Saturday, May 17, 2008

Prodigy [Full Albums] 1992~2004


PRODIGY - The Experience (1992)

[Track List]
1- Jericho
2- Music Reach
3- Wind It Up
4- Your Love
5- Hyperspeed
6- Charly
7- Out of Space
8- Everybody in the Place
9- Weather Experience
10- Fire
11- Ruff in the Jungle Bizness
12- Death of the Prodigy Dancers

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PRODIGY - Music for the Jilted Generation (1994)

[Track List]
1- Intro
2- Break & Enter
3- Their Law
4- Full Throttle
5- Voodoo People
6- Speedway
7- The Heat (the energy)
8- Poison
9- No Good (start the dance)
10- One Love (edit)
11- 3 Kilos
12- Skylined
13- Claustrophobic Sting

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PRODIGY - Smack My Bitch Up (1997)

[Track List]

1- Smack My Bitch Up (edit)
2- No Man Army
3- Mindfields (headrock dub)
4- Smack My Bitch Up (dj hype remix)

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PRODIGY - The Fat of the Land (1997)

[Track List]
1- Smack My Bitch Up
2- Breathe
3- Diesel Power
4- Funky Shit
5- Serial Thrilla
6- Mindfields
7- Narayan
8- Firestarter
9- Climbatize
10- Fuel My Fire

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PRODIGY - The Dirtchamber Sessions Volume One (1999)


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PRODIGY - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned (2004) 

[Track List]
1- Spitfire
2- Girls
3- Memphis Bells
4- Get Up Get Off
5- Hot Ride
6- Wake Up Call
7- Action Radar
8- Medusa's Path
9- Phoenix
10- You'll Be Under My Wheels
11- Way It Is
12- Shootdown

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Prodigy !

Late 80s Britain. The subterranean free party vibe whispers its secrets to a hidden generation all chasing the smoke of a rumour like cats stalking shadows. Into the secret euphoria step a production wizard, two dancers and a soundsystem MC. Obsessed with the East London warehouse party scene they debut with a fistful of ruffneck breaks and a party hard attitude at Labyrinth in Dalston, London’s Four Acres Club. It’s 1990 and the Prodigy experience is born.

That night the band played to a handful of friends and passers by. Not the most auspicious introduction perhaps but a step, no matter how tentative, on a journey that would become little short of breathtaking.

Back in the rough and ready ambience of The Labyrinth however only two things concerned the Prodigy crew; getting a record out and playing Raindance. Within months both dreams would come true. The debut ‘What Evil Lurks’ EP, offered a deep slice of rough-around-the-edges, renegade-break psychosis. While only a month later Raindance offered four-colour lasers, 8 thousand party people and a bone rattling soundsystem.

Being on stage at Raindance was it for me. It had the proper East London warehouse spirit. As far as I was concerned we’d arrived!” Liam once told me, echoing the thoughts of ravers everywhere.

By the time the band delivered the lumber crunching bass’n’breaks epic ‘Charly’ the rave scene had completely succumbed to the Prodigy’s euphoric rage. Of course it was the uplifting classic ‘Your Love’ that captured the underground hearts.

Just as the mainstream had started to wake up to the rave sound, so the Prodigy had already started to move on. The debut album Experience followed a year in which the band took their beats into the charts and around the raves numerous times.

I remember at the time I wasn’t into doing an album, I thought it was a sellout coz we were about putting our beats on 12’” vinyl for djs” said Liam. Instead of doing the customary rave circuit to promote the album they took the rock and roll option of playing a headlining tour of traditional venues. Even at this early stage they’d moved beyond the increasingly narrow confines of the rave scene.

Over the months to come the rave scene would be brought to its knees by unscrupulous promoters, dodgy drugs, officious policing and ever more draconian legislation. The last straw for the Prodigy came with the over enthusiastic noise limitations placed on raves. For the band the scene was dead. “At one big rave, I think in Scotland, the sound was turned down so low by the officials you could hear people in the crowd. We said fuck this, someone should take a stand so we walked off stage and the police had to deal with a lot of unhappy people. We then got the blame for killing rave with the Charly tune which we thought was hilarious. We were like, fuck it, it was worth killing then!” said Liam.

