DJ Tiësto
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DJ Tiësto
Real Name:
Tijs Michiel Verwest
Profile:
DJ Tiësto (born 17 January, 1969, Breda, Netherlands) is a Dutch electronic dance music producer and DJ. In 1997, he founded the label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink. In 1998, Tiësto met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers and this led to a long and successful collaboration. DJ Tiësto's fame rose in the 2000's as his music was exposed to mainstream audiences. He was named "the Greatest DJ of All Time" by Mixmag magazine in a poll voted by the fans.
Sites:
tiesto.com, inthebooth.com, Facebook, instagram.com, MySpace, songkick.com, SoundCloud, clublifebytiesto.tumblr.com, Twitter, YouTube, clubjudge.com, equipboard.com, Wikipedia
Aliases:
Da Joker,
DJ Limited,
Drumfire,
Handover Circuit,
Loop Control,
Passenger (2),
Roberto Scilatti,
Roze,
Stray Dog,
Tijs Verwest,
Tom Ace,
TST (6),
Wild Bunch
Variations:
Marketplace 27,350 For Sale
DJ Tiësto Discography
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120 Unofficial
- 16 Albums
- 30 Singles & EPs
- 45 Compilations
- 4 DJ Mixes
- 4 Mixes
- 7 Videos
- 14 Miscellaneous
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Reviews Show All 72 Reviews
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transition-metal
March 30, 2017
edited 6 months ago
In response to the rather nauseating comment below by "Waywardwaters" quote "blatantly asinine statements like how the music associated was “never good” and how it has always been “repetitive and mediocre.”It makes the sources seem like salty, scorned lovers with anvil sized chips on their shoulders, not to mention bereft of credibility.
Really, so if a DJ Mag reviewer described his latest release as mediocre or repetitive , in your eyes that reviewer would then be deemed to have a chip on his or her shoulder & bereft of credibility.
If someone finds Tiesto's music mediocre & repetitive (most of his releases most certainly are) then words like mediocre & repetitive are apt descriptions,. So what then should someone comment on if not the music itself, if one can't critique a piece of music & describe what they don't like about it then what the fuck is one meant to comment on, his hair style for fuck sakes!!! get over yourself Waywardwaters, your comment reeks of pretentious bullshit!!!
As for the music itself well I guess I better not use words like mediocre in case I am perceived as being bereft of credibility!!
For starters, Tiesto's famous "Adagio for strings" is a pile of cheesy pseudo trance, the kind of fake trance that did a lot towards trance music losing it's credibility in the early 2000's, to me it is not trance, those cheesy synths he comes in with at the breakdowns are fuckin terrible, after 98 actually was when i first starting hearing this mass produced formulaic trance,exposure to one track like this means exposure to all!!! & then there is the god awful theme music from the movie Platoon, whoever thought that movie theme music like that would sound good in a trance track should be exiled from the music industry, Adagio for strings scores a -0/5
I do own a tiesto record which i bought for 1 track only, the other 3 off the album were putting it bluntly FUCKED!!! as aforementioned, formula driven pseudo garbage trance that sounds dated upon it's release. I haven't listened to every Tiesto track cause i really can't be arsed, most bore the living shit out of me before i get 1 minutes into it.
On a final note, to describe describe his music as iconic blahhh iconic maybe to people who never heard any real trance & have based there entire so called trance music experience on a few select so called and yes mediocre producers.
Really, so if a DJ Mag reviewer described his latest release as mediocre or repetitive , in your eyes that reviewer would then be deemed to have a chip on his or her shoulder & bereft of credibility.
If someone finds Tiesto's music mediocre & repetitive (most of his releases most certainly are) then words like mediocre & repetitive are apt descriptions,. So what then should someone comment on if not the music itself, if one can't critique a piece of music & describe what they don't like about it then what the fuck is one meant to comment on, his hair style for fuck sakes!!! get over yourself Waywardwaters, your comment reeks of pretentious bullshit!!!
As for the music itself well I guess I better not use words like mediocre in case I am perceived as being bereft of credibility!!
For starters, Tiesto's famous "Adagio for strings" is a pile of cheesy pseudo trance, the kind of fake trance that did a lot towards trance music losing it's credibility in the early 2000's, to me it is not trance, those cheesy synths he comes in with at the breakdowns are fuckin terrible, after 98 actually was when i first starting hearing this mass produced formulaic trance,exposure to one track like this means exposure to all!!! & then there is the god awful theme music from the movie Platoon, whoever thought that movie theme music like that would sound good in a trance track should be exiled from the music industry, Adagio for strings scores a -0/5
I do own a tiesto record which i bought for 1 track only, the other 3 off the album were putting it bluntly FUCKED!!! as aforementioned, formula driven pseudo garbage trance that sounds dated upon it's release. I haven't listened to every Tiesto track cause i really can't be arsed, most bore the living shit out of me before i get 1 minutes into it.
