Paul van Dyk & Ciaran McAuley - When I Found You

Through the Shelby Merry sung ‘The Party’ back in January of last year, Ciaran McAuley began teasing tracks from his second longform. A dozen months later and that process reaches its natural conclusion … and in just about the finest way imaginable.

‘When I Found You’ sees him back sharing studio time and artistic space with Paul van Dyk, and after their first team-up (‘Someone Like You’, for Paul’s 2025 ‘This World Is Ours’ album), fair to say expectations are at an apex. 

Popping January’s floors, and plenty of goosebumps along with them, here comes ‘When I Found You’

Through the instrumental axis of McAuley’s melodic sensibilities and van Dyk’s propellant architecture, ‘Found You’ brilliantly reestablishes their creative rapport.

Clarifying around a recurring, nagging, floor-snagging riff, through the thrust of its floor-kinetic bottom end ‘When I Found You’s production presses its advantage. That single-minded drive is framed by steadily evolving melodic and harmonic layers, which widen its club space without ever tipping into excess. Dialing in sailing riffs and carefree atmospherics, between them Paul and Ciaran conjure another instrumental masterstroke.

Whether you be north, south, east or west of our big blue ‘n’ green spinning thing, your January needs this! Find it wherever the finest electronic music is streamed or sold (or spun!): https://blackhole.lnk.to/WhenIFoundYou