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Armin Announces Fourth Artist Album ‘MIRAGE’ + North American Tour Dates
Friday, August 20th, 2010
It’s the album the entire dance scene has been waiting for. After months of hard work and creativity, the number one DJ in the world delivers his fourth artist album. Armin van Buuren is proud to present to you: Mirage. Initial pre-sales have already pushed Mirage into the US iTunes Top 5 Dance Albums chart, and the first single “Full Focus” has drawn widespread acclaim from DJs and fans alike – all leading up to one of the most anticipated releases of the year on September 14th (with a special pre-release on iTunes September 10th).
Says Armin of his newest work, “Mirage has been the biggest project I’ve ever worked on. There are so many hours in this. Work started two years ago when I actually built a completely new studio for this project. Many new techniques were used and most of all I had so much fun creating this with the many people that are involved. It was a journey, an epic one!”
As the first single of the album, Armin chose “Full Focus”, an instrumental track set to fill arenas and clubs while scorching across the festival terrains set up for the summer of 2010. The accompanying high-energy video is an epic performance filmed at Armin’s “A State Of Trance 450” nights, right during the time he was finalizing the album.
Mirage reveals a side of Armin his fans haven’t heard yet, and takes in its listeners with new and surprising collaborations. Within the 2 years of endless jamming and producing, Armin worked with dance music icons Ferry Corsten, BT, and Josh Gabriel, along with the talents of Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Nadia Ali, Guy Chambers, Christian Burns and Adam Young of Owl City.
Inspired and influenced by many different types of music, Mirage is more diverse than any other Armin album before. His collaboration with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, ‘Not Giving Up On Love’ is a perfect example of that, combining the best of both worlds. Armin says, “The Nervo Sisters, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and me met up to write the vocals for ‘Not Giving Up On Love’. I was thrilled to work with them on this. We gave it a more analog feel with some real drums, to give it a pop-rock feel. We also put a piano top line on the track and then the vocals of Sophie, which I think is a win. It’s a lush summer tune with an epic vocal that gets stuck in your head and cheers you up!”
Mirage is filled with musical fusions and surprising interpretations, from the orchestral masterpiece of title track “Mirage”, the deep trance track “I Don’t Own You” and housey “Feels So Good” to the eerie “Take A Moment” and feel-good “Drowning”. These 16 tracks highlight how Armin has matured as an artist.
Armin’s A State Of Trance radio show claims over 10 million listeners weekly, and its podcast version is downloaded over 50,000 times. He also co-founded and heads the seminal trance label Armada Music, which hosts a variety of top international superstars, as well as 27 sub-labels, all respected around the world.
Throughout his career, Armin’s tour schedule has typified the international DJ elite, headlining the largest festivals, while also packing the hottest clubs. This September, Armin is touring North America for select dates to celebrate the album release, including his second consecutive headlining performance at New York City’s massive Electric Zoo Festival on September 5th, 2010.
Armin van Buuren Mirage is out September 14th on Ultra Records.
Armin van Buuren : North American Tour Dates
September 2 Minneapolis, MN @ Epic www.epicmpls.com
September 3 Atlanta, GA @ Opera www.operaatlanta.com
September 5 New York, NY @ Electric Zoo Festival www.electriczoofestival.com
September 5 Montreal, CA @ Sensation www.productionsplayground.com
Mirage Tracklisting
01. Desiderium 207 (feat. Susana)
02. Mirage
03. This Light Between Us (feat. Christian Burns)
04. Not Giving Up On Love (vs. Sophie Ellis Bextor)
05. I Don’t Own You
06. Full Focus
07. Take A Moment (feat. Winter Kills)
08. Feels So Good (feat. Nadia Ali)
09. Virtual Friend (feat. Sophie)
10. Drowning (feat. Laura V)
11. Down To Love (feat. Ana Criado)
12. Coming Home
13. These Silent Hearts (feat. BT)
14. Orbion
15. Minack (vs. Ferry Corsten)
16. Youtopia (feat. Adam Young)
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DJtunez.net Quarterly Favorite Part 3.2 Of 2009
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Wanna hear the Top 10 Tunez Of 2009, Video+Mix is included!—> Check it out here
Here it is what you’ve been waiting for the Top 5 tracks of the 3rd quarter of 2009. (Check out #10-6).
