terracotta ewers, about 2200 BC]] A pitcher is a container with a spout used for storing and pouring contents which are liquid in form. Generally a pitcher also has a handle, which makes pouring easier.

A ewer is a vase-shaped pitcher, often decorated, with a base and a flaring spout. An example of a ewer would be the America's Cup given to the winner of the America's Cup sailing regatta match.

Etymology

The word "pitcher" comes from the 13th century Middle English word picher, which means earthen jug. The word picher is linked to the old French word pichier which is the altered version of the word bichier, meaning drinking cup. The pitcher’s origin goes as far back to the Medieval Latin word bicarium from the Greek word bikos, which meant earthen vessel. Compare with Dutch beker and German Becher which both mean mug.

Early recording

An early depiction of a usage of a pitcher was when the Bible mentions of Rebekah coming to Abraham bearing a vessel with water. In the gospel of Mark in the bible, a pitcher which bears water is also mentioned when Jesus asks two of his disciples to come into the city of Jerusalem where they would meet a man who carries this water vessel, they were then instructed to follow this man. Another excerpt from the bible mentions empty pitchers with lamps given to three hundred men divided into three companies, in the Book of Judges. Other religions have been known to use such water vesselsone of which is the notable Pitcher of Marawan Ibn Mohammad which predates 8th century AD. The artifact was acquired and unearthed by archeologists on May 15, 1930, currently it is on display at the Museum of Islamic Art in Egypt.

Idiomatic usage

"Little pitchers have big ears" is a proverb. The phrase depicts a child as the pitcher with ears hearing what people around them say or do, which is stored inside. The adults are also cautioned that the children might not be as naïve as they perceive them to be.

on the background of a carpet]]

See also

Amphora

Aquamanile

Bridge spouted vessel

Hydria

Jar

Jug (container)

Porron

References

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Coordinates	37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N
Name	Van Dyke Parks
Background	non_performing_personnel
Born	January 03, 1943Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Genre	Americana
Occupation	Composer, Performer, Instrumentalist, Arranger, Producer, Lyricist
Instrument	Vocals, Piano, Harpsichord, Synthesizer, Accordion, Celeste, Organ
Label	Warner Bros., MGM
Url	VanDykeParks.com

Van Dyke Parks (born January 3, 1943) is an American composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, author and actor. He has worked with performers including Grace Kelly, Delaney Bramlett, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, Loudon Wainwright III, Harry Nilsson, Silverchair, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, Inara George, Keith Moon and Ringo Starr.

Early career

Born in 1943 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and reared in Lake Charles, Louisiana, Parks attended the American Boychoir School '57 in Princeton, New Jersey. He began his career as a child actor. Between 1953 and 1958 he worked steadily in films and television, including the 1956 movie The Swan (which starred Grace Kelly). He appeared as Ezio Pinza's son Andrew Bonino on the NBC television show Bonino. One of his costars on Bonino was 14-year-old Chet Allen, who appeared as Jerry Bonino. Parks and Allen were roommates at the Boychoir School. Parks also had a recurring role as Little Tommy Manacotti (the kid from upstairs) on Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners.

Parks originally studied the clarinet, but had moved to the piano before enrolling (majoring in music) at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied from 1960 to 1963. In January 1963 Parks learned to play the guitar and soon relocated to Los Angeles to play with his older brother Carson Parks (writer of "Somethin' Stupid") as The Steeltown Two (later enlarged to the Steeltown Three), which eventually became the folk group The Greenwood County Singers (Parks took a short hiatus from this group, moving to New England to be part of The Brandywine Singers).

By 1964, Parks had an artist contract at MGM Records. In 1966 he was persuaded by producer Lenny Waronker to switch to Warner Bros. Records. During this time he worked frequently as a session musician, arranger and songwriter. Parks met Beach Boys leader Brian Wilson through Terry Melcher (who was then producing The Byrds). During 1966, Parks performed on The Byrds album Fifth Dimension (David Crosby had once asked Parks to consider forming a group prior to the formation of the Byrds, but Parks refused) as well as on the ill fated Beach Boys project Smile. Also during this period, Parks' compositions, such as the hit "High Coin" for Harpers Bizarre, were becoming known for their lyrical wordplay and sharp imagery.

