Tiesto

Bowing2Buddha

I've only recently started listening to dance music an I've become a huge fan of Tiesto. His music is amazing and I'm just wonderin does anyone have any suggestions of other DJ of a similar style, or even reccomend another DJ that you think I should listen to?? Thanx :cool:

Alkers

If you like Tiesto try Ferry Corsten. Very similiar.

tel922001

Kosmonova

Eddie haliwell another good trance / hard trance dj

sur_1_nuage

All these guys are BORING!
Sorry but i m not considering them as DJ's. As much for the music then for the mkt around them...they suck!

Bri

Armin van Buuren.

If you like Tiesto you'd probably like the In My Memory album from a few years ago. Nice vocals on there from Jan Johnson.

In Search Of Sunrise is a full series to look out for - personnally I find it too mainstream but you should give it a look.

Edit: There's also a series called Magic or Magik or something...and a newer album called Nyana.

Bri

sur_1_nuage wrote:

All these guys are BORING!
Sorry but i m not considering them as DJ's. As much for the music then for the mkt around them...they suck!

Jesus could we stop this sh!t! I don't give a toss if you don't like them/they're not credible enough for you...most of us are aware what level Tiesto is viewed at. But this isn't an exclusively underground forum so if your not interested don't post.

We've an eclectic enough mixture of tastes in here that you should be able to find another thread your interested in.

kinkstr

Kosmonova

sur_1_nuage wrote:

All these guys are BORING!
Sorry but i m not considering them as DJ's. As much for the music then for the mkt around them...they suck!

Why does someone always have to piss all over someone elses thread, the guy asked about dj's similar to Tiesto.

Id reccomend eddie halliwell or johan gielen myself. The halliwell essential mix mite be in the kev's essential mix thread sticky. Ill have a look for a few johan sets, havent heard much from him lately.

sur_1_nuage

Ok guys! all my apologies about it!
i wasnt trying to piss over the thread but i read it and gave my opinion!
arent the message boards made for that?

Bri

I know why you said it but that kind of opinion isn't going to add much to the discussion now is it? Debate is all well and good but your hardly going to convert the guy to Aphex Twin overnight. As I said Tiesto's merits etc. are fairly obvious to most. It's a bit like telling someone that they're favourite girl band arn't in it for the love of the music...and at least Tiesto is somewhat less mainstream and has produced his own stuff. Most people's tastes constantly evolve and I'd prefer to see someone getting into dance as opposed to getting out of it!

We all started listening to dance/electronica from somewhere

kinkstr

Kosmonova

Bri wrote:

I know why you said it but that kind of opinion isn't going to add much to the discussion now is it? Debate is all well and good but your hardly going to convert the guy to Aphex Twin overnight. As I said Tiesto's merits etc. are fairly obvious to most. It's a bit like telling someone that they're favourite girl band arn't in it for the love of the music...and at least Tiesto is somewhat less mainstream and has produced his own stuff. Most people's tastes constantly evolve and I'd prefer to see someone getting into dance as opposed to getting out of it!

We all started listening to dance/electronica from somewhere

Well said mate

sur_1_nuage

right Bri!
Now if our "little Buddha" wants me to redirect him or convert him to some good fresh stuff, he s more than welcome. I ll "yousendit" some accessible good sets he/you might like!

now if he wants to continue this way i can advise him Paul Van Dijk, Timo Maas,
Deep dish, ... or more progressive Sasha, digweed..
There you go ! Have fun

Eurorunner

If you like Tiesto, then you should also consider...

Paul van Dyk
Tillman Uhrmacher
Ferry Corsten
Armin Van Buerren

Bri

sur_1_nuage wrote:

right Bri! Now if our "little Buddha" wants me to redirect him or convert him to some good fresh stuff, he s more than welcome. I ll "yousendit" some accessible good sets he/you might like!

That's very good of you, but don't worry about me I'm currently quite content in my genres of interest at present. Did I mention I'm not actually a fan of Tiesto?!

now if he wants to continue this way i can advise him Paul Van Dijk, Timo Maas, Deep dish, ... or more progressive Sasha, digweed..There you go ! Have fun

That's what we're looking for.

