I went to see armin van burren last night for a 6 hour set of his and i was quite disappointed he totally sucked. The only good tunes he played was ATRC and beautiful things. the rest of the night was full of tribally music and after a while all of it sounded the same.


has anyone here seen him and actually liked what he has played?

"Armin is not that good" ... hmmmm ... Well ... Armin ... is the best !!!

I've seen Armin live for about 9 times and I must admid that not all his sets are superb. It just depends on his style, most of the times he plays uplifting trance but sometimes also a tribal or progressive set. So you probably had bad luck when Armin did a tribal set. But when playing a trance set Armin is the bomb.

I've seen Armin a couple of times and I've heard him many times on the radio
And I must say that Armin has variable styles in his sets but as Anjuna said:
When Armin does a trance set then is he the best DJ in the World

Think he isn´t that good.

He plays music that al sounds the same and most of the time I miss the speed in the tracks

He should cut the crap with all those tribal, groove songs or whatever they are and stick to what he does best: TRANCE!!! If he does that he is one of the best DJ's in the world.

Ok I admit I've never seen him myself but when listening to many of his sets I've realized that he really seems to like tribal and progressive stuff because he plays that stuff very often and If I have to listen to that styles 50 minutes and get to hear2 uplifting tracks i'm always very annoyed because I simply know that he could do better!10 minutes tribal and progressive and 50 minutes uplifting that would be what I would like!

I really like Armin playing trance-sets (like ASOT), then he's one of the best !!!
I don't like many of his own recording though.

I saw Armin play last saturday weel at Lush and he rocked this is the tracklisting from the set you attended and it doesn't look tribal to me

It looks like a excellent tracklisting imo

Armin van Buuren (6 Hours) @ QBH, Melbourne, Australia 24-01-04


01 ID
02 Sarah McLachlan - Fallen (Gabriel and Dresden Anti Gravity Mix)
03 Portisheads - Roads (Sultan and The Greek Mix)
04 Nathan Fake - Outhouse (Main Mix)
05 Andain - Beautiful Things (Markus Schulz Coldharbour Remix)
06 Roland Klinkenberg - Monday Groove
07 Whirlpool - Under The Sun (Solarstone Mix)
08 Mr Sam v Fred Baker presents As One- Forever Waiting (Andain Summer Calling Acapella)
09 Rio Klein - Fearless (Push Mix)
10 ID
11 Super 8 - Alba
12 ID
13 Active Sight - Search For Freedom
14 ID
15 Binary Finary 1998 (Ronski Speed Mix)
16 Motorcycle - As The Rush Comes (AvB Universal Religion Mix)
17 ID
18 Born Slippy NUXX (Paul Oakenfold Mix)
19 Dirt Devils - Music Is Life (POS Mix)
20 Katana - Tribal Shock
21 ID
22 Solar Factor - Urban Shakedown
23 Fictivision - Escape (Original Mix)
24 ID - Sounded exactly like BT Godspeed.
25 ID OMFG
26 Oceanlab - Satellite (Original Above and Beyond Mix)
27 Robert Nickson - Spiral
28 ID I've heard it on ASOT
29 Agnelli and Nelson - Holding onto Nothing (Deep Mix)
30 Marco V vs Jens - Loops and Tings (Relooped)
31 ID
32 ID
33 Umek - Gatex
34 Nitromethane - Time To Die (Seraque Mix)
35 Solarstone - Seven Cities (AvB Mix)
36 ID OMFG
37 Paul van Dyk - Time of Our Lives
38 DJ Tiesto - Urban Train (Armin van Buuren - Yet Another Day (Acapella))
39 ID
40 ID
41 Push - Strange World (2000 Remake)
42 Boss@Nova - Stone Cold
43 Paul van Dyk - For An Angel
44 Coldplay - Clocks (Marco V Mix)
45 Solar Factor - No Return
46 Mark Norman - Overkill
47 ID I've got this on an ASOT
48 Kyau v Albert - Velvet Morning (Aalto Mix)
49 Rising Star - Burned With Desire (Rising Star Mix)
50 Primolux - Turnpoint
51 Mudblood - Flaming June 2004
52 Solid Sessions - Janiero (Armin van Buuren Mix)
53 ID

Encore
54 Rank 1 - Airwave (Breathing) (Breaks Dub)
55 Airwave v Rising Star - Sunspot (DCML Mix)


also in there, somewhere amongst the remaining 12 IDs were:

Re:Locate - Waterfall
Airbase Vs Dj Stigma - Hunting 2004
Terry Bones vs Fred Baker - Introspection (John Askew Remix)
Liquid State feat. Marcella Woods - Falling
Cern - The Message (Northern Remix) <-- i think that was played.
Castaneda - Floor Control (Original Mix)

Now that's a trance set if I ever saw one indeed

Yup like TT, I seen Armin at Lush last weekend and he rocked the place totally!

