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Paul Van Dyk ‘(R)evolution’: The Remixes
Last year, through his sixth artist album, electronic music legend Paul van Dyk changed up perceptions of the PvD sound, wholesale. Over the course of 2012, ‘EVOLUTION’s multiverse tracklist spawned five single sales-chart smashes, an epic, globe‐circling 150+ date tour, sustained fan & press veneration and an ever‐widening stylistic scope of DJ support.
Now that ‘the originals’ have been established, the time has come to let the remixers speak as Paul’s evolution becomes an out‐and‐out revolution! Handpicked by the man himself ‐ from the ready‐to‐break to the firmly established ‐ the remix gathering has assembled. Let the reworks begin!
“Naturally, the original versions of EVOLUTION’s tracks were mine and and my co-producers visions. The singles to date have brought some wonderful, creative remixes with them. Ones that blew me away when I heard them and which I played in-club and on the radio throughout last year. They were the seed points for this album; now is the right time to push the boundaries of ‘EVOLUTION’ that bit further”
– Paul van Dyk, Berlin, January 2013
Comprising 17 fresh‐off‐the‐desk reworks from a full company of van Dyk’s fellow production studionauts, this is where evolution ends and full‐scale revolution breaks out. Sowing the uprising’s first seeds is the production brotherhood of Woody van Eyden and Alex M.O.R.P.H., who are respectively tasked with retakes of ‘Sun After Heartbreak’ and ‘Such A Feeling’ (aka ‘Verano’). Drawing on a wealth of nirvana harmonics, thermal synths and Sue McLaren’s and Elijah King’s vocal talents, they reposition PvD’s original versions in an entirely new light… and time of the night.
Opening the tempo & tone throttle that little bit wider, musical mutineers Kyau & Albert, Maarten De Jong and John O’Callaghan zoom‐in on additional peak‐time aspects. Their radical interpretations of ‘Open My Eyes’, ‘Symmetries’ and ‘I Don’t Deserve You’ levy drums, percussion and distortion that are altogether more flooratomic in nature.
The popularity and musical latitude of ‘I Don’t Deserve You’ emphasize this Plumb‐vocalled peach with two further reconfigurations. Having already been voted one of the 15 biggest trancers of the year on Armin van Buuren’s ASOT radio show, ‘Deserve’ gets some house flavour into her system. Dubbing up the vocal, Gabriel Ben lets the hats hiss, the percs ride and the rhythms flow on his mix. Meanwhile, another American producer WAWA rolls one big piano moment in after another, inciting ravenous uplift and fanning ‘(R)Evolution’s flames even further.
Taking things momentarily deeper and more‐subversively progressive, the Directors Cut mix seizes on ‘Love Ammunition’s lyrical metaphor. Michelle Leonard’s vocals scorch the room, underpinning a potent groove and sure‐shot drop. The album stays with her redolent tones as Giuseppe Ottaviani takes control of ‘Lost In Berlin’, building it up into a mainline titan.
With PvD’s full backing, other remix‐revolutionaries are given free reign to take the music where they see fit. Pedro del Mar & Double V rock up a storm on the Sue McLaren‐vocalled and Arty‐coproduced ‘The Sun After The Heartbreak’.
Elsewhere, youngblood Uzbek producer Exense masterminds the ‘Rock This’ rebuild. He tactically whips it into a powder‐keg progressive piece, holding back the pitch‐bending synths and rousing a titular shout to the break’s final precipice. Elsewhere, audio guerrillas like Niels von Ahorn, Robert Mint, Nick Callaghan & Will Atkinson and others perform coup after coup with eclectic, thrilling reworks that build into the consummate ‘EVOLUTION’ revision.
The ‘(R)evolution’ commences Feb 22nd 2013.
