出生于东德的Paul van Dyk,由于受到近代电子乐与Club文化所薰陶,四处学习DJ的播歌技巧与电子音乐的创作,刚开始于柏林当地的club中担任DJ的工作,就跟所有的明星DJ一样,不时会搞一些私家混音舞曲的录音带,散播给周围为亲朋好友。就这样,在1991年三月的某个机缘之下,一位专门办电子舞曲Party的经纪人听到这些带子,并且发现了Paul的潜力,于是便安排他在柏林极受欢迎的电子舞曲舞厅“Tresor”中担任首席DJ,当时的Paul虽涉世未深,但是却已决定将自己往后的日子完全投入DJ的工作中。
Paul于播放音乐时非常的自我,他那精湛的音乐播放手法似乎会散发一股魔力,他的编排风格与混音技巧极受到Club中舞客们的喜爱,使得许多热爱电子舞曲的人们常常为之而疯狂...当然,从此时开始,柏林的各种电子舞曲Party中,似乎也渐渐不能少了Paul van Dyk这个名字。接著这个时期,Paul开始尝试著创作自己的电音舞曲,很快地在1992年发行了,他以“Vision of Shiva”的化名与Cosmic Baby一合作的处女作“Perfect Day”。Paul记得当时手上拿著他第一张作品的发行,高兴就像个小孩似的…这张单曲是经由知名地下舞曲厂牌“MFS”旗下发行,虽然没有一夕成名,但却开启了这位流行电音天王灿烂的音乐生涯。
by John Bush
From early Berlin techno and house through to progressive trance, producer/DJ Paul van Dyk has soundtracked the German electronic dance scene ever since he moved to the city and began mixing in 1988. A native of a German town near Frankfurt, van Dyk first heard house music on the radio during the mid-80s. Soon he was experimenting with a rudimentary turntable setup, and after hitting Berlin, he gigged around the city. By 1991, he had appeared at the legendary Tresor club; he later set up his own E-Werk club, and debuted on record as Visions of Shiva, with fellow trance wizard Cosmic Baby. He remixed for New Order, Humate, Sven Väth, and others, then signed to the German MFS Records for his first album, 1994s 45 RPM. By the midpoint of the 1990s, van Dyk had become a globe-trotting DJ and remixer. His second album, Seven Ways, resulted in British and German dance chart entries for the singles Beautiful Place, Forbidden Fruit, and Words. While both of his albums were issued in America during 1998, van Dyk added a remix collection (Perspective) and mix album (Vorsprung Dyk Technik) to his discography. 2000 saw the release of the single Tell Me Why (The Riddle), the album Out There and Back, and the EP We Are Alive. As a follow-up to global club dates in support of those releases, van Dyk released another EP, Columbia, in mid-2001. After a relatively quiet 2002 (on the recording front), van Dyk returned with a mix-album/greatest-hits/DVD (Global), the soundtrack to a film (Zurdo), and a new production album (Reflections). He released the second volume of his Politics of Dancing mix album series in 2005 and returned with another studio album, In Between, in 2007.