Only recently Stephan Straka aka Sikora showed us once again with his album “Weitermachen!” on the German label Harthouse, How meticulously he explores the most diverse genres as a producer of electronic music. In the course of his impressive career, Sikora made a name for himself early on as a creator of new sounds, moving…
Stephan Straka aka Sikora is a producer of electronic music. True statement yet neither does it do justice to this guy’s incredible dedication to music nor to his actual skills of creating new sounds and pushing boundaries. We’d rather like to call him a “musical scientist” or even a “surgeon” since he is a stickler…
The track “Plough” is taken from his forthcoming album “Weitermachen!” and gives you a little foretaste of Sikora’s formidable craft. Besides the original version there are three more interpretations on board and let us tell you: one excels the other. We get started with the “Defective Version”, a monstrously industrial-like sound experience, as underground and…
After his atmospheric masterpiece ‘Flam’ from 2018 we are very happy to welcome Sikora with his new album “Nebelstrom” on the Harthouse label again. You might rightly ask yourself where on earth there is still room for a refreshingly new and distinctive sound in such a saturated genre as techno. Well… luckily there are still some…
He considers his sound ‘melancholicly distorted’. If you struggle to come up with an immediate association, don’t worry: you can now give Sikora’s new Flam EP a listen and have yourself inspired by this guy’s ever true sound design. After just a few seconds into Flam1 it opens its doors to Sikora’s profound world of…
Take on the challenge and immerse yourself in the captivating world of Breitenstein’s latest EP: “Brumcrysle”. This honest masterpiece of techno will make your heart beat faster and make your legs dance before you even know it. With the remix by Sikora as a bonus track you get a unique combination of driving beats and…
The compilation “Dance with the Robots” with 12 tracks on the German Harthouse label provides the sound for the ironman of the club scene. Somewhere between 124 and 130 BPM, the tracks sooner or later prove to be dance floor magnets for everyone. The tracks offer variety both in themselves and as a compilation work of…
Four new remixes with magical sounds of the original number ´Peter Pan´ from 1994 produced by the techno project ´Cybordelics´ from Stuttgart (founded in 1993). Peter Pan could fly and never wanted to grow up – the original track is just as light and timeless and takes us to his sunny island Neverland. The first three remixes…
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…
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…
