Mirage Album Tracklist Revealed!

By Pendulum, posted July 25, 2010

The tracklist for Armin's forthcoming album, 'Mirage' has been released, revealing several collaborations and vocal numbers mixed with some instrumentals.

It’s the album the entire dance scene has been waiting for. After months of hard work and creativity, the number one DJ in the world delivers his fourth artist album. Armin van Buuren is proud to present to you: ‘Mirage’. Armin:“Mirage has been the biggest project I’ve ever worked on. There’s so many hours in this. Work started two years ago when I actually built a completely new studio for this project. Many new techniques were used and most of all I had so much fun creating this with the many people that are involved. It was a journey, an epic one!”

‘76’, ‘Shivers’ and ‘Imagine’ are still etched in memory of millions of dance music lovers. Fresh memories will be made as soon as the album hits stores on September 10th 2010. ‘Mirage’ reveals a side of Armin his fans haven’t heard yet and takes in its listeners with new and surprising collaborations. Within the 2 years of endless jamming and producing, Armin invited artists like Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ferry Corsten, BT, Nadia Ali, Guy Chambers, Christian Burns and Adam Young of Owl City into his studio.

As the first single of the album, Armin chose ‘Full Focus’, an instrumental track set to fill arenas, clubs and scorch across the festival terrains set up for the summer of 2010. Armin:“The first track of the album has been a sure shot in my sets for quite a while now. I decided to come back with an instrumental trancer right before summer and all the big festivals. Half of my new album will be instrumental trance, but with the sound of 2010.”

Right after summer, it’s time for the full ‘Mirage’ album to take over. Inspired and influenced by many different types of music, ‘Mirage’ is more diverse than any other Armin album before. His collaboration with Sophie Ellis-Bextor, ‘Not Giving Up On Love’ is a perfect example of that, combining the best of both worlds. Armin:“The Nervo Sisters, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and me met up to write the vocals for ‘Not Giving Up On Love’. I was thrilled to work with them on this. We gave it a more analog feel with some real drums, to give it a pop-rock feel. We also put a piano top line on the track and then the vocals of Sophie, which I think is a win. It’s a lush summer tune with an epic vocal that gets stuck in your head and cheers you up!”

‘Mirage’ is filled with musical fusions and surprising interpretations, from the orchestral masterpiece of title track ‘Mirage’, deep trance track ‘I Don’t Own You’ and housy ‘Feels So Good’ to the eerie ‘Take A Moment’ and feel-good ‘Drowning’. 16 tracks that highlight how Armin has matured as an artist.

Mirage will be in stores September 10th 2010.
01. Desiderium 207 (feat. Susana)
 02. Mirage
 03. This Light Between Us (feat. Christian Burns)
 04. Not Giving Up On Love (vs Sophie Ellis Bextor)  
05. I Don’t Own You 
06. Full Focus
 07. Take A Moment (feat. Winter Kills)
 08. Feels So Good (feat. Nadia Ali) 
09. Virtual Friend (feat. Sophie) 
10. Drowning (feat. Laura V) 
11. Down To Love (feat. Ana Criado) 
12. Coming Home 
13. These Silent Hearts (feat. BT) 
14. Orbion 
15. Minack (vs Ferry Corsten) 
16. Youtopia (feat. Adam Young)

Exclusive, acoustic preview of ‘Not Giving Up On Love’

The second single of Armin’s ‘Mirage’ will be the sugar-sweet Sophie Ellis Bextor collab ‘Not Giving Up On Love’. A powerful tribute to love, that Sophie already performed live on BBC Radio 2’s Dermon O’Leary Show. If you’re curious about the track, check the exclusive acoustic version of the single on YouTube! ‘Not Giving Up On Love’ will be releases at the end of August.