Thought she was saying wanna be natural for you.

ASOT is recorded and uploaded to torrent every week.

Club version doesn't mean no vocals. Club version just means not radio edit. DUB version would be no vocals/minimal vocals.

I actually figured out the "I wanna be an angel for you" from the first time. At least it's not "Slave" ;)

Sounds refreshing for sure and it's a quality I'm always looking for (especially after all those boring albums).
I just fear we might get songs any other high selling american artist could sing/release. Something really impersonal/formatted you can hear all day long on the radio.

I just heard the previews once but I'm really curious to hear the full thing!

If we end up getting only 10 songs for this album I'll add My Way but I'm considering putting also You & Me since I took it out of LOVE again and i replaced it for Tell All. Y&M feels that it would feet in the album despite the fact that is 2 years old.

What do you think? :/

Angel ⇢ All I can think about is the screams ayu will make trying to sing this one live (unless they will edit her voice A LOT, like we heard the last time). Also, it reminds me of a western song, can't remember which one (Demi Lovato, maybe?). I don't like it; it sounds soo pretentious to me, and this style doesn't fit her at all imho.

Lelio ⇢ By far, the best for me. Catchy, powerful, and a little "kumiesque" (which is good, since Kuu is the queen of these kind of songs ♥). Perfect for parties and concerts!

NOW & 4EVA ⇢ The twin brother of identity.. they're so alike that I'm even scared! It has the classic ayu vibe, tho it's not as rockish as I would like it to be. But it's good anyway; better than a ballad, for sure!

Terminal ⇢ Sounds so ethereal, haunting, and strange. Reminds me of her early trance/electronic songs, or at least of her first remixes. Never liked this style, honestly (always hated it), but I'm actually intrigued; I feel it can turn out soooo good, or sooo bad. Hopefully the first!

What is Forever Love ⇢ Ugh, I totally hate this kind of song. It's Another Song -vol II-, as someone mentioned before, although the melody here is slightly better. I don't think it will get any better, for my taste.

XOXO ⇢ Works for me, despite of the evident american tune. I can see it closing a concert, or... oh no, in the cutesy section á la Shake it :dead2

That said, I hope everything amazes me in full :D

I'm not sure how to feel about this album so far.

Hello new me and Pray are going to feel so freaking out of place lol

If anyone wants to listen live tomorrow, ASOT airs at:
20:00 (CET), 7pm (UK Time), 2pm (EST)

Tune into Digitally Imported (DI Radio) Trance station. You can find this listed in iTunes under:
Internet > Electronica > DI - Trance

You may also use www.di.fm

Lol, you are all totally deaf. It's obviously that ^ and I'm not even native English. :')

kind of..

I thought the an before angel wasn't clear enough. That's what threw me off. lol

It's not unusual for her to leave out small words like that though. xD

Are u wake up??!

Yes, this is wake up.

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images...cd0a4fd0c.jpeg

Finally! i downloaded NOW & 4EVA! This song! Its really pretty! It has a classic ayu sound, The intro has got some soft pianos and guitar. The verses are soft and then there's buildup until BOOM! The chorus just blown me away! Really pretty piano ! Wish i could manage to rip it when I got home tonight. Though i have a feeling they'll show up soon here.

Lol I kinda hope we don't have LQ leaks of the whole album a month before it's out...

and there's still no title!

I really love NOW&4EVA !!! Here are some lyrics i heard for NOW & 4EVA

I'm confident that this song is gonna be one of the strongest trcks in the album, if not in Ayu's discography. It sounds like a reminiscent of Because of You, Game and Identity with a bridge of Tell all

thanks a lot! I'll stay tuned

Me too..

That sounds great! I really love BoY and Game! Been waiting for something like these!

I love Terminal and Lelio, I hope they aren't horrible in FULL.
NOW &4EVA and What is forever love sounds good.
XOXO is OK, but Angel is the worst, is repetitive and awful.

Guys, can you explain me why "What is forever love" sounds weird ?

I'm not a native English speaker (obviously, XD)

It does sound a bit weird if not a little old fashioned to me. Forever love could easily be substituted for "eternal love" or "everlasting love". It is likely easily to sing the phrase "What is forever love" instead of "What is eternal love" or "What is everlasting love".

