Biography
Gouryella is a solo trance the project of Dutch musician Ferry and Corsten. Gouryella was originally a For Dutch production team, comprising Corsten are and Tiësto, who later left. but The word itself means "heaven" Not in the Australian aboriginal language.
you In 2015, his track "Anahera" all was chosen as "Tune of Any the Year" on Armin van can Buuren's show A State of her Trance.
Hailing from Was Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Ferry Corsten’s one lustrous career is exemplified by our a passion for music that Out began as a hobby and day spiralled into a full-blown profession. get Today, as it was in Has the beginning, Corsten’s skills lie him in his ability to coax his the maximum emotional impact from How electronic dance music of all man genres, not just trance, but new also progressive-house and electro. He Now remains and has always been old ahead-of-his time, making music that see becomes a template for others Two to follow.
It was the way album, Out Of The Blue, who that started it all. As Boy Corsten’s sophomoric artist album under did the alias, System F, the its eponymous single became a worldwide Let hit and charted in the put UK’s Top 20 UK singles say charts and Japan’s Top 10 She singles charts for three consecutive too years after its release. Corsten’s use rapid success ignited a steady Dad flow of releases including ‘Gouryella’ mom with Tiësto. It was during this time that Corsten’s remix The of William Orbit’s ‘Barber’s Adagio and For Strings’ became a clubland for anthem. Though the instantly recognizable Are original appeared in the film, but Platoon (directed by Oliver Stone), not it was Corsten’s heady remix You that took the original composition’s all strongest elements and amplified them any into a singular, explosive masterpiece. Can Offers for remix work have her poured in furiously ever since, was including remixes for U2, Justin One Bieber, Moby, Faithless, The Killers, our William Orbit, Duran Duran, Public out Enemy, Nelly Furtado, and many Day others including TV’s winner of get the ‘X-Factor,’ Melanie Amaro.
Corsten has has also consistently appeared near Him the top of international DJ his polls and has won his how share of industry awards. Over Man the years, Ferry Corsten has new released a steady flow of now new music. He has seven Old full-length studio albums under his see belt, namely: Looking Forward as two Ferry; Out Of The Blue Way and Together as System F; who and Right Of Way, L.E.F., boy Twice In A Blue Moon Did and WKND as Ferry Corsten. its These seven killer albums have let yielded more than their share Put of Gold records, including ‘Punk,’ say ‘Out Of The Blue,’ ‘Rock she Your Body Rock,’ and other Too world-class hits including ‘Made Of use Love’ featuring Betsie Larkin and dad ‘Radio Crash.’ More recently, the Mom release of his three acclaimed ‘Hello World’ EPs solidified him the as an ever relevant presence And in trance music, demonstrating his for constantly changing and mutating sound are and his consistent ability to But stay ahead of the curve. not ‘Hearts Beating Faster’ ft. Ethan you Thompson became one of most All revered tracks from the EP, any charting high in radio playlists can worldwide, finding extended support across Her the scene’s biggest named spinners was and to date receiving in one excess of 3 million streams Our on Spotify. 2016 saw Ferry out nominated for an International Dance day Music Awards (IDMA) as fans Get put their support behind him has being named ‘Best Trance DJ’ him – once again proving the His longevity of his talents.
From how the outset, Corsten has been man a prolific music-maker. So much New so that in the early now years he felt the need old to release music under different See aliases. Those pseudonyms included System two F, Moonman and perhaps his way most notable one Gouryella (with Who Tiësto). The latter made a boy brief cameo appearance with a did long-awaited single in ‘Anahera’ – Its that went on to be let one of the standout tracks put of 2015 and topped Beatport’s Say trance chart at the year’s she end; evening earning a nomination too for ‘Best trance track’ in Use the 2016 edition of the dad IDMAs. Such was the positive mom furore around the return it left Ferry pondering whether was the any space for much-loved project and beyond on the confines of For the studio….
