dj: pvd
producer: ferry

producer is undoubtedly ferry, by a country mile.

i think all the others are/were ghost produced to varying degrees.

dj i'm not as sure. depends on how i am feeling. it's not armin anyway

pvd played a lot of cheesy stuff...

No one can top Paul Van Dork with his mixes from the 90's and early 2000's. Tiesto is a joke, he can't even mix cleanly..... and his track setups doesn't even go together from one song to the next. He just blindly puts his track listings together with no thought put into it, it seems. Ferry Corsten, his early stuff is 'aite'...... but nothing to write home about.

Difficult as PvD was there when I started listening trance.
Ferry probably is the best producer, but Armin brought me most joy over the years.
Tiesto at 4th is fine with me, tracks to me still are more important than mixing skills.

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Originally posted by NordicTrackBoy No one can top Paul Van Dork with his mixes from the 90's and early 2000's. Tiesto is a joke, he can't even mix cleanly..... and his track setups doesn't even go together from one song to the next. He just blindly puts his track listings together with no thought put into it, it seems. Ferry Corsten, his early stuff is 'aite'...... but nothing to write home about.

but he used to be DJ Tiesto for crying out loud. I thought djing was his forte.

Last edited by Mattsanity on Mar-28-2015 at 03:04

PvD....

Programming, mixing...he could do it all

there were nights that PvD would start off at 134bpm and just go harder through out the durations of his sets. What PvD did to Twilo NYC will nevr be matched

dj wise i would say for me is tiesto
he used to weeve in and out of genre's and make it work
there were some special nights where he knew how to take you on a journey

producer wise: pvd and ferry

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Originally posted by Robotrance avb never did anything good lool, he basically destroyed an entire scene all by himself.

Well, that would make him the 'best' and turn all others in a bunch of weak losers. Too much credits imo.

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For me PvD in his prime takes the cake as a DJ. I mean you just can't fault the guy for anything he did in the early-mid 90s.

I would give Ferry second for his obvious production talent.

Tiesto would be a third for having the best ghostwriters and having good track selection.

While Armin seems like a good guy I have find it difficult now to connect with his production / track selection.

fuck man, avb wasn't that bad. I can`t remember how many times I heard his classic set at ID&T radio, that he played 'into the dawn' and 'kilimanjaro'... also asot was FUCKING ABSURD. Specially the first 50 episodes... fuck, the classics used to be dope stuff, and filled with TONS of gems. Also his old mixes (boundaries of imagination, a state of trance, universal religion) are great. actually pretty great.

He isn`t in the same level of PvD, indeed, but he was clearly very good. Can you imagine a guy playing dark progressive, deep, trance and psy in the same fucking set? yeah.

And he wasn't that bad as a producer.

Lol pvd takes the cake while tiesto and avb take the poll for most jesus poses pulled in a set nar kidding tiesto was prime back in the day. Wouldnt list avb up there maybe sasha or oakenfold instead