The Politics of Dancing
Considering his uber-DJ status, it comes as something of a  surprise to learn thatThe Politics Of Dancing(and, presumably,  feeling good) is the first-ever mixed outing from one of dance music's  most reluctant figureheads. Having said in the past that he didn't  think he could bring the atmosphere of a club to a compilation, it has  taken the full weight of the ubiquitous Ministry to persuade the  legendary Berliners to their turntables for a steroid-pumped two hours  of music. Despite his aversion to the term, rippling Eurotrance is the  order of the day here, with Van Dyk stamping his authority by way of no  less than 11 of his own tracks or remixes scattered across two  seamlessly mixed compact discs, the tracklisting for which has also  been dissected and rebuilt in the studio into what amounts to a series  of exclusive versions. Message understood?--Kingsley Marshall