Tracklist:
Paul van Dyk – Sun After Heartbreak (Woody van Eyden Full Vocal Version)
Paul van Dyk – Such A Feeling ft. Austin Leeds and Elijah King (Alex M.O.R.P.H. Remix)
Paul van Dyk – I Don’t Deserve You ft. Plumb (John O’Callaghan Remix)
Paul van Dyk – Symmetries ft. Austin Leeds (Maarten De Jong Remix)
Paul van Dyk – Lost In Berlin ft. Michelle Leonard (Giuseppe Ottaviani Remix)
Paul van Dyk – The Sun After Heartbreak feat. Sue McLaren & Arty (Pedro Del Mar & Double V Remix)
Paul van Dyk – All The Way feat. Tyler Michaud & Fisher (Steve Wish Remix)
Paul van Dyk – If You Want My Love ft. Caligola (Niels von Ahorn Remix)
Paul van Dyk – Wonderful Day ft. Giuseppe Ottaviani (Robert Mint Remix)
Paul van Dyk – We Come Together feat. Sue McLaren (Chriss Ortega Remix)
Paul van Dyk – I Don’t Deserve You ft. Plumb (Gabriel Ben Remix)
Paul van Dyk – Love Ammunition ft. Michelle Leonard (Directors Cut Mix)
Paul van Dyk – Rock This (Exense Remix)
Paul van Dyk – Open My Eyes ft. Kyau & Albert (Kyau & Albert Remix)
Paul van Dyk – The Sun After Heartbreak feat. Sue McLaren & Arty (Nick Callaghan & Will Atkinson)
Paul van Dyk – I Don’t Deserve You ft. Plumb (WAWA Remix)
Paul van Dyk – Such A Feeling ft. Austin Leeds and Elijah King (Radio Edit)
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VONYC Sessions 2012 – Paul Van Dyk [Album Release]
The last 365 days have formed a year to remember for electronic music artisan Paul Van Dyk. Inside that time he completed production on his long awaited, corner-turning sixth album, which in turn unlocked a new trove of PvD music. These he’s used to power his extraordinary globe-spanning EVOLUTION stage performances and, of course, his now iconic radio show, VONYC Sessions.
This December Van Dyk will leave his final musical mark on the year, with the release of the fourth instalment of the radio broadcast’s mix annual. Featuring the cream of the audio it championed over the last 12 months, it includes tracks from Cosmic Gate, Orjan Nilsen, Tritonal, Judge Jules and of course much from the master himself… This is the year that was. This is ‘VONYC Sessions 2012’.
“Life is busy for all of us. Whatever we do, there’s seldom enough chance to think about what happened last month, let alone a whole year. For me the annual ‘VONYC Sessions’ provides that rarest of opportunities – a moment to look back and relive some truly great memories through the power of its best music. I hope you enjoy listening as much as enjoyed compiling and mixing it!” – Paul van Dyk, Berlin, November 2012
Week by week, over the last 52, the playlists of VONYC Sessions have built up a picture of another boundary-breaking, standout year of electronic dance music. To encapsulate it van Dyk has draw together the tracks that have generated the most heat on his floors, the most buzz on VONYC Sessions Show and fashioned them into a pair of thrilling, year-honouring mixes.
Heading straight into the thick of the action, Disc One lines up the punch-packing drum structure of Orjan Nilsen’s ‘Endymion’, Lisa Lashes’ tech-threat ‘The Bends’ and Protoculture’s crowd-wowing ‘Cobalt’. Working the mix in masterful peaks and drops, he tempers its tone with the stargazing sounds of Ost & Meyer’s ‘Safari’ and the celestial-ism of Starshifters’ ‘Driveby’. As you’d expect from the double disc compilation, it draws plenty of resource from VANDIT Recordings’ class of 2012. In and amongst them are the razor-sharp synths of Judge Jules ‘The Attack’, (cited by Paul as his ‘favourite track of 2012’), Maarten de Jong’s blood-pumping trancer ‘RAW’ and Sean Tyas and Giuseppe Ottaviani spirited, elevating ‘Arcobaleno’.
Naturally with the release of ‘EVOLUTION’ – his first artist album year in five years – the VONYC Sessions’ tracklists have been supremely stocked with PvD’s own material. From the castaway beauty of ‘The Ocean’, to the unstoppably uplifting ‘Eternity’, its tracks thread the two mixes. The endemic, from-Miami-to-Ibiza EDM of ‘Verano’ (here in its ‘Such A Feeling’ vocal form) to the vocal ache of Plumb’s ‘I Don’t Deserve You’ and the lovers lament of Mix-2 close-out ‘Lost In Berlin’, they soundtrack an incredible year.
With ‘Stone Pony’, VANDIT’s latest hot-pick signing Las Salinas’ strike an early harmonic note for the second of ‘VONYC Sessions 2012’s discs. With its low-slung bass, whip-cracking FX and tight percussive loops, the Israeli duo provides a progressive induction to the mix. PvD fully ignites its engines, bringing in the vocal reach of JES (on Cosmic Gate ‘Flying Blind’); channels trancestep with Tritonal’s ‘Slave’ and makes room for more melodic vistas with Jaco’s epic ‘Malaysia’. The breakbeat/dubstep breakdown and killer vocal hook of Jules and Dale Corderoy club rocker ‘Give Me A Reason’ charges the mid-section, whilst at its summit, the poignant vocals of Amba Shepherd on Giuseppe Ottaviani ‘Lost For Words’ finally splits this ‘Session’s atom.
Over 31 tracks PvD picks out the brightest track stars in 2012’s musical galaxy and recalls the year that was.
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