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 genre’s 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.