What The F! sees Ferry Corsten carry out from open to shut at Code in Sheffield in a while this month. A musical journey that sees the return of most of the old-skool hits from Ferry’s back-catalogue to the the current and the longer term sounds which were crafted by the legendary Dutch producer and DJ.
Ferry Corsten has maintained a consistence presence within the scene ever since his sophomore album beneath the System F alias ‘Out of The Blue’ charted within the UK High 20 singles chart in 1999, with remix credit for acts resembling U2, Moby, Faithless, Duran Duran and Public Enemy following quickly afterwards.
Not one to relaxation on his laurels or to stay with the comforting confines of inventive security, Ferry has continued to push the envelope in relation to digital music creation and manufacturing, a spotlight exemplified along with his 2020 ambient album, As Above So Beneath, which was launched beneath his FERR by Ferry Corsten alias. All through his profession, Ferry has developed and explored a broad vary of musical genres, notably with the exploration of cinematic soundscapes — evidenced within the bold venture Blueprint again in 201.
Talking on his present tour, What The F! Ferry had this to say: “The swear phrase that isn’t a swear phrase, What The Ferry”
“It’s been an fascinating one. The entire concept got here collectively in round 2019. We had an entire tour lined up for 2020, with some reveals within the US and in Asia additionally, clearly that didn’t occur. So we moved it to 2021 and that didn’t occur both.
“What was so enjoyable about it was that the entire concept got here from followers asking, ‘Ferry, when are you doing an open to shut set?’ And I didn’t wish to simply copy what different folks have been doing. I didn’t assume that was the appropriate transfer.”
“Additionally, I observed over time, each time I did like a producer set the place I performed my very own music for an hour or an hour and a half these actually get such an incredible response. So I assumed, nicely I’ve a lot music from over time and there we now have one thing that’s totally different. It’s a journey, it’s solely my music and over the previous 20-years I’ve performed so many various genres that it’s simple to create a pleasant journey and a visit for six-hours.
“That was a problem, however how do you make it extra fascinating than simply taking part in the tracks as they’re is by making loads of loopy mashups of your personal tracks.”
The panorama of digital music, Trance, Dance, Home, no matter you want to time period sure genres has irrevocably modified over time… whereas nonetheless retaining a connection to the previous. As a endlessly evolving artist, Ferry has continued to succeed in out far past the perceived realm of his consolation zone to find new sounds and tasks.
It’s one thing that Ferry is clearly eager to maintain on experimenting with. You might ask, how precisely do you are taking the older music, acquainted classics and provides them a brand new lease of life but in addition retain what made them nice and so revered by the followers? It’s undoubtedly one thing Ferry weighed up in his thoughts earlier than setting out on a path to sharing a musical journey into his sound, in all its splendour and variety. A real end result of his work thus far, rehashed, remixed, reinvented and artistically revitalised with a considerably futuristic strategy. What The F is the arguably profitable end result of this course of thus far.
“I’ll use this present to take the followers on a journey by way of the complete breadth of my work, crossing genres that can lean into the recognized historic references of my music and the undiscovered ones. This will likely be a complete, absolute Ferry Corsten expertise.”
“Anticipate the sudden; sight and sounds usually are not what they appear or seem like.”
Ferry Corsten will likely be bringing his What The F! tour music expertise to Code, Sheffield on Saturday, 26 November, 2022 — tickets are promoting out quick however you could possibly get some from the hyperlink beneath:
