In 2002 Rutger van Bostelen and Eelke Kleijn met in a large club in Amsterdam. They decided to join forces and started working together, first as M.I.D.O.R. & Six4Eight, later stripped down simply to M.I.D.O.R.
Various releases, co operations, and remixes followed for artists such as Lange, Talla 2XLC, Mike Koglin, Robert Nickson, Jose Amnesia, Octagen and Angel Sanchez. Their own 'After Midnight EP' on Duty Free's sub label Intensive Music was an amazing hit record, with ‘No Man’s Land’ in particular getting large support from Tiësto (playing it at his concert and often on national television). In 2005 their tracks 'Breathing' with vocalist Linn and the 'Humanize EP' on Five AM Digital again hit the spot.