Fieldwork is Johnny McDaid under a new alias. Johnny and I have been friends for a long time, as I'm sure those who have watched my career for a while now will know. I first came across his music one night quite a while ago. I was having dinner with my wife - MTV was playing in the background and my brain kind of tuned into this track that was on. It was by Vega 4, which was Johnny's first band, and I completely fell in love with it. The first thing I did the next day was to shoot down to the shops and buy the album. What followed one of those lucky/quirky happenstance things. I was always being asked what music I listened to outside of the dance music and for ages I was just saying Vega 4, Vega 4, Vega 4! I was interviewed for a Malaysian magazine, said my thing about Vega 4 and something it got lost in translation. They read it and got the idea that there was an electronic music act called Vega 4. The contacted my office about it and I said no, no, no it's you guys, that's you! I think what you do is incredible! So when I was in London next, we hung out and started making music together.
For 'Everywhere', last summer Johnny came over to Berlin and we recorded just a whole lot of different pieces of music. It allowed the course of this track to almost feel its own way to completion. It was a really wonderful experience and very different to the other more structured methods for producing. It was, in essence, a two-week on-and-off 'jam session', which is a pretty rare luxury to have, and it was doubly good to be able to do it with one of the best musicians I've ever met.
With the song, Johnny was aiming to deconstruct the traditional love song, I think. As standard, love songs always define everything as huge -- big, grand gestures, big-print headline words - lots of heavy significance and consequence. It's kind of love through the entertainment industry magnifier, I guess. If you're really being honest about it, love is in fact something small, intimate and personal. It's about relatively minor details because after all, it is just about two people.
Paul van Dyk 'EVERYWHERE' ft. Fieldwork From the album EVOLUTION
In the dull light of the 61 I can barely read your note With your tiny letters flung like chains Across a paper note
My laboured lungs are bellowing And they clutch at every breath For the last thing that you scribbled there Was go and be yourself
You are everywhere I look, you are everywhere You are everywhere I look, you are everywhere
Fingers made of hanger wire All curled and tangled up Trace circles made by coffee cups Left on the table top
And your shoes are still parked at the door And your hair is still in the bath The glasses in our cupboards purr To the hum of distant cars
You are everywhere I look, you are everywhere You are everywhere I look, you are everywhere
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Paul van Dyk - 'Everywhere' feat. Fieldwork
Fieldwork is Johnny McDaid under a new alias. Johnny and I have been friends for a long time, as I'm sure those who have watched my career for a while now will know. I first came across his music one night quite a while ago. I was having dinner with my wife - MTV was playing in the background and my brain kind of tuned into this track that was on. It was by Vega 4, which was Johnny's first band, and I completely fell in love with it. The first thing I did the next day was to shoot down to the shops and buy the album. What followed one of those lucky/quirky happenstance things. I was always being asked what music I listened to outside of the dance music and for ages I was just saying Vega 4, Vega 4, Vega 4! I was interviewed for a Malaysian magazine, said my thing about Vega 4 and something it got lost in translation. They read it and got the idea that there was an electronic music act called Vega 4. The contacted my office about it and I said no, no, no it's you guys, that's you! I think what you do is incredible! So when I was in London next, we hung out and started making music together.
For 'Everywhere', last summer Johnny came over to Berlin and we recorded just a whole lot of different pieces of music. It allowed the course of this track to almost feel its own way to completion. It was a really wonderful experience and very different to the other more structured methods for producing. It was, in essence, a two-week on-and-off 'jam session', which is a pretty rare luxury to have, and it was doubly good to be able to do it with one of the best musicians I've ever met.
With the song, Johnny was aiming to deconstruct the traditional love song, I think. As standard, love songs always define everything as huge -- big, grand gestures, big-print headline words - lots of heavy significance and consequence. It's kind of love through the entertainment industry magnifier, I guess. If you're really being honest about it, love is in fact something small, intimate and personal. It's about relatively minor details because after all, it is just about two people.
Paul van Dyk 'EVERYWHERE' ft. Fieldwork
From the album EVOLUTION
In the dull light of the 61
I can barely read your note
With your tiny letters flung like chains
Across a paper note
My laboured lungs are bellowing
And they clutch at every breath
For the last thing that you scribbled there
Was go and be yourself
You are everywhere I look, you are everywhere
You are everywhere I look, you are everywhere
Fingers made of hanger wire
All curled and tangled up
Trace circles made by coffee cups
Left on the table top
And your shoes are still parked at the door
And your hair is still in the bath
The glasses in our cupboards purr
To the hum of distant cars
You are everywhere I look, you are everywhere
You are everywhere I look, you are everywhere
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Get EVOLUTION on iTunes http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/evol...