Hello, Beats is going trance yeahhh and today's 'minister' was born on Christmas day 1976 in -most appropriately Leiden, the place where the Pilgrims set sail from. It's an old city and accommodates the oldest University of the Netherlands (since 1572), a few decades later Rembrandt was born there. Plenty of pedigree then for the worlds most popular DJ of the last decade...
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Armin van Buuren was born in Leiden, Netherlands on 25 December 1976, but grew up in Koudekerk aan den Rijn. Armin became interested in music at an early age (his father was an avid record buyer). A close friend introduced him to the world of dance music, and the Dutch DJ and remixer Ben Liebrand quickly became his main inspiration. It led van Buuren to start investigating the roots of the electronic music he was becoming fond of, and numerous Jarre and Schulze CDs were acquired. Computers and turntables were also purchased, and creating his own music became a priority.. He finished high school at the Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden in 1995, and left for college to study law at Leiden University. While studying law, Van Buuren's interest for making music blossomed, and he began working as a DJ in a local club called Nexus. As his musical career began to take off, he put his law degree on hold, although he did return to finish law school in 2003.
In 1995, Van Buuren had his first major success with a track called "Blue Fear", which was released under the Cyber Records label; he was 19 years old at the time. This track, which was produced in the "Euro Trance" mold, made it onto the UK Chart. Another successful track, "Communication" was released under the same label, and became popular in Ibiza, Spain in the summer of 1999. After being signed to AM PM Records, this track entered the UK Chart at No. 18 in 2000.
Van Buuren began his DJ career at club Nexus in Leiden, where he learned to play long DJ sets, which were regularly six to seven hours per set. During school holidays he played more than four times a week. In 1999, he met Dave Lewis who introduced him as a DJ in England and the United States.His career accelerated, entering the DJ magazine Top-100 in November 2001 at Number 27. He has played in more than 25 different countries and can often be found on the main stage at big summer festivals. Van Buuren played a record-breaking twelve and a half hour set for Dancetheater in The Hague In the United Kingdom he performs regularly at Passion (resident 2002), Godskitchen, Gatecrasher, Slinky, Ministry of Sound, Peach and Golden.
In 2000, Van Buuren started his own Armin van Buuren compilation series. He managed to find a balance between progressive house, and vocal trance music styles. His first compilation album, A State of Trance, sold more than 10,000 copies and contains Van Buuren's well known remix of Moogwai, "Viola." His second album, Basic Instinct featured a new track: "Perpetuous Dreamer" – "The Sound of Goodbye." This track entered the Dutch charts in June 2001 at number 26. Later in the year, the track hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The third album, In Motion was released 6 August 2001. This album contained the real trance sound and was very popular in the United States. A fourth album, Transparence, followed in 2002. In 2003, he worked with such artists such as DJ Seth Alan Fannin throughout a global tour on Dance Revolution in Europe, selling out to crowds of 20,000 people in Armin's home country of the Netherlands.
In March 2001, Van Buuren started his own radio show on ID&T Radio (traditionally broadcast in Dutch and later English since ASOT 183). In this weekly two-hour show, entitled A State of Trance, he plays the latest popular trance music tracks. His show and the artists he features are popularized by publishing the artists and track titles on his website. This radio-show/website combination has proven popular internationally. When ID&T Radio changed genres in 2004, Van Buuren left and took A State of Trance with him. It is now a weekly feature on Radio 538, another Dutch radio station, DI.FM, an online radio station, and on XM Satellite Radio, channel 80 in the United States and Canada. A complete list of stations that broadcast A State of Trance can be found at the ASOT section of Armin's website. it claims to have around 25 million weekly listeners in 26 countries, which would make it one of the most listened-to radio shows in the world.
In 2002, he had a residency at Glow in Washington D.C., and he has played all across North America. He has also regularly appeared at Amnesia on the island of Ibiza, Balearic Islands, Spain. In October that year, Van Buuren was voted Number 5 in the DJ Magazine 100 top DJ's. The following year, he jumped up to the No. 3 spot, and held 3rd place for the next three years. His work left him at the No. 2 spot, just below Paul van Dyk in the 2006 polls, and, in 2007, Armin reached #1, heading the 2007 DJ Mag Top 100. He was voted No. 1 again in 2008, 2009 and again in 2010. Guetta's big commercial success saw him dropping to no2 in 2011. But then Armin became father of a sweet babygirl, Fenna, that year....
