A State of Trance 2005

Armin Van Buuren | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 5, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Ultra Records
• ASIN: B0007PIE0G
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (70 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #137,738 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. I Found You/ Interstate

2. Wasting/ Hidden Logic presents Luminary

3. First Time/ Markus Schulz

4. I Know You're Gone/ Max Graham feat. Jessica Jacobs

5. Space Guitar/ Mike Foyle presents Statica

6. In the End/ Ave Mea

7. Ocean Rain/ Elevation

8. Aerospace (Probspot mix)/ Locust

9. Shivers/ Armin van Buuren

10. Beyond Horizon/ EnMass

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Disc: 2

1. Simply Blue/ Peter Martin presents Anthanasia

2. 808/ Nu Frequency

3. Halcyon/ Andy Moor

4. Why (Derek Howell Mix)/Ahmet Ertenu

5. Papel (Preach Remix)/ O.Lieb vs. Preach

6. Crackdown/ Remy

7. Arcadia/ Gabriel & Dresden

8. Twelve (Max Graham remix)/ Tilt

9. The Deep Show/ Matthew Dekay vs. Proluctors

10. Emotional Void/ Recluse

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Editorial Reviews

Armin Van Buuren, Three Years in a Row the #3 DJ of the World Elected by the Famous DJ Magazine, Releases his Year-end CD Mix, "a State of Trance Year Mix 2005". A State of Trance is his Weekly Radio Show Where He Mixes the Best of that Week and Broadcasted all around the World. This Mix is the Perfect Close for the Best Year Armin Had to Date, Not Only Did He Release his Second Album, "shivers", Including Two Smash Hits "shivers" and "serenity (Sensation Theme 2005), He also Had his Own Stage at the Biggest Outdoor Event in Holland "dance Valley" and Headlined the Biggest Indoor Event in Holland "sensation", as Well as Massive Tours Across the Globe, and on this Double CD Set, You Can Hear Why Armin is a Force to Be Reckoned With. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How could you not enjoy this?, September 23, 2005

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Michael Sonsalla (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A State of Trance 2005 (Audio CD)

How can you really go and say that the second disc is no good? Okay...before I get ahead of myself I'll start from the top.

First of all, the first disc is definitely Armin at his finest. He's doing all the things that all the Arminheads just LOVE. very vocal, melodic. Yes, a great trance CD. With disc 2, he changes his tone quite a bit. But no, I wouldn't say he is experimenting, I think he's branching out...and making a better sound.

Honestly, I don't know...maybe the people that review this poorly don't listen on a good soundsystem or just some bad speakers. If you put this CD in your car, you will probably jump out of your seat dancing. The second disc doesn't want you to lose your dancing feet. Fine, the beginning is sorta slow, but when you start getting into it, it goes from a slower...deeper kind of beat-oriented music to more of a dark type of dance. If I may say so, it has a very "new york" feel to the end of the CD. The simplicity of the beats and the very few added synths and vocals help give it just a pure plain dance feel.

This is 100% entertainment and will definitely make you dance. If you wanna stick to what you know, then yea, maybe disc 1 is the only thing you have to worry about. But I enjoy the second disc much more, being that I'm not a complete Arminhead. I've seen him before, and I'm seeing him again next weekend in NYC. He's amazing. Buy his CD, and you will be thrilled, I promise!

5 stars. Armin made a masterpiece!

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars CD 2 is where the music is at: progressive house.., November 3, 2005

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English Reviewer "32ekjfd@%$%#^" (UK, UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A State of Trance 2005 (Audio CD)

I just had to write a review after seeing other Amazon users give the second disc in this set such a bad reputation! I am very surprised to see other people writing things such as, "Disc 2 is simply in a whole other realm, delving into some sort of bad techno blitz that I can't even begin to tell you how bad and how NOT trancey this is" --- My goodness, that is far from the truth and as a matter of fact, there is no truth to that statement at all! Let me explain:

Armin Van Buuren is a European DJ who is quite unique. He has that traditional sense of love for pure trance music, but at the same time he has developed a form of respect to the most intense form of club music today - and that is progressive house! Most DJ's just can't get over trance music (no matter how washed up it has become) and others can't appreciate it (all the charm it brought over the years). Armin has intertwined both genre's of dance music into a 2-cd set, which is obviously focusing on trance with disc 1 and progressive house on disc 2. Personally, I found the blend of tracks on cd 2 far more intense and much better for burning the floors apart. But that's just me. The music on disc 2 is a perfect introduction to progressive house - a fusion of previous forms of trance and house - this is not considered "techno" nor "trance". That is like calling R&B music Rock 'N' Roll. They're not the same thing! And that's why so many people have such a hard time accepting progressive house - because it's pure, it's new, it's fresh, and it's unlike anything anyone has ever heard before! Yet, it still retains the vibes that trance music offered in its heyday.

A couple of points I should make: Armin has been appreciating progressive house for 2-3 years now (since it began to hit the headsets of DJ's in Europe). The only 2 tracks on cd 2 that I wasn't excited about were the ones by Kyau Vs. Albert and Blank & Jones, because they are both hard trance DJ's/producer duo's. But we have Andy Moor (of Leama & Moor), Adam White (of Whiteroom), Tilt (Andy Moor again), Gabriel & Dresden, Remy, and Matthew Dekay/Proluctors - all of which are some serious, raw progressive house producers with some heavy talent. In addition, the rest of the cd features some young and newer producers/remixers which Armin personally selected out of his 12" stacks. CD 2 is good progressive house music - the sound that among the featured artists as well as Markus Schulz, Özgür Can, and Luke Chable will carry into the future - at least until something better comes along, if that's even possible.

The only flaw in this mix is that some of the songs feature only 2-3 minutes worth of the full length song in which some are well over 10 minutes in entirety. Otherwise, a great chance for people in the USA to learn more about an already evolved genre that the people in Netherlands, UK, and Estonia already love to death.

Anyone who knows what I am talking about can make sense of this review. Everyone else is still closed-minded and thinks trance is the only thing out there. That's fine, just as long as I can get a point across that progressive house music is NOT trance music, and that its also a very powerful style of music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tranceriffic!, March 25, 2006

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Thomas A. Lowther (Columbus, Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A State of Trance 2005 (Audio CD)

Hands down, by far the best Trance CD I have ever heard. It takes off from the beginning and just doesn't let up. Especially on disc two. That's my favorite of the pair because of it mostly being instrumental music. Very little singing is features on disc two, and what little singing there is comes across mostly percussive and rhythmic. All except for one track which makes me pull my teeth out because it's so abjectly horrible. Said tract is "Ballerina" and I really wish he would've skipped over that one altogether. It sounds like a REALLY BAD Rufus Wainwright performance, and that's one artist I absolutely can NOT stand. Other than that one major snag, the entire CD pair is pretty much flawless. I'll definitely check out more of Amin's discs as a result of the good impression I got from this one.