Armin van Buuren @ Marquee Nightclub - Friday June 8th 2012

Date: Friday June 8th 2012
Time: 10pm-5am
Location: Las Vegas, NV - Marquee Nightclub at The Cosmopolitan
Age Restriction: 21+

Official EDC Week Event!
Insomniac and Davis Lewis Productions present Armin van Buuren
With Sander van Doorn, Rank 1, and W&W

Armin van Buuren is without a doubt one of the world's most renowned DJs. Join us for a very special night of trance with Armin van Buuren, Sander van Doorn, Rank 1, and W&W as part of EDC Week!

EDC Week
From Tuesday June 5 - Tuesday June 12, Las Vegas is going to be fully taken over by Insomniac events! From pool parties at Marquee Dayclub and TAO Beach to dance parties at Drai's, Haze, and LAVO, and a debut EDM-dedicated music conference

The Popularity OF Trance

Trance is a joke to some, but to others it is the embodiment of pure dance music.
Its obvious build-ups, huge breakdowns and serotonin-laced synths are cheesy to many, but there’s a much bigger majority that love it.
For years people have slated trance, made fun of its glowstick-wielding, furry leg warmer-wearing fans and dismissed its faithful followers as kids who wouldn’t know decent dance music if they put their heads in a bass bin.
And yet, trance’s enduring popularity continues to grow. And grow.
Its DJs fill stadiums, are sponsored by mega brands and even have sneakers named after them (Adidas made a line of trainers in honour of DJ Tiësto).
I think it’s about time there was an honest and frank discussion about trance and its popularity, rather than slag it off and ignore it yet again.
My idea for this post came about last night after I witnessed a DJ set from Armin Van Buuren.
The Dutch trance DJ was crowned No.1 DJ in the world by DJ Magazine in 2007 in its annual Top 100 DJs poll (which is voted for by the public), and at Beta Nightclub in Denver last night Armin Van Buuren tore the roof off.

Thousands had to be turned away at the doors because the club was at capacity.
From the moment Armin stepped into the DJ booth, and for about 15 minutes after he left, the crowd screamed his name, scrambled to try and shake his hand and begged for autographs.
Every time he raised his hands in the air (in a God-like pose that can only be learned at trance school in Amsterdam) the punters did the same, raising their hands towards the heavens.
Armin only needed to lift his headphones, for the girls down front to start screaming, Beatles-mania style.
It was amazing to witness a DJ being hounded and worshiped like that, and if it wasn’t for DJ booth / cage surrounding him, the crowd would have ripped him to pieces with adoration and excitement.
“Last week he played a nine hour set in Eastern Europe in front of 18,000 people, and it was broadcast live on TV,” somebody told me.
“He couldn’t go to the bathroom for nine hours.”
“Is it always like this?” Industry Boy asked DJ Remy, Armin’s current warm up DJ, whilst pointing at the thousand or so screaming clubbers out front on the dancefloor.
There happened to be two people crowd surfing at that exact moment – something rarely seen in dance music clubs.
Remy shrugged and said a simple “Yeah.”
We were standing in the very same DJ booth, where M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi from Get Physical had been DJing two weeks earlier.
Get Physical is one of the biggest record labels in electronic music, and M.A.N.D.Y. are one of the biggest acts in techno, and yet the club was not nearly as busy and the crowd were not nearly as excited when they played.
M.A.N.D.Y. and Heidi’s music, in my opinion, is a million times more credible and groovier than the epic, commercial vocal trance that Armin Van Buuren was playing last night, but clearly I was in the minority.

by industry boy

Armin Van Buuren Behind A State of Trance

To mark the 10 year anniversary and 500th episode of his weekly radio show A State of Trance, Armin performed at five shows across five continents over five consecutive weeks along with various artists (he even joked that there would be "...5 shows, 5 continents, with 5 massive jetlags"). The first show was held on 19 March 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa at the MTN Expo Center. In addition to Armin – Blake Jarrell, Protoculture, Lange, Leon Bolier, and Jorn van Deynhoven were performers. Super8 & TAB were to be part of the South African show, however a flight cancellation caused them to be absent for the event. The event was attended by over 20,000 people. Miami's show was performed at the Ultra Music Festival on 27 March, and part of the show were Marcus Schossow, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Cosmic Gate, Gareth Emery, Ferry Corsten, ATB, and Sander van Doorn. Argentina held the third celebration of ASOT 500 in club G.E.B.A Buenos Aires, where Heatbeat (Argentina's Trance music icons at the time), Jochen Miller, Dash Berlin, Markus Schulz, AVB, John O'Callaghan and W & W. It was the only of the 5 ASOT 500 celebrations that was held roofless, where AVB recorded a live video with his cell phone and uploaded it to Twitter while playing his live set, showing Argentinean passion for trance. Den Bosch in The Netherlands followed with the biggest event of 2011. Accompanied by more than 30 DJs from countries all over the world, Armin brought together over 30,000 people in one long night's worth of trance music. DJ friends present were Markus Schulz, Gareth Emery, Above & Beyond, Paul Oakenfold and Sean Tyas. The event was radio broadcasted live from Den Bosch by Armin himself to over 30 countries as well as many of the DJs using their sets as their live weekly or monthly podcast.[21][dated info] The final show was held in Sydney, Australia marking the 5th show of the ASOT 500 tour. It was held on 16 April at Acer Arena in Olympic Park and was a sold out event weeks before the night. Shogun, Australia's own tyDi, Menno de Jong, Aly & Fila, Alex M.O.R.P.H. and of course Armin van Buuren were the lineup where Armin played for a 3 hour set in celebration of this epic 5 week tour.