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Armin van Buuren's full production debut, 76, picks up where the futuristic Euro-disco of Jean-Michel Jarre and Giorgio Moroder left off 15 years before. Van Buuren knows how to construct hypnotic and driving songs that have little to do with the massive washes of sound his trance competitors churn out and have everything to do with head-bobbing living-room listening. Not that van Buurin can't fill a dancefloor, but he's left that to his 12" releases and made 76 such a cohesive listen it comes off as an early-morning Ibiza mix album. Guest vocals are handled by frequent collaborators Justine Suissa and Victoria Horn along with a surprisingly good appearance by blink-and-you-missed-him Genesis vocalist Ray Wilson on "Yet Another Day." "From the Heart" (with Ferry Corsten guesting under his System F guise) is another winner with a synth line right out of Midnight Express, while "Blue Fear 2003" updates Armin's 1995 hit superbly. Unlike Oakenfold and others, van Buuren is well aware of his limitations. It means there's hardly a groundbreaking moment included, but 76 is favorable for the more reserved tranceheads and fans of progressive electronic and disco's brief and glistening love affair.
Armin van Buuren - 76 (flac 496mb)
01 Prodemium 2:05
02 Precious 6:58
03 Yet Another Day (Feat.Ray Wilson) 5:24
04 Burned With Desire (Feat.Justine Suissa) 5:53
05 Blue Fear 2003 7:33
06 From The Heart (Feat.System F)7:30
07 Never Wanted This (Feat.Justine Suissa) 4:53
08 Astronauts 5:36
09 Stay (Feat.Krezip) 5:08
10 Wait For You (Song For The Ocean) (Feat.Victoria Horn) 7:12
11 Sunburn 6:16
12 Communication 4:16
13 Slipstream (Feat.Airwave) 7:07
Armin van Buuren - 76 (ogg 183mb )
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Free CD with the april 2004 issue of Mixmag. The CD was mixed live, directly from the original digital source for your listening pleasure. The album is very uplifting and has some very strong emotions contained on trax like Armin's remix of Mark Otten's 'Mushroom Therapy' and the vocally unique 'Stonecold' by Bossanova. However, just when you think the tunes are about to lift the roof off the basslines are toned down and the mood becomes very chilled out. All in all this set of trax peaks in the middle rather than at the end, which, although is a little disappointing only takes a litle away from what would have been a perfect mix.
Armin Van Buuren - Big Room Trance (flac 489mb)
01 Markus Schulz Presents Elevation - Clear Blue (Intro Mix) 4:07
02 Nathan Fake - Outhouse 5:45
03 Red Karma Feat. Tom Wolff - Dying To Survive (Mr. Sam Vs. Fred Baker's Remix) 4:47
04 St. John Vs. Locust - Mind Circles (Original Mix) 4:02
05 Cern - The Message 10:10
06 Mark Otten - Mushroom Therapy (Armin Van Buuren Remix) 5:19
07 Primo Lux - Turnpoint 3:29
08 Sonicvibe & Mike Shiver - Lunation 4:23
09 Charger - Turtle Beach (Outback Remix) 4:09
10 Space Brothers - One More Chance (Riley & Durrant Mix) 4:23
11 Scarab Vs. DJ Stigma - Hunting 3:13
12 Re:Locate - Waterfall 3:40
13 Octagen & Arizona - Starburst 5:58
14 Armin van Buuren Feat. Systém F - From The Heart 7:31
Armin Van Buuren - Big Room Trance (ogg 170mb)
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His second artist album finds Armin taking the final step into real songwriting, working with such singers as Nadia Ali, Michael Burns, Justine Suissa and Martijn Hagens and continuing both to refine and expand his personal vision of the ways trance can be defined in a constantly expanding dance music universe. The album opens powerfully with the surprisingly breaks-based "Wall of Sound," a well put together celebration of funkiness that luxuriates in a long instrumental intro before eventually turning into a song featuring the attractive voice of Justine Suissa. From there on, things fall into a more familiar pattern: sonically pretty but rhythmically predictable club anthems supporting singers and lyricists of varying quality -- on the high side, there's the faintly Peter Gabriel-ish Ray Wilson on a very fine song titled "Gypsy"; on the low side is the breathtakingly tedious "Bounce Back" featuring both DJ Remy and Roland Klinkenberg. Most of the rest falls somewhere in between, and will appeal mainly to those with well-developed tastes in the genre. [A bonus track version was also released.]
Armin Van Buuren - Shivers (flac 466mb)
01 Wall Of Sound (Feat. Justine Suissa) 6:25
02 Empty State (Feat. Mic Burns) 7:30
03 Shivers 7:33
04 Golddigger (Feat. Martijn Hagens)4:46
05 Zocalo (Feat. Gabriel & Dresden) 8:40
06 Gypsy (Feat. Ray Wilson) 5:24
07 Who Is Watching (Feat. Nadia Ali) 5:08
08 Bounce Back (Feat. Remy & Roland Klinkenberg) 7:34
09 Control Freak 8:08
10 Serenity (Feat. Jan Vayne) 11:37
Armin Van Buuren - Shivers (ogg 170mb)
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