ATB (DJ)

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ATB at the WorldClubDome 2015

ATB (born February 26, 1973 in Freiberg , Saxony ; real name André Tanneberger ) is a German DJ and music producer .

childhood

André Tanneberger lived with his parents in Brand-Erbisdorf until he was about ten years old . However, he spent most of his childhood with his grandmother in Obersaida in the Ore Mountains , where he got to know country life. Due to the limited freedom to travel in the GDR , his parents applied for an exit visa in the 1980s. After a short stop in Auerbach / Vogtl. the family moved to the Ruhr area . There he initially felt himself to be an outsider during his youth due to his dialect. In retrospect, however, according to his own statement, this has strengthened him.

Career

He dared his first musical steps with his grandmother's zither . Later at 14 he learned to play the guitar . When he was 16, he switched to the keyboard and got a tape machine . With the help of Thomas Kukula , he was able to make his first studio recordings and got his first record deal.

From 1993 André Tanneberger was part of the dance project Sequential One . His first solo single under the code "ATB", 9 PM (Till I Come) , was released in 1998 and reached number 1 in the English and number 14 in the German charts . He made a name for himself worldwide and achieved platinum status in Denmark, Australia, Sweden and England . Gold awards followed in South Africa, Italy and Norway. The triumphant advance continued with the second single Don't Stop from his debut album Movin 'Melodies (1999) and was once again awarded platinum in Denmark and Sweden. The greatest distinguishing feature of the first ATB singles at that time was the unmistakable "ATB guitar", as the fans call it. Over the years, the ATB sound matured and became increasingly mature. The “ATB-Guitar” had become completely obsolete when Tanneberger released his third album Dedicated in 2002 . Their single Let U Go (2002), for which singer Roberta Carter Harrison from Canada contributed the vocals , is still the most commercially successful and best-known ATB title alongside 9 PM (Till I Come) (1998). Marrakech , the first single from the 2004 long player No Silence , even became the theme song for the Hollywood film Mindhunters by director Renny Harlin (including Deep Blue Sea , Die Hard 2 , Cliffhanger ).

Many more studio albums and hit singles have followed to this day . Most of his longplayers always managed to get into the top 20 of the German album charts .

ATB's style is most likely to move between Dream House , Trance , Ambient and Pop . His music productions are difficult to assign to a particular genre, but they are definitely in the electronic field .

In 1999 Tanneberger was on the international dance project " United Deejays For Central America " alongside Jan Wayne , DJ Sakin & Friends , DJ Tomcraft , Hypertrophy , Kai Tracid , Kosmonova , Marc Et Claude , Moguai , Oliver Momm, Piet Blank & Jaspa Jones , Phil Fuldner , Red 5 , Sash! , Woody van Eyden , who raised funds for the victims of Hurricane Mitch as a charity project . In 2002 he sued the German Eurodance band ATC because of the likelihood of confusion because of their name; Tanneberger won the legal dispute and the band split up under the longer name (“A Touch of Class”) a year later.

ATB at citymoves @ Universiteit Twente, 2008
ATB at Winterworld 2014

In addition to Sequential One , ATB was also involved in the Trance Allstars project, an amalgamation of various German dance acts that released cover versions of older dance titles.

In 2002 and 2004 he was a. a. next to the DJs Slobodan Petrović , Axel Konrad Claus Terhoeven , DJ Sammy , Dominik De León , Jan Wayne , Jens Jordan , Jens Kindervater , Markus Gardeweg , Piet Blank , Ramon Roelofs , Roger P. Shah , Scooter , Shaun Baker , Silvy de Bie , Stefan Bossems , Sven Gruhnwald , Thomas Fenske , Tommy Schleh , Woody van Eyden and Wout van Dessel are involved in the benefit project Dance United , which started with the singles Reach Out and Help Asia! , Collected donations for the floods in Central Europe in 2002 and the tsunami of December 26, 2004 .

André Tanneberger lives and works in Witten .

On February 10, 2017, Tanneberger announced his 10th studio album via Facebook . It is called "neXt" and was released on April 21, 2017 as a double CD and a record .

Nominations and Awards

ATB (2010)
  • 2000: “1Live-Krone” in the category “Best Dance Act”.
  • 2002: Echo nomination in the category “Best Dance Act” for Let U Go .
  • 2003: Echo nomination in the “Best Dance Act” category for I Don't Wanna Stop .
  • 2004: The single Marrakech becomes the title song of the Hollywood film Mindhunters .
  • 2004: With www.atb-music.com award for the best homepage at the DJ meeting.
  • 2005: Nomination for the "1Live-Krone" in the category "Best Artist".
  • 2005: Grammy nomination in two categories (ATB - Ecstasy and Madelin Zero - A Perfect Day to Lose ).
  • 2005: ATB is ranked 24th among the 100 most popular DJs in the world in a survey by the Canadian Internet project “Tranceaddict”.
  • 2007: Eska Music Award in Poland.
  • 2009: Nomination in 3 categories at the "International Dance Music Awards" (Best European DJ, Best Global DJ and Best Full Length DJ Mix)
DJmag voting
  • 2004: 13th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2005: 9th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2006: 13th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2007: 26th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2008: Place 25 in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2009: 11th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2010: 11th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2011: 15th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2012: 21st place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2013: 33rd place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2014: 58th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2015: 82nd place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2016: 61st place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2017: 54th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2018: 49th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .
  • 2019: 39th place in the Top100 DJ voting by DJmag .

Discography

Web links

Commons : ATB  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tim Hofmann: The world star from Brand-Erbisdorf. In: Free Press . January 29, 2014.
  2. ↑ United Deejays For Central America - Discogs , accessed June 11, 2013
  3. Jump up ↑ Dance United - Discogs.com , accessed June 11, 2013
  4. ↑ Tenth album "neXt" (2017) announced. April 1, 2017. Retrieved February 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Rankings for ATB in the Top100DJ Votings of DJ Magazine , accessed on March 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME ATB
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tanneberger, André (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiberg