Personnel: Julie Thompson, Maxi Jazz, Christian Burns, Charlotte Martin (vocals).

Additional personnel: Jes, BT (vocals); Julie Thompson, Maxi Jazz, Christian Burns, Charlotte Martin.

Photographer: Stephanie Pistel.

On 2007's ELEMENTS OF LIFE, club legend Tiesto offers up another set of original, dance-floor-friendly tracks. While the Dutch artist stays well within trance/house territory for most of the album, he branches into a slightly poppier sound on the pulsing "Sweet Things," which features an emotive vocal performance by Charlotte Martin, and hits a darker Underworld-like vein with the BT collaboration "Break My Fall."

On his third album overall, 2007's Elements of Life, Dutch DJ Ti‰sto manages to retain his focus on the style of music that has gotten him this far in the first place -- trance and electronic. But this time around, he also adds bits of rock and pop to the dance party. Featuring input from several vocalists (Charlotte Martin, Julie Thompson, Christian Burns, and Jes), as well as BT, who has collaborated with Ti‰sto in the past, the end result is an album that sounds custom-made for blaring on a dancefloor in a trendy New York City club -- "Ten Seconds Before Sunrise," "Break My Fall" (which features BT), and "In the Dark" (which features Burns) -- the latter of which is probably the most crossover worthy track that Ti‰sto has ever penned. ~ Greg Prato