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 film “Schwarzwaldfahrt aus Liebeskummer” by Werner Jacobs is now available for the first time on the label U8 Films Berlin by UCM.ONE in cooperation with moviemax in the newly 2K scanned and restored theatrical version in full HD as a Mediabook. A special highlight of this limited release is that for the first time…
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…
As of today, the acclaimed documentary “Los Reyes – Königliche Streuner” (English title: “Los Reyes”) by directors Bettina Perut & Iván Osnovikoff is available on DVD in Germany, Austria and Switzerland through UCM.ONE’s NONFY Documentaries label. Summary: Los Reyes (“The Kings”) is the oldest skate park in the Chilean capital Santiago. This film, however, is not…
That Thomas Eckert once recorded Amy Winehouse and Ed Sheehan as a sound engineer shows his whole range and passion that the early 50 year old has invested in music for decades. He is known among his colleagues as a midi god and soundfrickler and last year he invested so much time and money in…
UCM.ONE and Darling Berlin commemorate actress Hannelore Elsner, who would have celebrated her 80th birthday today, July 26, 2022. Hannelore Elsner had died in April 2019. One of her first film roles was as the starlet Sylvia Stössel in the 1963 drama “Die endlose Nacht” (English title: “The Endless Night”) (Darling Berlin) by Will Tremper.…
A good 15 years ago, the first EP of a then 25-year-old Ludwigshafen native was released on Harthouse, and his career quickly went through the roof after that. Today, he is one of the best-known and most successful techno producers and artists worldwide. Time for Boris Brejcha to enrich the discography on the label Harthouse…
Sin Plomo’s new album “Moving Elements” on Plastic City Suburbia, which will be released on August 12, 2022, is a fantastic 90-minute masterpiece between ambient, reggae feel and house music. The “Summer EP” gathers the three tracks of the forthcoming album, pumped up with energy at the highest level. “High in the House” and “El…
