Armin Van Buuren talks partnering with Phillips and his reluctance to repeat career landmarks
Long before the focus on DJ salaries and the age of YouTube breakouts, Armin Van Buuren could be found paving his way as an iconic trance advocate with a religious-like stance upon the genreās once modest following. Flash-forward to the age of big business, even bigger crowds and a sudden focus on the modern club culture and the 36-year-old father of two needs little lecturing on the power of a brand amid the EDM gold rush. Between crafting albums, expanding labels, breaking new talent and scaling the wildest heights of global club culture, something in his appetite for evolution has continued to provoke attention from every avenue of popular culture imaginable.
Armin van Buuren – Pulsar (Ummet Ozcan Remix) [Preview]
If there is one thing Ummet Ozcan knows, its how to deliver in-your-face, spine-tingling electro house. He's done it before on "The Code," and "The Cube," playing with gritty electro house elements before retuning his mixes into a blitz of big room synthwork. Armin van Buuren's original output "Pulsar" embodied the energetic trance aesthetic to a tee, but Ummet's remix strips out the melody, filters out the euphoria, and injects "Pulsar" with the same sort of savage, take-no-prisoners style that put him on the map in the first place.