Brief Q&A with Armin Van Buuren in Puerto Rico
By: Is Cleveland (www.frecuenciaelectronica.com)
What happened to the show ASOT…?
Armin - The directors of the station decided to change the station and go more commercial and they kicked my show off. They promised me to my face they would keep the show but when I went on tour to Australia and came back they kicked me off the station and nobody told me. But the good news is there new options, s a lot of diff radio stations all over the world are interested, its pretty luxurious I have a lot of things to choose from. There’s dynamite FM in Russia, XM Radio in the US… there’s several good offers. I just have to make up my mind to see what I want with the show; with A State of Trance. Its been running for 3.5 years , takes a lot of time to do the show, I still love it and want to do it but I need to think of the future, what do I want with my dj career what do I want with the show . I’ve been having bad times with like forums and all the negative stuff about trance, and people are saying trances is dead. It keeps growing and it’s still good but when I started the radio show nobody had a radio show and now everybody has an internet radio show. So I don’t know if I want to consider going on with it. But I won’t leave fans of the show hanging
First time on PR
Armin- Yeah it’s the first time. I’ve been to the Dominican republic before but just on holiday. When I first arrived I thought it was a lot like America even though it’s not a state. I heard really good stories about PR
What do you see in store for trance in the future?
Armin- I think it will be more broad, for me trance is no longer about the breakdowns and cheesy vocals – it’s still that but it’s more than that, it has elements of progressive elements of techno and all sorts of genres. Trance is more like a journey now than just a simple genre. It’s like one word for a lot of diff styles.
Do you know BSE? Did you sign one of their tracks?
Armin-They are from Holland I think, and they signed a track under the name empirical labs about a year ago. It’s a really good track. A Shame they do drum n bass – no, I’m kidding.
Trance turning into prog- is it part of the evolution of the genre? And what do you think?
Armin- I find that question hard to answer because everyone seems to have a different definition of the word trance nowadays. What you think is trance, what he thinks is trance is really different. I can play a lot of records that you’ll be like “I think its trance…â€
