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87-467: Clusone Trio , also known as Trio Clusone or Clusone 3 , was a Dutch musical group active from the late 1980s to the late '90s, composed of saxophonist/clarinetist Michael Moore , cellist Ernst Reijseger and drummer Han Bennink . Initially planned to be a one-time collaboration for an early 1980s jazz festival in Clusone , Italy , the trio became a regular group by the end of that decade. Their music
174-718: A Grammy Award nomination. In the United States, he holds the record for most entries, twenty-one, on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren was born in Leiden , on 25 December 1976, and grew up in Koudekerk aan den Rijn . He was inspired by French electronic music composer Jean-Michel Jarre and Dutch DJ and Remixer Ben Liebrand . Van Buuren graduated from
261-684: A musical magazine with in depth interviews with the touring bands and arranges instant recording sessions in a studio in the Vondelpark with those bands. In the Hague, the State-X New Forms takes place annually in Paard van Troje . Armin van Buuren Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren OON ( / v æ n ˈ b j ʊər ə n / van BURE -ən , Dutch: [ˈɑrmɪ ˈɲoːzəf jaːˈkoːbʏz ˈdaːnijɛl vɑm ˈbyːrə(n)] ; born 25 December 1976)
348-415: A Scene . Armin also wrote a song for English singer Seal , but due to the release of his greatest hits album, Hits , the collaboration never came together. On 12 September 2010, Van Buuren launched "A State of Sundays", a new weekly 24-hour radio show aired on Sirius XM Radio. On 20 October 2010, Van Buuren won the award for Most Popular International DJ presented by The Golden Gnomes. A week later he
435-481: A cellist, Reijseger often played pizzicato walking bass in the style of a jazz double-bassist or held and strummed the instrument like a guitar. They occasionally performed as the Clusone 4, with guests Guus Janssen on piano or Dave Douglas on trumpet. Clusone Trio released six albums, the first two on Moore's small independent label before recording for larger labels like Grammavision or HatArt . Music of
522-952: A central figure in the emerging European free improvisation (or free jazz ) scene. From the late 1960s he played in a trio with saxophonist Peter Brötzmann and Belgian pianist Fred Van Hove , which became a duo after Van Hove's departure in 1976. Through much of the 1990s he played in Clusone 3 (also known as the Clusone Trio), a trio with saxophonist and clarinetist Michael Moore and cellist Ernst Reijseger . He has often played duos with Mengelberg and collaborated with him alongside other musicians. As well as playing with these long-standing groups, Bennink has performed and recorded solo (such as Tempo Comodo (1982)) and played with many free improvisation and free jazz musicians including Derek Bailey , Conny Bauer , Don Cherry and Alexander von Schlippenbach , as well as more conventional jazz musicians. Willem Breuker (November 4, 1944 – July 23, 2010)
609-715: A global tour on Dance Revolution in Europe, selling out to crowds of 20,000 people in the Netherlands. In March 2001, Van Buuren started his own radio show on ID&T Radio (traditionally broadcast in Dutch and later English since ASOT 183). In this weekly two-hour show, entitled A State of Trance , he plays the latest popular trance music tracks, and publishes the artists and track titles on his website. When ID&T Radio changed genres in 2004, Van Buuren moved A State of Trance to Fresh FM and later SLAM!FM , two Dutch radio stations. It
696-616: A handful of groups, starting with Irolt in the mid-1970s, sang in the West Frisian language . Frisian folk music has survived thus, aided in part by the Aaipop Festival in Nylân and annual festival in Joure . At Joure's festival, established in 1955, participants dress in 19th century-style clothes and perform traditional music and dance like the skotsploech ensembles. Modern revivalists include
783-826: A kind of rock music sometimes called "Boerenrock" ('farmers rock'). These bands mix rock and pop music with regional influences, sometimes sung in one of the regional dialects, and lyrics influenced by life in rural areas. Examples include BZB (Band Zonder Banaan) and WC Experience from North Brabant , Normaal and Jovink en de Voederbietels from Gelderland who sing in Dutch Low Saxon , Rowwen Hèze and Neet Oét Lottum from Limburg who sing in Limburgish , Mooi Wark from Drenthe who also sing in Dutch Low Saxon and Jitiizer from Friesland who sing in West-Frisian . Musically,
870-516: A large four part work for voices and ensemble; collaborations with filmmaker and librettist Peter Greenaway on the film M is for Man, Music, Mozart and the operas Rosa: A Horse Drama (1994) and Writing to Vermeer (1998); and the recent La Passione (2000–02) for female voice and ensemble. Significant composers after Andriessen include Klaas de Vries (born 1944), Jacob Ter Veldhuis , a.k.a. JacobTV (b. 1951), Guus Janssen (b. 1951) and Cornelis de Bondt (b. 1953). Dutch folk music,