Smile

In 1966, after getting to know each other socially, Brian Wilson commissioned Parks to write lyrics for the Beach Boys' next LP, the ambitious but ill-fated Smile. Parks and Wilson collaborated on songs for the album. Several members of the Beach Boys strongly opposed Smile, notably lead singer (and Wilson's former lyricist) Mike Love who derided Parks' lyrics as "Acid Alliteration". The bitter resistance from the group and their record company had a strong negative effect on Wilson's increasingly fragile mental state (which may also have been exacerbated by drug use). Following a December 1966 recording session in which he was involved in a heated argument with Mike Love (who vehemently criticized his lyrics for the song "Cabinessence") Parks' involvement in Smile effectively ceased and he officially withdrew from the project in early 1967. Recording sessions ground to a halt soon after, as Wilson became increasingly withdrawn, and the album was shelved a few months later. Several complete Wilson/Parks songs and other musical fragments written for Smile subsequently appeared on the Beach Boys' 'replacement' album Smiley Smile, including "Heroes and Villains" and "Wind Chimes", although most were re-recorded in drastically scaled-down arrangements. Two other key songs written and recorded for Smile -- "Cabinessence" and "Surf's Up" -- were compiled by Carl Wilson and included on the 20/20 and Surf's Up LPs in more or less the same form as Wilson had intended them for Smile, while the song "Cool Cool Water" (an extended track built around the Smile fragment "I love to say Dada") later appeared on the Sunflower album.

Smile acquired legendary status as one of the great lost works of Sixties pop, and although fragments were subsequently issued in various forms over the years, the form and exact content of the work as Wilson and Parks had conceived it remained hotly debated. Public interest in Smile was greatly revived by the release of a significant cache of recordings from the original Smile sessions on the Beach Boys 30th anniversary boxed set in 1993. In 2004, following the great success of his acclaimed live performances of the Beach Boys Pet Sounds album, and with the support of his band's musical director Darian Sahanaja, Wilson made the surprise announcement that he was going to finish the mythical record using his current touring band. He contacted Parks, who helped fill in gaps in the original lyrics, and the duo re-recorded the album and then presented it on a world tour, beginning with the world premiere performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, which Parks attended.

Solo music career

In 1968, Parks released his first solo album, Song Cycle (produced by his friend Lenny Waronker) which combined orchestral textures and traditional Americana-meets-psychedelic pop song structure. AllMusic's Jason Ankeny has described the album as

an audacious and occasionally brilliant attempt to mount a fully orchestrated, classically minded work within the context of contemporary pop. As indicated by its title, Song Cycle is a thematically coherent work, one which attempts to embrace the breadth of American popular music; bluegrass, ragtime, show tunes -- nothing escapes Parks' radar, and the sheer eclecticism and individualism of his work is remarkable. ...[T]he album is both forward-thinking and backward-minded, a collision of bygone musical styles with the progressive sensibilities of the late '60s; while occasionally overambitious and at times insufferably coy, it's nevertheless a one-of-a-kind record, the product of true inspiration.

Song Cycle established Parks' signature approach of mining and updating old American musical traditions, including ragtime and New Orleans-style jazz, and includes the Randy Newman song "Vine Street". The album reportedly cost more than US$35,000 to produce, making it one of the most expensive pop albums ever recorded up to that time. Despite rave critical reviews, it sold very poorly so Warner Bros publicist Stan Cornyn wrote a tongue-in-cheek advertisement hoping to promote it. Opening with a declaration that the label had "lost $35,509 on 'the album of the year' (dammit)", the ad suggested that those who had purchased the album had probably worn their copies out by playing it over and over, and encouraged listeners to send these supposedly worn-out copies back to Warner Bros, who would exchange it for two new copies, including one "to educate a friend with". Incensed by the tactic, Parks accused Cornyn of trying to kill his career.

