Paul van Dyk
'VONYC Sessions 2011'

It’s now just as much a part of this time of year as shopping frenzies, fairy lights and excessive eating! Paul van Dyk’s seasonal VONYC Sessions mix 'salutation' is heading towards shop shelves and download stores at breakneck pace! Its combined retrospective/ futuristic auditory offering is, to all intents and purposes, the crossing bridge into a new dance year. So doing that thing T.I. does, we popped the hood on the 2011’s edition to what’s been powering the engine of PvD’s esteemed radio show this year.

It's no great surprise to see that the first answer to that question is: a whole lot of PvD produced & remixed floor-fireworks! Chief among those are his summer released remixes of Moby’s ‘Lie Down In Darkness’, Hurts' indie-edged 'Sundays' and (old vocal cohort) Rea Garvey’s ‘Can’t Stand The Silence’. For those in need of some uprush, the big rooms get even bigger with the inclusion of Giuseppe Ottaviani’s comp-anthem ‘Go On Air’, Cosmic Gate’s Jurgen Vries rethink ‘The Theme’ and Ralphie B’s sky-reaching ‘Bullfrog’. As is very much Van Dyk’s way of late, there’s outreach to non-trance quarters too. Techno gets a good nod, with the likes of Carl Cox’s ‘Family Guy’ venturing the mix down darker corridors. House is also (more than) a feeling, with the inclusion of Paul Thomas’ ‘Skaramoosh’, Save The Robot’s ‘Big Ben’, Kryder’s genre-interloping smash ‘K2’ and others.

So if your Ma and Pa are asking what you’d like to find at the bottom of the stocking this year and you’re mind’s suddenly gone a-blank, think VONYC! If on the other hand that ship has already sailed you could try to win one of the three we have! Give lady luck a spin by simply telling us where you last saw Paul play?