Paul Van Dyk will release a DVD tentatively titled PVD DVD this fall. Featuring footage shot on the German DJ's recent world tour, the DVD is a compilation of fresh remixes of tracks from the artist's trio of full-length albums. The decision to make the remixes followed a battle this past January with his former record label in Germany, MFS. Van Dyk won.

"I got all the rights to my back catalog and wanted to do something special, rather than putting it out the way it is," he says. "I remixed all the tracks -- 'For an Angel,' 'Seven Ways' -- the most important tracks of my career."

For the DVD, the DJ experimented with newly developed 5.1 surround sound technology, producing the final mix in a Berlin club just last week. Van Dyk says the project will also feature one new track, "Animation," a single taken from the Mexican film La Mano Del Zudro, which he recently finished scoring.

Van Dyk is also polishing up the music for the Australian film One Perfect Day, starring Leeanna Walsman, who played assassin Zam Wesell in Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones. One Perfect Day is a love story, bridging the worlds of classical and dance music. "It's about a classical musician who falls in love with this rave-oriented girl," Van Dyk explains. "He's writing this piece of music for her, and it transforms from a classical piece of music into a dance track, a pop single." While the soundtrack is mainly a dance-orientated endeavor, Van Dyk will dabble in the classical world and record with composer David Hopson and the Melbourne Philharmonic this November.

To work on the film scores Van Dyk has taken a break from recording the sixteen tracks he's written for the follow-up to his last album of original material, 2001's Out There and Back. "My artist albums are really important to me, and I didn't want to confuse them," he said.

The album is due out next year and features British chanteuse Jan Johnston (known for her work with the BT) on the track "I Don't Care." Van Dyk's lyrics expound on life as a superstar DJ. "People are always asking how is it when people recognize you on the street and how is it to be a superstar DJ, and I always try to explain that this is not important to me," he says. "The lyrics are about this . . . pinpointing the issue of what people think is so glamorous and stylish of what DJ's do. I didn't do this because I wanted to be glamorous."

JOLIE LASH
(July 3, 2002)