Jose Alvarez-Brill

Jose Alvarez-Brill (born February 3, 1963 in Kassel ; † October 17 or 18, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German musician , composer and producer . He worked u. a. with Peter Heppner , Joachim Witt , De / Vision and Wolfsheim . Alvarez-Brill's most commercially successful release is the platinum- winning production Die Flut with over 900,000 units sold.

Life

In the 1980s Alvarez-Brill began with productions in the dance and eurodance sectors. Later, mainly through the collaboration with the band Wolfsheim , he turned more to the field of synth-pop and dark wave . He achieved his greatest commercial success in 1998 with the CD Die Flut by Joachim Witt / Peter Heppner, on which he appeared as a producer. The title reached number 2 in the German single charts.

In 1990, Alvarez-Brill first teamed up with Gento Navaho and Yello co- founder Carlos Perón . As 909 (also known as Nine-O-Nine ) the trio released the single The Witcher . In 1992 they remixed the Wolfsheim songs Anybody's Window and It's Not Too Late (Don't Sorrow) , among others . In 1993 Alvarez-Brill founded the Eurodance duo Think! Together with Rogelio Sanchez Torres . Big . The duo initially released the two cover singles Wouldn't It Be Good (1993) and Without You (1994). In 1994, Alvarez-Brill and Torres teamed up with Dwayne Cewis and Brenda Hale to form the Eurodance band Exit . In the same year (Don't Tell Me All Your) Dreams followed, the formation's first and so far only single. In 1997, the duo called Think! Big in matanza around. Under this name they released a single with Matador and a mixtape with La crème du crime . The duo could not land a chart success.

In 1999 Alvarez-Brill founded the band Unheilig together with Grant Stevens and Der Graf . At the end of 2002, however, Alvarez-Brill left the project. In 2003 he wrote and produced the theme music for Stern TV moderated by Günther Jauch , which has been in use ever since. In 2004 Alvarez-Brill was nominated for the ECHO in the "Best Producer" category for his collaboration with Wolfsheim. The CD Zeitmaschine Remixed was released under his own name in 2005 , which also included the single “ Maybe? “- published under Alvarez & Heppner - contains.

In 2001 Alvarez-Brill founded the Synthiepop trio Care Company with the then Wolfsheim member Markus Reinhardt and the guitarist of Project Pitchfork Carsten Klatte . This was followed by the album In the Flow with the singles Gain Again , Untitled and Dolphins .

In the past few years, José Alvarez-Brill has produced remix versions for artists such as Rosenstolz , Northern Lite and Kosheen . Alvarez-Brill ran the Pleasurepark Studios in Berlin. In December 2009 he founded Hard Six Entertainment GmbH and became a partner in Orange Glow Production Inc. in Florida. Most recently he worked again in the Pleasurepark Studios Berlin.

Together with the artist management agency Roko Concerts, José Alvarez-Brill founded the music label Fasterone Music in Berlin in 2017 . Fasterone Musik comprises the Pleasurepark Studios, the music label and the publisher The Factory.

Alvarez-Brill died after a long and serious illness on October 17 or 18, 2020 at the age of 57 in Berlin.

Discography

→ Main article : Jose Alvarez-Brill / Discography  and list of author participations and productions by Jose Alvarez-Brill

Web links

• Jose Alvarez-Brill at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} José Alvarez-Brill is dead: The producer was only 57 years old. In: volt-magazin.de. October 19, 2020, accessed October 19, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Markus Brandstetter: Peter Heppner: "I have no idea about dance". In: laut.de . October 2, 2018, accessed October 3, 2018 . 
3. ↑ 909. In: discogs.com. Retrieved August 9, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Think! Big. In: discogs.com. Retrieved August 9, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Exit (3). In: discogs.com. Retrieved August 9, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Matanza. In: discogs.com. Retrieved August 9, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Jose Alvarez Brill - Pleasurepark Studios. In: myspace.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2013 ; accessed on October 19, 2020 . 
8. ^ Care Company. In: discogs.com. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .