hey there welcome to a brand new episode of music Express my name is Tuan and in this week's vlog you will see my in-depth interview with ferry corsten which are recorded in his brand-new studio and I spoke with ferry about the viracocha classic carte blanche the fare album as above so below the what the f shows his unity project and more and joy ferry Corsten is a Dutch DJ and producer who's a very well-known name in today's music scene he started releasing music back in 1991 but he's still very active both with DJing and producing
during the years he released music under names such as system f gu yella built victim moon man Ian and many many others in my two previous interviews with ferry we already discussed his tracks out of the blue and guru yella two massive trance classics that boat came out back in 1999 and the order big trance classic from that year was the track carte blanche a track ferried yet together with Vincent amor under the project name Vera Katya I recently sat down with ferry in his beautiful brand-new studio to talk with him about the story behind
carte blanche and more my first question to ferry was how he invented the more got to meet each other I met Vincent through actually now I think I met him in one of those conventions for for music and for instruments and synthesizers you know like studio stuff they get written into them there got introduced by someone to him of course I knew his music yeah and that's that's how we got in touch and you know that being in touch for a while I think that - hey let's let's do something you know everything was pretty
new for everyone in those days trance was really coming up sort of so hey it's like let's let's do something together and see see what happens yeah so did you guys work in your studio or was it in Vincent studios no it wasn't my studio I was still living at my parents place at so at the epoch which was my my room my bedroom and you know sleeping so like it's surrounded by all my stuff my my equipment so yeah Vincent came over I have my room on one side and then the rest of the
Attic was on the other side so yeah and that's where it happened then it was really funny because I remember us looking for like like a powerful hook for like a hours we couldn't really find it we saw that you you know you you get in the studio with someone and you hit it off right away and there's an instant idea bang done you know and with Vincent it was like uh yeah we gotta we have something no it's not really good not this not that no it's not that and then he was like you
know what do you mind if I smoke a cigarette Oakland window on the other side of ethics so just he went there and sat down and uh so I was just you know playing playing the same thing and I'm doing something didn't ding ding ding ding ding Danny and I hear like a scream coming from the other side of the I think what what was that what do you mean what was that now what you just did what was it I don't know uh let me trace my steps uh something like this to do yeah
yeah that was it that was it what did you do man get just that that's amazing just do it again ok so like I could remember parts of what I did because I was just doing it you know there was no I didn't think about what I was doing so I was just doing stuff something might my hands Leonard hunter hi Keith and so we saw like based on what he heard and what I remember it in a way we kind of recast and I reconstructed that melody and that's the that's the main rifle of
carb lunch yeah yeah yeah so what kind of equipment was used for carb lunch at the time I mean all the tracks that I made is from from out of the blue to the gray stuff or so that the main the main thing was Roland JP 8000 you know that yeah let's since I use for for so many I can still have it in here's the new studio obviously I still have it it's is right here I you know I look at it from time to time no like shall we just make some magic again
my friend so well yeah but there was everyone the one that wasn't the other made the main the main synth for that track yeah what did you use for the piano sound I can remember it's probably I now have a roland jxv 3080 but I remember doing that at the time I had a roland j jb 1080 I think it was so that's the way it's like a module with like bunch of pianos in it and stuff yeah yeah so do you remember how long it took you guys to finish the track well since it
took us quite a while to actually get to that hook to find a hook you know that was definitely one day I think there's not a day penciled in for for that and you know you just don't release one track there's always you need a visa yeah you know if time is vinyl so since it came back a few times just to finish things up and and and also work on this on the other track yeah which is cool I believe dream time or drafting our drafting there yeah that's it yeah drink tell us something
else yeah so I was at work here which insert the more yeah I was fine you know I mean that explains why we don't really hear much of them today we use a very introverted I but very talented you know and yeah we had good times yeah for sure so do you know what happened to him also he left a music you have no idea really he completely vanished and so I haven't heard and for me more about him yeah so I've no idea yeah I already know he's a very private person yeah yeah it
was already done you know didn't want to do any interviews which like I said a very intimate guy and but yeah so talented move you came up with the title for our brunch and then the name haricot shot well I'm you know still to do this to this day I'm I'm one of those nerds that lost towards discovered you know and all of us crazy those crazy shows and programs about you know the history and whatever Sofia is the name of God a Latin American God think exactly Inca but I thought it was such a
cool thing because very culture came from the stars basically you know so I thought that was a really really sort of cool name for a project so that's you know finsih was like yeah that's really really cool let's do that carte blanche I know man you just have to name it right yeah carboys was cool you know just uh it has a sense and it means it of course like no rules right you carve the f carbon show and and I I thought that was a spirit of those days you know a lot of exploration
was going on because this whole trend sound the way I mean trans was there but the way with a carte blanche gorilla out of the blue that was a whole new thing with a big city stuff so I think it was just a the spirit of exploring you know and do whatever as long as it sounds amazing yeah yeah no rules so detract first got signed to dual Records in the Netherlands but later also got released in the UK via positiva do you remember if there are more labels that were interested in signing the trek
in the UK yeah I can't remember which ones but there was a frenzy you know yeah like like everything back in the day yeah all those tracks it was just like a crazy open market let's go and shoot you know but the affair after after out of the room after gorilla this was like the next one yeah number three if you will you know and so after this success out of the blue angry a lot yeah everyone wanted that next one yeah so yeah it was it was pretty crazy times good for you yeah good
for me yeah every winter yeah yeah so accomplished became a big success it was played by almost every trans DJ out there and the radio added even made it into the UK Singles Chart where it reached the number 22 position so why was I never a follow up for card lunch I don't know that was just that's one thing that I did with FinCEN it was fun and that's soon as soon after that already Vincent started to so like disappear you know we we also lost contact pretty quickly after that so I guess there was
never really a a new sort of motivation because we were not really in touch anymore now there's no uh we did not have any momentum so yeah it's just faded and you are pretty busy anyway yeah I don't know my plate and you know not long after that I also started doing stuff on a fair question so all the the whole pseudonym type of thing just stopped already anyway yeah so you still play car bronzer your recent stats from time to time and soon you're gonna play even more I guess since you're gonna do some
very special shows called what yes what can you tell us about the what you have concepts well whatever is you know it's going to be an open to close night we're out play from doors open till to close literally but instead of playing music I will just play my music so my projects my music my remixes you know of course I've been touring recently with gorilla weight system F so they will be so part of the show it's such a such a long night so it's very stuff and then there's a yes apart that's Gabrielle
then there's Fairy stuff there's a part of system app and there's very stuff yeah so but yeah you know I mean very often I I you know I get like the questions I've get K do an extended set okay but yeah that's cool I also get a lot of requests when are you doing a lot of producers yet so like okay what if I just put the two together and do a you know a a nope it's a closed set with just all my stuff and that's basically what what the f is but the nice
thing about that is that's also where the name comes from you know I want people to walk away thinking of what the where did I just go to what did I just hear you know lots of people will remember and recognize a lot of the tracks but I've done so many tracks on the different names so many remixes that people may not be aware of that when you come to know what their show you won't knowing that everything you were here tonight you know stone by me it's gonna be there will be quite a few
aha moment you know where one on one is five all of a sudden for you you know do you think you knew at all but oh wow I didn't know this yeah and it's just cool it's cuz yeah I also get a chance to play all those classics that I that I haven't played honestly in my own sets for 15 or more years you know check said I even forgot about and you know I just hear like going through all those tracks going through so many years of both off of productions albums remixes this and
that you know like going through it I'm already like oh wow totally forgot about this this is cool I can't wait to play this you know so it's it's very very cool and because it all comes from the same mind yet having different styles throughout the years it will have a diverse but very uniform sort of you Civic feel throughout the night it all makes sense and yeah I'm super excited to do this so I don't think any DJ has done this before right well there's many many teachers that that do or have done output
the closest of course that's nothing new so many people have done producer sets there's nothing you but an open the closed producer said I don't know if I can mention anyone really yeah so everything everything is done by you so lucky you can play like new music old music yeah old new maybe I'll make a track now that I will play and no one's ever heard before you know I'll test it there you know but like I said that's also the the the the project that I've done over the years at Hoani are like a
two two or three releases just very underground stuff that I make I'm a play as well you know just to get the night it's flow yeah but yeah boy I know I dropped some of my fare stuff you know the classical stuff let her know we'll see so we're hearing a brand new studio which seems absolutely amazing what's the big difference becomes your preview studio well the big difference is that this is in my house so it's really it's amazing I mean you know I used to have my studio in my house like I said
earlier a record show that wasn't my parents place then I moved in with him I had my own first house at my studio there and und attic but then after a while you know I felt okay I cannot wanna get that sort of going to work going home type of structure again so when we when we at the dance therapy and flashover offices you know like in a sorry another location I felt my studio should be there because you know I'm going to work I'm going home it's not like I'm in the same place 24
hours day so but now with the kids you know when I come home after touring it's it's nice for them to know that I'm here and it just feels right and it feels amazing to have this amazing space in my house you know I just wake up and get my coffee do my breakfast and you know and I roll in yeah yeah so does the new studio give you more inspiration as well it's starting to come now you know it's really it's really difficult always it's always like we are so used to a certain space
and all of sudden you know you're in a new space and I feel this this room is much nicer it's you know it's a it's a mancave really feels it feels like a target me you know it's amazing but still it's a new way of working yeah you have to give it a sort of that's the Lent in the proper way and it's I'm getting that out I mean you know it's like what now it's his mid mid to late February yeah I started well this this city of getting operational first week of January so