But the Prodigy was most definitely alive. Just to prove it they took their incendiary show direct to the heart of rock heritage with a gig at The Marquee in London. Their second album drew heavily on this newfound love of rock. Music for the Jilted Generation spat guitar licks fused with pounding breaks and little bit of voodoo magic.

"It was at a time when the criminal justice bill bullshit was going on, clamping down on any parties and we were all affected by that. It was a mad creative time with a lot of purpose in the music. We had spent some time in America and we were listening to the first Rage Against The Machine album, it was inspirational because it had the groove of hip hop but the power of punk rock. That was definitely one of the records that was in my head when I wrote Jilted ” said Liam. Jilted Generation seemed to naturally carry the anger felt amongst the party-going youth.

One of the turning points that sticks in my mind was a big festival in Denmark 1994. We were the only electronic band out of a total rock lineup. We played on the same stage to a new crowd and we rocked it and gained their respect as something fresh” said Maxim. It wasn’t long before a whole new set of fans started to discover the Prodigy. A fact that was underlined a year later by the spectacle of thousands of people catching the Prodigy live at Glastonbury.

To watch thousands of people come from the main stage where Oasis were playing, trampling down 200 tents to get into our field was mad and it felt important,” exclaimed Keith.

Later that year though the band would debut a track at a gig at Ilford Island that would change their world forever - ‘Firestarter’. It would be a full five months before the track would be unleashed upon an unsuspecting world, but already it sounded incredible and fresh.

"Firestarter" came out of nowhere and hit people bang in the face, it didn’t even get any mainstream airplay before it was released. I remember alot of stations were afraid of committing to it saying it was too abrasive for daytime play, it didn’t matter to us anyway” said Liam. It went straight to number 1 in the English charts and destroyed most of Europe. The video, also highly acclaimed, was a monochrome attack and a perfect introduction of a new menacing Mr Flint.

"Firestarter" was of course the last truly great number one record of the Twentieth Century. But the world had to wait over a year for the album to follow.

In the meantime they pounded the unsuspecting public with the demonic single ‘Breathe’ and then the live classic ‘Smack My Bitch Up’. “We aren’t people who like to play it safe, that’s why were puttin’ ‘Smack’ out. For us its about abusing our new status and fame, pushing it. ” said Liam at the time.

The success of The Fat of the Land has been reported over and again. An album that stands as a defining moment in the history of popular music – up there with your Never Mind the Bollocks’s, What’s the Storys and Neverminds - it still remains one of the fastest selling albums of all time.

What followed were a few years in which the band toured the world like a rabid, all consuming behemoth. No corner of the globe remained untouched by the Prodigy experience. And yes, America loved them.

I remember us feeling proud that we were British and we were doing damage in America. We went mad with the gigs and just decided to go to these different places that other bands weren’t going at the time. We played Beirut, Serbia, Red Square in Moscow. These gigs really felt like they meant something, you know what I mean?” said Liam

The fourth album may have taken some time to follow (punctuated only by the Dirtchamber mix set in which Liam reminded us of his past as an oldskool mix DJ and delivered a jaw dropping lesson in eclecticism) but when it came it heralded a new fusion of old skool grooves and off the wall energy. Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned was an unsuspecting powerhouse of sleazy electro trash that laughed in the faces of the people who had pronounced the band dead.

Listen, it may be a little fuckin’ late maybe but it was important I felt like we were not repeating ourselves. I wanted to get back to the beats and sample culture, the roots of the Prodigy. It’s the most personal album I’ve done, it represents what I’m about… That fist in the air shit!” Liam said when it hit the streets.

So, 1990 to 2005, 15 years of The Prodigy at the controls and a long haul from that first east London gig.

Standout moments? Well, there are so many to chose from. How about playing Charly for the first time at Telepathy 1991 and Limelight in New York 1992. Keith in the perspex ball for ‘Break And Enter ‘1995. Maxim’s vocal debut on record with ‘Poison’. The Glastonbury take-over and floor collapsing at Brixton. Riots in an oversold Greek gig and stage invasion madness at Brighton Essential Festival. Playing war torn Beirut and spitting fury at 100,000 people in Moscow’s Red Square. Attacking American MTV with Firestarter. The banned Smack My Bitch Up video. Liam’s Dirtchamber bootleg mix album. Rocking the Coachella festival in L.A with pure British style. Triumphant return to the English charts at number 1 with Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned. 2006 saw a blistering headline performance at Isle of Wight festival and being the first dance/ rock band to headline at the Download festival.

