Due to the overwhelming success and incredible amount of pre-registrations we received after announcing the final Armin Only Intense show on December 5th, we decided to offer everyone who will not be able to attend that date a chance to witness this incredible performance by hosting an additional show on December 6th.

For everyone who already joined the pre-sale, you’ll be able to use the same pre-sale code for both the December 5th & 6th shows. For those of you who haven’t pre-registered yet, you can subscribe here and join the pre-sale on August 9th. Both the ticket pre-sales and regular ticket sales for the two shows will start on the same date at the following times:

Ticket pre-sales: August 9th, 10:00AM – 12:00PM

Regular ticket sales: August 9th after 12:00PM

Both pre-sale and general ticket sales will be held at arminonly.com/finalshow

In order to give everyone a fair chance at getting their tickets, you’ll be able to get a maximum of 4 tickets per show. Make sure to join the pre-sale and get yours before its too late!

For the DJs out there that want to harness the power of one of Armin’s unforgettable sets, there’s no better way to do it than with the tracks the man himself uses. Armin has pooled together the tunes that he’s been playing out to packed shows recently, distilled into one collection of the hardest-hitting ‘sure things’.

Head over to Beatport and pick it up now!

The Wild Bunch in South Africa

Although the Armin Only Intense crew is enjoying a well-deserved summer break, we still owe you another brand new episode of the Roadmovie.

In this week’s episode you will witness Trevor doing some amazing tricks on his wakeboard and you will get to see the awe-inspiring show in the Coca Cola Dome, Johannesburg.

After the show, you’ll follow the entire team getting into their natural habitat as the wild bunch goes on an incredible safari in the ‘Rainbow Nation’, South Africa. During an unforgettable day in the beautiful South African wilderness and spending time amongst the ‘Big 5’, the memories of past year surface in anticipation of their summer break. As the team huddles around the campfire, they reminisce and reflect on the past amazing 6 month they’ve spend on the road with each other.

You’ve heard ‘Ping Pong’… but you’ve never heard it like this! This one goes LOW, with the subs pounding to make the party go crazy. Dani Deahl turns the original melody into a beast of a trap track, primed and ready for the main stage!

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In a world full of mainstream pop, you may have come from a place where all dance music was simply called ‘techno’, -; no one seemed to understand the art form, and no one seemed to care. Perhaps in a previous time, you weren’t even a lover of music, because what you were hearing on the radio simply didn’t do anything for you…

For many of us, we can distinctly recall a moment where our ears were opened — where we first discovered that music could be so much more than what it had been. For millions of people, artists like Armin van Buuren, BT, Paul van Dyk, Above & Beyond, and Chicane opened the door to a world of sound that had never existed. Great songs will always remain great songs, but what about that first time you put on headphones and learned that sound design and synthesizers could make an experience far more visceral and poignant than any acoustic instrument?

The songs on this album were chosen by ASOT listeners from around the world. Armin van Buuren asked his 20 million strong listener base, coming from over 74 countries, to send suggestions for their favorite classics of all time. From this list, this album was born!

The ‘A State of Trance’ Classics series is a chance to remember just how life-changing the art form has been and will continue to be. Volume 9 contains four discs worth of groundbreaking content, spanning the most influential years of trance music. Remember that trance isn’t a genre, it’s a way of looking at music and life!

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To celebrate the fact that I reached 1 million followers on Spotify, I set up a special competition with a very cool prize package, the M1X-DJ Sound System, the DJay App and a premium spotify account.

The lucky winner that will receive all of this is Fabio Bellio from Belgium! Congratulations!

If you want to follow me and my playlists in Spotify as well, simply surf to arminradio.com!

-Armin

We will be contacting all the other prize winners of the DJay app and Spotify premium accounts via email, so look out for a special email from our team this week!

The 6th installment of Armin’s summer quiz series is open now! Do you have what it takes to win tickets to see Armin perform at Ushuaïa in Ibiza?

To enter this week’s quiz, click here!

This week, Kaja Cierkowska is the lucky recipient of not one, but two free tickets to the inimitable Ushuaïa beach club. Congratulations Kaja!! She’ll be seeing MaRLo, Omnia, Cosmic Gate, and Armin van Buuren himself thanks to her knowledge of Armin Trivia.

If you think you have what it takes, join the quiz every Friday for your chance to win big!

To get you in the mood for ‘A State of Trance Classics Volume 9’, and to get you back to the spirit of some of the most amazing trance classics the world has ever known, we’d like to draw your attention to a defining early Armin tune, which he performed live (on vinyl!) at Armin Only in 2005. Watch the video below, listen to the tune, and get ready for more all time classics coming your way soon!

Pre-order A State of Trance Classics Vol. 9 here.

Armin finds himself nominated for yet another prestigious award, this time through French radio broadcaster NRJ’s 2014 DJ Awards. It’s certainly been a wild awards season for the man, who’s been nominated for and/or won the category in virtually every major awards show this year.

To cast your vote for Armin, enter here!