COCOON CLUBBING | COCOONCAST MIX 005 (2020)

Mixed by Alex Volk:
  / alex_volk_music  

Cocoon Website: http://www.cocoon.net/

The first use of the Cocoon name was for a 1996 rave in an industrial building called the Alte Brauerei in Frankfurt. On the bill were Sven Väth, DJ Hell, Underworld, Alter Ego, the Advent and more. After the overreach of the first party, Sven went back to playing the Omen for a while, but in the meantime the brand was spreading its wings. “The motivation was first to start events,” says Sven, “but with events came the idea of supporting artists, creating a platform with Cocoon bookings, using my contacts and my experience in my job, supporting young talent and featuring them at parties”. Soon Cocoon was signing up not just the cream of German and European DJing talent, but handing European bookings for US stars from Josh Wink to Carl Craig. Today the Cocoon roster includes British artists like Eats Everything, Tim Green and Subb-an alongside the likes of Wink, Frank Lorber and Dana Ruh. By 1998, licensing problems had shut down the Omen and Sven was throwing monthly Cocoon nights for a couple of thousand people in Frankfurt’s U60311 club. That’s when the call came in that would change everything, and eventually catapult Cocoon to its current place as perhaps the most famous techno party in the world.

Cocoon Recordings has been founded in the year 2000 as a part of the Cocoon Music Event GmbH. Sven Väth has initiated Cocoon Recordings in order to complete the Cocoon platform as a supporting tool for young artists in Electronic Music. The label philosophy is as simple as demanding: helping young producers and DJs to release their music without depending on Major Label structures. The releases can mainly be assigned to the genres Techno and House.

Cocoon Recordings as a label and Sven Väth as an artist stand for the use of vinyl as sound carrier, also in the future. Admittedly, the Digital Division of Cocoon Recordings has also been set up in 2008 and the numbers of downloads are indeed enjoyable. However, the label's focus is on vinyl, now and in the future. In order to complete the range of services that Cocoon Recordings offers, the publishing company Cocoon Publishing was founded in 2010.