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Armada Music is the biggest independent dance music label in the world. Founded by Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron (CEO) and David Lewis, the label manages an ever-growing catalog of over 40,000 tracks, built up across twenty-plus years of specialized dance music exploitation. 

Representing artists such as Armin van Buuren, ARTY, D.O.D, Eelke Kleijn, Jan Blomqvist, Loud Luxury, Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano, Tensnake, THEMBA and Yulia Niko, Armada Music amasses more than one billion streams per month, airplay on leading radio outlets such as BBC Radio 1 and Sirius XM, and top positions in the world’s most notable charts. The label also takes great pride in major achievements such as Armin van Buuren’s GRAMMY nomination for ‘This Is What It Feels Like’, Loud Luxury and Brando’s ‘Body’ surpassing one billion streams on Spotify and breaking artists such as Lost Frequencies into global stardom.

Across offices in Amsterdam (HQ), New York, London and Laren (NL), Armada Music offers a truly global appeal to its growing roster. The label has its own club, radio studio and multiple production studios, and hosts various live formats. Producer platform Armada University, which offers educational products and opportunities, shows the label’s sustained effort to nurture the next wave of talent. 

In 2023, Armada Music launched BEAT Music Fund, the world’s first dance music investment company, that acquires catalogs with the mission of honoring, representing and reinvigorating them. BEAT’s portfolio will continue to grow; in the first six months following its launch, BEAT acquired the catalogs of, among others, electronic music star ARTY, house and techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson’s KMS Records, legendary NYC-based house label King Street Sounds and chart-topping producers Chocolate Puma.


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Armin van Buuren has been a global ambassador for electronic music for over thirty years, with a Grammy nomination, five #1 spots in the DJ Mag Top 100, and nine full-length artist albums to his name. Through his exemplary productions, groundbreaking live
shows (e.g. his new ‘THE ORB’ world tour) and his weekly A State of Trance radio show (44 million listeners from over 80 different
countries), event series and album series, he cultivates a massive global following.

Armin van Buuren headlines tens to hundreds of shows per year at leading festivals and venues around the world, including Electric Daisy Carnival (Las Vegas, New York), Ultra Music Festival
(Miami), Lollapalooza (Chicago. Berlin) and Tomorrowland (Belgium, Brazil), plus residencies on Ibiza and in Las Vegas, and his own A State of Trance events in Rotterdam, London, Mexico and beyond. 

As a producer, Armin van Buuren has joined forces with the biggest artists in dance music and beyond, from Hardwell, David Guetta and Martin Garrix, to Moby and Jon Bon Jovi. In June 2025, he released his ninth studio album, ‘Breathe’.

Armin van Buuren is also the co-founder of Armada Music, the world’s biggest independent dance music label.

Simon Patterson is The One.
21 consecutive Beatport number ones with massive singles such as 'Dissolve', 'Now I Can Breath Again', 'Apex’, ‘The One’, ‘Shadows’ (with Astrix), ‘Brush Strokes’, ‘Northern Lights’, ‘Here and Now’, ‘Latika’, ‘Thump’, ‘Smack’, ‘F-16’, ‘Bulldozer’, ‘Mood Swing’ - Simon Patterson’s production back catalogue is an astonishing list of hit after hit record. All records that retain absolute credibility in both the underground as well as the overground.
Simon Pattersonis the master craftsman of melancholic melody and the premier purveyor of razor sharp beats.
Simon’s Open Up brand is firmly established as the market leader for high quality underground trance, tech and psy. His OU radio show is the hottest showcase of music from the tech and psy scene as well as being the first place to hear the fresh sounds emerging from Simon’s studio.
His sell out OU live shows continue to bring a unique and futuristic visual / audio experience to the hottest dance floors worldwide and he recently completed two residency runs on BBC Radio 1 confirming Simon’s popularity and position in the UK as being as prominent as it is worldwide.
Simon Patterson headlines the coolest festivals and clubs the world over. His tour schedule is relentless. He is a key player at all major Insomniac events including Dreamstate, EDC, Beyond Wonderland and regularly appears at ASOT, Creamfields, Tomorrowland, BAT, Evolution, Mayday, Luminosity and countless other leading electronic events.
Simon Patterson is pioneering a new sound and clubbing experience that fuses cutting edge audio with an insane custom visual experience (developed by genius visual producers Rebel Overlay).
Touring extensively in the US Simon now resides in Miami in order to meet the demand for his sound in the states. The EDM bubble has burst and the armies of kids who grew up on bland and monotony are now craving something with more depth and soul.
Along with Astrix, John Askew, Freedom Fighters, Sean Tyas, Will Atkinson and Blazer - Simon is one of the VII elite, a new record label and brand pushing the boundaries of cutting edge tech and psy.
Simon Patterson is also now signed to Insomniac Recordings / Interscope in the US. Watch this space for the biggest hits of his career to date.
With each new dawn, new sounds, new ideas and new visions are born. And today Simon Patterson spearheads a new wave of sounds taking futuristic electronic stimulation to a new level as he fuses an innovation blend of music, technology and visual art.
Open Up.

Argentinean Heatbeat have smashed into the global EDM scene over the past few years with their cutting edge, futuristic sound, fusing multiple genres together to create a new trance based sound for the future! Signed to legendary Armada Recordings, their productions such as ‘Boom’, ‘Game Over’, ‘Extra Bacon’ ‘Rocker Monster’ and ‘Roses Never Cry’ have been topping download charts and playlists worldwide, picking up plays from a diverse range of DJs from Armin Van Buuren & Paul van Dyk to Porter Robinson, Gareth Emery & Tiesto and have been asked to remix and collaborate with the biggest headliners including Armin Van Buuren, W&W, John O’ Callaghan & Cosmic Gate. Their DJ sets incorporate this musical diversity with unique mash-ups and bootlegs forged in the Heatbeat studios to keep the dance floor packed with the duo entertaining whilst educating! With their touring schedule going into overdrive, the duo have gone global, performing in USA, Australia, Canada, Europe, Russia and Asia featuring at festivals including Global Gathering, Stereosonic, Electronic Family Festival, Summerlake, A State Of Trance as well as key brands including The Gallery, Insomniac, Trancemission, Trancefusion, Armada Night and Zouk! Now regarded as national treasures in their native Argentina Heatbeat are the biggest EDM stars, headlining key festivals such as Ultra Music Festival and hosting their very own series of sellout event’s ‘Heatbeat Night’ across Argentina. This huge popularity resulted in their debut entry into DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs at No.81 in 2012 increasing their worldwide demand even further. 2013 saw them retain this exact position for another year proving the hype on their brand continues! Expect a lot more to come from this duo in 2014 with their debut artist album planned as well as key collaborations with the world’s biggest EDM heroes proving Heatbeat are the sound of the future!

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