On a final note, to describe describe his music as iconic blahhh iconic maybe to people who never heard any real trance & have based there entire so called trance music experience on a few select so called and yes mediocre producers.
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waywardwaters
June 4, 2016
Anyone with two brain cells rubbed together can perform a google search / or look at writing credits and see that the name Tiesto is a BRAND while the man himself is the (marketing) FACE. This is public knowledge. Think of it as Team Tiesto or whatever helps you sleep at night but the focus needs to be on the music. Tiesto the man has always been irrelevant and should remain as such. Wasn’t there a certain “universal” message in the west which warned the ills of false idolatry?
Now, it’s completely understandable and justified the amount of feces flung at Tijs, who undoubtedly has douche vibes coming out the wazoo and did sell out the movement due to his position of popularity. But let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater with blatantly asinine statements like how the music associated was “never good” and how it has always been “repetitive and mediocre.” It makes the sources seem like salty, scorned lovers with anvil sized chips on their shoulders, not to mention bereft of credibility.
Look, vocal trance is an established sect of the genre. Yes, it’s pop but much of it is quality pop so who gives a fuck? (and arguably the only worthy form of pop as it commentates and parodies the modern, technocratic consumerist culture from the vantage of a humanistic soul struggling to find itself). Tiesto has prolifically mastered this into an artform. Get over it, especially since it doesn’t negate the more underground styles with merit. Hating on a genre due to aesthetic is hipsterism 101 (if you’re going to be a bigot, at least do it philosophically). Aesthetists are excused to slap their single bongo drum in mommy’s basement and bask in their own “tr00ness.” You’re a unique snowflake. No one will ever know what it feels like to be you, k?
There is nothing “mediocre” or “formulaic” about the expertly written heart-warming ballad ‘Close to You,’ the suicidal, aquatically submerged ‘Flesh,’ the cosmically sexual ‘Venus,’ or the modernist-rendered daoist ‘Just Be’ just to name a few. Then, there’s eminent melodic gems such as ‘Nyana,’ ‘Sparkles,’ the Handel cover ‘Elements of Life,’ not to mention ‘Adagio for Strings’ (artistically superior than the Barber original despite popularity), the criminally underrated ‘Coming Home’ and of course, ‘Suburban Train’ (want me to go on?). The music is simply iconic of a celebrated epoch in trance history. End of story.
Now, it’s completely understandable and justified the amount of feces flung at Tijs, who undoubtedly has douche vibes coming out the wazoo and did sell out the movement due to his position of popularity. But let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater with blatantly asinine statements like how the music associated was “never good” and how it has always been “repetitive and mediocre.” It makes the sources seem like salty, scorned lovers with anvil sized chips on their shoulders, not to mention bereft of credibility.
Look, vocal trance is an established sect of the genre. Yes, it’s pop but much of it is quality pop so who gives a fuck? (and arguably the only worthy form of pop as it commentates and parodies the modern, technocratic consumerist culture from the vantage of a humanistic soul struggling to find itself). Tiesto has prolifically mastered this into an artform. Get over it, especially since it doesn’t negate the more underground styles with merit. Hating on a genre due to aesthetic is hipsterism 101 (if you’re going to be a bigot, at least do it philosophically). Aesthetists are excused to slap their single bongo drum in mommy’s basement and bask in their own “tr00ness.” You’re a unique snowflake. No one will ever know what it feels like to be you, k?
There is nothing “mediocre” or “formulaic” about the expertly written heart-warming ballad ‘Close to You,’ the suicidal, aquatically submerged ‘Flesh,’ the cosmically sexual ‘Venus,’ or the modernist-rendered daoist ‘Just Be’ just to name a few. Then, there’s eminent melodic gems such as ‘Nyana,’ ‘Sparkles,’ the Handel cover ‘Elements of Life,’ not to mention ‘Adagio for Strings’ (artistically superior than the Barber original despite popularity), the criminally underrated ‘Coming Home’ and of course, ‘Suburban Train’ (want me to go on?). The music is simply iconic of a celebrated epoch in trance history. End of story.
caio.ck1
February 29, 2016
edited about 1 year ago
Totaly agree with vibrasphere... Also, we must don´t forget another anomaly on mainstream scene: DJ...Crappy-David Ghetta!!!
vibrasphere
February 18, 2016
edited about 1 year ago
People need to understand that Tiesto was never good, he never did anything good nor produced. Name Tiesto is the most successful EDM marketing trick of all to times that has been running since late 90s.
Tiesto you remember from late 90s-2000s was actually multiple works of Dennis Waakop Reijers and Geert Huinink (all the trance anthems and albums you remember were made by these two and some others). Even Tijs himself refered to 'Tiesto' as a band. Just Google if you don't believe it.
And the Tiesto you know today in the Electro-House/Big Room scene didn't change at all, he's the same dude just like from 15 years ago. Except that today he has 10 ghost producers instead, and he switched to Electro House because it's way more marketable than Trance.
