This week’s episode of CLUBLIFE will mark its grand finale, nearly 19 years after Tiësto started the mix series and just shy of its 1,000th episode.
New year, new Tiësto — except that his recent trance musings are closer to his sound of 20 years ago. He launched CLUBLIFE not long before the end of that era, and now that it’s coming to an end, so is the weekly mix series.
Tiësto (real name Tijs Verwest) broke the news toward the end of the 977th episode of CLUBLIFE, which broadcast on Friday. “Before we play the last track, I have a special announcement,” he said. “Make sure to tune in next week, because that’s gonna be the last CLUBLIFE episode ever.”
“It’ll be a very special one,” Verwest continued. “I’m closing out the CLUBLIFE era, and I’ll play 20 of the biggest tracks released in all these years from 2007 till now.”
Verwest started CLUBLIFE in 2007; it originally aired on Dutch station Radio 338 but expanded to more than 350 stations in 77 countries. At the time, trance was falling out of favor among a new generation of music fans, and his sound had begun to reflect that. In 2014, he told DJ Mag, “Some of the old trance guys still have a following, but it doesn’t feel like anybody really cares. It’s nice to be in touch with the 16 to 18-year-old kids who are coming up producing house music.”
But in 2025, Verwest has re-embraced his style of old with open arms. He turned heads by playing trance sets at EDC Las Vegas, Dreamstate SoCal, and even the Great Pyramids of Giza, and he’s got an as-yet-unnamed trance album set for release at some point in 2026.
Verwest has yet to reveal whether a new mix series that better reflects his current sound will replace CLUBLIFE. Regardless, fans who have sorely missed the Tiësto trance era have a lot to look forward to in 2026.
