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///////////////////////////.......Creating K A L E I D O S C O P E, the song that gives this colorful, shapeshifting album its entirely appropriate title, was more drawn-out. Tiësto had his heart, and his ears, set on securing the services of Sigur Rós singer Jónsi Birgisson. Tiësto flew to Chicago to track him down, then did the same in Brussels, before finally spending time in Amsterdam discussing what they might do together.
'It was a crazy idea,' he laughs. 'If you listen to Sigur Rós you can't imagine any relation to Tiësto. Maybe the melancholy of it, but that's about it. Their music is so different and I think that Jónsi is one of the most creative artists in the world. But the funny thing was, I met him at a couple of times at shows, and there's a lot more in common than I thought – Jónsi told me he used to be a big Iron Maiden fan as well, like I was! Then I noticed that he makes a lot of dance music at home on his own. So he's not that far away from what I do, really.'
The result is a huge, progressive trance song, soulful and uplifting. And "K A L E I D O S C O P E' is a great title for the album too. We're mixing shapes and colors together to make something new.'
Say hello to a new Tiësto. Yes, he's the world's most popular DJ. But the ceaseless desire to innovate that has pushed Tiësto to the top of his game, propelled him to seek out some of the best musicians around, wherever in the world they – or he – happened to be. 'I've worked with these handpicked artists because they´re people I admire hugely, and because they make my music better. It's more fulfilling for me to work like this, but a lot harder and more challenging.'
In the end, admits Tiësto, he's unsure how people will react to K A L E I D O S C O P E. 'It is completely different to what I did before,' he says cheerfully, adding that this is one of the reasons he´s set up an appropriately named new label, Musical Freedom, to release the album. 'I'm introducing more and more flavors of what people know as Tiësto. This is a record you can enjoy at home, not just on the dancefloor. But what is very important to me, is that every single track on the album will work when I play out too.'
He's not the world's greatest DJ for nothing..........
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