No exaggeration: Tiesto currently holds this honor as voted by The DJ List. In 2003, he changed the image of electronic music forever as the first DJ to perform solo in a stadium (to a crowd of 25,000). Today, millions of people view the top DJs as demigods and approach dance music with furiously ecstatic devotion -- a global phenomenon for which this man is largely responsible.

Buy MP3 Album , Tiesto's latest release, is no exception to his massive and stunningly consistent catalogue. Inspired by an island known worldwide for its megaparties, the album is a seamless 67-minute mix, blending extended instrumental tracks with gorgeous female vocals. It is of course best heard in full, but for the new or skeptical: check out Falling , one of my favorite moments in the mix.

What might be most impressive is his complete refusal of computer equipment in preparing this album, working only with CD mixers: "Most of the tracks are so exclusive that, if I'd still been mixing with records, I wouldn't have been able to get most of these mixes on vinyl!"

With laptops and bedroom DJs fast becoming the new garage bands, Tiesto has yet again set himself apart from the pack.

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