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Using the information and wisdom gained from years of touring experience on the road, Armin van Buuren was able to give Philips unprecedented insight into what’s important for the traveling professional DJ. Offering unparalleled sound and a robust aluminum body, the A5-PRO DJ Headphones are built for comfort and long-lasting performance. With a handful of unique new features and extreme quality, these headphones will set the high water mark for the industry.

Dutch brand Philips has long stood for innovation in the field of music and technology, and it has been a driving force behind professional and consumer electronics worldwide. Armin’s experience and professionalism, combined with Philips’ technical expertise, has created a new standard of quality by which all others will be judged.

Check out the official video here.

More info: http://www.philips.co.uk/c-m-so/dj-equipment

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Armada Music has just won 10 awards during the International Dance Music Awards. Armin van Buuren received 11 nominations and brought home 8 awards. Armin was crowned ‘Best Trance DJ’, ‘Best Artist (Solo)’, and ‘Best Producer’. His Compilation ‘A State Of Trance 2013’ was given the award for ‘Best Compilation or Full Length DJ Mix’, and the newest edition ‘A State of Trance 2014’ is available today on iTunes.

The successful Dutch label, best known for its big trance releases, also brought home awards in other genres, winning ‘Best Tech House/Techno Track’ for the song ‘Let’s Go Dancing’ from Tiga vs. Audion, and also the award for ‘Best Underground Dance Track’ for ‘Bigger Than Prince’ from Green Velvet. Armada Music signed both tracks for the Benelux region this year. The worldwide hit record from Armin van Buuren and Trevor Guthrie, ‘This Is What It Feels Like’, received three awards, winning ‘Best Trance Track’, ‘Best Music Video’, and ‘Best Featured Vocalist Performance’.

Armin also won another prestigious award for ‘A State Of Trance’, coming away with ‘Best Podcast or Radio Mix Show’. On Sunday Van Buuren will close his ASOT650 ‘New Horizons’ tour during Ultra Music Festival in Miami. The entire show can be heard live via www.astateoftrance.com. On Saturday Armin van Buuren will be one of the headliners of Ultra Music Festival.

International Dance Music Awards – Armada Music:

Best Underground Dance Track
Bigger Than Prince – Green Velvet

Best Trance Track
This Is What It Feels Like – Armin van Buuren Feat. Trevor Guthrie

Best Tech House / Techno Track
Let’s Go Dancing – Tiga vs. Audion

Best Compilation or Full Length DJ Mix
A State of Trance 2013 – Armin van Buuren

Best Trance DJ
Armin van Buuren

Best Podcast or Radio Mixshow DJ
A State of Trance – Armin van Buuren

Best Artist (Solo)
Armin van Buuren

Best Featured Vocalist Performance
This Is What It Feels Like – Armin van Buuren Feat. Trevor Guthrie

Best Music Video

This Is What It Feels Like – Armin van Buuren Feat. Trevor Guthrie

Best Producer
Armin van Buuren

The Winter Music Conference is taking place in Miami for the 29th time. Each year, the event hosts more than 60,000 visitors, who attend from 70 different countries, including DJs, label owners, and other delegates of the dance scene. WMC is one of the most important happenings in the dance industry, and one of the highlights of the conference is the International Dance Music Awards show. The IDMAs receive more than two million votes from 206 countries each year, and awards are granted in 55 different categories.

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To Armin van Buuren, the sound of music has become a natural high, a sanctuary, and the stimulus in life. With each year of his career passing, his role in electronic dance music has become more important. If anything, he inspires music lovers with his weekly radio show. Based on that show, is the annual compilation series, loved and anticipated by fans, music lovers and dance addicts. So here it is, A State of Trance 2014, mixed and compiled by no one less than Armin van Buuren.

2014 is going to be a year to remember for the Dutch DJ and his fans. Within the course of 6 weeks, he’ll celebrate the 650th episode of the A State of Trance radio show with no less than 9 events in cities all across the globe. Broadcast live, these celebrations reach out to millions of listeners. Next to that, Armin also hosts his ‘Armin Only – Intense’ world tour this year, with more than 20 dates in cities such as New York, Sydney, Johannesburg, Moscow and more. Next to touring the world, Armin also spends a great deal of time on the weekly A State of Trance radio show. Going strong for nearly 13 years, it was and still is one of the driving forces in his career. So is the award-winning A State of Trance compilation series.

A State of Trance 2014 features a great deal of brand new tracks, exclusive productions and remixes, mixed in only the way Armin van Buuren can. Setting forth the ‘On The Beach’ and ‘In The Club’ themes, Armin features a collab with Andrew Rayel, a brand new Gaia and tracks by Aly & Fila, Andrew Bayer, Gareth Emery, Protoculture, MarLo, Inge Bergmann, Allen Watts, Alexander Popov and many more. New found jewels of renowned names, brilliant discoveries by talents on the rise, you’ll find all of 2014 essentials in trance right on these two mixes. This is 2014, etched into music.

