Ferry Corsten is a Dutch disc jockey, record producer and remixer.
36 Facts About Ferry Corsten
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Ferry Corsten was inspired by Ferry Maat and Ben Liebrand for his mixes.
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Ferry Corsten eventually released a record with a couple of friends when he was just sixteen years old and later began releasing self-made productions while he grew up in Rotterdam in the 1990s, producing underground hardcore gabber tracks, later expanding into club-house and trance music.
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Under the guise of Albion, Ferry Corsten produced a track titled "Air".
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Also in 1999, Ferry Corsten was elected "Producer of the Year" by Muzik Magazine at the Ericsson Muzik Awards in London and, in his home country, received the Zilveren Harp music award for his numerous contributions made to Dutch dance music.
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Furthermore, Ferry Corsten made a mix compilation album together with Robert Smit called Tsunami One.
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In 2002, Ferry Corsten contributed to remix projects of tracks by Japanese superstar Ayumi Hamasaki.
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In 2005, after 8 years at the helm, Ferry Corsten left Tsunami to launch a new label enterprise, Flashover Recordings.
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Ferry Corsten was voted as the number 6 DJ in DJ Mag's Top 100 for this year.
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On 4 July 2007, Ferry Corsten debuted his new weekly radio show titled "Ferry Corsten's Countdown" which counts down a list of the highest voted trance tracks.
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Ferry Corsten produced the 1st official anthem for Bavaria City Racing in 2007, which was a Formula One racing demonstration located in the city of Rotterdam.
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Ferry Corsten was dubbed the King of Crossover in an August 2007 interview on UK clubbing website HarderFaster.
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Ferry Corsten describes it as "everything from electro house, trance and techno".
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Ferry Corsten released the single "Into the Dark" featuring Howard Jones during March 2008.
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In 2008, Ferry Corsten was the first DJ ever to be named Ambassador of Freedom by the Dutch Liberation Day Committee.
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In 2010, Ferry Corsten was on mixing duties for an edition of BBC Radio 1's Essential Mix and a remixed album of System F tracks entitled Champions came out in February.
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Ferry Corsten released his compilation, Once Upon a Night in 2010, which hit number one on iTunes in the US The album came out on March 30 and he eventually started his tour: Once Upon a Night: The Experience.
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The 250th episode of Ferry Corsten's Countdown was broadcast live, worldwide, for the duration of the unprecedented eight-hour show beamed out from the studios of Sirius XM Radio in New York City.
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The Ferry Corsten's Countdown show is aired in more than 40 countries and the CC250 broadcast became a Twitter trending topic three times during that eight-hour broadcast during which time Ferry Corsten took live requests from around the world via a specially designed interactive website, Twitter and Facebook.
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In May 2012, Corsten launched a new monthly mix show titled Ferry's Fix.
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Ferry Corsten wrote a tune with Chicane and Christian Burns in July 2012 called "One Thousand Suns," an emotive trance tune that has received airplay from the likes of Armin van Buuren and a very positive fan reaction based on listener call-ins to his weekly Ferry Corsten's Countdown radio show.
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Ferry Corsten's Full On concept was a series of back-to-back sets with other well-known trance artists taking place at festivals and venues all over the world; including Tomorrowworld, Stereosonic, and Space Ibiza.
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In November 2012, Ferry Corsten released the third installment to his Once Upon A Night compilation series on Premier.
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Ferry Corsten premiered the single during the Ferry Corsten's Countdown show a few days later.
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On February 23,2015, Ferry Corsten released the first installment of the "Hello World EP" series.
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Since then, Ferry Corsten has played at festivals as Gouryella including Electric Daisy Carnival: New York, Southeast Asian Games, and Beyond Wonderland.
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On May 26,2017, Corsten released his 6th studio album, entitled Blueprint, a concept album that includes a full-length sci-fi story narrated by Campbell Scott and written by screenwriter David H Miller, with vocals by Haliene and Eric Lumiere.
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On 2 March 2018, Ferry Corsten collaborated with trance producer Paul Oakenfold to release "A Slice of Heaven".
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Ferry Corsten has pledged to donate a part of the revenue earned from the project to "VH1's Save The Music Foundation", which focuses on restoring music programs in schools.
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Ferry Corsten released the third installment of Unity on 13 July 2018 produced with Jordan Suckley, titled "Rosetta".
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Ferry Corsten stated that the song's title came from the "strong sensation of discovery" which the song evokes in its listeners.
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In July 2020, after playing multiple guest sets recently on Armin van Buuren's A State of Trance, it was announced on ASOT 972 that Ferry Corsten would be joining the show as a monthly resident of hour number two.
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Ferry Corsten's Countdown ended with episode 700, aired on November 25,2020.
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In January 2021, Ferry Corsten recorded and released his educational music production masterclass where he teaches aspiring music producers the techniques he uses to create his music.
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In March 2021, Ferry Corsten launched his concept What the F which where Ferry Corsten will play his entire repertoire of music, remixed, rehashed and reinvented.
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On 24 April 2022, Ferry Corsten was awarded the Order of Orange-Nassau.