Pat Van Dyke

A native of Shirt City, NJ, Pat Truck Dyke, aka PVD, is a manufacturer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist whose primary device, the drums, underscores his rhythmic approach. His first works mix jazz, funk, and is better than into quasi-electronica instrumentals with a solid retro taste that incorporate classic tips and acoustic musical instruments like horns and woodwinds. Released beneath the initials PVD, his 2005 debut LP, Down for the Obtain Down, highlighted instrumentals using a more powerful soul-jazz taste. He continued to collaborate with DJ John Robinson, as well as the duo released the long-player Completely Reside in 2009. Still executing as PVD, he teamed with rapper 8thW1 for the Lux DeVille EP this year 2010, the same season he released an record of “first, royalty-free breakbeats” entitled PVD Breaks, Vol. 1. Featuring trumpet by Affluent Polatchek and woodwinds by Bryan Beninghove, the PVD LP APPEARS LIKE This! made an appearance in early 2011. A season afterwards, the drummer-composer released PVD Breaks, Vol. 2. A full-length edition of Lux DeVille found its way to 2013 along with Lux DeVille: The Instrumentals, and later on that 12 months, he released Technicolor Hi-Fi as Pat Vehicle Dyke. Vehicle Dyke reunited with Robinson for 2014’s Contemporary Classic Instrumentals and adopted it using the Lux DeVille Live in the Loft EP. Carrying on to use under his name, he released Directly on Amount of time in the springtime of 2015 and Technicolor Hi-Fi Remixes that summer time. In Sept 2016, Philadelphia’s Record Breakin’ Music released his Allow Horns Blow EP, four songs of lustrous funk and beats. Among albums, Vehicle Dyke continued release a a steady blast of one-off singles, addresses, and remixes, including his Sept 2016 treatment of “Paper Proclamation” by Suff Daddy offering Mayer Hawthorne.