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Breda, the Netherlands (1994 – present)

Tijs Verwest, known as DJ Tiësto, was born in Breda, the Netherlands. He started DJing professionally at school and house parties in the early 1980s, and then moved on to become a resident DJ between 1985 and 1993 at several clubs in The Netherlands. It was at a club called ‘The Spock’ where things really picked up for Tiësto. He stopped producing hardcore/gabber tracks and started to produce his own sound from 10pm until 4am on weekends. In the mid 1990s, Tiësto started to produce . He has since abandoned trance to play house.

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He had an interest for music since the age of twelve. When he was fourteen he decided to dedicate more time to it and began DJing professionally at school parties and then moved on to become a resident DJ between 1985 and 1994 at several clubs in the Netherlands after his manager and friend Wilfred encouraged him. However, it was at The Spock, a small club in Breda, where he was able to fine-tune his own style by playing in a separate room from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. on weekends.] In the beginning of his career as DJ he mostly played new beat and acid house, and many Madonna songs because her music shows that she likes to dance. Before the release of her album there were already dancemixes like “Vogue” which was one of the songs of Spock.

In 1994 he began releasing material on Noculan Records’ sub-labels Chemo and Coolman. During these years, he produced hardcore/gabber tracks under aliases such as Da Joker and DJ Limited.
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  • Amadest

    http://vk.com/ageoftrance

    13 May 5:30am Reply

  • Amadest

    http://vk.com/ageoftrance

    11 May 6:38am Reply

  • Magonb25

    It's time for a new main. Isn't it? Ok.

    4 May 9:23pm Reply

  • Reisam

    Lol @ bio: He has since abandoned trance to "play house".

    2 May 9:39pm Reply

  • proximityyy

    tiesto? brzmi jak kurwa kipsta

    22 Apr 8:07am Reply

  • seth009eg

    Tiesto fans, why is the incredible "Work Hard, Play Hard" so underplayed?

    19 Apr 9:40pm Reply

  • Omega_Switch22B

    I still wouldn't mind seeing him mix live, although seeing him mix during his Magik and early In Search of Sunrise period would be mind-blowing

    17 Apr 1:20am Reply

  • Omega_Switch22B

    Changing, yes, this applies to Tiesto's music, but I think the issue here is that he is obviously much more to the more mainstream sensibilities of modern edm... which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but his music seems so much more derivative now- which is quite something to say, since trance music is derivative enough to begin with. Or maybe I'm just not a fan of poppy electronic music :P. Either way, the trance scene that he helped bring to the mainstream has become quite desensitized, the point that only a handful of mainstream trance artists actually produce trance music now- such as Above & Beyond and Armin van Buuren, artists like Tiesto lean much more towards a pop-influenced electro-house sound. There still is an underground scene I suppose, but he certainly isn't a representative of that, hasn't been for about a decade.

    17 Apr 1:15am Reply

  • Blue_42

    get butt hurt about musicians evolving and changing sound. losersssssss tiesto is always fun

    15 Apr 3:45pm Reply

  • Omega_Switch22B

    Listening to Magik 6 and 7 in remembrance of the awesomeness that trance used to be, and Tiesto was the greatest... now he is the epitome of what is wrong with "trance" music.

    15 Apr 4:47am Reply

  • maolvlv

    牛逼

    4 Apr 10:37am Reply

  • rcihmedet

    super

    3 Apr 4:18pm Reply

  • CatalystDM

    Digesto

    2 Apr 8:53pm Reply

  • karthikcs

    Watched Tiesto live..was brilliant!!!!

    2 Apr 5:43am Reply

  • Tranceaddicter

    Tiesto stoczył się okrutnie.... ale wierzę że wróci mu rozum....

    28 Mar 10:40pm Reply

  • tavinhodefreita

    Trance NEVER die guys.

    27 Mar 10:19am Reply

  • v8d64silbo

    TIESTO IS A LEGEND TRANCE NEVER DIES BITCHES

    27 Mar 8:05am Reply

  • v8d64silbo

    CLUB LIFE

    27 Mar 8:04am Reply

  • brownieboy

    Just curious, Does anyone know what alias he used when he produced/made his Hardcore/Gabber music during the 1990s?

    23 Mar 11:26pm Reply

  • AflaDnaAgemo

    The New Goa / Psy / Trance Album "The Flight Through Time And Places" With RiWe is now released and are available as FREE Full Length Promo and FREE download here: http://www.last.fm/music/RiWe/The+Flight+Through+Time+And+Places

    18 Mar 11:59pm Reply
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