it was supposed to be his 3rd album but was never released due to legal problems..


the following was written in the sept 99 issue of muzik mag.. not much, but something....

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the non-appearance of his long-awaited third album, 'avenue of the stars' currently rests in the hands of the lawyers after a messy 18 month dispute with his former german label, mfs.

pvd then says 'there was a point where i was just like, 'fuck it, i dont want to do music anymore'," he confides. "people say, 'yeah it must have been your year, you got bigger and bigger', but the thing is this little step we took, we got a fucking hurricane blast back in out faces: people ripping things off, bootlegs, so much lawyer bullshit, so many things i had to take care of and wasn't prepared to take care of."
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wow good thing he didnt let that set back discourage him from producing anymore!

ah, found this article on a pvd discography site:
http://www.franken.de/users/tursa/p..._muzik0300b.jpg

hope u dont mind me askin...but what kind of legal problems???

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Originally posted by DJPrototypeX hope u dont mind me askin...but what kind of legal problems???

hmmm legal problems with the record label mfs i assume..

"people ripping things off, bootlegs, "

my guess is some of his trusted friends from MFS tried to make money on the side by bootlegging and selling them and he probably took them to court for doing that?!?!?!?!!!

I hate this 'Reeder' guy.

hrrhrrr... Because of him I don`t have Avenue of Stars.

HELL to him!

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Is that article pretty new. Wot I mean is when it refers to march does it refer to march this year is it last year. Cos I was just wondering wot the outcome of that case was if it was last year.

Always pisses me off when I think about it cuz this means theres a whole album of PvD material that we can't hear.

I remember in that interview when we asked Paul questions mine was, "will 'avenue of stars' ever get released?". Pauls response was along the lines of "I'm really busy now but once I get the chance I'll try to get it released although it will be really difficult."

I think its a bunch of bullshit that theres great music and we can't hear it because a bunch of lawyers and shit. My guess is someday we'll be able to hear it but probably not soon.

I'll try to sort this mess out for you ppl. Mark Reeder was the boss of MFS......pvd's label from 92-97. Okay......after seven ways....techically in the contract between mfs and pvd.....he had one more album to make for them. Well things soured between reeder and paul van dyk and they started to not like each other. so paul makes an album for reeder then leaves and forms vandit records. Paul plans to release "avenue of stars" on vandit, but reeder gets mad saying the album that he was given was outtakes and crap. So reeder sues pvd for the rights to the album saying that really that the contract between them is still valid because what reeder got was crap and he should get the rights to the album. So a legal battle ensues....lasting about a year and during this time, pvd somehow manages to release another way and avenue even tho...those songs were tied up in this mess. In the end, the court rules that pvd did fulfill his obligations to MFS and reeder and the contract is finished. So the german courts award pvd......ownership and rights to avenue of stars. Pvd is pissed off because a man he once thought was a friend has backstabbed him and taken him to court for the rights to an album. Now avenue of stars was supposed to be the progression between seven ways and out there and back. So because of reeder's souring relationship with pvd.......pvd makes his own label and becomes his own boss. PVD will probably release it sooner or later, one of these yrs but he is still unhappy that a former friend took him to court for an album that pvd felt was his. So that is what happened.....probably very close in reality to her.

Ok, here`s what I found out:

1. One of the tracks from the album was played by PvD furing his Mayday 1999 set. Info taken from here!

2. It is said that the first song played by PvD in his essential Mix from 2nd.November 1997 is called "Avenue" and is from that Album. It is said that this song was released as the AA side of Another Day. Info taken from here!


Hope this helps a bit,

Sir. Lunchalot

PS: Dor the best site on PvD I know visit
http://www.franken.de/users/tursa/P...Dyk_discog.html !

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i´m not sure, but i always thought there was a EP or a 5 Track Album that was never released due legal reasons. I think there were some unlicensed remixed or something else.... But i´m not sure...

And Avenue as trackname was known to me, too.

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