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Interview with one of the pioneers of trance.
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DJ, producer, promoter, label boss and club owner Sven Väth is a techno institution. Intimately involved in all facets of dance music over the past 25 years, Väth has been witness to and withstood, almost all of its different developments and trends while remaining a constant fixture in the techno world.
"I still like melodies and harmonies. I'm a romantic person in a way and I like to play tracks where people maybe smile or feel touched." Lately this side of Väth has become prominent once again, with recent sets including a lot more tech-trance and neo-trance records.
Indeed, here it is rather interesting to hear Väth’s take on ‘trance’ as he sees trance as 'a state of mind’, rather than a certain genre. He explains, "People are getting a wrong interpretation of what trance music is all about. Actually I think I play trance. I honestly do…because I don't let people go. I nail them on the dance floor – 'you stay!'".
“[In the early ‘90s on Eye Q and Harthouse] we produced music and I produced music with musicians. I'm a DJ. I'm not really a musician. I have a musical idea. I know what I want when I'm in the studio. I tell the musician what to do, but I can't compose on the piano or the keyboard. That's not my part. I had the chance to work with musicians so I told them what I wanted. This is the way we created the kind of music that people call trance today. It was the sound of Eye Q and Harthouse back in the day and it happened because I worked with musicians together."
Reflecting on the music that is generally considered ‘trance’ today, Väth clearly differentiates it from the sound he pioneered on his Eye Q and Harthouse labels. He suggests that the key difference is in the way ‘trance’ music is produced nowadays.
"Today when I listen to DJs like Tiesto -- I don't listen to them but it sometimes happens that I hear a track or two -- I see and hear that they were very inspired by what we did 15 years ago. But, I have the feeling with their music that they don't have the right musicians. They are following a format – always producing the same structures. It's a pop format for trance."
"I think right now is very interesting – the music, what's going on today, is mainly coming out of Germany. I would say probably 80 or 90% of the records I played last night were from Germany. [Also] a little bit English, a little bit Italian, not so many American tunes anymore – just a few. There's a lot of good things happening in our country right now musically. I think there's never been a time when there were so many exciting labels and music projects like right now."
And if that is not enough of a reason to visit Germany, Väth’s Cocoon club in Frankfurt should be able to convince you to make the trip. Describing the venue as "a statement for the 21st Century" and born from his "long traveling, experiencing the world and seeing a lot of things", when asked about the venue, Väth simply says:
"I think I have created the best dance club in the world."
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"Above & Beyond attacking "pop trance"."
LOL
jeez... i hate when losers like PVD and A&B attack simple minded pop projects made to make teens happy in Europe and use the trance formula since its famous back there.
What the is this from PVD and A&B - djsammy, lasgo etc are the reason trance sucks ... WTF :whip:
i think the day i saw what PVD the ignorant said about trance and how he tried to defend it, i lost respect for him. :o |
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