A State of Trance Episode 965 

Thank you so much guys for playing Recall! That means a lot to me!

Armin! Thank you very much for sticking to the MUSIC! It's not, we, us, them, or even you, It's A State of Trance! It's just AMAZING music, and thank you for being an intricate part of all of our TRANCE lives...!

Thanks Armin for transporting us to intangible reality with your sounds. It is a great relief in this pandemic. A big greeting from Garagoa, Colombia.

I just love You guys!! Back to our childhood!!! Thx so much!

Tracklist: - A State Of Trance - Intro (00:00:00) - Drift Away - i_o x Lights (00:01:07) - Sheridan Grout & Mark Bester feat. Julia Ross - Under Water (00:03:53) - TUNE OF THE WEEK: Armin van Buuren - Blue Fear (Eelke Kleijn Night Mix) (00:07:29) - Three Drives On A Vinyl - Greece 2000 (Thick As Thieves Remix) (00:12:41) - Jones & Stephenson - The First Rebirth (00:14:04) - Protoculture - Inu (00:18:01) - Avao & Linney - Feel It Again (Club Mix) (00:21:17) - Claus Backslash - Euphoric Mood (00:24:14) - TRENDING TRACK: NWYR - Heart Eyes (00:27:20) - Mhammed El Alami - BLVE (00:29:58) - Patrik Humann & Daniel Kandi - Hereafter (Ahmed Helmy Remix) (00:32:38) - Alexander Popov & Attila Syah feat. Natalie Gioia - Nothing Is Over (Roman Messer Remix) (00:37:57) - Steve Dekay & Emanuele Congeddu - Origami (00:42:29) - Andrew Manning - Infinite (00:44:48) - Simon Patterson & Sam Jones - Wipeout (00:48:20) - SERVICE FOR DREAMERS: Estiva feat. Josie - Better Days (00:54:43) - PRAANA & Ram Dass - Still Small Voice (01:00:29) - Francesco Sambero - Ghosts (01:04:24) - DIM3NSION & DJ Nano - Feel The Waves (01:08:46) - Allen Belg - First Dream (01:13:25) - Sector7 - Cherry Blossom (01:17:14) - Somna & Emoiryah - Rebels (01:23:24) - XiJaro & Pitch - Head Over Heels (01:28:14) - Mart Sine & Natalie Gioia - Fly Way (01:32:52) - Sean Tyas, Metta & Glyde - The Distance Between (01:39:06) - Last Soldier & Sundancer - Poseidon (01:42:37) - Aimoon - Milky Way (01:46:54) - XiJaro & Pitch and Matt Bukovski - CD (01:51:29) - Darren Porter - Recall (01:55:32) - A State Of Trance - Outro (01:59:03

Armin without you the music no longer exists ❤️🎧

Head over heels, what a tuuuuuuuuuune

ahhhh feel like some old skool trance vibes today... love love love love it.....

I really like the new vibe Ferry brought in. The show now sounds more like what me turned into a regular listener ten years ago.

Omg still buzzing my track "Rebels" was played with Somna! I'm overjoyed and feel so grateful!💟⭐💟⭐💟⭐

❤️ Three Drives on a Vinyl; that takes me back

Simply the best of the best...Love you Armin!!!

La mejor manera de ponerse las pilas a cualquier hora del dia...gracias

Thanx for playing MILKY WAY 🙌🙌🙌

I have listened to ASOT every week since 2009, I have not missed a single Episode ever since and it absolutely has become a constant through all ups and downs and variables. Thx Armin, incredible quality as per usual.

Armin we are missing your smile from concerts :) SMILE!!!!

I miss you so much Armin ❤❤❤❤❤

What a tune by Allen Belg. So beautiful.

How could anyone put a Thumbs down? You and Your Team is AMAZING! I APPRECIATE YOU!

Love your music so much

Blue Fear is simply Pleasant for the times and now.

Thanks for your support on 'The Distance Between' guys!

Thank you as always for the PRAANA love 💛

I thank God we get Armin each week even if it is just for one hour.

Armin eres el mejor ! 🙌❤️

Thank you guys, thank you all for wonderful music!

