A pioneering Dutch producer who's been at the forefront of the dance scene since
the 1990s, Ferry Corsten helped craft the template for trance music's big
soulful synth melodies and hypnotic hedonism, remaining one of the world's most
influential, globe-trotting, superstar DJs in the business.
Born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Corsten discovered electronic music as a child
through local radio stations and was an obsessive record buyer in his youth,
before starting out DJ-ing at school parties and putting together mixes on tape
decks. A record shop in Rotterdam where a young Tiës...