“Power” Moves Only: Paul van Dyk Launches VANTEC Label with NATURE ONE 2025 Anthem
Nearly three decades after he first played the festival, the producer soundtracks its latest milestone – and reaches another in the process.
Rachel Narozniak
Paul van Dyk’s latest single, “Power,” doubles as the NATURE ONE 2025 anthem and the first release from his new label, VANTEC.
It’s a full-circle moment in more ways than one for the German producer, who played the inaugural iteration of the European festival, now in its 30th year, at Hahn Airport in 1995. “I still remember the wild makeshift stages out in the open fields and how the event has evolved into a legendary production over the years,” he told NATURE ONE. “For the 30th anniversary, my wish is that we celebrate ourselves – in real life, in full motion, and far away from screens.”
The anthem provides a pummeling soundtrack for disconnection from phone screens in favor of such reconnection with the dance floor. Fittingly, it kicks off with four words that apply equally as well to van Dyk’s and NATURE ONE’s legacies: “Power. Force. Motion. Drive.” What follows is three minutes and 32 seconds of searing techno hammering at an intensity that will become quintessential to the new Berlin-based imprint, “built to channel raw, no-compromise techno.”
“This isn’t about trends, this is about energy, grit, and a return to the pulse of the underground,” VANTEC wrote in an Instagram post. "Forged in the depths of sleepless nights and forward-thinking club culture, VANTEC is a sonic rebellion. Driving, high-voltage, and unapologetically intense. The label exists for those who live for the sweat-drenched 4 AM dancefloor moments, when the kick hits hard and the bassline refuses to back down.”
This energy, encoded in the song’s DNA, lays the foundation for VANTEC’s sound with explosive pomp and circumstance. Listen below.
NATURE ONE returns to the Pydna missile base in Kastellaun, Germany, from July 31 through August 2. In the meantime, “Power (The Official Nature One Anthem 2025)” is out now via VANTEC.
