DJ Tiesto - Worldwide Touring

In late 2004 Tiesto began his touring across Latin America, with his release of In Search of Sunrise 3: Panama in which he gained influence from the sun and sand in summer in 2002, the tour continued in 2005 and Tiesto performed live at Brazil, Argentina, Panama, Peru, Costa Rica, Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador and Colombia. In 2005 his Perfect Remixes Vol. 3 compilation was released through Warlock Records, containing ten tracks which were created during the beginning of his career. On August 20, 2005 Tiesto took Tiësto in Concert to the United States when Tiesto played to 16,000 of fans in Los Angeles, California in the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena with Cirque du Soleil dancers. Even this was surpassed later in the 2007 summer where some 250,000 people danced on Ipanema Beach, Brazil, the second largest concert in the history of mankind. BPM magazine has an annual poll in the United States which is unveiled in the WMC, in 2005 Tiesto took the No. 1 spot.

A wax sculpture of Tiesto was placed behind a turntable at Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam where visitors can mix Tiësto's music together. His album Just Be also won an Edison Music Award in the Best Dance Album category in 2005.

In the fall of 2005 Tiesto went on a very successful tour across Central and Eastern Europe where Tiesto played once in each country to crowds of 10,000 to 15,000 fans. Stops were made in Ukraine, Slovakia, Serbia, Macedonia, Romania, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Croatia, and Poland. The United States tour that was part of Tiësto in Concert was dwarfed by his appearance at Sensation White in 2006 where Tiesto performed to over 45,000 people in the world's biggest dance event in Amsterdam, Holland. The events presale began at 10:00 a.m. on March 10, it was sold out within 2 hours.

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DJ Tiesto - Olympics

The Athens Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (ATHOC) asked Tiesto to perform at the Olympic Games, making him the first DJ to play live on stage at an Olympic Games at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in Athens, where Tiesto played for 90 minutes. Tiesto flew to Athens in January 2004 to have a meeting with the ATHOC. His Tiësto in Concert DVD caught their attention, after which he was asked to write more tracks based on his opening tune "Adagio for Strings" which could fit in with the Olympic spirit and combine the classical with the modern age; They also requested that Tiesto play his own produced music. During the parade on Friday August 13, all participating nations introduced their athletes which were over 10,500 in total and 80,000 in the public, only 75,000 knew about dance music. During the course of his performance the Dutch athletes started dancing in front of the DJ booth and had to be moved on by officials. The performance included new tracks produced especially for the Opening Ceremony and songs that were created to complement the spirit and theme of the ceremony. A condensed studio-recorded album of the songs played on the Olympic set was later released, including new songs specially composed for the occasion, entitled Parade of the Athletes in October 2004.

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DJ Tiesto - Just Be

In 2004 Tiesto released his second artist album Just Be, which featured his first single "Traffic" which is the first non-vocal track to reach number one spot in the Dutch national charts for 23 years. Tiësto's remix of the Kane song "Rain Down on Me" is featured in the game FIFA Football 2004. In support to his Just Be album, Tiesto played at Breda, Eindhoven, Utrecht, and Amsterdam; these stops were later named Just Be: Train Tour. On May 20, 2004 Tiesto was appointed Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau by Her Majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands.

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DJ Tiesto - DJ Concerts

Tiesto's fame continued to skyrocket in the early 2000s following his six-hour "Tiesto Solo" sets which Tiesto performed without other DJs or opening acts. This idea, of one DJ playing alone to a large crowd, was brought to its pinnacle when Tiesto was the first DJ to hold a solo concert in a stadium; on May 10, 2003, Tiesto performed for over 25,000 people in Arnhem's Gelredome. This concert was later called Tiësto in Concert, the event was an enormous success. In addition to holding these two concerts for 35,000 of his fans, Tiesto held another concert for a crowd of 20,000 in Hasselt, Belgium the following week. DVDs of both his May 10, 2003 and October 30, 2004 concerts have been released, having the other DVD titled Tiesto in Concert 2. The event includes live music and dancers performing at different times throughout the set. The theme of the event is a mystical, musical journey around the world based on the theme of Magik. During this period Tiesto was crowned as "No. 1. DJ in the World" by DJ Magazine (UK) in 2002, 2003, and 2004.

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DJ Tiesto - (2000 - 2002)

Late in 2000, Tiesto decided to concentrate on his personal work and left Corsten by himself to write and produce Gouryella's next single with John Ewbank, the record company was demanding more tracks and neither Tiesto or Ferry could work together at the time. Summerbreeze became Tiësto's debut DJ mix album in the United States with the help of a contract signed to Nettwerk. Summerbreeze featured his remix of Delerium's "Silence", it spent four weeks in the United Kingdom's Top Ten chart, it reached number three in the Billboard dance chart. In Search of Sunrise 2 was released in 2000.

Tiësto's fame started to rise in the early 2000s after the release of In My Memory, his first solo album released in 2001 which contained 10 singles and 5 major hits. On February 2, 2002 Tiesto played nine consecutive hours during the second edition of the Dutch Dimension festival. On February 27 Tiesto was awarded a Zilveren ('Silver') Harp music award. The same year Tiesto also received a Lucky Strike Dance Award in the category Best DJ Trance/Progressive. In January 2003 Tiesto received the annual Dutch Popprijs ('Pop Award') during the Noorderslag festival.

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Dj Tiesto and Formation of Gouryella

In 1999, Tiesto joined forces with fellow Dutch deejay Ferry Corsten to create the trance based duo of Gouryella. To highlight the importance in the expansion of the trance environment at the time, there were 20 different CD releases of the 4 Gouryella tracks from 9 different labels.

Tiesto also collaborated with Benno de Goeij from 1998 to 2000 under the name Kamaya Painters. Since November 1999 Tiesto performed monthly as a resident at Gatecrasher in Sheffield, one of the most popular clubs in England. In 1999 Tiesto also played in a 12-hour set, being his longest lasting concert in Amsterdam.

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DJ Tiesto - Musical Career

When Tiesto was fourteen he decided to dedicate more time to it and began DJing professionally at school parties. Tiesto then moved on to become a resident DJ between 1985 and 1994 at several clubs in the Netherlands after his manager and friend Wilfred encouraged him. However, it was at The Spock, a small club in Breda, where he was able to fine-tune his own style by playing in a separate room from 10 p.m. until 4 a.m. on weekends. In the beginning of his career as a DJ Tiesto mostly played New Beat and acid house, and many Madonna songs because her music shows that she likes to dance. Before the release of her album there were already dancemixes like "Vogue" which was one of the songs of Spock.

In 1994, Tiesto began releasing material on Noculan Records' sub-labels Chemo and Coolman. . In 1997 Tiesto joined his friend Yves Vandichel on his sub-label, DJ Yves, a division of the now defunct Human Resource label XSV Music. In the fall of 1997, both Arny and Tiesto decided to leave Basic Beat and create their own parent label, now known as Black Hole Recordings, Trashcan was discontinued and Guardian Angel continued releasing music until 2002. Through Black Hole, Tiesto released the Magik series and also created two major sub-labels in 1998; In Trance We Trust and SongBird.

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