With 250 coming and going, we embarked on a new era... as the Welsh guy passed the announcing job baton off to the new Brit bloak. He was met with initial disapproval, but he grew on us.

Now The guy from 400 was really cool. Kind of sounds like a witness protection disguised voice over or something... I think he says " Lets go back down that rabbit hole" on the asot yr mixes, right?

Creepy, but cool!

Armin, is this a new era? I guess we shall find out tomorrow.

kinda does but opening from 384 ep was indeed powerful

"..... Imagine the world ….without rhythm … unbalanced … thorn apart by chaos …the journey continues "

"journey continues" part was especially ... huh goosebumps

The orig ID-T guy to me was still the best...
And i'd def always prefer a beautiful-sounding woman with an English accent (like on GDJB)..

But its only a voice...just keep the show cool and i'm down with any voice

if the music is great... i think the voice male or female does not count.
But this is only an opinion. what can i say.. i prefer the voice of Zara, if you ask me:P

Even Chris Jones?

"And your LISTENING TO A STATE OF TRANCEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

Dont open that can 'o worms

Noone can replace jigsaw.
If you see this, great job, man!

Seems as if it's already open!



mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Usually Armin changes the ASOT leader after each milestone episode, so let's see what he comes up with tonight

yeah true after 300 Armin changed the start wonder what sounds like 2day

I think so.! Glad old buddy is gone. No ooffense.

New guy is way better!

I liked that one way more, the new sounds so aggressive :>

lol nice one

Ye same altough i think asot is the only radio show with a male voice? ah.fm, tatw, gdjb, nocturnal got female. pretty original i guess

No one comes even close to the old ID&T guy. The last one, wasn't bad either.. but this time the voice is too overmodulated IMO. Sounds like a big fat ugly alien to me. Doesn't really fit.. hope it grows on me though, but I'm not a fan so far.

I will always prefer the id&t Guy over both, but the last bloak said TRONCE, therfore Armin statred saying TrONCE

Its Trance, If you listen to the new guy annunciate, he actually says it the 3rd way ....Trance


1 "TRANZ" - old Id&t Armin dialect (kind of like Tiestos club life "Velcome to the show" More dutchy sounding pronunciation of trance.

2 "TRONCE" - the recent dude (A&B and Emery's influence/contribution to the show?hmm) more British sounding pronunciation of trance

3 "TRANCE" - the current guy More American sounding pronunciation of trance?


Who agrees with this cateogorization triad of trance pronunciations?


every 50 episodes we change it

It should be awarded to a specific nationalality for patriotic sake and enjoyment of the show.

Chinese, Spanish , French

crazy ideas

the voice did change i was expecting the start to change

Its the guy from the IMAGINE show!!!


PERFECT FIT!!!

I was listening to the show today and found the new jingles a rather confusing. The first one was "the best in electronic dance music", so I thought hey he changed that - cool, it describes better what the show stands for nowadays. Then half an hour later there was another new jingle stating "the best in trance and progressive" and then a third "only the best in trance music". So now I'm all confused. What is it?

so they changed that aswell nice haven't listened to 402 yet i will later 2mmow

I still prefer the previous announcer.

"Ladies and Gentleman. This is A State of Trance"

He also say TUNE instead of TJUNE

i'd still like to hear some female voices just cos everybody is saying they don't care - cos it's all about the music ...

I miss the last guy. I really liked the British accent. Not a fan of this new "American-style" announcer. Sounds way too weird. So after ASOT 450, can we expect Armin to choose some Latin guy to be the next announcer? "Come on, main, this is A State Of Trance, main!" Would be hilarious and cool

the guy from ID&T is the best no one even comes close to him i luv hering the old asot eps

I agree.. He always knew exactly when to dub him in...

He also annnounces moveis... the Welsh Guy.. if Im right

LOL there's another new jingle that I just noticed. Here the announcer says "The most favorite track of last weeks' episode"

There's no such thing as "most favorite". Favorite already indicates the highest level of popularity. It's the same as saying "most optimal". You can not get any better than optimal, hence there is no such thing as "more optimal" let alone "most optimal".

damn............ you guys listen to every milli-second of asot including the intros & outros

for me..... I never paid attention to what "the voice" says , i just know some words here & there

Ugh, I think the new voice is pretty bad. Not the accent, but it's pretty much the same sort of voice used in the US on radio commercials promoting Monster truck events, motocross, and wrestling. Seems just so out of place on an European dance music show...

LOL

I reckon a voice over by Don Lafontaine would be Epic.

"And Now, broadcasted across the globe, this is a State of Trance... with your host.. (stronger tone) Armin VAN Buuren"

gotta agree with you

Is the ID&T the guy who does the epic voice for Sensation White Parties and stuff.

Man that guy is Cool lol. Says "Sensation" so well, that guy pwns all

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvZ3Sig7tVc

Ya thats him

We need the famous boxing announcer for an ASOT intro.

"Leeeeets get reeeeady for ASOOOOOOOOOT"

Do you realize he was the 2008 AO announcer as well? (when u imagine something, u think about it and ur mind forms a picture or idea of it)

Monster trucks... i can see how you could hear that...

I would TRY not to heheh


for me its;

1.id and t guy
2. the current guy
3. the brit guy

Most optimal indeed

We need a drunk Chris Jones doing the intro from now on.

No....Audry....even drunker

Yes... when I listen to the older sets I total get goosebumps. His voice brought me into a state of trance thats for sure.