I like progressive, 130 to 140 beats per minute. "For me, it's too much all over the place. "I understand why it works - there are a lot of tempo changes, it can be aggressive or sweet," he says. For example, dubstep the genre du jour, isn't on his radar. My shows are becoming more intense, more like theater. "I want to start DJing for a longer period, for eight hours, and be more eclectic with what I play. "I'll be playing new tracks, testing them on the audience," he says. He'll support the album with a short North American tour, starting Friday in Los Angeles and wrapping up May 26 in Dallas, which he describes as a "warm-up" to a world tour that kicks off June 14 in Seoul. The king, queen and their three daughters hopped up onstage to dance, a pleasant surprise for Van Buuren as well as the 15,000 people in the audience and 5 million watching on TV. At a performance to celebrate the April 30 coronation of King of the Netherlands Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, Van Buuren joined forces with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra to perform the title track of his fifth album Intens e, out Friday. On the trance side, I like Dash Berlin."Įven the Dutch royals are fans. "There are plenty that deserve that title - Hardwell is doing well. 1, but that's not the first thing I think about when I wake up in the morning," says Van Buuren, 36.
He shrugs off the suggestion that he's better than other EDM artists. To mark its 10th anniversary, he has created a new branch, Armada North America. His fame has grown from handing out mixtapes to school friends to co-founding his own record label, Armada Music. 1 spot on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs poll five times and 20 million listeners on his weekly radio show A State of Trance, which he started in 2001. His signature style of progressive trance has earned him the No. Van Buuren, who began collecting vinyl records with his newspaper-route money and taught himself to make music on a computer that his mom gave him when he was 10, has become one of the most recognizable names in electronic dance music. Armin Van Buuren's 15-year success as a DJ mirrors his music: fast-paced, but steady.
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