Sven Väth

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Sven Väth at Mayday 2014
Sven Väth (2009)
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Harlequin, the Robot and the Ballet Dancer
  DE 47 09/19/1994 (11 weeks)
  UK 91 09/17/1994 (1 week)
fusion
  DE 29 March 16, 1998 (10 weeks)
Contact
  DE 34 04/10/2000 (6 weeks)
Fire
  DE 39 04/08/2002 (4 weeks)
The Sound of the Third Season (with Richie Hawtin )
  DE 73 11/11/2002 (1 week)
Singles
L'esperanza
  DE 42 09/13/1993 (5 weeks)
  UK 63 07/24/1993 (2 weeks)
To Accident in Paradise
  UK 57 11/06/1993 (2 weeks)
Harlequin - The Beauty and the Beast
  UK 72 10/22/1994 (2 weeks)
Fusion / Scorpio's Movement
  DE 77 02/09/1998 (4 weeks)
  UK 84 04/18/1998 (1 week)
Your sweat
  DE 47 January 31, 2000 (6 weeks)
Mind Games
  DE 73 03/11/2002 (4 weeks)

Sven Väth (born October 26, 1964 in Obertshausen , Hessen ) is a German DJ , label owner and musician . He was voted the best German DJ in the readers' polls of the magazines Raveline and Groove .

Life

Sven Väth was born in 1964 as the second of three brothers. His younger brother Mike Väth (* 1967) is also active as a musician, DJ and label owner.

Sven Väth got his start as a disc jockey in his parents' dance hall Queens Pub in Neu-Isenburg , where he hung up himself after a broken locksmith apprenticeship. In 1982 Väth became a DJ in the Dorian Gray discotheque in Frankfurt Airport and stood out in the then popular discotheque with extravagant costumes and spontaneous dance interludes during the set. In 1983 he started playing at Vogue - a very well-frequented discotheque on Junghofstrasse in downtown Frankfurt - and became resident DJ there in 1984 . Stylistically, Väth moved between disco , soul and funk during this time .

In 1985 he founded the OFF project with Michael Münzing and Luca Anzilotti ( SNAP! ) . The second single ( Electrica Salsa ) reached high chart positions across Europe . After a tour, Sven Väth went back to the Dorian Gray in 1987 and replaced resident DJ Ulli Brenner . From then on he put on what was then known as Belgian underground techno there, later known as EBM ( Electronic Body Music ), and briefly tried himself as a producer of this music ( OFF: Be My Dream ). In 1988 Väth finished his work at Dorian Gray and went to Ibiza for a few months . After his return, he bought along with Michael Muenzing and Matthias Martinsohn the Vogue  - space on the ground floor of a parking garage without proper air conditioning. They rebuilt it and opened it as an omen . The omen closed ten years later.

The first wave of techno reached Germany in the summer of 1990 . DJ Sven Väth switched from acid to techno and propagated the new sound in his “living room”, the omen .

Together with Matthias Hoffmann and Heinz Roth, he founded the Eye Q Records label in 1992 and a short time later also Harthouse and Recycle or Die. Väth toured the whole world as a DJ. 1993–1994, with An Accident in Paradise and L'Esperanza , his music turned out to be a commercial success, although most of it was tailor-made for him by other producers such as Stevie B-Zet or Ralf Hildenpaket .

In 1997 Sven Väth founded the party series Cocoon after the previous bankruptcy of his label conglomerate Eye Q Records / Harthouse . Initially there were only three events in Frankfurt am Main , Munich and Copenhagen . From 1999 the parties took place under the name "Cocoon Clubbing ", initially only in the Frankfurt U60311 , later u. a. also in the Stammheim in Kassel , Tribehouse in Neuss , Prague in Stuttgart and finally also in the Amnesia in Ibiza . In the following years, the party series was expanded to include a label and a booking agency , before Sven Väth opened the Cocoon Club, a new, lavishly designed party location in Frankfurt on July 18, 2004 , which was to set new accents in terms of interior, sound system and gastronomy . The club was named the best techno club in the reader polls carried out by Groove magazine and the Raveline magazine in December . At the end of November 2012, the club was closed after it had previously had to file for bankruptcy.

Between 1990 and 2003 Sven Väth was part of the resident team of the hr3 Clubnight .