In 2007, The Prodigy entered a new chapter of their career, signing a deal with UK independent label, Cooking Vinyl, to set up their own label Ragged Flag. The label, which will be the platform for their next album release, will subsequently act as an outlet for new talent that they find. Much of that year was spent writing and recording new material for their forthcoming, as yet untitled album, due for release in the second half of 2008.

In February 2008, the Prodigy was cited as one of the five most important acts to come out of the United Kingdom in the last 50 years by Q magazine.

They will be headlining the Gatecrasher festival on Saturday 24th May.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Carl Cox !



A perennial favorite as the best DJ in the world according to fans as well as the major mixing magazines, Carl Cox has been a part of Britain’s dance scene from the heady days of disco through to the global clubland of the new millennium, with temporary pit stops covering hip-hop, the rare groove movement, and the immense rave revolution of the late ’80s. That large span of time has undoubtedly affected his choice of records, since Cox routinely detours through breakbeat, Italian house, and the dance mainstream during his usual sets of hard techno. Perhaps the best testament to his mixing skills is his immense popularity despite his focus on music much more intense than the brand of arena trance spawned by Oakenfold, Sasha, Digweed, and others.

Cox was born in Manchester in 1962, to parents originally from Barbados (they later moved back after he grew up). Cox began DJing family get-togethers at the age of eight, selecting records from his parents’ stack of soul 45s. He was buying his own records soon after, and owned his first pair of turntables at the age of 15. The rest of his teens was spent making spare money at any event he could DJ; though Cox studied electrical engineering in college, he quit after six months and began working various jobs until he could become a full-time DJ.

Cox had followed the musical trends from disco to rare groove on to hip-hop during the late ’70s and early ’80s, but the introduction of house into Britain during the middle part of the decade convinced him that he had found his niche. After moving to Brighton in 1986, his reputation bloomed during the acid house explosion of 1988-1989; Cox played the opening night at Shoom, one of the defining club nights of Britain’s house revolution (as well as other legendary hot spots like Land of Oz and Spectrum). In front of 15,000 at the 1989 open-air event Sunrise, he unveiled his use of three decks on the mix; that signature technique built him into one of the top DJs of the late ’80s and early ’90s.

By 1992 Cox had signed an unheard-of long-term production deal with Paul Oakenfold’s Perfecto Records and hit number 23 on the British charts with his debut single, “I Want You (Forever).” His second single, “Does It Feel Good to You,” also reached the Top 40, and he quickly diversified by setting up his own record label (Worldwide Ultimatum) and an international DJ agency (Ultimate). The onset of a more hardcore rave sound (and the fact that he was increasingly becoming pigeonholed within it) forced Cox to spend several years reestablishing his niche. In a bit of irony, commercial successes like Cox’s own steered him away from high-BPM candy-core and toward the still soulful house and techno scene.

Three years after his hit singles, Cox returned with the first volume in what became a genre-defining mix compilation series, F.A.C.T.: Future Alliance of Communications and Tecknology. After the first volume dropped in 1995, surprisingly high sales figures earned a second two years later (released in America as well). One year later, Cox released his first studio full-length with 1996’s At the End of the Cliché. Mix album The Sound of Ultimate B.A.S.E. followed in 1998, with another studio album, Phuture 2000, appearing in 1999. One year later, he released the self-explanatory Mixed Live, recorded at Chicago’s Crobar. A second edition of Mixed Live appeared two years later along with the mix CD Global. The DJ’s next busy year was 2004 with the Pure Intec mix CD appearing in August and Cox’s entry in the Back to Mine series dropping in November. Second Sign appeared in 2006 with new Cox productions and a diverse set of collaborators, including superstar DJ Norman Cook and Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson. John Bush, All Music Guide


Thursday, May 15, 2008

Ferry Corsten !


Ferry Corsten is a Dutch DJ, producer and recorder who first started out in 1991 producing underground hardcore gabber tracks, he soon expanded into clubhouse and trance music. But don’t put Ferry into the trance corner, because his sound encompasses several genres of electronic music.

In 1999 Ferry Corsten was voted Best Producer of the Year at the Ericsson Muzik Award in London. In 2000, he was awarded Best Remix for Adagio for Strings (Ferry Corsten remix) at the Dancestar 2000 awards.