And that set tracklist posted looks excellent!

I think everyone has his own opinion about AVB, but for me he is really number one. And I went to almost all his gigs here in Holland and I never had a bad evening. He really know how to spin the records. And his mixing style is superb. I agree that trance is what he do best, but i like the different styles he plays.

I went to his 6 and 9 hour solo sets and i didn't got bored. But respect to other people's opinions.

Just enjoy the music !!!

Armin is good!
An axample is his remix on "As The Rush Comes" which is better than original in a sense.

Sometimes he also plays to many tribal and progressive songs in ASOT imo. The first hour always rocks, but sometimes I get quite disapppointed from the second hour.

You thought that set was s**t?

Starts off prog trance, and works its way up through melodic, into uplifting. It seems to have a real flow about how it progresses.

I'd of loved to hear that.

DAMN!! Now that is awesome!! Thats play list is incredible

personally, I think that AvB is a great DJ! He mixes so smooth and good. And he has a great taste within trance too! It is good to hear tribal and progressive songs, but the uplifting trance tunes he picks are the best!

If the above playlist is the list the topicstarter got last weekend ... DAMN what a set.


Tribal ?? Bwahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah ...

Sorry, could not help myself, this list is trance at its best !!!


To add to this ... I've seen him a couple of times and he totally blew the place apart, trance as trance was meant to be !!!

I've seen Armin once and his set was good, I'd love to see him more tho to have a better opinion. That tracklist looks tremendous, so many amazing trance tunes in it, I'd love to hear him play Yet Another Day accapella over Urban Train, sounds quality.

Mustang

P.S. great job TT

Ive only seen Armin at the big events like Crasher and Global Gathering, and ive gotta say when he plays trance he is excellent!! Im guessing the tribal and progressive is the style hes playing to make his sets individual, similar to the way Tiesto appears to drop a lot of techno nowadays! So yeah, whilst im not a big fan of tribal/progressive, its a lot better than hearing all trance DJ's playing the same records!

Hi there,

Why this topic. It is obvious that Armin is one of the best dj's in the world and everybody sometimes has an offday, although I have never seen a bad set by Armin

I went to almost all his Dutch gigs since 1999 and he's still growin'. When he does his solo tours (4hours and more) he is on his best.
I still remember Armin solo 6 and 9 Hours Live in the EAU the Hague AWESOME.
And also his previous set in the Hague at the Asta (asot 127) was one of the best. Unfortunately only the first two hours were broadcasted because the rest of the set was amazing.

Also his shorter sets are Brilliant! Remembering Sensation and Qontact!

Well think what you think but I still think he's the best around

don't know what you are talking about, this tracklist looks pretty good to me

I totally agree with you turbotrance.

I saw him the night before @home sydney for a 5 hour set and the guy is out of this world.

he had the crowd going off all night till dawn. his set had a good variety of uplifting trance and progressive, tribal throughout.

he finished off strong in the last hour and a half with full on uplifting trance which i like the most.

the guy also has a class1 personality and engaged the crowd continuously.

he's arguably the best dj at the moment. he's truly on top of his game

you can only admire him for his true talent and appreciate his gift of composing and mixing tunes that ROCK YOUR MIND sending you IN A STATE OF TRANCE!!!

i must say that i like the old armin much more than the new one...
i've seen him live for 2 times, and they werent that good you know...
i dont know what ppz like about him , "cause there are much better dj's than him
but everbody has his own style, so i'm not going to complain about that

and eum... with old armin i mean tracks in his *future funland*- period
his tracks now are just tooooo soft
thats my opinion about it

BUT!!!
there are a few new tunes i like ; eg: 76 Kluwer Mastermix -> Magnificent Intro

The way of taste only! For me tracklist looks pretty nice, but if u don't like it that's ok. I wasn't there so I couldn't say how it was, could agree with you about some tunes, they are a bit more proggy then Armin's usual tracklistings, but that's good to listen to something different sometimes

I love this track soooooo much !
And the rest of the playlist looks very good too...

anjuna & AIT are the ones I agree too (and many others, didn't read all the replies yet ). Sometimes Armin plays a very disappointing set. I went to see him twice in Belgium, @ Antwerp Is Burning & @ 15 Years Illusion. I must say the set at 15Y wasn't that good at all, while the set at AIB was unbelievable. And indeed, the first one was more experimental proggy-tribal style, while the second was great trance...

Armin is GOD! Certainly better than Tiesto or PvD IMO..
everyone's entitled to their own opinion tho,
but I still think when he's on a trance set, there's not stopping the GOD.

