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GARETH EMERY
TRANCE has long been associated with electro-fused anthem ‘This Is That’ get
otherworldly tingles but the odd caned by the likes of Tiësto, Armin and
sensations Gareth Emery experienced back Ferry.
in January had little to do with euphoric
hands-in-the-air moments. Confi rming his elevation into the trance
“I was getting these crazy burning and super-league, Gareth has signed up with
numbing sensations in my hands,” Emery David Lewis, the management powerhouse
tells us. “But no matter how many tests I who guides the fl ight of Armin and others,
had, no doctor could tell me what was whilst his debut set in Ukraine was greeted
wrong. They fi nally realised it was an with banners emblazoned with his name.
under-active thyroid disorder.” “In quite a few of my US and Eastern
European gigs I had people chanting my
Yet despite the ailment, under-activity name,” he beams, citing his Ibizan debuts
isn’t something you could ascribe to at Amesia’s Armada and Judge Jules’
Emery’s year. Jetting across Asia, Eastern Judgement Sundays as respectively
Europe and Ibiza, Emery missed just one offering the best club and the best
gig as a result of it, bagged his fi rst atmosphere on the planet.
hallowed Essential Mix and has watched his ALLAN MCGRATH
First record you ever bought? Poison ‘Your Mama Don’t Dance’ on 7” vinyl.
Weirdest thing you’ve seen all year? Judge Jules’ eight-year-old son telling
me that he was going to rip my bollocks off and make me eat them over dinner
Style: Credible trance with fl avours of progressive, house and
at Kanya… I think he was joking.
techno. Best known for: Production and fortnightly podcasts. Tune
Top gadget of 2008? NSD powerball gyroscope… google it!
of 2008: Mark Knight & Funkagenda ‘Man With The Red Face’
Your year in fi ve words… Started shit then got better.
Producer of 2008: Andy Moor, Sébastien Léger and Michael
Most important thing you’ve learned recently? Only take hand luggage if
Cassette.
you can. Lufthansa lost a grand’s worth of my clothes recently.
SVEN VÄTH
SVEN Väth belongs in a museum. which is now very much reality, as seen in
Specifi cally, the Museum of Modern Art in the queues around the block as punters
Frankfurt where, in June this year, the try and squeeze in to catch sets from the
German DJ’s friend and international likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano and
photographer Andreas Gursky staged an the permanently grinning ‘dark lord’ of
exhibition of photographs documenting techno himself.
the Cocoon club that Väth has owned
since 2004. But the DJ renowned for his rock & roll
Not that either Väth or Cocoon are now lifestyle has also managed to squeeze
gathering dust in the annals of history some r&r in the ‘rest and recuperation’
however, for not only is Cocoon one of the sense in as well — fi nally tying the knot
most technologically advanced clubs in with his fi ancée at a Buddhist ceremony
the world but the man behind it has had a in Thailand in January.
marathon year even by his own breathless Which, if it’s been a choice between
standards, beginning with a worldwide spending time in his honeymoon bed or
tour taking him everywhere from the studio, understandably explains why
Birmingham to Brazil for the fi rst fi ve his own productions have been a bit thin
months of 2008 before setting up shop at on the ground this year, although he has
Amnesia once more for what has turned consummated a couple of musical
out to be Cocoon’s busiest Ibiza season marriages in the form of the ‘S’Krankt’
ever. 12” with Matt Rother and the
‘Trashbindance’ track with Roman Flügel,
As Richie Hawtin has pointed out, it’s which was found on the recent ‘Cocoon H’
down to Väth and Cocoon that techno has compilation.
now grown into the dominant force on PAUL CLARKE
the White Island — something pretty
much unimaginable ten years ago but
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