He has worked with many other famous DJs, such as DJ Tiësto, Benny Benassi, Vincent de Moor and Robert Smit.

In 1997 he established the famous Tsunami dance label together with Robert Smit & the German dance company Purple Eye Entertainment. He left Tsunami and Purple Eye in 2005.

In 2005 Ferry started his own company named Flashover Recordings.
The first record on Flashover was Who’s Knockin’? with a Flashover remix. The single Fire was the next record. This would be the second album released under Flashover.

Since his first solo album, Ferry has continued to evolve his style. He started with the concept name L.E.F. which stands for “Loud. Electronic. Ferocious.” and has organized events under this name. Ferry released his second solo album aptly named L.E.F.

Ferry has also participated in compiling and mixing the Trance Nation series with Ministry Of Sound which has sold millions of copies worldwide. Trance Nation 2002 was the latest Trance Nation compilation from Ferry.

Next to Trance Nation, he compiled many other mixed CDs such as Creamfields, Tsunami One, Dance Valley 2001, Passport: Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mixed Live: Spundae @ Circus Los Angeles, Live at Innercity, World Tour Tokyo and Washington, and many others.

He has been known to use a lot of other aliases including: 4x4, A Jolly Good Fellow, Albion, Bypass, Cyber F, Dance Therapy, Delaquente, Digital Control, East West, Eon, Exiter, Ferr, Firmly Undaground, Free Inside, Funk Einsatz, Kinky Toys, Lunalife, Moonman, Party Cruiser, Pulp Victim, Raya Shaku, Sidewinder, System F, The Nutter and Zenithal.

In addition to these releases, Ferry has also worked with other DJs on several projects. Together with Tijs Verwest (DJ Tiësto), he set up Gouryella and Vimana. Ferry has also teamed up with Vincent de Moor on the one-time alias project Veracocha. In addition, Ferry has worked with Benny Benassi to produce the one-time alias FB/Fb Feat. Edun, which stands for the first letter of each of their first names, Ferry and Benny, and also features Edun, Russian/Nigerian gospel and electronic vocal singer.

Other groups that he has been in include: Alter Native, Blade Racer, Discodroids, Double Dutch, Elektrika, Energiya, fernick, Mind To Mind, Nixieland, Penetrator, Project Aurora, Riptide, Roef, S.O.A., Scum, Selected Worx, Sons of Aliens, Soundcheck, Spirit of Adventure, Starparty, and The Tellurians.

Moreover, his track Ferry Corsten & Ramin Djawadi - Prison Break Theme (Ferry Corsten Breakout Mix) is now famous worldwide due to the success of the Prison Break television series.

With the exception of Gouryella, Ferry no longer uses any other aliases. Gouryella is nowadays only Ferry since Tijs stepped out of the project.

He has released five solo albums to date:
Looking Forward (as “Ferr”) (with John Matze) (Released: 1996)
Out Of The Blue (as “System F”) (Released: 2001)
Right of Way (Released: 2003)
Together (as “System F”) (Released: 2003)
L.E.F. (Loud, Electronic, Ferocious) (Released: 2006)

Dj Tiesto !


Tiësto's career is punctuated by landmark achievements – the first DJ in the world to sell out a solo stadium event for over 25,000 people 2 nights in a row, he scored a number one hit with his single Traffic, the first instrumental track to reach the top spot in his homeland of Holland in 23 years. His remix of Delerium featuring Sarah McLachlan's Silence was the first house track ever broadcast on daytime radio in North America, (it became an international dancefloor anthem and also spent eight weeks in the UK top 10 chart). He played live in front of billions of people during the Parade of the Athletes at the official opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Athens. But despite his meteoric success, Tiësto remains grounded about his achievements and clearly loves making and playing music above the accolades it brings.

Born in Holland, Tiësto became a DJ because he 'liked to share music with other people. When I was younger, I'd listen to a radio show called the Soul Show, and to Ben Liebrand's mix radio program, where he would remix and cut up different tracks, and I just thought - I want to do this!' The productions came later, in 1995. 'I really wanted to produce music that I could play in my sets, because it brings much more fulfilment to the process. I bought some samplers, some computer programs, and just started working on it.' He makes it sound easy – indeed; he makes it look easy as 10 years down the line his productions consistently bother the charts and frequently reach number one around Europe.

In 1997 Tiësto, along with Arny Bink, formed Black Hole Recordings, the label that launched the hugely acclaimed Magik, In Search Of Sunrise, and Nyana mix compilations. The label grew to such proportions that in 2001 Tiësto started a sub-label, Magik Muzik. 'It's the home of records of mine, or of people whose work I really believe in,' he enthuses. 'Everything on Magik Muzik is what you'll find in my sets, which makes it more of my own little project.' Some of the gems from Magik Muzik include 2001 anthem Flight 643 and his artist albums In My Memory, Just Be and Elements of Life.

Though known primarily for his pioneering contributions to the trance scene, Tiësto's style is now a mix of everything: 'trance, house, techno - it's the best of all that the dance world has to offer. In 1998, I was really a trance DJ, but now I've travelled round the world so much, different influences have seeped in and I play a bit of everything. I think the only way forward for DJs now is to play a diverse mix of sounds.' Indeed, his brand of trance was always pushing at the constraints of the genre anyway, featuring soaring vocals from the likes of Sarah McLachlan and Jes, spine-tingling breakdowns, and euphoric melodies at every end of the spectrum.

The many high profile gigs and shows have now taken Tiësto away from exclusively playing clubs, and propelled him to become a mainstream artist. 'Often at my shows now, half of the people are die-hard clubbers, but the other half are people who know me from the radio, or from more mainstream gigs,' he says. 'It's more like they're going to a concert, so now I get a great mix of both worlds.'

Describing the last few years as 'a journey of defining moments,' (as well as the usual club successes, his shelves are groaning under the weight of numerous awards – TMF-Awards, MTV, Dutch DJ - and gold discs...) his favourites include the second night of the Tiësto In Concert show in Holland in 2004: 'I was really aware of what was going on, the music was just right – a mix of all my big tunes and new track, everything just felt perfect that night. I played for nine hours straight, and it was my favourite gig ever.' And, of course, he was chosen by the readers as the number one DJ in the world. 'The first time it happened it was so amazing, I was overjoyed. The second and the third time were also fantastic, but the first time you're on the cover of that magazine that is so respected by other DJs – it's like winning an Oscar!'

In May 2006 Tiësto decided to become the worldwide ambassador for Dance4Life, and to invest considerate amounts of his time and efforts to the one charity in which he could really find himself. Immediately the production of a Dance4Life anthem was discussed, which resulted in an a song with Faithless' Maxi Jazz.

Continuing to explore fresh avenues, knowing that the year 2008 is now in full swing, Tiësto is currently experimenting with new sounds in the studio, and writing more vocals himself. The most recent result of this new approach of course is his latest album 'Elements of Life', which sky rocketed to the highest positions in today's charts. The album features the vocals of BT, who's been working with Tiësto on previous occasions and hit the charts with 'Break my Fall'; and Julie Thompson. 'I'm not looking for any big collaboration right now, I'm more interested in a burgeoning talent – someone whose voice is good, and that really touches you. A voice should sound like an instrument to me. A good example is Christian Burns who is the singer on the hit single 'In the Dark'; also a track from 'Elements of Life'. I met him through MySpace; the actual proof that the internet is the medium of choice when it comes to musical developments and careers.'

The concept behind his latest artist album also formed the basis for his 'Elements of Life World Tour' which took the DJ all over the globe. At the same time, the tour was of a size not before known in the dance scene. Since the four elements earth, water, air and fire are the unmistakeable necessities to build and maintain life on Earth, they had to be presented in all their greatness, which resulted in a stunning production that featured state of the art special effects, moving water systems in sync with the music and high definition video screens. It required three semi trucks to transport the equipment. The mere knowledge that Tiësto, as one DJ with two turntables, is entertaining audiences up to 25,000 people or more has silenced even the worst critic. But that his performances can compete with even the largest stadium concerts of the known world artists is something that the industry never held possible.

The amounts of energy the DJ invested for the world tour have not kept him away from the one thing everybody was waiting for: the new 'In Search of Sunrise 7'. In between the mayhem of touring and insane flight schedules, Tiësto still found the time to deliver a double CD compilation for the highly successful series also known as 'ISOS'. The live mix, made without electronic or computerized gadgets, is titled 'Asia' and for a reason: 'Asia is that part of the world where the ambience and overwhelming beauty can be very overpowering in a positive way. At the same time, one experiences the incredible energy of the Asian people, which could almost be felt physically during my live sets throughout the Asian tour.' He grins: 'We recorded the whole ISOS 7 in Thailand, in a beautiful location with a view: the Asian coast line. The correct atmosphere to do the mix. Now I know ISOS 7 earned it to be titled 'Asia'.'

