Sven Väth's “Sound Of The Ninth Season” is a musical trip through the year 2008. At the same time, it is an opportunity to let your present activities retreat from you for a moment. Listening to the mesmerizing grooves, you might browse through the memories of the year that was. What were its special moments? It might be a trip, a relationship, a party. It might be a phrase someone said, a joke, a glance, a kiss – or a track you danced to at a party.

Rarely electronic music manages to blend the personal and the public so perfectly: “The Sound Of The Ninth Season” is a compendium of the club music of 2008, at the same time it’s a very personal statement. There are moments when every cell in your body is about to erupt, and there are quiet and emotional passages.

With “The Sound Of The Ninth Season”, Sven Väth passes his special musical message to everybody on this planet who is willing to celebrate what is exciting and fascinating about life. Simultaneously, its about what is important to him artistically and socially.

House and techno are basics of Väths musical philosophy. The fragile difference between these two elementary directions of club music continues to be the motor of his sets. Väth's life long journey through electronic music continues and it brings us an excess of excitement, empathy, madness and beauty. 

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