Sven Väth – In The Mix (The Sound Of The 4th Season)

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Having ended the Fourth Season in Ibiza with a monster Closing Party, Sven Väth is again delivering his opinion of the world in the form of a Double Mix-CD on his label Cocoon Recordings. According to this year's motto "In Your Face", the first CD starts with more technoid slammers; straight and classic – tracks, which attack you like a wild animal. Sven opens his set with Funk D'Voids extraordinary 'Emotional Content' and proceeds via ADA and LFO to T.Raumschmiere's masterpiece 'Monstertruckdriver' – a track, from which Sven could not keep his fingers away for the whole summer...

CD 1 ends with Ingo Boss' recently released track 'Little Eternity', a wonderful piece of fluffy electronic Techno. The second CD is a little more confusing than its pendant, with Ricardo Villalobos' 'Easy Lee' from his new album, Dntel or Jackson Fourgeaud as explicit examples. The last track is 'Artamis' by high-flyer Luciano. The pleasant Swiss could easily be called the revelation of this summer and is both, a talented producer and a skillful DJ.

With 'The Sound Of The Fourth Season', Cocoon Recordings continues its series "... in the Mix" and releases Sven Väth's fourth Mix-CD.

'The Sound Of The Fourth Season' is to be released at 27nd of October 2003 and is distributed exclusively by Intergroove Germany.

I'd go to say this is Sven's best (so far) in the Season series. A very diverse release, very forward looking and very consistent. A very mature step from the harder techno of the end of 90's - beginning of 2000's. A few years down the road and it only gets better with age.

From the open strains of the excellent “Emotional Content” by Funk D’Void, through the Tribal flavor of “The Push” by Paul Jackson, blazing electro of “Freak” by LFO and trippy undertones of “Diapason” by Marco Carola; Germany Techno master Sven Vath transforms you from wherever you may be, to Monday night gathering on the dancefloor at Amnesia in Ibiza.

Crafted and molded by the theme of the summer of 2003, “In Your Face”; this 2 disc set shows the breadth and depth of musical diversity that is Sven Vath. Minimal and clicky, deep and breaky, hard and unyielding, this set is a wildly diverse trip through the mind of one of dance music’s most consistently credible characters. Twenty years into his illustrious career, Sven is still rocking dance floors, producing choice tracks and putting his unique stamp on the world of dance music. Compelling in all the best ways.