Four years later, Parks' travels to the West Indies inspired his second solo album Discover America. Discover America was a tribute to the islands of Trinidad and Tobago and to calypso music. Parks re-arranged and re-produced obscure songs and calypso classics. This direction was continued in the 1976 release Clang of the Yankee Reaper.

Parks' 1984 album Jump! featured songs adapted from the stories of Uncle Remus and Brer Rabbit. The album features a Broadway-style reduced orchestra plus Americana additions like banjo, mandolin, and steel drums. Parks composed the album but did not arrange or produce it. Martin Kibbee contributed to the lyrics.

Following Jump!, in 1989 Warner Brothers released Tokyo Rose. This concept album focuses on the history of Japanese/U.S. relations from the 19th century to the "trade war" of the time of its release. The songs are pop tunes with an orchestral treatment including Japanese instruments and old Parks Caribbean favorites like steel drums. The album did not sell well and was not widely critically noticed.

In 1995 Parks surprised fans and critics by teaming up again with Brian Wilson to create the album Orange Crate Art. Parks wrote all of the songs on the album, except "This Town Goes Down At Sunset" and George Gershwin instrumental "Lullaby", with vocals by Wilson. Orange Crate Art is a tribute to the Southern California of the early 1900s, and a lyrical tribute to the beauty of Northern California.

1998 saw the release of Parks' first live album, , which shows a love of the work of 19th-century American pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk as well as performances of several of Parks' better (and lesser) known songs. The live ensemble includes Sid Page as concertmaster.

Work for other artists

Parks has produced, arranged, or played on albums by artists including Tim Buckley, Delaney Bramlett, U2, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson, The Byrds, Cher, Rufus Wainwright, Sam Phillips, Ringo Starr, Frank Black, The Beau Brummels, The Manhattan Transfer, Medicine, Keith Moon, Sixpence None the Richer, Carly Simon, Little Feat, T-Bone Burnett, Stan Ridgway, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Victoria Williams, Bonnie Raitt, Peter Case, Gordon Lightfoot, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, Ry Cooder, Joanna Newsom, The Everly Brothers, Saint Etienne, Silverchair, The Thrills, Scissor Sisters, Laurie Anderson, and Susanna Hoffs/Matthew Sweet's covers collection.

In 2006 he collaborated with singer Joanna Newsom on the orchestral arrangements for her second album, Ys. He and David Mansfield are co-credited with the music for the 2006 mini-series Broken Trail. He also contributed orchestrations to the Danger Mouse produced second album by UK psychedelic three piece The Shortwave Set in 2008.

He also composed orchestral arrangements for the fifth Silverchair album, Young Modern, on three songs, "If You Keep Losing Sleep", "Those Thieving Birds/Strange Behavior", and "All Across The World". Daniel Johns, the band's lead singer, traveled to Prague with Parks to have the arrangements recorded by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. The album's title is a nickname Parks uses for Johns. This followed his work on the band's fourth album, Diorama, contributing orchestral arrangements on "Across The Night", "Tuna In The Brine", and "Luv Your Life".

Music in film and television

Parks has also scored a number of motion pictures, including Sesame Street's Follow That Bird, Jack Nicholson's The Two Jakes and Goin' South, Casual Sex?, Private Parts, Popeye (with Harry Nilsson), and The Company.

Disney hired Parks to arrange Terry Gilkyson's Academy Award nominated song "The Bare Necessities" for the 1967 feature The Jungle Book. Parks had four songs featured in the 1987 direct-to-video Disney film, The Brave Little Toaster. He worked closely with David Newman on the film's score as well. He composed the theme song for Rudy Maxa's Savvy Traveler radio program on NPR.

The HBO Family series Harold and the Purple Crayon, is narrated by Sharon Stone with music and lyrics written and sung by Parks.

Parks composed the faux-psychedelic song "Black Sheep" (a parody of Smile and Brian Wilson's style in general) for , sung by John C. Reilly, who portrays the titular character.

