| DJ Sets ::Ferry Corsten (System F)
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Ferry Corsten, also known under the alias
System F, (born December 4, 1973 in Rotterdam, Netherlands)
is a producer of trance music, in addition to being a DJ and
remixer. He also hosts his own weekly radio show, Corsten's
Countdown. He routinely plays at events all over the world
with crowds in excess of tens of thousands. On October 28,
2009, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top
100 DJ Poll, placing Ultra Records artist Corsten at #7
1989 –
1999: Early Years
Ferry Corsten produced and remixed under
many aliases since the release of his first record at the
age of sixteen,[2] but he officially started to work as a
musician when he was 27 years old. As a teenager he would
listen to his father's record player and he would save money
to buy his first keyboard by washing cars, and selling mixed
tapes to kids in his neighborhood. He later began to perform
live performances with a friend and won his first award "De
Grote Prijs van Nederland" at Holland in 1989. He 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. His first single to reach a chart position was
"Don't 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 Tsunami with the Dutch based dance company Purple Eye
Entertainment b.v., this junction made the creation of another
label possible; Polar State. Ferry Corsten was studying to
become an Electrical Engineer, so he went to the Technical
Training School and after that Higher Technical Education.
1999 – 2002: Rise To
Fame
In February 1999 Corsten's second solo project, System F,
was released on the Tsunami imprint along with the album Out
of the Blue, including the same-named melodic tune that became
a hit on dance floors all over the world, achieving a top
twenty position in the United Kingdom single chart. The follow
up single was "Cry", produced together with Robert
Smit which reached the UK Top 20.
His growing popularity in the late 1990s led to cooperation
with many famous trance DJs and musicians like DJ Tiësto
(Gouryella, Vimana), Vincent de Moor (Veracocha), and Robert
Smit (Starparty). The track "Gouryella" by the act
Gouryella was released in May, the single entered the UK Singles
Top 75 at number fifteen and achieved various hit positions
throughout the world. The next single was entitled "Walhalla"
which entered the UK single chart at number twenty-seven.
In 1999 Ferry was elected as producer of the year at the Ericsson
Muzik Award in London. In September 2000 the third Gouryella
single entitled "Tenshi" was released. In 2000,
Corsten also remixed William Orbit's "Adagio for Strings"
as well as "New Year's Day" for U2. His remix of
Barber's "Adagio For Strings" was awarded at the
Dancestar 2000 awards. The Ministry of Sound dance compilation
series entitled Trance Nation became one of the best selling
dance compilations in the UK and was awarded the platinum
status. In 2000 in his home country Corsten got awarded the
Silver Harp award for his numerous outstanding contributions
made to Dutch dance music.
In 2001 Ferry contributed to remix projects of tracks by
Japanese superstar Ayumi Hamasaki. He went on to compose and
arrange her heavily trance-based song "Connected,"
which was released in 2003, along with remixes, as a single
in Germany which has sold 4 million copies to date, making
this Ferry's most successful song to date.
Ferry Corsten is the electronic dance music artist with the
highest amount of dance singles in the UK charts. He currently[when] has 10 gold singles, between
those his 1999 remix of "Madagascar", "Out
of the Blue" as his alias System F, both "Gouryella"
and "Walhalla" in 2000, "Cry" and the
"Dance Valley Theme" in 2001 with "Exhale"
which is his latest as System F with Armin van Buuren; and
his 2003-2004 singles "Punk" and "Rock Your
Body Rock".
In 2004 he launched his first album as Ferry Corsten, Right
of Way, in Heineken Musical Hall with 4,500 clubbers at his
eight-hour set. The music video of the song was nominated
in the TMF Dutch MTV Awards in Netherlands. The album spawned
three singles, "Punk" (UK #29), "Rock Your
Body, Rock" (UK #11), and "It's Time" (UK #51).
2005 – 2007: L.E.F.
Ferry Corsten performing at a concert in El Salvador in September
2006In 2005, Corsten founded his own record label, titled
Flashover Recordings and released his album L.E.F. in 2006.
His track "Fire" was nominated in the best trance
video category for the 2006 Trance Awards.
On April 18, 2007 Corsten was featured in a global satellite
radio first when he was live in over 130 countries on WorldSpace
Satellite Radio and XM Satellite Radio, AOL and Direct TV.
On July 4, 2007, Corsten debuted his new weekly radio show
titled "Corsten's Countdown" which counts down a
list of the highest voted trance tracks.
He was dubbed the King of Crossover in an August 2007 interview
on UK clubbing website HarderFaster.net, reflecting his recent
L.E.F. (Loud Electronic Ferocious) style, which some[who]
hail as a new direction in dance music. Corsten describes
it as "everything from electro house, trance and techno".
2008 – 2009: Twice In
A Blue Moon
Ferry Corsten's third and newest album, Twice In A Blue
Moon, which made its debut at the 2nd edition of the Full
On Ferry event at Ahoy in Rotterdam, was released on November
1, 2008. The first single from the album, “Radio Crash”,
has been played by Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, Paul van
Dyk, Above & Beyond and many other DJ's globally. The
track has been a huge hit in clubs across the world and gave
Ferry a good start in promoting his new album.
2009 - Present: Twice In A
Blue Moon
Ferry's latest album consists of remixes of the previous
album (Twice In A Blue Moon). It includes remixes by Rafael
Frost, Lange, Ummet Ozcan, Markus Schulz and many more. Many
of these remixes were not made available to the public prior
to the release of the new album.
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