Big love to Armin for spinning the Hereafter Remix and Allen Belg! I hope you guys enjoyed 🙏

Blue Fear ❤ 🎶 🌏 🎶 🇧🇷

Superrrrb set Armin

Armin Van Buuren is The Best😎👍👌💪✌️🔊🔊🔊🔥🔥👍

Love love love! ❤️

Thank you AŔMIN RUBEN & FERRY. EPIC

I love you thank you so much armim van buuren 965

Великолепный СЕТ !!! СУПЕР !

Muy buenos mix Armin!...es increible ponerse los audífonos y ver como un universo musical navega dentro de uno. ✌

Trance is the modern reincarnation of classical music. In many ways, it's the truest and purest form of conveying emotions through melodies, especially inside the electronic genre. At its best, a trance track can invite the listener to a spiritual, emotional and even to an intellectual journey. It can make you feel, it can make you think, all on a very deep level. Trance is about constant progression, it's about slowly building up something beautiful (and at the end, slowly decounstructing it) that eventually puts the listener into a trance-like state (hence the name) and evokes a cathartic feeling inside of him/her. Phrases such as euphoria, energy, melancholy and delirium are also key, essential components that help define what trance truly, really is.Trance is more than just a genre - it's a way of living and experiencing all the things around you. Trance is a tool to achieve a higher state of awareness and see the world differently and more fully. At least this is what trance means to me. - Unfortunately, I can't help but feel that in the previous couple of years, prominent members of the trance scene tried and still actively try to transform the genre into something that totally goes against the genre's core identity, in an attempt to make it more mainstream. Or more specifically, they create tracks that they then wrongfully label as trance even though these have nothing in common with a proper trance track, aside from the fact that these are also electronic music. I truly think it's a shame and such a sad thing, because trance simply deserves better than this. Trance has evolved and changed through the years ever since its early techno and rave roots, but up until 2012-2013, it managed to stay true to itself, even though there were some bigger changes in the early 2010's that gave trance tracks a more modern, fresh and slightly more commercial sound. - What people like Armin doesn't seem to get is that those who whine about modern "trance" music do not actually whine because it's different. Gouryella - Anahera is completely different than System F - Out of the Blue and both tracks are from entirely different periods of the genre yet both are masterpieces. The reason why people - like me - actually "whine" is because most of the new tracks are not just different... but they are different and I dare to say, objectively mediocre and often bad. Why? Because in an attempt to make trance music more mainstream, producers and DJs like Armin transformed one of the most emotion-filled and complex musical genres into the most soulless and simplistic thing imaginable. - This is the heavily commercialized EDM I'm talking about that people like Armin and his friends shamelessly and constantly refer to as trance. I don't want to analyze every dissimilarity between true trance and modern "trance" / EDM, but I mention a few key examples. As I've previously mentioned, trance is supposed to be about progression, about slowly constructing a track melody by melody, note by note that slowly puts the listener into a trance-like state which in the end, helps to achieve the catharsis. Therefore, trance is a very progressive genre because melody progression is a defining factor in it. Ironically, most modern "trance" tracks that also gets labeled as progressive a lot of times have anything, but progression. - They are built for people with extremely low attention spans. To give you a movie example: if true trance is a great slow-burner, like Drive (2011), then modern "trance" is like all the Transformers movies. They throw a lot of sh*t to your face in a rapid manner so you might not notice how bad the experience actually was. Just examine basically any modern "trance" track or modern remix of an old classic. Producers simply don't let the music breathe anymore and don't let the music to slowly build up to something. No. They feel the need to constantly throw in random sound effects and really out of place and often bad "melodies" that totally break the flow and progression of the given track. They don't respect the emotional intelligence of the listeners enough to trust them and they don't let listeners to immerse themeselves in the music. Trance is not about a deep, hypnotic state anymore. It's about random noises thrown together - or at least the modern interpretation of it. - As I've also said before, true trance is one of the purest forms of music and possibly the best genre to convey emotions using melodies. Therefore, most trance tracks do not had any vocal, and even when they had, the vocals were never the key, definining parts of trance tracks. If there was a vocal, it was only there to help support and elevate the core melody, regardless of the chosen track. Yet, in most modern "trance" tracks, there's a strong vocal presence that also acts as the main part and focus of the whole music. Why? Because in theory, vocals help to sell a track better, and producers also try to compensate for the emotional conflict / emotion-shortage that is present in the track because of the progress-breaking random melodies and sounds. They do this by trying so hard with the vocals to be as emotional as possible, but it comes of as cringy and extremely forced, unnatural instead. - If what Armin says is true - that he is driven by the passion for trance music rather than money - than he should have never done all the things he did in the past couple of years - things that have lead to the downfall of the genre. He always says he doesn't want to repeat himself because that would be easy - he wants to innovate. Someone please tell me, how exactly do you innovate in art? I get that you can innovate on a car design by coming up with a better engine idea for example. But how do you innovate on Mona Lisa? By drawing a carrot nose to her and giving her pink sunglasses, or what? The boundaries and the identity of the trance genre were already fully layed down way back in 1997 (even though numerous trance tracks have existed before that). If you do not want to repeat yourself, be creative and create something fresh, something new within those boundaries. - You may experiment, which in the best cases, leads to emerging, new musical genres - this is how trance was born from rave/techno, basically. Andy Blueman (one of the greatest uplifting trance producers) has also experimented and this way created some mindblowing, wonderful tracks outside of the trance genre (like Playful Spirits of the Forest or The Journey of Atlantis). But don't try to "'innovate" it. You do not innovate art. And most importantly, do no try to call something trance which is clearly not trance - this way devaluing the genre as a whole. Especially not, when that new thing is just outright bad and lacks any kind of soul and identity and is nothing more than commercialized trash. Do not try to reinvent trance, don't be a George Lucas clone and don't try to do a prequel trilogy after the original one (I wonder how many people will get this). - I want true trance to be back. I may came off as harsh, but actually, I really respect Armin for a lot of reasons... after all, he did a lot for trance to keep it alive and it wouldn't be right to forget about that... but then again, he did a lof ot things to demolish it too. All I hope is if he puts Ferry in charge after ASOT 1000, Ferry will try to steer this ship away from the iceberg and eventually put in on the right track.

