still be seen playing the occasional gig in Las Vegas or at Burning Man.
In September 2012 Bissen celebrated the 100th episode of his radioshow and podcast "TranceAtlantic" live at the National Underground in New York. The 8-hour event was broadcast live on ETN.fm. TranceAtlantic ended after 500 episodes in April of 2021.
While the world has not seen a solo Bissen release in a while, a revival is in the works with a first-ever full artist album slated for later in 2026.