1.BT feat. Jes – Every Other Way (Armin van Buuren Remix)
2.Nic Chagall feat. Jonathan Mendelsohn – This Moment (Prog Mix)
3.Michael Jackson – Stranger In Moscow (Jerome Isma-Ae Bootleg)
4.Paul van Dyk feat. Johnny McDaid – Home (Cosmic Gate Remix)
5.Armin van Buuren feat. Jennifer Rene – Fine Without You (Sied van Riel Remix)
6.Oceanlab vs Gareth Emery – On A Metropolis Day (Myon & Shane54 Mashup)
7.Cerf, Mitiska,& Jaren – Beggin’ You (Armin van Buuren Remix)
8.4 Strings – Take Me Away (Re-Ward Dub Mix)
9.Armin van Buuren vs Ali Wilson – Never Say Shakedown (Armin van Buuren Mashup)
10.Armin van Buuren vs Cosmic Gate – F.A.V. Rain (Armin van Buuren Mashup)
11.Randy Katana – You & I
12.Temple One pres. Tu Casa – Betelgeuse (Barnes & Heatcliff remix)
13.Jochen Miller – Brace Yourself
14.Purple Haze – Bliksem
15.Stoneface & Terminal vs Rex Mundi feat. Susana – Stardust Nothing At All (Armin van Buuren Remix)
16.Rank1 – Symfo vs Het Wilhelmus (Armin van Buuren Mashup)
17.Armin van Buuren vs Jochen Miller – In & Out Of Connection (Armin van Buuren Mashup)
18.RAM – Ramsterdam (Jorn van Deynhoven Remix)
19.Roger Shah & Signum – Healsville Sanctuary (Roger Shah Remix)
20.John O’Callaghan feat. Lo-Fi Sugar – Never Fade Away (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
21.Gaia – Tuvan (Original Mix)
22.Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat Ana Criado – Sunset Boulevard
23.John O’ Callaghan & Giuseppe Ottaviani – Our Dimension
24.W&W & Ummet Ozcan – Synergy (Original Mix)
25.W&W – Mainstage
26.Markus Schulz – Do You Dream (Uplifting Mix)
27.Armin van Buuren & Rank1 feat. Kush – This World Is Watching Me (Cosmic Gate Remix)
28.Perpetuous Dreamer feat. Elles de Graaf – The Sound Of Goodbye (ID remix)
29.3rd Moon – Monsun
30.Armin van Buuren feat. Justine Suissa – Burned With Desire (Rising Star Remix)
Encore:
31.John O’ Callaghan feat. Sarah Howells – Find Yourself (Cosmic Gate Remix)

As you can see, the tracklist was significantly more varied, with contemporary remixes of classical tracks like Take me Away, Stranger in Moscow, and The Sound of Goodbye.  The rising star remix of burned with desire was definitely one of the major highlights of his set that I haven’t heard from him live in awhile, and brought me back to circa 2002-2003.  The prince and princess of the Netherlands took their place on stage next to the king of trance at one point in his set, and Armin even let her play with his CDJ’s a bit.  The weather could have been better, but all in all this was an amazing and fun event to go to, with some awesome beats that got the entire crowd (from babies that couldn’t even walk yet to the royal family of the Netherlands) jumping.

Stay tuned tomorrow, as the surprise you all have been waiting for will finally arrive.  To whet your appetite for what’s to come: here’s a peak at the exclusive rare set from Avalon in NYC on October 23, 2004:

Ferry Corsten Live At Avalon NYC 23-10-2004

01. Ferry Corsten - Kyoto
02. Activa - In Essence
03. Young Parisians feat. Ben Lost - Jump The Next Train (Solarstone Remix)
04. Carlos Vives - Como Tu (Paul Oakenfold Dub Remix)
05. Solarstone vs. Scott Bond - The Red Line Highway (Original Mix)
06. Capetown feat. Miss Ann - One Way Roads (Original Mix)
07. Above & Beyond - No One On Earth (Gabriel & Dresden Remix)
08. The Thrillseekers - Synaesthesia (Ferry Corsten Remix)
09. Reflekt feat. Delline Bass - Need To Be Loved (The Thrillseekers Remix)
10. BT feat. JC Chasez - The Force Of Gravity (Ferry Corsten Remake)
11. Ferry Corsten - I Love You
12. DJ Tiesto - Just Be (Original Mix)
13. Mirco De Govia - Voller Sterne (Super 8 Remix)
14. Ferry Corsten - Sweet Sorrow (Ferry Corsten's Flashover Mix)
15. Binary Finary - 2000 (Gouryella Remix)
16. Robert Gitelman - Children Of The Sun
17. Ferry Corsten - Right of Way
18. Marco V - Automanual
19. Airwave - Last Flight To Gaia (Original Mix)
20. Ferry Corsten - It's Time (Ferry's Flashover Mix)
21. Ferry Corsten - Rock Your Body Rock
22. Marco V - Godchild
23. Mojado feat. Mr. Sam - El Toro
24. Ferry Corsten - Cubikated
25. ID
26. Oliver Lieb presents Radical Impression - Traveller 3
27. Fu Man Choo - Outlaw (Praha Remix)
28. Fractal Structure - Lost Sequence (Haak's Subliminal Cowbell Mix)
29. Roland Klinkenberg - Monday Groove
30. Ernesto & Bastien - Darkside Of The Moon
31. Adam White & Andy Moor present White Room - The White Room
32. Jan Gustafsson - Future History
33. Madoka - Afterburner (Max Graham Remix)
34. Li Kwan - Point Zero (Leama & Moor Remix)
35. Aven - All I Wanna Do (Ferry Corsten Remix)
36. Gouryella - Ligaya (Vocal Mix)
37. Push - The Legacy (Original Mix)
38. Johan Gielen - Dreamchild
39. Push - R.E.S.P.E.C.T. (Club Mix)
40. Firewall - Kilimanjaro
41. Rapid Eye - Absolute
42. Albert Vorne - A Leaden Way (M.I.K.E. Remix)
43. Ferry Corsten feat. Elles de Graaf - Show You My World
44. System F - Reaching Your Soul (Original Mix)
45. System F - Underwater
46. System F - Out Of The Blue
47. Alt+F4 - Alt+F4
48. Corderoy - Sweetest Dreams (Ferry Corsten Remix)

Electric Zoo as a whole had its ups and downs, but Armin always puts on a good show.  Although the show was a bit dated in terms of tracks (~circa 3-4 months ago), it is common knowledge that Armin plays to the crowd of wherever he goes.  New York City in general is not as into the newest tracks as it is… other pursuits, but he sneaked a few nice gems in the set nevertheless.  As Sirius XM recorded and broadcasted the entire 2 day festival, you can find the sets all over the internet (Google electric zoo [artist] download).  Some of the download links will be expired or taken down because Sirius is serious (pun intended) about their copyright protection.  As such, we will not host such files here, and leave it to the disposable blogs to do so.  Here is the tracklist for his set:

01. Gaia – Tuvan (Intro Mix)
02. Fabio XB & Ronnie Play feat. Gabriel Cage – Inside Of You (Cosmic Gate Remix)
03. Ali Wilson vs. Armin van Buuren feat. Jacqueline Govaert – Never Say Shakedown (Armin van Buuren Mashup)
04. M6 – Opus Sectrum
05. Rank 1 – Symfo
06. OceanLab vs. Gareth Emery – On A Metropolis Day (Myon & Shane 54 Mashup)
07. Temple One pres. Tu Casa – Betelgeuse (Barnes & Heatcliff Remix)
08. Jochen Miller – Brace Yourself
09. Cosmic Gate vs. Armin van Buuren feat. Cathy Burton – F.A.V. Rain (Armin van Buuren Mashup)
10. Armin van Buuren feat. Jaren – Unforgivable (Stoneface & Terminal Dub)
11. Neptune Project – Aztec
12. Roger Shah & Signum – Healesville Sanctuary (Roger Shah Mix)
13. John O’Callaghan feat. Lo-Fi Sugar – Never Fade Away (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
14. Ram – Ramsterdam (Jorn van Deynhoven Remix)
15. Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Ana Criado – Sunset Boulevard
16. Stoneface & Terminal vs. Rex Mundi feat. Susana – Stardust At All (Armin van Buuren Mashup)
17. Darren Tate vs. Jono Grant – Let The Light Shine In (Filo & Peri 2009 Edit)
18. ID
19. Guy Mearns – Sunbeam
20. Thomas Bronzwaer – Look Ahead
21. Armin van Buuren – Communication (Part 3)
22. Ummet Ozcan – Timewave Zero
23. 3rd Moon – Monsun

Encore:
24. Jochen Miller vs. Armin van Buuren feat. Sharon den Adel – In & Out Of Connection (Armin van Buuren Mashup)

Some things that jump out at us were On a Metropolis Day, Jochen Miller, Healesville Sanctuary, Ramsterdam (although the original mix is better), Look Ahead, and of course Communication Part 3 has always and will always be an amazing live track.