Other career

Parks has taken small TV and film roles including appearances in Popeye, The Two Jakes, and as Leo Johnson's defense attorney Jack Racine in episode #2005 of Twin Peaks.

Parks wrote a series of children's books (Jump (with Malcolm Jones), Jump Again and Jump on Over), based around the Br'er rabbit tales, illustrated by Barry Moser, and loosely accompanied by Parks' own album Jump!. The books contain sheet music for selected songs from the album.

Parks was given the job of heading the audio/visual department of Warner Bros. records in September, 1970. This department was the earliest of its kind to record videos to promote records.

New projects

Parks has completed work with Brian Wilson on a new narrative song cycle entitled That Lucky Old Sun (A Narrative).

He also contributed to the new record by The Shortwave Set, titled Replica Sun Machine, which features a 24-piece orchestra and further input from John Cale. This was released on the 12th of May 2008 by Wall of Sound.

Parks worked with Inara George on a record released in 2008, An Invitation, and they performed two songs together on 8 January 2008 at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, as part of the program .

Parks is a guest musician on Echo by Mari Iijima, released in August 2009. Iijima sang "Calypso," on Parks' album Tokyo Rose.

In 2009, Parks performed in The People Speak a documentary feature film that uses dramatic and musical performances of the letters, diaries, and speeches of everyday Americans, based on historian Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States”. Parks performed with Bob Dylan and Ry Cooder on the documentary broadcast on Dec. 13, 2009 on the History Channel. They played Do Re Mi and reportedly a couple of other Guthrie songs that were excluded from the final edit.

Parks performed as a guest artist on the Grant Geissman Cool Man Cool album released in 2009

Discography

Singles

"Number Nine / Do What You Wanta", 1966, single 45

"Come to the Sunshine / Farther Along", 1966, single 45

"Donovan's Colours, Pt. 1 / Donovan's Colours, Pt. 2" 1968" single 45 (under the pseudonym George Washington Brown)

"The Eagle and Me / On The Rolling Sea When Jesus Speak to Me" 1970, single 45

"Occapella / Ode to Tobago" 1972, single 45

Solo Albums

Song Cycle, 1968 album

Discover America, 1972, album

Clang of the Yankee Reaper, 1975 album

Jump!, 1984 album

Tokyo Rose, 1989 album

Fisherman & His Wife, 1991 Book with cassette.

Idiosyncratic Path: Best Of Van Dyke Parks 1996

1998 album

Compilation Albums

Arranged and conducted three instrumental pieces on the Hal Willner-produced , 1985

"On the Rolling Sea When Jesus Speaks to Me" on On the Rolling Sea: A Tribute to Joseph Spence, charity tribute album 1994 (song previously released)

"Keep Me In Your Heart" on , tribute album 2004

"Greenland Whale Fisheries" on (2006)

"Sail Away Lady" on Hal Willner's The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited, tribute album 2006

"Yellow Magic Carnival" on a Japanese release Tribute to Haruomi Hosono, 2007

Ice Capades Commercials, Sire Warner Record Show, 1969

With Brian Wilson

Smile (Beach Boys album) sessions (bootleg) (1967)

Orange Crate Art Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks (1995)

Smile (2004)

That Lucky Old Sun (A Narrative) (2007)

Other albums

Replica Sun Machine by The Shortwave Set with Danger Mouse and John Cale. So Damn Happy by Loudon Wainwright III Strange Weirdos by Loudon Wainwright III

As Producer

Phil Ochs, Greatest Hits

Steve Young, Switchblade of Love

The Mighty Sparrow, Warner Brothers

As Arranger

Rufus Wainwright

Kristian Hoffman

Inara George

Joanna Newsom, Ys

The Bare Necessities

Filmography

Goin' South (1978)

The People Speak(2009)