957-466: A large variety of musicians. He often performed in a duo with compatriot Bennink, and with other musicians including Derek Bailey , Peter Brötzmann , Evan Parker , Anthony Braxton . Han Bennink (born April 17, 1942) is a jazz drummer , percussionist and multi-instrumentalist. Through the 1960s he drummed with a number of American musicians visiting the Netherlands, including Dexter Gordon , Sonny Rollins and Eric Dolphy . He subsequently became
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#17328989623981044-598: A lot of Boerenrock music can be heard, and a famous event amongst Boerenrock bands and fans, is the annual Zwarte Cross Festival ('Black Motocross'), which is organized by members of Jovink en de Voederbietels. The event is a mixture of several motocross related activities and a rock festival. In the 1990s, indie rock band Bettie Serveert was formed and independent record label Excelsior Recordings released albums of Dutch indie rock bands like Caesar , Ghost Trucker , Alamo Race Track , Johan , Spinvis , Gem , Bauer , Daryll-Ann , zZz and many others. After 2000 Voicst
1131-657: A music video that has been viewed over 304 million times on YouTube. Since the release of Imagine , Van Buuren has been working with Benno de Goeij of Rank 1 on solo productions and remixes. On 1 May 2008, he celebrated with various artists the 350th episode of A State of Trance at Noxx, Antwerp , Belgium. He was voted No. 1 in the 2008 DJ Mag again. He collaborated with his brother, guitarist Eller van Buuren, at Together As One in Los Angeles, U.S., on New Year's Eve 2009, as well as on Armin's 2008 studio album Imagine . His performance with his brother at Together As One
1218-452: A song by Airscape . In 2000, Van Buuren started his own Armin van Buuren compilation series, a mix of progressive house and vocal trance styles of music. His first compilation album, A State of Trance (not to be confused with his weekly A State of Trance radio shows), sold 10,000 copies and contains Van Buuren's remix of Moogwai , "Viola". Teaming up with Tiësto , two new projects were born: Major League – "Wonder Where You Are?"
1305-624: A track called " Blue Fear ", which was released under the Cyber Records label in 1997. Another successful track, " Communication ", was released under the same label and became popular in Ibiza , Spain in the summer of 1999. After being signed to AM PM Records , this track entered the UK Singles Chart at No. 18 in 2000. In the beginning of 1999, van Buuren started his label Armind together with United Recordings. The first release, Gig – "One",
1392-399: Is Masada , a band with strong Moluccan roots, in the tradition of Santana. Some of the most successful artists among them were Mai Tai , Lois Lane , working with Prince, Julya Lo'ko , and saxophone player Candy Dulfer , also working with Prince, Dave Stewart and Pink Floyd. The mid-1990s saw the rise of Total Touch , with singer Trijntje Oosterhuis . Another popular genre of Dutch music
1479-493: Is Tambourine . In addition, there is a great number of bands that compose and perform pop and rock songs in the Dutch language. That started in the 1970s with Polle Eduard, Bots and Normaal - which sang in dialect. Late 70s and early 80s there was a big boom of bands that used the Dutch-speaking songs. Well known representatives from that period: Doe Maar , Het Goede Doel , Frank Boeijen Groep and Toontje Lager , and during
1566-433: Is a Dutch DJ and record producer. Since 2001, he has hosted A State of Trance (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40 million listeners in 84 countries on over 100 FM radio stations. According to the website DJs and Festivals , "the radio show propelled him to stardom and helped cultivate an interest in trance music around the world". Van Buuren has won a number of accolades. He has been ranked
1653-539: Is a contraction of the names of the two founding band members (Hendrik Jan Lovink en Gijs Jolink), and "voederbietel" is a humorous contraction of the Dutch Low Saxon word for sugar beets (used as food for horses) and the name of the world-famous British popband The Beatles , of which they used a number of songs in which they replaced the lyrics for Achterhooks ones. Boerenrock bands tend to perform at local festivities and concerts in big tents in rural areas, rather than in concert halls in bigger cities. An event where
1740-531: Is characterized by simple straightforward bass motives heavily supplemented with fast, often happy, melody. (Click here for an example.) Uncommon among other European folk, in Dutch music the bass line , not the melody , is the musical line that is danced to. This means that though the music itself may sound fast, the dances are usually quite moderate to slow in tempo . The dances themselves are mainly group dances rather than individual or dual dances. Clogs are often worn during dances; however, Dutch clog dancing
1827-408: Is generally considered one of the most important figures in modern Dutch music. Between 1918 and 1922 he grew into one of the more advanced composers in Europe. In each successive work he went a step further and, from 1919, Pijper's music can be described as atonal. However, Pijper remained a composer of strong emotional character, to which his Third Symphony (1926) bears witness. In Pijper's later works
