Henrik Schwarz | |
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Born | Bergatreute, West Germany | 31 May 1972
Genres | Deep house, [1] Classical crossover |
Website | henrikschwarz |
Henrik Schwarz (born 31 May 1972) [2] is a German deep house and classical crossover producer and DJ from Bodensee, [1] [3] whose career began in the early 1990s. [2] He has remixed music for numerous musicians, including Coldplay, Mary J. Blige, and Foals. [4] In 2017, he worked with songwriter/producer Jarrah McCleary (Panama). [5]
Since 2002, Schwarz has worked on over 100 musical projects, [6] and in 2006, he mixed the compilation album DJ-Kicks: Henrik Schwarz . In 2007, he released Henrik Schwarz Live, which documented his shift from DJing to being a live laptop performer. [6] Schwarz has partnered with !K7 to launch a new label, Between Buttons. Focusing on acoustic sounds and contemporary classical music, the label's first release was an EP from Schwarz himself, titled Works Piano, [7] followed by an EP titled Aphorisms, by Syrian artists Khaled Kurbeh & Raman Khalaf Ensemble. [8]
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