Armin has up to a point always worked alone during his music career, but with the third release of an album in 2008, he began work in collaboration with Benno de Goeij, leader of Rank 1. In September of 2008, he won the title and award of “Best Trance DJ” and was up against other famous and well known trance music DJ’s, producers and musician such as Tiesto and others.

He has worked with many trance, progressive and techno music artists and have often worked in close relation with them. A vacation to the island of Crete led him to met his future wife Erika van Thiel and they married in September 2009. He has seen the world with global tours as well as local. Armin and his wife Erika is both from the Netherlands and it is quite common to see him performing in front of sold out crowds of up to 20,000 people in his home turf.

It is also quite common to see him performing at huge summer festivals located around the world and when in the UK he is a regular a club by the name of Passion. He has often been heard saying that fans and the public is what makes or breaks a DJ. The role of a DJ is to feel the crowd, work the crowd and keep the crowd happy and nobody should know that better than DJ Armin van Buuren.