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#17328989623981914-479: Is known as " Levenslied ", meaning "Song of/about life". These songs have catchy, simple rhythms and melodies, and are always built up on choruses and verses. Themes are often sentimental and include love , death and loneliness . Traditional Dutch musical instruments such as the accordion and the barrel organ are essential to levenslied, though in recent years many levenslied artists also use synthesizers and guitars. Artists in this genre include Koos Alberts and
2001-469: Is known for his experiments with microtonality . He wrote one opera, Antigone (1990–1991). Lex van Delden (1919–1988) and Simeon ten Holt (1923–2012) were important composers. Louis Andriessen (June 6, 1939 – July 1, 2021) was a composer whose early works show experimentation with various contemporary trends: postwar serialism ( Series , 1958), pastiche ( Anachronie I , 1966–67), and tape ( Il Duce , 1973). Andriessen's mature music combines
2088-499: Is mainly present in Amsterdam , Rotterdam , the Hague , Groningen and Utrecht . A cross media platform called Subbacultcha! hosts nights in venues where many international touring avant garde rockbands like Health , Enon , Miracle Fortress , Mahjongg , These Are Powers , Pre perform as well as local indie and noise rock acts like The Moi Non Plus , Bonne Aparte , Adept , Hospital Bombers, Pfaff . Subbacultcha! also publishes
2175-467: Is more conservative than his keyboard writing, shows a striking rhythmic complexity and an unusual richness of contrapuntal devices. His influence was international. Some of his music appears in the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , which otherwise mainly contains the work of English composers. Sweelinck wrote variations on John Dowland 's internationally famous Lachrimae Pavane , and John Bull ,
2262-523: Is now a weekly feature on Radio 538 , the Dutch radio station, DI.FM , an online radio station, and on XM Satellite Radio , channel 52 in the United States and Canada. A complete list of stations that broadcast A State of Trance can be found at the ASOT section of Armin's website. In 2002, he had a residency at Glow in Washington D.C., and played across North America. He regularly appeared at Amnesia on
2349-508: Is originally made by composer Ramin Djawadi . On 16 October 2015 Armin van Buuren released the next single from Embrace called "Strong Ones" featuring Cimo Fränkel. This was followed by the release of his collaboration with Cosmic Gate "Embargo" on 22 October 2015. To accompany the album's release, Van Buuren announced the return of the Armin Only series of parties. This edition of the tour
2436-489: Is the repertoire of the WC Experience, which contains cover songs from bands such as Queen , Guns N' Roses and Madness , only the lyrics are replaced by different, rather silly lyrics in their own dialect. Also, the name of 'Band Zonder Banaan' means "Band without a Banana", and is a humorous play on the name of a famous Dutch pop-band, BZN (Band Zonder Naam, or 'Band Without a Name'). The name "Jovink en de Voederbietels"
2523-657: Is thus anti-Germanic and anti- Romantic , and marks a departure from postwar European serialism and its offshoots. He also played a role in providing alternatives to traditional performance practice techniques, often specifying forceful, rhythmic articulations , and amplified, non- vibrato , singing. Other notable works include Workers Union (1975), a melodically indeterminate piece "for any loud sounding group of instruments"; Mausoleum (1979) for two baritones and large ensemble; De Tijd ['Time'] (1979–81) for female singers and ensemble; De Snelheid ['Velocity'] (1982–83), for three amplified ensembles; De Materie ['Matter'] (1984–88)
2610-478: Is very different from its more modern counterpart. It is virtually impossible to perform highly active dances with Dutch clogs (which are entirely made from wood, not just the sole) and hence the clogs function as additional percussion, by stamping rhythmically. In the early 19th century, rural Dutch folk began moving to cities like Amsterdam and Rotterdam , bringing with them folk traditions. Many of their songs and dances, however, began to dwindle in popularity. In
2697-509: The 56th Grammy Awards , in relation to his Grammy Award nomination for the single featuring Trevor Guthrie, "This Is What It Feels Like" in the category of Best Dance Recording . On 8 May 2015, Armin van Buuren released the first single from his sixth studio album, Embrace , which was released on 29 October 2015. The single is titled " Another You " featuring Mr Probz . Three weeks after releasing "Another You", Van Buuren also debuted another remix from Game of Thrones official theme which
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2784-463: The DJ Mag Top 100 DJs and other rankings. The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the world's leading electronic music conference and the biggest club festival for the many electronic subgenres on the planet. These artists also contribute significantly to the mainstream pop music played over the airwaves all around the world, as they frequently collaborate and produce for many notable artists. Hip-hop in
