Dutch trance icon Ferry Corsten has pulled back the curtain on some of the lesser-known chapters of his production career, revealing several long-forgotten aliases he used during his early years — including one that pressed his very first attempt at house music.
Sitting down with a stack of vinyl in a new video, Corsten teased fans about just how many hidden identities exist in his catalogue. “Are there any secret aliases no one knows about? There’s actually really a lot, music that I did on so many different names,” he explained. “If you want to know all of them, go to Discogs.com and find out. You can find out all of them. Elektrika.”
He then held up the vinyl of ‘It Makes Me Move’, released under his Elektrika alias on Tsunami Records — the same imprint responsible for another landmark trance moment, his own ‘Out Of The Blue’ as System F, alongside the earliest Gouryella releases with Tiësto. Tsunami was the launchpad for some of Corsten’s defining early work, and Elektrika sat quietly among it.
The bigger reveal came next. “There’s another one which is quite funny, called A Jolly Good Fellow, my first attempt to make house music on a label, a Dutch label called Blue Records.” That name, released in the mid-’90s, marks one of the earliest experiments in Corsten’s discography — long before he became one of trance’s most recognisable global names.
A quick scan of Discogs backs up his own hint: Corsten has recorded under dozens of aliases across his career, from 4×4, Albion, Moonman, Pulp Victim, Raya Shaku, Sidewinder and The Nutter, to group projects like Gouryella, New World Punx and Veracocha. It’s a reminder that behind the trance legend the world knows sits a decades-deep archive of names most fans have never even heard of.
In other news, Corsten recently reimagined his landmark album with ‘Blueprint Reprinted’, offering a fresh take on one of his most iconic bodies of work.
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