Paul van Dyk - This World Is Ours (Artist Album) [VANDIT Records] (incl. John 00 Fleming)

[Progrez]

Ignore the naysayers there are some good tunes on this and PvD is PvD because he has ALWAYS merged techno and trance. his latest iteration is not bad.

It's not naysayers dude and those old tunes were amazing and aged like a beautiful vintage cars.

 

[Quethas]

My issue with this album is that it is almost there. I mean, it feels like all the required ingredients are there, but the end result is still bland.

It is not just the PvD problem to be fair.

 

[Progrez]

My issue with this album is that it is almost there. I mean, it feels like all the required ingredients are there, but the end result is still bland.

It is not just the PvD problem to be fair.

It taste raw meat dude as a restaurant it's missing a lot of ingredients to make it taste better.

 

[NameLessYet]

After listened to few times, now I think the title track is quite interesting, maybe will become my favourite track in this album.

But it's fair, this track does taste like raw meat. However, for this one I think it's raw enough to be tasty haha.

It taste raw meat dude as a restaurant it's missing a lot of ingredients to make it taste better.

This album can be see as two albums. Disc 1 from No.1 to 15 is a This World Is Ours with 6 new tracks. Disc 2 from No.16 to 30 can be seen as the abandoned Off The Record. Maybe this can make us feel better when listening to it.

 

[Z Dobrej Woli]

Vinyl and CD editions are available online:

Paul van Dyk "This World Is Ours" Vinyl

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The price for vinyl is a killer, not for me when the one track (with John) is - kind of - interesting.

 

[Freezer]

Out of the new ones I really like Let Go And Listen with Christian, who I know personally from Forced 2 Mode. I have seen their concerts 20th times
Overally 7/10 some really good ones like Shine Together, Overture and some bad ones like FVTR, Filthy Acid

 

[Sean Cong]

I am listening to this again. I was really looking forward to this collab. Two legends — both known for their depth, atmosphere, and musical identity. But after listening closely, I’m left… underwhelmed, but it feels emotionally vacant and extremely robotic and soulless and lifeless.

There’s a groove, a dark atmosphere, and technically, it’s clean. But it just hovers in one emotional space and never evolves. No build-up of tension, no emotional journey — just a hypnotic loop that flatlines.

It gives the appearance of depth, but lacks true progression. It’s like it was designed to sound intelligent and immersive, but never truly connects. It’s all tension and no release, like a speech with all the right words but no meaning behind them.

JOOF’s older work had real spirit — you could feel the pulse of the track moving you somewhere, even without melody. Same with early PvD: it wasn’t just rhythm, it was storytelling. Here? It’s like they’re going through the motions.

I know this sound works well in dark clubs at 3AM — maybe that’s the intent. But for a home listener, hoping for that “transportive” quality both artists used to master? It just feels empty. Not minimal — emotionally static.

Deep doesn’t have to mean flat. Hypnotic doesn’t have to mean hollow.
And two legends like this? I expected more of a journey. Instead, I got a well-produced loop with no real destination.

Anyone else feel this? Or is this where modern “serious trance” is now? Lifeless and tech house mono that doesn't go anywhere.

I’m honestly struggling to understand how this qualifies as trance — or even music — in any meaningful emotional sense.


The PvD x JOOF collab doesn’t just feel flat… it feels soulless. And I say that with respect for both of their legacies. But this track doesn’t go anywhere. No progression. No movement. No tension. No catharsis.


JOOF is supposed to represent the deep, immersive, “alternative” side of trance — the antidote to the commercial formula. But lately, his releases feel like they’re just on the other side of the same spectrum. Still lifeless. Still emotionally vacant. Just loop-based minimalism instead of supersaw maximalism.


It’s like watching two giants drift into autopilot — not because they’ve run out of skill, but because they’ve forgotten what made their music matter in the first place.


There’s a difference between hypnotic and numb. And this? It’s numb.


I don’t say this to tear anyone down — but this kind of trance, if we’re even still calling it that, feels like it’s being reduced to a mood with no message. Just audio architecture. No spirit. No storytelling. Nothing human.

For me, I personally like the first half of the track.
The chord progression of the intro sounds weird to me, and the intro itself is too lengthy.
The first part after intro sounds very nice to me, it resembles "Space Odyssey" by J00F in 2019. The ambience of this part does give me a feeling of floating in dark space, along with the signature fx of J00F really makes my satisfied.

But the second half is just crap.
The PvD part has completely ruined the atmosphere that J00F tries to build.
It possesses no hypnotic journeys, no emotions through the melody, and nothing memorable (except the impression that it destroyed the entire track).
It is much worse than the J00F tracks of 2018-2021, even not to mention the real emotional dark trance that J00F and Airwave produced in 2012-2017.

I would be mad, disappointed and depressed if this is the average quality of the J00F album (which I think is not the case).

 

[juracid]

JOOF’s older work had real spirit — you could feel the pulse of the track moving you somewhere, even without melody. Same with early PvD: it wasn’t just rhythm, it was storytelling. Here? It’s like they’re going through the motions.

Nice description to whom i 100% agree. 'Storytelling' is also a great term for these older periods. Thank you!

Also for the other points, I cannot disagree. The JOOF collabro is really disappointing. I cannot listen to these same generic drums and basses again and again. It all sounds the same. It's totally lame and endlessly boring.

The only track I like a bit is the title one. Actually 'This world is ours' has a good intro, is not over the top snatched and even contain some good darker acid lines and nice fx effects. Of course It's typical 2020s techno-trance and way too clean produced but that's okay for a modern PvD production. Indeed, I expected much worse.

To be fair, PvD somewhat stays 'true to trance' even if this double album is just not good. But still much better than the modern Armin or Ferry crap.