2871-851: The Eurovision Song Contest 2019 with his song " Arcade ", thereby granting the country its first Eurovision win since Teach-In in 1975. "Arcade" later became a sleeper hit by early 2021 and also entered the top 30 of the US Billboard Hot 100 , thus allowing Laurence to join the list of a few Dutch pop acts to score a hit in the US. Current pop acts include Esmée Denters , Anouk , Sharon Doorson , Davina Michelle , Maan , Nielson , Eva Simons , Ilse DeLange , Toni Willé ( Pussycat ), Celine Cairo and Belgian-Dutch girl group K3 . Brothers and founding members of Van Halen , lead guitarist Edward van Halen and drummer Alex van Halen , are from
2958-691: The Groningen band Törf , Folkcorn , Pekel and Twee Violen en een Bas , Lirio , Dubius , Mus , Matzko , Wè-nun Henk . Moluccan -Dutch musicians like Tala Mena Siwa and the Moluccan Moods Orchestra have had some success with pop-based Moluccan music, while kaseko , a style from the former Dutch colony of Suriname , has also seen mainstream popularity, primarily due to musicians like William Souvenir and Carlo Jones . The North Sea Jazz Festival attracts artists from international acclaim. Misha Mengelberg (June 5, 1935 - March 3, 2017)
3045-532: The Indo community in The Hague, which was also the center of the succeeding genre Nederbeat when Dutch musicians formed bands influenced by British beat groups and rock music. It earned that city the title of Beatstad ('Beat city') in later years. With 60s bands like Golden Earring and Shocking Blue , and Kane and Anouk in the 1990s, The Hague became synonymous for mainstream rock. More progressive music emerged in
3132-564: The Netherlands - both born in Amsterdam in the mid-1950s and raised in Nijmegen - before moving to the United States in 1962. Ivy Green was among the first punk bands, originating from Hazerswoude . Tedje en de Flikkers , a group of homosexuals ("flikkers" is Dutch for "faggots") from Nijmegen , was one of the most infamous punk formation of the Netherlands. They sprang from the left wing and gay movements that thrived in Nijmegen during
3219-672: The Stedelijk Gymnasium Leiden in 1995, and studied law at Leiden University . He began working as a DJ in Club Nexus in 1996, playing multiple sets a week, most of which lasted six or more hours. In 1999, he met Dave Lewis who introduced him as a DJ in England and the United States. As his musical career began to take off, he put his law degree on hold, but he did return to graduate from law school in 2003. On 18 September 2009, van Buuren married Erika van Thiel. Their daughter Fenna
3306-481: The World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT). On 25 October 2019, Armin released his seventh studio album, Balance . In January 2021, Armin celebrated the 1000th episode of A State of Trance with a 7-day long livestream, where he, co-host Ruben de Ronde and monthly show resident Ferry Corsten presented a list of the top 1000 songs played during A State of Trance radio shows, as voted on by listeners of
3393-461: The 1960s in Amsterdam. In 1964 (see 1964 in music ), The Outsiders were the first Dutch psychedelic rock band to become successful. Well known was the 'Haagse Scene' - many of the popular bands of the 60s came from The Hague, such as Shocking Blue , which topped the US charts in 1970 with " Venus ", Golden Earring , Q65 , The Motions , Earth & Fire . Other representatives from this period:
3480-415: The 1960s it was mainly Boudewijn de Groot - to this day extremely popular. In the 1970s there were many performers, of which Rob de Nijs stood out. The 1980s were for André Hazes and less Koos Alberts . The 1990s were dominated by Marco Borsato. Other well-known names throughout the years were Jan Smit , Frans Bauer , Gerard Joling , Gordon, Guus Meeuwis and René Froger . Another notable Dutch band
3567-475: The 1970s and 1980s. Their provocative performances (politically more than musically) often literally resulted in orgies of sex, drugs and noise. They existed only for three years (1977–1980). The Ex is an Amsterdam group of musicians making something that could be called punk . De Heideroosjes is also a well-known Dutch punk rock group, singing in Dutch , English , German and Limburgish . Some bands create
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3654-420: The 250th episode of A State of Trance at Asta, The Hague , Netherlands. He was voted number two in the 2006 DJ Mag . On 17 May 2007, he celebrated with various artists the 300th episode of A State of Trance at Pettelaarse Schans, 's-Hertogenbosch , Netherlands. Van Buuren was elected best DJ in the world in the 2007 DJ Mag edition. On 12 January 2008, Van Buuren was given the "Buma Cultuur Pop Award,"
3741-673: The Armada headquarters. With the new accommodations made possible by the studio, he introduced a new segment of the radio show called Service for Dreamers where he invites fans to send in their favorite trance tracks that have a special meaning to them. Every week one track gets chosen to be featured live on the show and introduced by the fans of the radio show live, either by a walk-in, phone call, Skype or other means of contact. In 2017, Armin van Buuren announced he will be releasing an online MasterClass sharing his expertise in electronic music production. On 13 April 2017, Armin van Buuren performed at
