Accident in Paradise

In the 21st century, he’s become known as a techno doyen, but back in the early ’90s Sven Väth was more associated with ostentatiously trippy trance music, often played at breakneck speed. There’s plenty of that on his debut album, complete with gigantic swooshy noises, churning acid and incessant melodic hooks — but there’s also a lot of downtempo, meditational and chillout vibes, complete with didgeridoos, sitars and all kinds of other stuff that should be hokey as heck but in fact is done with such deranged aplomb it’s hard not to love.