Sven van Thom
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Sven van Thom (* 1977 in Bernau bei Berlin , actually Sven Rathke ) is a German guitar pop - musicians , entertainers and music producer with his debut single in 2008. Sad Girl and the album phantom pain drew attention to himself and reached the German charts. In addition to his stage partner Martin Gottschild , he is the musical part of the comedy duo Animals stroke people.
style
Sven van Thom's main instrument is the guitar . His style can therefore largely be described as guitar pop. Occasionally, however, he also produces songs in the style of hip-hop or electropop and thus performs live. Also hit spoofs can be found in his repertoire. Since 2017, van Thom has also increasingly been writing and producing pop music for children.
Both lyrically and musically, van Thom's recordings and concerts fluctuate between extreme silliness and deep melancholy.
In addition to the guitar, van Thom plays the electric bass , keyboard , drums , ukulele and recorder . Every now and then he also plays a theremin during performances , and he operates the looper, a technical auxiliary device with which the musician can record a sequence and accompany himself in order to layer several voices on top of each other. Since his second solo album , van Thom has been playing almost all of the instruments himself. Occasionally he works with the cellist Anne Müller and the singer Larissa Pesch.
biography
Sven Rathke grew up in Stolzenhagen north of Berlin. He had been dreaming of a career as a musician since he was 13 years old. Before his solo career, he had been a singer and guitarist with Sofaplanet since 1998 and with Beatplanet since 2003 (under the stage name Remmidemmi ) . He also ran a solo project called Psychoterrorism .
The stage name Sven van Thom is a play on words with the term “phantom”. On August 22nd, 2008 he released the first single under the name Sad Girl , a duet with the Hamburg singer Synje Norland . The song became widely known when it was used in a ProSieben trailer. In the accompanying music video, July singer Eva Briegel plays the leading role. The debut album Phantomschmerz , which Sven co-produced with the Flensburg production team of Elephant Music , was released on September 5, 2008. The album was released by the record company Warner Music in cooperation with Starwatch Entertainment.
On February 13th, 2009 Sven van Thom represented the state of Brandenburg at the Bundesvision Song Contest with the title Jaqueline (I bought Berlin) and came in 9th place. In the same year he toured Germany with his five-member band "Die stahlharten Bäuche" and Synje Norland. He can already refer to successful live performances in the Admiralspalast as well as in numerous large German cities. In 2012 his second album "Ach!" at Roof Music. In 2015 the third album "So geht Gute Laune" followed, which was released by Loob Musik.
Animals stroke people
Martin Gottschild (called Gotti) founded the so-called action reading "Animals petting people" in 2003 and performed in Berlin at irregular intervals for a few years. Sven van Thom was soon there regularly as a musical guest, who contributed one or two songs to the respective evenings. Around 2007, after the end of their band Sofaplanet , Gottschild and van Thom began to develop "Animals petting people" into a monthly event in Berlin. Since then, the two have played this entertainment program alternately with balanced roles: Gottschild reads short stories he wrote himself, and van Thom plays his songs. In 2014 the joint CD "Animals petting people - your greatest successes" was released. A bonus CD called "Five Feet for a Hallelujah" was included with the sound carrier. Gottschild and van Thom wrote the radio play musical of the same name together with the Berlin musician Matthias Schrei, also known as the recorder of death . The three went on tour together under the name "Five Feet for a Hallelujah".
"Animals petting people" continue to perform successfully in various cities in Germany and were able to increase their awareness, especially in the eastern part of the country, through their radio presence.
Radio columns
From January 2014 to April 2016, Sven van Thom and Martin Gottschild produced the weekly radio section "Animals petting people" for radioEins , which was broadcast on Fridays as part of the program "Die Schöne Woche". In it they used recordings of their joint live performances as well as studio recordings of van Thom's songs. When Gottschild started to present the program RadioZwei (also on radioEins) together with Tommy Wosch in May 2016, van Thom took on the task of writing and recording a song about current affairs every week, which was called "Pudding with Hairstyle" within the program was broadcast. Between May 2016 and July 2018, more than 80 songs were created that deal with the topics of politics, gossip and the bizarre. In January 2017 Sven van Thom released the CD "Pudding with Hairstyle, Part 1". This includes all 27 songs that he produced for his radio column in 2016. In February 2018 the double album "Pudding with Hairstyle, Part 2" with all 40 radio songs from 2017 will follow.
Nursery rhymes
In autumn 2017, Sven van Thom's first children's song "My new brother" appeared on the successful children's song sampler "Under my bed 3" by the Oetinger publishing group . In September 2018 van Thom's first CD for children's songs called "Tanz den Spatz" was released there. It contains 13 songs that are musically located somewhere between guitar pop and sometimes hip-hop. The texts deal with children's subjects, some of which are presented in a relatively adult language.
Discography
Albums
- 2008: phantom pain
- 2012: Oh!
- 2014: Animals stroke people - their greatest successes (together with Martin Gottschild and recorder of death)
- 2015: This is how a good mood works
- 2015: The Dark Side of Bright Madness (digital only)
- 2017: pudding with hairstyle, part 1
- 2018: pudding with hairstyle, part 2
- 2018: Dance the Sparrow - children's songs
EPs
- 2012: sometime
- 2013: cream
Singles
- 2008: Sad Girl (with Synje Norland )
- 2009: Honey, shut up
- 2012: Since you left
- 2013: rap
- 2015: It's not nice to be anywhere else either
swell
- ↑ Chart sources: DE-Singles ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / DE albums ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. / AT
- ↑ year of birth
- ↑ a b Home location ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Wandlitz. Citizen and visitor information 2009/10. Ex-high school student storms the charts! ; P. 42 ff
- ↑ Report from August 18, 2008 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Interview on sueddeutsche.de , August 21, 2008
- ↑ quotemeter.de : The party is here: key dates for "Bundesvision Song Contest" known , November 19, 2008 (accessed on December 28, 2013)
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Thom, Sven van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rathke, Sven (real name); Remmidemmi (stage name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bernau near Berlin |