Tiësto - MOST SUCCESSFUL Artist in the Dance Industry EVER - And He Also Likes TECHNO
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Those who know a little bit of electronic dance music - and maybe also those who don't - know this guy for sure, Tiësto. He is the one who put Trance on the world map. He is the one who lead the DJ charts for a very long time. He is the one who played at so many festivals prime time at the main stage. He is the one who put the Netherlands at number one with respect to electronic dance music - by now we have more than 800 dance festivals a year, and Amsterdam Dance Event became the biggest dance music event of the world - bigger than the one in Barcelona and bigger than the one in Miami. He is the one who earned himself a Grammy. He is the one who played at the opening of the Olympic Games in Athens Greece - the first ever DJ playing live at the Olympics opening. Maybe he is the one who made a success out of many festivals. Whether you like his sound or not, he meant a lot for the electronic dance music industry.
His real name is Tijs Michiel Verwest, a Dutch guy from the city of Breda. Under pseudonyms, he started producing hardcore and gabber records. Later, while producing his Forbidden Paradise series with an early version of his trance sound, he regularly played techno at various location in and outside Rotterdam. Building further on his trance sound, he focussed more and more, and left the 'harder' styles behind him. Late 90s he already started to make a name in the Trance scene, but his trance sound also had techno elements in it. A good example of that is his set he played at Innercity - an ID&T concept that was touring around Western Europe a couple of years later - in 1999. This live set, was released as an album by ID&T after the event. Although I'm not particular fond of trance, this album I liked back then very much, sometimes a bit too trancy, but I certainly like his record choices, and the arrangement is solid with a great opening!
By now Tiësto plays more EDM than Trance, I think. He has already for many years residency in one of the big clubs in Las Vegas, a new mecca for electronic dance music since EDM became HOT in the USA. Outside his gigs in las Vegas, he is touring the world with a loaded agenda. He is also responsible for boosting the careers of other artists, the youngest maybe Martin Garrix, a 19 year young guy who wanted to become DJ after hearing Tiësto's opening act at the Olympics in 2004.
- Artist: Tiësto
- Album: Live At Innercity - Amsterdam RAI
- Style: Trance / Techno
- Year: 1999
Certainly a good way to start the #danceweekend of @uwelang. I hope you agree with me :)
Tiësto - Live At Innercity - Amsterdam RAI (1999)
Tracks
Push - Universal Nation (Live At Club Illusion)
Fire & Ice - Out Of Darkness
Agnelli & Nelson - El Nino
Kamaya Painters - Endless Wave
Systematic Parts - Deja-Vu
Straydog - Mirror
Loop Control - Reflections
Orbital Velocity - Last Voyage (Club Mix)
Lord Of Tranz - Sanctificum
Yves DeRuyter - Feel Free
Plastic Boy - Twixt
DJ Tiësto - Theme From Norefjell (DJ Jan & Christophe Chantzis Mix)
Evolver - Evolver (Wavestate Instrumental Mix)
Fridge - Paradise (Nu Gray Mix)
Gouryella - Gouryella
Cygnus X - The Orange Theme (Moonman's Orange Juice Mix)
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I respect his "marketing" success. Since I saw him in Bali I am a "NoGO" Sorry Tiesto
I agree to some extent, but this one i do like!
I am checking this out on the train 🚂
choo-choo! :D
Listen this album, he was by then already under management and the team around him started to build up his Trance thing to propel him to the top of the pyramid. But this album shows what he came from. The owner of the big Techno Awakenings brand, asked the party people if Tiesto was allowed to play a Awakenings festival (many years ago), Techno set. But yeh, that was refused in a large pole. However, this guy played techno mid 90s in Rotterdam, heard him various times back then, and he was pretty good at it. When he jumped to DJ number 1 in the world, I even heard another Techno set of this guy, and again impressive; This set was played at place far away from his normal Trance following though :) I really respect him for what he did; I dont like his trance sound; I dont like what he plays now, at all; But the Innercity Album is not bad at all; I would not listen to it today anymore, but back then, this was as far as I would go away from Techno :) Hmmm as mentioned as well, this album was a bit too trancy here and there, but for sure not the main stream simple trance sound. I would not have created this post if I was not of the opinion this one actually belongs to quality music :)
I definitely LIKE that DJ I always struggle to write in a correct way 😎 Full vote and resteem Mr. SOUNDS
Hahaha, always difficult to spell his name right indeed! LOL
so true - especially if you have no keyboard for such special characters
good craft, up you swalla
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