As we reported last week, trance kingpin Ferry Corsten is currently putting the finishing touches on a new artist album that should be ready ahead of the 2011 Stereosonic tour.

The first taste of the LP comes in the form of lead single Check It Out, a track that has been met with a less-than-ecstatic response by some fans. The reaction has been so divided that the Dutchman has responded to the “commotion” with a considered blog post on his Facebook page. It’s a worthy read, and gives some insight into how artists digest criticism (especially when the criticism is centered in the Wild West of YouTube comments). You can read it in full below.

“I’ve been reading your comments on Check It Out and I see that there is quite some commotion about it,” he writes. “I just wanted to let you know that I love to experiment in the studio and I have never limited myself to one single style. Exactly 20 years ago I released my very first record and since then I have never made one style of music. In the past I produced genres like trance, techno, drum ‘n bass, electro, chill out and I even released some hardcore tracks!

“When I made Out Of The Blue under my System F alias, people were shocked because it was new. Because of this I was labelled as a trance artist. Since then I’ve created a lot of trance music, but music in other genres as well. When I made Punk, Rock Your Body, Rock and Fire I almost got crucified because I tried something different. Now, when I play those tracks in my sets, the whole crowd goes completely crazy!

“ Check It Out is a track that I produced for the dancefloor and for the festivals and not just for YouTube. Some of you write that it’s a cheesy and commercial track for radio and that I just do it for the money. But in fact, some radio stations find the track quite rough for daytime airplay…It’s a track that you need to hear and experience live and loud!

“Thank you to all of you who support me and allow me to experiment with new music. And to all of you who don’t, I hope that you now understand my reasoning. I’m not asking you to like all my music. But I hope you understand that I really need to make something different from time to time. If I don’t do that, I feel like I become stagnant. And as a creative artist, that would be the worst thing that could happen.

Of course I will still produce trance music and my upcoming artist album will have plenty of it. And btw, I never declared ‘Gouryella’ dead…”