Armin van Buuren

Armin van Buuren, born in Leiden in 1976, started the radio show A State of Trance in 2001, which has since run past twelve hundred episodes and turned into a touring brand of its own.

He co-founded Armada Music in 2003 with Maykel Piron and David Lewis — the name is the three of them — and has been the constant of trance through its commercial peak and after it.

His albums run from 76 in 2003 through Shivers, Imagine, Mirage, Intense and Embrace, each one pushing a little further out of pure trance and into song writing. “This Is What It Feels Like”, with Trevor Guthrie, was nominated for a Grammy for best dance recording.

DJ Mag’s readers voted him the world’s number one DJ five times, more than anyone else has managed. He plays long, and he plays trance without apologising for it — expect a set structured in movements rather than peaks.

Written from Wikipedia and Armin van Buuren.