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Tiësto
Why we feature this artist From Love Comes Again to Red Lights Tiësto's Love Comes Again and Red Lights belong to different chapters of his recording career. The first places BT inside the 2004 Just Be album world; the later song opens a more direct pop-facing…
- From
- Netherlands
- Sound
- Electronic dance music, trance, house
- Active
- 1994–present
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From Love Comes Again to Red Lights
Tiësto's Love Comes Again and Red Lights belong to different chapters of his recording career. The first places BT inside the 2004 Just Be album world; the later song opens a more direct pop-facing route into A Town Called Paradise.
The earlier album scale
Just Be and Elements of Life, released in 2004 and 2007, give the earlier sound an expansive setting. The original Love Comes Again credits identify BT on vocals and in the writing with Tijs Verwest, making the singer a specific part of that album's melodic language.
The later song changes the proportions
A Town Called Paradise arrived in 2014 with Red Lights in its programme. Guitars, a compact vocal shape and a more immediate song structure make the change in emphasis easy to hear. The distance between these recordings is useful: the same producer can give a melody a long instrumental approach in one period and a much quicker route to the refrain in another. The earlier albums reward attention to the space before the vocal arrives; the later material makes the song's central idea more immediately available.
Essential releases
Love Comes Again — with BT
The Just Be recording places BT's vocal and writing inside the earlier trance album setting.
Elements of Life
The album continues the expansive melodic and instrumental approach.
A Town Called Paradise
Red Lights belongs to a more direct, guest-led pop and electronic album programme.