He’s quick to counter and say he’s not dissing other DJs who take that approach, and admits he’s done it himself. “The days where you just show up, bring your USB key and play the Beatport top ten, those days will be gone pretty soon because people expect a little bit more.” “I think that the future of dance music is more of a theatrical experience,” explains van Buuren when reached by phone. While there’s sure to be plenty of rustling backstage, van Buuren aims for his show to come off like a seamless production.
Thanks to custom software, his technical crew will be able to see what he has cued to play next, allowing them to set time codes for lights and pyrotechnics or wrangle singers in time for them to appear on stage right on cue.
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It’ll also be a marathon for the ringmaster-he’s orchestrating things from the DJ booth for a full six hours. Utilizing a touring support system of 35 people and a list of performers that includes six singers, dancers, trampoline artists, acrobats and a live band, van Buuren is supplementing his set with a robust live element previously unseen in the dance world. His latest concert-he playfully refers to it as “Christmas Dinner with Armin van Buuren”-gives him a chance to fully curate a large-scale dance music party. Yet even while EDM’s domestic explosion has given him the chance to fill arenas in America, as he will likely do when he brings his new tour Armin Only: Intense to the SAP Center May 1, he’s still chosen to do things the hard way. His podcast, “A State of Trance,” was the first of its kind, and now routinely attracts 20 million listeners across 50 countries every week. He’s earned the Order of Orange-Nassau (similar to being knighted in Great Britain) for his contributions to Dutch dance music and even headlined King Willem-Alexander’s coronation ceremony last year with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Van Buuren is a watershed figure in his native Netherlands, where his 2008 release, Imagine, was the first dance album to top the Dutch music charts. DJ Mag crowned him best DJ in the world-an award bearing worldwide clout-an unprecedented five times, he remains a leading force and tastemaker in trance music. Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren may not be a household name stateside just yet, but he’s a behemoth in the world of dance music.
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