Drift away what a banger !

GÉNIAL 🎼🙌🙌💃

Nunca pensé encontrar tranquilidad con la música electrónica, y me llena de energía ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😘😘😘😘😘🇵🇪

Steve Dekay & Emanuele Congeddu - Origami it's my tune of the week!

Luciano, desde Mercedes, Buenos Aires, Argentina saludos y felicitaciones a los que escuchan y hacen esta música genial Love Parade Buenos Aires!!! - NRG 101.1.

Thank you for playing all these great tunes ❤️ Really means a lot during these tough times! 🙏🏻 Greetings from India 🇮🇳

Armin van Buuren! Thanks for the great music. ❤❤❤

Слушая трэки Эсота Армина мы идем к добру. Транс-это ключ к совершенству! Михасьмэн) Планета Любви!

Thank you RUBEN & FERRY FOR GREAT 🎶

Magnifique.

Drift away, soft melodic!

The tunes this week are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thanks à lot !!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🇨🇵

Армин начал тебя слушать с лайфа ТуморровЛэнд 2018.Хорошо жгешь.Привет из Солнечного Узбекистана

Best of the best Armin I love you😍😍😍

Greece 2000 is probably my favorite trance track ever, the progressive remix. I listened to it 200000000 times

Drift Away - I_O x LIGHT was a fire start! I had the feels listening to it.

YAY!!!!!!!!! LIGHTS!!!!!!!! FINALLY!!!!!!!!!

Thank you guys for playing Origami!!!🙌🙌

Very nice armin. The best 👍👌😘 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵🇨🇵

Trance! Energy! Feel sky fantasy May day dance every day! Planet Love!

Happy ASOT & Happy Ied Mubarak

Armin...Armin Forever

Grandes mezclas se hizo Ferri Corsten en este programa

I LOVE THIS MUSIC!!!!!!!! GREATINGS FROM POLAND🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😁😁😁😁😁😁

I love you Armin !!! ❤️💕

¡¡Enhorabuena, DJ Nano y Dim3nsion!! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 . Thank you very much, ASOT!! 😘😘😘

#965 Brilliant tracklist Armin .... loved it, totally got me rejuvenated in these tough times .... no one can do it the way you do man !!