I need covers asap so I can decide if I will or not pre-order this release ><'

In "What is forever love?" verses I think that she's being ironic and trying to say that a "forever love" does not exist after all.

I think you are right, it's not sneezing, but get back at you...LOL!

I don't really hear a 'get' though... sounds like she's saying 'yeah, at you' or something.

I thought she was just saying "get a-a-a-a-a-at you"

These previews just blow me away.

This album will be a new gem to add to her discography!!

Past wednesday we got tracklist, this wednesday we got previews and next wednesdey, we got covers?

Hopefully!!! with title and complete tracklist hopefully.

in about 8 days we are getting HQ versions of 2 songs! HANG IN THERE PEOPLE HAAHHA

Which new song is by Armin?

It seems the general consensus is that it is probably Terminal. We'll know for sure tomorrow when Armin plays the club mix on A State of Trance.

Can we please get the title and cover though....

I'll be surprised if Armin's track is Terminal, considering I though his would've gotten a video. But it does sound most likely.

A fan posted their thoughts of Terminal in a blog entry.

Seems like it was their favorite track due to her voice and some really impactful lyrics. They talk about the title and how the meaning is more like 'the end' in the sense of death or finality in general. (末期/終末 as opposed to an airport terminal or something like we'd thought)

I'm in love with Lelio. I'm trying not to replay the preview too much :laugh

Round 2 of impressions after playing the previews more!

Angel: still my least favorite.. still think it's what I hear when I'm high on vodka & weed in a club. oh also it sounds like a track one of the contestants in So You Think You Can Dance? will play to their "freestyle" solo

Lelio: Don't really like this too... I like the sound of the snippet but I don't think Ayu & it goes well together.. if we gave it to maybe Namie Amuro it'd be better cos her voice is so annoying & 101% she will butcher it further live

NOW & 4EVA: best one so far.. sounds like it would fit right into Gundam series.. it also sounds like a Maki Goto song. the melody brings us to the early 00's, nice!

Terminal: why does her voice sound different here than the other previews? but I LOVE how dark it is.. could be an epic track if it continues like this

What is forever love: IDGAF about goat boy although I wish he wasn't there.. it's my 2nd favorite though embarrassingly because the melody is SO CHEESY like one of the 90s Backstreet Boys/N' SYNC songs lol

XOXO: I quite like this one too.. it gives a similar vibe to Lelio but her voice suits this a lot more.. the lyrics oh God I bet she was doing weed & scotch with Timmy, then Cyndi Lauper's "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" plays in their mansion & Timmy goes, "OMG you need to paraphrase the lyrics into Shake It :heart 2014!!!!!" still enjoyable though :P

now I wish they didn't put Pray & Hello new me in the album.. so out of place. i'm guessing Hello new me is #1 and Pray is #10. and I want more EDM ballads like Merry-go-round!!!!

It's sad the song isn't getting a PV and prolly won't get any public exposure either...

After listening to the previews, I don't think that ayu's voice works well with some of these songs. idk maybe it's just this album? Her ayumix trance albums are amazing, but her voice sounds really...idk...unfitting this time around. I think I'd like it better as an all instrumental album if most of the songs are going to be dance-y. Her voice is just really high pitched and not very strong. It sounds loud, but not strong. I feel like when you make a dance-y type of song you need a certain type of voice to fit it. Not that I'm not going to enjoy these songs because the previews are really different from what she usually does, but listening to something like this and then listening to Lelio, I gotta say it's kinda off putting.

Yeah Terminal is amazing, I wish it could get a PV.

Everyone should be happy that Terminal is about death and not a love song (like ayu lacks a lot of these haha). =)

And people don't forget that these are previews so it's not like Angel will be only "I want to be an angel for you" the whole song, so it might have more special parts.

What is forever love kind of reminds me of Like a doll and it sounds good!

I really wonder if there will be a throw off to Cindy's Girls just wanna have fun with XOXO XD

GOODS

more tomorrow at mu-mo

You mean Cyndi Lauper?

