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Dj Tiësto

real name Tijs Michiel Verwest

Netherlands

Dj Tiësto is credited on 2,334 releases across 622 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1995–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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2,334

Credits

622

Albums

Decades active

187

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Biography

DJ Tiësto (born 17 January, 1969, Breda, North Brabant, Netherlands), also known as Tiësto, is a Dutch electronic dance music producer and DJ. In 1997, he founded the trance label Black Hole Recordings with Arny Bink. In 1998, Tijs met producer Dennis Waakop Reijers and this led to a long lasting collaboration.
Tiësto's fame rose in the 2000's as his music was exposed to mainstream audiences. He was named "the Greatest DJ of All Time" by Mixmag magazine in a poll voted by the fans, also considered as "God of Trance" by several fanzines. In 2001, Tijs founded another label called Magik Muzik. In 2004 became the first DJ to play onstage at the Olympics in Athens - the recording of the event has been released as Parade Of The Athletes.
After the Kaleidoscope album in 2009, he decided to move towards more popular sounds of dance pop, big room and electro house. After selling his part of Black Hole Recordings, he founded his new label Musical Freedom (known as Musical Freedom Records nowdays).
In 2025, he announced his comeback to trance with his track.

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