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Originally posted by magikb since June if we want to get technical here and this is a neverending debate on Tiesto for sure.. best years 2000-2003 imo.. best album In My Memory.. I would also have to say that his Heineken Hall set in Amsterdam (12.3.05) has probably been one of his best sets in a good 1.5 years or more.. totally has every style in there.. changing things up a little.. I like what he did that night.. too bad he didn't play like that all the time *note he played Preach in that set*

I did enjoy 01 and 02.....and I still throw in the odd Tiesto CD when coming home from the club.

Maybe I should go on a Tiesto bender one weekend and see if I can fall in love with him again, in a musical not gay way....oh man that sounded even worse....ah shit why won't I just stop typing...srsly why can't I stop typing this is stupid...just hit submit and this will all end but I need to use the mouse to do that ah here we go...hard to

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Scott has been introduced to the rave scene, and Ecstasy, by Craig. The two of them go out on the weekends, with some of Craigs friends, and stay up all night, dancing in a drug-fueled trance.

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many of the people who hate Tiesto (here and abroad) were once some of his biggest fans. But I do notice a trend here....when a Dj gets very popular, they start playing in bigger clubs to bigger audiences and lose that personal connection to the real, hardcore fans. Look at Tiesto's last gig in Toronto...it was fucking rammed with so many fake fans, I couldn't believe it. But anyway, I first discovered this type of music in 2000 and Tiesto was my gateway with Magik 6. I still feel that's a top class mix album and I wish we'd see more of that style of trance being produced rather than the endless wave (another great Tiesto production ) of cheesey and simplistic vocal trance that Armin pumps out with his productions/cd's.

I"ll always be grateful to Tiesto for creating a style of music that helped ease me into the dance world because there was a time where I really looked down on "techno". These days, I have to say my enthusiasm for him has clearly diminished. I no longer listen to his cd's as often I once did, I don't bother checking his tracklists or visiting his official website anymore, or it's forum. I can't enjoy his livesets as much either because of all the fucktards who go and push to the front like morons or those who keep shoving their way all over the place.

I find myself going over to the progressive and house side of things because that uplifting trance just doesn't quite do it anymore, plus there's hardly any good quality being produced. But I don't hate Tiesto and I never will. He'll never be as popular as he was the last 2-3 years and I'm sure he knows that. He might even retire soon for all we know.

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‘spose it really was only a matter of time before this issue came to fruition. So, is Tiesto the worst or best thing that has happened to trance? Someplace in between? Or not even to be considered as trance?

Of course, the answer depends on your definition. Your definition of trance, your definition of a DJ, and your definition of success. There is absolutely no denying that the big name DJ’s have had a profound and lasting impact on the EDM scene- Tiesto, Armin, Oaky (and the other top 40 jocks on the DJ List) all have helped bring electronic music to the mainstream. The question is whether this is a good thing! In my view, it is. Absolutely, it is. I could probably reference almost any musical genre to draw comparisons, but rock is probably the best example. Rock and Roll got it’s “start” at grass-roots level largely in black communities. An extension of R&B, jazz, blues and a selective adoption of several other genres (including the Irish Jig) – the first explosions on the scene being pioneers like Berry and Diddly. Anything with a guitar, bass, drums and sax was thrown in to this new category- and this became the recipe to satiate the white market. Presley used the traditional, catchy and tried tricks of rock to become a sensation. Brit rock took it overseas and added its own spice. Eventually the recipe became a systemic formula with the birth of Boy/Girl bands and the creation of pop music. Today, rock is a vast genre spanning everything from death metal to adult contemporary. But, take a look at Billboard’s top 10 and the ONLY rock artist is Nicklback.

IMO, the evolution of EDM from an underground weekend sound for gay, black men to the state that it is today owes much to “commercial” producers/DJ’s. For house, this was probably the KLF. For trance, it was the likes of Robert Miles (oops, please don’t hurt me), cultivated in later years by PVD and our boy, Tiesto. It’s formulaic, predictable, and catchy as all hell. And it’s the common denominator. Which brings attention to the scene. Which brings money to the scene. Which brings people to the scene. People who take interest in its other branches, become DJ’s, or producers, or support indy DJs and producers. There remains a true underground scene- flourishing with the facilities afforded by the internet and by the attention that the big name guys draw in. As someone alluded prior in this thread, Tiesto is the pot to our coke. The blush zinfandel to our port. Sweet? Yes. Ubiquitous? Yes. Mass appeal? Well, yes. So ignore the uncoolness of it. Ignore the unoriginality of it. Once you get past the hype, the self-promotion and poke fun at the narcissism, what you really have is a mediocre DJ who has virtually unlimited resources to share his mediocrity with the world. That’s his success- trance’s Nickelback. And through it he’s enabled hundreds of DJ’s that profess to starting off spinning the epic trance tunes and have turned into purveyors of pure hedonism on the streets. Next time you get a chance, ask Blu, Dekoze, or Addy (and yourself!) what the first track you ever spun was.

Just my two cents (and I am actually interested in checking out what everyone’s first beat was, but I don’t wanna threadjack) Sorry for the long post, I’ve been bottling it up for a while.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced Please delete this thread now.....for the sake of TOTA please do...this can cause nothing but problems.

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Originally posted by ChemEnhanced I appreciate the fact that Tiesto hasn't been back to Toronto since July....keep the streak going....pull a PVD on us

I hope he does pull a PvD except I hope there's a switch and PvD ends up coming back more consistently instead of Tiesto...

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- all those who think that most of us who dislike tiesto is because hes popular, ur wrong. its because hes popular with just basic dj talent while even the unknown bedroom dj has more skill than him. djing is more than just beatmatching in todays world with the technology/tools and all the genres that keep popping up

- we dont dislike a dj/artist when they go "commercial" but when their popularity is bsed on PR is when it pisses us off...look at the likes of deep dish as mentioned previously in this thread..those guys won/got nominated for (cant remember) a grammy as well...we still love em (well alot call them sleep dish but thats cos not everyone HAS TO like the artist/dj)

- we dont post in the million and one tiesto threads that get started on a monthly basis (well most of us) and respect the taste in music...but to start yet another stupid appreciation thread thats even more stupid cos of the fact that u consider this mortal with the bare talent as a god is just asking for comments

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Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~* I like Tiesto...sometimes

i like lisa at tiesto

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Originally posted by Jem_hadar i like lisa at tiesto

that's b/c that was the first time i met you

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now back to what we're all here for in this thread:

"Birds of a feather flock together":



Tiesto DOES mean flowerpot and heres one of the several results i got when i typed tiesto in the google image search:
http://titto.250free.com/fotos/tiesto-sarten.jpg

Go tiesto GO tiesto coke....erm i mean GO:



this is the fanbase that attends mickeymouseland:




(all images courtesy of google search for "tiesto")

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