Quote Originally Posted by Stella Boy
Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer
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.