3828-588: The Cats , Tee-Set , Bintangs , Sandy Coast , Cuby & the Blizzards and Brainbox . George Baker acquired international fame with the songs Little Green Bag (1969), and "Una Paloma Blanca" (1975). From the late 1960s the post-war generation gained political influence. Many state subsidized rock venues opened all over the country. These clubs, like Amsterdam's Paradiso and Melkweg , were stepping stones for many alternative rock bands on their first European tour and
3915-480: The Dutch crowd stayed well informed about new British and American acts. In the 1970s some artists stood out. Herman Brood became the country's ultimate rock 'n roll icon. He even scored a hit in the US with "Saturday Night", and subsequently became the epitome of the "rock'n'roll junkie" he often sang about. He had been in the media spotlight until his suicide in 2001. Other bands from the 70s include Pussycat (lead singer Toni Willé ), whose song Mississippi hit
4002-461: The Dutch language ( nederhop ) has exploded since 2000 in the Netherlands and is also popular in Belgium. Songs like Traag , Europapa , Coño and Cartier even managed to reach a large international audience, and are to date, the most streamed Dutch language songs on Spotify in history, with each around 125 to 150 million total streams. Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (May 1562 – October 16, 1621)
4089-535: The English keyboard composer, wrote a set of variations on a theme of Sweelinck, indicating the close connection between the different schools of composition across the North Sea . Jacob van Eyck (ca. 1590–1657) was a blind recorder and organ virtuoso, who composed a unique collection of flute music. Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692–1766) was an accomplished baroque composer, whose work Concerti Armonici erroneously
4176-584: The Heineken stage in Shanghai , in the first Formula 1 Festival along with Angela Zhang . Armin performed a seven-hour-long set at the Romania Untold Festival on 6 August 2018, clocking from 2:00 a.m. to after 9:00 a.m. This outlasted his previous 2017 ASOT performance, which had gone on for five hours. On 6 October 2019, he performed at Republic Square, Yerevan , Armenia as an opening act for
4263-532: The Netherlands The Netherlands has multiple musical traditions. Contemporary Dutch popular music is heavily influenced by music styles that emerged in the 1950s, in the United Kingdom and United States. The style is sung in both Dutch and English . Some of the latter exponents, such as Golden Earring and Shocking Blue , have attained worldwide fame. Sometimes partly based and raised upon
4350-730: The charts at number one in Netherlands in 1975 and many other countries including UK in 1976, Gruppo Sportivo , Massada, Vitesse , Solution , the Nits , Focus and still Golden Earring with their greatest hit ever: " Radar Love ", also Top 10 in the US. The band Teach-In is best known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1975 with their song " Ding-A-Dong ". The band was founded in 1969 and parted in 1980. Throughout this time there were several changes in lineup. The late 70s and early 80s gave rise to many one-hit wonders and some bands that lasted for longer. Girl groups Luv' and Dolly Dots but also disco bands Spargo and Time Bandits were among
4437-441: The early part of the 20th century, however, a number of urban intellectuals travelled to the countrysides to record with local musicians, a process paralleled in other European countries, such as Spain. In the 1970s, the Netherlands underwent a roots revival , led by artists like Gerard van Maasakkers , Jos Koning , Dommelvolk and RK Veulpoepers BV , Fungus and Wolverlei . Many of the folk songs performed by these musicians
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#17328989623984524-744: The first was in Johannesburg , South Africa at MTN Expo Centre, and the second in Miami 's Ultra Music Festival . He then performed in Argentina at GEBA in Buenos Aires, followed by a large event at Brabanthallen in Den Bosch , Netherlands which included more than 30 DJs from countries all over the world and was attended by over 30,000 people. The final show was held in Sydney on 16 April at Acer Arena . In 2011, Van Buuren
4611-563: The harmonic expression seems at times to approach monotonality. As a teacher Pijper had a great influence on modern Dutch music, teaching many prominent Dutch composers of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. He was senior master of instrumentation in the Amsterdam Conservatoire, and from 1930 until his death in 1947 he was Head of the Rotterdam Conservatoire. Ton de Leeuw (born Rotterdam, 16 November 1926 - died Paris, 31 May 1996)
4698-496: The influences of Stravinsky and American minimalism . His harmonic writing eschews the consonant modality of much minimalism, preferring postwar European dissonance , often crystallised into large blocks of sound. Large-scale pieces such as De Staat ['Republic'] (1972–76), for example, were influenced by the energy of the big band music of Count Basie and Stan Kenton and the repetitive procedures of Steve Reich , both combined with bright, clashing dissonances. Andriessen's music