Cyndi, yeah (sorry for mispelling her name). =P

and I probably meant throwback.

We can still throw this Cindy off a building if you want though, lol.

I'd totally love some reference to the original song. I'd be surprised if Ayu doesn't realize the similarity with this famous song.

From the previews, Angel is the weakest in my opinion. Really loving Now & 4EVA preview and Lelio and XOXO are quite good too. Can't wait to hear the full version of Terminal!

is DI fm working for anyone? Not working on my itunes or through web :(

Someone is attacking their servers atm. They're investigating the DDoS attack right now.

Terminal sounds like a track Armin would do..both Lelio and Terminal sounds the best so far. I really hope the drop won't be disappointing for Terminal!

omg..I can't stop replaying Lelio and Terminal... O.O

Hope it'll be fixed soon, i don't want to miss it !
I like all of the previews, even though Angel is my least favourite, i don't think it's a bad one.
This is exactly what I wanted from her.

Lelio sounds so similar to NaNaNa though.. XOXO has similar vibes but I like it much better

Digitally Imported is back up!

A State of Trance will start soon~

The web broadcast has better quality than the one in iTunes, right? I notice a bit of difference at least.

Is anyone going to record this? I'm using a Mac and am not sure how to do it (when I was on windows, it was pretty easy with Audacity)

You can just download the show later? (on mixcloud, I think)

It's started ! Wonder when the Ayu song will come in, not too late hopefully even tho i don't mind listening to the whole thing.

Armin just mentioned ayu!

He just namedropped her! Wonder if he'll be able to name the song.

He said he will play the dub mix which means no vocals.

I hope there will still be some back vocals or something… just to identify the song lol :P

We should still be able to tell which track it is since we have a general idea of what the songs all sound like.

where can we listen??
Im really looking forward to this new album!

^here http://www.di.fm/trance

should be soon

People in the comment section are always saying which song is currently playing, when nobody will be able to tell, guess it'll be hers :p

New Ayu song soon ahh~

Next song will be that!!

It might have echoing reverb snippets. If you listened to dub mixes of her previously released trance remixes you can get an idea (appears dub mix of kyau vs albert remix - which btw is amazing). Also, aly & filas remix of Days premiered in their radioshow in dub version prior to it's release in ayu trance.

thanks for the link!

so you think its gonna be the dub version or did he say it was going to be the dub version?
(Just joined the party)

He said it was the dub

Oo, it is Terminal after all.

He played a bit of it in Montreal and Mexico City too!

Hmmm... i wonder if its the current song playing? Like it.
And it kind has ayumi's ahhhhh.... ahhhh....
lol

Edit:
NV... he just said it was it... lol
LIKE IT!

I was expecting to be Lelio or Angel
Interesting :-)

what a wonderful song. I'm speechless…

I have a question, does it mean it was just the original song minus vocals ? Is the instrumental actually going to sound like that ?

i enjoyed it...
but kind of confused... is that a remix version of the song or the actually song that we are getting on the album?

I figured it would be Terminal by the title (although armin might've not had a say, it did strike me as such an armin title) and the preview we got had strings or semi-orchestral which is armins thing as well and prominent in trance music. Sounds good.

It's the song without vocals. There was a bit of Ayu's backing vocal in there though.

I really hope we get a remix album too...
amazing.
I hope this era is epic.
Kuu does it with her decline in sales... ayumi too!

Did sound great.
Was hoping for a full trance track from Armin for Ayu and not something watered down.
At least one full song I'll already love. :)

Anyone capture it? Stuck at werk. :(

Angel - i'm not too crazy about this one just yet, it's probably because i haven't heard the full song yet. but i am still excited for it because it does seem kind of catchy.

Lelio - OMG i can't wait for this song. i like the little sneeze thing, it's kinda cute. but it could also be her saying "ah ha ha at you" it may not make sense but it could be that, i'll just have to wait for the lyrics. i'm excited most for this song.

NOW & 4EVA okay i HATE titles like that, 1LOVE, Song 4 u, Thank U, i hate all of the text speak (for lack of a better term) i always want to rename them on my itunes, this would have looked SO MUCH BETTER in my opinion as NOW AND FOREVER but i LOVE the song, i want this full track so much!! the chorus is amazing!!

