A globally recognized brand but he has power becomes paul found he can now look back on more than twenty five successful years in the business period on pop exports special. When poll found place festivals hes usually the headline a his name is synonymous with the transfer and his music and joins you know if its like playing. For new form for music when im from the electronic music just brings people together from completely different cultural backgrounds it doesnt matter which god you believe in which religion you follow or what your nationality is its all just about people getting together and celebrating this music has done for me and is unwilling to me were. Still flies around the globe more times a year than your average professional pilot music magazines have voted him the worlds best d. J. Time and time again as a young boy back in east germany he could never have dreamed of a life getting around in his own private plane but his passion for music has been with him from the start. Music up to the door to music always meant a lot to me maybe its because i grew up with down radio in the g. D. R. But i always listened to west berlin radio and for me it was the only connection to the outside world with us from the im so good for britain so i was alleged to be only nineteen is shortly after jim and when unification and techno club Paul Van Dyke finds his vocation electronic music. Still goes on professionally im a d. J. Because i love music and because im a total freak and a total fanatic when it comes to this kind of music the name becomes the center of the Techno Movement delivers the soundtrack to major events such as the love her age. He starts producing his ng tracks with success his single tell me why reach is number seven in the british charts. One of his albums is nominated for a grammy. Play. The. Whole bundle like then sets up his own record label bondage records and presents radio shows in germany and is the usa. But in spite of selling five million albums from twenty thirty none of his singles make it to the. Goal. Must be an explosion was what was different about electronic music or the whole scene was that although it was a scene where people worked professionally there wasnt actually an industry. Because in the meantime it is an industry what you see in the top forty charts now for instance are all products of the Music Industry most people dont call fun doesnt continue traveling the globe to perform his d. J. Sets but every twenty think seen things change dramatically. At a festival in the netherlands he fell off the stage a six metre drop. Shot and leading in various places and i have to say i was really really lucky there was a specialist in the logical clinic about ten minutes away from the venue. If it hadnt been traced near the University Medical center of a city in amsterdam i wouldnt be sitting here today the damage to my brain would have been so serious that i might not have made it worse you could be so i think its. A continuity question i couldnt speak i had to learn basic things again from scratch. Without the strength of my wife by my side without margarita but i wouldnt mind. If she hadnt been there as my reason to live i would have given up and had to. Have the drama. Was soon back in his studio and just a few months off to be an accident he was back on stage. Just gets. There wasnt like my d. J. Sets were part of a therapy plan or something not at all. But it was really important for me to have this goal to set myself a deadline like by that day i want to be back on stage. Now pulled his in his fortys just as much as they have. The secret to his ongoing success. So learned a lot about women i think one of the reasons im still on the scene is that im often think of i only do what i stand by musically. I dont succumb to any pressure to conform. I do my own thing me good luck the legislature the lead. For Paul Van Dyke collaborating with other musicians in two thousand and three he recorded the track of our lives with rock band vega for the song was popular all over number one in the german. Player such legs abou the a. Slayer the to. Play the age of the to the it. Was the by the utter. Cut the lead. The lead the touch. The to. Cut. Cut. Cut cut cut cut cut. Cut. Our pop exports special featuring Paul Van Dyke all over the globe have been dancing to his feet for a quarter of a century now no wonder hes one of the worlds most traveled. In california. Twenty seventeen some francisco on the west coast of the usa. As the headliner at the dream state festival. Will be spinning here tonight a year after surviving a stage fall. Type what i went through was found its way into my music and its reflected in the music and thats what makes it really authentic. Attend to. The newman point at some point ill be standing in front of my audience playing it live and if im not convinced ive given my all to make my music as good as it can be then it wont work on me from simeon. Eleven fifteen pm and funds like a rights of the artists entrance only forty five minutes until show time. If youre. Lucky. When it comes to his music the german d. J. Is a perfectionist the top dog is annoyed that his deejay colleague Marcus Schultz says over on the sets. I i i i you know is a tard curfew dont you know i passed i mark a still sober running a noise vandyke as does a technical hitch right before the show i play i guess i call. The show is a trance work of arts. Deconstructs the music layer by live with sequencers and mini controllers and really hours of blood to create a bombastic sound. Every set sounds different and sounds exactly the way frank like wants it when it comes to music because a perfectionist obsessed with detail. To go. Please. Ok. And you think by chance or you see its a different world. I like that i. Like his drive on the back with more after that war and then you keep going and its just not inside. Among us im asked if your work is something you love that youre passionate about when it doesnt feel like a job. When it doesnt stress you out an exhausted one on one hand you have to plenty of energy and becomes a positive