Gesloten Cirkel has been played on NTS over 80 times, featured on 82 episodes and was first played on 17 February 2013.

Gesloten Cirkel is an enigmatic producer supposedly from Russia, with releases on Murder Capital, Moustache Techno, and Berceuse Heroique. His 2014 debut full-length Submit X received positive marks from publications such as Resident Advisor.

The alias means "closed circle" in Dutch, in reference to a line from When I Sold My Soul to the Machine, a documentary about DJs in the Netherlands.