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…
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…
History of Harthouse The label Harthouse was founded in 1992 in Frankfurt / Offenbach by Matthias Hoffmann, Heinz Roth and the well-known Frankfurt DJ Sven Väth. Harthouse, a sublabel of Eye Q Records in the early years from 1992 to 1997, was launched as a platform for newcomer artists. It stood for a harder, more…
Harthouse Harthouse is a “living legend” of techno music. Since 1992, the label has been style-defining for an entire genre. The sound of Harthouse defined itself in the beginning as “Sound of Frankfurt”. It was a harder version of “trance” and thus also the antithesis of the (West-)Berlin techno scene of the late 80s. In…
Despite closed clubs and cancelled festivals we haven’t lost our optimism and love for music. Instead we are extremely proud of this gathering of friends and respected artists who have contributed 12 exclusive tracks to reflect the current zeitgeist of our label. And we couldn’t be more amazed about the stunning result. Welcome to “Robotic…
