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It’s been a busy week as always. After taking the train to Cologne for a gig in Bootshaus, flying over to Morocco for the video shoot of his brand-new single ‘Therapy’ and dropping by in Utrecht to presenting his tour manager Sander with a ‘Best Creative’ award for being a BOSS for ten years, Armin van Buuren still managed to be back in time to record another episode of A State Of Trance. Watch the madness in his new vlog.

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You knew what this vlog would encompass beforehand, didn’t you? This week, Armin van Buuren has been calling Miami his home, with no less than two performances at Ultra Music Festival Miami: one of the mainstage and one on the designated ASOT stage. Want to know how it all turned out? Watch his brand-new vlog!

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After giving budding producers and aspiring artists the chance to pre-enroll for several weeks, Armin van Buuren has launched his highly-anticipated masterclass on dance music today. Enrollment for Armin van Buuren’s class is available at the price of $90 for lifetime access, or $180 per year for the All-Access pass, which grants unlimited access to all new and existing masterclasses on masterclass.com.

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As one of electronic music’s most influential figures, Armin van Buuren offers students an intimate look into his creative and technical process as he creates a track from scratch during his masterclass. He shares many of the lessons he has learned in his twenty years as an artist about what it takes to gain a foothold in the ever-changing business of dance music and how to stay afloat. Aspiring producers will have unprecedented access to Armin’s insights as he breaks down his pillars for becoming a world-class dance music artist: production, performance and promotion.

Frequenting the world’s most prestigious charts, Armin van Buuren attracts tens of millions of worldwide listeners to his radio show ‘A State of Trance’ every week and landed a record-setting five No. 1 DJ awards via DJ Mag’s annual, fan-voted Top 100 DJs poll. The Grammy-nominated artist’s work spans major evolutions in dance music, from spinning vinyl in small clubs to headlining global dance festivals, such as Ultra Music Festival in Miami today, Friday, March 23, 2018 (livestream at 7.45 – 8.45 PM GMT-4 on Ultra TV).

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After a one-year hiatus, Miami Music Week’s International Dance Music Awards have returned to the dance music hub with their 32nd edition and boy, did Armin van Buuren and Armada Music make it count. Together, the world-renowned DJ and the biggest independent dance music label in the world snatched up a whopping four awards: ‘Best Global Label’ (Armada Music), ‘Best Male Artist (Mainstream)’ (Armin van Buuren), ‘Best Music Event’ and ‘Best Podcast / Radio Show’ (both for A State Of Trance).

The five-time #1 DJ in the world and a key figure in the electronic music scene since seemingly forever, Armin van Buuren showed his peerless versatility in the past year by not only strengthening his roots with blistering Trance productions and massive mainstage live sets, but also by giving rise to pop-scented singles such as ‘I Need You’ (with Garibay and Olaf Blackwood), ‘Sunny Days’ (feat. Josh Cumbee) and, more recently, ‘Sex, Love & Water’ (feat. Conrad Sewell). Having shown the full range and impact of his internationally acclaimed skill set, he has pushed himself further than many thought possible, laying the foundations for this huge IDMA hat trick: a personal award for ‘Best Male Artist (Mainstream)’ as well as awards for ‘Best Music Event’ and ‘Best Podcast / Radio Show’ for A State Of Trance.

Having won the IDMA for ‘Best Global Label’ for an unprecedented five times, Armada Music had already staked its claim as the award’s top contender when their nomination was made public earlier this year. In the past few years, the Amsterdam-based record label opened offices in New York and London, strengthened its global brand by assembling a diverse and powerful artist roster (including Afrojack, Andrew Rayel, Armin van Buuren, Dash Berlin, Erick Morillo, Fedde Le Grand, Gareth Emery, Julian Jordan, Kevin Saunderson, Lost Frequencies, Morgan Page and W&W) and became the biggest independent dance music label in the world. This IDMA for ‘Best Global Label’ serves as a crown to their hard work in the same year the label celebrates its 15-year anniversary.

As if that wasn’t enough, Armin van Buuren’s ‘A State Of Trance’ empire notched up two awards as well. The radio show, which has a loyal following of over 40 million listeners per week and is broadcast from over a hundred stations in more than 80 different countries, not only earned the right to call itself ‘Best Podcast / Radio Show’ for a full year, but also saw its music event spin-off – the legendary, globally acclaimed A State Of Trance events (including the designated ASOT stage at Ultra Music Festival Miami coming Sunday) – rack up the award for ‘Best Music Event’, making it four awards out of four nominations this year for a stupendous 100% efficiency.

Maykel Piron, CEO Armada Music: “Over the past few years, we’ve been working round the clock to show the world who we are: an incredibly diverse and versatile label with an equally diverse artist roster that can work dance music on a truly global scale. To win the award for ‘Best Global Label’ and to see Armin van Buuren do so incredibly well is what we hoped to achieve. We feel blessed that our artists trust us to work with them on their careers and we are grateful toward our fans for their help in achieving these milestones in the same year we celebrate our 15-year anniversary.”

Armin van Buuren: “Just heard the news about winning the IDMAs for ‘Best Male Artist (Mainstream)’, ‘Best Global Label’, ‘Best Podcast / Radio Show’ and ‘Best Music Event’. I feel blessed knowing that so many people around the world appreciate my music, my radio show and my label. I couldn’t have done this all without them and the amazing team around me: Maykel, Dave, Sander, Benno and Ruben for ASOT, my supporting and lovely wife Erika, and of course everyone at Armada Music, David Lewis Productions, Alda Events and 250K!”