Knowing that Tiësto's opportunities go beyond his own music, and the world tour, one might ask what will come up next. His answer is clear: 'As I said, the internet is the medium of choice for modern day music. I now host my own radio show called 'Tiesto's Club Life', which is available as PodCast directly after it aired on radio. Through those blessings of the internet, fans can listen to me and the music I love whenever they feel like, wherever they feel like. And at the same time, radio stations all over the world broadcast the weekly shows within their own national programming. It's just a fantastic idea knowing that my fans are now listening to the radio as I used to do when I was just a kid!'

One of the last things we haven't mentioned is Tiësto's work on the music of other artists. 'I'm more open to doing remixes again. I like to hear a track and right away know what I want to do with it, what I can make different, and whether it'll work for me in my sets – all my remixes have to be tried and tested.' His most recent remixes, 'Piece of Me' by Britney Spears and 'The Right Life' by Seal, already featured in of his 'Club Life' radio shows, just like the one he did for Justin Timberlake which was one of particular interest, he says. 'The best producer in the world of the moment, Timbaland, approached me to do a remix of 'Love Stoned' by Justin Timberlake. That means a lot to me, you know? It actually shows that I've grown not only as a DJ, but also as a producer.'

The future for Tiësto promises yet further success, both as the solo artist he has become and the DJ we know him to be. 'The long anticipated 'In Search of Sunrise 7' and the 'Elements of Life World Tour' DVD have been released and there will be more remixes, definitely,' he agrees.

And then there was the Grammy nomination for his album 'Elements Of Life'. The news came as a beautiful surprise. 'I am incredibly happy about this. And that's an understatement. The nomination itself already is a fantastic honour.' Little did he know when a few weeks later on, he won the IDMA Award for both 'Best Global DJ' and 'Best Electronic Dance Album' at the annual Winter Music Conference in Miami.

He genuinely enjoys his achievements, but Tiësto keeps both feet on the ground: 'It's hard to look too far into the future. Every couple of months it seems that something new, unexpected and exciting is happening!'
Awards Overview
Awards 2008

* IDMA Award Best Global DJ / Best Electronic Dance Album - Elements Of Life

Awards 2007

* Grammy Nomination Best Electronic Dance Album - Elements Of Life

Awards 2005

* 3 FM Award Best Dance Artist
* Release Dance Award Best Trance/Progressive artist
* Release Dance Award Best International DJ
* TMF Belgium Best International DJ
* Dance Music Award Germany Best Trance Artist
* WMC Awards Miami Best Producer
* WMC Awards Miami Best Hi-NRG / Euro track
* WMC Awards Miami The Ortofon Best European DJ 2004
* WMC Awards Miami Best Producer 2004
* TMF Award Holland Best Dance National
* TMF Award Holland Radio 538 single of the year
* TMF Award Holland Lifetime Achievement
* Edison Music Award Best dance album – Just Be

Awards 2004

* ID&T Dutch DJ Award Best Dutch DJ by audience
* Buma/Stemra Sound of Silence Award
* TMF Award Belgium Best International DJ
* World Music Award World's best selling Dutch artist
* Ibiza DJ Award Best International DJ Trance
* TMF Award Holland Best National DJ
* TMF Award Holland Best Dance Act National
* DJ Mag Top 100 Number 1 Position
* WMC Awards Miami Best International DJ

Awards 2003

* World Dancestar Award U.S.A. Best International DJ
* ID&T Dutch DJ Award Best Dutch DJ by professional jury
* ID&T Dutch DJ Award Best Dutch DJ by audience
* Radio 538 Dance Award Radio 538 Dutch Audience Edison
* TMF Award Holland Best Dance Act National
* TMF Award Holland Best National DJ
* TMF Award Belgium Best Dance International
* MTV Europe Music Award Best Dutch Act
* BG Magazine Award Best Club/Trance/Hardhouse DJ
* DJ Mag Top 100 Number 1 Position
* Mixmag Award Best Resident Ibiza