Armin Wirth

Armin Wirth ( born July 15, 1971 in Traunstein, pseudonym: Dj Swam ) is a German dance DJ, music producer and label manager.

Life

Wirth opened in 1993 and one of the first Internet mail order shops and has opened world's eight other stores in the UK, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, Russia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to this day.

In 2001 he founded the record label DANCE ALL DAY with the sublabels Baccara Music, Bootleg Beats, Techno Forza Rec, Vinyl Loop Records, Munich and Vinyl Loops Classics.

With the series vinyl loops Classics Armin Wirth managed with 21 episodes to bring a vinyl series on the market, which includes the Who's Who of Dance-/Elektronischen scene. The vinyl loops Classic Series is considered one of the best selling vinyl dance compilations worldwide. It can be heard Moby, The Prodigy, New Order, DJ Tiësto, Robert Miles, DJ Hell, Donna Summer, Todd Terry, ATB, Corey Hart, Chaka Khan and Stereo MCs. Amazon was later released a CD to vinyl series on 20 October 2003.

In 1999, Armin Wirth content partner in life. Content partner is access to a communal consisting of over 30 global online shops, which together digitized Covers, preview and item descriptions for your online offer. Among the best known and largest members include Ex Libris from Switzerland, Esound Records in England and Imusik in Denmark.

Published in 2001, Armin Wirth the club hit by Steve Murano - Passion, who managed to be the first dance track in history in all four German dance charts as DDC, DMC, Dj Top 40, as well as Internet Music Charts # 1 at the same time. Later, the title went into the German Media Control Top 100. The Music Video by Steve Murano ran on MTV and VIVA. The title " Passion" license ized later Kontor Records in Hamburg and published this world.

In 2005 Armin Wirth was a member of the jury of the Dance Music Award 2005., In cooperation with the Deutsche Phono-Akademie eV the Dance Music Magazine Raveline has at CeBIT in Hannover dance scene back into the focus of public moved. 120 experts from all sectors of the entertainment industry have come together to determine the winner of the Dance Music Award for the year 2005.

In the years 1997-2001 Armin Wirth worked for the ProSiebenSat.1 and MTV Europe Video text editors to create the Top Ten dance charts.

Wirth brought as a label manager and producer productions on the label Polystar Records, Intercord Media GmbH, Sony Music Entertainment, Edel Records out. He is the operator and owner of the record label Munich, Baccara Music, Fiume Beat, Vinyl Loop Records, Bottleg beats, Forbidden, Loft, Rec Techno Forza and Vinyl Loops Classics.

In 2006 Armin Wirth invented the portal Feiyr for free independent musicians, producers, labels and book publishers. Feiyr is an online portal for the digital music and eBook sales and distributes independent DRM-free music in mp3 on sales portals such as iTunes, Amazon, Spotify or Napster. Feiyr is the only independent music sales, who delivers for the " Big Four " major labels including Universal Music Group, Sony BMG (Sony and BMG joint-venture ), Warner Music Group and EMI Music to Independent Music Stores. Feiyr has delivered in April 2011, over 1.2 million songs under contract and on portals such as iTunes and Amazon.

Armin Wirth bought as managing director and owner of Feiyr in 2013 for 2.3 million euros, financed by the MP3 inventor Karlheinz Brandenburg music platform DJTunes.com.

Litigation

In 2006, Armin Wirth by injunction from the Landgericht Leipzig (Case v. February 8, 2005 - Case No. 5 O 146/ 05) prohibits the word " Deejay " for advertising and marketing to use, in particular the representation of the word to websites and designation of audio hi-fi products. A German online shop owner had claimed that the license holders will all trademark rights on the term " Deejay ". In a year-long process ultimately presented the 14th Civil Senate of the Oberlandesgericht Dresden judgment v. January 9, 2007 - Case No. 14 U 1958/ 06 states that the term " Deejay " free hold is in need and may be used by anyone.

Discography Dj Swam

Singles

Remixes

  • 2002 Montini Experience, The - My House Is Your House 2002 ( Dj Swam Remix)
  • 2007 Kriz Miller - Control ( Dj Swam Remix)
  • 2007 Techno Forza 08 - Fiume ( Dj Swam Remix)

Labels

  • Vinyl Loops Classic
  • Baccara Music
  • Techno Forza
  • Fiume Beat
  • Bootleg beats
  • Loft
  • Forbitten
  • Munich
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