Terminal I can't get a good read on this song, maybe because of the way the preview is, this is another one that i will have to wait for the full track before i can really judge if i like it or not. it sounds nice though

What is forever love? i like this one, it's nice. it sounds like naoya urata in the song (although i don't think it is) it's still nice. i like it but not as much as the others.

XOXO this is the worst preview of them all to me. i'll have to wait for the full song but to me i don't think i'll like this one.

Looking at comments, it seems like it sounded similar to Brute to most listeners. (Ferry Corsten and Armin van Buuren track)

download here (credit to Rody)

https://mega.co.nz/#!9RAETSKL!4w-vHf...tszKBSpUZnm2RM

Dub mixes aren't always an exact replica if original track. They sometimes cut parts out or extended certain parts. Dubs are made to sound like a standalone track and not necessarily just an instrumental of the vocal version.

I suppose it had that Brute sound. Although I thought it was better than Brute.

Armin has an alter-ego/moniker, "Gaia" which he uses to produce harder-edged synth trance. Forum members mentioned it was more in that style and I agree. He went for a more hard-edged trance track with those prominent synth-stabs. Glad he took this route and didn't make a pop-style copout.

I can see armin dropping this dub mix a lot in his live sets. It sounds like it would translate well with his crowd. I'll have to go see him soon, it's been a while. I've seen him at least 6 times or so and hearing him drop a track which has ayus name attached to it would be epic.

It's a bit strange that the most trance-like portions of the song were not in the preview, haha.

Listened to the whole previews this afternoon.
Apart from Terminal being great, Lelio and Angel seem to be very interesting. Even though Angel sounds quite horrid I admit.
NOW & 4EVA sounds typical Ayu, could be bad or good in full. For now I'm not so hyped about it. What is forever love? I like the least, so generic, although a nice catchy melody.
With XOXO I actually don't know, what to think.... let's wait and see.

Thank you!
Gosh, I need this in HQ and with Ayu vocals :luv2 I've been waiting for trance Ayu since ayu-mi-x 7 (*^*)
And I don't want to get dissapointed but I can't help it and I'm getting really excited for this album ^^

I do have a feeling that we might get something like -Extended- and -Extended Instrumental- remix albums of the new album on iTunes or the like. The iTunes remix albums of ayu-mi-x 7 were much more enjoyable than the actual CD versions, so that would obviously be something to look forward to.

HQ VER

https://soundcloud.com/astateoftranc...ce-episode-664

Everybody vote Ayu's song here!
http://www.astateoftrance.com/futurefavorite/

Wow this dub mix is sexy. Holla!

Wow that sounds fantastic^ can't wait for the Ayu version cos I'm sure ill prefer that even more haha!

NOW & 4EVA is so much better in arrangements and production than anything on LOVE again! That ending and bridge! #dead

wow..Terminal dub version sounds great! Can't wait! It's going to be epic! i think somewhat similar to snowy kiss!

I know this isn't the official full version song but DAMN! Production sounds slick and not half assed. I wish the thud smilie worked for me because honestly that was my first impression. Just overcome with awesomeness. I expect epic remixes!

Oh yeah I hadn't thought about remixes. Armins track may get the remix treatment from other big name djs.

Terminal sounds like of those tracks that could easily fit a post-apocaliptic sci-fi atmosphere ^^

By the way he said that her new album would be dropped in June in Japan hahaha just a silly mistake

His accent is so Dutch, ugh ugly. x3

Not necessarily a mistake in case that Armin already knows of an early iTunes release :D

Interesting, I'd never made that connection.

I really like everything so far, or rather there's nothing that I don't like, no monsters like FTL, no outstanding song so far either, the ending of "Now and 4EVA" is really nice.

(Almost) everyone is loving these songs, except Angel.

We're getting the songs but we don't know the name yet, ayu plz !!!

Are you serious? The dub mix is the instrumental version? That's terrible lol, the instrumentation is so amateur.

Here's to hoping your vocals are good on the whole song, Ayu...

edit: no way, the preview we got has different instrumentation. The dub mix is different, thank God.