Armin van Buuren's switch

Viceroy · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 6:00 pm

I was thinking about this as I listened to AvB's ASOT 2005 CD. There is no doubt that he changed styles, in his own productions, through Armada, and the stuff he plays (on his radio show, on CDs and elsewhere). He used to play more uplifting stuff, now he mostly plays stuff that is a mix of melodic and progresssive.
The question is, why did he change?

Mathew · **Posted:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:26 pm

Well I think he's been slowly changing for along time tbh... Check out 'Armin Van Buuren - 003 In Motion' and that is a very progressive/uplifting compilation -- I still think his livesets and his ASOT shows are this flow of progressive into uplifting and beyond but some of his CDs in between try and be very 'one label' based i.e. Armada.

TRANS · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2005 1:39 am

Times are changing fellas, so does music and people's style. If you want to have fun in what you do especially with DJin and Producing a change of styles won't seem all that bad. Cool

Mathew · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2005 11:53 am

Amen.

davehart · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2005 10:41 am

Like a lot of artists who have been producing the mixing for a long time the majority always changce their style and move to different styles. Just the way things are really.

chrisronaldomarsh · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:22 pm

perhaps his taste is changing as he is getting older Confused

his cds do seem to have to much armada material on which doesnt work so well for me, but i do still like the radio show and im sure he will be on top form at global gathering this year Smile

Feidias · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 7:38 am

TheQueen IsATheif · **Posted:** Sun Jul 24, 2005 9:06 am

I think it has something to do with the sounds available with the new abbleton live software too.

Viceroy · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 1:30 am

TheQueen IsATheif · **Posted:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 10:47 am

The new abbleton live software allows a more deeper type of trance to be produced. That's what i meant.

nwopper · **Posted:** Tue Aug 02, 2005 5:23 pm

I think it's a mixture of Armin getting tired of old stuff, the rise of progressive sounds and foreseeing the change and promoting Armada wich results in the style that dominates trance nowadays. And in my opinion it was Armin who setted this trend but Gabriel & Dresden were the ones who first came out with this similar sounds.

I also think Armin is a very handy guy, he just jumped in at the right time and now his ASOT show has become the guideline for trance to many.

FJ_trance · **Posted:** Thu Aug 04, 2005 8:46 am

It doesn't matter what made him change his style.
But he sure lost me now. Really don't like his fluffy mellow xylophone vocal stuff he plays or produces.

But on the other hand... he made me look for new styles, so thanks to him, I'm all in PsyTrance now! Very Happy