you know I've been here that's like cleaning stuff up you know yeah yeah putting everything in its place and now finally I'm starting to feel I guess this is yeah this is I'm getting there so you're also doing your unity project absolutely you released a call up at Sullivan or a caper place called flinching how was it to work at Samba fun I mean you know son and I we know each other for so long and always yes and I would say almost in true unity spin the fashion you know with everyone that I worked
with it it's been like hey we should do a color and then yes honor his own you know you really focused on his son from doing stuff for a long time and and I did all my stuff and then he you went back to Pittsburgh why stuff and we started also seeing each other more at festivals playing the same stages as well whereas before there wasn't the case really so much so yeah more and more like hey let's let's work on something so recently we were in Thailand together where I played at the festival there
and you know after the show especially in Asia is great give all the food course late at night just go there plastic chairs great food and white lights tube lights typical you for you guys in Asia you know exactly what I'm talking about so we're there late night say hey that's we got to do it man and he's like yeah I got something so he played something on his laptop that like a like a demo for for something that he wanted to do on the purple haze but like a cover or something but he couldn't
get it clear as I go I hear definitely certain elements that we can use for something so you know I said okay I'll I'll send it to you have a listen so then later on the II came by is actually the the last track that's been produced in the old studio so fun fact yeah and out came flinching yeah yeah yeah so any more unity call ups in the pipeline there's definitely a few in the pipeline but nothing is just really set in stone yet okay enough of a few lined up but yeah they're busy
I'm busy now with what the eff and come on yourself but yeah it you know we we had like a main focus almost on unity in in 2018 and many people thought about its it's just one year of unity but I think it's just a cool thing to have it as I as a collaboration sort of project you know so it's it's it ongoing okay that's why 2019 showed a few and now yeah this one and more to come more to come for sure so you also just released a brand new album only your alias
fair a beautiful downtempo album cult as above so below why did you decide to make a chill-out album yeah I mean I'm a big fan of of chill-out stuff neo classical classical cinematic stuff ready you know I obviously I always listen to it when I'm you know when I'm done touring I'm on my way home or in between gigs it's nice just to switch off really have a playlist Stillpoint by ferry corsten Spotify where I didn't yeah I love putting these playlists together with that type of music and also notes that you know when I'm
when I'm traveling and I'm on my laptop producing or here and I find that I have an extra hour and I'm not really into producing another DTD you know thing does again for the dance floor I I like to just experiment and just go with you know some yeah some stuff that they have no rules really you know and I noticed that I make tracks like that pretty quickly and and a lot over the last year I would say so yeah why not put an album together you know and and this is not an album
that I made for how can I say I made it for myself ready I'm sharing that everyone but I made it for myself this is music that I like the where I switched off the so called rules that certain tracks need to have specially if you always produce dance music it's now and more than ever apparently there are rules you know it has to sound like this there has to be a BPM like that and this is just music that I made for me like no rule how will rain sound if I put that through
a resonator and simple and it give it a note and sample that and play chords with it stuff like that crazy just crazy stuff and yeah warm moving music that I can just you know switch on when I when I'm just it's wallpaper music you know yeah softer this album you're probably gonna make more of this kind of music yeah it's it's it's a side project you know it's not it doesn't have like oh I carve out three months to make the next album and this is stuff that I do on the side when I
want to get away from the formulated stuff that I that I need to do for my shows you know although I love making music in the studio in the back of the dance music but in the back of my head there's always what will my fans think of it you know I cannot make that music I don't give a about what my fans feel think I make this for me on the dance floor to a certain degree but there's always there you know I'm they're out playing to give people good time for the music that
they want to hear and I may test them here every once in a while just you know see how far I can push it but with this you know these are just really really nice for me and it's it's liberating sometimes yeah I curious about the reactions of the fence no IDs but on the other and I shouldn't you know based on what I just said I shouldn't give a so how do you like it you don't if you don't like it switch it off yeah fair enough right now yeah so unity the fare album
the what the eff shows what else are you working on right now Newberry uh-huh yeah yeah you know this of course is this new new guerrilla shells coming up as well this year as well as part of the what a show so and the I need to keep the tradition alive to do one guerrilla single year so I'm working on one right now I started drafting up ideas for the next ferry corsten album so I'm working on that so yeah I'll keep myself off the street for do that yeah and the last question pineapple pizza
yes or no I have for me yeah okay yeah come on live a little man yeah live dangerously right on the edge okay well thank you for your time a good luck with all the exciting plans thanks man thanks a lot for doing the interview again and good luck with your interviews thank you alright that was it this week's vlog my interview with ferry corsten about Viracocha and carte-blanche ferry thank you very much for your time much appreciate it thank you for watching I hope you enjoyed the vlog if you did make sure to give
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