5. Daniel Wanrooy – City Nights
Love the build up of this track, great for fast driving on a highway!
4. Josh Gabriel Pres Winter Kills – Deep Down
Josh Gabriel never disappoints, this is one of our favorite vocals of the year.
3. Smashing Pumpkins – Disarm (Randy Boyer Remix)
Not ever classic song can be reworked into a trance track, Randy Boyer did an amazing job with this.
2. Stoneface & Terminal – Santiago
You might question the duos name, but never their productions. Another superb one here.
1.Moonbeam Ft Avis Vox – About You (Terry Ferminal Remix)
Very underated track, few over many peoples heads, but here it is our #1 track of the 3rd quarter of 2009..ENJOY. You can download the mix @ our DOWNLOAD SECTION.
Electric Zoo Artist Spotlight:Josh Gabriel
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
We’re now just 3 days aways from the Zoo! This gives us some time to introduce you to another artist who will be performing this weekend, Josh Gabriel. Josh is probably known for his tag team with Dave Dresden (Of Gabriel & Dresden). They had an amazing ride together bringing out amazing productions and remixes, Including the classic “As The Rush Comes”, under the alias Motorcycle. Their last production was a remix of Faithless’ “A Kind Of Peace”, The duo has since split and both have focused on their own productions. Josh has brought us a lot of great new music, including his track “Summit” which he released before the split, which had a crazy buzz around the dance music scence. But the favorite from Josh has to be this…
Tune Of The Week
Sunday, June 28th, 2009Thirty three weeks have passed by since our first Tune Of The Week back in the winter of 2008, now heres our first summer Tune Of The Week, Josh Gabriel Pres. Winter Kills – Deep Down, the track took in 36% of your votes. Josh Gabriel always seems to produce great music, this track falls under the “great music” category. Coming in number 2, with 28% of the votes is “Loved U 2 Much” by “Feel”, which features the beautiful voice of Tiff Lacey.
Taking the number 3 position is Ronski Speed Ft. Mque, and their track “Are You?”. The track took in 19% of the votes. This is slowly becoming my favorite Ronski Speed production. First State’s remix of “We Came”, which the original was released 10 years ago by Vimana, took in 9% of the votes. As you may or may not know, Vimana was a collaboration by the legendary DJ Tiesto and Ferry Corsten, even before their Gouryella project. And with 8% of the votes comes Jonas Stenberg’s track “Memories”
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As always thank you for your votes and keep them coming, and help us grow! Hope you enjoy this weeks tracks!
Electric Zoo
Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Finally! Made Event is bringing in a massive electronic music festival into New York City be prepared people. This September you will see the biggest names in all electronic genres taking stage in New York’s famous Randall’s Island Park. The 2 day event is called “Electric Zoo” and will take place during the Labor Day Weekend( September 5th and 6th).
How massive will this event be you ask? How about over 20 of the worlds biggest DJ’s. Every one from Armin Van Buuren to Ferry Corsten to Deadmau5 to Markus Schulz to New York’s own Frankie Knuckles, Roger Sanchez and, Danny Tenaglia. Hopefully this event can turn into an answer to all of Europe’s/Ibiza’s great events. Learn more about the event through their website www.electriczoofestival.com.
Here is the full lineup for now:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th
Armin van Buuren
Deadmau5
Benny Benassi
Danny Tenaglia
Roger Sanchez
Luciano
Robbie Rivera
Marco Carola
Chus & Ceballos
Kaskade
Paco Osuna
Chris Lake
Speedy J
Martin Buttrich
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 6th
David Guetta
Ferry Corsten
Richie Hawtin
Markus Schulz
Special Disco Version featuring
James Murphy & Pat Mahoney
(LCD Soundsystem/DFA)
Frankie Knuckles
Steve Bug
Josh Gabriel
James Holden
Audion
Menno De Jong
Best Driving Track Ever?
Friday, May 22nd, 2009So the DJtunez.net crew is about to take off on a 5-6 hour drive into the land of unknown this weekend. What better way to spend a long ride then listening to music? There is none. So this got me thinking, whats the best tune to listen to? I honestly did not have to think long or hard to come up with the winner… Motorcycle – As The Rush Comes. For some reason when the sun comes down and a highway is in front of me, my foot gets a little heavier then usual. I think the calmness of Jes’ voice and the amazing music surrounding her voice gets that adrenaline rushing. Enjoy!