- Title: GERMANY: GERMANY'S MOST FAMOUS TECHNO DISCO JOCKEY IS SVEN VATH
- Date: 5th September 2000
- Summary: VARIOUS, PEOPLE DANCING (4 SHOTS)
- Embargoed: 20th September 2000 13:00
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- Location: FRANKFURT, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA21280920O7HPEU70SC0J2VMRD
- Story Text: Ravers, meet Germany's most famous techno D.J. His name is Sven Vath and he gets the crowds going, they don't call him the 'Godfather of Techno' for nothing.
Sven Vath is without a doubt Germany's best known techno DJ. Widely acknowledged as the 'Godfather of Techno' he began his career as a DJ in the early eighties playing mainstream disco around the clubs in Frankfurt before moving into 'House' which came to Europe in the mid eighties.
He is credited with bringing the later 'Acid House' music trend to Germany at the end of the eighties.
A pioneer, Sven Väth set the standards by which a later generation of European DJ's would judge themselves. Over the years, he's established many independent record labels in Germany and recorded a number of best-selling albums.
His most recent project is 'Cocoon' a music booking and event agency that promotes some of the top DJ's from around Europe.
"My musical influences as I said, go way back to the seventies, from disco, soul, kraftwerk, new wave, industrial, dub, reggae and my music style reflects the fact that I make very hypnotic music and very minimalistic. I try to build suspense in the long sets that I play, so that it is not always the same beat and it changes a bit, but as I said, the main thing is that it is hypnotic", he says.
In 1994 the German press dubbed Sven Väth Germany's leading popstar and one of the major forces in current music in the republic, but he's modest about being called 'godfather'.
"I've always had a pioneering role, and I've always researched, seen that my sets and music are innovative.
Therefore people like that, they appreciate me for this, but in terms of 'Godfather' and 'Pope' and 'Guru', I can't really relate to this."
Four thousand ravers came to Frankfurt's Hafentunnel to see the man in action at this huge rave venue.
"It's a form of expressing myself, giving something to the people, bringing the people on a journey and giving them freedom to express themselves", he says.
So is there a message for all those ravers out there? "If there is a message it should be freedom. first of all, tolerance, I like to bring people together. I like to, as I told you before, I like to put the people on a trip and bring them somewhere and then bring them back safe on earth" - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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