All those new singles you see today with collabs and featuring other less-known names or how they just put (Tiesto Edit) at the end of the track from unknown artist - is all marketing, because when you see the big name, you click the bait and that's how $$$ is made. Without realizing that Tijs himself prolly never heard of that new 'Edit' he supposedly made.
Just check the sources, submissions of releases and look under the Credits, there's always someone elses name. Just like Armin van Buuren with his last albums and Gaia alias, pretended it was all him until the internet found out it was all produced by Benno (from Rank 1) then Armin played it off that Gaia now is a 'duo'.
I know that now the ignorant teenager fanboys going to hate me and pretend that this is ALL FILTHY LIES, Tiesto's music is godly and Tiesto himself is best producer of all times and he poop rainbows and when I grow up I want to be just like my god DJ Tiesto.
But facts tell different story.
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Source: Me, years of experience in the biz, still own early Magik/ISOS comps and early Tiesto's albums. No, I'm not the real Vibrasphere. I guess I just love trance. At least I used to...
Tiesto you remember from late 90s-2000s was actually multiple works of Dennis Waakop Reijers and Geert Huinink (all the trance anthems and albums you remember were made by these two and some others). Even Tijs himself refered to 'Tiesto' as a band. Just Google if you don't believe it.
And the Tiesto you know today in the Electro-House/Big Room scene didn't change at all, he's the same dude just like from 15 years ago. Except that today he has 10 ghost producers instead, and he switched to Electro House because it's way more marketable than Trance.
All those new singles you see today with collabs and featuring other less-known names or how they just put (Tiesto Edit) at the end of the track from unknown artist - is all marketing, because when you see the big name, you click the bait and that's how $$$ is made. Without realizing that Tijs himself prolly never heard of that new 'Edit' he supposedly made.
Just check the sources, submissions of releases and look under the Credits, there's always someone elses name. Just like Armin van Buuren with his last albums and Gaia alias, pretended it was all him until the internet found out it was all produced by Benno (from Rank 1) then Armin played it off that Gaia now is a 'duo'.
I know that now the ignorant teenager fanboys going to hate me and pretend that this is ALL FILTHY LIES, Tiesto's music is godly and Tiesto himself is best producer of all times and he poop rainbows and when I grow up I want to be just like my god DJ Tiesto.
But facts tell different story.
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Source: Me, years of experience in the biz, still own early Magik/ISOS comps and early Tiesto's albums. No, I'm not the real Vibrasphere. I guess I just love trance. At least I used to...
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ischivezon
November 14, 2015
everyone whines about how good he used to be and how shit he is now
but go back and listen to his earlier stuff and it's just as repetitive and mediocre as the stuff he makes now. the thing is we're only just now noticing because of how fucking rich he has gotten.
in my opinion? he was always lazy and nothing has changed except now he isn't just djing small well known clubs but is djing huge festivals for thousands of dollars.
but go back and listen to his earlier stuff and it's just as repetitive and mediocre as the stuff he makes now. the thing is we're only just now noticing because of how fucking rich he has gotten.
in my opinion? he was always lazy and nothing has changed except now he isn't just djing small well known clubs but is djing huge festivals for thousands of dollars.
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tonumaa
September 19, 2014
I am grateful to you, Tiesto.
Let me start by saying that the music you make nowadays is über crap and garbage - the lowest u can get!
But, thanks to your "hayday" productions, melodies & grooves, I am listening to cv313 today,
Enjoy the cash, bitches & coke .. haha
Let me start by saying that the music you make nowadays is über crap and garbage - the lowest u can get!
But, thanks to your "hayday" productions, melodies & grooves, I am listening to cv313 today,
Enjoy the cash, bitches & coke .. haha
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JamesBondOne
June 17, 2014
Tiesto is a Dj and Producer, he just goes the Mainstream way, whats wrong about this, everybody makes Money :-)
he has a perfect Marketing and he know to sell out his work, better give respect than hate, be realistic and take your emotions in the Garbage,
Techno Music is dead since 10 years, this is Money Music
Tiesto is a Money machine "Respect and Love" is the way to live
he has a perfect Marketing and he know to sell out his work, better give respect than hate, be realistic and take your emotions in the Garbage,
Techno Music is dead since 10 years, this is Money Music
Tiesto is a Money machine "Respect and Love" is the way to live
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SLAWEK.PL
June 1, 2014
bad producer. electro-crap-star. maybe 10 years ago,he was ok (maybe not: ),but now... OMG. money money money!! yeah! fck trance !!!
slltmsc
April 22, 2017This whole marketing machine became definitely ugly after the Kaleidoscope album in 2009, but even that was better than any rubbish crap they do nowdays. Tracks after tracks are coming in tons like a factory, quantity definitely took the place of quality.
Tiesto have always been just a hand of smelly poop packed in a fancy box, nothing else.