Sven Vath

[Sunil]

i used to be right into his trance stuff years ago
it was always a bit hippy dippy but being a dippy hippy myself ........

i used to have some old mixtapes of his and that was well before i knew anything about mixing , him and dj dag at some famous club in frankfurt ( forgot the name!)

but i once heard he drank 52 cans of beer in one dj session and anyone who can do that and still walk home after is a legend in my books.

party djs are great i.m.o.
but really dreadful mixes can eventually wind you up. esp. when you've got some guy jumping up and down like it's best thing ever and the mix is just going " clatter clatter clatter"

I think the club will probably be The Omen in Frankfurt. Sven's & Dag's sets in the 90's were legendary, 20 hours being the longest (I think). Sven would start his marathon set with chilled out ambient material then slowly over the night bring the pace up then for the final 10 hours or so, completely hammer it out.
Sven's mixing isn't really clatter clatter, it's just basic, dropping the last 8 bars in generally. Dag's mixing on the other had was clatter clatter.

Haha, now we're suckin' diesel :) I used to love Dag's mixes, sure they weren't the most proficiently mixed beats wise but he did play some awesome music and built his sets very well , it was at a time when I was hearing *loads* of new music and starting to really warm to hard underground German techno/hard trance.

Vath I respected from the old stuff, but all this techno icon, techno king crap is complete bollocks. What's he done? Released the odd good remix or single while he sits on his hole sipping champagne or acting the arsehole in clubs. I don't deny him his lifestyle, he's earned it and he's a good showman blah; but there's no way you can put him up there as some kind of legend of the techno scene... He thinks he is, but he hasn't earned it, Cocoon or no Cocoon. It's funny though I actually think he's capable of making some great music and putting a nice twist on techno if he wants to, he never bothers though.

[neko]

Released the odd good remix or single while he sits on his hole sipping champagne or acting the arsehole in clubs.

lol :lol:
thats one way to look at it.
when i saw him at cocoon, he was dangling over the side of the balcony throwing flowers and bottles of champagne into the crowd.
didnt think there were much call for it, but it was still funny.
there's no harm in him.

[Evil G]

if you listen to the mix cd he did with richie hawtin (sounds of the 3rd season - or something like that) it's pretty easy to recognize the difference in their mixing styles. build it up vs bang it in. it almost seemed like richie was taking the piss and trying to make him look bad, but he wouldn't do that would he?

[Jav]

sven is a legend. he's been through different phases musically bu he always rocks a party.

he got me into techno when i first came across (contact) i was hooked. ;)

[Frank Dogshit]

if you listen to the mix cd he did with richie hawtin (sounds of the 3rd season - or something like that) it's pretty easy to recognize the difference in their mixing styles. build it up vs bang it in. it almost seemed like richie was taking the piss and trying to make him look bad, but he wouldn't do that would he?

i always thought that was a selection of hand picked tracks from over the cocoon summer mixed in a studio.not by vath or hawtin.

i maybe wrong tho.

[Evil G]

well, i don't doubt it is a studio mix, but you can still hear that every 2nd mix is really short.

[fitipaldi]

It's fair enough if the guy likes a party but when you pay to see him in a club he should at least make an effort with the music. The last two times I have seem him he has just been up there clowining behind the decks. At cocoon he was just wandering about in the Dj booth talkin to people and near the end of each tune he would wander over, do a shit mix, put his arms in the air and lap up the applause.........poor. I respect that he may have played a part in shaping the scene but his effort latly is lacking. He wasn't even playing good tunes, just shit trance.

I thought you were in the same camp danny you piece of dogshit ;)

[massplanck]

I think I might open a corner of the club for chin strokers, roped off of course.

Thats the best idea I have heard all year! :lol:


I am currently trying to track down old Vath sets (94-97) when he was playing acid trance tunes like Teste - The Wipe et al... any pointers greatly appreciated..

[gunjack]

sven sucks. if anybody knows at least one bouncer in ibiza, there should be a fountain of stories to go around. get crackin.


"somebody run to the store for a new pair of pants for sven!"