SATURDAY: Tiësto @ Liacouras Center

There are many reasons for EDM's popularity, some musical, some attributable to assorted cults of personalities.

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SATURDAY: Tiësto @ Liacouras Center

POSTED: Friday, February 22, 2013, 4:00 PM
Filed Under: Music
(h/t/ tiestoclublife.wordpress.com)

There are many reasons for EDM’s popularity, some musical, some attributable to assorted cults of personalities. No matter who came before or after, one of the genre’s most consistently prominent faces (or at least its hands) is Tiësto. The Netherlands-raised DJ/producer won acclaim first in the mid-’90s for doing impossibly lengthy trance sets. Before settling into the 21st century, he experimented with commercial sounds and vocalists as diverse as Sarah McLachlan and Ferry Corsten, released his first artist-solo album, In My Memory, and recorded the electronic heartbeat that became the 2004 Olympic Games’ soundtrack. Since then, Tiësto has launched a successful series of mixed CDs — Club Life — and made DJ residencies at hotel casinos de rigueur for dance music top’s names.

Sat., Feb. 23, 7 p.m., $30-$49, Liacouras Center, Temple University, 1776 N. Broad St., 800-298-4200, liacourascenter.com.

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