Kosmonova

check out Sasha and Digweed Northern Exposure Vol1
Northern Exposure volume 2 (west coast edition, dont get the east coast one)

or theres a really good oakenfold album, it got a white cover, think its called 2years at cream

van buuren's and van dyk's stuff lapses into chedderland a lot (i think!)

Chucky the tree

The poll choices are mighty strange? lisa lashes in with tiesto? YOu do realise they play completely different music yes?

If its stuff from from the likes of tiesto your after then avoid anything that lisa lashes plays. COmpletely different styles. Judge jules is a cheesey tosser.

Anyway as has been pointed out Van dyk is probaly your best bet. Dancing of poltics part 2 is out(or due out) might be worth checking. Part 1 was unreal at the time, bit dated now though.

Ferry corsten
Markus schulx
Thrillseekers
Armin van buuren

tbh the best thing to do is get a recent tracklisting from a tiesto set and see what artists track where on it, then get a few set from those artists.

Avoid Halliwell essential mix. THe first hour is technom the 2nd is hard trance. WOnt be similiar to tiestos style at all.

Bri

To the OP: What particular aspect of Tiesto do you like? i.e. Is it his live sets or that remix of Barber's Adagio For Strings?

That'll give us a better of idea of what your looking for. You'll find a few of the DJs above play much very different sets to the albums they've released.

Jivin Turkey

sur_1_nuage wrote:

right Bri!
Now if our "little Buddha" wants me to redirect him or convert him to some good fresh stuff, he s more than welcome. I ll "yousendit" some accessible good sets he/you might like!

Will you please point me in the direction of good music, O Wise One.

tman

Why the **** is Lisa Lashes on the poll?

if you want good hard dance, check out the likes of Daley, Mark Maitland, Marc Johnson, Justin Bourne...
Lashes is a ****ing joke

sur_1_nuage

Jivin Turkey wrote:

Will you please point me in the direction of good music, O Wise One.

What do u mean? Do you want me to post a set? No problem for this! I ve got some crunchy stuff on my HD.
just ask me and tell me what kind of style

Bowing2Buddha

Kosmonova

Thanks Guys appreciate it.. Loadsa stuff downloading at the min.. I'll be sure to let u no what i think..

tel922001

Kosmonova

sur_1_nuage wrote:

All these guys are BORING!
Sorry but i m not considering them as DJ's. As much for the music then for the mkt around them...they suck!

so what djs do u like then? remember the post is about trance djs so give us ur top four trance djs?

sur_1_nuage

tel922001 wrote:

so what djs do u like then? remember the post is about trance djs so give us ur top four trance djs?

I thought it was obvious : I HATE TRANCE I think this music is silly and running in circles
Apologies for the trance-lovers! if u like it, fair enough! i respect ur music

Sorry but ask me my tastes in any other kind of electronic music BUT Trance.

tel922001

Kosmonova

sur_1_nuage wrote:

I thought it was obvious : I HATE TRANCE I think this music is silly and running in circles
Apologies for the trance-lovers! if u like it, fair enough! i respect ur music

Sorry but ask me my tastes in any other kind of electronic music BUT Trance.

Well if u dont like it dont comment on it , im sure there is alot of stuff u like that we would think its rubbish , so if the subject doesnt tickle ur fancy best not to comment on it

sur_1_nuage

tel922001 wrote:

Well if u dont like it dont comment on it , im sure there is alot of stuff u like that we would think its rubbish , so if the subject doesnt tickle ur fancy best not to comment on it

So clearly u dont read the entire post before adding your comments caus i already gave my reason to comment it.

the title of the post is "Tiesto" so i read it because i m curious and gave my opinion as the message boards are made for it.
But anyway no worries, i remind you that the post is about Tiesto and not about the way i should behave in your opinion.

C you

Loobz

I didnt choose any of those DJ's.

Lisa Lashes was good back in the day. Her best mix cd came free with Mixmag yonks ago.

Tiesto was ok for a while, he has lots of mixes out but all seem the same to me. I can understand why he would appeal to a newcomer to the dance music scene. He seems to be an all-rounder.

That is all.

Edit: Stop with the childish arguements already.

