A true pioneer Van Dyke was listening to dance music in East Berlin before the wall came down on mixtapes his friends smuggled over and on forbidden Western radios.
Paul Van Dyke stands tall as one of the most well know and respected DJs of all time. A true pioneer Van Dyke was listening to dance music in East Berlin before the wall came down on mixtapes his friends smuggled over and on forbidden Western radios. Shortly before the fall of the wall, Paul and his mother moved to Hamburg and then later once it had fallen, PvD returned to his home city, now opened to so many new possibilities. Inspired by what was happening in the world and the new innovative beats that were tentatively making their way in it, Paul prepared for his first DJ performance which would come only a year later in 1991.
A true no-name to fame story, Paul Van Dyke has gone on from that first performance to playing all over the world and winning almost every dance-music award out there not only for his tight, progressive mixing style, but also his talent in the studio.
After collaborating on his first tune ‘Perfect Day’ with Cosmic Baby, Van Dyk has gone on to produce five solo albums and numerous other singles, as well as remixes by artists like New Order. But it was second album ‘Seven Ways’ that established Van Dyke as a true trance pioneer, and even though he rejects the tag, it was this sound, in a beautiful moment in the history of dance music, that caught the imagination of a that initial wave of people attending the world’s first superclubs.
Responsible for drug-free kids all over the world turning up at his gigs in Pure T-shirts, the hardest working man in the industry still has the crowds at festivals and parties the world over blow away by the sheer intense beauty of his tracks and high energy sets. Latest album ‘In Between’, an album three years in the making, is a testament to all he has achieved and a statement to the world that there is still a lot to come from the mighty Paul van Dyk.