driving force he was typing this in the mens. One look at his tour calendar shows you thats true in twenty eight seems so far paul bunn dicus played around seventy sets in the us mexico dubai russia and china with more to come. In nine hundred ninety four Paul Van Dyke fell in love and wrote a song for his new girlfriend called for an angel to truck a the young d. J. His International Breakthrough and its still regarded today as a classic of the trance john. Lots more about Paul Van Dyke in our extracts. Dont tell me only play clubs but also concert halls in twenty thirteen he performed in the barry in the state off right in munich and they make music meets compositions by inches that be vanity. Fair of you know. Its good in the book its really about putting value in the context of a club clubs are about. Moving dancing having fun and serving these quotes and elements of very just show how modern it still is. It wasnt done during its first been chained to Classical Music in two thousand and nine hundred talent in frankfurt the d. J. s on staying with estonian star conductor pavel yoffie plus orchestra. In munich at the end of the performance the audience still in the dance floor Classical Music lovers and techno families. And his socially active too. In two thousand and four he supported a campaign in the us to get young people to vote. The right to choose if they wanted to vote on election day but. With projects like her convinced he supports children from less fortunate families in berlin and did she got. Democrats i think democracy is the best system we have for living together on our planet and democracy is only as good as the get involved. So if something isnt working in our neighborhood of waiting around for someone to come and fix it we should get involved ourselves and find a way to improve the situation. In two thousand and six he was awarded the order of merit of the state of bilin for his charity was. The single i am allowing from twenty seventeen is Paul Van Dyke soundtrack for a commercial for south korean sports. In the out the d. J. Appears as a brand ambassador. Its not the first time vandyke has given his testimonial in twenty twelve he endorsed the bill in brandenburg am port also named the believe. The d. J. Apparently also did the music for the image film and the sound design for the loudspeaker announcements watertown embarrassment. In numerable building glitches means that the airport is still incomplete. So instead of taking off hell be staying on the ground but with his foot on the gas pedal always moving forward. The whole world of pop music on one Facebook Page t. W. Music check out your favorite stars and the latest from the scene. Done with us into the pop universe and follow us on facebook well see you there i d w music. Is the first. Leg. Live. Live. Live live. Live. Live the i. Live. Alone. Grew up in the g. D. R. At a time when germany was still divided the fall of the berlin wall signified the start of his career in all popping Sports National we look at why this experience is still so significant for the d. J. Play these days electro pioneer Paul Van Dyke is an International Jetsetter but it wasnt always that way he grew up in the former communist east germany. Sometimes i sit by the window and look over to the left and i think theres the west thats where all the music i love comes from their lives much as powerful as he was then known was born in the town of eyes and he didnt always plan to go into music. As a kid i wanted to become a journalist or did my political convictions i couldnt let alone go to college so a career as a journalist was a total nonstarter. Thank you but all that changed in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine that whole van dyke and his mother had just been given permission to leave east germany when the berlin wall fell. Because we were sitting with some friends in hamburg or t. V. There was a news flash and we thought it must be some kind of. Joke that my grandmother call it back then she lived near beulah felt in the west and she said have you heard the news and were like no way. This is. The events come ficken fast less than a year after the fall of the berlin wall germany is reunited vandyke moved to berlin and explores the city. They dont want to name these many Good Companies and existed in east germany and were of course not economically compatible nothing worked out so all of a sudden there were all these empty promises no one was prepared to take responsibility for all and if you innovative people came along and they brought a few beer crates and started their turntables on them have you got some loudspeakers sold the beer and so on their turns on your comments on the Berlin Club Scene got started and not seen of the unseen here in berlin is called club van dyke shapes the beginnings of the Techno Movement. Of us looking back at this small subculture now basement somewhere and seeing how it turned into one of the biggest music scenes in the world but if you just heard him believe they could put a vegetable on the set. Them got some great memories of that time and im really glad i could be part of it all. The years seriously in two thousand and five he performed the song is india which means we are us with singer paid to have not playing live at the ceremony for the fifteenth anniversary of german reunification it was paul vandykes musical tribute to the historical event. Where are we from and where are we heading. A question on his album evolution which made it to the u. S. Dance charts and our special today with a clip for the eternal see you soon on public sports. Cars. Lists. Play. Lists. Explicit. Plz. Election. Illo. Odd. Im going to. Cut. The. Ninety six. Missing. Piece in the book called staying cool i am now home ekotto mocking the revolution may have failed but the legacy of the protest movement can still be felt today he changed the world forever the final march the more synthesis to see. The folks first day of school. The first coming months of the many dollars grand the moment arrives. 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