Books

Jump

Jump Again

Jump on Over

Sources

Pirore, Dominic, SMiLE, Omnibus Press

References

External links

The Music of Van Dyke Parks

musicOMH interview with Van Dyke Parks, 2011

80-minute 1984 KCRW radio interview by Bob Claster A Visit with Van Dyke Parks

Van Dyke Parks on creativity, an interview with about-creativity.com May 3, 2007

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/dec/12/entertainment/la-et-people-speak12-2009dec12

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Coordinates	37°46′45.48″N122°25′9.12″N
Name	Paul van Dyk
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth name	Matthias Paul
Born	December 16, 1971
Origin	Eisenhüttenstadt, East Germany
Instrument	Keyboards, mixer, synthesizer
Genre	Trance
Occupation	Musician, record producer, DJ
Years active	1991–present
Label	Vandit RecordsUltra RecordsDeviant RecordsMFS (1992-1998)
Associated acts	see Co-production section of Paul van Dyk discography.
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Matthias Paul, better known by his stage name Paul van Dyk (born December 16, 1971 in Eisenhüttenstadt, GDR) is a German Grammy Award–winning Electronic Dance Music DJ, musician and record producer. He was named World No.1 DJ in both 2005 and 2006. Paul van Dyk is the only DJ who has remained in the World's Top 10 DJs since 1998. As of 2007, he has sold over 4.5 million albums worldwide.

A trance producer in the early-late 1990s, Paul quickly achieved popularity with his remix of Love Stimulation by Humate under record label MFS in 1993, and his hit single, "For an Angel", but in recent times he no longer likes to describe his music as trance, but rather simply as electronic dance music.

History

Early life and musical beginning

Paul van Dyk grew up in East Berlin in a single parent household; his father left him and his mother when he was four years old. and began training to become a carpenter. Because where he grew up there were no record stores at which to buy music, he kept in touch with the world beyond the Berlin Wall by secretly listening to the popular but forbidden Western radio stations RIAS (Radio in the American Sector) and SFB and mixtapes occasionally smuggled into the country and copied among school friends.

Shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, van Dyk and his mother were given permission to leave East Germany and moved to Hamburg to live with his aunt. After several more dates, he was given the chance to perform at Juergen Kramer's Dubmission parties in the Turbine club, together with the young resident DJ Kid Paul. The shows were called Paul vs. Paul. His mixing style drew the attention of Cosmic Baby and the two collaborated as The Visions of Shiva. Their single "Perfect Day" was released by the renowned Berlin independent label MFS (Masterminded For Success) Records, run by English ex-patriat producer Mark Reeder and manager Torsten Jurk.

In February 1993, van Dyk and Kid Paul hosted an installment of the weekly three-hour "HR3 Clubnight" radio show perform for a nationwide audience on German radio. The second and final Visions of Shiva single "How Much Can You Take?" was released, and van Dyk and Cosmic went their separate musical ways. By late summer, Paul released his first DJ-mix compilation "X-Mix-1 - the MFS Trip" and remixed Humate's trance hymn "Love Stimulation".

The growing popularity of the Dubmission parties forced venue changes, first to Cafe Moskau and then into the larger E-Werk where van Dyk began hosting regular MFS nights.

1994–2007

In 1994, Paul released The Green Valley EP, Pump This Party and Emergency 911. Meanwhile, MFS acquired many remixes for Paul. MFS label owner Mark Reeder's close friendship with artists such as New Order gave Paul the opportunity to mix the track "Spooky" from the Republic album. Persuaded by Reeder, he finally recorded his debut LP 45 RPM with Johnny Klimek and VOOV. Reeder also compiled the album's running order and design, and chose the album's title as a reflection of the 45 rpm speed typical for dance vinyl.

Mark Reeder compiled Seven Ways, which established Paul van Dyk as a trance pioneer and was Paul van Dyk's first real success in Britain. Reeder had successfully convinced his old friend Rob Deacon (formerly of Volume) to license the album for the UK and his new Deviant label. Seven Ways was voted the #1 album by readers of DJ Magazine.

