Описание
House / Jazz / Techno
Henrik Schwarz was born and raised in South Germany where he also took his first musical steps as a DJ in local Clubs playing Rap, Hip Hop, Rare Groove and Jazz and Detroit Techno. Soon after he started to spin regularly he was also interested in computer music production and started to do his own tracks in 1992 with a few drummachines and synths. When he got his first Laptop in 1998 he began integrating it in his DJ-Sets and soon the Laptop played an important role in all his music activities. The software got better and better and Henrik was enjoying the new possibilities.
1999, after he had finished his studies in Graphic Design, Henrik decided to move to Berlin and worked as a Graphic Designer for several years. By-and-by things developed nicely also on the music side and he had the chance to found his own label SUNDAY-MUSIC together with Sasse who had just released Henrik's first ever Vinyl 12" called "SUPRAVISION EP" on his label Moodmusic Records. "Marvin", one of the tracks on the record, got attention from many DJs around the world, especially BBC's Gilles Peterson took it in his show and played it with immediate effect. From that moment things made a great leap forward for Henrik: He received first remix requests and started to travel to the UK and other European countries. His next releases "Jon" on SUNDAY-MUSIC and especially "Chicago" on MOODMUSIC became very successful and made him shift his activities more and more from Design towards music production and travelling.
Over the last years with international bookings all around the globe Henrik improved his HENRIK SCHWARZ LIVE show and is now one of the most requested live acts in the dance scene. At the same time Henrik produced a string of very well received remixes and own tracks: WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES for Coldcut on Ninjatune became one of the biggest club hits of 2006, LEAVE MY
HEAD ALONE BRAIN bridged the gap between Jazz and Techno and Soul and was super well received by Deejays from Hip-Hop to House to Techno and became the biggest hit for SUNDAY-MUSIC so far. Until today he has remixed many very well known names like Mari Boine (Universal), Kuniyuki (Mule Musiq), Tosca (G-Stone), Ethnic Heritage Ensemble (Deeper Soul), James Brown, Dark Globe feat. Boy George, Omar feat. Stevie Wonder, Jazzanova, Jesse Rose, Detroit Experiment, and many others. Today many fans are awaiting his debut album which is in the works effectively since a few weeks.
2006, as a result of him getting more and more known by a wider audience, Henrik was asked by !K7 to do one of their famous DJ-Kicks series and the result has been regarded as "one of the highlights of the series" and led to another cooperation of the label and Henrik: HENRIK SCHWARZ LIVE recorded on CD featuring recordings from his intoxicating live shows from all over the world.
With Dixon and Ame from Innervisions Henrik released "Where We At" with
Derrick Carter on Vocals which became an instant classic and marked the
beginning of a fruitful and close collaboration between Henrik and
Innervisions until today with successful releases and remixes like AMAMPONDO
AND HENRIK SCHWARZ - I EXIST BECAUSE OF YOU, ANE BRUN - HEADPHONE SILENCE
(Henrik Schwarz Remix, Dixon Edit), Crocodile IV-RMX for UNDERWORLD, HOLD MY
HAND IV-RMX for UNKLE and many others culminating in the first unforgetable
Live show of the dreamteam together "A CRITICAL MASS" in Amsterdam in 2008
with more gigs in 2009!
The future looks bright as we will see more of his one-of-a-kind remixes and remarkable releases in the near future, more colaborations with Dixon and Ame, more Live shows and finally an album!
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Germany
