Paul van Dyk - ’The Ocean’ feat. Arty

Subscribe to PvD’s Youtube Channel Paul van Dyk - ’The Ocean’ feat. Arty I think it’s about 4 or 5 years ago that I first heard of Arty, and when we ran into each other, he told me that I was the first DJ that he’d heard playing his track in my sets and radio show. I really liked his sound. The musicality of it was something very new and I could hear that his approach to engineering was also refreshingly unconventional. I met him in Russia sometime in 2010, and we talked about making music together. That’s led to two tracks on the album. On ’The Ocean’. I was sent over some strings and sequence patterns, which I was really feeling. I then came back in with other elements and it turned into this big back-and-forth mechanism. Arty brought the topline, which is really harmonic and angelic. and we used it more like an instrument than a vocal - in the traditional sense, at least. We both felt very strongly about the parts that had gone in, and I t