At 05:31 AM 3/24/2000 -0500, you wrote:
quoted 15 lines Hold your laughter for just a min. (then you can laugh for a good hour).
>Hold your laughter for just a min. (then you can laugh for a good hour).
>I remember hearing sven vath for the first time in high school, when I was
>still reluctant to even listen to electronic music. I remember him being
>wonderful and ambient and dark and analog bubbely. He was one of the very few
>albulms my roommate owned that we could both listen to. (I remember the
>experience as sounding AE like).
>I found The Harlequin, The Robot & The Ballet Dancer in a used bin over the
>break ($1.95) and bought it.
>I have never been sooo disenchanted!!! How could my memories be so far off!!
>The albulm was next to trash (I'd still listen to it over comercial radio but
>that's about it). (actually it was good to fall asleep to on the plane). How
>can an artist as well remembered in my mind sound so terrible to me now? Are
>there any redeeming qualities to this artist? Have I just picked the
>cheeziest albulm he ever made?
>Do you also find that you have artists like this in your foggy memories?
Sven Vath is a man of many styles. Back in the early
90's he was known for many memorable germanic rave
& ambient tracks including Accident In Paradise and
Barbarella (check the awesome Irresistable Force remix
of this one). Vath was also known for his epic 12+
hour dj sets at his club in Berlin which I believe was
called "The Omen."
Vath's follow-up album, Harlequin Robot & the Ballet
Dancer, was much less memorable (as you found out)
and is definitely the worst thing he as ever done.
But for Vath's third album, Fusion, he reinvented his
sound by embracing ALL the popular styles of the
time - from uk tech-house to minimal techno to
swedish techno to germanic electro to triphop to
electro. He further advanced his sound & reputation
buy having an all-star cast of remixers reintrepret
tracks from Fusion over the course of 9 remix eps.
Remixers on these eps include C-Rock, Steve
O'Sullivan, Chris Liebing, Thomas Krome, Richard
Bartz, Sensorama, Claude Young, Johannes Heil,
Anthony Rother, Buckfunk 3000, Ian Pooley, Michael
Mayer, Fila Brazilia, Dr. Rockit, and Thomas P
Heckmann. IMHO, The only memorable mix from the
above eps is Ian Pooley's mix of Face It.
Now, as others have pointed out, Vath's recent stuff
is firmly rooted in the electro sound (which is no
suprise with the recent popularity of the style).
Overall, Sven Vath does have some moments but
he rarely does anything that hasnt been done before.
If you would like to investigate the works of Vath
more, check out his official website at:
http://www.sven-vaeth.de/
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