Paul van Dyk Christoph Köstlin
Paul van Dyk might have made his name as a hypnotic trance musician, yet his rate of interests as well as abilities prolong well past the category. Now, he’s showing exactly how much.
With his brand-new VENTURE X task, the German leader is avoiding category pureness as well as just playing what he believes audios best, with a future scenic tour searching for van Dyk fusing dynamic, hypnotic trance as well as techno.
“I try to stay curious and open-minded about new sounds, artists, and labels – always have,” van Dyk informs Billboard. “Different aspects of music, its genres and colorations of sound have always been part of my sets. With VENTURE X I take this approach even further, the set will be defined by itself.”
These VENTURE X reveals launch on February 17 in Toronto, with the scenic tour after that striking New York City, Montreal, Pontiac, Denver, Portland, San Francisco, as well asAustin On the roadway, van Dyk intends to please target markets “in a way they didn’t know was possible. I do believe electronic music enthusiasts deserve more than a top 10 dance chart set played from a USB stick.”
For the scenic tour, van Dyk’s configuration will certainly include tools, computer systems, as well as sequencers, a collection that “enables me to find the right level of energy at any given moment throughout the set, as everything is basically live sequenced and played. And while some fans can get prickly about crossing sounds, he’s got “no worry that genre purists will be alienated, quite the opposite. There’s so much great music out there and my job as a DJ is to introduce it to you. That’s how I see it, at least. Otherwise, I’d feel like a jukebox.”
Indeed, styles rarely matter as van Dyk, that’s been making songs for 3 years, mentions that category names, seems, as well as significances maintain transforming anyways.“When I started DJing, all electronic music was called techno…. What was called progressive house some 20 years ago, would probably be called melodic techno these days. There are amazing releases on Drumcode that could easily fit in the trance genre and sometimes what is called techno sounds like chill out to me.”
ENDEAVOR X’s phone call to arms anthem, itself not coming under one neat genre-box, is likewise out today (Jan 27.) It locates van Dyk working together with dynamic residence duo Weekend Heroes as well as singer/songwriter Christian Schottstaedt, that with each other supply a dark trip of a track that works as the task’s thesis declaration.
“I like the proggy, deeper stuff, but with a tougher approach as you can hear,” van Dyk states. “[Making this music] feels very natural and organic.”
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