Armin Van Buuren - Intense

The ever-growing importance of social media in the career of a musician poses many moral challenges. Artists are torn between slowly building their digital fan base in a genuine fashion by producing high quality work, or purchasing fake digital fans to falsely inflate their online presence at a much faster [...]

The gong is one of the oldest-known instruments in the history of humanity. In the past, archeologists have uncovered Asian gongs over five-thousand years old, which have provided researchers with a variety of information supporting many of the historically different functions of the round, metal instrument. The most widely-accepted theory [...]

American mega-corporation Apple currently dominates the creative computing world, but the California-based company has yet to make any forays into the rapidly growing market of music-making devices; that is, until now. Apple recently unveiled it’s first consumer product tailored towards musicians: the iPlay. At first glance, the iPlay’s physical appearance [...]

NEW YORK — The stresses of running a multi-day music event are still in their earliest stages for Mike Hayworth, the audio-visual coordinator at New York’s annual Electric Zoo festival. Hayworth is one of the festival’s primary contacts for performing artists and agencies; he is responsible for liaising with artists [...]

BERLIN - Shabiza Shazri, owner of the popular laundromat Das Soap Maschine located in central Berlin, says she is disappointed that her son shows no interest in pursuing a career in techno; the lifeblood of the German city. Despite her constant prodding, Samir, the youngest of her two sons, seems [...]

Armin Van Buuren’s fifth record, Intense, is a pastiche of bleeps and bloops that exhibit textural similarity to the sounds created by the hospital machines that monitor heart rate and other bodily functions. Van Buuren, who’s quick to note that he did not take any inspiration from the sounds made [...]