Armin Van Buuren interview: "My heart will always, always be with trance" - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.arabnews.com/news/448440"]Full interview [/URL]Relatively small snippet below, the full interview is much larger. [quote] So you don’t think about all the success? “Noooo… Success is very relative. I was very lucky to have been brought up by a very normal family. I had a really normal upbringing. I don’t wake up in the morning and say, ‘Hey, how can I be the number 1 DJ in the world?’ That’s not what’s going through my mind. It’s a dream...” I curtly cut him in the middle, reminding softly that he’s forgotten he is the number 1 DJ as far as magazine fan polls and charts have been indicating for sometime. “Yeah…but it’s not something that I wake up with. I mean, every athlete dreams of winning a gold medal, right? But when he wakes up it’s not that the first thing that goes through his mind is like, ‘Oh I want to win a gold medal.’ That’s his end goal. When I wake up in the morning, I think, ‘Hey… Benno my studio partner is coming over. I’m excited about this idea for a track. Let’s go into the studio and finish it.’ So it’s more about the energy and about the enthusiasm for this music.”[/quote] [quote]I recall him saying once at some interview, “If you really want people to take notice, then do something different.” He’s stuck to his guns. He has faithfully played the trance playground. But he has also wandered off in search of new horizons for his new artist album, ‘Intense,’ due for release next month. He is breaking into new paths, and this album could mark as his seminal step into unexplored territory. It will be unconventional. But he is convinced and confident of experimenting with a variety of textures and styles foreign to his trance insignia. Trance has remained his most naturally fitting musical character. He has been very vocal about it. But I suggest that perhaps he feels differently about that today. “No…no…no….”, he throws his hands in the air. “My heart will always, always be with trance. And I’m sure because I’ve been listening to this since I was 8 years old. And I’m still there. I feel trance as a genre is very much alive. We had the golden era of trance from 1999-2001.But I think with new artists and new DJs the sound is evolving. It’s an exciting time. This music is growing and growing and growing. But the only way the sound can grow is if we have an open mind. Some people want to go back to the 99-2001 era. It’s fine, there’s nothing wrong with that. I’ve chosen a career path that will take me through a journey with different styles but I always come back home to trance. This is my journey. It’s the same thing like…I’m a Dutch person, I like to live in the Netherlands. I feel at home in the Netherlands. But I also go to other countries sometimes. But, I always come back home.” I’m convinced by the draw of his analogy. “I’ve always kept an open-mind to every genre. And with ‘Intense’, I grow through different sounds within EDM. The title track itself, I haven’t revealed it to the audience yet, was a track I worked on literally for three years. And I think we have 276 versions of it. And only the last version we found good enough to release. The idea of the track was to…see I don’t like to be pigeon-holed into one style. I mean, if you wanna put a label on me, then put the trance label on me.” He traces his forehead with his fingers. He’s making a point.[/quote] Armin's always such a chill and humble dude (provided he doesn't pull a Tiesto). Trance is better. Will also be going to a rave where it'll just be him performing in little over a week from now EDIT: To clear a few things. Armin Van Buuren is currently ranked as the #1 DJ in the world, including winning 4 consecutive years between 2007–2010 and again in 2012.

Is this really worth a thread?

Everything newsworthy is worth a thread.

[QUOTE=Take_Opal;40342803]Is this really worth a thread?[/QUOTE] Who put you in charge in deciding what's newsworthy? I like Armin Van Buuren and this is interesting to read.

[QUOTE=Protocol7;40342856]Who put you in charge in deciding what's newsworthy? I like Armin Van Buuren and this is interesting to read.[/QUOTE] There is a sort of standard of some sort. Would it be cool if everyone posted interviews to their favorite artist talking about their new album?

[QUOTE=Take_Opal;40342886]There is a sort of standard of some sort. Would it be cool if everyone posted interviews to their favorite artist talking about their new album?[/QUOTE] Yes, an interview with the world's #1 DJ is newsworthy. If you don't listen to him or EDM or care which style he's taking, then don't view this thread.

[QUOTE=Take_Opal;40342886]There is a sort of standard of some sort. Would it be cool if everyone posted interviews to their favorite artist talking about their new album?[/QUOTE] If they're a pretty prominent figure I think that's grounds to post it since there would obviously be tons of people interested in it.

[QUOTE=Take_Opal;40342886]There is a sort of standard of some sort. Would it be cool if everyone posted interviews to their favorite artist talking about their new album?[/QUOTE] Uh, Armin is huge in the EDM world. And if you'd actually read any of the snippets Starpluck wrote, or you read any of the interview, you'd know it's not just him plugging his new album - he has quite a bit to say about the current state of trance.

YOHOHO more of a reason to love Armin

Oh man I loved Imagine and Mirage. Hoping Intense will be as good