There aren't 75 000 people at the Trance Energy in the MainStage, that's just impossible.


It's easy to play pop music to entertain the crowd. Young talents can play easy stuffs to get some acknowledgement and be sure that the crowd will be pleased, but when you're a superstar deejay, your job should be more than playing commercial stuffs and all your big - old - success in a row! Tijs might be some kind of icon. His number two position in the Dj Mag should be used to support brand new artists and new sounds, not to follow the hype, playing electro commercial tracks and errr we will see how good or bad is his upcoming artist album.

What is the goal? Being played on international radios along Eric Prydz, Timbaland and Kid Cudi with his "Day And Night"? Becoming the new Oakenfold and be the first part of all Madonna concerts? Maybe Tijs has been very frustrated that his Die Another Day remix was rejected by Madonna and now he manages to take his revenge

Of course people will prefer an Empire Of The Sun remix or a King Of Leon remix instead of the new Jennifer Rene, because Tijs is playing for n00bs, for stupid people who never followed the EDM and went to a Tiësto party because he is now played on MTV! Choose your party, where there won't be any stupid kiddos like this, and I guarantee the crowd will be better, more mature.

I saw an audience going completely mad just by few notes coming from Lethal Industry (Hardwell Remix), or because Tijs is playing a Tetris remix or The First Rebirth remix and those melodies are familiar to them. The problem is not trancers. They won't have any reactions no matter if Tijs is playing Ferry Corsten – Shanti or something deeper like the techno track Dustin Zahn - Stranger To Stability (Len Faki Podium Mix). And that's the point for me.

I have no problem if Tijs is changing his music style but damn WHY those pop/rock remixes and commercial electro stuffs?! Fortunately, he is still playing few good stuffs in Club Life. Trancers at the end of the first hour and deeper tracks in the second hour. The Mixmag Special CD is pretty good and well-mixed, but this gig is awful! I was expecting something better, I though this gig was a highlight of the summer but nothing special. And the only trancers are his own productions or are dated.

I know he can do better! At the moment, I don't like him.
Browse your archives Chris and take a look at the EoL @ Hasselt in 2007, Element Earth. Good deep tracks and nice vibe all over it


EDIT : this is a really nice start Recent playlist from him.
1. Alex Gopher – Handguns (Dada Life Remix)
2. Little Boots – Earthquake (Ali Wilson Tekelec Remix)
3. Temper Traps – Sweet Disposition (Axwell & Dirty South Remix)
4. Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike VS Gossip – Heavy Cross (Open Air Mix)
5. Dustin Zahn – Stranger To Stability (Len Faki Podium Mix)
6. Avicii – Time To Get Ill
7. David Tort – Acid
8. Sebastian Ingrosso – Kidsos

Last edited by Re!ko on Aug-06-2009 at 10:45

Well i can't say i disagree, some of the pop stuffs are going too far, but there are some that he's managed to find and pick up as regular players with some tastefulness.

While this is something new to a majority of the fanbase, or trance fans that Tiesto would play these styles, people attending small low key parties, or regularly getting soundbites from the guy, would understand this has been a progression over maybe as long as 18 months to 2 years to reach this kind of balance in the cd wallet.

Just as much as it frustrates the die hard trance fans that he throws down the electro and pop... it frustrates the stupid n00b who only knew him from MTV before turning up on the concert to find out its not exactly like a TIC DVD at every gig.

I've got some measure of karma about the current sets - because only allowing for a quick burst of 60-90 minutes of trance, means that:
a) he builds up to it instead of a Concert-like marathon of build/break/build/break
b) there is usually only QUALITY trancers selected to fill in 1hr section, instead of needing to drop a lot of cookie cutter stuffs.

If he plays more like that first hour you posted, then fine by me

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wtf is tiesto on.

This tracklist is full of LULZ

Kernkraft 400 and he's still hammering Silence?

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I don't get the people here saying "wtf he's still playing Traffic", of COURSE he'd play traffic. This is a pretty big concert I assume so him not playing Traffic or Silence is like going to a Killers mega concert and them not playing "Mr.Brightside" or like going to a huge Daft Punk concert and them not playing "One More Time" or "Around the World".

Imagine going to a Led Zepplin concert and they played 'stairway to heaven' after 40 years. Would you say " they're still playing Stairway to Heaven". I know this is a ridiculous analogy, but that's what I can compare it to when these EDM noobs go to see tiesto.

Now I personally think Tiesto hasn't done anything good for the past 4 years (except Allure - Somewhere Inside, even that the Andy Duguid remix was nice not the original) and I certainly can't fathom this new rock/hip hop shit he's been playing, but, as others have said at least he's been branching out. I don't support the music he's playing atm but at least he still gives a shit to delve into other genres, even though they're crappy (imo). Not like Oakenfold. I actually think Tiesto has shifted his musical taste the most compared with Armin and PVD.

There's a lot of people who haven't seen Tiesto yet (including me) and if I ever do see him, obviously I'd want him to play Adagio, Traffic etc. That's what people think first when they hear 'Tiesto'.

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No matter what he or his marketing team says, not a single one of his performances has been a "concert".

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if i ever see tiesto again i would like to hear some magik journey

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Originally posted by Palladium if i ever see tiesto again i would like to hear some magik journey

+1 Tiesto has done some amazing mix CDs, dont know why he cant use some songs from some of them every now and then.

Also about Tiesto still playing Lethal industry. PVD still plays Bornslippy, Crush etc.