It was exactly 30 years ago that the young artist Andreas Kettenbach brought a demo tape (on cassette) under the artist name Roughage to the Humpty Recordstore in Heidelberg. On this tape, the first track of the later A-side “Internecine Noiz” of the catalogue number Time 001 of the just starting label Time unlimited could…
She wears fur and flies up to 18 hours a day. No, this isn’t about an extroverted new DJ making his way from gig to gig around the world. On the second part of his six new EPs, Boris Brejcha takes a trip into the animal kingdom. A track that celebrates the “Bumblebee” that pollinates…
Patrick Podage is one of our favorite Swiss producers on Plastic City. The DJ from the beautiful city of Bern started playing piano and various percussion instruments at a young age. And he maintained this childish play instinct for years in his productions. He is constantly experimenting and combining his ability to produce different genres…
The year 1994 is considered one of the most productive in the history of music. Probably there have never been so many different genres, so many hits that have stuck in the memory forever. Techno also reached its first peak in the mid-1990s. The track “Peter Pan” by Cybordelics belongs to that time, to the…
After the release of their debut album “Dead Reckoning” in 2021 via Noble Demon, followed by several single releases, Oceanhoarse like to stay busy and are perhaps one of the most notable and hardworking newcomers out there right now. This is also proven by the latest single of the quartet from Helsinki, which already gives…
The compilations “Harthouse Retrospective (Destination Mannheim)” and “Harthouse Retrospective (Destination Berlin)” highlight the years of the Harthouse label when it was acting out of Mannheim (2004 – 2016) as well as the years so far since Harthouse has been based in Berlin (2017 – 2022). In the 30th year of Harthouse’s existence, the two compilations…
The first country to ban lead in petrol was Japan in 1980. Austria, Canada, Slovakia, Denmark and Sweden followed suit shortly afterwards, and in Germany and the USA the end came for leaded petrol in 1996. Inspired by the discussion about “lead-free”, in the mid-90s the young DJ Dieter Kornherr named himself “Sin Plomo” when…
The compilation “Harthouse Retrospective (Destination Berlin)” highlights the first years of the current Berlin period of the Harthouse label. While the first “Harthouse Retrospective” in a CD box as well as in the context of four vinyl albums (Part 1 to Part 4) with 3 LPs per part mainly summed up the time when the…
You have to think long and hard about what kind of mat Sikora is talking about here on his new EP “Foot To The Mat” on Harthouse. Yoga can’t be the name of the sport. The opening track doesn’t offer a second of relaxation and is more reminiscent of a boxing match to the death.…
The second album of Tuomas Saukkonen’s death and gothic doom metal icon “Dawn of Solace” was released as the first album ever on Noble Demon, the label freshly founded by Nuclear Blast veteran Patrick Walch and UCM.ONE. The album takes us into soundscapes of melodic metal, takes us into a world of deepest melancholy, and…
