Tiësto puts his signature electronic touch on Cuco’s “Voicemail”, turning the dreamy, laid-back original into something built more for the dancefloor. The remix keeps the track’s nostalgic atmosphere and emotional vocals intact, while adding a cleaner electronic production, driving rhythm and uplifting energy that gives it a fresh club-ready feel. It’s a great example of Tiësto taking a softer indie-pop record and giving it just enough dance influence without losing what made the original so appealing.
Tiësto's latest release, "Echo Sax Finale," sees the Dutch dance music legend collaborate with saxophonist Caleb Arredondo, transforming the viral melody from Arredondo's Echo Sax series into a powerful, cinematic trance anthem. Rather than relying on vocals, the track tells its story through soaring synths, emotive saxophone melodies and euphoric drops, creating a nostalgic yet modern soundscape. More importantly, Echo Sax Finale perfectly captures Tiësto's long-awaited return to his trance roots, blending the uplifting emotion and energy that made him the "King of Trance" with contemporary festival production, reminding longtime fans why his early music remains so influential today.
When Tiesto said he was heading back to his trance roots, many felt that it would be short lived or diluted with modern sounds and he would never really go back to his roots. Well, those same people are left eating their words as he dropped his latest track last week featuring Olivia Sebastianelli on vocals and it's yet another trance bomb. He first previewed the track during his live set at EDC Las Vegas last month and it was a crowd pleaser of note, last week he released the track and it's been doing great on the streams and solidifies his commitment to the trance culture.
Beautiful Places is the second single released from Tiesto after his return to trance music, his first release "Bring Me to Life" was extremely well received from the fan base and gained many other fans thanks to it. His show at the Pyramids of Giza was incredible and this song featured so well with the amazing background of the world wonders. The song features the vocals of Brieanna Grace who add's so much character to the already great song. It has so many different levels and elements to the track that only Tiesto could bring together and make it work so well. It's one of my favourite tracks of the moment and I'm many others feel the same way.
Back when electronic music was just classified into two genre's namely Trance & Techno, there were two major names in the industry, Armin van Buuren and Tiesto. Both made trance music but Armin's style leaned more onto the uplifting and euphoric while Tiesto was hard hitting and high energy. To this I took more to Tiesto's style and seeing him live in 2010 at Randburg airport where he played a 5 hour set was just the cherry on the top for me. Since then Tiesto's style took a turn, I wouldn't classify it as going commercial but definitely styled his music for all in pop-culture. He still created good music but there's something us trance music lovers craved from Tijs that we know he could create. I think he's seen that as well so he's decided to shift back to his roots, he's cleared his IG page and reverted to his old logo to echo his return to trance. "Bring Me To Life" is the first of his new releases and it ticks all the boxes, I've played it close to a 100 times since it's release on Friday, that is how much this song resonates to me, I hope it does to you as well.
What is undoubtedly one of the biggest tracks for this years European summer, "Ma Tnsani by South African DJ and producer Vanco who is known for his eclectic style and powerful baselines has been remixed by the Trance legend himself, Tiesto. Now, if you are as shocked as I am to find out this song is by a South African, given how popular its gotten on the internet, mainly thanks to Tik Tok and you know how patriotic us South Africans can get, so it's even more reason to turn up the volume on this banger.
Tiesto teams up with Italian brothers Matteo and Amedeo Giovanelli better known by their stage name Mathame to produce his latest track, Everlight. This track is bordering on the trance feels but more on the cinematic type soundtrack which Mathame are best known for. The track is a musical masterpiece with the merges of their two styles which work so well in unison. It harks back to the Tiesto Elements of life style of music and you can picture Tijs busy down on the decks with his headphones on giving the crowd an aural symphony.
Matteo and Amedeo Giovanelli, born in Bergamo, are Italian brothers known professionally as the DJ and production duo Mathame, artists within the cinematic techno genre.
The much-anticipated track “Tantalizing” by Tiësto, featuring Bahamian artist Soaky Siren, is poised to make a big impact. Officially releasing on November 8th and already available for pre-order, the track captures the pulse of Afro House, expanding Tiësto’s range and spotlighting Soaky’s vibrant vocal style. Known for his genre-crossing artistry, Tiësto’s recent dive into Afro House taps into the genre’s rise on the global dance scene, where the rhythmic, percussion-driven Afro House sound has rapidly gained fans worldwide.