4785-463: The island of Ibiza , Balearic Islands, Spain. In October that year, Van Buuren was voted number 5 in the DJ Mag . In June 2003, Van Buuren celebrated the 100th episode of A State of Trance at Bloomingdale, Bloemendaal aan Zee , Netherlands and released his debut studio album, 76 , a 76-minute album divided into 13 tracks. In the same year he was voted No. 3 in the DJ Mag and held third place for
4872-570: The late André Hazes and Willy Alberti . Dutch techno , hardstyle , gabber , trance and other styles in electronic dance music conquered the world. Most of the best-known DJs in the EDM scene (and the world) hail from the Netherlands, including Tiësto , Don Diablo , Armin van Buuren , Ferry Corsten , Sander van Doorn , Fedde le Grand , Hardwell , Showtek , Afrojack , Oliver Heldens , Ran-D , and Martin Garrix , all of whom consistently rank high in
4959-531: The late 80s De Dijk , The Scene and Tröckener Kecks . In the 1990s, there was a second boom of the genre in Acda en de Munnik , Bløf , Van Dik Hout and IOS . Pioneers of Dutch rock were the so-called Indorock bands from the late 1950s, like The Tielman Brothers and the Blue Diamonds . They played rock guitar instrumentals at a time when white Dutch musicians did not perform rock 'n' roll. They stemmed from
5046-512: The most prestigious Dutch music award. On 17 April 2008, Van Buuren released his third studio album, Imagine . It features collaboration with singers such as Jacqueline Govaert of Krezip . The album debuted at number one on the Dutch Albums Chart . The second single released from the album, "In and Out of Love" , featuring Sharon den Adel from the band Within Temptation , has spawned
5133-461: The most successful, alongside the Golden Earring , which scored some of their biggest hits with " Radar Love ", " Twilight Zone ' and " When The Lady Smiles ". The Nits developed a large audience outside the Netherlands, including Finland , Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, Greece and Canada and in 1989 were the first Dutch band to play in the (then still) Soviet Union . Urban Dance Squad
5220-424: The music played by such bands can be described as a rowdy, straightforward style of rock music, inspired by bands such as ZZ Top , Motörhead , AC/DC and Creedence Clearwater Revival . At other times, influences from pop music and folk music (for instance the case with Rowwen Hèze) can be heard. Not rarely, these bands display a lot of humorous elements in their repertoire, lyrics and live performances. An example
5307-570: The next two years (2004, 2005). Also in 2004, Van Buuren remixed the 24 theme song into a trance hit. On 2 June 2005, he celebrated the 200th episode of A State of Trance at the Museumplein of Amsterdam . On 8 August 2005, Van Buuren released his second studio album, Shivers . On the album Van Buuren worked with artists such as Pakistani-American singer Nadia Ali , English singer Justine Suissa and American trance duo Gabriel & Dresden . On 25 May 2006, he celebrated with various artists
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#17328989623985394-465: The number one DJ by DJ Mag a record of five times, four years in a row. He was ranked fifth on the DJ Mag Top 100 DJs list in 2022, as well as fourth in 2015, 2016, 2019 and 2020, and third in 2017. In 2014, he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording for his single " This Is What It Feels Like " featuring Trevor Guthrie , which makes him the fourth trance artist ever to receive
5481-658: The pseudonym Gaia he released "4 Elements" on Captivating Sounds, a sub-label of Warner Brothers . His second album, Basic Instinct featured a new track: Perpetuous Dreamer – " The Sound of Goodbye ". This track entered the Dutch charts in June 2001 at number 26. Later in the year, the track hit No. 1 on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart. The third album, In Motion was released 6 August 2001. A fourth album, Transparence , followed in 2002. In 2003, he worked with such artists such as DJ Seth Alan Fannin throughout
5568-691: The show. The livestream ran from January 14 to January 21, and the top song was Shivers , from Armin's 2005 album. As has been done for previous radio show milestones, a major ASOT1000 festival was planned in Utrecht , but due to the COVID-19 pandemic , it has since been repeatedly delayed. The festival was held on March 4-5, 2023, by which point the weekly radio show have already surpassed 1100 episodes. On 12 January 2024, Armin released his eighth studio album, Breathe In . Documentary and concert films In 2011, van Buuren
5655-403: The tradition of Indorock , new acts with a mixture of Mainstream pop music, Dance, Jazz, Funk and Soul emerged in the mid-1980s. Many of them were and still are performing in and/or outside The Netherlands, and some of them gained (international) recognition, which would sometimes also result in a collaboration with major players from the United States or United Kingdom. An early example of these
