DJ Tiésto

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With a massive following in Europe, club culture has proppelled itself into the
mainstream, thereby bringing its players a higher profile. This is the birth of a
new, fresh generation of performers, artists and producers. Tijs Verwest, a.k.a
DJ Tiesto, is his real name which he was given in Holland.
A mainstay in his native Holland, DJ Tiesto has long had a passion for sharing
music and first played records at drive-in disco shows early in his career. He
soon moved to the clubs where his sound focused on club and popular music
from the Dutch chart parade. Eventually he narrowed his scope mainly to house
music, a simple hybrid of beats laden over a bass-heavy groove, and started to
create his own distinctive style.

This recipe makes for an exciting time as Nettwerk Records presents to you DJ
Tiesto: Summer Breeze, a hand-picked selection of anthems that will make your
head sway. The opening track is "Dido", a beautiful progressive trance track with
vocal samples derived from Henry Purcell opera and remixed by Armin Van
Buuren (DJ Tiesto's collaborator on projects such as Major League and Alibi) to
give us a taste of the future. Also featured is Oliver Lieb's dark treatment of the
Kamaya Painters (DJ Tiesto and M.B De Goeij) track "Far From Over". John
Johnson, master of deep progressive trance, gives us his reconstruction of
Dawnseekers "Gothic Dream", and one of DJ Tiesto's own productions is a
massive tune entitled "Sparkles" (a chart topper played by all the top progressive
DJs overseas - Euro diva Sonique had this one in her charts for weeks).
Representing North America's premier electronic dance acts are Nettwerk artists
BT (Libra's mix of "Dreaming") and Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan (DJ
Tiesto does an epic mix of  "Silence"). DJ Tiesto's producer skills are highlighted
as well, namely on his Magikal Remake of Yahel's gorgeous "Going Up"; on Jaimy
& Kenny D's pumping club anthem "Caught Me Running"; and with Major League,
which gives us the frantic frenzy of "Wonder?" in its true original form.

While many DJs tend to follow the alluring trend of playing only massive tunes with
minimal appeal, DJ Tiesto sets himself apart from the pack by hand-picking tunes
that will linger with people hours after the club has closed. With this seamlessly
mixed spectrum of songs, DJ Tiesto wants you - whether you're an avid club jester
or just someone who yearns to be swept away = to take Summer Breeze as a
testimony to his passion for sharing music.