Out now
Download on iTunes.
Order 2CD at ArmadaShop.com.

CD 1 On The Beach

01 Adam Szabo & Willem de Roo & Medusa (Intro Remix)
02 Tommy Johnson feat. Nanje Nowack & Burn The Sun
03 Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Natalie Gioia & My Heaven
04 Dart Rayne & Yura Moonlight & Athena
05 Andrew Bayer & Once Lydian
06 Aly & Fila feat. Jaren & End Of The Road (Hazem Beltagui Remix)
07 Bogdan Vix & Renee Stahl & Forever
08 Fabio XB & Liuck feat. Christina Novelli & Back To You (Wach Remix)
09 Andrew Rayel feat. Alexandra Badoi & Goodbye
10 MaRLo feat. Jano – Haunted
11 Soarsweep – Between Empires
12 Craig Connelly – Decibels
13 Gareth Emery feat. Bo Bruce – U (Bryan Kearney Remix)
14 Protoculture – Music Is More Than Mathematics
15 Max Graham vs Maarten de Jong – Lekker
16 Markus Schulz &Destino
17 RAM & Susana – RAMelia (Tribute To Amelia)

CD 2 In The Club

01 Armin van Buuren & Andrew Rayel – EIFORYA (Intro Mix)
02 Ørjan Nilsen – The Late Anthem (Way Too Late Mix)
03 Alexander Popov – Quantum
04 Eximinds – Phoenix
05 Gaia – Empire Of Hearts
06 RAM – Kingdom Of Dreams
07 Type 41 – Mythology (Dimension Remix)
08 MaRLo – Visions
09 Inge Bergmann – Oblivion
10 Wach – Carthage
11 Jorn van Deynhoven – New Horizons (A State Of Trance 650 Anthem)
12 Dart Rayne & Yura Moonlight and Katty Heath – Stole The Sun (Allen& Envy Remix)
13 Simon O’Shine & Adam Navel – Marathon (Simon O’Shine Remix)
14 Allen Watts – Blackout
15 James Dymond – Siren’s Song
16 John Askew – Shine
17 Armin van Buuren – Save My Night (Allen Watts Remix)
18 Armin van Buuren – Ping Pong

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Mind-blowing is the right word for Armin van Buuren’s new single. Starting off as a gimmick for the Armin Only – Intense world tour, its musical and visual impact gave it a crowd favourite status in no time. Due to popular demand, the song that was made in merely 2 days, now sees its release. It’s big, bold and playful – ‘Ping Pong’ is bouncing your way.

Who could have guessed, that a song created about the most retro game in existence, ‘Pong’, would blow up into a 2014 EDM phenomenon in its own right? It all goes back to a childhood love of video games and a fascination with a little white ball bouncing around a low-res TV screen. Ping… Pong… Ping… Pong… The biggest fires start from the tiniest spark, and before long, the ‘Ping Pong Song’ grew to become one of the most unforgettable moments of the Armin Only. With the incredibly catchy drop, fans will remember the ‘Ping Pong’ moments for a very long time to come.

Download on Beatport.

Signed CD
Order CD single at ArmadaShop – order now for a chance of receiving a signed copy!

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Last night, at the prestigious Buma Awards show in Studio 21 in Hilversum (NL), Armin van Buuren was awarded with no less than 3 Buma Awards! The prizes follow up on Armin’s ‘Gouden Harp’ award in 2010, the highest distinction a Dutch artist can get.

The Buma Awards Nationaal was handed to him for the staggering success of single ‘This Is What It Feels Like’, based on national sales and airplay. ‘This Is What It Feels Like’, the Grammy-nominated first single of his ‘Intense’ album, is Armin’s collaboration with Benno de Goeij and John Ewbank. Armin also received the Buma Award 2013 Filmmuziek is the prize he’ll share with Martijn Schimmer, Matthijs Kieboom and Benno de Goeij, for the music he produced on Dutch movie ‘Verliefd op Ibiza’.
On winning that award, Armin said the following:”I think it’s a great honour that I was asked to provide music for the movie – it was a really nice challenge. I’m very thankful that now, together with the composers and writers, I’ve been rewarded for that.”

A third prize, the Buma Awards International was awarded to Armin for the international success he had with ‘This Is What It Feels Like’.

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Some nights, you’ll never forget. A State of Trance 650 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was one of those. At the Ciudad del Rock, on March 1st, we partied for 9 non-stop hours! With people tuning in from all across the globe, and a crowd with relentless energy rocking until the very end, this was one for the books! Let’s relive this night, with the official aftermovie!