A State of Trance World Tour

This radio show aired on radio for the very first time on June 01, 2001 by Armin van Buuren and since then it has travelled a long journey of airing weekly broadcast every Thursday night at 2000 hours CET, an epic milestone itself which none of the radio shows has achieved so far. Currently this radio show broadcasts on FM station of 45+ countries including India. This week ASOT will broadcast its 750th radio show live from Armada club in Amsterdam.

Celebrating round numbers of the episode in style started from Episode # 350, we still remember when ASOT completed its 400 episodes in 2008, it was a 3 day festival April 16, 17 and 18.

These 3 days ASOT broadcasted 72 hours of live non stop trance via DI.fm, the concept was, at the party time in night live radio broadcast from different DJs playing their set for 1 hour each and in the day time pre-recorded sets from various artists were played, this madness went out for full 72 hours non stop.

Now the current concept is, whenever this radio show completes round number (for example, 500,550,600… and so on) , instead of celebrating for 3-4 consecutive days in different countries, its extended to more countries and celebration goes on till 2-3 months.

This current style came into picture from ASOT 500 and after that its also a yearly tradition to carry a theme, name and anthem song for all the ASOT festivals.

Now this anthem song thing is a good and interesting one as Armin van Buuren asks different DJs / Producers to produce a track which should be very well suited and should have all the anthem and festival ingredients, this competition gave several producers a big chance to show their work and well many of them got very well benefited as well after got crowned as winners.

Here’s the list of theme, name and anthem winners .

450 – Sebastian Brandt.

500 – No Theme, No Anthem Competition but in fact anthem was prepared by Gaia – Status Excessu D

550 – The Invasion was the theme and W&W were crowned as winners for the anthem titled as The Invasion

600 – The Expedition was the theme, NO Anthem Competition, but our very own Mr Markus Schulz and Armin van Buuren took the responsibility of creating one , titled as The Expedition

650 – New Horizons was the theme, Jorn van Deynhoven won the anthem titled as New Horizons

700 – Together in A State of Trance, NO Anthem Competition, Armin only prepared the anthem by the same name

750 – I Am in A State of Trance is the theme for this year 2016, and Mr Ben Gold won the crown with the same title track.

Dates for this year ASOT festival are yet out only for these locations

Today, Jan 28, 2015 – 2 Hour Broadcast, Recording Party live Armada Club in Amsterdam

Jan 30, 2015 – Special Anniversary episode live from Toronto, Canada

Feb 27, 2015 – Saying it the World’s biggest Trance Event, having 40+ artists , 4 Stages and it will be live from Utretch.

March 20, 2015 – Event will be broadcasted live from ASOT Stage at Ultra Music Festival,Miami

We are not sure whether ASOT750 will make a stop in India or not, for that we need to be patient and simply wait.

But if we consider the fact that Armin has been to Indian shores from last 3 years

March 16, 2013 – The Expedition, Mumbai

Jan 24, 2014 – Armin Only – Intense, Mumbai

June 06, 2015 – ASOTFESTASIA, Mumbai

This year we Indians had a big hope to see Armin again either with ASOT750 or Armin Only Embrace. All we can say now is just wait for the announcement, as more cities for ArminOnly Embrace will be announced during the broadcast of Utrecht edition on Feb 27.

Catch the aftermovie of ASOT600 – The Expedition, Mumbai here to get a glimpse of the madness