I really don't have a lot to add to this page, so what I'm going to TRY to do is once a day (or at least once every time I think of it) is to throw in a blog entry and put a new song on my profile. The blog entry will likely have something about why I like the artist, what I know of their background if any, maybe even a little "I remember when..." like the old fart I'm becoming. So, why do it? I don't know, I love music, I really do. I'm not an artist, I can't really sing, I have no real rhythm, and I've never been able to sit down long enough to learn an instrument, but I adore music. Music is probably my favorite medium.

So, why not get the show started?

http://www.myspace.com/fcorsten

Ferry Corsten is definitely the first trance DJ I actually "got into." I believe my buddy Omar turned me onto Ferry what would have been 6 or 7 years ago. It's not a stretch to say that Ferry's music has been a huge influence on my musical tastes over the last 1/3 of my life. Ferry is/was probably the first Dutch Trance producer to make it big on the global scene. BPM has consistedly rated him among the Top 10 DJs in the world over the past 6 years, and it shows.

As a performing artist, Corsten works his music like a seamstress works cloth. Starting off with a mass of jumbled and often mismatched musical fabrics, Corsten sews one track into another, into another, until what you have heard before you is the most beautiful musical tapestry imaginable.

Ferry takes a crowd on a journey across the evolution of progressive and trance, playing tracks you've never heard, tracks your friends have been telling you about for months, and tracks that you know every beat to by heart. How often does the crowd sing the synth lines back to the DJ? Every time Corsten gets behind the turntables.

The track on my profile by Ferry isn't ACTUALLY the one I would have chosen to represent him at the top of his form. I would have picked Galaxia, Out of The Blue, Time, or preferably, the Spundae mix of Punk. Alas, you go with what you know, or in this case, what you know is available. Rock Your Body Rock is off of his 2003 hit cd Right of Way. This track became a club anthem and got play time from any DJ worth his salt. The simple lyrics are easily shouted along even by out of breath, tired and sweaty dancers.

I'm on a mission
let it take you back and forth
another jam blast gonna make you scream for more
from New York, London to Amsterdam
let's rock
I wanna rock your body rock

There's a reason that out of the dozens and dozens of DJs I've seen live he's still my favorite. He's just that fucking good, and I think you should give him a shot.