Torsten Stenzel

Torsten Stenzel ( born September 27, 1971 in Bad Homburg, Germany ) is a German music producer and composer. He plays church organ, piano and synthesizer.

• 3.1 Singles ( selection)
• 3.2 Media Control / International Charts
• 3.3 Studio albums
• 3.4 DJ Mixes / Compilations

Life

Stenzel began with piano lessons at the age of 5 years with Andre Terebesi. At age 13, he focused on the church organ as an instrument and put the age of 15 years from the aptitude test as a church organist. In 1990, he released his first single "Recall IV - Contrast " on Zyx Records, and had his first profession in 1992 as an A & R manager in the recording industry. With his former partner Zied Jouini, he led the label "Crash Records ". His first publication, NUKE -Nana, which he self-produced on the new label, came as a sublicense to # 1 (Italy) and 3rd place (Belgium ) in the sales charts. In 1993 he started collaborating with DJ Taucher, the weekly events at the Music Hall in Frankfurt had. Their first release was the single Happiness, which was remixed by Oliver Lieb and Booka Shade; the second single Atlantis ( 1993: Planet Love Records ) is now considered one of the classics in the trance area.

First Label (1993-1998)

Stenzel in 1993 founded his first own label Liquid Records and launched the project with Oliver Lieb Paragliders, which published on the Hamburg label Superstition two common Singles Paraglide and Oasis. He continued to produce with its partners and under contract commissioned artists and DJs as well as Booka Shade, DJ Tatana, DJ Taucher, DJ Sakin, DJ Tool, Marc Green, DJ Talla and others. Stenzel has published over 40 vinyl singles on Liquid Records. Produced by Stenzel Title Suspicious - Love Waves was released on the Berlin label Low Spirit Records, and was among others the Berlin Djane Marusha remixed.

DJ Taucher & Stenzel

In 1995 Stenzel bought the rights to Planet Love Records, which he led previously as A & R manager and focused more on the development of his trance sounds with divers. Their single fantasy they licensed to Sony Dance Pool, and came in the top 50 of the Media Control charts. The third single Infinity was also in the Top 50 in Germany. By 1997, the duo remixed over 52 other artists and their titles and was voted by readers of the club magazine Raveline as the third- best remixer category Worldwide. Stenzel and divers also remixed Faithless and God is a DJ, who came in many European countries at No. 1. Also Paul Oakenfold licensed Stenzel Diver productions for his compilations. The duo released its title, among others under the name Red Light District and Diver & Ace.

Sakin & Friends & Ibiza (1999-2006)

Published in 1998, Stenzel, the single Braveheart as the first release of his new project Sakin & Friends together with the Frankfurt DJ Sakin on his label Planet Love Records. They made a club - cover version of James Horner's soundtrack Braveheart. After about four months played very many European DJs the title and he became a club hit. 1999 Stenzel licensed the title to the underground label Overdose and made a remix ( Suspicious Remix) of the title. Only a short time after the publication of the title rose without music video or similar promotional activities in the German Media Control charts. It was a so-called self-perpetuating. Braveheart rose in the German charts at # 3 in the German Dance Charts at # 1 and arrived in England, France and Denmark up to the top of the sales charts. Today Braveheart applies with over 650,000 units sold as one of the most successful trance boards that have ever been published. The second single of the duo, Nomansland made ​​it to number 10 in Germany and number 16 in England, and her debut album, Walk on Fire charted successfully in Germany. After this success, Stenzel bought a house in Ibiza and moved his recording studio to the Balearic Island.

York

After completion of the studio, he worked immediately to his projects, including at York, which he had begun with his brother Jörg Stenzel 1998. Their second single On The Beach was released on Dj Talla 2 XLC 's label Suck me plasma and later licensed to Sony Music Germany, and the label Manifesto in England. Their previous single The Awakening reach number 11 in the UK charts, it was the first Trance tracks that began electric guitars as the main element. With over 250,000 units sold The Awakening was one of the best-selling singles that did not reach the Top 10 in England. On the Beach was a cover version of Chris Rea and made it to first go to number 3 in the UK and the German Top 100 and the Billboard U.S. Charts Top 10 Stenzel had his second big hit after Braveheart. Chris Rea was thrilled by Stenzel's cover version, which sold more units than its 1986 original, and supported the promotion with a joint appearance in the British Top of the Pops show. Chris Rea and Stenzel still wrote more songs together, and so the release was Watermen, Your Love Is Setting Me Free, which was remixed, among others, the famous British act.

Moby

Since the publication of Moby Go 1991 Stenzel was a big fan of Moby. 2001 called him to Moby's manager and asked him if he wanted to remix the new single Porcellain. Stenzel made ​​a deepen Club Remix, which was later released on Mute Records.

