Both shows sold-out within an hour and capped an extraordinary year for Armin van Buuren, the world. The final two shows on the Armin Only: Intense tour took place at the Ziggo Dome in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, last month. Either way you’re going to either love it or hate it. The Armin Only-Intense 'The Music' (Armada Music) album will be released in the U.S./North America on January 20th, 2015. In the ever-changing landscape of EDM, it isn’t because he has been rinsing the same tunes for that time, it’s due to the fact that he has an unrelenting thirst to entertain the scene’s new guard and spread the love for not only trance but electronic music in general.Ī listen to “Intense” serves as evidence where Armin Van Buuren is heading. Very few artists, have been able to draw the numbers Armin Van Burren has over the past two decades. Armin van Buuren & Sander van Doorn Jonson’s Play. The Hardwell remix has reached the status of festival anthem. The song is included in van Buurens compilation A State of Trance 2014.The track is known for its particular minimal trance sound of a table tennis ball sound. The song was released in the Netherlands by Armind on 24 March 2014. The vocals Fiora in “Waiting For The Night” the aforementioned “Sound of a Drum”, the rolling ecstatic darkness of “Pulsar” is the first indicator that not all of Intense is intended for crowded nightclubs and festivals, but rather to enjoy as a great artist album. Armin van Buuren Turn The World Into A Dancefloor (ASOT 1000 Anthem) 02. 'Ping Pong' is a song by Dutch disc jockey and record producer Armin van Buuren. Stretching almost 9-minutes, the vocal-less track repeatedly settles into a more relaxed BPM and subtle string arrangements to allow for breathing room between the massive peaks.Īn array of vocalists feature on this new album including the angelic work of Laura Jansen on Sound of A Drum, Nervo on Turn This Love Around, Trevor Guthrie on This Is What It Feels Like and even the great Richard Bedford on Love Never Came. Balancing between big-room melodic trance and new-school progression, Intense delivers a vast range of sounds that will satisfy your needs.Įmbracing the current trend in dance music to utilize non-electronic elements, the lead-single Intense commences with a minimal string arrangement before building into a full-blown trance anthem. Each artist album we have seen in the past has had its own particular sound whilst still delving into the roots of trance this is no different. Each week the man dubbed the ‘God of Trance’ spends countless hours per year educating the masses on the trends of trance and progressing electronic music on his weekly program ‘A State Of Trance’, and countless more traveling the globe to play sold-out venues.Īrmin recently dropped his fifth LP in the last decade, the 15-track album suitably titled Intense.
Once again, Armin Van Buuren continues to revolutionize his beloved genre of Trance.