Gude Laune!

DJs these days – they just don’t know the meaning of rock n’ roll. There seems to be a worrying trend of teetotal artists arriving to play their set, laptop under arm, bottle of Evian by the decks and long term girlfriend docilely standing

by. All well and good – and to be fair, no one wants to book a DJ who’s too trashed to mix.

However, The Fly By Night can’t help but feel a whiff of nostalgia for the days when being a DJ was as much about living the rock n’ roll dream as it w

as about rocking the dancefloor.

The trend in clubs seems to have mirrored the trend in rock music – where we used to have Keith Richards and Alice Cooper,

we now have James Blunt and David Gray.

Luckily for the clubbing world, there are a few pillars of the dance music community still living the dream. Step forward Sven Vath, the last of the rock n’ roll DJs. Whether it’s ripping off his t-shirt and wrapping it round his head, showing off his guns in the DJ booth, crowd surfing or plugging his headphones into the mic and ad-libbing, he does it all whilst playing a storming set of blistering techno without dropping a beat.

And it looks like The Fly By Night isn’t the only one to hold The Vath in high esteem – someone has set up a shrine to the man himself, using samples from his legendary vocal output.

Voila – your very own Sven jukebox.

www.theshrine.de

The word legend doesn’ t even come close.

Gude laune!

Originally written for www.endclub.com
Pic by Vickie Parker