Armin van Buuren

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Armin van Buuren was born in 1976 in Leiden and grew up in Koudekerk aan den Rijn. He studied law at Leiden University, put that degree on hold for music and graduated after all in 2003. Around 2000, with Tiësto and Ferry Corsten, he was one of the Dutch DJs who played trance all over the world. The British magazine DJ Mag proclaimed him the world's best DJ five times: in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012.

Music and breakthrough

His breakthrough as a producer was Communication. He made the track entirely on his own, in two days, and it was released in July 1999 on 12-inch in the Netherlands. It is an instrumental trance track without vocals. In 2000 it reached number 18 in the British charts. At the start of 1999 he began his own label Armind, and in 2003, with Maykel Piron and David Lewis, he founded Armada Music, with its headquarters in Amsterdam. That same year his first album, 76, appeared. Since 2001 he has presented the weekly radio show A State of Trance.

Influence

With Armada he also became an entrepreneur in dance music. On 30 April 2013 he played in Amsterdam at the party around the inauguration of King Willem-Alexander. He was nominated for a Grammy for This Is What It Feels Like. Van Buuren belongs to the generation that made trance a Dutch export product, together with organisers such as ID&T and the Amsterdam Dance Event.

Listening

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  Communication · Armin van Buuren, 1999
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Discography

Studio albums

• 200376
• 2005Shivers
• 2008Imagine
• 2009A State Of Trance Radio Top 15 - April 2009
• 2010Mirage
• 2013Intense
• 2014Armin Only – Intense “The Music”
• 2015Embrace
• 2015Together (In A State of Trance) [A State Of Trance Festival Anthem]
• 2019Balance
• 2022Feel Again, Part 1
• 2022Feel Again, Part 2
• 2023Feel Again
• 2024Breathe In
• 2025ASOT 1245 - A State of Trance Episode 1245 (Including A State Of Trance Showcase - Mix 018: David Forbes)
• 2025Breathe In
• 2025Piano
• 2026Future Favorites Top 25 - A State of Trance 25 Years (Extended Versions)
• ?A State Of Trance Top 20: June 2020

In School of Rock

The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.

• Mixtape 8: Electronic Music^NL Reader

Mentioned in other articles

• Dutch trance GenreDJs such as Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Ferry Corsten played all over the world, and in 2004 Tiësto played at the opening of the Olympic Games in Athens.
• A State of Trance Radio showOn 18 May 2001 ID&T Radio broadcast the first episode of A State of Trance, the radio show of DJ Armin van Buuren from Leiden.
• Animals SongWith Tiësto, Armin van Buuren and Afrojack, Dutch producers shaped a large part of dance music.

See also

• Animals
• Mirage
• Dutch trance

Sources

1. Wikipedia (en): Armin van Buuren
2. Wikipedia (en): Communication (Armin van Buuren song
3. Wikipedia (en): Armada Music