Armin van Buuren Finally Responds to Deadmau5's Tweet War

Once having taken the world by storm with their awfully rumoured and later proclaimed dead collaboration, trance legend Armin van Buuren and Joel Zimmerman aka Deadmau5 arrived into a tweet war yesterday, when Joel gun-fired at the former’s longtime radio show, A State of Trance. In the Twitter outburst, Joel claimed that “ASOT is about as much “trance” as Nelson Mandela is indie punk.” Firing back, Armin proposed a challenge to the mau5: “Why don’t you come and play #ASOT700 and show us what “trance” is? Or backing out again?

The subsequent tweets that followed made Mau5‘s purpose clear, in which he called to mind the genre’s early days as favourable to the likes of Van Buuren and Tiesto. “Settle down kids, I’m not picking fights…”, he continued in reply to the outraged fans coming to Van Buuren’s shield.

We all know that ASOT definitely isn’t just pure trance any longer, and Armin himself certainly doesn’t claim that it is. For those who aren’t aware, it is even clearly stated in the show’s tagline that both trance and progressive are emphasised. Looking over the fact that trance has evolved and changed so much with a blend of different styles of music throughout the years, Joel’s statements seemed old-fashioned, especially coming from someone at the forefront of cutting-edge electronic music.

Later, British trance duo Binary Finary also joined the argument after Deadmau5 claimed in his tweet, “Trance died in the late ‘90s. Thanks a lot binary finary,” to which the producers of the track 1998 responded, “Since you always like to blag off genres, produce a 140bpm Uplifting Trance track that you can make for us to judge.” Joel retaliated:

The war of tweets didn’t end there as later today Mau5 replied back to Armin’s comment about backing out – “thanks for the kind offer, but no thanks…“, “why don’t you come over and clean my apartment…?

Though there hasn’t been any word on social media from Van Buuren yet, we hope that peace is made as soon as possible so that everyone can get back to their work of making good music that we all enjoy.

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