Forget everything you know about the phrase “International
DJ,” and allow yourself the pleasure of meeting Ferry Corsten. The Dutch
superstar has consistently been voted one of the top 10 DJs in the world
(according to DJ magazine’s definitive Top 100 DJ chart) for five years. He’s
played for hundreds of thousands of fans – sometimes at once – in
amphitheaters, fields and nightclubs from Australia to Russia to white-hot
Ibiza. He took the party island’s “Best Trance DJ” prize at the annual DJ
Awards ceremony this year and two years ago; got tailed by some road-tripping
fans on a Southern Comfort-sponsored, 26-city bus tour of America; and had his
life’s work interpreted in music, video and décor at his annual
Masquerade event “Full on Ferry”, at 12,000-capacity arena Ahoy in his
hometown, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It’s all in a year’s work for the man
who’s been called the “architect, pioneer, and instigator” of trance music’s
global dominance. His style is so singular that synthesizer manufacturer Roland
commissioned a Corsten sound bank for their new SP-555 sampling unit. But it’s
so broad that it could meld with Public Enemy’s classic cut “Bring The Noise,”
on a Corsten remix that Chuck D himself called “the ultimate concoction of
pace, energy and lyrics.” A keen sonic curator, Corsten serves as the head
honcho for his record labels, Flashover Recordings, Aleph, Boom tssjak, and
Levare. Is Ferry Corsten a globe-trotting, club-packing, beat-dropping
superstar DJ? Most definitely. But that's just the beginning of the story...one
that's still being written.Listen song here:YouTube
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