5742-524: Was a Dutch composer, organist, and pedagogue whose work straddled the end of the Renaissance and beginning of the Baroque eras. Sweelinck was a master improviser, and acquired the informal title of the "Orpheus of Amsterdam". Over 70 keyboard works of his have survived, and many of them may be similar to the improvisations that residents of Amsterdam around 1600 were likely to have heard. Even his vocal music, which
5829-408: Was a blend of free improvisation and jazz , the latter typically in a post-bop or free jazz vein (but sometimes touching on swing music ), and including both original compositions by the trio and interpretations of jazz standards . Additionally, their performances often featured a humorous edge due in no small part to Bennink's propensity towards quirky, slapstick humor. Somewhat unusually for
5916-453: Was a cross-over band, combining hip-hop with funk and rock. The band's minor American success proved to be influential. Their music style ( rapcore ) influenced bands like Rage Against the Machine . Van Halen was created by Edward Van Halen who was of Dutch heritage. The 1990s made international hits courtesy of 2 Unlimited , 2 Brothers On The 4th Floor , and Vengaboys . However, the 1990s
6003-645: Was a jazz pianist and composer . He was the pianist on Eric Dolphy 's last album, Last Date (1964). Also featuring on that record was the drummer Han Bennink , and together with Piet Noordijk they formed a quartet which had a number of different bassists. They played at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1966. In 1967 he co-founded the Instant Composers Pool , an organisation which promoted avant garde Dutch jazz performances and recordings, with Han Bennink and Willem Breuker . Mengelberg played with
6090-434: Was a jazz bandleader, composer, arranger, saxophonist , and bass clarinetist . Since 1974 he led the 10-piece Willem Breuker Kollektief, which performed jazz in a theatrical and often unconventional manner, drawing elements from theater and vaudeville . Many Dutch artists have become popular by singing songs in their own language. It started with Peter Koelewijn in the late 1950s, the first to sing Rock and Roll in Dutch. In
6177-663: Was also the last event of his Armin Only: Imagine world tour. To celebrate the 400th episode of A State of Trance , he performed at three shows with various artists in April, 2009 at Club Butan, Wuppertal , Germany, AIR , Birmingham, United Kingdom and Maassilo, Rotterdam , Netherlands . Also in 2009, Foreign Media Games announced the production of Armin van Buuren: In the Mix , a music video game being produced in collaboration with Cloud 9 Music and Van Buuren's Armada Music label. The title
6264-460: Was also the start of the DJ-era. Ferry Corsten , Tiësto , Armin van Buuren , DJ Jean and Bart Claessen started their careers in the 1990s and became the stars of their era. Dutch bands in the 2000s are Intwine , The Sheer , Naked Shepherd, Krezip, Di-rect and Johan . Originally a semi-finalist in the fifth season of The Voice of Holland , singer-songwriter Duncan Laurence went on to win
6351-763: Was announced for a fifth non-consecutive year as the world's number one DJ according to DJ Mag . To celebrate the 600th episode of A State of Trance , Van Buuren announced that he would perform with various artists all around the world in early 2013. The show was called A State of Trance 600: The Expedition . It was announced that the show would tour the world, including stops in Madrid , Mexico City , São Paulo , Minsk , Sofia , Beirut , Kuala Lumpur , Mumbai , Miami , Guatemala City , New York City , and Den Bosch . The first single of Van Buuren's fifth studio album, Intense , titled " This Is What It Feels Like ", featured Canadian singer and songwriter Trevor Guthrie , and
6438-446: Was announced that Van Buuren's fourth studio album, Mirage was due to be released on 10 September. The first single " Full Focus ", was released through iTunes Store on 24 June. The song peaked at number 60 in the Netherlands. One of the confirmed tracks from the album is a collaboration with English singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor called " Not Giving Up on Love ", which was released as a single from Bextor's fourth studio album, Make
6525-609: Was announced, for the fourth year running, as the number one DJ in DJ Mag . The 2010 edition of Armin Only : Mirage kicked off in November 2010, in Utrecht, Netherlands , and was followed by shows in Saint Petersburg , Kyiv , Buenos Aires, Melbourne , Beirut , Poznań , Moscow and Bratislava . In March and April, 2011, celebrating the 500th episode of his radio show, Van Buuren performed five live shows along with various artists;
6612-595: Was appointed Officer of the Order of Oranje-Nassau for services to Dutch dance and music economy. That year he also received the Key to ( Freedom ) of Leiden from the City Mayor, as well as being voted No. 2 in the 2011 DJ Mag . To celebrate the 550th episode of A State of Trance , he performed with various artists on two different continents during fourth weeks. The show was called A State of Trance 550: Invasion . The first event
