Originally posted by Branah
well yes, voted by the listeners, but those are the same listeners that were bombarded to hell with big-sky-cheese every week and almost only that. So yes, Armin has a lot to do with it ... Stuff like Jim Rivers - I Go Deep, if played more and presented all the time would eventually get voted for top20 too...
This is true, however, when you become as big as Armin is you are forced to play what people want, and a majority of ASOT listeners want to hear cheese. Armin still plays a few gems here and there but for the most part he's just playing what his listeners want to hear; can't really blame him for that.
Jan-04-2008 00:06
Yohan
Champion of Deep&Nu-disco
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Kitchener, Ont, Soviet Canuckistan
what is it with being number one on DJMag 100 turns top trance DJs into crap?
Tiesto was crap when he was number 1, but at least now his tracklists aren't as crappy as it used to be, plus he actually plays a lot of interesting tunes on his radio show
When fans totally dictate what a DJ plays, instead of DJ dictating the direction of his style, something's gone really screwy
Originally posted by chinamon
not true. i say "ugh"
but i am a tranny.
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Originally posted by kotsy
lol colour me retarded
Jan-04-2008 00:34
PETRAN
Like Antennas To Heaven
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Volos, Greece
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Originally posted by RebeL9
welcome to five years ago.
Van Buuren's "A State of Trance 2004" compilation was great. So many great tracks..."sahara", "the search for freedom", "alba", "offbeat","kubik","future fun land", "ambience", "naked angel", "forbidden colours", "spiral","perfect wave",... all superb tracks and the others were not half bad either...
I think you are exaggerating here...
Jan-04-2008 00:44
Clovis
techno jungle shit
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Los Angeles
quote:
Originally posted by PETRAN
Van Buuren's "A State of Trance 2004" compilation was great. So many great tracks..."sahara", "the search for freedom", "alba", "offbeat","kubik","future fun land", "ambience", "naked angel", "forbidden colours", "spiral","perfect wave",... all superb tracks and the others were not half bad either...
I think you are exaggerating here...
That CD's tracklist is voted by the listeners?
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Jan-04-2008 00:45
RebeL9
The Digital Blonde addict
Registered: Nov 2001
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
quote:
Originally posted by PETRAN
Van Buuren's "A State of Trance 2004" compilation was great. So many great tracks..."sahara", "the search for freedom", "alba", "offbeat","kubik","future fun land", "ambience", "naked angel", "forbidden colours", "spiral","perfect wave",... all superb tracks and the others were not half bad either...
I think you are exaggerating here...
not even close to his 004 Transparance CD from 2002 and his 001 A State of Trance from 2000.
Originally posted by Neo95gt
voted by listeners, not armin's selections. /thread
lol..not true , 70% Armin , 30% Listeners
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Jan-04-2008 01:02
PETRAN
Like Antennas To Heaven
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Volos, Greece
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Originally posted by RebeL9
not even close to his 004 Transparance CD from 2002 and his 001 A State of Trance from 2000.
True, "001 A State if Trance" is much better (and so were the massive "Boundaries of imagination","Basic Instinct" and "In Motion", we are talking about the golden age of epic trance here) but i still find ASOT 2004 to immediately come after these releases (and yes i think its better in comparison to transparence). Just because it was released in 2004 doesn't make it bad. There were some great tracks released in 2004 ("spiral" was simply sublime and so was "the search for freedom").
... Stuff like Jim Rivers - I Go Deep, if played more and presented all the time would eventually get voted for top20 too... 
