A decade and a half in heritage, 10 years since its last outing and 3 years in intricate, collaboration-centric realization, ‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’ hits stores and floors May 4th.

In nature and composition, the third ‘Politics’ migrates from its former role as a Various Artists-style mix-comp, pivoting to become the seventh artist album from Grammy award winning producer, DJ and electronic music bastion, Paul van Dyk. In doing so, it reflects the quantum change in dance music’s fabric since ‘The Politics of Dancing 2’s release in 2005. Paul elaborates: “So many things have changed within the music industry since the last ‘Politics’. The way we make and produce music, how we release music and, of course, how we all consume it. That’s natural. That’s evolution. The third ‘Politics Of Dancing’ though needed to address that and have a different approach to the first two. The answer in how to do that lays in musical cooperation & artistic collaboration. To me, making music is one of the most stimulating, fun and fulfilling things to do in this world” he continues. “Doing it with friends and people you admire makes it that much more enjoyable still. And so, maybe a little later than people might have anticipated”, he adds with a wry grin, “Politics 3’ has come to life”.

Bringing the album to fruition has seen Paul share studio time with 23 other producers, singers and songwriters. The result is an album that at once retains the musical frequency of the first ‘Politics’ releases, whilst (in re-tasking it), emphatically plants the series’ feet in a new decade.

‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’ contains the Beatport chart-topping singles ‘Come With Me’, ‘Only In A Dream’, ‘Guardian’ and ‘Louder’ and 10 other incredible new-gen ‘POD’ productions. Among Paul’s collaborators are established studiologists like Ummet Ozcan, Aly & Fila, Roger Shah & Giuseppe Ottaviani, singers/songwriters including Sue McLaren, Betsie Larkin, Tricia McTeague & Fisher and fast ascending newer production blood, incl. Genix, Jordan Suckley, Las Salinas and Mark Eteson.

The album is available to pre-order now thepoliticsofdancing.com/Forthcoming through Ultra Music/NewState, May 2015

The door to ‘Politics Of Dancing 3’ is opened with a vocal triumvirate. The pacific refrains of ‘Heart Like An Ocean’ and the entrancing ‘Lights’ bring the first of two ‘POD3’ performances from Tricia McTeague and regular vocal muse Sue McLaren. ‘My World’ meanwhile features the Nordic inflexion of Jahala, with co-production work from VANDIT’s FKN and FSOE’s Mohamed Ragab. ‘Around The Garden’ from Algerian greenhorn Mino Safy provides a rarer-these-days opportunity to hear van Dyk at his full locomotive remix best.

“If we only look back then we’ll never know”, is the message of the Patrick Droney-sung ‘What We're Livin’ For’ - PvD and Michael Tsukerman’s effervescent production framing it as a summer festival monster-in-the-making. ‘In Your Arms’ marks this the third PvD long-player in succession that’s featured Giuseppe Ottaviani as a co-producer. Vocalled (with what van Dyk describes as “a hopeful sadness”) by Fisher, Paul and the Italian trance virtuoso stir the ‘POD’ waters deep with it. The We Are One’s festival anthem ‘Come With Me’, produced alongside Ummet Ozcan made a big splash in the summer of 2014. Having already drawn high praise from the UK’s Mixmag magazine (“natural note arrangements, straight-to-the-heart-pianos and a lightning strike of a riff - 9/10”), on its release it claimed a Beatport’s #1 spot for 10 days straight.

Featuring trance pharaohs Aly & Fila, ‘Guardian’ sees ‘POD3’ cross the album midpoint. Per DJ Mag, “a surprising, listen-without-prejudice, (9.5/10) milestone”, its heartfelt paean-song touched dance floors and download charts the world over early in 2015. VANDIT Records regulars Las Salinas join PvD mixing up aquiline and pitch-bent synths on ‘Love Is’, whilst singer Betsie Larkin sears in its vocal ether. ‘For You’ and ‘City of Sound’ meanwhile see Paul together for the first time with the axiomatically hot UK producers Genix and Jordan Suckley. Alongside fellow Germans Stoneface & Terminal, there’s an avant-garde interspace between ‘Follow Me’s churned 303 and analogue-styled synths.

‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’ reaches its emotional crescendo with the stunning ‘Only In A Dream’ (“Captivating melodies – this one could run & run!” said DJ Mag), as Paul provides aegis to neophyte producers Jessus and Adham Ashraf. Perhaps the longest-discussed collaboration of all of ‘POD 3’s productions is also its closeout. It finds Paul co-writing with the always Balearically-minded Roger Shah, as Daphne Khoo lends ‘Louder’ its summer-yearning, high-on-life zeal.As ‘EVOLUTION’ before it, ‘Politics 3’ is an artist album, albeit one that Paul describes as “a conceptual merge between what I do as a DJ and what I do as a producer”. It’s a release that’s album at its core, but mix-comp-natured in its sequenced listening experience. It completes the series first arc, whilst still leaving the ‘Politics of Dancing’ door enticingly ajar.

‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’ is released worldwide on the 4th of March.‘Politics 3’ here,

‘Politics 3’ now: “over the years a lot of people asked if there’d be another ‘Politics Of Dancing’. I was obviously thinking about the idea more and more. It built up until one day my mind became set and I thought ‘Yes. Really, why not?’ If there’s a project that I still feel so passionately about, that is still requested by the audience with ever-greater regularity over the years, then what’s to prevent it? If there was ever a reason, real or otherwise, there ceased to be that day.”The politics of ‘Politics’: The ‘Politics’ referred to in the albums’ titles are, in van Dyk’s words, “those of the diplomatic kind”. In Ibiza, early in his career, Paul watched his “Palestinian and Lebanese friends dancing side-by-side with Israeli friends – without war, without anything in their minds other than treating each other respectfully. In 2015 the need for these ‘politics of dancing’, for a form of ‘dancefloor diplomacy’ are even greater than it was in 2001. In a very small, personal aspect you see what sort of potential this (electronic) music has for bringing people together. In my life I’ve never seen any force that’s had a greater unifying effect. Getting people together is the always the first step towards reconciliation. I have a hope that, in ways small and maybe even large, this new ‘Politics of Dancing’ music will edge us a step closer to that”.

Paul van Dyk’s album history: Van Dyk has a career-long history of putting out acclaimed long-players. In 1994 the Berlin-based producer released his debut ‘45 RPM’, which was followed by ‘Seven Ways’ in 1996 and ‘Out There And Back’ in 2000. ‘Reflections’ in 2003 saw him become the first artist to be Grammy nominated in the then-new Best Dance/Electronic Music category. ‘In Between’ followed in 2007’ and ‘EVOLUTION’ in 2012 saw him personally re-categorize his studio work to the stylistically more inclusive (and straightforward) “electronic music”. The album went on achieve significant critical success. It was rated 6/6 by Raveline magazine, who proclaimed “this evolution seems to be almost perfect!” MIXMAG scored the release 9/10, observing that van Dyk had “achieved evolution in both name and nature”, whilst DJ Mag called it “impressive” and “multidimensional”. The release was another commercial success for van Dyk - his albums to date having collectively sold in excess of 3 million copies.

The sound of ‘The Politics of Dancing 3’: “The third Politics of Dancing’s sound is, to me more about what I’m about than the first two albums even. With them, I took music from other people and mixed, remixed and articulated it into the releases. Now we’re talking about tracks that I’ve written and co-written with other artists. So this is pretty much my idea of what electronic music should sound like now. ‘Politics’ is almost like a ‘sound dictionary’ of where I’m at musically. For me it continues the theme/thread of the first two, whilst acknowledging the passage of time between the then and the now.”


The Politics of Dancing 3 Tracklist:
01: Paul van Dyk and Mark Eteson feat Tricia McTeague - Heart Like An Ocean
02: Paul van Dyk feat Sue McLaren – Lights
03: Paul van Dyk, FKN and Mohamed Ragab feat. Jahala - My World
04: Mino Safy Around The Garden - Paul van Dyk Remix
05: Paul van Dyk and Michael Tsukerman feat Patrick Droney - What We're Livin For
06: Paul van Dyk and Giuseppe Ottaviani feat Fisher - In Your Arms
07: Paul van Dyk and Ummet Ozcan - Come With Me (We Are One) (Paul van Dyk Festival Mix)
08: Paul van Dyk and Aly & Fila feat Sue McLaren – Guardian
09: Paul van Dyk and Las Salinas feat. Betsie Larkin - Love Is
10: Paul van Dyk and Genix - For You
11: Paul van Dyk and Stoneface & Terminal - Follow Me
12: Paul van Dyk and Jordan Suckley - City Of Sound
13: Paul van Dyk, Jessus and Adham Ashraf feat Tricia McTeague - Only In A Dream (PvD Club Mix)
14: Paul van Dyk and Roger Shah feat Daphne Khoo – Louder (PvD vs Ben Nicky Remix)

