As a teenager in East Berlin, Paul van Dyk devoured forbidden radio shows from beyond the Iron Curtain; when the Wall came down, he was at the heart of the electronic music revolution that reshaped the unified city. His '90s tracks like "Forbidden Fruit" gave uplifting trance its wings by fusing driving beats with bright, optimistic melodies, and later, with "Time of Our Lives," he brought dance energy to alt-rock. By the '10s he was perfecting pop-trance hybrids like "Eternity" with Owl City's Adam Young and "The Ocean" with Arty—two different sides of the same shimmering coin.