Armin van Buuren - Piano (2 LP)
- LP
- 2 piece(s)
- 2025
- 15 tracks
- 52 min
- trance
PianoCheapest atimusic.uk
Search albums to compare vinyl prices
Whether you're just starting your vinyl collection or have been spinning for years, the right turntable makes all the difference. We've selected the best options for every budget.
Discover our selection of turntables
5.0
Average of 1 reviews
1
0
0
0
0
Whether a review is positive, negative, or neutral, we always publish it. However, we screen every review to ensure it is authentic and free of profanity. These checks happen automatically, though a human occasionally steps in. We never pay for reviews.
This album is hands down one of the finest sounding records in my entire collection, and the music is absolutely breathtaking. I always give new records a quick brush with an anti-static brush, and if they don’t come in those plastic lined archival anti-static sleeves, I swap out the cheap paper ones for a square rice paper & 3 ply anti-static sleeve. If they came with full color sleeves, I’ll use a rounded archival rice paper & 3 ply anti-static sleeve since they fit perfectly inside those fancy inners. Those colorful sleeves might look cool, but they’re terrible for vinyl—full of static and attracting dust and grit from your turntable, hands, or clothes. All it takes is one tiny speck of grit to stick to your brand new, statically charged vinyl, and when you slide them back into those deluxe, full color inner sleeves, they’ll get scratched. And guess what? They’ll get scratched again when you take them out next time. So, do your records a favor, folks. Use an anti-static brush first to keep the grime away, and always store them in anti-static inner sleeves. The rounded ones are super versatile but can be a pain to find. Big Fudge has both versions. An outer clear sleeve isn’t a must, but if you really want to keep your records in Near Mint shape, go for it. Just be careful when sliding gatefold albums into gatefold plastic outers so they don’t get torn. Pro tip: that noise you hear on a brand new record might just be static electricity that hasn’t dissipated. The pressing could be just fine. Even if it’s not an ‘audiophile’ mastered album like this masterpiece, these days it’s more likely the pressing is fine. No matter what color the vinyl is, how heavy it is, whether it’s virgin PVC or recycled plastic, or if it’s made of low carbon emission bioplastic, or just good old polluting PVC (even if the production process of vinyl records has a high carbon footprint, it’s no more than your daily coffee). Running your air conditioner 24/7, and definitely streaming music or HD video online, is much, much worse for the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere than the production of vinyl records. And nothing is worse for your carbon footprint than using AI powered online tools, which are bandwidth and energy hogs like we’ve never seen. AI systems are run out of data centers that have ludicrous quantities of storage systems for all the information that the AI needs to access in order to pretend to be intelligent. Using generative AI programs for most of the day is so much worse than driving for 8 hours in an 18 wheeler diesel engine truck, or marathoning every season of Stranger Things on an 8K television with a gigabit internet connection. No other technology humans have ever used to date even comes close to the carbon footprint of using “artificial intelligence” based, massively interconnected, networked computers, or so-called large language learning systems. By the way, they aren’t even close to actually being intelligent. They’re just based on complex algorithms that make a copy of everything they ever see or do, in an attempt to copy the human brain, and store a compressed version of that information locally. They have extremely sophisticated and powerful processors that allow them to draw upon all that data, to link information about similar topics, and to make simple abbreviations of all that information and choose the most commonly repeated bits from different sources and present them as fact. Often it certainly seems to be very intelligent. Except when asked about an event unfolding in real time. Those always lead to numerous errors and the AI subsequently provides very incorrect information. The next time something major and newsworthy happens and is unfolding in realtime, without much archived information to draw upon, you’ll see just how “intelligent” AI systems actually are. They perform so poorly in such situations that it makes me extremely skeptical that modern technological systems are even capable of producing genuine artificial general intelligence. Indeed, the whole concept may be fatally flawed for many reasons, but that’s not why you’re here. Armin Van Buuren’s Piano is an incredible musical achievement, composed, played, and produced, by someone known for a vastly different genre of electronic music. In addition to sounding absolutely amazing quality wise, the music on these slabs of vinyl just may be some of Buuren’s very best work ever. And that’s definitely saying something. Listen to it online, and if you enjoy it, buy the vinyl version, as there isn’t a better way to appreciate the sonically beautiful palette of piano compositions than an analog audiophile vinyl version of this singular work of art.
Compare trusted UK retailers and find the cheapest option. View current prices below.
| Date | Lowest price | Average price |
|---|---|---|
| 31 Dec 2025 | £38.99 | €38.99 |
| 13 Jan 2026 | £46.99 | €46.99 |