That said, the rest of the set was a bit uninspired and the encore is an absolutely stupid track.  The entire crew had fun in VIP though, big thanks to all parties involved that made it possible for us to cover the event there.

Ferry Corsten was day 2, and on paper, it looked like day 2 was going to kick some major butt compared to day 1.  A few DJs the first day surprised the crew here pleasantly with some good beats and likewise, day 2 was a bit disappointing as well.  Menno de Jong was probably the only other artist worthy of mention aside from Ferry.  Markus is probably the most overrated and boring DJ’s to listen to.  James Holden, Josh Gabriel, etc are all very experimental in live sets, and do not even get us started on ATB; it might as well have been called the cheese mainstream tent while he was spinning.  Although Holden did not (to our knowledge) play his famous track a Break in the Clouds, that was exactly what Ferry was on that second day – A break in the cloud of horrible sets.

Now, looking at the tracklist we’re about to post, you may think to yourself that it looks more like a promo tape than a varied and awesome set.  Make no mistake, I must admit that I find an artist playing 90% his own tracks and remixes in his set to be quite pompous and arrogant indeed.  The only difference with Ferry is that he is that talented that he can string together a set full of his own productions and remixes and have it come off varied, with fluctuations in flow, style, etc.  so that it does not sound like 1 long uplift or generic trance song.  It is quite arrogant, yet the track selection, mixing, and timing of each track was so spot on we couldn’t help but have it make up for the rest of the lackluster Sunday festival.  Here is Mr. Arrogant, in all his glory:

1. Ferry Corsten – Gabriella’s Sky (Original Extended Mix)
2. Ferry Corsten Featuring Betsie Larkin – Made of Love (Original Extended Mix)
3. Breakfast – Air Guitar
4. Ferry Corsten – Beautiful (Original Extended Mix)
5. Ferry Corsten – Twice in a Blue Moon (Festival Edit)
6. Ferry Corsten – Brain Box
7. Ferry Corsten – Shanti
8. Ferry Corsten Featuring Maria Nayler – We Belong (Tritonal Air Up There Remix)
9. Cataracta – Primitus
10. System F – Out of The Blue (Remix)
11. Bobina – Invisible Touch (Ferry Corsten’s Touch)
12. Ferry Corsten – Radio Crash

The last two get cut off with annoying yelling and interviews, but what a great way to end his set
13. Ferry Corsten – L.E.F.
14. Ferry Corsten – Rock Your Body, Rock

While we did not attend his afterparty at Pacha, we heard from multiple credible sources that he absolutely killed it there as well.  Ferry does not disappoint live.  And to give you a hint, our exclusive offer for our readers we worked out with the staff at a club he played at in 2004 is one of the best live events we had been to, and they have allowed us to bring it to you FREE of charge.  Stay tuned, because Friday you will be rocking your body to an amazing yet rare live set.  You won’t even have to download from some shady site like rapidshare or depositfiles.

Stay tuned tomorrow to see the Ferry to Armin, and then Friday for the exclusive thanks for reading gift to you guys for following us so closely.  Keep the comments and feedback coming.

New York City’s very own New Island Festival is celebrating 400 years since the Dutch have come to Governor’s Island, and in commemoration of that, they are throwing a free concert by Armin van Buuren this Saturday September 12, 2009 at the Water Taxi Beach in Governor’s Island.  The only cost associated with this is a $10 dollar round trip ticket to/from the island via water taxi, and you can purchase tickets here.  He will be spinning from 1 PM to 5 PM, Water Taxis start at 11 AM.  While not all of the staff will be out at this one, a decent amount of us will be out in full force (mainly for selfish reasons) to cover the event.  As always, shoot us a line if you’re going to be there.  You can check out all the festival details by going to the official site at: http://www.newislandfestival.com/artist/1295/armin-van-buuren.

If you want more information on this event or would like to purchase tickets, please visit http://www.electriczoofestival.com for more information.