OUT Paul Van Dyk - Guiding Light (Album) [Vandit]

Artist(s)
Paul Van Dyk
Release title
Guiding Light
Label name
Vandit
Release date
Aug 28, 2020
Release type
Artist album
Link to external store
https://music.apple.com/us/album/guiding-light/1497727708

Akreem

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album tracklist:

1. Deep Within – Paul Van Dyk & Vincent Corver
2. Guiding Light – Paul Van Dyk & Sue McLaren
3. You Found Me – Paul Van Dyk & Saad Ayub
4. Exhale – Paul Van Dyk & Shedona
5. Awakening – Paul Van Dyk & Will Atkinson
6. Remedy – Paul Van Dyk & Danny Eaton
7. Parallel Dimension – Paul Van Dyk & Elated
8. First Contact – Paul Van Dyk & Kinetica
9. Duality
10. Resource – Paul Van Dyk & Eugenio Tokarev
11. Impact – Paul Van Dyk, Steve Dekay & VISION X
12. Covered in Gold (PvD Club Mix) – Paul Van Dyk & Bo Bruce
13. Galaxy (PvD Club Mix) – Paul Van Dyk & Vini Vici
14. Velvet Sky – Paul Van Dyk & Chris Bekker
 
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Gijs

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Seeing some interesting collabs here, the samples sound decent as well so I think this one could be worth a shot.
 

Hensmon

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I dont know 70% of the people he is collabing with. New guys or am I out of touch? Either way will be listening today
 
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TeardropNL

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Never understood why ppl like his music. All of the tracks sound the same. Total shit. Very old amateur sound and quality
 

Magdelayna

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Way too many collabs - im not sure why he went down that route in the recent years when he made something amazing like the Out There And Back album. Someone told me recently that all his stuff was always ghost produced - something i didnt want to believe as i loved his late 90's stuff - way ahead of its time in production quality.
 

silent_screamer

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A bit better than his previous 2 albums but still far off from his best work.
Parallel dimension still the standout piece with Remedy, Resource and Velvet Sky being notable mentions.
 

Akreem

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for me I like only Danny Eaton Track 'Remedy' before even pvd make some change !
 

s3baman

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Best collab has to be Awakening, there's some vintage mid to late 2000s PVD in that one. Parallel Dimension and Velvet Sky a tie for a close second. As always with the last few albums, the best tracks are the solo efforts and the tracks with Vincent Corver. I've been a PVD fan my entire life so that won't change regardless of what he does, but if he would have taken 3 years to do a solo album I think it could really be a modern classic. He has done some great classic feel tracks since the accident, so it's clear he still has it in him to make excellent and unique trance music
 
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s3baman

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I dont know 70% of the people he is collabing with. New guys or am I out of touch? Either way will be listening today
He mainly does collabs with VANDIT guys, especially newer talent. The only big names he enjoys doing tracks often with are Alex MORPH, Chris Bekker, and GO
 
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s3baman

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Never understood why ppl like his music. All of the tracks sound the same. Total shit. Very old amateur sound and quality
Well, Paul has done a lot of tracks in different genres over the years (progressive, a lot of trancey breaks, some ambient, more hypnotic and spacey sounds in the early and mid 90s, high tempo 140+ stuff), but he has more or less single-handedly created the energetic trance vibe. Think of early Nu NRG, Askew, and VANDIT until 2006 or so. It's what he's best known for and obviously what he enjoys most playing and producing. He doesn't care about trends or making stuff differently just because people expect it. It will of course divide a lot of people and that's totally understandable. After 30 years the man has nothing left to prove, so at this point in time, you either love him or you don't
 

Munki

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Well, Paul has done a lot of tracks in different genres over the years (progressive, a lot of trancey breaks, some ambient, more hypnotic and spacey sounds in the early and mid 90s, high tempo 140+ stuff), but he has more or less single-handedly created the energetic trance vibe. Think of early Nu NRG, Askew, and VANDIT until 2006 or so. It's what he's best known for and obviously what he enjoys most playing and producing. He doesn't care about trends or making stuff differently just because people expect it. It will of course divide a lot of people and that's totally understandable. After 30 years the man has nothing left to prove, so at this point in time, you either love him or you don't

well said sir👏
 
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