A State of Trance 2008

Armin Van Buuren | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Ultra Records
• ASIN: B001EN46K2
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (45 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #17,438 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #9 in Music > World Music > Europe > Continental Europe > Netherlands
  • #41 in Music > Dance & DJ > Trance

Editorial Reviews

Van Buuren, current #1 DJ and one of the biggest names in the dance music world, keeps raising the bar with his fresh trance sounds and cutting edge mixes. A State of Trance 2008 is the next chapter in his annual mix album series and a must have for electronic music fans. A double disc continuous mix of 2008's hottest trance tunes from a stellar line up, including Cerf, Mitiska & Jaren, DJ Shah Feat. Adrina Thorpe, Rio Addicts, Sunlounger, Albert Vorne, Michael Dow, Nic Chagall, Lost Witness, and more.

Customer Reviews

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31 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Track Listing, October 13, 2008

By 

Jimmy*C (Stuck in Ohio) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A State of Trance 2008 (Audio CD)

Until Amazon fixes the track listing for this CD here it is:

CD 1 - On The Beach
01 Armin Van Buuren - Unforgivable (First State Remix)
02 DJ Tatana - Spring Breeze (Martin Roth Summerstyle Remix)
03 Mike Foyle - Bittersweet Nightshade
04 M6 - Amazon Dawn
05 Andy Moor - Fake Awake (The Blizzard Remix)
06 Blake Jarrell - Punta Del Este (Beach Mix)
07 Benya feat. Penny Nixon - Serendipity
08 Ohmna - Satori Waterfalls
09 Signalrunners & Julie Thompson - These Shoulders
10 Myon & Shane 54 feat. Carrie Skipper - Vampire
11 Julian Vincent feat. Cathy Burton - Certainty (Mark Otten Dub)
12 Tenishia feat. Tiff Lacey - Burning From The Inside
(Tenishia's Burning Dub)
13 Mr Sam feat. Claud9 - Cygnes
14 Lange feat. Sarah Howells - Out Of The Sky (Kyau & Albert Remix)

CD 2 - In The Club
01 Arnej feat. Josie - Strangers We've Become (Intro Tech Dub)
02 Sunlounger feat. Zara - Lost (Club Mix)
03 Offer Nissim - For Your Love (Sied Van Riel Remix)
04 Ilya Soloviev & Paul Miller - Lover Summer (Orjan Nilsen Remix)
05 Markus Schulz - The New World
06 Robert Nickson & Daniel Kandi - Rewire
07 Giuseppe Ottaviani feat. Stephen Pickup - No More Alone
08 The Thrillseekers feat. Fisher - The Last Time (Simon Bostock Remix)
09 Stoneface & Terminal - Blueprint (Club Mix)
10 DJ Shah feat. Adrina Thorpe - Back To You (Aly & Fila Remix)
11 Andy Blueman - Time To Rest (live guitar by Eller Van Buuren)
12 Thomas Bronzwaer - Certitude
13 8 Wonders - The Return
14 Jochen Miller - Lost Connection
15 Armin Van Buuren feat. Sharon Den Adel - In And Out Of Love
(Richard Durand Remix)

Sorry to take up space w/ this. Hope this helps!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars There is something amiss with Armin's SOT 2008, November 17, 2008

By 

David J. Ceremuga "David Ceremuga" (Taylors, SC United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A State of Trance 2008 (MP3 Download)

Let me start by saying I own just about everything this DJ has released. Most are quite good.

A state of Trance 2008 is ok. The 1st CD is about what you would expect from Armin's "On the Beach" CD. A bit laid back. The problem is that has gone so electronica that maybe it has lost it's uniqueness. After a few listens, I find myself bypassing tracks. This is rare for me.

CD2 is just amiss. The songs are very over-produced and lack anything to grab on to and feel like "Yeah, now it's time to crank up the volume". It is very lackluster. The songs sound very generic and full of the same loops, over and over again.

Quite honestly the pose on the CD cover fits what I think Armin must be feeling. "What can I do, I need to do something different and unique". Unfortionately, this isn't the way. Believe me when I say that you will find CD1 "On the Beach" satisfying to a point. You will listen to CD2 "At the Club" several times, often asking yourself, where is the buildup to a climax. The music never builds. It feels like track 1 just kind of morphs throughout the CD and none of the songs are that great.

A State of Trance 2007 leaps over this release in many ways. Only those with money to spare should get this at the price. Wait for it to go to the bargain bin. It is simply Armin Confused 2008.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A musical Journey, October 7, 2008

By 

Joshua (United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A State of Trance 2008 (Audio CD)

Flat out, I am EXTREMELY impressed with this mix. First of all, if you are new to trance, THIS is how it is supposed to be listened to. With other genres of music, you usually are looking for a good artist. Not necessarily the case with trance though, you really want a good DJ that can mix different artists' songs together, giving you tastes of the best of everybody's flavors. Well, Armin is the #1 DJ in the world right now, and for a reason.

The mixing last year was impecable, and this year, better than ever. Songs flow into each other beautifully. Some thought was definitely put into not just the song selection, but song order for the mixing of the songs into each other. Other DJ's can just throw songs into each other and it usually comes sounding ok or good. Armin here, adds the extra touch, the whip cream and cherry on top if you will, with little ambient noises added in here and there. Little things that make everything flow into each other. Basically, if you gave the original songs a listen, they are slightly different than on here. Armin takes em', puts em' together, and then molds them into each other creating one big melody of trance bliss.

Also I've found with other DJ's that try to do this, choose songs that are very similar and put them next to each other thinking that they mix well together. Well... there is some truth to this, but this can not be followed, because this gets boring after a while. A DJ CHANGES the mood, doesn't keep it the same the whole time. Imagine if you went to a wedding and every song was a country song... even old Uncle McGraw would get sick of this after a while. Song selection and mixing have to be perfect to perform a drastic change in musical moods like this to be received well by the crowd, or in this case, us listeners. Armin is wonderful at this. Example is "Satori Waterfalls", which is a beautiful song, with melodic 'tribal' chanting that provides the main melodies. Well right after Armin turns the "electro" nob up and gives us "These Shoulders". If you listened to these two songs separately, you wouldn't think they would go well together... Armin thought other wise. He thought right.

One more thing, there are some things done here I have not heard before, even on his shows or Tiesto's. It's a good change. Trance has been kind of doing the same stuff for a while here, it's time it evolves some more. Armin is doing this, pushing trance where it hasn't gone before. Different styles of songs, different ways of building up and climaxing. Again, I'm just really really impressed. A large fan should be supplied with this so whenever you get to one of these moments on ASOT '08, it can add to your "blown away" effect.

All in all, this is beautiful. From the melodic uplifting songs that will make you want to chill out on the beach and just listen while taking in the waves coming in, to the catchy electronica that will have you up and dancing, sending electrical signals to areas of your body that you didn't know existed, everything here is Grade AAA.