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ARMIN VAN BUUREN : A State of Trance: Year Mix 2009

What a year for the A State of Trance radioshow. Not only did it celebrate its 400th episode with three events in three different countries, covered by a 72-hour live broadcast, it also supplied the listeners their weekly fix of trance minded music, with hundreds of tracks by renowned producers and new talent. The man behind it all, is Armin van Buuren.

With an unabated enthusiasm and ever-growing passion for music, Armin selects the best and latest in trance and progressive on a weekly base, no matter how heavy his tour schedule might be. For 8 years already has the A State of Trance radioshow been the perfect guide through all new music out there. With 28 million listeners on a weekly base, divided over 40 radiostations worldwide, A State of Trance is one of the most popular radioshows of the dance scene. Created, spread and backed up by the number one DJ in the world, A State of Trance is ready for another year with fresh and exciting trance music. But not before 2009 is being closed down in style. Read more…

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CELEBRATION : latest greatest hits album from Madonna

Celebration is another greatest hits album from Pop Diva Madonna, and released by Warner Bros. Records, her record company since 1982. The release follows her two previous greatest hits albums, The Immaculate Collection (1990) and GHV2 (2001). The compilation was released in many different formats including a one disc edition and a deluxe double disc. A compilation DVD, entitled Celebration: The Video Collection, was released to accompany the audio versions. The album includes three new tracks, the title track, “Revolver” (featuring Lil Wayne) and the bonus track on some editions “It’s So Cool”.

Celebration was appreciated by contemporary critics who noted the vastness of Madonna’s back-catalogue. The album debuted at the top of the charts in the United Kingdom, Italy and Ireland. Madonna is tied with Elvis Presley to have the most number-one albums as a solo artist in the United Kingdom, though this tally also includes the soundtrack album Evita which features other artists. In other nations, it debuted within the top-ten. The title track was released as the first single of the album. It became Madonna’s fortieth number-one song on Billboard’s dance chart

Either the 2000s have been good to Madonna, or Madonna has been good in the 2000s. Since Music hit nearly ten years ago, she has sounded so much more convincing as a dancing queen than she ever did as, say, Evita, and that’s taking her Timbalake disasterpiece into account. Still, her decade-capping “Celebration”, produced by Paul Oakenfold, sounds like it’s conjuring several of her younger selves­– specifically the Desperately Seeking Susan starlet who wore her bra outside her shirt and spray-painted that dude’s car. Madonna commands boys to step to the beat just like she did on “Into the Groove”, and that canned laughter on the bridge is right out of the Jellybean Benitez playbook, as is the song’s modest goal of just making people move. Read more…

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