In early 1997, Paul van Dyk began collaborating with U.S. music producer, BT. Together, they produced tracks such as Flaming June, Forbidden Fruit and Namistai (1999). The singles "Forbidden Fruit" and "Beautiful Place" did not cause a great impact at first, but with the release of Seven Ways and "Words" appearing at the height of the British superclub phenomenon, van Dyk's own material began to attract attention. "By the time they realised I was a German, it was too late!" van Dyk said. Van Dyk also remixed a well known early-90s track, Age of Love in 1997.

In 1998, 45 RPM was re-released in the UK and in the US. To mark the event, and in homage to the defunct E-Werk, Paul released a remix of "For An Angel". Van Dyk took up a residency at Sheffield's Gatecrasher and declared himself anti-drugs, which led to home-made "No E, Pure PvD" T-shirts, also a sly note to journalists that his surname contained no "E". In 1998, Paul remixed British trance duo, Binary Finary's famous "1998" single, which was a successful version that took Binary Finary to the top of the German Dance charts.

In mid-1998, Van Dyk left MFS Records and took a controlling share in the new label Vandit Records. In 2000, Paul flexed his skills with his melodic, dancefloor-friendly Out There And Back, which included the hit single "Tell Me Why (The Riddle)", a collaboration with Saint Etienne. It also included the European hit We Are Alive, a remixed version of the Jennifer Brown song Alive. His first mix album The Politics of Dancing (2001) was followed by a world tour and a DVD release Global (2003) and the Mexican film "Zurdo", for which van Dyk composed the soundtrack and won a oscar for his work.

Reflections (2003) derived from van Dyk’s trips to India, was a more melancholy affair, and includes the single "Nothing But You", a collaboration with Hemmstock & Jennings. It was nominated for a Grammy in the category of Best Electronic Album. The mix album The Politics of Dancing 2 (2005) was preceded by a single "The Other Side," featuring Wayne Jackson; a song dedicated to the victims, and their families, of the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake and the subsequent tsunami that struck Thailand on December 26, 2004.

2007–present: In Between

Paul van Dyk released his fifth studio album, In Between, worldwide on August 14, 2007. The album, which he created over a three-year period, debuted at number #20 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Billboard's Top Electronic Albums and Top Heatseekers. The album also reached #16 on the Mexican Albums Chart and #5 on the Mexican International Chart. The album was released accompanied by a special edition limited to two thousand copies which included a mixed version of the full album, along with an eight-track bonus CD and an eight-page photo anthology.

The album was produced primarily by Paul van Dyk himself, and features a wide range of collaborators including David Byrne of Talking Heads, Jessica Sutta of the Pussycat Dolls, Ashley Tomberlin from Luminary, Alex M.O.R.P.H, Lo Fi Sugar, Rea Garvey of Reamonn, Ryan Merchant and Wayne Jackson. It also features a vocal sample from Ben Lost from Probspot's "Blows My Mind" on the song "Another Sunday". In June 2007, Paul van Dyk embarked on the worldwide "In Between Tour" to promote the album.

His work with EA Games has resulted in mulitple releases featuring his music on Mirror's Edge and Grand Slam Tennis out in 2009. Paul has also lent his talents to remixing Batman's "Dark Knight Theme" written by Hanz Zimmer. But Paul is no stranger to high profile remixes, he has put his unique twist on Depeche Mode’s "Martyr", Justin Timberlake’s "What Goes Around" and Britney Spears "Gimme More" just to name a few

Paul van Dyk hosts a show on Radio Fritz every Saturday at 20:00 GMT. In some gigs, he was utilizing two 17" MacBook Pro laptops sporting Mainstage (Logic 8 Pro) and Ableton Live software on both, and two MIDI keyboards.

In May 2008, Paul van Dyk set up a remix competition with digital download network Beatport.com, inviting aspiring producers to remix his single 'Far Away' which appeared on his 2007 album 'In Between'. Paul has appeared as one of the DJs at Trance Energy 2009.

It was revealed by Paul van Dyk that his record label Vandit would be merging with Armin Van Buuren's Armada Music.

The next studio album by Paul van Dyk will be out in 2011.

