MasterClass Armin Van Buuren Teaches Dance Music TUTORiAL-SYNTHiC4TE

actually there's a high chance that you are the new one in town, first it's not EDM scene, that thing didn't even exist back in the early 2,000 let alone the 90's.

Having said that, real purists and those who know how the music industry works know that most if not all of the producers in the trance scene have or have worked with at least one co-producer or ghost producer, it's well known in places like tranceaddict.com that only a handful of people produce for the whole scene.

That is not strange at all and it's pretty common in pop for example, the project known as armin van buuren has had involvement of many producers over the years, from people like gabriel & dresden, ferry, jan vayne, adrian & raz (huge involvement, they made shivers, perpetual dreamer songs, etc.) , amongst the people who have worked for him are: dj remi, lars huniche, guy chambers, sha himself and the producer of markus shulz (there's a guy working for him whose name i can't remember) just to name a few. It was airwave himself who taught armin many things in his early years and then ferry, it's sad that armin has so much pride that he never thanks all those who made "him".

If you can't recognize the obvious rank 1 style in mirage and imagine albums you don't really know much about this genre. In fact there's a video where armin himself says he only supplies benno with ideas while he creates loops but he never mentions he composes, because he doesn't. And before anyone says why all these people are not in armins credits, it's because that's the whole point of a "project", only the main guy appears and he decides who appears and who doesn't, since he's paying. You can explain to me why people like berry goedemans who worked for josh gabriel doesn't appear in his credits... and that's just one person, there are countless of people who work for big names in "secret", forget the ghost producers, there are ghost mixers, sound designers, beat makers, etc and each of them have an impact on the final song, let's not underestimate their work.

Armin fanboys are all over the place, the worst thing you can do in music is to idolize people because once you find out the truth your in for a big dissapointment.

Been listening to "EDM" since the mid 90's, maybe you were not even born then?! LOL!
Corsten is a producer that produces the actual music, Armin did Communication alone I think, the rest are all with "ghost" producers, just like Tieso and David Guetta! Armin is like a movie producer, dare I say not even a director! Vincent De Moor has also been a ghost producer for many of the trance artists!

Present day big DJ's are like many pop stars, they (pop stars) may get a writing credit but in reality, they just turn up at the studio, sing what the producer tells them, and off they go. In other words, they had nothing to do with the production of the track or the writing of the song, hell, you change one word and you get a credit! AND then they give you the BS about the song being meaningful to them bla bla bla, like some of these DJ's I've heard state, let along the pop stars! It's called the "music industry" for a reason, it's industrial, pump out as much music and make as much money as you can, irrespective of the quality!

I'm not new and i'm agree with him so you are new one imo .

Armin did track by himself, it was when he was not famous on scene but for sure it was old time and now Benno is main head on his productions and Benno does mixing engineering , sound designs , writing melodies.