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ASOT (Armin van Buuren); Armin van Buuren
Why we feature this artist Episode 183 within Armin’s radio archive The combined ASOT and Armin van Buuren credit describes a radio programme and its host. Episode 183 belongs to A State of Trance’s numbered broadcast history; it is not the name of another mus…
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Episode 183 within Armin’s radio archive
The combined ASOT and Armin van Buuren credit describes a radio programme and its host. Episode 183 belongs to A State of Trance’s numbered broadcast history; it is not the name of another musical act or a collaboration between two separate performers.
A continuing sequence of programmes
A State of Trance began in June 2001, according to Armin’s own biography. The early Armada archive preserves the numbered format from its opening editions. Each number identifies a particular programme within a continuing series, giving the listening history an order that is different from a studio discography.
The show’s musical identity comes from programming as well as performance. Records by different artists can form a continuous movement, with the host’s selections giving them another context.
The host behind the title
Armin’s work as a recording artist extends beyond the radio series, and the full editorial biography follows that wider career. The ASOT title keeps the emphasis here on the broadcast: a place where his role is to introduce, connect and share music rather than to claim authorship of every recording in the programme.