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Track List
01) Ten Seconds Before Sunrise
02) Everything
03) Do You Feel Me
04) Carpe Noctum
05) Driving to Heaven
06) Sweet Things
07) Bright Morningstar
08) Break My Fall
09) In the Dark
10) Dance4Life
11) Elements of Life
12) He's a Pirate (Tiësto remix)
01) Ten Seconds Before Sunrise
02) Everything
03) Do You Feel Me
04) Carpe Noctum
05) Driving to Heaven
06) Sweet Things
07) Bright Morningstar
08) Break My Fall
09) In the Dark
10) Dance4Life
11) Elements of Life
12) He's a Pirate (Tiësto remix)
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First Released
2007
Trance
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72,000 copies
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Elements of Life is the third studio album produced by Dutch trance artist Tiësto, released on 6 April 2007 (see 2007 in music). The album contains collaborations with Jes of Gabriel & Dresden's project Motorcycle, Julie Thompson of Holden & Thompson, Charlotte Martin, Christian Burns, BT, and Maxi Jazz of Faithless. BT collaborates with Tiësto for the first time since Love Comes Again, and Faithless's rapper/singer Maxi Jazz is featuring on Dance4Life. The album has more tracks featuring vocals than previous albums (excluding the remixed Just Be).
The album was nominated in the category "Best Electronic/Dance Album" at the 50th Grammy Awards. In April 2007 the album moved 72,000 units according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album also received gold certifications in Belgium, Hungary, Netherlands, and Romania.
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Dutch trance don Tiesto has achieved more than his fair share of 'firsts' in recent times. He’s the first DJ to play the Olympics; the first to get a house record broadcast on North American daytime radio (his remix of Delerium’s “Silence”); and the first to sell out a solo stadium DJ gig to 25,000 people, two nights in a row.
He’s also the first producer in 23 years to score an instrumental number one in Holland, with his hit single “Traffic”.
It’s unsurprising, given this stream of lofty accomplishments, that Tiesto’s third album Elements Of Life is both confident and ambitious.
Following on fluently from his previous albums, Elements Of Life contains all of the tried and tested Tiesto signature sounds: namely, epic melodic trance hooks combined with melancholic introspection and moody cinematic bridges.
But there is a broader, more song-based approach evident too, underlined by the array of guest vocalists; BT, Julie Thompson, Jes, and newcomer Christian Burns among them. Further, Tiesto has opened up his sound to incorporate splashes of minimal techno, house, film soundtracks - even rock.
Lead single, “In the Dark”, arguably one of the best tracks on the album, features a searing dance-rock atmosphere topped with a superlative vocal performance from Burns. Matching this standout is another vocal track, “Sweet Things”, which combines Charlotte Martin’s sultry, soaring voice with a driving rhythm and an ecstatic techno- trance floor-slayer.
The moody, infectious Everything, featuring Motorcycle’s Jes is also top-notch.
“Do You Feel Me?” (which features the ethereal vocals of Julie Thompson) and Break My Fall (with BT), don’t hold the attention for quite so long, while the anti-AIDS campaign track “Dance4Life” (with Maxi Jazz) is derivative and sounds somehow out of place here.
The instrumentals fare worse than the vocal tracks. “Driving to Heaven” and “Bright Morning Star” are cliched and the remix of “He´s A Pirate” boasts little in the way of either charm, subtlety or originality.
Underground or unique Elements of Life is not. But, for what it’s worth, it’s as technically accomplished and accessible an album as you’d expect from one of the world’s most commercially successful DJ/producers.
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Elements of Life is the third studio album produced by Dutch trance artist Tiësto, released on 6 April 2007 (see 2007 in music). The album contains collaborations with Jes of Gabriel & Dresden's project Motorcycle, Julie Thompson of Holden & Thompson, Charlotte Martin, Christian Burns, BT, and Maxi Jazz of Faithless. BT collaborates with Tiësto for the first time since Love Comes Again, and Faithless's rapper/singer Maxi Jazz is featuring on Dance4Life. The album has more tracks featuring vocals than previous albums (excluding the remixed Just Be).
The album was nominated in the category "Best Electronic/Dance Album" at the 50th Grammy Awards. In April 2007 the album moved 72,000 units according to Nielsen SoundScan. The album also received gold certifications in Belgium, Hungary, Netherlands, and Romania.
User Album Review
Dutch trance don Tiesto has achieved more than his fair share of 'firsts' in recent times. He’s the first DJ to play the Olympics; the first to get a house record broadcast on North American daytime radio (his remix of Delerium’s “Silence”); and the first to sell out a solo stadium DJ gig to 25,000 people, two nights in a row.
He’s also the first producer in 23 years to score an instrumental number one in Holland, with his hit single “Traffic”.
It’s unsurprising, given this stream of lofty accomplishments, that Tiesto’s third album Elements Of Life is both confident and ambitious.
Following on fluently from his previous albums, Elements Of Life contains all of the tried and tested Tiesto signature sounds: namely, epic melodic trance hooks combined with melancholic introspection and moody cinematic bridges.
But there is a broader, more song-based approach evident too, underlined by the array of guest vocalists; BT, Julie Thompson, Jes, and newcomer Christian Burns among them. Further, Tiesto has opened up his sound to incorporate splashes of minimal techno, house, film soundtracks - even rock.
Lead single, “In the Dark”, arguably one of the best tracks on the album, features a searing dance-rock atmosphere topped with a superlative vocal performance from Burns. Matching this standout is another vocal track, “Sweet Things”, which combines Charlotte Martin’s sultry, soaring voice with a driving rhythm and an ecstatic techno- trance floor-slayer.
The moody, infectious Everything, featuring Motorcycle’s Jes is also top-notch.
“Do You Feel Me?” (which features the ethereal vocals of Julie Thompson) and Break My Fall (with BT), don’t hold the attention for quite so long, while the anti-AIDS campaign track “Dance4Life” (with Maxi Jazz) is derivative and sounds somehow out of place here.
The instrumentals fare worse than the vocal tracks. “Driving to Heaven” and “Bright Morning Star” are cliched and the remix of “He´s A Pirate” boasts little in the way of either charm, subtlety or originality.
Underground or unique Elements of Life is not. But, for what it’s worth, it’s as technically accomplished and accessible an album as you’d expect from one of the world’s most commercially successful DJ/producers.
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