Ibiza projects

In Ibiza 1999 DJ Stenzel Sin Plomo got to know that the Space Club ( We Love Sundays ) and worked in the famous KM 5 club. They started an intensive cooperation, which " 5 km " albums resulted in a number that Stenzel successfully licensed to Richard Branson's Virgin Records. This was followed by collaborations with DJ Paul Lomax living on Ibiza. Stenzel managed with its chill-out productions on the famous " Cafe del Mar" compilation and the Buddha Bar in Paris. He also released an album and several singles with the active in Pacha Matt Caseli. It was the first album with Angela Heldmann alias Asheni, which combines retro jazz and electronic elements. The album Butterfly Survival Kit by Asheni he published in Offshore Music Switzerland / EMI and in Asia, Japan, China and Taiwan to Hi Note Records. 2004 learned Stenzel Sven Greiner (DJ Shog ) know. After only a few trance productions in previous years, he produced with Shog Trance on the newly founded trance label 7th Sense Recordings. It was followed by numerous publications under different project names such as Mandala Bros. and Jolly Harbour.

Tarja Turunen

2006 investigated the Finnish rock singer Tarja Turunen, the ex - singer of Nightwish, new songs for her first solo album. Stenzel's British friend and songwriter Adrian Zagoritis sent her the co-written Chillout title Iceflowers, which was previously released on the chillout album Peace of York. Turunen decided to write more music for the album with Stenzel and so a total of five titles created for the debut album My Winter Storm in working with him. Turunen's album was a worldwide success and received several gold and platinum awards in Finland, Russia, Germany, and was released by Universal Music in seventy countries.

Los Angeles and Antigua

Stenzel 2006 traveled to the USA to complete a deal for the pre-produced by him album by Jennifer Paige (No. 1 Hit Crush ). She introduced him to songwriter Rick Nowels. He asked him if he would like for him to play keyboard. Stenzel then played on the single Chickfit keyboard, which was published in 2007 and new songs from the Canadian Nelly Furtado and British singer Joss Stone. 2007 Stenzel wrote his first three songs with Rob Davis, who composed, among others, Kylie Minogue hit Can not Get You Out Of My Head. After nearly 10 years Ibiza Stenzel moved to the West Indian island of Antigua and built his new studio " Midway Studios " on. There he worked one and a half years before the new " Jungle Studio " built at his home. In 2008, Stenzel finished the trance album of Croatian singer Narany, which was elected in Croatia for the best national singer in 2008.

Through its new U.S. location close to numerous new projects and connections emerged. So he remixed the 2010 RnB star Shontelle for Motown Music and produced a chill / lounge album with Donald Trump's ex-wife Marla Maples. He also launched several projects with local artists such as Jus Bus, Logiq, Claudette Peters, Tian Winter, or the reggae singer Promise.

On February 1, 2013 was published in collaboration with Mike Oldfield the remix album Tubular beats. Unlike previous club mixes, the album is a true collaboration between Oldfield and Stenzel, where part of the original multi-track tapes as well as from Oldfield newly installed components were used. Tarja Turunen sings on the album entitled " Never Too Far".

Film Music

2007, shortly after his arrival in Antigua, Stenzel met through his Antiguan friend and film producer Bert Kirchner German film producer Roland Hergert, who was there to finish the filming for his new movie Fire. Stenzel was commissioned to compose the soundtrack and wrote his first soundtrack. Shortly afterwards, another independent film Memoirs of the Blue by Kirchner. Since 2009, Kirchner and Stenzel and Kirchner's son Shabier operate the film production company " Wadadli Film Studios ".

Awards

Discography (selection)

Singles ( selection)

Media Control / International Charts

Each publication is called with chart position and locale.

Studio albums

• Two Man Ahead - Crossing All Stars
• Two Man Ahead - Sign of a Difference
• Divers - Return to Atlantis
• Divers - Ebb & Flood / High Tide - Low Tide
• York - Experience
• York - Piece
• Tarja Turunen - My Winter Storm
• Jennifer Paige - Best Kept Secret
• All Saints - Studio One ( Chickfit )
• Asheni - Butterfly Survival Kit

DJ Mixes / Compilations

• 2000-2002 KM 5 Ibiza - Vol 3 & 4
• 2006 La Maison De L'Elephant Ibiza
• 2007 Eye Trance Vol 11
• 2013 Tubular Beats (Mike Oldfield remix album

Filmography

• 2008 Fire, Motion Picture, Arenico Production, produced by Rolant Hergert, ft. Gary Dourdan, Cosma Shiva Hagen, Ken Douken
• 2007 Fire, Making Of, Produced by Shab Kirchner, interview Gary Dourdan
• 2008 Memoirs of the Blue Soundtrack, Halivantigua Films, Produced by Bert Kirchner & Luke Hanson