I've seen Armin twice and have to say he's been superb both times. perhaps I caught his more trancy sets. Mind you I do sometimes feel myself dropping off in the second part of ASOT, prog is really not for me and I don't think it suits Armin either. He's still #1 imo

i saw armin at roxy in nyc.....i thought he was gonna play pretty....he was a lilttle at the end of the night....other wise he was play'n hard tec trance.....i was pleasantly surprise and thought he was off the hook.......this is what i wanna hear when i'm out....i'll leave the beautiful trance for home for easy listening

i give armin a thumbs up

as said b4, when e spins trance hes the worlds #1 DJ imo...
when he spins prog or tribal house hes surprisingly gr8 too!!

i also agree that hes better than both tiesto and PvD...

P.S The tracklist starts off prog house, then builds up into trance which i think is absolutely gr8 & very professional...i cant c no tribal tunes though

tribal and prog isnt my style so i dont like his sets always but he is a great dj and prod

well i'm a "BIG" armin fan,,,i've seen him live 4 times and i'd have to say every one of em was the best experience iv'e had,i even voted for him on the top 100 DJ's Poll cause i know he deserves to be up there on top,everybody's got their own opinion but he said it himself on his website,,,,,Don't be a slave to one Sound
that says a lot ,i don't think trance will be the same in say 2020 but i'll sure remember that quote,when i'm already 50 and still loving this music

I'm also a big fan of Armin, I have seen him live a couple of times and have heard his sets numerous times on the radio, I do believe he's the best. So I don't understand why this thread was even started....

Anyone who has ever mixed for a crowd will understand my point. Too much trance in a set will make your crowd eager to dance, will make them want some more progressive & tribal sounds. I love trance, I really enjoy listening to it for hours and hours but when it comes to dance.... you need some other stuff to make the people go wild. I mostly use techno to move those bodies. Combination between Trance & Techno is what works best for me. And looks like a god like Armin doesn't escape to this, either...

My two cents

I'm living in turkey.Armin came to turkey in 2003 summer an event named victory weekend.

He played mostly commercial tracks but mixing and interaction with crowd was perfect.

He left the platform and dance with the crowd it was so funny.

He played

Ricky forbis - No regular
Motorcycle - ATRC (armin van buuren mix)
Andain - Beautiful things (g&d mix)
David forbes - Answers vs vs........

Totally Sucked?
haha you shouldn't talk about urself that way... shut your mouth you act like if you were on stage you would be better

That is one of the dumbest statements ive ever heard. I mean, they are good tracks.. but if the only two songs you liked out of any given set were arguably the two biggest releases of 2003, then that's just sad. I know for a fact that armin spins many quality tracks that ARENT popular.

This thread is pointless!

I`ve seen Armin playing at the Dome Club in TA Israel and he totaly rocked.

He fits himself as his playlist to the crowd and the poeple. Maybe the club he played is more into tribal sound, so he was just playing according to the energy in the place.

I remember i haven`t stopped dancing when he played, I even danced when i baught drinks and when i went to P.

Best party i`ve ever been too.

the guy rocks, my personal choice for best DJ in the world today.

Recently Armin played at the Family in Brisbane Australia here 30th, was a great 6 hours he had the crowd going all night. He started with some promo mixes of some progressive trance and then hit the Hard Trance all night which was excellent.

At the end he threw a Burned with desire vinyl (he encored with it) my friend got it and they got it signed for me for my Birthday, best b'day night out ever =]

Armin is good, that is all - no DJ there is can ALWAYS be good (can you ?!) after all sometimes you run out of 'music', sometimes a bad season artists fall 'asleep' - you know.

I'm sure if Armin was reading this he wouldn't treat this topic any special attention : after all noone and nothing is perfect, and I am sure Armin is doing all he can to make his music better, as any famous dj/producer would !

i saw Armin last summer in Chicago, and he played a harder, somewhat more techier and more tribal set than what you normally hear on ASOT. i think it might've been because the Chicago crowd is used to house and techno, so he didn't want to play ALL trance for them. which is totally cool with me. i find trance a little harder to dance to, compared to house or techno. anyway... me personally, i love his sets... and i can't wait to see him again this month in Chicago!

listening to his live sets on ASOT, armin totally's the man.
haven't heard him live tho, but I know that his sets ain't as good as Tiësto's!

cheers

He surely wouldn't pay much attention. He hasn't been chosen #3 in the world for nothing. Appearently a lot of people like him and so do I.

What is a dj if he can't scratch?

They need to get all these dj's in one club just to battle it out, each dj will have an FX unit, Drum/Sampling Machine, 2 turntables, 2 cd players, and a 5 channel mixer. Now that would be something to see.

Not good!!!! His one of the most talented Producer and Dj in the Industry! His amazing!!!!

have a look at threads release date now he is you'r right

I've never actually seen him live, but I have heard a ton of his sets. I guess it just depends on what he feels like playing, because there are ones that are super dull, and there's the ones that you can't get enough of

bit of an old thread this one, be nice to see how peoples opinions have changed since this was posted.