Love Sector7 - Cherry Blossom, especially the Stephens & Jones rework on Pure Trance 8, prob my fave choon at the moment!

I really hope this quarantine period ends soon... I want to enjoy your show in mumbai... Your hardcore fan from india....

Amazing music

Nice to see that Armin is back (for one hour only) that means he is doing better. I think he is slowly building up his routines again due to a burnout.

Thank you for playing Inu - Protoculture. This is epic and reminds me of the holy C64 days zillion years ago 😇

Это лучший сет за последние время... Красавчик порадовал..

Shame that the era of touring and gigs is over, possibly forever, but we still have the music and the memories

🙌🙌🙌🙌ALL HAIL KING OF TRANCE FERRY!🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌 Rocking those 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥Jordan 3s! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Thank you Armin

I look forward to see in this Saturday evening another your gig in premiered! I saw all the 7 gigs, were Huge & Legendary! I love you, our dear King Armin, the all your music, and your gigs, are like a Therapy for me, it relaxes me, gives me so much energy, all makes me so happy! Your energy is fantastic, You're the Best DJ in the world, the King of Trance & Untold, always the Mr. Perfect! Lots of health, love and hugs from 🇷🇴 Romania, our dear King & Hero! 🙏💖👑💖👌🙌🙏

Great vibes

Zeeland is Awesome Armin! Been there a couple of times and indeed is a great please to go visit and drive a bike. Goes is the city I visited back in the day! Good Stuff! You made me remember of the goodtimes I spent there. Good Stuff!

Hey.,, want 2 tell you all ..,, you are Doing a Great & a marvellous job's through out this difficult time in the history of Humanity.., thank u & God bless you all....

EElke Kleijn s Remix of Blue Fear is amazinggg !!!❤️

1:10:56 Best track ❤👌

ASOT The best program ever,and the best dj ever ARMIN VAN BUUREN

Great sounds here

Love this

All music comes from a mystical origin connected to the universe. In Armin's music, I sometimes experience that mystical connection. Then suddenly, time and space disappear, and I am in a whole new dimension. 💗

Great set!

Thank you Very much Boss Armin Van buuren , São Paulo Brasil 🇧🇷 STATE of TRANCE!

Luv this beat

Thank You trance uplifting fans ASOT

Buen programa de radio

Como cada Jueves... gracias Armin, Ruben y ahora Ferry.... por tan increíble musica llena de amor!! Pasión y Energia!!! 🇨🇴🇨🇴💪💪🕺🕺❤😍

Hello! Hello!!! ASOT 965 FANTASTIC !!! Thank you Mr.Armin Ruben & Ferry Corsten !!! I LOVE YOU !!!

Love you Armin

Beautiful

Thanka

Eres el más Grande. 🇪🇸🇪🇸

Thank You Armin van Buuren ruben de ronde ferry corsten asot 965 the best trance uplifting the best amazing enjoy

Армин - красава! Респект и Уважуха!!!👍👍👍🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

I ĺike this track

Armin starts talking labels at around 50:00. Is this potentially opening up the door for more sub-genres so make appearances? I must say i'm enjoying the techno style stuff they've started playing. Nice for a change.

OMG.!!!!! Wipeout is the Real Summer Track And Track of the Year Perfect Ingredient 👍👍✌️👌♥️💙💜❤️💯🔥

Thank You 🙏 👑 Armin, Ruben & Ferry for an absolutely brilliant episode ASOT 965, were two hours magical! The music was absolutely amazing, uplifting! The remix by Eelke Kleijn, at your first song released 💙 'Blue Fear' 💙, is absolutely so amazing! Great job, Eelke! ♥ I love so much your track Armin, is a real Masterpiece, absolutely Perfect! Fantastic sound, is Trance pure! ”Let The Music Guide You”, in a magnificent 🌟 Service For Dreamers 🌟 is Something Real of dream, in every week are the most happy hours for me! Your 💎 ASOT Radio Show, Armin, is Huge, the Best in the world! Can't wait to see you next week, with a new episode ASOT! Lots of health and love from, Romania, to you our King, Armin, and everyone! 🤗💝💞👑💞👏🙏