Marinus Bernardus "Benno" de Goeij (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈbɛnoː də ˈɣui]; born on 19 March 1975) is a Dutch trance music producer. He is best known for his participation in Rank 1 with Piet Bervoets, Kamaya Painters with Tiësto and Gaia with Armin van Buuren whilst also serving as the co-producer for the hits that gave Jochen Miller his early fame between 2008 - 2012. From 2008 to 2023, de Goeij worked together with Armin van Buuren as his co-producer.

Benno de Goeij began working as a producer in 1997 alongside Piet Bervoets whom he met at a party. They decided to create music of their own and created the duo Pedro & Benno with singles "Scream for Love", "Talkin' to You", and "Speechless" released under Karma Records. They also created tracks under various aliases like Precious People, Gualagara, A.I.D.A., Simplistic Mind, Two Disciples, R.O.O.S.

In 1999, Rank 1 was born as they thought it would be a perfect joke to see a group named Rank 1 at a number 1 position. This joke became real when "Airwave" hit numerous charts at that position. They also remixed Cygnus X's "Superstring" song and released an anthem for Sensation in 2001 known as "Such Is Life" from the album Symsonic. In 2003, they re-released "Breathing" which was another charting track since it was a more break beat version of "Airwave". In 1998, Tiësto and de Goeij created Kamaya Painters, with three successful singles.

Following their successes with the Dutch Anthem Trance sound, Benno and Piet decided to take Rank 1 in a new new direction sound-wise. This resulted in various hits with varying style-influences such as the Tech Trance anthem "Beats At Rank-1 Dotcom" (2004) which was picked as the Anthem for Trance Energy 2005; the highly industrial/mechanical Techno-Trance hybrid "Top Gear" (2005) which was initially not supposed to be released following its debut during their Rank 1 live performance at Trance Energy 2005; the Electro-House inspired "Life Less Ordinary" (2006) collaboration with Alex M.O.R.P.H.; The modern Bigroom Trance Anthems "L.E.D. There Be Light" (2008), "Symfo" (2009), and "The Great Escape" vs. Jochen Miller (2010) which were chosen as the Trance Energy Anthem 2009, Sunrise Festival Theme 2009 and EnTrance Theme 2010 respectively. After years of exotic experimentation, Benno and Piet decided to re-invent their melodic/hypnotic Trance roots by releasing deeper Trance journeys in the guise of "7 Instead Of 8" (2012), "Elements Of Nature" vs. M.I.K.E. Push (2013) and "13.11.11" (2013) between October 2012 and November 2013.

Next to continuously evolving the Rank 1 sound over and over, Benno spent quite a few years in this era touring alongside Piet for their infamous Rank 1 live performances, touching down at Trance Energy 2005, Armin Only 2006, Essence Festival 2008, Trance Energy 2009, Sunrise Festival 2009, EDC Las Vegas 2012, Nature One 2012, Sunrise Festival 2012 and Back In The House 2013 among many more. The Rank 1 project continued to be active post-2013 albeit on a far lower frequency than before. Benno still managed to join Piet on stage for two very special Rank 1 live performances at Dreamstate SoCal 2017 and ASOT 950 in 2020.

In 2005 Benno co-produced the two-sided JOOP EP called "The World / Another World". Then, from 2006 to 2008 he co-created four of Ronald van Gelderen's singles: "This Way" (2006), "Realize" (2006), "Dirty Rocker" (2007) and "Embrace Me" (2008). This Way and Embrace Me even received Rank 1 Remixes. In 2010 Benno co-produced Artento Divini's single "Griffin" which was chosen as the Pleasure Island 2010 Theme.

Following the release of the Rank 1 vs. Jochen Miller dancefloor hit "And Then..." in 2008, Benno began working as Jochen's co-producer on the majority of the latter's big singles and remixes from 2008 through to early 2012. These included: "Lost Connection" (2008), "9 Minutes / Eclipse" (2008), "Face Value" (2009), "Brace Yourself" (2009), "Red One" (2009), "The Great Escape" (2010), "Dark Heart Waiting (Jochen Miller Remix)" (2010), "Humanoid" (2010), "Feels So Good (Jochen Miller Remix)" (2010), "Classified (Energy 2011 Theme)" (2010), "uPad" (2010), "Cosmic Gate - Back To Earth (Jochen Miller Remix)" (2010), "U And Eye" (2011), "Troucid" (2011), "One Day" (2011), "Bamm!" (2011), "Flashback" (2011), "Wild And Perfect Day" feat. Sarah Bettens (2012) and "Leap Of Faith (Emporium Festival Theme 2012)" (2012). Following Emporium, the two of them went their separate ways and a couple of years later, Jochen Miller swapped High Contrast Recordings for Armada Music.

In 2006, Benno teamed up with Armin van Buuren for the very first time. For this initial collab, help was enlisted by Sacha Collisson, Zoe Durrant and Pete Kirtley aka Kush for "This World Is Wathching Me". In the A State Of Trance FOREVER Podcast episode, Benno and Armin explain that this collaboration was the hardest they did because they still had to get used to each other. Furthermore, according to Armin, Benno disliked the original chorus they had written so they used the bridge/verses instead.