Anima

Sur_1_nuage, most of us don't listen to trance but we still don't go spamming, "TrAnCE SUX LoL!". Stop being such a nazi.

Jivin Turkey

sur_1_nuage wrote:

I thought it was obvious : I HATE TRANCE I think this music is silly and running in circles
Apologies for the trance-lovers! if u like it, fair enough! i respect ur music

Sorry but ask me my tastes in any other kind of electronic music BUT Trance.

What are your tastes in any other kind of electronic music but trance?

Bowing2Buddha

Kosmonova

Bri wrote:

To the OP: What particular aspect of Tiesto do you like? i.e. Is it his live sets or that remix of Barber's Adagio For Strings?

That'll give us a better of idea of what your looking for. You'll find a few of the DJs above play much very different sets to the albums they've released.

So far i've liked almost everything i've heard.. Traiffic and adagio for strings, sunset on ibiza bein the 3 best so far, sparkles an lethal industry are animal aswell

tman

Loobz wrote:

Lisa Lashes was good back in the day. Her best mix cd came free with Mixmag yonks ago.

Aye.
anyone that puts drop the dime, the killer and freefall on one cd instantly wins my respect. (3 of my favourite hard house tunes from the glory days. can't wait for drop the dime 2005 to get released )
she did a lot in the following years to lose that respect though.
she's just another money grubbing muppet who's doing nothing for the scene these days.

county

josco da walrus wrote:

check out Sasha and Digweed Northern Exposure Vol1
Northern Exposure volume 2 (west coast edition, dont get the east coast one)
total class

sur_1_nuage

Anima wrote:

Sur_1_nuage, most of us don't listen to trance but we still don't go spamming, "TrAnCE SUX LoL!". Stop being such a nazi.

Come oooon! Dont exagerate, i didnt spam the whole forum and i didnt bullied him because he listens to Trance. and stop sayin i m a nazi you idiot, you dont even know what it means for me to be called like that.
I was just answering and giving my opinion, as i wrote before i RESPECT his choices so now STOP! please

sur_1_nuage

Jivin Turkey wrote:

What are your tastes in any other kind of electronic music but trance?

I m really eclectic i think except for T...ce
In electronic music, i like house, tek-house, electro-house, breaks, pure electro, tek, minimal tek, even some gabber so who s saying i m not eclectic and close-minded. Even in trance there are some exceptions but they re really rare.
To give you names i would go for Dr Lektroluv, Vitalic, Derrick Carter, DJ sneak, Marco Bailey, Kanziany, East coast boogiemen, Raoul (1 of my favourites!!), Villalobos, hawtin, Eulberg, Vath, Hell.....

There you go....now we stop the debate over my feeling about trance ok?

Have a nice week end c ya!

tel922001

Kosmonova

Loobz wrote:

I didnt choose any of those DJ's.

Lisa Lashes was good back in the day. Her best mix cd came free with Mixmag yonks ago.

Tiesto was ok for a while, he has lots of mixes out but all seem the same to me. I can understand why he would appeal to a newcomer to the dance music scene. He seems to be an all-rounder.

That is all.

Edit: Stop with the childish arguements already.

Tiesto has been around for a very long time in dj terms , just the last few yrs he has become more mainstream, yes he does alot of remixes but he also does a hell of alot of his own stuff, flight 643 is one of his biggest selling tunes, he doesnt rob and remix an awful lot of other peoples stuff and call it his own, the only one would be adagio for strings, he has won the dj of the year for the last 3 yrs running , other djs that won this have been carl cox ,paul oakenfold, roger sanch , sasha , digweed , and the people who vote for him are other djs , i love trance and in my eyes he is the best since paul oakenfold, and i think he is even better at producing his own stuff, he is also the biggest sellout dj in the world , in one event 250,000 people seen him play and there was no other act just him, in some of his work he has a choir , which in his live sets he has the singing live, also the guy from aqualung plays the piano , in his live performance and he has a full orchestra playing with him, so he is not ur average dj , he is alot more

tel922001

Kosmonova

sur_1_nuage wrote:

I m really eclectic i think except for T...ce
In electronic music, i like house, tek-house, electro-house, breaks, pure electro, tek, minimal tek, even some gabber so who s saying i m not eclectic and close-minded. Even in trance there are some exceptions but they re really rare.
To give you names i would go for Dr Lektroluv, Vitalic, Derrick Carter, DJ sneak, Marco Bailey, Kanziany, East coast boogiemen, Raoul (1 of my favourites!!), Villalobos, hawtin, Eulberg, Vath, Hell.....

