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Armin van Buuren is being voted as the number 1 DJ in the world in the prestigious public-voted DJ Top 100 for 2007, after several years in 2nd or 3rd spot. He’s making the transition from talented young upstart to leading light in the echelons of trance – and beyond. 2005 has brought two new significant awards (Best Radio Show, and Best Compilation for A State of Trance 2004 at the Miami Winter Music Conference Awards), and a stunning new artist album, Shivers, showcasing his debut as a songwriter.
Affronted by the cheesy tag that dogged it for a brief time real trance has continued to grow unabated, and the WMC awards reflect Armin’s success in producing and playing quality tunes that both excite existing fans and bring new people to the scene. “I think trance is becoming a broader term for a lot of different genres; it’s no longer a specific kind of music within the dance scene,” says Armin, widely credited with creating the blueprint track for the genre, Blue Fear, at the tender age of 19,. “Trance has elements of all different types of music. I play a lot of tracks that are labelled as progressive, tribal progressive, techno, trance, euphoric trance, vocal trance, melodic progressive… These days it’s really hard to label a specific sound. Styles are mutating and evolving into this all-over new sound, which is basically dance music going back to its roots. There’s so much good music out there and I don’t want to limit myself to just one style.”
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| Birth Name: Armin van Buuren |
| Also Known As: Armin van Buuren |
| Born: 1976-12-25 |
| Origin: Leiden, Netherlands |
| Occupation(s): Lawyer, DJ, Producer, Radio show host/DJ of A State of Trance |
| instrument(s): Synthesizer, Drum Machine, Equalizer, etc. |
| Years active: 1995-present |
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