Your Name: Cory Goldsmith
Your location(country,city): Boulder, Colorado, USA
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest music career achievements in 2017?
Cory: Playing Global Dance Festival in Denver, Colorado. Released a debut tech-trance EP and a couple of remixes on Tangled Audio.
Dimitri: Can you mention your biggest personal life achievements in 2017 that make you extremely proud?
Cory: Publishing two scientific papers
1) Your top 3 2017 personal productions
1. Cory Goldsmith - Flatiron (Original Mix) [Tangled Audio]
2. Cory Goldsmith - Stranger Things (Cory Goldsmith Techno Bootleg)
3. Cory Goldsmith - Polls (Original Mix) [Tangled Audio]
2) Best Artist (DJ & producer):
Haris C
3) Best Remix from other artist:
Haris C - Indigo (Ryan Bentham Remix)
4) Best Remix that you have produced?
ReDrive, Krypton8 - Sparks (Cory Goldsmith Remix)
5) Best Remixer:
ReDrive / Richard Tanselli
6) Best New Talent (Dj or producer):
Ryan Bentham
7) Best Electronic Music Album:
Haris C - My Life
8) Best Electronic Music Compilation:
Entangled by Tangled Audio (Forthcoming)
9) Best artwork/cover of an Album or Compilation:
Gareth2Dark - Fuel [Introspective Records]
10) Best Lyrics in an Electronic Music track (it can be your production or from other artists)
Ferry Corsten ft. Hailene - Edge of the Sky
11) Best Vocalist/Singer featured on Electronic Music track:
Hailene
12) Best Electronic Music Label:
Tangled Audio
13) Best Electronic Music Video:
Ferry Corsten - Eternity
14) Best Online Social media for communication with your fans:
Instagram
15) Best Twitter or Facebook message or Instagram message you received from a fan or friend or you have read on someone else’s account:
"This guy plays real trance" - review on my facebook page the day after a show.
16) Best music composition software:
Ableton Live
17) Best Club Event or Open Air Festival:
Amsterdam Dance Event
18) Best personal Dj Gig:
Global Dance Festival 2017
19) Best Dj set of the year from other fellow Dj:
Evan Pearce - Global Dance Festival 2017
20) Best country that you have played in 2017 and where did you met the best festival/event crowd:
U.S.A., Denver, Colorado
21) Best Radio show or Artist Vlog?:
Outburst Radio Show with Mark Sherry
22) Best Radio station:
DI.fm Trance channel
23) Best Online Record shop that you purchase your music:
Beatport
24) Best music related website that you visit frequently:
selector.news
25) Best Smart phone or smart phone application:
Google
26) Best Dj equipment (software or hardware):
Pioneer XDJ-RX
27) Best new sound or sample that has been used in Electronic Music this year perhaps introduced first by you?
"Music of the Earth" - Mark Sherry
28) Best tip that you learnt this year for your Djing techniques or music composition:
"Get Sylenth"
29) Best piece of advice you got in relation to your career in 2017:
"Get Sylenth"
30) Best hobby or activity that you spent a lot of time in 2017:
Teaching music production.
31) Best holiday destination for 2017 either to relax or to perform in a club or festival:
Berlin
32) Best Electronic Music magazines in printed form not online:
Selector
33) Best Movie of the year that may inspire you to compose a track:
Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
34) Best online/PC/video game of the year that you have played this year?
I don't game :(
35) Best soundtrack for video game of the year:
Did Halo release anything this year? Their soundtracks are always incredible.
36) Best electronic music related joke you heard this year and make you still laugh:
Marshmello
37) The saddest electronic music news you heard this year and still makes u cry:
Marshmello
Dimitri: Finally, please tell our readers your plans with your future releases, tracks, albums, collaborations, DJ gigs.
Cory: Already have a lot lined up for the beginning of 2018. A couple of remixes, as well as new originals, one of which is deeper and more downtempo on one of my favourite labels in dance music.
Thanks to Duncan Newell, A&R for Alter Ego Records and Tangled Audio for arranging this interview.
Additional info:
Instagram: corygoldsmithdj