There you go....now we stop the debate over my feeling about trance ok?

Have a nice week end c ya!

its funny marco bailey has many trance tunes out

sur_1_nuage

tel922001 wrote:

its funny marco bailey has many trance tunes out

yes ok 10 years ago, and even...listen to 1 of his set you ll notice straight away it s faaaaaaar away from trance.

skkatter

tel922001 wrote:

he is not ur average dj , he is alot more

And Céline Dion isn't your average singer.

tel922001

Kosmonova

skkatter wrote:

And Céline Dion isn't your average singer.

So do u like Celine Dion? i think ur on the wrong board lol

i also agree with u about the marco bailey stuff but on recent trance releases his stuff is been sold as trance honestly, he is class but some times his stuff can sound a bit he is bangin a bucket , alot of trance djs are goin the way marco bailey went , marco v is a class trance dj and he is goin down the same lines as marco bailey

Jivin Turkey

sur_1_nuage wrote:

yes ok 10 years ago, and even...listen to 1 of his set you ll notice straight away it s faaaaaaar away from trance.

Yeah but not in a good way.

Marco Bailey is an atrocious DJ, and his productions are even worse.

sur_1_nuage

Jivin Turkey wrote:

Yeah but not in a good way.

Marco Bailey is an atrocious DJ, and his productions are even worse.

yup yup! good boy pfff

Anima

Nah Tiesto isn't great. His music is very formulaic, which is pretty much the problem with trance these days. The only trance I listen to is usually just random tracks that I hear and think, "hmm thats pretty cool i guess".

2tel1

Judge Jules

If your all goin to get into this...

Trance is over produced, thats why its sh1te.

Nobody can say Tiesto is a gifted DJ or anything of the sort. He mixes in every 5 mins or so. WOW :eek: !!! Thats hard... :rolleyes:

Lisa Lashes is just goddam awful. Its just FACT that these DJs play, basically, sh1te.

If I was starting out listening to these I would want *more experianced* people to tell me they were sh1te. I'd be thanking them.

The Sur 1 dude is right (even though these arguments get very boring)...but if Tiesto floats your boat, listen to him and the others mentioned above, bottom line!

Jivin Turkey

sur_1_nuage wrote:

yup yup! good boy pfff

I dont know what you are trying to say here, but I hope you are not defending Bailey.

Scubadevils

I can never understand these arguments and slagging of others taste in music, or the selection of one genre and saying its crap and thats then gospel. I have read these types of threads so many times and not bothered saying anything but it actually really annoys me. People come here looking for suggestions as did the OP not for a slagging match of their taste in music. There are plenty of types of electronic/dance music that I can't listen to but I would not for a second say that they are crap because they are not to my taste. The fact remains whether you like Tiesto or not, many people buy his music/DJ sets and thousands flock to his gigs and have a great time. Each to their own, not liking something does not mean its crap, its your personal taste. If its so f*cking easy to produce this music that you are slagging, go and do it yourselves and make a fortune, dont waste your time here :mad:

Edit - and just to add to this rant, this is an age old argument that has been around long before forums existed, I personally have listened to this crap since I first got into dance/electronic music 15 years ago. Back then techno was just noise and vocal house was gay. Oh and a lot of the trance was for scumbags. :rolleyes:

mickd

When offering viewpoint on a particular genre its important to separate the genre from the individual. I still like trance but Tiesto like oakenfold has gone down the pan in recent times. Tiesto 's last two Essential mixes (IMO the benchmark by which one should judge current form) were poor. There are other djs such as Jon O'Bir, Above and Beyond, Armin van Buuren and the perennial Paul van Dyk which are better than Tiesto at he moment. Having a mailing list that has 40,000 people on it goes a long way to explaining his ranking in the dj poll.