Armin van Buuren: 'I always dreamed of doing a concept. I had the idea for doing a 'Moons Of Jupiter' kind of project for a long time'
'And then I discovered that Jupiter has 67 satellites and I thought: that's amazing! Why not make a journey that stop at some of these satellites'
Benno de Goeij: 'The fun part is also that these all have different diameters; some are rough, some are round. So were more free to actually experiment sound wise as well'
Armin van Buuren: 'For me, if you listen to Moons Of Jupiter, it is really like GAIA takes you on a trip to Jupiter and it's a soundtrack for that journey'
Benno de Goeij: 'I think it's almost essential to just listen to the album from very start to the very end to get
to get to that concept'
'Because the tracks on itself, we like them as well, of course. But it's the journey that makes it so interesting'
Armin van Buuren: 'We completely destroyed the concept of making an album. We did it in exactly the opposite way. With GAIA, we did it completely the other way around'
'We went on tour before we finished the
album'
Benno de Goeij: Actually, there was no album at all'
Armin van Buuren: 'There was no album'
Benno de Goeij: 'We could not even, our production team, we could not even give them a proper listen as to
what they could expect'
Armin van Buuren: 'There was no music! There was just loops'
Benno de Goeij: 'We had to write it down and the first time that we did it was in Paradiso. For the first time we heard what we did. We didn't even know what what it was going to be'
'And then afterwards, we had a time to to make it a proper album'
Armin van Buuren: 'As a human being, music is so important to personally. We've created something that we always wanted to make. To put a long story short'
'And the good news is: Jupiter has 67 satellites and we've only taken you, on this album, to 21. So who
knows?'