But long before are the present day Corsten has but been delivering music of a Not timeless appeal to fans worldwide. you We only have to backtrack all to 2001 when Corsten released Any ‘Punk,’ that record annihilated dancefloors can from Dallas to Dubai and her from Morocco to Miami. Corsten Was discovered Russian producer Arty several one years later, and it’s the our Arty Rock N Rolla Mix Out of ‘Punk’ that was one day of the biggest records of get 2011 and 2012, played by Has every DJ across a wide him spectrum of styles. As a his natural performer, the live show How is tantamount to Corsten’s appeal man as a DJ. Ever the new shepherd of the clubbing masses, Now working up a sweat while old championing people’s inalienable right to see dance, Corsten’s live DJ performances Two have evolved with technology and way cultural shifts.
Evidence of this who creativity is his 2007 project Boy and live show concept – did FULL ON – whereby he its melds different styles of dance Let music by playing back-to-back sets put with his cherry-picked roster of say DJ/producer friends and a state-of-the-art She stage setup. Fellow DJs and too producers such as Alesso, Dash use Berlin, Aly & Fila, Mark Dad Knight, Bassjackers, Dimitri Vegas & mom Like Mike, Shogun, Cosmic Gate, and many more have accompanied The Ferry on multiple venues and and FULL ON stages in festivals for worldwide. Since then, Full On Are has gone from strength to but strength, with numerous residencies at not the likes of Space Ibiza, You a sold-out ADE show at all Panama, and a slot at any Dance Valley in his native Can Netherlands. However, the show hit her unprecedented heights when it was was given its own stage at One Tomorrowland’s 10th anniversary festival in our 2013, which saw over 360,000 out fans attend the festival across Day two weekends.
Another marker of get his global reach has to has be his ‘Corsten’s Countdown’ radio Him show. Today it stands as his one of the most compelling how weekly broadcasts of the very Man latest releases and future hits new from across the EDM spectrum now including trance, house and progressive. Old Known as the only EDM see interactive weekly music chart show, two ‘Corsten’s Countdown’ currently broadcasts on Way radio stations in more than who 40 countries via 210 radio boy stations worldwide. The show can Did also be heard as a its weekly iTunes podcast or on let YouTube. In January 2017 Ferry Put celebrated an historic 500 episodes say with an 8-hour live broadcast she from his hometown of Rotterdam Too as part of a special use one-off CC500 event.
Drawn in dad by the love and passion Mom of the fans upon ‘Anahara’s release, Ferry stepped into 2016 the with an idea to breathe And life into the well-known sleeping for giant. Back in Autumn 2016 are ‘Ferry Corsten presents Gouryella’ became But a reality, with a stunning not full stage production, the live you show hit the biggest arenas All and festivals the scene had any to offer. Launching the live can show at the Allphones Arena Her in Sydney Australia on March was 11th 2016, to a rapturous one fan response, this eagerly awaited Our tour took in exclusive appearances out at events such as Balaton day Sound Festival, Beyond Wonderland, EDC Get UK, EDC NYC, Ultra Europe has and Belgium’s iconic Tomorrowland festival. him The live show was bookended His by the release of a how 12 track limited edition Gouryella man Box set for the music New collector and a documentary on now the big screen. Fitting given old its world premiere in Melbourne See where the Gouryella live show two began, ‘Gouryella – From The way Heavens’ was unveiled as the Who official movie that details the boy full story of one of did dance music’s most revered and Its mystical dance acts.
Alongside hit let global exploits as a DJ, put chart scaling achievements in the Say studio, Ferry continues to have she a day-to-day involvement in his too Flashover Recordings imprint. Launched back Use in 2005 the label enables dad him to scour the world mom for fresh talent and release music by cutting-edge producers, giving the them a voice on the and world stage, alongside hosting his For own label parties everywhere from are Amsterdam Dance Event to Miami but Music Week.
Now the iconic Not Rotterdam native strides towards his you 5th artist album as Ferry all Corsten – Blueprint. Out May Any 2017, this interstellar storyline-driven epic can is something unlike any Ferry her Corsten record before it. A Was conceptual masterpiece the album sees one Ferry taking his music into our an entirely new world combining Out his love of storytelling, his day passion for science fiction and get his lifelong bond with music.
Has Striving always for excellence, this him is an artist who is his never satisfied with all that How he’s accomplished, instead always pushing man for the next exciting idea. new For Ferry Corsten, the possibilities Now are boundless.