Discography (selection)

  • 1986 - OFF (OFF = Organization for Fun (dt .: fun society )) together with Michael Muenzing and Luca Anzilotti . The single Electrica Salsa achieved high chart positions all over Europe. The singles Where are you and Changing Minds are also released under 16 BIT .
  • 1987 - OFF album Organization for Fun and the singles Step by Step , Bad News , Everybody shake and Harry ... but now .
  • 1988 - Second OFF album Ask yourself and the singles Move your Body , Time Operator and Ask yourself .
  • 1989 - Two OFF singles: Hip Hop Reggae and La casa latina . OFF dissolves and Sven Väth founds the Mosaic project together with Matthias Hoffman ( AC Boutsen ) and Steffen Britzke ( Stevie B-Zet ) . Sven Väth uses the pseudonym Sam Vision .
  • 1990 - Together with the singer Zion (alias Germ ) the Mosaic trio releases the single Dance Now (under the name Zyon ).
  • 1991 - Väth took part in the single Odyssey of Noises: "Circe / It's the traxx" .
  • 1992 - Sven Väth drops the pseudonym Sam Vision again. Eye Q Records is founded (with the offshoots Harthouse and Recycle Or Die ). He is also involved in the single Spectrum , which appears under the name Metal Master . The album The Art of Dance and two singles are also released under the pseudonym Barbarella together with Ralf Hildenpaket : My Name is Barbarella and The secret Chamber of Dreams .
  • 1992 - The first solo album Accident in Paradise is released. Single releases Ritual of Life , L'esperanza and An Accident in Paradise (title track of the album).
  • 1994 - Second solo album: The Harlequin, the Robot and the Ballet Dancer . Single release Harlequin - the Beauty and the Beast . A single will be released under the project The Essence of Nature .
  • 1995 - Single release Ballet-Fusion . Remix album Touch Themes of Harlequin, Robot, Ballet Dancer . Väth is involved in the Astral Pilot project . An album (Electro Accupuncture) and a single (Needle Drama) are released.
  • 1996 - The Cold Finger (soundtrack album with Stevie B-Zet ). Second Astral Pilot single: Electro Acupuncture RMX
  • 1997 - Single Fusion / Scorpio's Movement
  • 1998 - Album Fusion and singles Face it , Omen AM , Schubdüse , Sounds control your Mind , Breakthrough , Moment , Discophon
  • 1999 - Single Dein Schweiss
  • 1999 - Remix album Six in the Mix
  • 2000 - album Contact
  • 2000 - Retrospective 1990-97
  • 2002 - album Fire
  • 2003 - Remix album FireWorks
  • 2005 - single Väth & Rother - come
  • 2006 - single Väth & Rother - springlove
  • 2008 - Single Väth & Flügel - Trashbindance

Mix compilations

Sven Väth on the Tanzinsel 2017
  • 2000 - The Sound of the First Season
  • 2001 - The Sound of the Second Season
  • 2002 - The Sound of the Third Season
  • 2003 - The Sound of the Fourth Season
  • 2004 - The Sound of the Fifth Season
  • 2005 - The Sound of the Sixth Season
  • 2006 - The Sound of the Seventh Season
  • 2007 - The Sound of the Eighth Season
  • 2008 - The Sound of the Ninth Season
  • 2009 - The Sound of the Tenth Season
  • 2010 - The Sound of the Eleventh Season
  • 2011 - The Sound of the Twelfth Season
  • 2012 - The Sound of the Thirteenth Season
  • 2013 - The Sound of the Fourteenth Season
  • 2014 - The Sound of the Fifteenth Season
  • 2015 - The Sound of the Sixteenth Season
  • 2016 - The Sound of the Seventeenth Season
  • 2017 - The Sound of the Eighteenth Season
  • 2018 - The Sound of the Nineteenth Season
  • 2019 - The Sound of the 20th Season

Awards (selection)

year publication rank price country link
2015 - - Goethe plaque of the city of Frankfurt am Main Germany hessenschau.de
2012 Resident Advisor 01 Top DJs of 2012 London
2010 Groove 01 Best DJ Berlin
2010 Resident Advisor 12 Top DJs of 2010 London Website
2009 Groove 01 Best DJ Berlin
2009 Resident Advisor 07 Top DJs of 2009 London Website
2008 Groove 01 Best DJ Berlin
2008 Resident Advisor 06 Top DJs of 2008 London Website
2007 Groove 02 Best DJ National Berlin Website
2006 DJ Mag 44 Top 100 of 2006 UK Website
2005 DJ Mag 23 Top 100 of 2005 UK Website
2004 Groove 01 Best DJ National Berlin
2004 DJ Mag 34 Top 100 of 2004 UK Website
2003 Groove 01 Best DJ National Berlin
2003 DJ Mag 41 Top 100 of 2003 UK Website
2002 Groove 01 Best DJ National Berlin
2002 DJ Mag 55 Top 100 of 2002 UK Website
2002 Groove 03 Best producer Berlin
2001 Groove 01 Best DJ National Berlin
2001 DJ Mag 53 Top 100 of 2001 UK Website
2000 Groove 01 Best DJ National Berlin
2000 Groove 01 Best album Berlin

literature

Web links

Commons : Sven Väth  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Sven Väth  - Quotes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chart sources: DE UK
  2. ↑ Jonathan Fischer: Bad mood. Today: Sven Väth and the senior dance. In: Jetzt, Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 8, 2007; Retrieved July 6, 2012.
  3. ↑ Frankfurt Cocoon Club is history . Focus online, December 6, 2012, accessed July 29, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Väth, Sven
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ, label operator and musician
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Obertshausen , Hessen, Germany