01: Only In A Dream (Original Mix)
02: Only In A Dream (PvD Club Mix)
03: Only In A Dream (Radio Edit)
Three months after Paul van Dyk’s weeklong run at Beatport’s #1 with his Ummet Ozcan collaboration, ‘Come With Me’, the electronic music savant brings dancefloor citizens another clean-through-the-hoop slam-dunk! ‘Only In A Dream’ provides PvD fans old & new with another enticing hint as to what lies inside the forthcoming ‘The Politics Of Dancing 3’ ‘box’.
Having caught PvD’s ear in a remarkably short space of time, the co-production chair for ‘Dream’ is shared with bright-young-studio-things Jessus & Adham Ashraf. In keeping with their quickly propagating sounds, the Columbian/ Egyptian pairing channel trancier frequencies into the track.
Equipping ‘Only In A Dream’ with its embracive once-heard/never-forgotten vocal is English singer/song-writer Tricia McTeague. No stranger to music’s upper tier, she’s worked previously with esteemed producers like Nile Rodgers and Narada Michael Walden; has sung support for legends like Lionel Ritchie & Elton John and now grafts her Morissette/Vega-like expressionism, chapter & verse into Paul & Co’s, ‘Dream’.
Van Dyk’s own versions cover the homebase with the Original Mix ready to chuck the ear of radio, while its Club Mix compatriot zeroes straight to the heart of the dancefloor.
Dimitri Kechagias review: The legend and pioneer of electronic music Paul van Dyk is back with brand new single and once again he collaborates with new talents and offer them the chance to shine along with him. Paul collaborates with Jessus and Adham Ashraf for the magnificent melodic progressive trance beauty Only In A Dream. Very big part of this exceptional track is Tricia Mc Teague's magnificent voice that has that unique mesmerising tone. The original mix is a blissful warm and tender progressive trance gem with the characteristic Paul van Dyk progression that brings in your mind instantly great anthems from his glorious past. Groovy chunky drums, punchy elastic pumping basslines, emotional synths, warm strings, airy pads and variety of melodic plucks that manage to build that rich with content and texture progressive trance style that instantly grab your attention and you enjoy letting everything go and dance along or drive your car scrolling through the busy metropolitan roads with the neon lights. It has the word anthem written all over it by romantically referencing Paul van Dyk's classics. The package could not be complete without his own PVD Club energetic pumping and bouncy powerful full on prime time, main stage version with tough raw basslines, metallic pounding grooves, swirling synths and superb colourful melodies that instantly give you goosebumps and magically take you back in the early 2000. By feeling like angels in the other side we dance until the morning and we don't want to return home cause our home is where you are Paul van Dyk. Future trance classic guaranteed! #PureGold Love IT
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