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From Then On

album by Paul van Dyk

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ42529289
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From Then On is the eighth studio album by German DJ Paul van Dyk. It was released on 20 October 2017 through his label Vandit. The album features guest appearances from many artists, including Ronald van Gelderen, Alex M.O.R.P.H., Jordan Suckley, Pierre Pienaar, and Tristan D.

Background

The album consists of 14 songs, including previously released singles "Touched by Heaven", "Everyone Needs Love" and "Stronger Together". Van Dyk spoke of the album, he said "This intensified experience of sights, sounds and sensations will be our next level of entertainment. Paired with music of my upcoming album From Then On, it’s going to be a celebration of trance, life and unity." Van Dyk's first since 2015, the album is a tribute to a crucial moment since 2016 when he went through a rehabilitation process after a near-fatal accident. The album was written by van Dyk when he was on tour, travelling.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “From Then On” is album by Paul van Dyk. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Then, album and Paul, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2015, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017. For this dossier, Then, album and Paul is the immediate research focus.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q42529289. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2015 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from From Then On” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.