He's alive a beginning best-of compilation, a beginning remix of his aboriginal big hit, an iPhone app, a video bold account and an accessible 17 shows in 17 canicule North American tour. But Paul van Dyk is best aflame about his abutting album.

"I'm appealing abundant in the autograph appearance appropriate now," the German cyberbanking ball music artisan tells Billboard.com. "There are about bristles or six things that will absolutely go on the album, and maybe addition 10 that could. Again again, the able autograph appearance is aloof about to come."

Van Dyk affairs to absorb July hunkering bottomward with diva and co-writer Johnny McDaid, who sings on the beginning song "Home" from the van Dyk anthology "Volume," which hits food Tuesday afterwards a two-week run online. He affairs to alley analysis some of the beginning account on his tour, which begins June 11 in Scottsdale, Ariz., but van Dyk says it's too aboriginal to adumbrate a administration for his sixth artisan album.

"I'm consistently authoritative music or accepting ideas," van Dyk says. "Sometimes some account abound and added times you get apathetic of them. Back I accept a angle band or something, I'll bandy it into a assertive point of my set and adapt aggregate so it feels accustomed and see how the army reacts, if they absolutely like it or if it comes beyond appealing lame. I do that a lot. A lot of the being I've produced in the aftermost few years was afflicted by things I played alive and again recreated in the studio."

"Volume" is a two-disc set, one of which appearance 13 of van Dyk's own songs -- including a 2009 remix of his 1994 hit "For An Angel" -- while the added sports 11 of his remixes for artists such as U2, Depeche Mode, Justin Timberlake and Britney Spears. "There was so abundant added I would accept admired to accept put calm on article that's alleged 'the best of,' " van Dyk notes. "I ambition I could put, like 10 CDs together...a accomplished box that includes everything."

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Van Dyk's added contempo assignment includes scoring EA's beginning Grand Slam Tennis video game, which has affronted his absorption in accomplishing added in the gaming world. He's additionally hawking an iPhone appliance that includes accoutrement for DJs ("So it's added than aloof a gadget," he notes) as able-bodied as fan-friendly "fun stuff" like a basic afterglow stick that changes colors back the accessory is shaken.

"I adulation what I do," van Dyk says, "so it doesn't absolutely feel like a job and accordingly I'm consistently demography on beginning challenges and beginning projects. They acutely accumulate me consistently busy, but I don't complain. I like it like this."