If you watched Tiesto's mammoth 4 hour DJ set in New York City last week, you may have caught this track which he played early on. It's by Simulate's rising star TH;EN who has return to the label with his ‘Rakata’ EP. Already having received amazing support and reactions around the world, A-side ‘Rakata’ promises to be a special moment in the Simulate timeline. Rakata features a powerful Spanish vocal along with dynamic synths to give the track a high-energy and driving groove, perfect for the dancefloor. Liverpool based DJ and Producer Massano, dropped the track at the Resistance stage at Ultra Tokyo and it's continuing to be a proper festival jam since. It was officially released 2 weeks ago and we have it featured on the blog today.
I don't think the duo Norwegian brothers KREAM have produced a track I haven't taken a liking too, no seriously, if you're a fan of their Liquid Lab sets, you will know exactly what I'm talking about. The energy they bring to their music is just next level, that gets you hooked in from the start to the end. Their style is unique but unmistakably theirs and theirs only. Their hit track "What You've Done To Me" has been a favourite of mine for a long time and now they've just dropped an exclusive remix of it which they debuted at the Drumsheds. This version has just elevated the track to levels that is dark room festival worthy with a more kick ass bassline and synths. Such a banger to start the week off.
This past weekend saw Vegas play host to its annual Electric Daisy Carnival, the festival has grown in leaps and bounds over the years with it becoming a major festival attracting the biggest names in the industry. With TIESTO being one of the resident DJ's in the city, it only made sense for him to contribute to this years festival by making the official anthem of EDC Las Vegas 2024. Teaming up with duo Prophecy for this one, the track is a typical high energy Tiesto track merging his love for electronic dance and techno. Titled "My City" the song is an ode to the city of the bright lights, Vegas and its sound is true and distinct to the EDC festival. He dropped the track during his set which was streamed live and available to watch on YouTube on his channel, it was a proper set which you need to listen to if you're a fan of the legend.
Tiesto released his track "In My Memory" which featured Nicola Hitchcock just over 12 years ago, the melodic trance track was one of his lesser played tracks but still hit all the right notes. Fast forward to 2023 and Isreali DJ and Producer Maor Levi has given it a fresh new lease of life with his Starlight Remix completely transforming it have an 80's disco groovy vibe to it. It's the perfect track to enjoy our Southern Hemisphere Sunday Sundowners too, with its chilled but vibey beat which has an uplifting note to it.
Italian DJ and producer 7 Skies has finally dropped his banger of a track "Tokyo777" on Amarda Music last week. This track has been teased and dropped a few times on the Armada channel and many, like me couldn't wait till it was officially released. Now, many of you old timers like me would listen to this and remember a very similar sounding track from Tiesto, Flight 643 which was later revived by John Christian but 7 Skies makes no mention of the song being an inspiration to this one but the similarities are uncanny. The track is fast paced, energy track which hits 130bpm so its the perfect kind of song for fast paced raves. The deep heavy bass line ensures that adrenaine keeps flowing from start till the end.
The King of dance is back again, reviving another classic this time the track from Tears For Fears, "Rule The World". Already an iconic anthem of the past, Tiesto collaborated with Niiko X Swae and Gudfella on this one, intricately adding their own special touch to the song. The result, pure electronic dance energy, with them still keeping the focal chorus on point but adding a vibey bassline, some extra synths and melody and upping the BPM ever so much to make a trance type track. It's one that we will be hearing a lot in his upcoming sets and in the clubs as we head into the winter season of the Northern Hemisphere. The track, while not linked to anything in particular, is ideally released during this ongoing conflict in the middle east, which we all want to see stopped as the number of civilian causalities has been nothing short of horrendous.
Tiesto teams up with Italian duo Mathame for his latest release, "Feel Your Ghost", what I love about the Dutch legends work of the past decade is that he isn't scared to experiment like this and more often than not it turns out to be a work of art. While Tiesto has been producing a lot more deep house sounds of late, this track has that old school techno feel with a great energy that just builds up with the vocals and keeps that energy space set for the track. While the beats and synths are the main focus of the track, the vocals for me really make it what it is, even with that catchy bassline every time you hear the vocals kick in, it gives you shivers.
Dutch DJ'ing legend Tiesto dropped his latest single and the first of 2023 titled 'Lay Low'. It's a house track which is not all that uncommon from him and is featured on his latest studio album "Drive" which also features tracks like 10:35 and Hot In It. Tiesto said recently that the album 'Drive' took on a completely new direction with him embracing house music genre more in his production. The track features a deep house sound with melodic undertones and spacey choral vocals. It is a great track from the icon and definitely sets the tone for what we can expect from him going forward this year.
