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REVIEW: David Guetta Feat Usher - Without You incl. Armin van Buuren remix out on Positiva / Virgin

1-Armin van Buuren remix
2-Extended
3-Nicky Romero Remix
4-R3hab Remix
5-Original Version
6-Radio Edit
7-Original Instrumental


Global hit-maker and DJ David Guetta’s new single is “Without You” and features Usher.




“Without You” is taken from David’s 5th studio album “Nothing But The Beat” which reached No. 2 in the UK albums chart (No. 1 on iTunes album chart) and went Gold in its first week. On the album Guetta has enlisted an all-star cast which includes Flo-Rida, Nicki Minaj, Taio Cruz, Ludacris, will.i.am, Usher, Snoop Dogg, Akon, Jennifer Hudson, Sia, Timbaland and Dev. This is the Grammy award winning DJ’s first album since 2009’s global breakthrough smash “One Love” which has sold over 3 million albums and 12 million singles world-wide.


David Guetta has become the world’s biggest DJ, changing the perception of his art-form, headlining all-genre music festivals, filling stadiums and yet still gets up-close with his fans in his beloved clubs. Two years ago David Guetta's dream was to build a bridge between electronic dance music and urban culture, and in that time he has won the hearts and minds of his peers in the contemporary pop world with his boundless enthusiasm, tireless work ethic and groundbreaking productions. As a result, Guetta is one of the most in-demand and influential producers in the world.

Billboard Magazine said that Guetta “changed the sound of top 40” radio. In addition to the hits on One Love he was responsible for the record-breaking Black Eyed Peas smash “I Gotta Feeling” as well Flo-Rida’s #1 UK and top 10 U.S. hit “Club Can’t Handle Me.” Earlier this year, Guetta picked up his second Grammy award (Best Remixed Recording) for his remix of Madonna’s revolver. He won the same award in 2010 for his remix of his own hit “When Love Takes Over”.

Guetta is also a superstar in the world of social media. His facebook page stands at just under 24 million fans, putting him in an elite group of artists. He has more facebook fans than any other electronic act in history and is in the top 16 of all musicians. Guetta has also surpassed half a billion views on his YouTube channel which makes him the #1 most viewed electronic artist and the #11 most viewed musician over all on YouTube. He is followed by more than 1.8 million loyal fans on twitter.





Dimitri Kechagias review: Officially David Guetta is number 1 dj of the world according to dj mag. I have huge respect for David Guetta for one main reason from the many that I can noted down. That is of course his ability with his clever music compositions to bring dance music right back at the top of the pop charts and pave the way for more dance artists to break in the mainstream and have the same crossover  success not only in Europe but most importantly in USA that is quite hard for a European Electronic Music Dance Artist to do it. He had an enormous impact on merging current  trendy electronic dance music underground styles such as  dirty dutch or trance and progressive house  with hip hop, r'n'b vocalists and well known pop singers. His music is a brand new genre on its own right called Pop Dance. The combination of feel good melodies mainly lifted from trance genre with house bouncy beats and soulful vocals proved to be what the clubbers wanted but most importantly what the radio stations craved for. Cause Guetta's music is radio friendly to the maximum and one of the main reasons behind his success is that radio stations embraced and supported his music from the very start. With his  double CD  Nothing But The Beat, the mastermind  David Guetta will satisfy with the one CD his pop fans who love his starpacked collaborations with hip hop mainly artists and on the other he will be connected with his more underground and club oriented fans and fellow djs with his collaborations with Avicii or Afrojack. The brand new single Without You is another chapter in his big success story of course. Usher who has a brilliant sexy lurring voice sings the soulful lyrics upon the feel good summery vibes melody and the result is another superbly produced track that respects the listener to have good time and enjoy themselves.  Now the remix package can not get any bigger as the 4 times number 1 dj Armin van Buuren put his hands on this top track and delivers a big room tech trance alternative that will allow even trance djs to incorporate in their sets the track and prog house djs to play Armin's music as well. So it works for both of them really well for the benefit of the listener. Nicky Romero from his side delivers a stunning rough hard dutch house style version with full use of the vocals upon pumpier sharper beats. R3hab version is pure genious as well by adding the fatteness and the largeness of his rough underground style but with full vocal and use of the main melodic theme of the track. Overall its another case of a track that radio stations and club djs can easily play in their sets. David Guetta is part of EDM cultural history for sure and I'm big admirer of his achievements.