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Armin Van Buuren in Seattle Thurs. Aug. 30th
I haven't been on here forever but I know a ton of old school TA's are headin to this. Sorry for the late notice. 
Thursday August 30th
the Last Supper Club & Openhouse Presents:
Armin Van Buuren
Ranked #2 DJ in the world by DJ Mag 2006
Leiden, NL | Armada | Armind | Ultra | A State of Trance
http://www.arminvanbuuren.com
http://www.myspace.com/arminvanbuuren
Armin van Buuren is definitely a happy man.
He’s holding firm at number 2 in the prestigious public-voted DJ Top
100 and he’s holding a number 2 position at the Dutch Release DJ top-100!
But that’s not all…
2005 brought three new significant awards. ‘Best Radio Show’, and ‘Best
Compilation’ for A State of Trance 2004 at the Miami Winter Music
Conference Awards. His new released album Shivers (on which he debuted as a
songwriter) won the award for best album of 2005 at the Release Dance
Awards.
Born in Leiden, Holland (on December 25, 1976) to a musical family,
Armin indulged his passion for music from a young age. He actually spend
all the money he earned with his paper round on records. His mum won a
computer when he was 10, “So as a little nerdy kid I was writing my own
basic programmes, and learnt about the technology from there.” He
progressed from making low-profile mix tapes for friends to higher profile
mixes when he discovered experimenting with different sequences on his
computer through his uncle. “I was so stunned by what I saw him doing on
the computer, that I got addicted to creating music right there and
then!”
Trance has continued to grow and the WMC awards reflect Armin’s success
in producing and playing quality tunes that both excite existing fans
and bring new people to the scene. “I think trance is becoming a
broader term for a lot of different genres; it’s no longer a specific kind of
music within the dance scene,” says Armin. “Trance has elements of all
different types of music. I play a lot of tracks that are labelled as
progressive, tribal progressive, techno, trance, euphoric trance, vocal
trance, melodic progressive. These days it’s really hard to label a
specific sound. Styles are coming together and evolving into this
all-over new sound, which is basically dance music going back to its roots.
There’s so much good music out there and I don’t want to limit myself to
just one style.”
But besides having a musical career, Armin thought it was wise to have
something extra in case the DJ’ing didn’t work out. So he studied for a
law degree.
The final year of his course was inevitably stretched as he juggled his
studies with his increasingly hectic schedule; his rise to fame
included lots of productions and remixes, as well as playing out to packed
clubs every weekend. It took him three years to graduate, but his
everlasting determination made him succeed!
Freedom is something that Armin fully appreciates as an artist,
"Producing gives me much more freedom since I can experiment more, it’s less
predictable than DJ’ing for me. He captured his ‘own’ sound on his
debut artist album, 76, for which he scored a prestigious Dancestar Award
2004 nomination (Best New Artist Album). “I’d always wanted to do an
album, but there’d never been the time or the money. Scoring the number
five position in DJ’s Top 100 poll the previous year helped to get labels
interested, and I finally got into the studio. Basically everything
I’d learned in the past 10 years fiddling around in my bedroom with
equipment helped me create this album.”
Undaunted by the stir that his first album caused, Armin has placed
himself at the top level with his much anticipated second artist album,
Shivers. The title track topped the charts, and the second single was the
anthem for massive Dutch party Sensation White. Armin jetted round the
world for collaborations with people like Gabriel and Dresden, with
whom he recorded in San Francisco. He also worked with the honey-voiced
Nadia Ali. “We recorded a track in New York, and I’m really really proud
of it!” I wanted to take things a bit further with the album – my
definition of an artist album is something you can put on at home or in the
car and really listen to – so it’s 10 brand new tracks that are very
diverse. It holds probably the most diverse things I’ve ever done. “As a
DJ you always have to take the crowd into account, but as an artist
you have the freedom to make whatever you like, and I just love that
creative process”. Shivers appeals to a much bigger audience than 76,
because it has a lot of rock and pop influences in addition to trance
influences. 76 was almost like a ‘best of’ compilation because a lot of my
earlier works were on there - it was sort of ending an era. “Shivers
really is about the work I’ve done in the last two years. I created the
luxury for myself that I had about 20 tracks by the time I needed to
finish it, I only selected 10 . As I worked the album just got better and
better, so it was like drawing a line and saying ‘that’s it’. It was
really hard to stop the creative process!”
After four years of fronting his own weekly radio show A State Of
Trance nationally, it’s now being broadcasted on several radio stations
internationally. Now online and on fm stations, his website
(www.arminvanbuuren.com) details who is broadcasting it – and the list is
still growing. “There’s more new listeners because more people have
access to it now. I think trance is a universal experience; it’s one of the
first musical genres that really proved its power through the
internet, and I wouldn’t be where I am now if it wasn’t for downloads!”
"This is just what I really want," says Armin. "It’s not just love for
music, it’s my passion. It goes beyond liking, and beyond a hobby, it’s
about a way of living. Music is essential to my life”.
and LSC Resident:
Johnny Monsoon
"The Sound of Trance"
www.johnnymonsoon.com
www.myspace.com/johnnymonsoon
In the past several years Johnny has been on a dramatic rise
with no signs of slowing. He has quickly become one of the top trance DJ's
on the West Coast. From an opening set where you'd hear a melodic
progressive sound, to a peak hour set full of uplifting euphoric trance, he
continues to push the envelope night after night. You can find his
live sets being shared in online forums and airing on internet radio
stations all over the world. He even has his own show on c89.5fm called
"The Sound of Trance".
He's been hand picked to play alongside Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Ferry Corsten, Paul Oakenfold, Markus Schulz, Kyau & Albert, ATB, Above & Beyond, Blank & Jones, Christopher Lawrence, Sander Van Doorn and George Acosta to name a few. It is via these electric performances that the masses all over the world are starting to hear Johnny Monsoon's sound....
and they like what they hear.
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Thursday August 30th
The Last Supper Club
www.lastsupperclub.com
www.myspace.com/lastsupperclub
124 S. Washington
Seattle, WA, 98104
9:00pm-2:00am
21+
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