Thanks to his booking as the trance headliner for Future Music Festival 2012, Paul van Dyk has been around these pages quite a bit lately. Earlier this month we reported that the DJ is bringing his new Evolution show for the festival tour, after road-testing it across the Northern summer.

The Evolution concept ties in to PvD’s sixth studio album of the same name, which was originally set for a 2011 unveiling. However in a new interview with Billboard, the man himself has announced 20 March 2012 as the revised release date. The reason for the delay is PvD’s idea to shoot videos for all 16 tracks on the album, with himself as the lead player. The photo above, taken by Diana Levine for Billboard, shows one of the costumes he’s donning.

In the interview, the Vandit boss also mused on the current state of affairs within dance music. “There have been three different directions develop in recent years,” he told Billboard. “One is the strong core audience that is just as big as it always has been.

“Then there is this electro, rock-infused music like deadmau5 and Skrillex that came along. Skrillex is especially creative, but I am curious to see the longevity of his career as there was a lot of hype in Europe about dubstep around ten years ago, but it faded almost as quickly as it came.

“The final direction is one that a lot of people have mistaken for electronic music, and that is danceable pop music. The dance pop scene doesn’t have quite as much to do with how the core electronic scene feels, thinks, breathes, and lives.” Got any perpetrators in mind, Paul?