Multi-award winning DJ Tiesto has always been ahead of the game when it comes to innovating himself, from being one of the first DJ's to gain residency in Vegas, to teaming up with brands to produce songs for them. The Dutch legend has now teamed up with the latest luxury resort to open on Dubai's Palm Jumeirah, Atlantis The Royal. The single "10:35" which includes the vocals form Canadian singer/ songwriter Tate McRae, the track is inspired by and encapsulates the essence and energy of Atlantis The Royal which is the latest icon of the Dubai skyline and is said to be the most luxurious resort in the world. Tate, who spent time growing up in the Middle East proved to be the perfect partner for the track, the idea for the track which was filmed on location at the resort, is where day turns to night and that experience shifts, hence "10:35". The owners of the resort as well as the artists are extremely happy with the outcome of the track and it serves to be the perfect advertisement for the place, after watching the video I'm also itching to visit!
Just over a month ago Tiesto dropped 5 brand new tracks which formed part of his latest EP. At first he posted snippets of each track on his Instagram and asked his followers to vote which one he should release first, but later that week he surprised us all by dropping all five at once! All tracks are unique to him and his sounds over the years, with him collaborating with various artists on them. For me personally, this track "I'll Take You High" just struck a chord with me, it was reminiscent to his previous trance style sound, with that heavy bassline line and drop. It brought a smile to my face to see that Tiesto still hasn't forgotten his roots in the EDM industry and still can produce bangers for the electronic world such as this. The flow and rhythm of the track will get you going from the start to the end. While I do enjoy this one, there were two others that I was contemplating to feature as well, all five tracks on the EP are great and well thought, I mean coming from someone of his caliber you wouldn't expect anything less.
There seems to be no stopping Tiesto, the Dutch Trance music legend just celebrated his 750th episode of his weekly podcast "Clublife" last week and just a week before that dropped his latest single "Don't Be Shy" featuring Karol G. The 52 year old who also became a father for the first time in the past year seems to be loving life at the moment with much of the US clubs and festivals slowly opening up, he has a lot planned for the rest of the year. This track takes on a bit of different style and has similar sounds to what was used in his London Sessions album but with a more pop sound to it. The track has a catchy bassline and backtrack but has that unmistakably Tiesto sound to it. The music video is brilliant as well, themed around the movie Night at the Museum, really gives you a experience on its own.
We're back to normal programming this week and as ever on a Monday we bring you the latest in Electronic Dance Music, today we have an interesting collaboration from little known DJ's Leonard A of Mexico and Pavel Koreshkov of Russia. In today's exclusive we have an interview with Leonard just to find out more about himself, his music and how he and Pavel hooked up to provide us with such a great track that is Frozen Dream.
Q & A with Leonard A
1. Who is Leonard A?
- Leonard A is a project that I started about 6 years ago, Leonard derived from my name Leonardo and the 'A' comes from my last name 'Anya'.
2. What inspired you to become a DJ/ Producer?
- I was inspired by many artists but I think that without a doubt the greatest influence was the music and talent of DJ Tiesto. At the time of the 2000s when I was just a teenager, I had his in concert 2 DVD and that was when I began to see how wonderful it was to get people on the dance floor.
3. Being from Mexico, what is the dance music scene like there?
- It is good, to tell the truth I have heard that many of the great DJs love to come to festivals in Mexico because of the reception of the Mexican public. It is difficult for new talents to grow unlike in Europe, but believe me people support when they see that you are good at this.
4. Your track Frozen Dream which we have featured today, you teamed up with Pavel from Russia, how did the two of your work together in producing this track track given the current restrictions the world is under?
- Well one day I received an email in my inbox from Sound Cloud and well it was from Pavel, he showed me his new track just finished and he wanted me to place some of my touches on it, although it changed more than 50% of the original structure but I think we achieved a good result and all this thanks to current technology, being able to send steam through the internet is a great advantage and communication thanks to social networks makes work much easier from your studio.
5. What can we expect next from you?
- I have not decided this year but I am thinking of taking my production to another level, more melodic trance, you know the days ago I was listening to the new album of 'Shingo Nakamura' and I was fascinated by how beautiful it sounds. I want to work on something like that and be able to start releasing some of that in Monstercat Silk. At the moment I have some tracks to finish and I hope to be able to sign them before the end of the year. Several remixes and music with great artists are coming.
The track Frozen Dream is amazing and from the first time I heard it on Andrew Rayel's weekly podcast Find Your Harmony, I was itching for it to be released and now that it has, I just wanted to share it with everyone to enjoy for themselves.
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