6699-473: Was attributed to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi . Igor Stravinsky used Unico's music for Pulcinella . Alphons Diepenbrock (September 2, 1862 – April 5, 1921) created a musical idiom which, in a highly personal manner, combined 16th-century polyphony with Wagnerian chromaticism, to which in later years was added the impressionistic refinement that he encountered in Debussy's music. Willem Pijper (1894–1947)
6786-607: Was born in July 2011. On 27 July 2013, van Buuren announced just hours before he was due to headline the main stage at Tomorrowland that his wife had given birth to a son, Remy. On 16 February 2018, van Buuren explored his family history in an episode of the TV series Verborgen verleden , the Dutch version of the UK series Who Do You Think You Are? . In 1996, van Buuren released EP and Push on Timeless Records. van Buuren had his first success with
6873-747: Was celebrated at Ministry of Sound in London on 1 March 2012. On 7 March, Moscow held the second event at Expocentre . Kyiv 's show was performed at International Exhibition Centre on 10 March. On 17 March, as part of the Beyond Wonderland festival in Los Angeles and on 25 March at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami. On 31 March, the biggest and final edition of ASOT 550 took place in the Brabanthallen of Den Bosch , Netherlands. On 19 October 2012, Van Buuren
6960-484: Was collected by Cobi Schreijer and Ate Doornbosch , the latter of whom broadcast them on his radio program Onder de groene linde (Under the green lime). It was in about 1974 that the Dutch folk revival peaked, a year marked by the first recording of Fungus and the birth of Wargaren from the band Pitchwheel . The mainstream popularity of the Dutch roots revival was short-lived, but it continued in Friesland , where
7047-446: Was formed and became popular after a beer commercial hit single for Heineken . After leaving Zoppo and forming Avec-A musician Yuri Landman received international attention as an experimental luthier for famous experimental rock bands. Dutch noise rock acts are The Ex , Gone Bald , The Moi Non Plus , Adept , Bonne Aparte , Feverdream . Post-rock acts include We vs Death , Electropunk : Aux Raus . The indie music scene
7134-516: Was released on Black Hole Recordings and Alibi – " Eternity " was released on Armind. "Eternity" received club and chart success and was signed to Paul van Dyk 's imprint Vandit Records . Another major collaboration followed this. Together with Ferry Corsten , Van Buuren recorded a riff titled "Exhale " for the System F album, Out of the Blue . Released as a single, this track reached Gold status. Under
7221-882: Was released on 12 November 2010 exclusively for the Wii console . He was voted number one DJ in the 2009 DJ Mag for the third consecutive year. On 3 March 2010, Van Buuren was awarded with the Golden Harp for his musical work and contribution to Dutch music, by Buma/Stemra at the 2010 Buma Harpen Gala in Hilversum , Netherlands. To celebrate the 450th episode of A State of Trance , he performed with various artists at five shows across two continents. The locations were: The Guvernment , Toronto, Canada on 1 April 2010, Roseland Ballroom , New York City on 2 April and on 3 April again, Expo Arena, Bratislava , Slovakia on 9 April and Centennial Hall , Wroclaw , Poland on 24 April. On 23 June 2010, it
7308-461: Was released on 5 April 2013. The single nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording. The tour for the album, Armin Only: Intense , was announced on 17 October 2013. 30 April 2013 saw the abdication of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands in favor of her son, King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands , who was sworn in and inaugurated that day, which was Queen's Day as well. Van Buuren
7395-641: Was the headline act in a performance to a live audience celebrating the King's crowning in Amsterdam. While he was performing live together with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Amsterdam Harbor on Java-eiland , King Willem-Alexander , Queen Máxima and their three daughters made an unplanned visit on stage. On 19 October 2013, Armin van Buuren was ranked number two DJ in the world by DJ Mag . On 26 January 2014, Armin van Buuren attended
7482-456: Was titled Armin Only: Embrace and took place throughout both 2015 and 2016. As the title of the tour suggests, it was based around the collection of music that he showcased on his new album. On 2 February 2017, Armin van Buuren officially opened a new A State of Trance radio show studio in Amsterdam as part of his celebrations for the 800th episode of the radio show. The studio is located in
7569-407: Was well received. The second release, " Touch Me " under the name Rising Star, was signed to Ministry of Sound in the UK, before the record was released. By the time of his third release, Gimmick – "Free" was signed to R&S Records . During this year, he remixed the first two singles of Gouryella ( Gouryella and Walhalla ) and, under the guise of Rising Star, produced a remix of L'Esperanza ,
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