Ferry Corsten


Ferry Corsten is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer, the majority of his music has been trance. He is well known for producing many pioneering trance tracks and albums during the 1990s2000s under his numerous aliases, including System F, Moonman and Gouryella. In recent years, he has shifted to a broader electronic music style, playing everything from progressive house to melodic trance and hosts his own weekly radio show, Corstens Countdown. He routinely plays at events all over the world with crowds in excess of tens of thousands. In 2004, Ferry Corsten ranked numberon DJ Mag .

Ferry Corsten was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands. He has produced and remixed under many aliases since the release of his first record at the age of sixteen, but he officially started to work as a musician when he wasyears old. As a teenager he saved money to buy his first keyboard by washing cars, and selling mix tapes to kids in his neighbourhood. He later began to perform live performances with a friend and won his first award De Grote Prijs van Nederland at the Netherlands in 1995. He eventually released a record with a couple of friends when he was just sixteen years old and later began releasing selfmade productions while he grew up in Rotterdam in the 1990s, producing underground hardcore gabber tracks, later expanding into clubhouse and trance music. His first single to reach a chart position was Dont Be Afraid under the alias Moonman, which was only the start for becoming a composer as well. In 1997 Corsten and his partner Robert Smit established a dance label named Tsunam

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