Ministry of Sound Blog

Dutch destroyer Armin van Buuren is not that keen on short sets, where he has to go straight to the main course and forget about the tasty appetisers and rich desserts.

That’’s why the world-renowned record spinner is looking forward to delivering a mammoth nine-hour banquet of trance, techno and other forms of dance music to beat-hungry Australian clubbers, he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

A three-hour set, the 31-year-old claims, restricts him to playing “the hits” that everybody is expecting, sacrificing juicy build-up tunes as a result.

Not so in a nine-hour mash-up.

Clubbers at Fox Studios in Moore Park can also expect a mix of different genres not usually associated with the man.

With trance music, he believes you can throw tunes from different forms of dance music into the mix to create a more diverse and funkier sound.

“The cool thing about the genre trance is that you can get away with playing any kind of music, even house music. I think there’’s so much more you can do in dance music, especially [in a] nine-hour set. That’’s what I want to show people,” he told the newspaper.

In 2007, van Buuren was voted the number one record spinner in DJ magazine’’s Top 100 poll.