Personal life

He is married to Natascha van Dyk, who also appears on some of his releases (vocals on "Together We Will Conquer"). The two were married in Cancún, Mexico.

Politics

Since 2001, Paul has taken an interest in politics. His creation of The Politics of Dancing compilation was inspired by electronic dance music's universal acclaim by different people around the world. "Palestinians are dancing with Israelis. Lebanese people are dancing with Israelis – without war, without anything in their minds other than treating each other respectfully", said van Dyk in 2006. He also has called EDM "...a political and diplomatic tool that could be used." He also participated in Rock the Vote in 2004 and 2008, the only non-American artist to join the campaign and encouraging young people to vote.

1999 Best International DJ

1999 Best international Award

1999 man of the year by Mixmag

1999 Leader of the Trance Nation

2003 ''Best European DJ (Miami Winter Music Conference 2003)

2003 ''second best trance track Paul Van Dyk - Nothing But You

2003 Notimated Grammy For His Album Reflections

2004 America’s Favorite DJ

2004 ''Best International DJ

2004 ''Best Event

2004 ''Best Music in a Commercial (Motorola)

2004 ''Mexican Oscar for his soundtrack in the film “Zurdo”

2004 ''Best Music Maker" by DJ magazine

2004 big winner at the Dancestar Awards

2005 ''WMC 2005 best track house progressive/trance: Nothing but You (Paul Van Dyk)

2005 ''WMC 2005 best international dj

2005 America’s Favorite DJ

2005 ''best dj for Dance/Electronic Album for his original album Reflections

2005 the International Dance Music Award (IDMA) for Best Euro DJ.

2005 DJ Mag No 1 DJ

2005 Best Producer Trance Awards

2005 Best Global DJ Trance Awards

2006 ''Best Global DJ (Miami Winter Music Conference 2006)

2006 ''Best record label VANDIT

2006 ''Best Producer (Miami Winter Music Conference 2006)

2006 ''Best Global DJ, Best NuNRG/Euro Track

2006 DJ Mag No 1 DJ

2006 Best Global DJ Trance Awards

2006 Best Producer

2006 ''Best Mix Compilation for The Politics of Dancing 2

2006 Cross Of Merit From The City Of Berlin

2006 ''Best HI NRG / Euro Track for "The Other Side" (Miami Winter Music Conference 2006)

2006 ''B.Z.-Kulturpreis 2006

2007 ''Best Ortofon European DJ (Miami Winter Music Conference 2007)

2007 ''Best dj by trance awards

2007 ''Best producer by trance awards

2007 Best label vandit'' by trance awards

2007 ''2nd Best Remixer by trance awards

2007 ''3rd Best live act by trance awards

2007 ''2nd best resident by trance awards

2007 ''Best club night CREAM,ibiza by trance awards

2007 Best album In Between'' by trance awards

2007 3rd Best radio show vonyc'' by trance awards

2007 ''5th Best website by trance awards

''his regular 6 hour set at “Gatecrasher” was voted as the "second best club night ever"

''Best international DJ by Musik Berlin, Zürich, Amsterdam, Londres, Paris, Milan, New-York, Mexico, Singapore

2008 ''Best international DJ by the Ministry of Sound

2008 ''Best international Producer by the ministry of sound

2008 ''Shared Grammy For The Dark Knight Which Won Best Soundtrack In A Motion Picture

2009 ''Best international DJ by the ministry of sound

2009 ''Best international Producer by the ministry of sound

2009 ''Best Track "Home"(Paul Van Dyk Club Mix)by the ministry of sound

2009 ''Best Dj National Paul Van Dyk by Raveline Poll 2009

2009 ''Best Album 2009 "VOLUME" in the Raveline Poll 2009

2009 ''best Trance Label national "VANDIT Records" in the Raveline Poll 2009

2010 ''Best Full Length Dj Mix - "VONYC Sessions 09" by IDMA

On October 27, 2010, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll, placing Paul Van Dyk at #6.

References

External links

Official website

Artist Site at Ultra Records

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