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PAUL VAN DYK presents THE POLITICS OF DANCING Vol. 3

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BY @ello- 2015

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05-05-2015.

BY @ello- 2015

Hi @rusticman, thanks for letting me know on that - much appreciated!

In the late spring of 2015, Paul van Dyk brought the electronic music world his third generation of dancefloor ‘Politics’. Through his “captivating” (MIXMAG), “10/10” (FAZE Mag) seventh studio album, in equal measure he enthralled fans and delighted the music press. Containing many a new PvD classic-in-the-making, ‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’ also set in motion the globe-spanning POD3 LIVE tour, which, to-date has reached 30 shores or more.

Now, bridging the gap between the album’s release-year and the next phase of ‘Politics 3’, Paul caps off 2015 with a triple pack of ‘POD3’ remixes. December 11th will see Aly & Fila, Giuseppe Ottaviani and Liquid Soul rewire, to outstanding effect, ‘Heart Like An Ocean’, ‘In Your Arms’ and ‘City Of Sound’.

Out now through Ultra Music/NewState:
pro.beatport.com/release/the-p…f-dancing-remixes/1672186

Kicking the EP off are Aly & Fila, who rework the Mark Eteson co-produced ‘Heart Like An Ocean’. Plucking ‘Heart’s most epic of strings, the Egyptians’ raise further rapture through Tricia McTeague’s empyrean vocals.

For the EP’s ‘In Your Arms’ interpretation, the track’s co-producer, Giuseppe Ottaviani takes matters into his own hands. Having already worked his magic on recent single ‘Lights’ (which DJ Mag scored “9/10” and gave Single of the Month honours to), here the Italian affects a second, supremely uplifting strike of his mix-lightning.

On his version, Iboga/J00F Recs regular Nicola ‘Liquid Soul’ Capobianco strips out ‘City Of Sound’s most euphoric genes, replacing them with his hallmark Goa & Psy strands. The Swiss producer brings Richter Scale-registering drums, polygraph-tense sub-riffs and lean, mean, acidizing FX forcefully to the foreground.

Tracklist:
01: Paul van Dyk and Giuseppe Ottaviani with Betsie Larkin – In Your Arms (OnAir Remix)
02: Paul van Dyk, Mark Eteson & Tricia McTeague – Heart Like An Ocean (Aly & Fila Remix)
03: Paul van Dyk and Jordan Suckley – City Of Sound (Liquid Soul Remix)

‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’s remix EP’ is out today through NewState and Ultra Music.
You can order ‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’ Remixes here:
pro.beatport.com/release/the-p…f-dancing-remixes/1672186

In other PvD news, whilst touring South America earlier in the autumn, Paul became the recipient of a prestigious Las Lunas Del Auditorio Award.

One of Mexico’s highest musical accolades, the Awards highlight the best in live shows & performances from across the musical range. Now in their 14th year, they include rock, pop, dance, musicals and ballet categories. Previous winners, across its gamut, have included U2, Buena Vista Social Club, Paul McCartney, Cirque du Soleil, Depeche Mode, Shakira and others.

Receiving the award for this year’s Best Electronic Music Performance PvD said he was both “thrilled” and “thoroughly honoured” - going on to thank his “loyal Mexican fans for their endless passion and support”. Taking this year’s title, van Dyk saw off stiff competition from fellow 2015 category nominees, Hardwell, Martin Garrix, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and NERVO.

To sign off the year of ‘Politics 3’ in the best way imaginable, New Year’s Eve will see PvD bring the POD3 experience to a 100,000+ crowd in Warsaw. If you’re in the Polish capital on December 31st, you can catch Paul lighting the path to 2016, as part of the city’s celebrations, at the Warsaw National Stadium.

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