DJ Paul Van Dyk has been voted the world's top DJ by over 123,000 global clubbers at the 12th annual Top 100 DJ ceremony held in London's Ministry Of Sound last night.

The trance music star is vehemently anti-drugs and believes DJ's should be political. Dyke himself campaigned against the war in Iraq in a recent Rock The Vote Tour.

"Dance music is a political thing," he said. "I travel the world and see Palestinians dancing with Israelis, Iraqis dancing with Americans, blacks dancing with whites. Everyone dances together without thinking of where the person next to them comes from."

Sounds a bit like Smallage, People of all nations, dancing together.

If only it was all that simple, eh. I guess we could always try pumping house music into people who enjoy blowing up innocent bystanders in market stalls or London tubes. Reckon it would work?

Still, we applaud his anti-drugs stance.

Lesley Wright, editor of DJ magazine says, "People have said dance music is in a slump. Maybe that's true in the UK. But it is a mass phenomenon in the rest of the world, and is really kicking off in places like Israel and Ukraine."