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FERRY CORSTEN
Style: Energetic
Best known for: Blending
different styles.
Favourite track of 2008: Embrace
‘Embrace’ (Flashover Recordings)
Producer of 2008: Breakfast
First record you ever
bought? Full Force ‘Alice, I
Want You Just For Me!’
Weirdest thing you’ve seen
all year? The pilot of my
private jet pulling stunts on
my trip to Brazil.
Top gadget of 2008? The
Squeeze Box Multideck. You
can combine all your music
systems into one controller
instead of having loads.
Your year in fi ve words…
Great, awesome, beautiful,
brilliant, youthful. My fi rst
daughter Gabby was born this
year.
Most important thing
you’ve learned recently?
Just to go with what you feel
and not to think too much
about it.
REMAINING at the trance vanguard, laid down the original Dutch trance crowd on fi re and there are lots of “The stuff he sends us is so good but
Corsten has this year headlined the template, Corsten has achieved a rare good, interesting tracks like that it ranges from really minimal deep
20,000 Dutch Mecca of Trance Energy, balance by enjoying both commercial around right now.” sounds right through to the big hands-
rocked Miami’s Ultra Music Festival, success (read ten UK Top 40 records) One such track is surely Corsten’s in-the-air sound,” explains Ferry. “It’s
enjoyed a 26-city tour of the States and and credible acclaim. recent ‘Radio Crash’ single. Effortlessly a waste not to release it all and we
rocked 15,000 sun-soaked beach ravers Back in 2002, his electro-edged catchy, it’s simple, soaring melodies don’t want to keep him too much in
at Malaysia’s Two Days of Freedom ‘Punk’ re-wrote the trance rulebook have fl own straight into the boxes of one corner so we’ve given him his own
festival. Just another year in the life of entirely, whilst second album ‘L.E.F.’ Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, label — Moodymoon Recordings. It’s
the prolifi c Dutchman, then. reached right out of the genre through Judge Jules and just about every other his own platform to experiment.”
“Playing back-to-back with Tiësto in collaborations with Gang Starr rapper trance heavy-hitter.
San Francisco was amazing,” he tells Guru, ’80s synth-pop pioneer Howard As for Corsten, his year end will take
us. “It was a real off-the-cuff thing but Jones and even Duran Duran’s Simon As his Flashover label empire continues in the second epic Full-On-Ferry event
we just had a laugh as mates, played all Le Bon on the euphoric house fused to grow, Corsten’s experienced ears in his home city of Rotterdam, more
our old classics and it was just what the anthem ‘On Fire’. are also busy nurturing a new wave of US touring, pushing the release of
crowd wanted. It was like going back to But this year Corsten has stripped trance talents. his third solo album ‘Twice In A Blue
where we came from — having fun — so things back to his trance roots. Building a strong label family rather Moon’ and a New Year’s Eve centred
we did it again at my Flashover Arena at “I’ve defi nitely returned to a more than licensing single tracks, Corsten tour of Australia with the Summer Days
Dance Valley.” trance focused sound,” he explains. has brought through acts like 26-year- festival.
“The reason I started experimenting old Dutch trailblazer Rafael, US duo “I’ve become a dad for the fi rst time
Whilst Tiësto remains the DJ demi-God with electro and house was because the Randy Boga & Eric Tadler and 17-year- recently so I always take the fi rst fl ight
and Armin the people’s champion, melodic sound had got really samey but old Polish prodigy P.A.F.F, whose epic out from European gigs,” he adds. “It’s
it’s as a producer where Corsten has now that’s the case with a lot of the cosmic trance boogie ‘From King To hard but you do fi nd yourself in your
marked himself out as a true master electro infl uenced stuff. Finch’ caused serious damage early in own bed in the morning and then you
of his craft. Ever since ’99 anthems “When they’re done right the big the year. Leading the charge, however, have the whole day with your kid.”
like ‘Out Of The Blue’ (as System F) melodies and huge riffs really set a is Corsten’s US protégé Breakfast. ALLAN MCGRATH
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