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Well for some reason I've been trying to get the bottle of red wine off of the rider because I don't really drink red wine anymore, especially not after a gig. The most ridiculous thing I have on my rider? I don't know even know my rider. What is the most ridiculous thing you put on your rider they’ve fulfilled? Somebody just bought a brand new extremely expensive BMW with all white leather seats and they asked me to write with a big marker on top. Oh well, I have to mention the white BMW again. Now I hear the master back, I'm like, “Oh I should have done this or that should have been louder or.”, it’s never perfect. There are so many albums of mine and tracks that I think I should have done that or even with “Blah Blah Blah”. As soon as I finish a track, I start remixing it and you make mashups and you export acapella so you can put it on top of other tracks. When you're writing a track, how do you decide when you're done and when it's finished? I mean obviously there are still analog instruments used but dance music has spread like an oil stain through every other genre. I think 99 percent of all the top 40 music right now is dance music inspired, it’s sequence based music. A part of dance music has become radio stuff. But I don't think that you can really say that there's a difference between dance and for example commercial pop. Everybody was expecting that it would be gone. I remember a lot of the interviews that I did in the early days was like, “When is the dance music bubble going to be over?”. How has the music scene changed since you started? Now, I have to mix live living one take which sometimes I make little mistakes and stuff the people actually appreciate that. I actually enjoy it now more than I ever did because I used to stare at an Ableton screen and mix all the tracks together barely hearing all the songs, to be honest. I find it really scary because I felt like I sort of jumped into the deep. Last year I made a big bold move to do a weekly broadcast video which a lot of people actually like. A lot of new talent coming off, the psy-trance inspired trance music is so huge right now. I still see a lot of good things happening in a trance music world. No, I thought 500 would be good after 10 years. So you're on the 850th A State of Trance, did you ever think you'd get to 850? So the idea of inspiration actually comes from my kids. I started to see how important that is actually for the education of kids - learning nursery rhymes school. I was I was at home sitting next to my daughter and she was telling me how she learned all these naughty rhymes in school, like with swear words and stuff that parents aren’t supposed to know. And I said to him, “What if we have vocal like that but on a psy-trance inspired triple-drop,” and he says, “So what are you thinking lyrically?”. He has written a lot of really big tracks and I know that he's been working with his son on the Galantis track. He was on tour with me on the Embrace Tour and we became close friends. The story started with Bullysongs, who was a good friend of mine and I did a couple of tracks with him “Freefall” and “Caught in the Slipstream”. "Blah Blah Blah" - what was your inspiration for the track?Īrmin: Well, actually I understood a lot of people thought it was something to say to all the haters, but it wasn't. We caught up with him right before his show in New York, just in time to see him play The Brooklyn Mirage with Alpha 9. His weekly radio show, "A State of Trance", boasts over 38 million listeners in more than 80 countries, and he has performed at the biggest and best shows and festivals around the world. As one of the most influential musicians in electronic music, he has topped the Dj Mag Top 100 DJs poll a record of 5 times. Armin van Buuren is a legend in the dance music industry.